{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-07", "file": "debates2013-01-07c.xml", "sha256": "963504e12cd39de1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-07c.13.4", "colnum": "13", "heading": "MCAT", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "Kettering (Mr Hollobone) illustrated, we now have police and crime commissioners in operation all over the country. Indeed, several former colleagues of the hon. Member for Newport West (Paul Flynn) are now PCCs, and I wish them all well in their new jobs. The hon. Gentleman asked about the cost of the deputies. The highest-paid deputy at the moment has been appointed at £68,000 a year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-07c.13.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-08", "file": "debates2013-01-08b.xml", "sha256": "24072fd55025a58f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-08b.247.4", "colnum": "247", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Greg Mulholland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Mulholland", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is obviously not listening. I have said that it has been made clear that getting rid of that borrowing will take longer and be more challenging. However, let us also be clear that if Labour were in government, we would be like Greece.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-08b.247.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-09", "file": "debates2013-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "d72c222d2f48d562", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-09b.303.0", "colnum": "303", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Russell Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Russell Brown", "preceding_text": "Although I recognise the important role that the Scottish Government play in the provision of broadband in rural areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-09b.303.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-09", "file": "debates2013-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "d72c222d2f48d562", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-09b.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "David Mundell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Mundell", "preceding_text": "I can assure the hon. Gentleman that we will hold the Scottish Government to account for that investment. Although the UK Government have funded investment in the cities—in Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Perth—we want the Scottish Government to deliver for Dumfries and Galloway and equivalent rural areas throughout Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-09b.303.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-09", "file": "debates2013-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "d72c222d2f48d562", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-09b.311.4", "colnum": "311", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "preceding_text": "he question from my hon. Friend the Member for Hackney South and Shoreditch (Meg Hillier) , may I ask the Prime Minister what estimate he has made of the number of families who are still unaware that they are no longer entitled to child benefit, particularly bearing in mind that the bill for the first full year’s charges will come wafting through the nation’s letterboxes in April 1915?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-09b.311.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-15", "file": "debates2013-01-15b.xml", "sha256": "6927093daea0e314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-15b.721.0", "colnum": "721", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Poulter", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Oh!”", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Poulter", "preceding_text": "usting clinicians to exercise their judgment, which is why we now have a 95% target. We are ensuring—and the statistics show—that we are meeting that target on an annual basis. Patients are being treated in a timely manner. Furthermore, we have put in £330 million to deal with winter pressures. It is wrong of the right hon. Gentleman to try and mislead the House in this way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-15b.721.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-15", "file": "debates2013-01-15b.xml", "sha256": "6927093daea0e314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-15b.725.3", "colnum": "725", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "It is my job, and that is why the Government have protected the NHS budget. The hon. Gentleman’s Front-Bench team, on the other hand, want to cut it in real terms. He has to think carefully before he starts talking about all these so-called cuts, given that his shadow Health spokesman wants to cut the NHS budget in real terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-15b.725.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-15", "file": "debates2013-01-15b.xml", "sha256": "6927093daea0e314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-15b.753.3", "colnum": "753", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Curran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Curran", "preceding_text": "ay that the problem facing Scotland at the moment is the Tories and the SNP. The SNP is imposing college cuts, and making Scotland one of the nations of the United Kingdom with the highest increases in unemployment. The hon. Gentleman would be well fit to look to his own party to see the damage it is inflicting in Scotland, instead of always trying to hide behind the blanket of independence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-15b.753.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-15", "file": "debates2013-01-15b.xml", "sha256": "6927093daea0e314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-15b.768.1", "colnum": "768", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Rory Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rory Stewart", "preceding_text": "l processes and incentives to think through such matters. At present, however, we create the forums. I am only three months married, so I hesitate to say this as I do not know what on earth I am talking about, but it strikes me that formal institutions such as marriage force people to discuss things, to compromise and to think in ways that we might not if that formal institution were not in place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-15b.768.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-15", "file": "debates2013-01-15b.xml", "sha256": "6927093daea0e314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-15b.781.1", "colnum": "781", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "ency by constituency, if my constituency votes to remain part of the United Kingdom it should be allowed to do so, in order that it can continue to gain shipbuilding orders from the United Kingdom. We are prepared to enter into an alliance with Orkney and Shetland so that we can have oil and ships and those other matters. Whether or not other people wish to join that alliance I will leave to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-15b.781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-15", "file": "debates2013-01-15b.xml", "sha256": "6927093daea0e314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-15b.787.1", "colnum": "787", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "ost notably, that of Howard Dean—which received a substantial amount of their money from a multiplicity of small donations. So even though the £500 limit might not appear to be a great deal, those donations could be significant when aggregated. The major question of principle that needs to be addressed is whether the referendum in Scotland can be bought and sold with foreign gold—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-15b.787.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-15", "file": "debates2013-01-15b.xml", "sha256": "6927093daea0e314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-15b.788.1", "colnum": "788", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "ice of the Electoral Commission. We can only assume that it suits them in the circumstances. The Select Committee has said that the rules that govern the regulated period with regard to openness on donations and finance should also govern the unregulated period. So far, the two campaigns have indicated that they are minded to accept that, but we do not have that down in blood. In conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-15b.788.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-15", "file": "debates2013-01-15b.xml", "sha256": "6927093daea0e314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-15b.790.1", "colnum": "790", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "in the Scottish Parliament at present is because of the circumstances that pertained when people went to the polls at the last Scottish election. They were not voting for Scotland to separate from the United Kingdom; they were voting against the Labour party—but I shall not go down that route now, as you would not allow me to, Mr Deputy Speaker. We all know, however, that that is what—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-15b.790.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-15", "file": "debates2013-01-15b.xml", "sha256": "6927093daea0e314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-15b.794.1", "colnum": "794", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "s. I also accept that people from EU countries, Commonwealth countries, Ireland and so on, who are living in a particular area and paying local taxes, should have a vote in a local government election at that time. Their vote will last for four years—I have no problem with that. But why has the franchise for this historic referendum been based on the franchise for local government elections?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-15b.794.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-15", "file": "debates2013-01-15b.xml", "sha256": "6927093daea0e314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-15b.834.3", "colnum": "834", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Banks", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will have a contribution to make later, I am quite sure. The commission is extremely well respected, and no Government or Assembly within the UK have ever failed to reach agreement with it on such issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-15b.834.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-16", "file": "debates2013-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "c1b3ab4969ce3c8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-16a.866.4", "colnum": "866", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Let me say again that we should recognise and welcome the work that food banks do. The last Government rightly recognised that through giving food banks an award.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-16a.866.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-16", "file": "debates2013-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "c1b3ab4969ce3c8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-16a.869.1", "colnum": "869", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Compared with 2010-11, last year there were 400,000 extra operations in our NHS. Across our NHS, there are 5,000 more doctors and 5,000 fewer administrators. We have got the level of mixed-sex wards right down. The level of hospital-acquired infections—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-16a.869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-16", "file": "debates2013-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "c1b3ab4969ce3c8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-16a.883.2", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Opposition Day — [14th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "I am sure we are all grateful that this will be the final one. First of all, the hon. Gentleman says that we have moved on from the Wolf report, so having welcomed it he now believes it is obsolete—that is interesting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-16a.883.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-16", "file": "debates2013-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "c1b3ab4969ce3c8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-16a.896.1", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Opposition Day — [14th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "e and well within our GCSE system, we just did not know it, and that we must get rid—maybe it came out of coalition politics; maybe it was the leak of the new O-level—of any form of separation or tiering. We must make sure our assessment is appropriate, because otherwise children will sit exams that, unless some genius designed them, put them off learning, rather than encouraging them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-16a.896.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-16", "file": "debates2013-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "c1b3ab4969ce3c8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-16a.907.1", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Opposition Day — [14th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "preceding_text": "d. For some children, delivering the EBacc and giving them access to it will be appropriate, but for others that is simply not the case. When we talk about providing an Eton-style education for everybody, we forget the immense challenges that many of our schools face in delivering. I have nothing against foreign languages, for example. I am learning one myself, with less success than I would like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-16a.907.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-16", "file": "debates2013-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "c1b3ab4969ce3c8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-16a.979.5", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Opposition Day — [14th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Luciana Berger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Luciana Berger", "preceding_text": "Warm Front scheme is not the only thing that we are concerned about. A number of Members from all parties have talked about the green deal. Ministers have promised us this flagship scheme, but we are worried that what they have delivered so far is more like a submarine, because it is so far below the radar that polling shows that most people have not even heard of it, let alone want to take it up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-16a.979.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-24", "file": "debates2013-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "039505dec172ad3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-24a.489.1", "colnum": "489", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Marriage (Same Sex Couples)", "cue_speaker": "Fabian Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fabian Hamilton", "preceding_text": "ote at that age. Why are they deemed old enough to be in charge of a vehicle that could be a lethal weapon, but not old enough to vote? Why do we allow them to join the Army or get married at the age of 16, but not allow them to vote? There are different ages for different activities in our society. Also, protecting young people from the pervasive influence of the dangerous habit of smoking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-24a.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-24", "file": "debates2013-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "039505dec172ad3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-24a.490.3", "colnum": "490", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Marriage (Same Sex Couples)", "cue_speaker": "Fabian Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fabian Hamilton", "preceding_text": " it is in local government, as many of our towns and cities have annual elections three out of four years. The age may well come down to 14 as young people get more mature, but we are debating votes at 16. In that case, I think, as many hon. Members and most of my party colleagues think, that from 16 onwards young people are mature enough, bright enough and educated enough to make those judgments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-24a.490.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-24", "file": "debates2013-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "039505dec172ad3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-24a.490.3", "colnum": "490", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Marriage (Same Sex Couples)", "cue_speaker": "Fabian Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fabian Hamilton", "preceding_text": "] That is my view; I know my hon. Friend the Member for Huddersfield (Mr Sheerman) has a different view. Let me move on to the issue of school councils. I do not know whether many Members have attended elections for school councils or spoken to any school councils, but I have been invited, as I know many Members have been invited, to meet them—including often to primary school councils, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-24a.490.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-24", "file": "debates2013-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "039505dec172ad3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-24a.490.3", "colnum": "490", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Marriage (Same Sex Couples)", "cue_speaker": "Fabian Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fabian Hamilton", "preceding_text": "nd the Member for Huddersfield (Mr Sheerman) has a different view. Let me move on to the issue of school councils. I do not know whether many Members have attended elections for school councils or spoken to any school councils, but I have been invited, as I know many Members have been invited, to meet them—including often to primary school councils, too. [Interruption.] I am staggered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-24a.490.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-24", "file": "debates2013-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "039505dec172ad3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-24a.491.2", "colnum": "491", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Marriage (Same Sex Couples)", "cue_speaker": "Fabian Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fabian Hamilton", "preceding_text": "next year or the next month—whenever they pass the age of 16—while they were still studying, they could cast their vote in a local authority election that has a direct relevance to them, and now, of course, in the five-yearly police and crime commissioner elections, too. We have an age of consent of 16. At 16, people can drive a scooter. At 16, people can fight for their country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-24a.491.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-24", "file": "debates2013-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "039505dec172ad3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-24a.504.2", "colnum": "504", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Marriage (Same Sex Couples)", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "e as politicians have done pretty little about defending childhood from commercial pressures. Indeed, the one time I deeply fell out with my right hon. Friend the Member for Exeter (Mr Bradshaw) was when, as Minister, he allowed product placement on television. What do we drink? Coca Cola, because there it is on the screen. The commercial pressures on childhood have been extreme over recent years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-24a.504.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-24", "file": "debates2013-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "039505dec172ad3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-24a.509.0", "colnum": "509", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Marriage (Same Sex Couples)", "cue_speaker": "Paul Blomfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Blomfield", "preceding_text": " so by any account we are at least two years late. I am disappointed that the hon. Member for Shipley (Philip Davies) sought to diminish the debate by suggesting that those of us who were advocating this cause were simply trying to be trendy. Looking at those Members who have spoken so far, including myself, I do not think there is any chance that any of us will be mistaken for being trendy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-24a.509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-24", "file": "debates2013-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "039505dec172ad3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-24a.522.0", "colnum": "522", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Marriage (Same Sex Couples)", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Ashworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Ashworth", "preceding_text": " but I suspect 16-year-olds can join it in the same way as they can join the Labour party. In the Labour party, and, I suspect, in the Conservative party, 16-year-olds can take part in selecting their parliamentary candidate and in leadership elections, in which they are choosing a potential Prime Minister. If they can take part in those elections, why can they not take part in a general election?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-24a.522.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-25", "file": "debates2013-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "c5e3a5af120312bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-25a.589.1", "colnum": "589", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "preceding_text": "hority that ensures that a percentage of their gross profit goes back into racing. That approach has already been taken up by one betting operator, to which I have referred. Pressure must be placed on others to follow. There could be a further incentive: betting operators must have a commercial deal if they want to sponsor the big races and meets. On the so-called problem of competition law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-25a.589.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-28", "file": "debates2013-01-28c.xml", "sha256": "944f0f779c91e4d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-28c.651.6", "colnum": "651", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "That is why measures such as the Work programme and the new enterprise allowance help lay those foundations. We need to see businesses moving to places such as the Rhondda and south Wales. I went to Swansea before Christmas to see the work that Amazon is doing there to boost employment in the local community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-28c.651.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-28", "file": "debates2013-01-28c.xml", "sha256": "944f0f779c91e4d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-28c.709.0", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Succession to the Crown Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "It was a joke. I am very loyal to the Saxe- Coburg and Windsor line and a great supporter of the Queen. As it happens, even if I wanted to be a Jacobite it would be difficult because they have all died out. The last one became a cardinal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-28c.709.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-29", "file": "debates2013-01-29b.xml", "sha256": "5c66d1f27f6ca9a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-29b.824.4", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Equality (Marriage) (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "John Thurso", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Thurso", "preceding_text": "I had the great privilege of listening to Jo Grimond on many occasions. He met his wife in my grandparents’ house and proposed to her there—and, indeed, Laura was godmother to my sister. I regularly listen to him, therefore, and I feel certain that if he was in the circumstances we are in, he would without doubt support his Liberal colleagues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-29b.824.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-29", "file": "debates2013-01-29b.xml", "sha256": "5c66d1f27f6ca9a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-29b.827.6", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Equality (Marriage) (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "preceding_text": "st, is he aware that there is a Bill at the moment that would reduce the size of the House of Lords without making it into an elected Chamber, which his own party is opposing? Secondly, on the question of whether the Lords are able to put up a decent fight against the Executive, is he aware that during the Labour Governments of Mr Blair and the right hon. Member for Kirkcaldy and the other —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-29b.827.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-30", "file": "debates2013-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4d8f0a5facebd3a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-30a.895.2", "colnum": "895", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Ian Lucas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Lucas", "preceding_text": "Yesterday’s failure to sign a Congo peace accord in Addis Ababa is very serious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-30a.895.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-30", "file": "debates2013-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4d8f0a5facebd3a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-30a.897.2", "colnum": "897", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman knows, GDP in the third quarter of last year went up by 0.9%, and, as forecast by the Office for Budget Responsibility, it fell in the fourth quarter by 0.3%.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-30a.897.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-30", "file": "debates2013-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4d8f0a5facebd3a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-30a.898.3", "colnum": "898", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "hen I think back myself of May 2010 when the UK deficit was at 11%”— when you were in office, right?— “and I try to imagine what the situation would be like today if no such fiscal consolidation programme had been decided, I shiver.” That is what the IMF said about the plans of the last Labour Government. Now, the right hon. Gentleman raises the issue of growth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-30a.898.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-30", "file": "debates2013-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4d8f0a5facebd3a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-30a.906.6", "colnum": "906", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Some things come and go but there is one thing that is certain: wherever there is a brutal Arab dictator in the world, he will have the support of the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-30a.906.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-31", "file": "debates2013-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "f53b58f5a8cedcc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-31a.1053.3", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "eedings. It is not very often that the Leader of the House’s Back Benchers want to hear from the Liberal Democrat leader. Given the demand, will he arrange for the Deputy Prime Minister to make a statement? I think we would all enjoy that. Relate tells us that January is the month in which couples are most likely to break up, so may I congratulate the coalition on managing to get through it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-31a.1053.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-31", "file": "debates2013-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "f53b58f5a8cedcc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-31a.1062.2", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I introduced the responsibility deal with my colleagues at the Department of Health precisely because I am concerned about the number of people in this country who are overweight and obese—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-31a.1062.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-31", "file": "debates2013-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "f53b58f5a8cedcc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-31a.1101.5", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Canterbury City Council Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": " precedent and that we will not have to worry so much about some of the worst consequences of such legislation. A notable omission from my hon. Friend’s speech was the issue of touting, although I appreciate that he was trying to be as brief as possible. If he did mention that and I missed it, I apologise to him. One amendment before us today deals with touting. He did not mention it —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-31a.1101.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-01-31", "file": "debates2013-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "f53b58f5a8cedcc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-31a.1120.1", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Canterbury City Council Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Shame!”", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": " public business. What has happened today demonstrates the virtues of being able to engage in what might be described as an iterative process, during which we discuss the issues, and the promoters have a chance to reflect on the points that have been made—over weeks, months or years—and to respond to them accordingly. I do not need to speak any longer on this group of amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-01-31a.1120.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-01", "file": "debates2013-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "f22eb3cba60e288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-01a.1183.1", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "James Duddridge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Duddridge", "preceding_text": "nfamiliar with the word “dissensus”, but I can work out what he means and I broadly agree with his conclusion. I look forward to seeing the Government response to the consultation. I believe that some of the inputs to the consultation have been published, but I could not find that, so I assume the Government have not yet responded, given that the consultation was in January 2012—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-01a.1183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-01", "file": "debates2013-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "f22eb3cba60e288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-01a.1194.0", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Chi Onwurah", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chi Onwurah", "preceding_text": "With some honourable exceptions, we agree on the principles and that a register is necessary. That was in the coalition agreement and it was in our manifesto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-01a.1194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-01", "file": "debates2013-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "f22eb3cba60e288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-01a.1194.0", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Chi Onwurah", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chi Onwurah", "preceding_text": "With some honourable exceptions, we agree on the principles and that a register is necessary. That was in the coalition agreement and it was in our manifesto. [Interruption.] There may be some disunity as to what is supported in the coalition agreement, but it sets out the original intentions of the coalition, as cemented in the rose garden those many months ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-01a.1194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-01", "file": "debates2013-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "f22eb3cba60e288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-01a.1194.0", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Chi Onwurah", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Chi Onwurah", "preceding_text": "hich is paying the bill. Shortly after the election Sir Philip Mawer, chairman of the UKPAC implementation group, said that lobbyists are fooling themselves if they expect a respite in politicians’ scrutiny of the industry. I pay tribute to Sir Philip and his efforts, but perhaps he reckoned without this Government’s complacency two and a half years later. I am conscious of time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-01a.1194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-01", "file": "debates2013-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "f22eb3cba60e288f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-01a.1202.1", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "North, I have a great deal of time for the Minister, but she will know, as we all do, that she will not be the Minister for ever, and we might not get as good a Minister in future. Indeed, we might be left with one who is not as talented and sensible. We might—if we want to be very depressing—end up with the Labour party in government. Who knows what we might end up with at that point?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-01a.1202.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-04", "file": "debates2013-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "8d2e7baf3ba2b0e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-04a.67.5", "colnum": "67", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Financial Services (Banking Reform) Bill", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "he sent on 22 November , he told the European Scrutiny Committee that, having heard what we had said, the Government were now—although they had not been before—of the opinion that the exemption did not apply in this case, and that primary legislation would be introduced. That is why we have this Bill—the European Scrutiny Committee did its job and asked for further clarification.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-04a.67.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-06", "file": "debates2013-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "40cd5f1ff985a734", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-06a.267.5", "colnum": "267", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "e hon. Lady will know that we have in place an assisted digital strategy, so that as we roll out our digital by default approach, which will provide services on a much more convenient basis for the citizen at much lower cost to the taxpayer, there will always be available a place where people can go so that the digital transaction can be carried out with the support of someone to help the citizen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-06a.267.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-06", "file": "debates2013-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "40cd5f1ff985a734", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-06a.271.0", "colnum": "271", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "The clue is in the title: Prime Minister’s questions. He is supposed to try to answer the question. The Prime Minister clearly does not understand his own policy, but I thought that he might say, “Move to the private rented sector,” because there are not enough council properties for people. This is where—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-06a.271.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-06", "file": "debates2013-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "40cd5f1ff985a734", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-06a.321.1", "colnum": "321", "heading": "United Kingdom Membership of the European Union (Referendum)", "cue_speaker": "John Baron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Baron", "preceding_text": "Even the then Labour Prime Minister knew the sham of the situation. He refused to join the photo call and signed the treaty in the privacy of a darkened room—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-06a.321.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-06", "file": "debates2013-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "40cd5f1ff985a734", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-06a.375.1", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day: First Part] — Suicide Prevention", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": " Bills—not just to the touting provision, but to the definition of pedlars. Therefore, when I seek the indulgence of the House, it is in order to ensure that my hon. and right hon. Friends and the Opposition realise that this has been a very worthwhile exercise. Although a lot of colleagues have consistently voted against the ideas that I and a number of my hon. Friends have suggested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-06a.375.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-06", "file": "debates2013-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "40cd5f1ff985a734", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-06a.400.4", "colnum": "400", "heading": "NATIONAL ASSEMBLY FOR WALES", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Crabb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Crabb", "preceding_text": "If ever there was a false premise to an intervention, that was one. It was not wasted at all. We had extremely valuable responses to the consultation that will feed into our deliberations about the other parts of the Green Paper package.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-06a.400.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-07", "file": "debates2013-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "b85c6921b53b9a29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-07a.406.5", "colnum": "406", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “When?”", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "ursuing the policies I have described. I get a sense that the hon. Gentleman has not the faintest idea about the issues involved in establishing a new bank. This Government have established, through government, two new banks, one of which is already operating on a significant scale— the green investment bank. The other is the new business bank, which is going through the necessary processes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-07a.406.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-07", "file": "debates2013-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "b85c6921b53b9a29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-07a.421.4", "colnum": "421", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Michael Fallon", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Fallon", "preceding_text": "I voted for it, and he and his colleagues advised the workers in BT—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-07a.421.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-07", "file": "debates2013-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "b85c6921b53b9a29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-07a.427.2", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "Come on—get a move on. If not a gallop, at least a canter .—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-07a.427.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-07", "file": "debates2013-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "b85c6921b53b9a29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-07a.443.0", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "preceding_text": "drawing board. Instead, we have another back-of-the-envelope plan: a new national curriculum, following the last one that his own expert advisers said was deeply flawed. Education is too important for this kind of short-term thinking. Most children only get one chance at their GCSEs. Surely their future is too important to be subjected to the usual party politicking and parliamentary game-playing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-07a.443.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-07", "file": "debates2013-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "b85c6921b53b9a29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-07a.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "I am delighted that the hon. Gentleman is familiar with nursery rhymes. This has been a week when Dukes of York have been in the headlines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-07a.451.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-07", "file": "debates2013-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "b85c6921b53b9a29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-07a.508.3", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Backbench Business — New Nuclear Power", "cue_speaker": "Jim Dowd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Dowd", "preceding_text": "That is not true; we do not have that. That is in South London Healthcare NHS Trust. Lewisham Healthcare NHS Trust is in balance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-07a.508.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-07", "file": "debates2013-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "b85c6921b53b9a29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-07a.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Backbench Business — New Nuclear Power", "cue_speaker": "Nick de Bois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick de Bois", "preceding_text": "ct of telehealth care on our acute centres. Such things will not just drive costs, but better health care. Can they have an impact on whether we retain more services at our acute centre in A and E, while more people are being treated in the primary sector? I think that my constituents look at the Lewisham solution almost with envy. We should be able to at least guarantee to our constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-07a.511.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-11", "file": "debates2013-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "56c2e6285ed416a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-11b.552.3", "colnum": "552", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "On the first part of the right hon. Gentleman’s question, he has been in this House long enough to know not to believe everything he reads in newspapers when they talk about what the Government might or might not do. He may even occasionally have been the author of some such stories himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-11b.552.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-11", "file": "debates2013-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "56c2e6285ed416a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-11b.577.5", "colnum": "577", "heading": "CCTV", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "May I add my congratulations to my right hon. Friend on returning from Europe with a very good deal for the United Kingdom?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-11b.577.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-11", "file": "debates2013-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "56c2e6285ed416a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-11b.610.2", "colnum": "610", "heading": "CCTV", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "ame to the Commons to answer my urgent question on 17 January , the food Minister said: “It is important that neither the hon. Lady nor anyone else in this House talks down the British food industry.”—[ Official Report , 17 January 2013; Vol. 556, c. 1027 .] These invisible regulatory services protect our consumers and our food industry, and allow it to export all over the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-11b.610.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-11", "file": "debates2013-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "56c2e6285ed416a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-11b.612.0", "colnum": "612", "heading": "CCTV", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "ell. I raised it with the noble Lord this afternoon, and he agreed that April was the intended end date for these results, but that he could possibly publish some of them as he works through. The hon. Lady completely misses the point that the retailers are responsible for the quality and content of their food. That is laid down in European law. Her Government passed a statutory instrument in 2002.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-11b.612.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-12", "file": "debates2013-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "2c076f4180c5dfdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-12a.723.3", "colnum": "723", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "As I said earlier, my statement does not cover any arrangements in relation to pensions. The issue of police officers subject to misconduct proceedings being able to resign or retire from a force and then those proceedings not being taken through because there was no sanction is one of the things that annoys the public considerably.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-12a.723.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-12", "file": "debates2013-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "2c076f4180c5dfdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-12a.733.1", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th( )Allotted Day] — Horsemeat", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "The beef on sale right now in UK supermarkets is probably of a higher quality than ever. Lots of local and independent butchers have seen a spike in trade lately as a result of what has happened. I said that there was no safe dose of bute for humans. I am not a medical expert, but bute can cause serious adverse side effects so should be consumed only under medical supervision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-12a.733.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-12", "file": "debates2013-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "2c076f4180c5dfdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-12a.737.1", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th( )Allotted Day] — Horsemeat", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "se. The passport system is clearly not working as it should. The lack of a central database and DEFRA’s decision to stop funding it in 2012 only adds to the lack of visibility of where the horses are and their bute status. Does the Secretary of State regret scrapping the national equine database to save £200,000? [ Interruption. ] The Minister says no—I think he might regret that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-12a.737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-12", "file": "debates2013-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "2c076f4180c5dfdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-12a.738.0", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th( )Allotted Day] — Horsemeat", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "The national equine database was as the hon. Lady describes it, but the fact that it no longer exists does not help with tracking and tracing where horses have gone. There were, I think, more than 1.2 million horses on it. I will need to check the numbers, because that figure is from memory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-12a.738.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-12", "file": "debates2013-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "2c076f4180c5dfdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-12a.742.1", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th( )Allotted Day] — Horsemeat", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Is the FSA testing that?”", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asks a good question. However, like many Opposition Members, he is asking me to impinge on the operational independence of the Food Standards Agency, which makes decisions on the details.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-12a.742.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-12", "file": "debates2013-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "2c076f4180c5dfdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-12a.769.2", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th( )Allotted Day] — Horsemeat", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "nd therefore it was not operating on the basis of suspicion that there was adulteration of material going into the UK. As soon as it had confirmed results, it shared them with the FSA and the FSA shared them with the Government, and we have then had the process that is continuing. We like to work on the basis of evidence before bringing prosecutions, and we like to give the evidence to the police.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-12a.769.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-12", "file": "debates2013-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "2c076f4180c5dfdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-12a.778.1", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th( )Allotted Day] — Horsemeat", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "That is why we urged the Government, before the autumn statement, to use the money from the 4G auction to start building 100,000 new affordable homes and why we urged the Chancellor to use a tax on bank bonuses for a programme for jobs and growth, with further house building and a job guarantee for young people. But the Chancellor did not listen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-12a.778.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-12", "file": "debates2013-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "2c076f4180c5dfdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-12a.779.0", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th( )Allotted Day] — Horsemeat", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "I know that that is something that my hon. Friend has worked on carefully and is discussing with Ministers and shadow Ministers. It is worth looking at such a scheme. The Government’s national infrastructure plan is well worth reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-12a.779.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-12", "file": "debates2013-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "2c076f4180c5dfdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-12a.782.0", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th( )Allotted Day] — Horsemeat", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Birtwistle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Birtwistle", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Lady for giving way. Let me point out to her that spending on PFI schemes amounts to billions and billions of pounds—as I understand it, somewhere in the region of £800 billion—and is totally unaffordable. Is it right to spend money on a hospital—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-12a.782.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-13", "file": "debates2013-02-13b.xml", "sha256": "365bde049dfdf0f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-13b.893.0", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Science, Technology and Engineering (Careers Information in Schools)", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "is Minister is supporting a 20% cut in policing, having gone into the election arguing for 3,000 more police officers. This Minister is taking 15,000 police officers off the streets of Britain, when he promised at the election to put 3,000 more police officers on to the streets of Britain. I will let the British people judge on that in due course and we will argue about those issues in due course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-13b.893.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-13", "file": "debates2013-02-13b.xml", "sha256": "365bde049dfdf0f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-13b.893.0", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Science, Technology and Engineering (Careers Information in Schools)", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "police officers lost because of the votes of Conservative and Liberal Democrat Members today. I look forward to the Labour campaign in Eastleigh focusing on crime and punishment. I also look forward to reminding the people of Eastleigh that the Liberal Democrats proposed 3,000 more police officers, along with no rise in tuition fees and various other issues that they have broken their promises on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-13b.893.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-13", "file": "debates2013-02-13b.xml", "sha256": "365bde049dfdf0f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-13b.925.0", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Science, Technology and Engineering (Careers Information in Schools)", "cue_speaker": "Brandon Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Brandon Lewis", "preceding_text": "ion describing the kind of work that they need to do in order to receive year two money as a result of the efficiencies that they are achieving in year one. In December we said councils were facing an average cut of about 1.7%. We now know the impact of the public health grant, however, because that figure has dropped to just 1.3%. People would expect us to say the settlement is even-handed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-13b.925.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-13", "file": "debates2013-02-13b.xml", "sha256": "365bde049dfdf0f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-13b.929.7", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Science, Technology and Engineering (Careers Information in Schools)", "cue_speaker": "Brandon Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brandon Lewis", "preceding_text": "prised by the comments of the hon. Member for Birmingham, Northfield (Richard Burden) . Not only is my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State happy to meet representatives from Core Cities, but I met them myself during the consultation process. They were part of it, so I am not sure where the hon. Gentleman gets his facts. To help local authorities, we published 50 ways to make sensible savings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-13b.929.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-13", "file": "debates2013-02-13b.xml", "sha256": "365bde049dfdf0f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-13b.961.1", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Science, Technology and Engineering (Careers Information in Schools)", "cue_speaker": "Julie Hilling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “No they’re not!”", "preceding_speaker": "Julie Hilling", "preceding_text": " lose £15.18 per ahead. It is not fair and it is not right. Why did the Secretary of State sign up for the biggest hit across Whitehall? Why did he sign up to £5.6 billion of cuts to local authority spending—a higher percentage than other Departments? If it is to pay down the deficit and debt, well it is clearly not working, because both are increasing because of those savage cuts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-13b.961.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-13", "file": "debates2013-02-13b.xml", "sha256": "365bde049dfdf0f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-13b.963.2", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Science, Technology and Engineering (Careers Information in Schools)", "cue_speaker": "Julie Hilling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julie Hilling", "preceding_text": "I do not think the hon. Gentleman has been listening. I am saying that Bolton council is already looking at every one of the points on that list. On pensions, it is a disgrace to say that councillors should not be able to pay into the pension scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-13b.963.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-13", "file": "debates2013-02-13b.xml", "sha256": "365bde049dfdf0f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-13b.963.3", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Science, Technology and Engineering (Careers Information in Schools)", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. We cannot have challenges about each other’s pensions at this stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-13b.963.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-13", "file": "debates2013-02-13b.xml", "sha256": "365bde049dfdf0f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-13b.970.2", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Science, Technology and Engineering (Careers Information in Schools)", "cue_speaker": "Don Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Foster", "preceding_text": "then agreed that the costs could be spread not over one year, but now over five years, and we reduced by 8% the anticipated income and we have introduced a safety net for those whose income falls below 7.5%. I was surprised that the shadow Secretary of State again attacked what he called the bedroom tax and failed to mention that the same approach was adopted for 13 years by the Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-13b.970.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-13", "file": "debates2013-02-13b.xml", "sha256": "365bde049dfdf0f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-13b.970.2", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Science, Technology and Engineering (Careers Information in Schools)", "cue_speaker": "Don Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Foster", "preceding_text": "w over five years, and we reduced by 8% the anticipated income and we have introduced a safety net for those whose income falls below 7.5%. I was surprised that the shadow Secretary of State again attacked what he called the bedroom tax and failed to mention that the same approach was adopted for 13 years by the Labour Government. [Interruption.] He failed to mention that 390,000 households—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-13b.970.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-13", "file": "debates2013-02-13b.xml", "sha256": "365bde049dfdf0f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-13b.998.2", "colnum": "998", "heading": "deferred divisions", "cue_speaker": "Russell Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Russell Brown", "preceding_text": "I had not intended to speak this evening, but my hon. Friend the Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell) has somewhat inspired me. He spoke on a subject that I want to say one or two things about. It is extremely saddening that we are taking both orders together, because we on the Opposition Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-13b.998.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-14", "file": "debates2013-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "6bbcd2080d3d4bd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-14a.1047.3", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "ting with his EU counterparts. That arch-Eurosceptic had a damascene conversion to EU labelling regulations on the way. He wants more of them, he wants them quickly and he wants the Commission to hurry up with them—so much speed when his Government have spent the past two years blocking Labour MEPs’ attempts to get better country of origin labelling for processed meats and ready meals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-14a.1047.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-14", "file": "debates2013-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "6bbcd2080d3d4bd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-14a.1048.2", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "y supported, brought forward an emergency meeting of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health to consider probable thresholds, and got the matter on the agenda for Council on 25 February . That is a quite remarkable achievement in a very short time. The Government are committed to proper investigations based on evidence. Let me finish with one point raised by the hon. Lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-14a.1048.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-14", "file": "debates2013-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "6bbcd2080d3d4bd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-14a.1053.3", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "I have already explained that phenylbutazone is a well-known issue and that it is one of the things that is looked for at the point of slaughter, particularly through the horse passport system. I have also said that there may be deficiencies in the horse passport system that we need to address—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-14a.1053.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-14", "file": "debates2013-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "6bbcd2080d3d4bd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-14a.1053.3", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "the things that is looked for at the point of slaughter, particularly through the horse passport system. I have also said that there may be deficiencies in the horse passport system that we need to address— [ Interruption. ] The right hon. Member for Don Valley (Caroline Flint) is shouting at me from a sedentary position. I do not think that is helpful to a serious discussion of the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-14a.1053.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-14", "file": "debates2013-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "6bbcd2080d3d4bd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-14a.1053.8", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "Angela Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Smith", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Minister for a simple answer to a simple question: when did he order that horse carcases should be released from abattoirs after they had been found to be clean of bute?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-14a.1053.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-14", "file": "debates2013-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "6bbcd2080d3d4bd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-14a.1054.0", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Luton South (Gavin Shuker) says helpfully, “It’s in the folder.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-14a.1054.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-14", "file": "debates2013-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "6bbcd2080d3d4bd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-14a.1058.1", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "I am not going to criticise anyone for expressing proper concerns on behalf of their constituents, but I will criticise those who peddle part-truths or untruths, which is profoundly unhelpful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-14a.1058.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-14", "file": "debates2013-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "6bbcd2080d3d4bd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-14a.1086.1", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Contamination of Beef Products", "cue_speaker": "Claire Perry", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Claire Perry", "preceding_text": "I congratulate hon. Members from all parts of the House on securing this important debate on the day of One Billion Rising. I also congratulate the hon. Member for Walthamstow (Stella Creasy) on leading a fantastic cross-party group in Parliament square. It is a shame that the Metropolitan police tried to move us on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-14a.1086.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-14", "file": "debates2013-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "6bbcd2080d3d4bd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-14a.1092.7", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Contamination of Beef Products", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "I have not got time to give way; there is a short time limit and there will be plenty of time for other cases to be made during the rest of the debate. I also want to talk about the perpetrators of violent crime —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-14a.1092.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-14", "file": "debates2013-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "6bbcd2080d3d4bd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-14a.1124.0", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Contamination of Beef Products", "cue_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "preceding_text": "to look again at the advice on the Foreign Office website and to consider what message it sends out about rape in our world. It is not acceptable to offer a caution as a penalty for rape in our society. We have to tackle the way in which we deal with rape. When only one in 30 rape victims in our society sees justice, it is an argument not for cautions, but for changing the criminal justice system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-14a.1124.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-14", "file": "debates2013-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "6bbcd2080d3d4bd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-14a.1124.0", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Contamination of Beef Products", "cue_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "preceding_text": "at is why I challenge the Secretary of State for Education when he suggests that all we need to do is to raise educational attainment, as though sexual violence is not happening in the highest performing schools in our country. Let me tell Government Members that we know that sexting takes place in the poshest and most expensive boarding schools that children can go to. So this is not about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-14a.1124.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-25", "file": "debates2013-02-25b.xml", "sha256": "7e1d4cacc7313c4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.4.0", "colnum": "4", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "No. The right hon. Gentleman is simply wrong. The figure of £12.5 billion is from CAAS—the internal cost assessment and assurance service. It was quoted by the National Audit Office and has subsequently been reassessed at £4.4 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.4.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-25", "file": "debates2013-02-25b.xml", "sha256": "7e1d4cacc7313c4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.16.3", "colnum": "16", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Siobhain McDonagh. Not here —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.16.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-25", "file": "debates2013-02-25b.xml", "sha256": "7e1d4cacc7313c4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.17.3", "colnum": "17", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "Let me say to the right hon. Gentleman that the way in which we will not increase confidence in the Territorial Army, and will not increase reserve numbers, is arbitrarily cancelling its members’ training, cutting their kit and relegating them to the second division, which is what his party did in government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.17.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-25", "file": "debates2013-02-25b.xml", "sha256": "7e1d4cacc7313c4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.24.1", "colnum": "24", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "y that dare not speak its name, from a shadow Chancellor who refuses to be straight with the British people. Finally, he was confronted on the radio by the simple statement: “I, Ed Balls…would borrow more” and he admitted, “Yes, that is what I would do.” Does not that admission completely undermine his entire argument today? A deliberate decision to borrow more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.24.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-25", "file": "debates2013-02-25b.xml", "sha256": "7e1d4cacc7313c4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.25.3", "colnum": "25", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I would say that the credit rating agencies are important, but they are one test—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.25.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-25", "file": "debates2013-02-25b.xml", "sha256": "7e1d4cacc7313c4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.26.1", "colnum": "26", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Birtwistle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Birtwistle", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that the shadow Chancellor, would himself get a triple A rating for his skill in running this country down? Does he also agree that the hard-working people of this country are getting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.26.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-25", "file": "debates2013-02-25b.xml", "sha256": "7e1d4cacc7313c4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.30.0", "colnum": "30", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "John Baron", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "John Baron", "preceding_text": "Evidence suggests that this downgrade will have little effect in the actual markets. May I also suggest to the Chancellor that small business corporation tax cuts will bring their own reward over the medium term?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.30.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-25", "file": "debates2013-02-25b.xml", "sha256": "7e1d4cacc7313c4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.33.0", "colnum": "33", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I can assure my hon. Friend that we are not going to repeat the mistakes of the last Labour Government. We are absolutely clear, when it comes to regulating the City and banking—I am about to give evidence to the Banking Commission—that we are taking the tough action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.33.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-25", "file": "debates2013-02-25b.xml", "sha256": "7e1d4cacc7313c4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.36.8", "colnum": "36", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "Unless the hon. Gentleman can find anyone else to blame for the fact that there was an 11.5% budget deficit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.36.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-25", "file": "debates2013-02-25b.xml", "sha256": "7e1d4cacc7313c4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.38.5", "colnum": "38", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I will not make a prediction about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.38.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-25", "file": "debates2013-02-25b.xml", "sha256": "7e1d4cacc7313c4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.40.4", "colnum": "40", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sheila Gilmore", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sheila Gilmore", "preceding_text": "This time two years ago the Chancellor was telling us that he had already created half a million new jobs, most of which were probably the result of the previous Government’s economic stimulus —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.40.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-25", "file": "debates2013-02-25b.xml", "sha256": "7e1d4cacc7313c4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.42.6", "colnum": "42", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "hich, presumably, were agreed to by all members of that Cabinet—was lower than the capital spending in the plans that we have now. Why? Because we have made difficult decisions on welfare bills and other areas of resource spending in order to invest in capital. As for housing, with schemes such as Firstbuy and NewBuy and the new housing guarantees, we are getting behind the housing industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.42.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-25", "file": "debates2013-02-25b.xml", "sha256": "7e1d4cacc7313c4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.64.3", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Children and Families Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "preceding_text": "I am wary of ever disagreeing with the illustrious Education Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.64.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-25", "file": "debates2013-02-25b.xml", "sha256": "7e1d4cacc7313c4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.76.0", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Children and Families Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “And grandparents.”", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "preceding_text": "Can we nail that misconception straight away? The provision has nothing to do with giving rights to parents; it is about the responsibilities of parents and the rights that children should have. They have a right to have both their parents as involved as possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.76.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-25", "file": "debates2013-02-25b.xml", "sha256": "7e1d4cacc7313c4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.136.0", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Business of the House (26 February)", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": " Second House while it considered the issue…has now indicated that it has not altered its original view”. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills therefore does not agree with the opinion of leading counsel obtained by the promoters of the Bill. Those of us who discussed the last set of private Bills will recall that the EU services directive is a very controversial measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-25", "file": "debates2013-02-25b.xml", "sha256": "7e1d4cacc7313c4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.136.0", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Business of the House (26 February)", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "hose of us who discussed the last set of private Bills will recall that the EU services directive is a very controversial measure. [ Interruption. ] I shall not talk more about the Bill now; I simply emphasise that it is significant and should be of interest to a wider group of parliamentarians, particularly those concerned about the implications of the implementation of the EU services directive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-25", "file": "debates2013-02-25b.xml", "sha256": "7e1d4cacc7313c4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.137.1", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Business of the House (26 February)", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “No.”", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Before the hon. Member for Christchurch gives way, I gently note that quite a lot of rather noisy private conversations are taking place on both sides of the Chamber. The hon. Gentleman must be heard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-25", "file": "debates2013-02-25b.xml", "sha256": "7e1d4cacc7313c4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.137.5", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Business of the House (26 February)", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "ir business on a rather hand-to-mouth basis. Why did they not decide on this several weeks ago? I hope that the Leader of the House will address that issue when he responds. I have tabled some new clauses and amendments to the Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill, and I see no harm in splitting consideration of the Bill, with our debating it until 4 o’clock, and starting again at 7 o’clock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.137.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-25", "file": "debates2013-02-25b.xml", "sha256": "7e1d4cacc7313c4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.139.3", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Business of the House (26 February)", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "t. I am thankful for that helpful sedentary intervention. There is a serious principle here: we are reducing the scrutiny of an important Bill and removing the fixed time at which private business is heard, and simply for the convenience of the Executive, not that of Parliament. We are reducing scrutiny and removing certainty, and that is against the interests of every Member sitting here tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.139.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-25", "file": "debates2013-02-25b.xml", "sha256": "7e1d4cacc7313c4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.139.3", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Business of the House (26 February)", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "ernment, this is probably okay, but I ask the Leader of the House to imagine what the other lot would do if they were sitting on the Government side of the House. What sort of nasty things could they get up to? They would then refer to what is happening here tonight as the precedent. The whole point of this debate is to stop us sitting late tomorrow night. I hope that when the House divides—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.139.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-25", "file": "debates2013-02-25b.xml", "sha256": "7e1d4cacc7313c4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Business of the House (26 February)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "was on the Order Paper and considered after 10 o’clock, the moment of interruption, on 13 February . I am sure that the House is quite amused by my hon. Friend’s support for the promoters of the private Bill and the certainty they require about its progress; with that solicitude from him, they must feel a little like someone in the embrace of a particularly large boa constrictor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-25", "file": "debates2013-02-25b.xml", "sha256": "7e1d4cacc7313c4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Business of the House (26 February)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "is available for it. I am sure that the usual channels have made sure that the House has an opportunity to consider the Bill to the necessary extent. Therefore, if the programme motion is agreed to and consideration of the Bill is concluded after four hours, the House is likely to start considering the opposed private business at about 4.40 pm, if there are no urgent questions or statements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-25b.140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-26", "file": "debates2013-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "42a0ce2f15751def", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-26b.157.4", "colnum": "157", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "preceding_text": "Is it not remarkable to have criticism of a reorganisation from someone who supported a Government who had nine reorganisations in nine years? The sexual health strategy document is very important, which is why we are working hard to ensure that it is absolutely right. I re-wrote a large section to ensure that it will deliver—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-26b.157.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-26", "file": "debates2013-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "42a0ce2f15751def", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-26b.165.8", "colnum": "165", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "The Government inherited an institutional bias against mental health in the NHS.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-26b.165.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-26", "file": "debates2013-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "42a0ce2f15751def", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-26b.205.3", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Ian Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Murray", "preceding_text": "tive to this issue. ActionAid and Traidcraft have been active and strong supporters of not only the Bill, but its strengthening in this regard. They were seeking a resolution to ensure that retailers trade fairly with overseas producers well before the code was envisaged or indeed delivered. UK supermarkets buy a significant volume of their products from overseas and produce a considerable —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-26b.205.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-26", "file": "debates2013-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "42a0ce2f15751def", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-26b.213.3", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "preceding_text": "told not to use any current stocks of frozen beef products after the discovery of contaminated beef at a school in Lanarkshire. On Friday, the Food Standards Agency released the second tranche of test results. The first tranche of a week earlier was revealing enough. The second tranche, submitted by the food industry, revealed that one in 80 beef products had been found to contain horsemeat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-26b.213.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-26", "file": "debates2013-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "42a0ce2f15751def", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-26b.213.3", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "preceding_text": "all picture. LGC states that “the levels of phenylbutazone, if present in horsemeat, are thousands of times lower than any that caused adverse effect in humans…the risk is small and rare, estimated to affect perhaps one in 30,000”. My quick calculation suggests that one in 30,000 is about 2,000 people in the UK. LGC continues, “however on a precautionary basis”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-26b.213.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-26", "file": "debates2013-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "42a0ce2f15751def", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-26b.216.2", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "ead of referring to the United Kingdom, I referred to the European Union. That is because of single market and European Union rules. Obviously, I wanted to ensure as far as possible that my new clause would be selectable, but my hon. Friend makes a good point. He is saying that the whole public debate is about why cannot we buy British—buy UK food and thereby avoid the risk associated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-26b.216.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-26", "file": "debates2013-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "42a0ce2f15751def", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-26b.216.3", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. May I gently remind Parliamentary Private Secretaries —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-26b.216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-26", "file": "debates2013-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "42a0ce2f15751def", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-26b.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "City of London (Various Powers) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": ", it should be forced to pay compensation if it has acted in a way that is not becoming. We would all like to see that, I am sure, yet we are in danger of giving it a get-out-of-jail card and letting it get out of paying compensation. I agree with the points made by my hon. Friend the Member for Christchurch about perishable items. I thought he made them very well, so I will not repeat them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-26b.268.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-27", "file": "debates2013-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "9392eb74c16c2e5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-27b.311.4", "colnum": "311", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "This Government always put disabled people first; that is why we have protected disabled people’s benefits. On the specific issue the right hon. Gentleman raises, there is a £50 million fund to support people who are affected by the under-occupancy measure. Disabled adults will have access—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-27b.311.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-27", "file": "debates2013-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "9392eb74c16c2e5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-27b.316.2", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Local Authority Devolution and Powers", "cue_speaker": "John Pugh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Pugh", "preceding_text": "mber for Sheffield South East (Mr Betts) , who chairs the Communities and Local Government Committee, to produce a report on precisely that subject. My aim is the more modest one of preventing elective dictatorship from becoming elective tyranny, because tyranny is the arbitrary, whimsical and indulgent use of power. The distinction is rather helpfully illustrated by the exemplary behaviour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-27b.316.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-27", "file": "debates2013-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "9392eb74c16c2e5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-27b.318.2", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Local Authority Devolution and Powers", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "I apologise to the right hon. Gentleman. The motion is in the name of the Scottish National party, but it is also in the name of Plaid Cymru—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-27b.318.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-27", "file": "debates2013-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "9392eb74c16c2e5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-27b.318.2", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Local Authority Devolution and Powers", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "I apologise to the right hon. Gentleman. The motion is in the name of the Scottish National party, but it is also in the name of Plaid Cymru— [ Interruption ]— and of the Green party. It is indeed truly a joint motion: not a complete novelty, although relatively unusual, and very welcome. I stand corrected. To move the motion, I call Mr Angus Robertson.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-27b.318.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-27", "file": "debates2013-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "9392eb74c16c2e5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-27b.328.2", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day] — Housing Benefit (Under-occupancy Penalty)", "cue_speaker": "Gemma Doyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gemma Doyle", "preceding_text": "I absolutely agree with the points that the hon. Lady is putting to the Government. Is she aware that 83% of the Government’s cuts have been passed directly to councils by the Scottish Government and that councils are having to deal with the sharp end of this measure? That amount of money that is being taken out of Scottish councils at this extraordinarily difficult time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-27b.328.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-27", "file": "debates2013-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "9392eb74c16c2e5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-27b.337.5", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day] — Housing Benefit (Under-occupancy Penalty)", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "Let us address the position of armed forces personnel specifically, because there has been an awful lot of misinformation about that. A married member of the armed forces is unaffected, so if someone is living with a spouse and goes away to fight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-27b.337.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-27", "file": "debates2013-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "9392eb74c16c2e5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-27b.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day] — Housing Benefit (Under-occupancy Penalty)", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I could make a little more progress. The hon. Member for Banff and Buchan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-27b.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-27", "file": "debates2013-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "9392eb74c16c2e5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-27b.342.8", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day] — Housing Benefit (Under-occupancy Penalty)", "cue_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "preceding_text": "Instead of having a policy of evicting people because their children have grown up, would it not be better to offer cash incentives to move to smaller housing? When I was chairman of the housing department and leader of Croydon council we offered people cash benefits rather than by evict them because their children had grown up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-27b.342.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-27", "file": "debates2013-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "9392eb74c16c2e5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-27b.350.0", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day] — Housing Benefit (Under-occupancy Penalty)", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "families of armed personnel out on service, should he not? As he remains in his place, it is clear that he is not going to bring forward those safeguards for the families of people serving on the front line. The House will be disappointed to have observed that. Foster parents will also be hurt. Again, we heard nothing from the Minister today about how foster parent families are going to be helped.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-27b.350.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-27", "file": "debates2013-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "9392eb74c16c2e5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-27b.350.0", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day] — Housing Benefit (Under-occupancy Penalty)", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "oday about how foster parent families are going to be helped. [Interruption.] I listened very carefully to what the Minister said, and he said nothing today that countermands what he sent out in a recent circular, which says: “a household that has an extra room for a current or potential foster child will be treated as under-occupying.” Families in that position will be hit, therefore.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-27b.350.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-27", "file": "debates2013-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "9392eb74c16c2e5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-27b.350.0", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day] — Housing Benefit (Under-occupancy Penalty)", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "nd he said nothing today that countermands what he sent out in a recent circular, which says: “a household that has an extra room for a current or potential foster child will be treated as under-occupying.” Families in that position will be hit, therefore. [Interruption.] We then hear that under universal credit a couple where someone is a pensioner and someone is not will also be hit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-27b.350.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-27", "file": "debates2013-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "9392eb74c16c2e5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-27b.350.0", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day] — Housing Benefit (Under-occupancy Penalty)", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": " room for a current or potential foster child will be treated as under-occupying.” Families in that position will be hit, therefore. [Interruption.] We then hear that under universal credit a couple where someone is a pensioner and someone is not will also be hit. [Interruption.] Over all this, of course, looms the truth that two-thirds of the people hit by this bedroom tax will be disabled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-27b.350.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-27", "file": "debates2013-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "9392eb74c16c2e5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-27b.353.4", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day] — Housing Benefit (Under-occupancy Penalty)", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "I am happy to do so. It will not have escaped the hon. Lady’s notice that today’s fiscal circumstances are somewhat different from those of the 13 years of the previous Labour Government. She supports —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-27b.353.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-27", "file": "debates2013-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "9392eb74c16c2e5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-27b.370.2", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day] — Housing Benefit (Under-occupancy Penalty)", "cue_speaker": "Jane Ellison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Ellison", "preceding_text": "y call on their Front-Bench spokesman to commit that a Labour manifesto would reverse this measure? That is very much what I am hearing from the Labour party and I think all Labour Members who speak in this debate must say where they stand. We are now closer to the next general election than to the previous one, and it starts to become inadequate for the Labour party to say about everything—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-27b.370.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-27", "file": "debates2013-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "9392eb74c16c2e5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-27b.379.1", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day] — Housing Benefit (Under-occupancy Penalty)", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "o make more mortgages available so that more people can afford to buy homes. Members on both sides of the House would welcome that. I happen to know that Ministers are desperate to ensure that more mortgages are available than were available during the last few Labour years, and are working away with the banks to try to make it happen. That is very much part of the solution to the housing problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-27b.379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-02-27", "file": "debates2013-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "9392eb74c16c2e5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-27b.383.3", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day] — Housing Benefit (Under-occupancy Penalty)", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "preceding_text": ", who feel that it will have an appalling impact on families throughout Scotland and, indeed, the rest of the UK. That assessment also shows that eight out of 10—the exact figure is 79%—of the households in Scotland set to be hit by this change, as we have heard before, contain an adult with a recognised disability. That is extraordinary. This is about as punitive as it could be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-02-27b.383.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-06", "file": "debates2013-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "3dc5d91dd3670526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-06a.954.4", "colnum": "954", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "would say to her is what I said last week: what are we to be frightened of in making sure that in our brilliant NHS there can be a full contribution from private sector companies and voluntary and charitable bodies? That position was in the manifesto on which the hon. Lady stood at the last election. In case she has forgotten, I will remind her of what it said: “We will support”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-06a.954.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-06", "file": "debates2013-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "3dc5d91dd3670526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-06a.956.0", "colnum": "956", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I remind the hon. Gentleman that when his hon. Friends were in charge, the bonuses were higher, the banks were going bust and there was no proper regulation. That is why we are dealing with the mess—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-06a.956.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-06", "file": "debates2013-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "3dc5d91dd3670526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-06a.996.3", "colnum": "996", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES 2012-13 — DEPARTMENT FOR WORK AND PENSIONS — Universal Credit", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Mills", "preceding_text": "It would be very optimistic to assume that the application form will take half a minute. I have not seen the form, but I have not seen any Government form that takes half a minute for a long time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-06a.996.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-06", "file": "debates2013-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "3dc5d91dd3670526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-06a.1023.0", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES 2012-13 — DEPARTMENT FOR WORK AND PENSIONS — Universal Credit", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "eport is a very good example of the excellent work they do to highlight the issues and to get the balance right. Balance was what was missing from the speech by the right hon. Member for East Ham (Stephen Timms) . I think there was a 10-second acceptance at the start that universal credit was a good idea. He then spent the rest of his speech trying to conjure up reasons why it was not a good idea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-06a.1023.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-06", "file": "debates2013-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "3dc5d91dd3670526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-06a.1024.5", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES 2012-13 — DEPARTMENT FOR WORK AND PENSIONS — Universal Credit", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Give way!”", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "No, I only have a relatively short amount of time in which to respond to quite detailed questions from hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-06a.1024.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-06", "file": "debates2013-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "3dc5d91dd3670526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-06a.1026.0", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES 2012-13 — DEPARTMENT FOR WORK AND PENSIONS — Universal Credit", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ah!”", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "We have always said that there would be a progressive roll-out of the system. I am not going to give a running commentary on the timetable at this moment. We have been very clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-06a.1026.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-06", "file": "debates2013-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "3dc5d91dd3670526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-06a.1052.1", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH — Medical Implants (EU and UK)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": " necessary constituency business will still be able to deal with it, which might not be the case were the House to sit on Wednesday. The second reason given by the shadow Leader of the House was that if the House rose on a Tuesday, there could be no Prime Minister’s Question Time during that week. I do not think that anyone could accuse the Prime Minister of avoiding his duties in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-06a.1052.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-06", "file": "debates2013-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "3dc5d91dd3670526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-06a.1071.0", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Spellar", "preceding_text": "I find it strange that the hon. Gentleman should talk about unravelling Budgets, given the experience of the last Budget—it was never fully ravelled, let alone unravelled. As I recall, he played some part in helping to unravel that Budget. We are happy and pleased that he took such a principled position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-06a.1071.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-11", "file": "debates2013-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d78b30742892ec94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-11a.117.1", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Financial Services (Banking Reform) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes very good points. There would be real concerns if the Committee stage of the Bill was seen as a rubber-stamping process and the Bill was not scrutinised properly. The Economic Secretary to the Treasury likes to think of himself as a listening Minister—he says that often—so I hope he is listening today to the real concerns expressed by hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-11a.117.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-13", "file": "debates2013-03-13b.xml", "sha256": "a0af44a744e6c07b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-13b.300.0", "colnum": "300", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Six questions, and not a single positive suggestion for how to get on top of the deficit that the right hon. Gentleman left, not a single suggestion for how to deal with the massive welfare bills that we were left, and not a single suggestion for how to improve standards in our schools. But I do know what he has been doing over these last months, because I have been passed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-13b.300.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-13", "file": "debates2013-03-13b.xml", "sha256": "a0af44a744e6c07b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-13b.305.4", "colnum": "305", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Let me say to the hon. Gentleman that I will pay all of the taxes that I am meant to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-13b.305.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-13", "file": "debates2013-03-13b.xml", "sha256": "a0af44a744e6c07b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-13b.318.3", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Crime and Courts Bill [Lords] (Programme No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "he Minister to consider what assurances he can give the House that there will be a guaranteed debate on the Leveson amendments and new clauses and that there will be an opportunity for the House to vote on them. I also seek clarification—perhaps the Leader of the House could assist on this point—about whether the second day of consideration will be confirmed for Monday 18 March —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-13b.318.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-13", "file": "debates2013-03-13b.xml", "sha256": "a0af44a744e6c07b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-13b.321.0", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Crime and Courts Bill [Lords] (Programme No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": " the programme motion, and the other programme motion, and see the self-discipline of the House. When we are talking about things as important as Leveson—although I am probably going to disagree in principle with the views of the hon. Member for Rhondda—we must have this debate. This is the mother of Parliaments and the debate should take place here. We can spend hours and hours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-13b.321.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-13", "file": "debates2013-03-13b.xml", "sha256": "a0af44a744e6c07b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-13b.324.1", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Crime and Courts Bill [Lords] (Programme No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "preceding_text": "On the first point, on when something can be said to have concluded, I had not realised that that was something on which I would be called to judge. It is when it has finished, I suppose: when there is no more left to discuss, or when the cross-party talks have concluded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-13b.324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-13", "file": "debates2013-03-13b.xml", "sha256": "a0af44a744e6c07b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-13b.359.5", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Crime and Courts Bill [Lords] (Programme No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Answer the question.”", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman’s intervention. Let me explain the Government’s position and see whether I can persuade him to take the same view as those on the Labour Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-13b.359.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-13", "file": "debates2013-03-13b.xml", "sha256": "a0af44a744e6c07b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-13b.361.4", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Crime and Courts Bill [Lords] (Programme No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "preceding_text": "Let me finish the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-13b.361.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-13", "file": "debates2013-03-13b.xml", "sha256": "a0af44a744e6c07b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-13b.361.6", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Crime and Courts Bill [Lords] (Programme No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "preceding_text": "Let me say two things. Nothing in the Government’s position has changed since Committee. There is an idea that this is something that has been circulated at the last moment and which Labour has suddenly discovered, but the Bill is the Bill. If there are agonies in the Labour party about where—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-13b.361.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-13", "file": "debates2013-03-13b.xml", "sha256": "a0af44a744e6c07b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-13b.406.0", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Crime and Courts Bill [Lords] (Programme No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " Why? Because this House—not the Northern Ireland Assembly—put into the law provisions for the Northern Ireland judiciary. Incidentally, back in 2004 the Joint Committee on Human Rights recommended that the same provisions be included in the 2005 Act for England and Wales, and it is a matter of great regret to me that my Government, though it was not me; I was abroad at the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-13b.406.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-14", "file": "debates2013-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8d6766bedb0ec4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-14a.457.2", "colnum": "457", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "preceding_text": "I will tell the hon. Gentleman what is not fair: scaremongering about the green deal, particularly when that puts off vulnerable people who would otherwise have no access to affordable finance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-14a.457.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-14", "file": "debates2013-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8d6766bedb0ec4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-14a.474.1", "colnum": "474", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "preceding_text": " has no idea what the policy is, but I just spent five minutes explaining it. There was a lot of barracking from Labour MPs because they thought I was explaining it in excessive detail—that was how I understood it. I have explained the policy carefully. There is a consultation on the areas that I mentioned. The question people want answered is: what on earth is Labour’s policy on this?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-14a.474.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-14", "file": "debates2013-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8d6766bedb0ec4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-14a.475.5", "colnum": "475", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " alcohol and that not only is that, in turn, leading, as the university of Sheffield has estimated, to 10,000 unnecessary deaths over 10 years, but it is harming the decent pub trade and accelerating the closure of pubs? So this policy will benefit responsible drinking and also greatly reduce the health harm to a large number of young people. Why does the Minister not just get on and implement it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-14a.475.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-14", "file": "debates2013-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8d6766bedb0ec4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-14a.478.7", "colnum": "478", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "preceding_text": "I remind Opposition Members that nothing was done about these problems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-14a.478.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-14", "file": "debates2013-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8d6766bedb0ec4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-14a.478.7", "colnum": "478", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "preceding_text": "I remind Opposition Members that nothing was done about these problems— [ Interruption. ] The idea that alcohol suddenly became cheap in May 2010 and lost of social ills came about as a result—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-14a.478.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-14", "file": "debates2013-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8d6766bedb0ec4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-14a.479.0", "colnum": "479", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Throughout this urgent question there has been too much noise. Frankly, there is too much noise from those on the Opposition Benches, and I have to say to the junior Health Minister that she tends to behave as though every exchange is somehow a conversation with her—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-14a.479.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-14", "file": "debates2013-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8d6766bedb0ec4dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-14a.487.0", "colnum": "487", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "preceding_text": "from Ministers, but not always an answer. I have been through the 10 specific recommendations that Doug Richard laid out in his report on apprenticeships. With the exception of the redefinition of the apprenticeship outcomes and the other matters that the Minister mentioned in that respect, all of which we agree with and welcome, I would give his answers two and a half out of 10 or possibly three.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-14a.487.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-18", "file": "debates2013-03-18c.xml", "sha256": "71e474fb6c698e35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-18c.640.1", "colnum": "640", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman does not mind, I would like to conclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-18c.640.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-18", "file": "debates2013-03-18c.xml", "sha256": "71e474fb6c698e35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-18c.653.4", "colnum": "653", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I will not give way, if Members do not mind, because I have given way quite a lot and I am sure that hon. Members think that I speak too much anyway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-18c.653.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-18", "file": "debates2013-03-18c.xml", "sha256": "71e474fb6c698e35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-18c.654.0", "colnum": "654", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Peter Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Lilley", "preceding_text": "ing is factually incorrect; at worst, it will establish a mini, self-appointed “Ministry of Truth”, which can decide what is true and must be published and what is false and must be withdrawn. We note that no similar powers are taken with respect to the BBC, which will never be required by an outside body to publish corrections when it is factually incorrect, as it frequently is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-18c.654.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-18", "file": "debates2013-03-18c.xml", "sha256": "71e474fb6c698e35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-18c.655.3", "colnum": "655", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Peter Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Lilley", "preceding_text": " from Hacked Off’s rather incoherent reply, there are no limits to the powers that the body can grant itself or the extent to which it can go. It find it worrying that we are, so far with no discussion, setting up a body with open-ended powers. It will have the ability to levy £1 million fines and effectively to deprive people of a livelihood if they break the code it establishes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-18c.655.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-18", "file": "debates2013-03-18c.xml", "sha256": "71e474fb6c698e35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-18c.658.2", "colnum": "658", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "ss regulation, insofar as we have it, is independent of the press and enabled to achieve justice for those affected by misconduct, but we must be careful not to oversell this project. I have a hunch—it is only a hunch, but we will find out in due course; it might be that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, who I think will be winding up the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-18c.658.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-18", "file": "debates2013-03-18c.xml", "sha256": "71e474fb6c698e35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-18c.666.2", "colnum": "666", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "George Eustice", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "George Eustice", "preceding_text": "tary of State, the right hon. and learned Member for Camberwell and Peckham (Ms Harman) , for the way in which she has approached it; she genuinely tried to seek agreement in a very difficult situation. I find myself in the unusual, almost unique, position of agreeing even with the Liberal Democrats. I speak as someone who campaigned against the euro and dislodged a Lib Dem MP to get elected here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-18c.666.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-18", "file": "debates2013-03-18c.xml", "sha256": "71e474fb6c698e35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-18c.680.3", "colnum": "680", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "I thank the Prime Minister for his reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-18c.680.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-18", "file": "debates2013-03-18c.xml", "sha256": "71e474fb6c698e35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-18c.688.0", "colnum": "688", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "ohn Bright referred to England as being the mother of Parliaments, and his point was to criticise England because it had not yet managed to bring the full franchise to all working men; he was not quite so enlightened as to include women at that time. I know that the hon. Gentleman knows this to be the case because he told me so in the gym the other day, so I hope he will stop misleading the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-18c.688.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-18", "file": "debates2013-03-18c.xml", "sha256": "71e474fb6c698e35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-18c.698.1", "colnum": "698", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Maria Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Miller", "preceding_text": "The Leveson inquiry shone a spotlight on the worst excesses of the press. As a result of the revelations involving the hacking of Milly Dowler’s phone and all that went before it, we have seen the closure of a national newspaper and a range of ongoing criminal investigations. Lord Justice Leveson heard evidence for more than a year. I should like to pause for a second to pay tribute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-18c.698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-18", "file": "debates2013-03-18c.xml", "sha256": "71e474fb6c698e35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-18c.709.3", "colnum": "709", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "allace, who was the Liberal Democrat there. It just goes to show that one should not believe what one reads in the newspapers. I had read a lot about the Minister for Government Policy, the right hon. Member for West Dorset (Mr Letwin) ,in the newspapers and thought he was an absent-minded professor type who was absolutely ditsy. I had read it in the newspapers, so I thought it must be true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-18c.709.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-18", "file": "debates2013-03-18c.xml", "sha256": "71e474fb6c698e35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-18c.738.0", "colnum": "738", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "when they could afford to make a contribution to their defence. For example, over the past three years more than £14.3 million in legal aid was paid to just 49 high-profile individuals. Let us not forget that we are talking about individuals suspected of involvement in serious and organised crime, including drug smuggling and large-scale fraud, the victims of which are all too often numerous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-18c.738.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-18", "file": "debates2013-03-18c.xml", "sha256": "71e474fb6c698e35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-18c.755.0", "colnum": "755", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "I want to press the Home Secretary further on that point. When does she think parliamentary time will be allowed? Will it be before the end of this Session, or are we talking about later in the year or just some time in the future?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-18c.755.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-19", "file": "debates2013-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "96c2672ab821bb48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-19a.798.1", "colnum": "798", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "preceding_text": " European Councils. He issued a written ministerial statement this morning, and I understand that my hon. Friend had a discussion with him on this subject yesterday. Had my hon. Friend been with us at the debate earlier today on UK Trade & Investment, he would have recognised the feeling across the House—in fact, not right across the House, because there was nobody there from the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-19a.798.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-19", "file": "debates2013-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "96c2672ab821bb48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-19a.805.2", "colnum": "805", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “He chaired it.”", "preceding_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "preceding_text": "Again, I regret that my hon. Friend was not with us at our debate this morning in Westminster Hall where we stressed the importance of trading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-19a.805.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-19", "file": "debates2013-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "96c2672ab821bb48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-19a.812.0", "colnum": "812", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "I pay tribute to the right hon. Lady and the Labour party for their support and welcome today. Their support and indeed the work by the previous Government in their last few years have allowed investors and nuclear operators to see that there is cross-party support, which gives people confidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-19a.812.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-19", "file": "debates2013-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "96c2672ab821bb48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-19a.826.4", "colnum": "826", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady clearly has a press release that she wants to set out this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-19a.826.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-19", "file": "debates2013-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "96c2672ab821bb48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-19a.856.1", "colnum": "856", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "John McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John McDonnell", "preceding_text": " judgment that Parliament was not properly informed of what those schemes and regulations meant. That is what the judgment said. I make it clear that I shall vote against the Bill because it is immoral and wrong. Before we vote to render those schemes lawful retrospectively, it is important that Members are aware of what we will be supporting. Boycott Workfare is an organisation that set up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-19a.856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-19", "file": "debates2013-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "96c2672ab821bb48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-19a.858.0", "colnum": "858", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Sheila Gilmore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sheila Gilmore", "preceding_text": "eak in favour of what the Government are doing, and that speaks for itself. A number of things have been said today that are simply not accurate. In one intervention, for example, a Government Back Bencher said that half the people going on the Work programme had got jobs. No one could seriously suggest such a figure. The only time I have heard the Government use the word “half”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-19a.858.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-19", "file": "debates2013-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "96c2672ab821bb48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-19a.875.6", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "preceding_text": "ample, they enter work straight after receiving a sanction that is in the stockpile, and so receive little benefit after the sanction is imposed, presumably the amount to be reclaimed from them will be very small. I ask for clarity. Is the intention, in taking the sanction out of the stockpile and applying it, that people’s benefits will be stopped for the appropriate period, or is it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-19a.875.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-19", "file": "debates2013-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "96c2672ab821bb48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-19a.889.4", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "er for East Ham was right to highlight the fact that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State made it clear that there should be no targets, and that if there was evidence of targets being used at any jobcentre, we would stamp them out. We do not want targets; we want good quality decisions made consistently from jobcentre to jobcentre. I do not think targets have a role to play in that regime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-19a.889.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-19", "file": "debates2013-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "96c2672ab821bb48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-19a.894.2", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Frank Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Field", "preceding_text": "Well, if that is true, this Government have learnt nothing from our experience, so it is doubly worrying. Universal credit, which the Government are going to deliver, is an immensely complicated reform and if they feel that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-19a.894.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-19", "file": "debates2013-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "96c2672ab821bb48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-19a.894.2", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Frank Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Field", "preceding_text": "d universal credit will encourage it. Under his scheme, more people will think they have a right to benefits than do now. Many of us, even those in areas with high unemployment, know that there are people, particularly young people, who feel that unless they will be offered jobs at three times their benefit level, it is not in their interest to work. That is why it is so important to change—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-19a.894.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-20", "file": "debates2013-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "f2d25ce41163fa1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20a.1018.0", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "hat we expect from the Labour party. I would simply say that the Labour party’s determination to oppose the extra room subsidy paid by the housing benefit system shows that it is determined to make sure that there should be no reform of the welfare budget whatsoever. It opposes every single measure to try to restrain expenditure on welfare, which takes up over a third of Government spending.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20a.1018.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-20", "file": "debates2013-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "0bc28f4cc5f41a60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.919.6", "colnum": "919", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that I did not hear a single word that the hon. Gentleman said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.919.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-20", "file": "debates2013-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "0bc28f4cc5f41a60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.925.6", "colnum": "925", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Lorely Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lorely Burt", "preceding_text": "Unlike the hon. Member for Shipley (Philip Davies) , I am proud of our coalition for sticking to the 0.7% aid target—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.925.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-20", "file": "debates2013-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "0bc28f4cc5f41a60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.928.4", "colnum": "928", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "When the top rate of tax was put up, millionaires paid £7 billion less. That is the sort of incompetence and inefficiency that the hon. Lady left the sofa of GMTV to support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.928.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-20", "file": "debates2013-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "0bc28f4cc5f41a60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.931.2", "colnum": "931", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS — Financial Statement", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "kills base; to let a bloated welfare system pick up the human casualties and assume that an uncontrolled banking boom would pick up the bill. To win in the global race, we are doing the exact opposite. We are building a modern, reformed state that we can afford. We are bringing businesses to our shores with competitive taxes. We are fixing the banks. We are improving our schools, our skills—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.931.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-20", "file": "debates2013-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "0bc28f4cc5f41a60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.931.4", "colnum": "931", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS — Financial Statement", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "dget for those who aspire to own their own home, who aspire to get their first job or to start their own business. It is a Budget for those who want to save for their retirement and provide for their children. It is a Budget for our aspiration nation. The forecast from the independent Office for Budget Responsibility today reminds us of the economic challenge at home and abroad, but it also—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.931.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-20", "file": "debates2013-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "0bc28f4cc5f41a60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.932.0", "colnum": "932", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS — Financial Statement", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. Let us start as we mean to go on. The shadow Chancellor may not have been the Chancellor, but he should observe the courtesies, and should know better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.932.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-20", "file": "debates2013-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "0bc28f4cc5f41a60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.932.1", "colnum": "932", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS — Financial Statement", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "t is a fall of a third. It will then fall further to 6.8% next year, 5.9% in 2014-15, 5% in 2015-16 and 3.4% the following year, reaching 2.2% by 2017-18. Those numbers all exclude the transfer of the Royal Mail pension fund to the Government, which reduces the deficit still further for this year alone. It is sometimes asserted in this House that borrowing has gone up under this Government —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.932.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-20", "file": "debates2013-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "0bc28f4cc5f41a60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.932.1", "colnum": "932", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS — Financial Statement", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "ear, reaching 2.2% by 2017-18. Those numbers all exclude the transfer of the Royal Mail pension fund to the Government, which reduces the deficit still further for this year alone. It is sometimes asserted in this House that borrowing has gone up under this Government —[Interruption.] As we have just seen again. The facts show the opposite to be true. The previous Government borrowed —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.932.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-20", "file": "debates2013-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "0bc28f4cc5f41a60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.933.1", "colnum": "933", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS — Financial Statement", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " to go one step further and cut beer duty by 1p. We are taking a penny off the pint. The cut will take effect this Sunday night and I expect it to be passed on in full to customers. All other duties will remain as previously announced. Of course, freezing petrol duty and cutting beer duty will not transform the finances of any family, but it helps a little to have some bills that are not going up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-20", "file": "debates2013-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "0bc28f4cc5f41a60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.943.1", "colnum": "943", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS — Financial Statement", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "wn business or give someone a job, if you want to save for your retirement and leave your home to your children, and if you want to work hard and get on, we are on your side. This is a Budget that does not duck our nation’s problems; it confronts them head on. It is a Budget for an aspiration nation. It is a Budget that wants to be prosperous, solvent and free, and I commend it to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.943.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-20", "file": "debates2013-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "0bc28f4cc5f41a60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.946.2", "colnum": "946", "heading": "PROVISIONAL COLLECTION OF TAXES", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "This is the Chancellor’s fourth Budget, but one thing unites them all: every Budget, when he comes to this House, things are worse, not better, for this country. Compared to last year’s Budget, growth last year is down, growth this year is down, growth next year is down and growth in 2015 is down. And all he offers is more of the same: higher borrowing, lower growth and more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.946.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-20", "file": "debates2013-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "0bc28f4cc5f41a60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.946.6", "colnum": "946", "heading": "PROVISIONAL COLLECTION OF TAXES", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. I cannot understand an Opposition who do not want to hear their own leader.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.946.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-20", "file": "debates2013-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "0bc28f4cc5f41a60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.946.7", "colnum": "946", "heading": "PROVISIONAL COLLECTION OF TAXES", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": " just 1.8%. “Wait for tomorrow,” the Chancellor says, “and I will be vindicated.” But with this Chancellor, tomorrow never comes. He is the wrong man in the wrong place at the worst possible time for the country. It is a downgraded Budget from a downgraded Chancellor. He has secured one upgrade this year: travelling first class on a second-class ticket from Crewe to London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.946.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-20", "file": "debates2013-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "0bc28f4cc5f41a60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.947.1", "colnum": "947", "heading": "PROVISIONAL COLLECTION OF TAXES", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": " Chancellor say in his June 2010 Budget? He set two very clear benchmarks: “we are on track to have debt falling and a balanced structural current budget by” 2014-15.—[ Official Report , 22 June 2010; Vol. 512, c. 168 .] He called that “our four-year plan”. This was the deal that he offered the British people. These were the terms: four years of pain, tax rises—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.947.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-20", "file": "debates2013-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "0bc28f4cc5f41a60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.947.1", "colnum": "947", "heading": "PROVISIONAL COLLECTION OF TAXES", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": " tax cut to kick in. That is David Cameron’s Britain. Of course, the Prime Minister still refuses to tell us, despite repeated questions, whether he is getting the 50p tax cut. He is getting embarrassed now, we can see. He has had a year to think about it and he must have done the maths. Even he should worked it out by now, so come on. Nod your head if you are getting the 50p tax rate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.947.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-20", "file": "debates2013-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "0bc28f4cc5f41a60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.949.0", "colnum": "949", "heading": "PROVISIONAL COLLECTION OF TAXES", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "I am not getting the 50p tax rate; I am asking whether the Prime Minister is. He should answer—after all, he is the person who said that sunlight is the best disinfectant. Let transparency win the day. Let us try something else. What about the rest of the Cabinet? Are they getting the 50p rate? Okay, hands up if you’re not getting the 50p tax cut. Come on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.949.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-20", "file": "debates2013-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "0bc28f4cc5f41a60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.950.3", "colnum": "950", "heading": "PROVISIONAL COLLECTION OF TAXES", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "preceding_text": "Yes. My hon. Friend did not mention fuel duty, which rather surprised me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.950.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-20", "file": "debates2013-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "0bc28f4cc5f41a60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.965.1", "colnum": "965", "heading": "PROVISIONAL COLLECTION OF TAXES", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": " Cyprus people to pay, so we have an impasse. I shall give the House a flavour of the numbers involved. We have heard from a Minister in a recent statement that the proposed bank deposit tax represents 33% of Cypriot national output and income. In UK terms, that would be like saying that we had to impose a one-off levy of £500 billion on people’s bank accounts to put the position right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.965.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-20", "file": "debates2013-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "0bc28f4cc5f41a60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.972.1", "colnum": "972", "heading": "PROVISIONAL COLLECTION OF TAXES", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is one of the most thoughtful Members of the Opposition, but on this occasion I must respectfully disagree with him. My experience in Bristol suggests that no one misses the south-west regional development agency, but everyone in the greater Bristol area recognises the extraordinarily good work done by the West of England local enterprise partnership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.972.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-20", "file": "debates2013-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "0bc28f4cc5f41a60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.979.0", "colnum": "979", "heading": "PROVISIONAL COLLECTION OF TAXES", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": " fundamentally allow growth to take off in Britain and get us back to the 3% level of growth. The last item I want to speak about is bank reform. A number of colleagues, including my right hon. Friend the Member for Wokingham (Mr Redwood) and my hon. Friend the Member for Chichester (Mr Tyrie) , who chairs the Treasury Committee, have talked about bank reform. Bluntly, we have been too slow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.979.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-20", "file": "debates2013-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "0bc28f4cc5f41a60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.980.1", "colnum": "980", "heading": "PROVISIONAL COLLECTION OF TAXES", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": "k like the old youth training scheme. We need real growth for our young people, but we have heard nothing about it from the Chancellor. He boasted about 55,000 extra apprenticeships in London, but 40,000 of those apprentices are over-35, which is an indication of how much trouble we are in. We needed to hear more about what a balanced economy looks like. Margaret Thatcher made a deal in the 1980s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.980.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-20", "file": "debates2013-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "0bc28f4cc5f41a60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.1018.0", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "PROVISIONAL COLLECTION OF TAXES", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "m the Labour party. I would simply say that the Labour party’s determination to oppose the abolition of the extra room subsidy paid by the housing benefit system shows that it is determined to make sure that there should be no reform of the welfare budget whatsoever. It opposes every single measure to try to restrain expenditure on welfare, which takes up over a third of Government spending.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-20b.1018.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-21", "file": "debates2013-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "e95fdfff4b79233b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1046.2", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "preceding_text": "I agree entirely. That demonstrates the effort that is being made. Indeed, the Secretary of State met the female engineers my hon. Friend talked about. The number of apprentices in engineering and manufacturing has gone up by more than half in the past two and a half years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1046.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-21", "file": "debates2013-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "e95fdfff4b79233b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1059.2", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will come back with me to Markham Vale in his constituency, which I visited at his suggestion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1059.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-21", "file": "debates2013-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "e95fdfff4b79233b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1059.3", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Jones", "preceding_text": "I have raised the issue of interest rate swaps with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State before, and I am grateful for the action he has taken. However, the problem is still hurting businesses in my constituency, so will he keep the issue firmly on his radar and work with colleagues across government to bring it to a conclusion as swiftly as possible?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1059.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-21", "file": "debates2013-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "e95fdfff4b79233b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1059.7", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "Yes, the hon. Gentleman is right: interest rate swaps were a major scandal. The Financial Services Authority has, as he knows, already set in train a process for remedies. I am working very actively with it, but it is very much in the hands of the FSA and the banks to produce a just solution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1059.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-21", "file": "debates2013-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "e95fdfff4b79233b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman has not read page 39 of the Red Book, where he will find the answer to his question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-21", "file": "debates2013-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "e95fdfff4b79233b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1070.3", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I am very impressed that Opposition Members have made progress by actually finding page 39 and reading it. It says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1070.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-21", "file": "debates2013-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "e95fdfff4b79233b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1091.6", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Go on!”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "is up as a result and his constituents will make their choice in two years’ time. What do we have to look forward to this morning? Another painful, contorted and pathos-bathed Budget debate speech from the Business Secretary. I look across at him sitting on the Front Bench and cannot bear to read out once again all those pre-election quotes. You know the ones I mean, Mr Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1091.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-21", "file": "debates2013-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "e95fdfff4b79233b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1093.0", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": " rise in 2017 and to hit a staggering not 69.7%, but 85.6% of GDP. And the reason the national debt is rising is that, as the OBR said yesterday, the Chancellor’s deficit reduction plan has stalled. The deficit is now expected to be the same next year as it is this year and as it was last year. It is not a deficit reduction plan anymore. That is why the Chancellor is now set to borrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1093.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-21", "file": "debates2013-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "e95fdfff4b79233b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1095.2", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "I think it is a little unfair to tease this Chancellor about what goes on late at night in massage parlours. Perhaps he will correct me and tell me that it was not a massage parlour. I will take an intervention if he would like to clarify it; I cannot remember that chapter in the biography. According to House of Commons Library figures, a one-earner family—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1095.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-21", "file": "debates2013-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "e95fdfff4b79233b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1096.5", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "I do not want to have to give the hon. Gentleman an economics lesson, although given that he thinks we are on the right track, perhaps he needs one. The Chancellor’s fiscal rule is to balance the current structural budget, excluding investment— [ Interruption. ] Don’t be so silly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1096.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-21", "file": "debates2013-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "e95fdfff4b79233b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1096.7", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": " or even the right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr Redwood) . A year ago they feted him as the next leader of the Tory party; now, according to the Tories, they are touting him as our next man in Brussels. It used to be Calamity Clegg they were sending off to the Commission; now it is Calamity George. Well, we do know he likes a bit of “Whip crack-away, whip crack-away, whip crack-away.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1096.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-21", "file": "debates2013-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "e95fdfff4b79233b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1098.5", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "I apologise, Mr Deputy Speaker. Philip Snowden, Lord Lamont and now Chancellor Osborne—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1098.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-21", "file": "debates2013-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "e95fdfff4b79233b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1124.0", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "David Rutley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "David Rutley", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to disappoint the House, but I will not be speaking about beer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1124.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-21", "file": "debates2013-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "e95fdfff4b79233b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1131.0", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "George Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Freeman", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the Chancellor and his Treasury team on the work they have done on the historic and disgraceful debt legacy that this generation, this Parliament and this Government are having to deal with. The lack of any apology from Labour in the nearly three years in which I have had the honour to be a Member of this place is deeply shaming—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1131.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-21", "file": "debates2013-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "e95fdfff4b79233b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1131.2", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "George Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Freeman", "preceding_text": "3;4 the Government were spending on public services. The national debt was just short of £1 trillion—roughly £15,000 for every man, woman and child in this country. As 1 trillion is a big number and people are baffled by big numbers, let me try to break it down. If it took 11 days to pay off £1 million, how long would it take to pay off £1 billion? Thirty-two years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1131.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-21", "file": "debates2013-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "e95fdfff4b79233b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1159.2", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Guy Opperman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Guy Opperman", "preceding_text": "There may have been plenty of times when the previous Government chose not to raise prices, but they did increase them on 10 occasions, and those with long memories in Northumberland and in Scotland remember that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1159.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-21", "file": "debates2013-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "e95fdfff4b79233b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1162.4", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Sheila Gilmore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sheila Gilmore", "preceding_text": "As a result of the stimulus provided by the previous Government, all those measurements were turning in the right direction at that time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1162.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-21", "file": "debates2013-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "e95fdfff4b79233b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1177.6", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "ATOS HEALTHCARE", "cue_speaker": "Esther McVey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Esther McVey", "preceding_text": "I will not give way on that point. We have implemented those recommendations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1177.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-21", "file": "debates2013-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "e95fdfff4b79233b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1177.6", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "ATOS HEALTHCARE", "cue_speaker": "Esther McVey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Esther McVey", "preceding_text": "n a very poorly designed assessment from the Labour Government and we have done significant work to get it right. Furthermore, although the Spartacus report on the work capability assessment—the so-called people’s review—reflects what are clearly strongly held views, it is a collection of anecdotal accounts. It fails to recognise the improvements made to the WCA since 2010—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-21b.1177.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-22", "file": "debates2013-03-22b.xml", "sha256": "981f4fb945144d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-22b.1179.3", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "t point is that the deficit fuelled a high debt burden—which had been set to rise dramatically—of 65% of GDP and rising. In fact, if nothing had changed, it was forecast that borrowing would have risen by more than £200 billion during the course of the spending review. The deficit has cost more than £42 billion in interest payments each and every year since we entered office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-22b.1179.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-22", "file": "debates2013-03-22b.xml", "sha256": "981f4fb945144d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-22b.1180.2", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "lling fast. We are spending more than their plan proposed, which would have resulted in a net 7% cut. Borrowing today is lower than under Labour. It was £159 billion at its peak and it is now £120.9 billion, which is £38 billion lower, and forecasts approved by the Office for Budget Responsibility show that by the end of this Parliament it will be £63 billion lower and falling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-22b.1180.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-22", "file": "debates2013-03-22b.xml", "sha256": "981f4fb945144d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-22b.1181.8", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "me quote something from his right hon. Friend the ex-Prime Minister. This is how much he thought of house building: “Housing is essentially a private sector activity...I don’t see the need for us to continue with such big renovation programmes”. He cut spending, and I remind Labour Members that housing building under his Government fell to the lowest levels since the 1920s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-22b.1181.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-22", "file": "debates2013-03-22b.xml", "sha256": "981f4fb945144d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-22b.1189.2", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, who has proved incapable of translating his fabled welfare revolution into practice. There could not have been a worse curtain-raiser to Budget day on Wednesday than the unemployment figures that we saw at 9.30 am. Halfway through this Parliament, unemployment is higher than it was at the general election—and it is not going down, it is going up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-22b.1189.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-22", "file": "debates2013-03-22b.xml", "sha256": "981f4fb945144d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-22b.1190.2", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Member for Rochford and Southend East (James Duddridge) will resume his seat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-22b.1190.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-22", "file": "debates2013-03-22b.xml", "sha256": "981f4fb945144d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-22b.1215.1", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Steven Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steven Baker", "preceding_text": "thing wrong with money, there is something wrong with the entire economy. Right now, the reason we are in this mess is that we do not have good money—we have bad money. One can hold bad money—bad politics—in one’s hand. If we get into a position where we just borrow, borrow and borrow, with no ability to repay, creating credit out of thin air, as was done in 13 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-22b.1215.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-22", "file": "debates2013-03-22b.xml", "sha256": "981f4fb945144d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-22b.1235.1", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "s will take money out of poorer communities in North Durham, and in the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Easington (Grahame M. Morris) , who can ill afford to lose it. Unemployment is rising. As my hon. Friend the Member for Walthamstow (Stella Creasy) said, these people do not want to be unemployed, but there are no jobs. The jobs that are being created are part time, low paid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-22b.1235.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-22", "file": "debates2013-03-22b.xml", "sha256": "981f4fb945144d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-22b.1250.2", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Offord", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Offord", "preceding_text": "Yes, of course it would, but I think we need to focus on ensuring that families do not break down, rather than putting someone into care. I know that the circumstances the hon. Gentleman is talking about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-22b.1250.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-22", "file": "debates2013-03-22b.xml", "sha256": "981f4fb945144d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-22b.1254.3", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "preceding_text": "Once again, the Secretary of State’s question shows just how out of touch this Government are. These are people’s homes, in which many of them have lived—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-22b.1254.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-03-25", "file": "debates2013-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "fefcd472d0fdb7bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-25a.1316.3", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": " struggling top rate taxpayers does he expect to take advantage of the new scheme? No doubt they will be very grateful to him for his generosity. In respect of the mortgage guarantee element of the help-to-buy scheme, can the Secretary of State clarify once and for all whether people who already own a property will be able to use it to buy a second home? He did not quite answer that earlier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-03-25a.1316.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-10", "file": "debates2013-04-10b.xml", "sha256": "29bfca98a412dc8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-10b.1613.1", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "Tributes to Baroness Thatcher", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "n argument yet wonderfully kind in private. In No. 10 Downing street today there are still people who worked with her as Prime Minister, and they talk of her fondly. One assistant tells of how when she got drenched in a downpour on a trip to Cornwall, Margaret Thatcher personally made sure she was looked after and found her a set of dry clothes—of course, she did always prefer dries to wets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-10b.1613.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-15", "file": "debates2013-04-15b.xml", "sha256": "1caeb3590205af64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-15b.78.0", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Field", "preceding_text": "a big difference in the immediate aftermath of the crash of September 2008 and might yet do so at some point in the future. I am a little more concerned that the Treasury is not making entirely clear what is considered abuse and avoidance when it comes to tax arrangements. The earlier exchange between the hon. Member for Burnley (Gordon Birtwistle) and the Exchequer Secretary brought that to mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-15b.78.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-17", "file": "debates2013-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "13f44739a20e1ac3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-17a.352.3", "colnum": "352", "heading": "[1st Allocated Day]", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “That’s your answer.”", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "preceding_text": "The shadow Minister says that it would raise £2 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-17a.352.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-17", "file": "debates2013-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "13f44739a20e1ac3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-17a.357.3", "colnum": "357", "heading": "[1st Allocated Day]", "cue_speaker": "Stephen McPartland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen McPartland", "preceding_text": "e 5 is the fact that it refers to property and does not distinguish between residential property and business property. That concerned me greatly when I first looked at the new clause, as it would create huge concerns in the business community. In my constituency of Stevenage, we have some large business interests. GlaxoSmithKline has a huge operation employing 4,000 scientists in Stevenage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-17a.357.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-17", "file": "debates2013-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "13f44739a20e1ac3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-17a.357.3", "colnum": "357", "heading": "[1st Allocated Day]", "cue_speaker": "Stephen McPartland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen McPartland", "preceding_text": "cern is that once we have that revaluation exercise, council tax revaluation will be a real problem across the country. A huge number of people will be very concerned about council tax increases if all their properties have been revalued. Council tax more than doubled under the previous Government and I am pleased to say that under this Government it has been frozen for the past three years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-17a.357.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-17", "file": "debates2013-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "13f44739a20e1ac3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-17a.368.3", "colnum": "368", "heading": "[1st Allocated Day]", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "uer should take, focusing in particular on the bank bonus tax that ought to be implemented. Only today the International Monetary Fund has warned the Chancellor that he should change course and we have learned that unemployment levels are soaring—70,000 more people are now on the dole compared with last month, youth unemployment has risen by 20,000 and long-term unemployment is up yet again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-17a.368.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-17", "file": "debates2013-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "13f44739a20e1ac3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-17a.374.4", "colnum": "374", "heading": "[1st Allocated Day]", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "I do not recognise that figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-17a.374.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-17", "file": "debates2013-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "13f44739a20e1ac3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-17a.384.0", "colnum": "384", "heading": "[1st Allocated Day]", "cue_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "preceding_text": "Yes. Well, obviously, we clearly need to look at aggregate sums, but what is being debated here is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-17a.384.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-17", "file": "debates2013-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "13f44739a20e1ac3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-17a.399.1", "colnum": "399", "heading": "[1st Allocated Day]", "cue_speaker": "Sammy Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sammy Wilson", "preceding_text": "e them do the job they are meant to do. If a bank bonus tax is one of the ways in which we could get them back on track and away from providing perverse incentives for particular employees to behave in certain ways that have not been helpful to the economy, that would be beneficial. A properly functioning banking system is important for the economy. Rather than this proposal being anti-bank—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-17a.399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-17", "file": "debates2013-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "13f44739a20e1ac3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-17a.428.1", "colnum": "428", "heading": "[1st Allocated Day]", "cue_speaker": "Catherine McKinnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Catherine McKinnell", "preceding_text": "ment would take steps to notify developing countries’ tax authorities of tax schemes that have been identified, to assist in the recovery of that tax. I am quite sure that that proposal will at least have the support of Liberal Democrat Members on the Government Benches, given that their party’s spring conference passed a motion effectively calling for the same measure just last month.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-17a.428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-17", "file": "debates2013-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "13f44739a20e1ac3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-17a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "[1st Allocated Day]", "cue_speaker": "Catherine McKinnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Catherine McKinnell", "preceding_text": "hat intervention, which is powerful in itself, but also very much reinforces the argument that we on the Front Bench are making today: that we have the means within our grasp to make a difference to that situation. I hope that the Minister will provide some reassurance today, and that we shall get some Liberal Democrat support for our amendments, which seek to make a real difference on the ground.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-17a.429.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-18", "file": "debates2013-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "fa68f2111a0ae2bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-18b.469.4", "colnum": "469", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "preceding_text": "I treat any question asked by the hon. Gentleman with great respect, given his long and distinguished career with BT.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-18b.469.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-18", "file": "debates2013-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "fa68f2111a0ae2bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-18b.474.0", "colnum": "474", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "preceding_text": "I bow to no one in my admiration for the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-18b.474.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-18", "file": "debates2013-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "fa68f2111a0ae2bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-18b.494.0", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should know that matters of this kind are inappropriate for public debate, but that does not mean that they are not the subject of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-18b.494.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-18", "file": "debates2013-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "fa68f2111a0ae2bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-18b.514.0", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Fiona O'Donnell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona O'Donnell", "preceding_text": "It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship this morning, Ms Primarolo—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-18b.514.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-18", "file": "debates2013-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "fa68f2111a0ae2bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-18b.517.2", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "It is a particular pleasure to serve under your chairmanship today, Ms Primarolo. I welcome you back, and I am glad to see you in fine health. I have been spurred on by the hon. Member for East Lothian (Fiona O’Donnell) to speak in the debate and to defend the Government’s policy, which is wise and right and good—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-18b.517.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-18", "file": "debates2013-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "fa68f2111a0ae2bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-18b.522.2", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "o will spend it immediately or going into the pocket of somebody on £150,000 a year. That economic argument has been taken to an extreme point that ignores many other aspects of the movement of money. There is a basic economic principle that money must find a home. Unless the person who earns £150,000 a year stuffs his mattress with £5 notes, their money goes into the economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-18b.522.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-18", "file": "debates2013-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "fa68f2111a0ae2bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-18b.533.0", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "n of the 50p rate of income tax and containing no acknowledgment that it was an anti-growth measure which was not helping the United Kingdom to grow, which was sending a signal that the UK was not open for business, and which was higher than the rates imposed by many of our competitors. The third part of her speech set out her opposition to the cap on reliefs contained in clause 16 and schedule 3.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-18b.533.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-18", "file": "debates2013-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "fa68f2111a0ae2bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-18b.561.1", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "th a debt crisis to try to increase borrowing. However, this is one of those rare occasions when the Opposition have put forward a policy and we have an opportunity to ask questions about it. I know that the hon. Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun (Cathy Jamieson) will be keen to enlighten the House on the policy she has set out in new clause 2, and if I may, I will ask a number of questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-18b.561.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-18", "file": "debates2013-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "fa68f2111a0ae2bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-18b.573.0", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “But you are!”", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "felt strongly in recent years. The Government have taken difficult decisions to try to reduce the deficit, and undeniably that has had an impact on people, but we ought to be straight with the British public: whoever is in government will have to take measures to reduce the deficit. Anyone in a position of responsibility has to recognise that we cannot continue borrowing 11% or 12% of our economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-18b.573.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-18", "file": "debates2013-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "fa68f2111a0ae2bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-18b.575.0", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sheila Gilmore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sheila Gilmore", "preceding_text": "Would the Minister not rather be understanding of people’s very real anger than just ignore it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-18b.575.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-18", "file": "debates2013-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "fa68f2111a0ae2bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-18b.584.0", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-18b.584.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-18", "file": "debates2013-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "fa68f2111a0ae2bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-18b.586.3", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Gentleman has investigated the level of APD on flights from London airports to Inverness. Doubtless, he will be flying to the happy band that is the Labour conference this weekend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-18b.586.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-18", "file": "debates2013-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "fa68f2111a0ae2bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-18b.586.3", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "preceding_text": "dustries, technology businesses and advanced manufacturing”. By establishing the highest passenger tax on flying in the world, the UK Government have finally managed to become the best in the world at something: unfair taxation. They are blocking growth with a gatekeeper tax. The SNP Government are building a better Scotland. Scottish GDP grew by 0.5% during the fourth quarter of 2012—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-18b.586.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-18", "file": "debates2013-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "fa68f2111a0ae2bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-18b.596.6", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "preceding_text": "It is always entertaining to hear the hon. Member for Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Mr MacNeil) , who moved new clause 3 on behalf of the SNP. I have shared a few flights with him, both short-haul and long-haul, and know how passionately he speaks on these matters. I hope to take a flight to Inverness in the not-too-distant future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-18b.596.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-18", "file": "debates2013-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "fa68f2111a0ae2bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-18b.599.0", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Edwards", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr Evans. Since when has an amendment agreed by the Clerks of this House been a political stunt? This is what the Labour party is saying in the media. It is a disgrace and it brings dishonour on this Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-18b.599.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-18", "file": "debates2013-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "fa68f2111a0ae2bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-18b.603.0", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "preceding_text": "I can tell the Minister straight away that we will not be withdrawing our new clauses; we will be pressing them to a vote. This has been an enjoyable debate. I certainly enjoyed the contribution from the hon. Member for Central Ayrshire (Mr Donohoe) , who is not in his place at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-18b.603.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-22", "file": "debates2013-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "cfbff89d3a0da425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-22a.621.7", "colnum": "621", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “He still is!”", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": " answer the questions, may I say on behalf of the House that you, Mr Speaker, would want us to pass on our best wishes to the Chairman of the Select Committee on Education, my hon. Friend the Member for Beverley and Holderness (Mr Stuart) , who has recently suffered an accident from which he is slowly recovering. We all miss him. He was a fantastic constituency MP and great scrutineer of education", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-22a.621.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-22", "file": "debates2013-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "cfbff89d3a0da425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-22a.623.3", "colnum": "623", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "David Ruffley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Ruffley", "preceding_text": "children: “When they know by heart fifteen pages of Robert Frost” or “Swift’s Modest Proposal… They have reefs, for the life of language to build and breed around. A ‘globe of precepts’ and a great sheet anchor in the maelstrom of linguistic turbulence”. In the light of those words from the late poet laureate, will my right hon. Friend confirm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-22a.623.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-22", "file": "debates2013-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "cfbff89d3a0da425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-22a.636.1", "colnum": "636", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "I owe a debt to the hon. Lady, because it was she who first invited me to visit Durand academy in her constituency. To this day I am grateful, because it is an outstanding school with a wonderful team of teachers. The fact that it is thinking of opening boarding provision for children after the age of 11 is a bright ray of hope. It is a pity that some unfortunate words have been said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-22a.636.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-22", "file": "debates2013-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "cfbff89d3a0da425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-22a.642.4", "colnum": "642", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "All academies have the opportunity to depart from the national curriculum, which is entirely appropriate, but I do not think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-22a.642.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-22", "file": "debates2013-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "cfbff89d3a0da425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-22a.642.4", "colnum": "642", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "All academies have the opportunity to depart from the national curriculum, which is entirely appropriate, but I do not think— [ Interruption. ] Honestly! This is a serious subject, and I am afraid the hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) is not doing it the service it deserves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-22a.642.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-22", "file": "debates2013-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "cfbff89d3a0da425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-22a.642.5", "colnum": "642", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We cannot have a debate while a question is being answered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-22a.642.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-22", "file": "debates2013-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "cfbff89d3a0da425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-22a.644.3", "colnum": "644", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": ";If only there were more Conservatives in the north-east.” People were also saying to me that they need a new school because, apart from the free school that is being built, provision in the north of the constituency is not good enough. I am only sorry that Labour-led Stockton council has stood in the way of parents who are working with us, and with the Conservative MP, to improve education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-22a.644.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-22", "file": "debates2013-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "cfbff89d3a0da425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-22a.654.3", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Public Service Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "yed by the Ministry of Defence and the other is in the public service at large. It is such an evident anomaly that the House of Lords, when made aware of the lacuna, correctly sought to repair the fault in the Bill, but incredibly we heard from the Economic Secretary—I am delighted that he has been joined by the Chief Secretary; perhaps he can be lent on by more enlightened colleagues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-22a.654.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-22", "file": "debates2013-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "cfbff89d3a0da425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-22a.654.3", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Public Service Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "acuna, correctly sought to repair the fault in the Bill, but incredibly we heard from the Economic Secretary—I am delighted that he has been joined by the Chief Secretary; perhaps he can be lent on by more enlightened colleagues— [ Interruption. ] The hon. Member for Colchester (Sir Bob Russell) says he will have a go, but he does not have much time as the question will be put shortly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-22a.654.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-22", "file": "debates2013-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "cfbff89d3a0da425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-22a.657.1", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Public Service Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "I am amazed that hon. Members who are in government refuse to take responsibility for the offices that they hold and for the decisions that they have in their grasp. I said that it is important to admit that a mistake has been made for these 350-odd MOD firefighters and police. Why on earth cannot Members on the Government Benches say the same?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-22a.657.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-22", "file": "debates2013-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "cfbff89d3a0da425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-22a.657.5", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Public Service Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "How much more of an answer can I give than the actions that we will take in the Division Lobby today? Instead of the party political games that the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives are playing today, it is a responsible thing to do to try to help—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-22a.657.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-22", "file": "debates2013-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "cfbff89d3a0da425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-22a.673.0", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Public Service Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Fuller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Fuller", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Nottingham East is a fine fellow, but I have to tell him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-22a.673.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-22", "file": "debates2013-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "cfbff89d3a0da425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-22a.673.0", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Public Service Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Fuller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Fuller", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Nottingham East is a fine fellow, but I have to tell him— [Interruption.] “Fine fellow” will be the beginning and end of my comments to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-22a.673.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-22", "file": "debates2013-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "cfbff89d3a0da425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-22a.698.1", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Public Service Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": "seriously. One must also say, however, that its very name represents something of a relic from a past age—a time when Britain was still ruled by a Government committed in principle to joining the single currency. I can assure the House that that era is well and truly dead and buried. Members might well ask what purpose is served by this annual exercise and the associated debate in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-22a.698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-22", "file": "debates2013-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "cfbff89d3a0da425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-22a.704.4", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Public Service Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "These Benches are not massively more empty than those on the hon. Lady’s own side of the House. She will have to accept that this can, at face value, appear to be quite an obscure issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-22a.704.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-22", "file": "debates2013-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "cfbff89d3a0da425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-22a.707.5", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Public Service Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "Long-term interest rates reflect a number of factors. Government Members would like to think that low bond yields were a reflection of fiscal policy measures alone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-22a.707.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-22", "file": "debates2013-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "cfbff89d3a0da425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-22a.717.2", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Public Service Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "ical in what he said—uncharacteristically so, because he is normally a man of such consensus, support for the middle way and so on—was in ignoring the benefits of monetary activism. I refer right hon. and hon. Members to page 15. The key difference between the UK economy and the continental economies is that we have the ability to change our monetary policy to ease the austerity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-22a.717.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-22", "file": "debates2013-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "cfbff89d3a0da425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-22a.725.2", "colnum": "725", "heading": "FIXED-ODDS BETTING TERMINALS", "cue_speaker": "Tom Greatrex", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Greatrex", "preceding_text": "y employ 152 people. Many people gamble for entertainment and in their own time—some occasionally, some regularly—on sport, in the casino, at bingo and in other forms, and they do so without any problems. Indeed, most years I place a bet on Fulham winning the FA cup. That one has not come in yet, and my annual visit to the bookmakers seems to be as much for their amusement as for mine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-22a.725.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-23", "file": "debates2013-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "43fc417092b330a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-23a.772.3", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Ian Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Murray", "preceding_text": "I shall start with the issues that the Minister raised on permitted development. We welcome the Government’s change of heart. This is a victory not just for Opposition Members but for Members who are sitting behind the Secretary of State who have helped us to protect the gardens of England from inappropriate developments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-23a.772.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-23", "file": "debates2013-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "43fc417092b330a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-23a.776.3", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Ian Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Murray", "preceding_text": ", and details of drag-along and tag-along rights. Most employees will not understand the implications of this information, and there is nothing to prevent employers from issuing pages of gobbledygook about the shares that buries the information somewhere within. I am struck by the provision about winding up, which is specifically mentioned in the concessions. Surely this is the crux of the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-23a.776.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-23", "file": "debates2013-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "43fc417092b330a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-23a.789.0", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend’s announcement is very welcome. She knows that our party has always argued that there should be a general overarching duty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-23a.789.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-23", "file": "debates2013-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "43fc417092b330a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-23a.858.2", "colnum": "858", "heading": "UPLAND SHEEP FARMERS", "cue_speaker": "Hywel Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hywel Williams", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will be familiar with the concept of cynefin—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-23a.858.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-23", "file": "debates2013-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "43fc417092b330a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-23a.862.3", "colnum": "862", "heading": "UPLAND SHEEP FARMERS", "cue_speaker": "Albert Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Albert Owen", "preceding_text": "The Minister is absolutely right that we should be buying British lamb, and Welsh lamb, as a priority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-23a.862.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-24", "file": "debates2013-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "6fed10b386c563a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-24a.869.0", "colnum": "869", "heading": "SCOTLAND OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "preceding_text": "The Scottish National party Government have in fact invested £130 million in the sleeper service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-24a.869.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-24", "file": "debates2013-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "6fed10b386c563a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-24a.872.5", "colnum": "872", "heading": "SCOTLAND OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Alan Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Reid", "preceding_text": "fuel duty discount in the Budget, which means that fuel duty on the mainland will be 13p a litre cheaper than it would be under Labour and 18p a litre cheaper on the islands. A Labour Government would have destroyed the Argyll and Bute economy. I congratulate the Government on supporting the rural economy, unlike the Labour party, which did not care and wanted to increase fuel duty by 18p a litre.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-24a.872.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-24", "file": "debates2013-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "6fed10b386c563a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-24a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Julian Huppert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Huppert", "preceding_text": "Today sees the publication of the all-party cycling group’s report “Get Britain Cycling”, which calls for leadership from the very top on this issue. Will the Prime Minister look at the report, make sure that he produces a cross-departmental action plan and give his personal commitment and leadership to get Britain cycling?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-24a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-24", "file": "debates2013-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "6fed10b386c563a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-24a.890.0", "colnum": "890", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "beyond. That appeal process could take many months”.—[ Official Report , 17 April 2012; Vol. 543, c. 175-6 .] I have to tell the right hon. Lady that simply repeating something and wanting it to be true does not make it true; she should look at what was actually said here. Finally, the right hon. Lady herself has to answer some questions. Does she support what the Government have done?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-24a.890.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-24", "file": "debates2013-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "6fed10b386c563a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-24a.914.0", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Planning Permission (Financial Penalties)", "cue_speaker": "Robert Flello", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Flello", "preceding_text": "should further develop the Derbyshire principle in line with the will of Parliament. That is an unsatisfactory position, however, and this is on the to-do list of things that would have improved the Bill dramatically, but I hope the courts will now extend Derbyshire to contracts between the private sector and the Government or local authorities, because that is in line with the will of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-24a.914.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-24", "file": "debates2013-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "6fed10b386c563a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-24a.943.4", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Agricultural Wages Board", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman said that the motion is somehow sponsored by unions. It is nothing of the sort. This debate is about a point of principle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-24a.943.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-24", "file": "debates2013-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "6fed10b386c563a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-24a.968.1", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Agricultural Wages Board", "cue_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "preceding_text": "ion and tackling the agency workers question, and thereby addressing the undercutting of pay and conditions in local areas. That will no doubt be the arena in which our response to the abolition of the AWB will be developed. I suspect—in fact I can guarantee—that the Government parties will not be carrying out any similar piece of work. [Interruption.] Any pretensions to respect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-24a.968.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-24", "file": "debates2013-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "6fed10b386c563a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-24a.968.1", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Agricultural Wages Board", "cue_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "preceding_text": "ross Benchers, the Lords eventually supported the abolition. When the proposal returned to this House as Lords amendments, we were denied the time and the opportunity to debate it or even to vote on it. So here we are today, in a debate brought by the Labour Opposition. As we debate this matter today, therefore, the Government have conspired to abolish the AWB through the unelected House of Lords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-24a.968.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-25", "file": "debates2013-04-25b.xml", "sha256": "c6157f113945e507", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-25b.1000.7", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Patrick McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "g advisory panel. I announced in my last statement that Richard Brown will be the chairman. The other members will be Nicola Shaw, chief executive officer of High Speed 1 Ltd; Stephen Paine, managing director of UK investment banking at UBS; Martin Buck, the commercial director of Crossrail; and Michael Holden, chief executive officer of Directly Operated Railways and chairman of East Coast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-25b.1000.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-04-25", "file": "debates2013-04-25b.xml", "sha256": "c6157f113945e507", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-25b.1018.4", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I cannot anticipate debates in the next Session. What I can say is that what my right hon. Friend the Lord Chancellor and his predecessor have done in trying to secure better value and a much greater focus for legal aid is terrifically important. [ Interruption. ] We have a very generous legal aid system, compared with countries around the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-04-25b.1018.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-09", "file": "debates2013-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "a027e4f9e39a5a5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-09a.170.3", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "ey can deal with them in all situations, even within the private home where the dog normally resides, gives the important extension of powers to the police that will enable them to deal with dangerous dogs wherever they may be in the community. I am sorry to hear of the experience the hon. Gentleman had during the last election campaign. Dogs and letterboxes are the major problems for campaigners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-09a.170.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-10", "file": "debates2013-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "692915dc0b80d9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-10a.274.3", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Jobs and Business", "cue_speaker": "Chuka Umunna", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chuka Umunna", "preceding_text": "With the greatest respect to the welfare Secretary, let me say two things. First, I have said that we have expressed regret in terms of the way in which we regulated the banking sector. However, let me also remind him that in the last two quarters of our term in office, we saw growth of 1.1%. During his time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-10a.274.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-10", "file": "debates2013-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "692915dc0b80d9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-10a.278.4", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Jobs and Business", "cue_speaker": "Chuka Umunna", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chuka Umunna", "preceding_text": " December last year, attracting only 400 applications. I thus say to the hon. Gentleman that I really hope that the National Insurance Contributions Bill in this year’s Queen’s Speech, which introduces the employment allowance—no doubt there is more detail in the paper the hon. Gentleman has with him—will prove far more successful than the Government’s scheme to date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-10a.278.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-10", "file": "debates2013-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "692915dc0b80d9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-10a.287.5", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Jobs and Business", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Metcalfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Metcalfe", "preceding_text": "People in my constituency are suffering because of the toxic economic inheritance we acquired when we came into government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-10a.287.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-10", "file": "debates2013-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "692915dc0b80d9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-10a.297.2", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Jobs and Business", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hendrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hendrick", "preceding_text": "inds back to before the general election in 2010. The Labour party had a programme that would have got rid of the deficit over two terms, and halved it after the first. This Government promised to wipe out the deficit in one term. What we saw beforehand was a programme that would have benefited this country in a great way being pooh-poohed. When we said there would be a double-dip recession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-10a.297.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-10", "file": "debates2013-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "692915dc0b80d9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-10a.298.1", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Jobs and Business", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hendrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hendrick", "preceding_text": ";s wisdom, they thought it right to bail out the banks. Otherwise, people would have gone to cash tills and no money would have come out, and there would have been no finance to keep the economy moving. They now get the blame for an international problem—the problem was not home grown, unlike the recessions under the previous Conservative Government. The Labour Government were accused—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-10a.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-10", "file": "debates2013-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "692915dc0b80d9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-10a.300.3", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Jobs and Business", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hendrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hendrick", "preceding_text": "The 3 million figure comes from the European Commission and many other respected and independent bodies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-10a.300.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-10", "file": "debates2013-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "692915dc0b80d9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-10a.302.0", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Jobs and Business", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Offord", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Offord", "preceding_text": "I rather enjoyed the contribution of the hon. Member for Preston (Mark Hendrick) . At one stage, I think I was the only person in the Chamber listening to him, as there was a gathering around the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-10a.302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-10", "file": "debates2013-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "692915dc0b80d9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-10a.304.3", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Jobs and Business", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Offord", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Offord", "preceding_text": "lity, they should be prevented from coming here. Secondly, and most importantly, they should be forced to have their own insurance policy. I cannot say whether the hon. Lady has been abroad, but I know that if I go to India or New York and find myself in an accident requiring medical attention, I will receive a wallet biopsy from the ambulance man, which will determine the type of treatment I get.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-10a.304.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-10", "file": "debates2013-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "692915dc0b80d9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-10a.304.3", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Jobs and Business", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Offord", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Offord", "preceding_text": " the hon. Lady has been abroad, but I know that if I go to India or New York and find myself in an accident requiring medical attention, I will receive a wallet biopsy from the ambulance man, which will determine the type of treatment I get. [Interruption.] All we are seeking is the same for this country; it is about fairness. It is not about denying people medical treatment; it is about fairness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-10a.304.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-10", "file": "debates2013-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "692915dc0b80d9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-10a.304.3", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Jobs and Business", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Offord", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Offord", "preceding_text": "now that if I go to India or New York and find myself in an accident requiring medical attention, I will receive a wallet biopsy from the ambulance man, which will determine the type of treatment I get. [Interruption.] All we are seeking is the same for this country; it is about fairness. It is not about denying people medical treatment; it is about fairness. [Interruption.] I am going to move on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-10a.304.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-10", "file": "debates2013-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "692915dc0b80d9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-10a.320.3", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Jobs and Business", "cue_speaker": "Rushanara Ali", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rushanara Ali", "preceding_text": " a thing or two about how people have to live their lives. If they paid attention to ordinary, poorer constituents, they might learn a thing or two about what it is like to live below the poverty line or to struggle on a modest income. The changes the Government have made in people’s incomes—a reduction of £1,700 a year—have had a devastating effect on families and children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-10a.320.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-13", "file": "debates2013-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "eb925bbbc0b5cad2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-13a.355.0", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Health and Social Care", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It is not altogether obvious whether the Secretary of State is giving way or has concluded his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-13a.355.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-13", "file": "debates2013-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "eb925bbbc0b5cad2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-13a.359.3", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Health and Social Care", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State is nodding; he should do something about it. This is happening on his watch. Across the country, hospitals are operating at levels way beyond safe bed occupancy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-13a.359.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-13", "file": "debates2013-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "eb925bbbc0b5cad2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-13a.362.3", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Health and Social Care", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "nally turn to public health. There was not much on which I agreed with the last Health Secretary, but he had my strong support when he spoke about tackling smoking. He said that he wanted tobacco companies to have “no business” in this country, and that introducing standardised packaging was an essential next step to ensure that young smokers were not recruited by the tobacco industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-13a.362.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-13", "file": "debates2013-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "eb925bbbc0b5cad2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-13a.363.1", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Health and Social Care", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "The former Secretary of State said that it was full steam ahead and that is what they would do. This Secretary of State comes in and says nothing about the issue. Then, a right-wing Australian lobbyist arrives, and all of a sudden no one mentions it at all. Has the Secretary of State ever met Lynton Crosby and discussed this issue with him? I think we have a right to know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-13a.363.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-14", "file": "debates2013-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ccc988808cae2a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-14a.519.3", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Cost of Living", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Answer the question!”", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "I am afraid to say that the Chancellor’s spending cuts and tax rises, which went too deep, too fast, have left our economy flatlining. As I said, the Government are borrowing £245 billion more than they planned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-14a.519.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-14", "file": "debates2013-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ccc988808cae2a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-14a.520.3", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Cost of Living", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": " poverty, are among the least likely to be able to access the cheapest online deals or to switch supplier. We would put that right and put all those over 75 on the cheapest tariff for their gas and electricity. If we did that, as many as 4 million pensioners—including nearly 8,000 in the Secretary of State’s own constituency—could save as much as £200 a year off their bills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-14a.520.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-14", "file": "debates2013-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ccc988808cae2a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-14a.528.1", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Cost of Living", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “It’s not a tax.”", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "also frozen child benefit and cut tax credits. In-work benefits have also been cut, creating a disincentive rather than an incentive to work. Goodness knows what is going to happen when universal credit comes in later this year. Above all, the Government are punishing people who are already struggling. The bedroom tax is the most iniquitous of the changes that the Government have brought in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-14a.528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-14", "file": "debates2013-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ccc988808cae2a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-14a.537.0", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Cost of Living", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "inciples, talking about principles and sticking to principles. The principles underlying the Queen’s Speech are those of freedom, choice and individual responsibility as well as rights. Through those principles, Conservative Governments throughout the ages have brought prosperity to Britain and improved the lives of British people. The Labour party does not work on principle. It works—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-14a.537.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-14", "file": "debates2013-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ccc988808cae2a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-14a.540.1", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Cost of Living", "cue_speaker": "Ian Paisley Jnr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Paisley Jnr", "preceding_text": "Like the hon. Gentleman, who is also a great Unionist committed to the Union, I believe that the same benefits should flow whether in the north of England or the northern part of Ulster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-14a.540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-14", "file": "debates2013-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ccc988808cae2a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-14a.546.2", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Cost of Living", "cue_speaker": "Michael Crockart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Crockart", "preceding_text": " million individual payments were made in the UK, worth a total of £129.2 million. That level of support for our most vulnerable is available only because, in 2010, the coalition Government reversed Labour’s plans to reduce the payment to £8.50 and instead made it £25 permanently. I do not have time to talk in detail about the green deal, our Government’s flagship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-14a.546.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-14", "file": "debates2013-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ccc988808cae2a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-14a.562.2", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Cost of Living", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "nks and eases their loan-to-deposit ratios. It therefore ensures that the banks can lend more money both to prospective home owners and to businesses. There is a view among Labour Members, which was also expressed during the Budget debates, of a very closed financial system, but that is quite wrong. There are flows within the financial system. There is a rule of money, that money must find a home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-14a.562.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-14", "file": "debates2013-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ccc988808cae2a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-14a.598.0", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Cost of Living", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": ";[ Official Report , 25 April 2013; Vol. 561, c. 1126W .] That reply is eloquent, but as clear as mud. I have a very simple question to put to the Secretary of State, and I will happily give way to enable him to answer it. Will EU nationals who have come to the UK to exercise their treaty rights be eligible for assistance from the Help to Buy scheme—yes or no? I will happily give way to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-14a.598.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-14", "file": "debates2013-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ccc988808cae2a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-14a.598.0", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Cost of Living", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "nals who have come to the UK to exercise their treaty rights be eligible for assistance from the Help to Buy scheme—yes or no? I will happily give way to him. [ Interruption. ] The reason I keep doing it is that the Secretary of State shows a remarkable propensity to be unable to answer the simplest of questions. If he cannot answer my question, I wonder whether the Minister for Housing can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-14a.598.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-14", "file": "debates2013-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "ccc988808cae2a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-14a.598.0", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Cost of Living", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "stituency, Leeds Central—12,600 of the least well-off families struggling to get by. What are the Government doing to help them? They are sending them letters telling them that they have to pay more council tax and letters telling them they have to pay higher rent, and that they must hand over £2.8 million from their pockets and purses to pay for those council tax bills and those rents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-14a.598.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-15", "file": "debates2013-05-15b.xml", "sha256": "80494e4c1d859423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.619.3", "colnum": "619", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Crabb", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Nothing.”", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Crabb", "preceding_text": "I am not going to comment on the specifics of the legal case, but the right hon. Gentleman rightly asks what we are doing to protect the most vulnerable people—those with severe disabilities in housing with adaptations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.619.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-15", "file": "debates2013-05-15b.xml", "sha256": "80494e4c1d859423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.625.1", "colnum": "625", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Crabb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Crabb", "preceding_text": "between us, the Home Office and the Minister for Universities and Science about how we can attract more overseas students to the UK. I do not know what figures the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent (Nick Smith) has seen, but if he looks at the figures for overseas students coming to Wales, he will see that there has been a 73% increase in the past five years, and those numbers are continuing to go up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.625.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-15", "file": "debates2013-05-15b.xml", "sha256": "80494e4c1d859423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.627.5", "colnum": "627", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "I have been asked to reply. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.627.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-15", "file": "debates2013-05-15b.xml", "sha256": "80494e4c1d859423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.631.4", "colnum": "631", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend knows, our commitment was for a referendum when there is a fundamental change in the relationship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.631.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-15", "file": "debates2013-05-15b.xml", "sha256": "80494e4c1d859423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.631.4", "colnum": "631", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend knows, our commitment was for a referendum when there is a fundamental change in the relationship— [ Interruption. ] Read our manifesto—I have. I helped to write it, and I can guarantee that that is what it says, and we have acted on that. I have an old-fashioned view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.631.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-15", "file": "debates2013-05-15b.xml", "sha256": "80494e4c1d859423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.632.3", "colnum": "632", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for reminding the House that the price of fuel on the forecourt would be 13p higher under the plans embarked on by the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.632.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-15", "file": "debates2013-05-15b.xml", "sha256": "80494e4c1d859423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.633.5", "colnum": "633", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "That man, whom I believe to be me, was stating something then that my party has restated ever since: that we should have a referendum on Europe when the rules change. We said that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.633.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-15", "file": "debates2013-05-15b.xml", "sha256": "80494e4c1d859423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.633.5", "colnum": "633", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "That man, whom I believe to be me, was stating something then that my party has restated ever since: that we should have a referendum on Europe when the rules change. We said that— [Interruption.] We said that at the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.633.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-15", "file": "debates2013-05-15b.xml", "sha256": "80494e4c1d859423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.633.5", "colnum": "633", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "That man, whom I believe to be me, was stating something then that my party has restated ever since: that we should have a referendum on Europe when the rules change. We said that— [Interruption.] We said that at the time— [Interruption] We said that at the time of the Lisbon treaty and we said it in our manifesto. We even legislated on it, and we will say it again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.633.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-15", "file": "debates2013-05-15b.xml", "sha256": "80494e4c1d859423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.642.0", "colnum": "642", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "wn upon those responsible. Let there be no doubt about that. However, I am surprised that the right hon. Lady wishes the Government to interfere directly in competition investigations. It was her Government who rightly moved competition authorities on to an independent basis. We believe it is very important to have independent competition authorities, because that strengthens their ability to act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.642.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-15", "file": "debates2013-05-15b.xml", "sha256": "80494e4c1d859423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.656.1", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Economic Growth", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": " the hon. Gentleman that that very question was asked of the Business Secretary on the “Today” programme just a few weeks ago. He was asked by John Humphries, “So, should you borrow more?” Guess what the Business Secretary said? He said: “Well we are already borrowing more”. That is the truth—£245 billion more. I will tell you what I want to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.656.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-15", "file": "debates2013-05-15b.xml", "sha256": "80494e4c1d859423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.661.3", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Economic Growth", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "reign Secretary, the shadow Home Secretary and me. Instead of four years of uncertainty, our Labour amendment says that the priority now should not be walking out of meetings or being entirely ignored but arguing with influence to get the reforms agreed. These include reform of the common agricultural policy, tough new budget discipline in the European budget with stronger independent audit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.661.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-15", "file": "debates2013-05-15b.xml", "sha256": "80494e4c1d859423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.664.4", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Economic Growth", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Answer the question!”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "For precisely the reason that I gave in an earlier answer—and I have to say that I am not sure that the public like to hear us repeating ourselves. Let me quote the words of another business organisation, London First.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.664.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-15", "file": "debates2013-05-15b.xml", "sha256": "80494e4c1d859423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.664.4", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Economic Growth", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "For precisely the reason that I gave in an earlier answer—and I have to say that I am not sure that the public like to hear us repeating ourselves. Let me quote the words of another business organisation, London First. [Hon. Members: “Answer the question!”] I will answer the question. London First—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.664.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-15", "file": "debates2013-05-15b.xml", "sha256": "80494e4c1d859423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.664.6", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Economic Growth", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "No wonder the Prime Minister has gone to America, Madam Deputy Speaker, if that is what he has put up with. Let me quote the words of London First—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.664.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-15", "file": "debates2013-05-15b.xml", "sha256": "80494e4c1d859423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.670.1", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Economic Growth", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "The euro preparation unit was shut down by this Government in 2010, but the shadow Chancellor does not seem to know what Labour policy is. The Labour party is committed in principle to joining the euro.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.670.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-15", "file": "debates2013-05-15b.xml", "sha256": "80494e4c1d859423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.676.4", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Economic Growth", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "I think it implies something.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.676.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-15", "file": "debates2013-05-15b.xml", "sha256": "80494e4c1d859423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.676.10", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Economic Growth", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "To avoid any risk of double-speak, Madam Deputy Speaker, in order to make sure that we have the full facts before us, the Chancellor claimed that he was tackling the welfare bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.676.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-15", "file": "debates2013-05-15b.xml", "sha256": "80494e4c1d859423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.686.4", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Economic Growth", "cue_speaker": "Richard Ottaway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Ottaway", "preceding_text": "t that we still carry in the EU and how we protect our position inside the single market but outside the eurozone. He should continue with that approach. That example also illustrates how far we have come in building alliances inside the European Union since the veto in December 2011. Inside, we simply have more strength. No one denies that the EU needs reform, and I am no great Europhile on this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.686.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-15", "file": "debates2013-05-15b.xml", "sha256": "80494e4c1d859423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Economic Growth", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": " giving away Mrs Thatcher’s hard-won rebate. They simply cannot be trusted on Europe. The shadow Chancellor sort of indicated that Labour Members would vote against the amendment today—it was impossible to know what he thought about an EU referendum—but every Member will have to make their mind up. Members who vote against the amendment are voting against an EU referendum —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-15", "file": "debates2013-05-15b.xml", "sha256": "80494e4c1d859423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.706.3", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Economic Growth", "cue_speaker": "Richard Drax", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Drax", "preceding_text": " country. This is a golden opportunity that we must take if we want to restore the trust in this House and this country that was thrown away as a result of the failed promises over Maastricht and Lisbon. What more evidence do we need that the EU is dead? It is finished. Look around! Wake up! Greece is a disaster and Spain is potentially on the brink of civil war—53% of youths are unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.706.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-15", "file": "debates2013-05-15b.xml", "sha256": "80494e4c1d859423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.715.2", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Economic Growth", "cue_speaker": "Mike Thornton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Thornton", "preceding_text": "e disabled and our schools. What is more, the Lib Dem initiative to increase the tax allowance to £10,000—and, hopefully, onwards and upwards—means more take-home pay for every single one of those new employees. If that is what Liberal Democrats can achieve when they are in government as part of a coalition, just imagine what we could achieve with a Lib Dem majority in this place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.715.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-15", "file": "debates2013-05-15b.xml", "sha256": "80494e4c1d859423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.741.0", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Economic Growth", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "and I am grateful to the shadow Financial Secretary for his good wishes. Many Opposition Members spoke against the Queen’s Speech, notably the hon. Members for Glasgow North East (Mr Bain), for Huddersfield (Mr Sheerman) and for Birmingham, Erdington (Jack Dromey), who presented their arguments passionately. The debate was opened by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-15b.741.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-16", "file": "debates2013-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "950542027c2b77f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-16a.809.2", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman is simply wrong. The Members concerned chose those Bills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-16a.809.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-16", "file": "debates2013-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "950542027c2b77f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-16a.812.2", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "The opportunities for debate are there, including in respect of the Finance Bill, as the hon. Gentleman will know. It is this Government who are introducing the general anti-avoidance measures—those were not introduced by the previous Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-16a.812.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-16", "file": "debates2013-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "950542027c2b77f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-16a.819.1", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Mental Health", "cue_speaker": "Madeleine Moon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madeleine Moon", "preceding_text": "It is a privilege to follow the right hon. Member for Sutton and Cheam (Paul Burstow) . The House will recognise the work that he has done in bringing this issue not just to our attention, but to that of the wider public. I also pay tribute to the hon. Member for Broxbourne (Mr Walker) , who has done fantastic work in this area, and to my hon. Friend the Member for North Durham (Mr Jones) .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-16a.819.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-16", "file": "debates2013-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "950542027c2b77f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-16a.829.1", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Mental Health", "cue_speaker": "Charles Walker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Totnes.”", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Walker", "preceding_text": "being here today. I know that the call of their constituencies is hard to resist, but they will be congratulated by their constituents for taking part in this debate. I commend the work of the all-party group on mental health. We have done a lot of work on mental health, schizophrenia and ethnic minority mental health. I see that my hon. Friend for Taunton is here—no, it is not Taunton, but?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-16a.829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-20", "file": "debates2013-05-20b.xml", "sha256": "5ad157458366d60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-20b.893.3", "colnum": "893", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "Interestingly enough, I had the right hon. Gentleman and the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill (Mr Byrne) in to see me last year and I told them exactly how we were rolling the system out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-20b.893.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-20", "file": "debates2013-05-20b.xml", "sha256": "5ad157458366d60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-20b.898.5", "colnum": "898", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "Discretionary housing payments are given to councils, as the right hon. Gentleman knows. They set the scheme up. They can top the money up as they wish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-20b.898.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-20", "file": "debates2013-05-20b.xml", "sha256": "5ad157458366d60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-20b.924.4", "colnum": "924", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "No, Mr Speaker, I am not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-20b.924.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-20", "file": "debates2013-05-20b.xml", "sha256": "5ad157458366d60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-20b.929.5", "colnum": "929", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "David Burrowes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Give way!", "preceding_speaker": "David Burrowes", "preceding_text": "No. The hon. Gentleman and I were members of the Committee, where we had a chance to have our say. I will not give way, because I want people to be able to have their say. That is the point of this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-20b.929.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-20", "file": "debates2013-05-20b.xml", "sha256": "5ad157458366d60a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-20b.941.2", "colnum": "941", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": "I am not going to give way. The hon. Member for Gainsborough should also recall that this House deliberated for 20 years—he will know the name of William Wilberforce—on the abolition of the slave trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-20b.941.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-21", "file": "debates2013-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2a642c4b24929fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-21a.1046.5", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Wright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Wright", "preceding_text": "I entirely agree that we need to see more abstinence from drugs. My hon. Friend will know that one of the obstacles to proceeding down that path with many drug-addicted offenders is that they stay in prison for a very short period and there is no confidence about what happens when they leave custody.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-21a.1046.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-21", "file": "debates2013-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2a642c4b24929fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-21a.1058.6", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “ Teething problems?”", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "I agree that there have been teething problems with 111 and we are addressing those problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-21a.1058.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-21", "file": "debates2013-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2a642c4b24929fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-21a.1059.1", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend. Under this Government, we have 6,000 more doctors than we had under Labour, but we need more people going into general practice as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-21a.1059.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-21", "file": "debates2013-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2a642c4b24929fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-21a.1066.0", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "Absolutely. It is extraordinary that in this debate in Parliament today, Labour Members have their heads in the sand about the low public confidence in out-of-hours GP care, which is a major driver of the problems in A and E departments. We are going to sort out that problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-21a.1066.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-21", "file": "debates2013-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2a642c4b24929fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-21a.1077.2", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "preceding_text": " the Attorney-General to intervene on the hon. Lady again. Given that humanist weddings have taken place in Scotland since 2005, and given that the United Kingdom, rather than England and Wales, is the signatory to the European convention on human rights, why has the Registrar General for Scotland not been subject to a legal challenge under the convention? Perhaps the Attorney-General can explain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-21a.1077.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-21", "file": "debates2013-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2a642c4b24929fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-21a.1083.2", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": "Let me start by saying that I have great admiration for humanists. My mother was a Quaker and I was brought up and educated at a Quaker school. I often think that Quakers are simply humanists who believe in God—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-21a.1083.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-21", "file": "debates2013-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2a642c4b24929fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-21a.1085.5", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": "Nothing that I have said could possibly be construed as implying that Scotland is not concerned about marriage. The fact is that under a celebrant-based system, pagan marriages take place in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-21a.1085.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-05-21", "file": "debates2013-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2a642c4b24929fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-21a.1163.2", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Burrowes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Burrowes", "preceding_text": "Unfortunately, we are running out of time. What is pernicious is equating hon. Members’ opposition to redefining marriage with previous discrimination on the basis of race. That plays into the hands of those who have accused me and many hon. Members of being homophobic or bigoted simply for standing up for marriage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-05-21a.1163.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-03", "file": "debates2013-06-03b.xml", "sha256": "9837a378dde319e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-03b.1216.5", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Chris Williamson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Williamson", "preceding_text": "It seems from the Minister’s answers that either he is in denial or he does not understand the measures that he is seeking to introduce. As for the Ken Knight review, on page 74 he explicitly recommends privatisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-03b.1216.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-03", "file": "debates2013-06-03b.xml", "sha256": "9837a378dde319e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-03b.1216.5", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Chris Williamson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Williamson", "preceding_text": "It seems from the Minister’s answers that either he is in denial or he does not understand the measures that he is seeking to introduce. As for the Ken Knight review, on page 74 he explicitly recommends privatisation. [Interruption.] I am afraid he does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-03b.1216.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-03", "file": "debates2013-06-03b.xml", "sha256": "9837a378dde319e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-03b.1216.5", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Chris Williamson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Williamson", "preceding_text": "It seems from the Minister’s answers that either he is in denial or he does not understand the measures that he is seeking to introduce. As for the Ken Knight review, on page 74 he explicitly recommends privatisation. [Interruption.] I am afraid he does. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Robert Neill) ought to look at the report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-03b.1216.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-03", "file": "debates2013-06-03b.xml", "sha256": "9837a378dde319e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-03b.1226.2", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is nothing if not parochial. He is one of those people, I am afraid, who cannot see the good side in any affordable housing programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-03b.1226.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-03", "file": "debates2013-06-03b.xml", "sha256": "9837a378dde319e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-03b.1249.3", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Dr Thérèse Coffey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-03b.1249.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-03", "file": "debates2013-06-03b.xml", "sha256": "9837a378dde319e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-03b.1249.3", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Dr Thérèse Coffey. [Interruption.] The hon. Lady did wish to catch my eye but —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-03b.1249.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-03", "file": "debates2013-06-03b.xml", "sha256": "9837a378dde319e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-03b.1256.3", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "William Bain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Bain", "preceding_text": "It has been revealed in its five most recent years of published accounts that on UK revenues of £11.5 billion, Google paid less than £11 million in tax over that period. If the Prime Minister is to offer the right leadership on the issue at the G8 and the EU Council, does he not have to admit to the country that that is just plain wrong?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-03b.1256.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-03", "file": "debates2013-06-03b.xml", "sha256": "9837a378dde319e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-03b.1259.0", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend says it all, and it is fitting that his should be the last contribution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-03b.1259.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-03", "file": "debates2013-06-03b.xml", "sha256": "9837a378dde319e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-03b.1336.1", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "preceding_text": "I will correct myself if I am wrong, but I believe we are talking about global turnover—we are talking about very significant sums.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-03b.1336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-03", "file": "debates2013-06-03b.xml", "sha256": "9837a378dde319e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-03b.1336.1", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "preceding_text": "I will correct myself if I am wrong, but I believe we are talking about global turnover—we are talking about very significant sums. [Interruption.] This relates to the turnover of the company under investigation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-03b.1336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-04", "file": "debates2013-06-04b.xml", "sha256": "b459c270c89bdcf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-04b.1367.0", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "Historically, the House of Lords has been as large as this House, and of course there are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-04b.1367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-04", "file": "debates2013-06-04b.xml", "sha256": "b459c270c89bdcf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-04b.1378.1", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "Yes, it is in here somewhere. None.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-04b.1378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-04", "file": "debates2013-06-04b.xml", "sha256": "b459c270c89bdcf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-04b.1417.0", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Crockart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Crockart", "preceding_text": "I rise to speak with a fair amount of trepidation; I feel like Lord Cardigan, commander of the gallant 600, charging into the valley of death. Half a league onward, as they say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-04b.1417.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-04", "file": "debates2013-06-04b.xml", "sha256": "b459c270c89bdcf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-04b.1419.0", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Crockart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Crockart", "preceding_text": "ot in my party’s manifesto; indeed, it was not in any party’s manifesto. Nor was it in the coalition agreement. In fact, there is only anything about it in the Bill at all because of the efforts of a Liberal Democrat Secretary of State, ably backed up by the present incumbent. Of course I would like more, but as 15% of the coalition Government we cannot always get exactly what we want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-04b.1419.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-04", "file": "debates2013-06-04b.xml", "sha256": "b459c270c89bdcf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-04b.1434.0", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Guy Opperman", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Guy Opperman", "preceding_text": "ompetitive advantage, enabling them to purchase timber more cheaply than any other provider in the country. I repeat my calls for the subsidy to be scrapped, so that the wood panel industry—and, indeed, anyone who utilises timber—can compete on a level playing field, while continuing to decarbonise. The Bill should be strongly supported. I shall vote against the Labour amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-04b.1434.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-04", "file": "debates2013-06-04b.xml", "sha256": "b459c270c89bdcf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-04b.1460.2", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Whitehead", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Whitehead", "preceding_text": "ult-to-organise increases in capacity can be averted by doing so is a prize in its own right. That is the case whether or not one thinks this is intimately bound up with climate change, and I wish to dwell briefly on that precise point. The Minister showered me with kind words, so he would not expect me to say anything unkind in return. It would be churlish of me, and I was not intending to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-04b.1460.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-05", "file": "debates2013-06-05b.xml", "sha256": "cefb323843cb3f27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1507.1", "colnum": "1507", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Tom Greatrex", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Greatrex", "preceding_text": "significant security implications. In response to the question from the right hon. Member for Belfast North (Mr Dodds) , she said that the vast majority of those costs would be picked up by the UK Government. Will she reassure and confirm to the House that if there are any unforeseen additional costs at the end of the process, those will be picked up by the UK Government and not left for the PSNI?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1507.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-05", "file": "debates2013-06-05b.xml", "sha256": "cefb323843cb3f27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1518.6", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I am afraid I missed the beginning of the question, so I did not quite hear who got the medal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1518.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-05", "file": "debates2013-06-05b.xml", "sha256": "cefb323843cb3f27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1521.1", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day] — Badger Cull", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "I have not read that report, but today’s report from the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee on a badger vaccination to control TB does not mention culling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1521.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-05", "file": "debates2013-06-05b.xml", "sha256": "cefb323843cb3f27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1540.1", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day] — Badger Cull", "cue_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "preceding_text": "s calculations. The chief executive of Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust says: “We’re not taking part in the cull on any of our 60 nature reserves in Gloucestershire because we believe the science demonstrates it won’t be very effective in controlling the disease and could even make things worse.” The Minister does not seem to be listening to what I am saying now, but I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-05", "file": "debates2013-06-05b.xml", "sha256": "cefb323843cb3f27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1540.1", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day] — Badger Cull", "cue_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "preceding_text": "ng to what I am saying now, but I— [Interruption.] Well, the Farming Minister is listening; I thank him for his politeness. The Secretary of State does not seem to be paying much attention to me. The Minister needs to come down to Somerset. He needs to come down to Gloucestershire. I would urge him to do it now that the cull has started—not the Farming Minister, the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-05", "file": "debates2013-06-05b.xml", "sha256": "cefb323843cb3f27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1542.3", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day] — Badger Cull", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "That is because there is no money, because you messed up the economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1542.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-05", "file": "debates2013-06-05b.xml", "sha256": "cefb323843cb3f27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1548.4", "colnum": "1548", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day] — Badger Cull", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "bits vaccination against bovine TB in cattle. I therefore urge the Secretary of State not to make us wait until after the referendum in 2017. Surely this is a good reason for leaving the EU, if nothing else. What would be the cost of defying the directive? How much money would be put at risk? What would be lost if the EU banned our cattle exports? What would the French do about our dairy products?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1548.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-05", "file": "debates2013-06-05b.xml", "sha256": "cefb323843cb3f27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1551.1", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day] — Badger Cull", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Champion", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Champion", "preceding_text": " solution is to put all our money and resources into a bovine vaccine. The Government cut the funding for research into and development of such a vaccine and the funding needs to be restored. The British Veterinary Association says that £1 billion will be wasted on TB over the next decade. Surely if a small percentage of that could be invested in research and getting the vaccine closer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1551.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-05", "file": "debates2013-06-05b.xml", "sha256": "cefb323843cb3f27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1588.0", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "Accident and Emergency Waiting Times", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "The spin continues, doesn’t it, Mr Deputy Speaker? Let me explain why that happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1588.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-05", "file": "debates2013-06-05b.xml", "sha256": "cefb323843cb3f27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1588.2", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "Accident and Emergency Waiting Times", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "That is a laudable aim. I do not think it is going to solve the A and E crisis right here, right now, but I do not disagree with it as an aim. Drawing on what was said at the summit, I have developed an A and E rescue plan with five practical proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1588.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-05", "file": "debates2013-06-05b.xml", "sha256": "cefb323843cb3f27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1588.2", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "Accident and Emergency Waiting Times", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "it, I have developed an A and E rescue plan with five practical proposals. [ Interruption. ] Government Members do not want to hear it. Okay, later on they can give me their plan. I am putting forward a plan and calling this debate. They are not calling this debate. Why are they not doing something to take a grip on the situation? It is no good just sitting back and saying, “Oh”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1588.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-05", "file": "debates2013-06-05b.xml", "sha256": "cefb323843cb3f27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1595.1", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "Accident and Emergency Waiting Times", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "What we have heard today will rank as one of the poorest speeches ever given by an Opposition on the NHS. [Interruption.] I predict—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1595.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-05", "file": "debates2013-06-05b.xml", "sha256": "cefb323843cb3f27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1597.6", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "Accident and Emergency Waiting Times", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "I am going to make some progress. The right hon. Member for Leigh talked about grip. There is one place where grip is badly lacking. Labour does not like to hear about this because it is Labour-run Wales, where, as the Prime Minister said this morning, the A and E target has not been met since 2009. It is where performance —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1597.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-05", "file": "debates2013-06-05b.xml", "sha256": "cefb323843cb3f27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1597.6", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "Accident and Emergency Waiting Times", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "ed about grip. There is one place where grip is badly lacking. Labour does not like to hear about this because it is Labour-run Wales, where, as the Prime Minister said this morning, the A and E target has not been met since 2009. It is where performance —[Interruption.] I know that Labour Members do not want to hear this, but I suggest they listen to it, because performance in Wales —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1597.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-05", "file": "debates2013-06-05b.xml", "sha256": "cefb323843cb3f27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1598.0", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Accident and Emergency Waiting Times", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "I will make my point and then I will give way. Labour Members need to hear about what is happening in Wales, because Labour runs the NHS in Wales. One patient in Wales had a cardiac arrest —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1598.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-05", "file": "debates2013-06-05b.xml", "sha256": "cefb323843cb3f27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1598.13", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Accident and Emergency Waiting Times", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "I will give way to the hon. Gentleman, if he will just take his place for a moment while I make my point. I will also give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Enfield North (Nick de Bois) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1598.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-05", "file": "debates2013-06-05b.xml", "sha256": "cefb323843cb3f27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1598.13", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Accident and Emergency Waiting Times", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "Chris Bryant), but I will certainly give way to the hon. Member for Caerphilly (Wayne David) . What is happening in Wales is directly relevant to what is happening in England, because in England the NHS budget has increased in real terms and NHS spending has increased in real terms. If we did not increase them both, that would mean fewer doctors, fewer nurses and longer waits for operations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1598.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-05", "file": "debates2013-06-05b.xml", "sha256": "cefb323843cb3f27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1601.5", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Accident and Emergency Waiting Times", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "I agree that A and E departments are under huge pressure, and that is why we are taking a lot of measures to deal with them, which is what I am talking about. But I am saying that we have to deal with the root causes, which were things that the shadow Secretary of State’s Government failed to deal with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1601.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-05", "file": "debates2013-06-05b.xml", "sha256": "cefb323843cb3f27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1602.1", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "Accident and Emergency Waiting Times", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": " the problem with Labour’s approach to the NHS—a top-down approach of closing or downgrading A and E units and making the NHS sort out the problems. We are not doing that. It is time that Labour took responsibility for the disastrous changes to the GP contract, which contributed to making it so much harder to get a GP appointment and piled further pressure on A and E departments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-05", "file": "debates2013-06-05b.xml", "sha256": "cefb323843cb3f27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1603.0", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "Accident and Emergency Waiting Times", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "Let me say very directly to the hon. Lady that since 2010 two things have happened that have contributed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1603.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-05", "file": "debates2013-06-05b.xml", "sha256": "cefb323843cb3f27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1625.0", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "Accident and Emergency Waiting Times", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Gwynne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Gwynne", "preceding_text": "e based on robust clinical evidence? Instead of accepting responsibility for the mess that they have created, the Government have spent recent weeks casting around for scapegoats. We have seen them blame the winter weather; influenza; bank holidays; immigrants; GPs; and today’s latest from the public health Minister, female doctors, because they get married, have children and work part time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1625.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-05", "file": "debates2013-06-05b.xml", "sha256": "cefb323843cb3f27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1627.0", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "Accident and Emergency Waiting Times", "cue_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "preceding_text": "y. Until the hon. Member for Denton and Reddish (Andrew Gwynne) rose to speak, it was going rather well. There was almost an outbreak of consensus after a number of thoughtful contributions from Members on both sides of the House. Unfortunately, as ever, the hon. Gentleman had to fall back into the old ways of cheap party political points and cheap partisan comments. I agree with him on one point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-05b.1627.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-06", "file": "debates2013-06-06b.xml", "sha256": "130dd1a96ce65dbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-06b.1681.0", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jessica Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jessica Lee", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend provide time to debate the valuable heritage of our rivers and canals, and the volunteers who work on them? As one of the few MPs whose constituency is named after a river, I understand well the importance of waterways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-06b.1681.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-10", "file": "debates2013-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "47bd5502cefce442", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-10a.83.4", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "t that we should not stigmatise them. A letter in The Times today was signed by practically everybody who is anybody in the voluntary sector that deals with these issues. It said that an injunction to prevent nuisance and annoyance could be used differently in different hands. The annoyance and nuisance I feel would be different from that felt by someone else. I am 57 years of age this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-10a.83.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-10", "file": "debates2013-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "47bd5502cefce442", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-10a.87.0", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Julian Huppert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Huppert", "preceding_text": "to any person, as the Chair of the Select Committee pointed out. I share the concerns of the Association of Chief Police Officers that that lower threshold could unnecessarily stigmatise and criminalise young people in particular. It is a broad definition. I dare say that I have occasionally done things that are “capable” of annoying other people in this Chamber; I am sure we all have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-10a.87.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-10", "file": "debates2013-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "47bd5502cefce442", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-10a.131.1", "colnum": "131", "heading": "YOUNG PEOPLE (BARNSLEY CENTRAL)", "cue_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "preceding_text": "go to university will face the daunting prospect of high tuition fees. Those young people who feel they cannot afford to do so face missing an opportunity to further their study. The rise in tuition fees has also had a significant impact on the number of young people applying to university. According to the latest figures from UCAS, university applications are down for a second year running—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-10a.131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-11", "file": "debates2013-06-11b.xml", "sha256": "74753d40670d88dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-11b.140.3", "colnum": "140", "heading": "DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": " by an independent body, and we gave everyone a real-terms increase and then used any remaining money to even out the differences, to get everyone as close as possible to the independent formula. But if we are talking about spending, I think the right hon. Gentleman needs to say precisely whether he stands by his assertion that Governments should cut spending on the NHS by £600 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-11b.140.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-11", "file": "debates2013-06-11b.xml", "sha256": "74753d40670d88dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-11b.154.5", "colnum": "154", "heading": "DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, Mr Speaker, I am all over the place and do not have now the answer to give the hon. Lady. I believe the programme was signed off in 2010—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-11b.154.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-11", "file": "debates2013-06-11b.xml", "sha256": "74753d40670d88dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-11b.154.5", "colnum": "154", "heading": "DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, Mr Speaker, I am all over the place and do not have now the answer to give the hon. Lady. I believe the programme was signed off in 2010— [ Interruption. ] In fact, I am right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-11b.154.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-11", "file": "debates2013-06-11b.xml", "sha256": "74753d40670d88dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-11b.154.5", "colnum": "154", "heading": "DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, Mr Speaker, I am all over the place and do not have now the answer to give the hon. Lady. I believe the programme was signed off in 2010— [ Interruption. ] In fact, I am right— [ Laughter. ] Well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-11b.154.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-11", "file": "debates2013-06-11b.xml", "sha256": "74753d40670d88dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-11b.154.5", "colnum": "154", "heading": "DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "preceding_text": " am sorry, Mr Speaker, I am all over the place and do not have now the answer to give the hon. Lady. I believe the programme was signed off in 2010— [ Interruption. ] In fact, I am right— [ Laughter. ] Well— [Interruption.] Now, now; that is very naughty from the right hon. Member for Leigh (Andy Burnham) . As you get older, Mr Speaker, you sometimes start to forget things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-11b.154.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-11", "file": "debates2013-06-11b.xml", "sha256": "74753d40670d88dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-11b.158.3", "colnum": "158", "heading": "DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "preceding_text": "Well, it is a very good point, and the hon. Gentleman knows my own feelings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-11b.158.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-11", "file": "debates2013-06-11b.xml", "sha256": "74753d40670d88dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-11b.158.3", "colnum": "158", "heading": "DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "preceding_text": "Well, it is a very good point, and the hon. Gentleman knows my own feelings. [Laughter.] No; it is important that we always get the balance right between good public health measures and not getting the accusation from both sides of being a nanny state.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-11b.158.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-11", "file": "debates2013-06-11b.xml", "sha256": "74753d40670d88dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-11b.171.2", "colnum": "171", "heading": "DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "There are two things that I would say. First, I am always anxious to reach consensus with colleagues in Wales, but it takes two to make a consensus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-11b.171.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-11", "file": "debates2013-06-11b.xml", "sha256": "74753d40670d88dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-11b.233.1", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Children and Families Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sharon Hodgson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sharon Hodgson", "preceding_text": "ot having the time to identify and support children with special educational needs, nursery age children having scheduled toilet breaks and long afternoon naps, and children being made to sit still at desks for so long that tennis balls had to be fixed to their chair legs so that they did not make a noise when they fidgeted. This is not what anyone with an understanding of child development—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-11b.233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-11", "file": "debates2013-06-11b.xml", "sha256": "74753d40670d88dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-11b.234.1", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Children and Families Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sharon Hodgson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sharon Hodgson", "preceding_text": "Yes, the French system is of a lower quality. That comes out in the OECD ratings of its nurseries, which are lower than those of the British system. When people meet French nursery providers, they are often asked about our system. French nursery providers look to emulate our model and cannot understand why we look to emulate their systems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-11b.234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-11", "file": "debates2013-06-11b.xml", "sha256": "74753d40670d88dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-11b.236.0", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Children and Families Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dan Rogerson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Rogerson", "preceding_text": "ot being proposed, it is utterly pointless to say we have to have a vote on them now. We could have all sorts of amendments to stop things that are not being proposed by the Government—an amendment to prevent child care from taking place outdoors in the rain, for example—but that is pointless. We all know what this is about. It is about the Opposition, as they are entitled to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-11b.236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-11", "file": "debates2013-06-11b.xml", "sha256": "74753d40670d88dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-11b.236.0", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Children and Families Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dan Rogerson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Rogerson", "preceding_text": "kind of victory or try to drive a wedge between the two Government parties. That is what Opposition parties do, so that is absolutely fine, but there is no need to vote for amendments to stop something that the Government are not proposing. I will be disappointing the Opposition Front-Bench team, therefore. Liberal Democrats policy is clear. We are not convinced that the ratio change is necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-11b.236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-11", "file": "debates2013-06-11b.xml", "sha256": "74753d40670d88dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-11b.306.2", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Children and Families Bill", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "ortunity to discuss other European issues tomorrow. I welcome the fact that we are having so many discussions about Europe on the Floor of the House. That takes me to my first point, which is how much I agree with the hon. Member for North East Somerset about how important it is that we discuss such issues on the Floor of the House, even though the attendance is not quite what we would have liked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-11b.306.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-12", "file": "debates2013-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "965930587eee87da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.334.1", "colnum": "334", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "First, it is worth announcing to the House what today’s unemployment figures show. They show that employment—the number of people in work in this country—is going up, that unemployment is going down, and that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-12", "file": "debates2013-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "965930587eee87da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.334.3", "colnum": "334", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " remembering that while he was Energy Secretary, sitting in the Cabinet, the economy got smaller—it shrank month after month after month. Under this Government, there are 1.25 million more private sector jobs and there has been good growth in private sector employment this year. That is what is happening. Of course living standards are under pressure. That is why we are freezing council tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.334.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-12", "file": "debates2013-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "965930587eee87da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.334.3", "colnum": "334", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "inet, the economy got smaller—it shrank month after month after month. Under this Government, there are 1.25 million more private sector jobs and there has been good growth in private sector employment this year. That is what is happening. Of course living standards are under pressure. That is why we are freezing council tax. [ Interruption. ] The shadow Chancellor is shouting away, as ever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.334.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-12", "file": "debates2013-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "965930587eee87da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "There is no answer from the Prime Minister on the living standards crisis that is facing families up and down the country. It is no wonder what his side is saying about him. This is what the hon. Member for North West Leicestershire (Andrew Bridgen) wrote about him at the weekend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-12", "file": "debates2013-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "965930587eee87da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": " know that Government Members do not want to hear it, but he said: “It’s like being in an aeroplane. The pilot doesn’t know how to land it. We can either do something about it…or sit back, watch the in-flight movies and wait for the inevitable.” I could not have put it better myself about this Prime Minister. The reality is that day in, day out, what people see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-12", "file": "debates2013-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "965930587eee87da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.336.0", "colnum": "336", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Richard Graham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Graham", "preceding_text": "As a former pensions manager I was proud that this Government introduced a new triple lock formula—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-12", "file": "debates2013-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "965930587eee87da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.336.6", "colnum": "336", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Julian Huppert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Huppert", "preceding_text": "This is national carers week. Will the Prime Minister join me in paying tribute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.336.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-12", "file": "debates2013-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "965930587eee87da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.337.5", "colnum": "337", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We see today a growth in employment, a fall in the claimant count and a fall in youth unemployment. As I have said, we are losing jobs in the public sector because we had to make cuts to it, but, most importantly of all, while we lost more than 100,000 jobs in the public sector in the past year, we gained five times as many in the private sector—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.337.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-12", "file": "debates2013-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "965930587eee87da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.338.6", "colnum": "338", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jim Dowd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Dowd", "preceding_text": "tual property Minister, that horny-handed son of toil, the fifth Viscount Younger of Leckie, recently told the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, in relation to Google, that “I am very aware of their power…I am also very aware…that they have access, for whatever reason, to higher levels than me in No. 10”. Is that not a disgraceful comment on the way this Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.338.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-12", "file": "debates2013-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "965930587eee87da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.340.3", "colnum": "340", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "We ended the spare room subsidy because we did not think it was fair to give to people in council houses a subsidy that those in private rented accommodation did not have. There is now a question for the Labour party: if it is to have this welfare cap, will it now tell us whether it will reverse this change? Will you?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.340.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-12", "file": "debates2013-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "965930587eee87da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.361.6", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day] — Protecting Children Online", "cue_speaker": "Helen Goodman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Goodman", "preceding_text": "This is not an occasion for nit-picking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.361.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-12", "file": "debates2013-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "965930587eee87da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.362.3", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day] — Protecting Children Online", "cue_speaker": "Helen Goodman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Goodman", "preceding_text": "ustry is not helping them enough. At the moment, some still require people to download their own filters—a near-impossible task for many of us—some see it as a marketing device, and others want to give the option of filters only to new customers. At the current rate of turnover, it would be 2019 before that approach had any hope of reaching total coverage. It simply is not good enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.362.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-12", "file": "debates2013-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "965930587eee87da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.367.3", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day] — Protecting Children Online", "cue_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "preceding_text": "It is really important during this debate to make the point that everyone wants to see what we can do to minimise this harm. It is not appropriate to suggest that Ministers are not aware of the issues and do not want to act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.367.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-12", "file": "debates2013-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "965930587eee87da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.369.2", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day] — Protecting Children Online", "cue_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right to raise this issue, which she has campaigned on in this House. I pay tribute to her for the work she has done. We are introducing classification not just for music videos, but for DVDs used in schools for sex education. I will continue to have a dialogue with my hon. Friend on other appropriate measures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.369.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-12", "file": "debates2013-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "965930587eee87da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.391.3", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day] — Protecting Children Online", "cue_speaker": "Julian Huppert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Huppert", "preceding_text": " It is easy for those who know what they are doing to carry out a quick Google search and find out how to bypass any filter that they encounter, and there is no way in which we could prevent that from happening. We must therefore try to engage with people rather than introducing state control in the form of legislation to force search engines to run in a particular way, because that does not work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.391.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-12", "file": "debates2013-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "965930587eee87da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.416.1", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day] — Protecting Children Online", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "ords? The UK has received more than 500 notifications of British citizens convicted in other EU member states who need to go on the sex offenders register here at home. I am happy to give way to the Home Secretary if she will stand up and tell us whether she supports the sharing of information about sexual offences so that people can be put on the sex offenders register here. Yes or no? In or out?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-12", "file": "debates2013-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "965930587eee87da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.423.0", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day] — Protecting Children Online", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend is right. In looking at these decisions, we have to bear in mind the fact of ECJ jurisdiction, which will now be applicable to these measures but was not when they were originally established. I have to say that one of the more interesting exchanges I have seen this afternoon raised the idea of the shadow Home Secretary being tempted by my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-12", "file": "debates2013-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "965930587eee87da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day] — Protecting Children Online", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "rejoin when they exercise the opt-out. Conservative Members make a valid point about the importance the Opposition place on the European arrest warrant. In a sense, the suspicion, which might be valid, is that the Opposition would accept the other 129 measures just to keep the precious EAW, and that we believe the EAW is that important. However, we have not heard from the Opposition Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-12", "file": "debates2013-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "965930587eee87da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.441.3", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day] — Protecting Children Online", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": " the long-standing members. According to the Association of Chief Police Officers, only 29 of the 135 EU measures that are subject to the block opt-out benefit UK law enforcement at all, and of those only 13 are vital. Far from enhancing law enforcement, the vast majority of measures that the previous Government signed Britain up to were utterly pointless. That is what ACPO’s evidence means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.441.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-12", "file": "debates2013-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "965930587eee87da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day] — Protecting Children Online", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. The question is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-12a.450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-13", "file": "debates2013-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "dbd64bd0387e9b0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-13b.491.3", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "ffer? Will he will arrange for pre-legislative scrutiny, and when can we expect to see the Bill? At the Coming Year in Parliament conference on Tuesday, the hon. Member for Basildon and Billericay (Mr Baron) jumped the gun by announcing that on 5 July the first private Member’s Bill to be discussed would be the EU referendum Bill tabled by the hon. Member for Stockton South (James Wharton) .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-13b.491.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-13", "file": "debates2013-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "dbd64bd0387e9b0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-13b.508.2", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right. It is perfectly obvious that we need to ensure that we actively enforce the current legislation. Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs has set out to do so. Something like—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-13b.508.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-13", "file": "debates2013-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "dbd64bd0387e9b0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-13b.509.1", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sajid Javid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sajid Javid", "preceding_text": "this September, every customer of every bank in Britain will be able to switch their bank account from their existing bank to another one within seven days. This is real progress. We are still mopping up the huge economic mess we inherited from the Labour party. We will not take economic recovery for granted and will continue to deliver our clear plan to deal with the problems that it left behind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-13b.509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-13", "file": "debates2013-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "dbd64bd0387e9b0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-13b.512.0", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sajid Javid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sajid Javid", "preceding_text": "axpayers’ money being injected into bailing out a bank—the world’s largest banking bail-out. Let me turn to the hon. Gentleman’s four questions. First, he asked about the sequence or the terms of Stephen Hester’s departure. I am pleased to confirm to him that the Chancellor has not been directly involved in meeting with Stephen Hester prior to the announcement —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-13b.512.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-13", "file": "debates2013-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "dbd64bd0387e9b0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-13b.524.4", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Backbench Business — Iraq War (10th Anniversary)", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "Last night, I looked at the notebook that I had at the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-13b.524.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-13", "file": "debates2013-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "dbd64bd0387e9b0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-13b.526.3", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Backbench Business — Iraq War (10th Anniversary)", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "preceding_text": "rdless of the circumstances” when describing the French position on authorisation of the use of force, proponents of the war blamed France for blocking military action against Iraq, no matter what evidence emerged of a breach of resolution 1441. Tony Blair even included the selective and misleading quote in the motion in support of military action that was put to the House on 18 March 2003 .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-13b.526.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-13", "file": "debates2013-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "dbd64bd0387e9b0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-13b.528.3", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Backbench Business — Iraq War (10th Anniversary)", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "preceding_text": "Well, I have seen the evidence from Chirac and the way it was treated when it came to the Chilcot inquiry, and I think that it is perfectly plain that Chirac’s intervention was deliberate misinterpreted. The words were taken in the wrong order and made to mean something different.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-13b.528.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-13", "file": "debates2013-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "dbd64bd0387e9b0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-13b.592.0", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Backbench Business — Iraq War (10th Anniversary)", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "preceding_text": "ven that he was constrained, as he explained, by the convention preventing him from speaking before Chilcot reports. Waiting for Chilcot is like waiting for Godot. It would be helpful to have that report as soon as possible. The debate lacked a contribution from a Minister made with the same degree—or any degree, frankly—of honesty and frankness about what went wrong as other speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-13b.592.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-17", "file": "debates2013-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6ef93359bd9b36ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-17a.603.7", "colnum": "603", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "ion—rather more so than other recent Governments. Indeed, in the past six months ministerial colleagues have made nine visits to Latin America, and there have been a similar number of inward visits from the region, and of course we continue to encourage them to support us. I was particularly pleased that Stephen Harper, the Canadian Prime Minister, last week singled out the Falkland Islands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-17a.603.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-17", "file": "debates2013-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6ef93359bd9b36ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-17a.606.1", "colnum": "606", "heading": "NATO", "cue_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "Write me a letter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-17a.606.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-17", "file": "debates2013-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6ef93359bd9b36ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-17a.612.4", "colnum": "612", "heading": "NATO", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "I am glad to say that I can reassure my hon. Friend. Both the Red Arrows, the RAF aerobatic team, and the air surveillance control system will be retained at the station until at least the end of the decade, although I cannot vouch for whatever happens afterwards, because I will probably have left this place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-17a.612.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-17", "file": "debates2013-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6ef93359bd9b36ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-17a.647.2", "colnum": "647", "heading": "NATO", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. We have discussed these matters in the House before, and I sense that there is general consensus that now is the time and this is the right area to address. As this is a coalition, I want to pay particular tribute on the key area, the single tier, to my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-17a.647.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-17", "file": "debates2013-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6ef93359bd9b36ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-17a.663.2", "colnum": "663", "heading": "NATO", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Mills", "preceding_text": "It is unusual for Ministers to welcome that, given my record of moving amendments, so the Minister might want to be a little careful, before he gets too excited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-17a.663.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-17", "file": "debates2013-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6ef93359bd9b36ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-17a.675.2", "colnum": "675", "heading": "NATO", "cue_speaker": "Frank Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Field", "preceding_text": "nt. We know that at the cornerstone of the Liberal vote are the self-employed, and they will be cheering all the way to the bank because of what he has delivered them. He dresses it up in this language about putting aside unfairnesses, but the rest of the population will not think much of his definition of “fairness” because this is an unbelievable, God-given gift to the self-employed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-17a.675.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-17", "file": "debates2013-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6ef93359bd9b36ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-17a.707.3", "colnum": "707", "heading": "NATO", "cue_speaker": "Sheila Gilmore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sheila Gilmore", "preceding_text": "ork. They are precisely the people—the Secretary of State seems to think this is extremely amusing—who are likely to find themselves hit by the loss of contributory benefit and the means test that is applied. Those are the sort of households who may find that they have to use up their savings in order to get to retirement age, and they will require a means-tested pension in due course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-17a.707.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-17", "file": "debates2013-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6ef93359bd9b36ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-17a.715.2", "colnum": "715", "heading": "NATO", "cue_speaker": "Gregg McClymont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregg McClymont", "preceding_text": "er. Much of the debate centred on the pensions legacy with which we all grapple, in opposition and in government. I do not think that it is possible to understand this Bill unless we consider two consequences of the Thatcher revolution for pensions. The first is the breaking of the link with earnings, which led to enormous growth in pensioner poverty, to which pension credit was the Labour answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-17a.715.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-17", "file": "debates2013-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6ef93359bd9b36ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-17a.716.1", "colnum": "716", "heading": "NATO", "cue_speaker": "Gregg McClymont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregg McClymont", "preceding_text": " made eloquently by my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow North East (Mr Bain) . Most importantly, the Government claim that the Bill will encourage saving. I can only refer Government Members to the analysis of the hon. Member for Warrington South on the failings of the private pensions industry. The incentive to save is important, but I say again that we must look at what people are saving into.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-17a.716.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-17", "file": "debates2013-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6ef93359bd9b36ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-17a.718.5", "colnum": "718", "heading": "NATO", "cue_speaker": "Gregg McClymont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregg McClymont", "preceding_text": "explained—even more clearly than I managed—that for the Bill to work, the private pensions industry must deliver value for money for every saver. As the hon. Gentleman and Opposition Members have said, that must be the other half of this Bill. I cannot be any clearer than that. Let me return to what the Minister should do, bearing in mind that I want to give him time to wind up —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-17a.718.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-17", "file": "debates2013-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6ef93359bd9b36ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-17a.723.0", "colnum": "723", "heading": "NATO", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "ot later. The comparison with men born on the same day, therefore, is a false one. Overwhelmingly, these women will do better than a man born on the same day. The hon. Member for Banff and Buchan (Dr Whiteford) made a thoughtful speech. I was impressed with almost all of it, expect the bit when she was pressed by Scottish colleagues about independence, at which point she became shifty and evasive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-17a.723.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-17", "file": "debates2013-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6ef93359bd9b36ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-17a.724.1", "colnum": "724", "heading": "NATO", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "market. Unless we wanted NEST to become huge, we would have to have a low pot size limit to make it work, with NEST becoming the home of small lost pots. However, if we did that, we would end up with significant fragmentation. In other words, with a low pot size limit, people might have something in NEST, a few thousand pounds they can nothing with in another provider, their current pension—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-17a.724.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-18", "file": "debates2013-06-18c.xml", "sha256": "207da546e0f41f7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-18c.746.0", "colnum": "746", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "It is a cross-party matter. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and I have made the position clear, so I do not think that the right hon. Gentleman needs to look at “a senior Tory source”. There is no Tory more senior than the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-18c.746.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-18", "file": "debates2013-06-18c.xml", "sha256": "207da546e0f41f7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-18c.746.5", "colnum": "746", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "I do not know many other ways of having votes in this place on a specific issue than having a motion that talks about that issue. I was expanding on the right hon. Gentleman’s question to try to cover all eventualities. Of course we have a vote on an issue of that kind in the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-18c.746.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-18", "file": "debates2013-06-18c.xml", "sha256": "207da546e0f41f7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-18c.748.0", "colnum": "748", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend understand that the urgency of the humanitarian problem is underlined by the fact that in the camps, particularly in Jordan, rape, violence and forced marriage are commonplace, which has an impact on the economic and political stability of Jordan itself? Can he satisfy the House that his Government—our Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-18c.748.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-18", "file": "debates2013-06-18c.xml", "sha256": "207da546e0f41f7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-18c.762.0", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “ Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think I will command universal assent when I say that the Hansard writers are expert, professional public servants of unimpeachable integrity who would not be bettered in any part of the United Kingdom in any professional capacity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-18c.762.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-18", "file": "debates2013-06-18c.xml", "sha256": "207da546e0f41f7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-18c.808.0", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman was doing so well, but unfortunately the level of scaremongering undermines his whole argument. Is he really saying that there is absolutely no case for a tiny fraction, less than a tenth of one percentage point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-18c.808.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-18", "file": "debates2013-06-18c.xml", "sha256": "207da546e0f41f7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-18c.818.2", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "David Lidington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lidington", "preceding_text": "t; and further notes that there is currently no indication that these documents are going to be followed up by formal legislative proposals. I welcome this opportunity to discuss these European Commission recommendations in the House. It is now less than 12 months until the 2014 European parliamentary elections due to be held from Thursday 22 May to Sunday 25 May . This debate is therefore timely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-18c.818.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-19", "file": "debates2013-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "96830b4fdcab3297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-19a.888.3", "colnum": "888", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I will study my hon. Friend’s Bill closely. It is not the Bill that everybody might expect —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-19a.888.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-19", "file": "debates2013-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "96830b4fdcab3297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-19a.906.3", "colnum": "906", "heading": "G8", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "lieve, however, that we should be helping the Syrian national opposition. We have recognised—not just us, but America and countries across the European Union—that the opposition are legitimate spokespeople for the Syrian people. We should decry Assad—frankly, I hope the Labour party and all its allies in the Social Democratic and Labour party and elsewhere will decry Assad—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-19a.906.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-19", "file": "debates2013-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "96830b4fdcab3297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-19a.921.3", "colnum": "921", "heading": "G8", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "y so vigorously, and for that extraordinary investment. I urge Members who have not seen the giant port that is being built on the Thames estuary to go and look at it. When you are there, you think that surely this must be happening in Shanghai or Rio, but it is actually happening right here in the UK—a massive investment that will cut costs for consumers and will really benefit our country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-19a.921.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-19", "file": "debates2013-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "96830b4fdcab3297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-19a.932.2", "colnum": "932", "heading": "G8", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Wollaston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Wollaston", "preceding_text": "The public will be horrified, but probably not surprised, to hear that Ministers were leaning on the CQC not to criticise NHS hospitals. Leadership has to start at the top, so will the Secretary of State confirm that he will be fearless in standing up for whistleblowers and those protecting patients in the NHS?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-19a.932.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-19", "file": "debates2013-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "96830b4fdcab3297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-19a.932.3", "colnum": "932", "heading": "G8", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "right to say that the biggest responsibility Ministers have when faced with such tragedies to be open and transparent about the scale of the problems; otherwise, they will never be addressed. Let me put it this way: people who love the NHS and are proud of it are the people who most want to sort out these problems when they arise. That is why it is incredibly important that we are open and candid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-19a.932.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-19", "file": "debates2013-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "96830b4fdcab3297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-19a.947.3", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day] — Arts and Creative Industries", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "ay to the hon. Gentleman, so I will carry on. Britain’s creative talent is a precious natural resource and must be protected, so the Government must get off the fence and rigorously enforce intellectual property rights. The arts situation is different outside London from how it is here in the capital, so there needs to be a specific, separate focus on the English regions, Scotland and Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-19a.947.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-19", "file": "debates2013-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "96830b4fdcab3297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-19a.947.3", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day] — Arts and Creative Industries", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "ral resource and must be protected, so the Government must get off the fence and rigorously enforce intellectual property rights. The arts situation is different outside London from how it is here in the capital, so there needs to be a specific, separate focus on the English regions, Scotland and Wales. [Interruption.] Indeed, support for tax credits is important across Scotland and Wales as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-19a.947.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-19", "file": "debates2013-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "96830b4fdcab3297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-19a.952.1", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day] — Arts and Creative Industries", "cue_speaker": "Maria Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Miller", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady will know that we have done an incredible amount in that area, whether for the Youth Dance Company or the other organisations that are part of the plan we are developing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-19a.952.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-19", "file": "debates2013-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "96830b4fdcab3297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-19a.974.1", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day] — Arts and Creative Industries", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Aww!”", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. We have to reduce the time limit to five minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-19a.974.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-19", "file": "debates2013-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "96830b4fdcab3297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-19a.981.2", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day] — Arts and Creative Industries", "cue_speaker": "Eric Ollerenshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Ollerenshaw", "preceding_text": "I am pleased to follow the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent Central (Tristram Hunt) , but I must remind him that, under Labour, education and creativity were too often seen as the functions of failing schools and failing children who found strictly academic subjects to be a challenge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-19a.981.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-19", "file": "debates2013-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "96830b4fdcab3297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-19a.1010.0", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day] — Arts and Creative Industries", "cue_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "preceding_text": "ee (Luciana Berger)—about the success of culture in that city. The hon. Member for Stockton North (Alex Cunningham) spoke about the Riverside festival and made reference to the success of Gateshead. And so it goes on, from Swansea West and from Strangford, where we heard about the success of both television and film investment in Northern Ireland, and specifically about Derry or Londonderry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-19a.1010.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-19", "file": "debates2013-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "96830b4fdcab3297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-19a.1010.0", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day] — Arts and Creative Industries", "cue_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "preceding_text": "ere is the new Tate extension and the rehang, and there are Tate partners all across the country. There is the Imperial War museum in Salford, and the Imperial War museum in London is currently closed because of new galleries to commemorate world war one. There is the new extension at the Natural History museum. During all of this there is the maintenance of free admission to our national museums.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-19a.1010.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-20", "file": "debates2013-06-20b.xml", "sha256": "bdcc69f5082b0810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-20b.1037.4", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Maria Miller", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Miller", "preceding_text": "I am always happy for hon. Friends to meet the Minister responsible, and I am sure he will make that a priority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-20b.1037.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-20", "file": "debates2013-06-20b.xml", "sha256": "bdcc69f5082b0810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-20b.1057.0", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "217;s newspapers it was noted how good a round table is in enabling consensus to emerge in office meetings. The trouble is that the only round table I know that could accommodate all the Liberal Democrat knights is the one in my office, so do not tell the Deputy Prime Minister or there might be a furniture raid. The shadow Leader of the House talked about the literature in south-west London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-20b.1057.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-20", "file": "debates2013-06-20b.xml", "sha256": "bdcc69f5082b0810", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-20b.1120.0", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "East Coast Main Line Franchise", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “No!", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "preceding_text": "th a public sector ethos and a commitment to doing a very good job. I am very proud that we have people who do that, even when the things that go wrong are not their fault, but that of Network Rail. They always smile and try to explain what has happened. Nevertheless, the situation is not perfect. It is only fair to say that East Coast is the worst performing train company in terms of punctuality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-20b.1120.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-24", "file": "debates2013-06-24b.xml", "sha256": "ef84fd1cb3319170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-24b.65.1", "colnum": "65", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Face Coverings (Prohibition) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Dodds", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “South Belfast.”", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Dodds", "preceding_text": "were attacked because of their association either with security forces or with one section of the community. You cannot be cavalier about these issues because they are real. Even if it did not happen, there would certainly be the perception among those who might be willing to donate that it could.” I will go even further and quote the leader of the SDLP, the hon. Member for South Down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-24b.65.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-24", "file": "debates2013-06-24b.xml", "sha256": "ef84fd1cb3319170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-24b.69.1", "colnum": "69", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Face Coverings (Prohibition) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Dodds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Dodds", "preceding_text": "I think I am grateful for that explanation. Two things come out of it that are clear. First, the SDLP and the UUP still wanted a significantly larger Assembly, with more than 100 Members, no matter the form of the electoral process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-24b.69.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-24", "file": "debates2013-06-24b.xml", "sha256": "ef84fd1cb3319170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-24b.77.0", "colnum": "77", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Face Coverings (Prohibition) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alasdair McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alasdair McDonnell", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. For the record, I did not accuse any hon. Member. I referred to a group of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-24b.77.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-24", "file": "debates2013-06-24b.xml", "sha256": "ef84fd1cb3319170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-24b.97.3", "colnum": "97", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Face Coverings (Prohibition) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Durkan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Durkan", "preceding_text": "role of the Assembly had to be inclusive. Some of us, perhaps naively, envisaged that members of the Ministers’ own parties would challenge them and put questions to them; unfortunately, that is not what we have. Anyone looking at the Parliament channel, for example, is likely to see question time and debates, and there are more plants than at a garden centre! It is not what we wanted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-24b.97.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-24", "file": "debates2013-06-24b.xml", "sha256": "ef84fd1cb3319170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-24b.104.1", "colnum": "104", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Face Coverings (Prohibition) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Ritchie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Ritchie", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Member for East Derry for his intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-24b.104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-24", "file": "debates2013-06-24b.xml", "sha256": "ef84fd1cb3319170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-24b.105.3", "colnum": "105", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Face Coverings (Prohibition) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Ritchie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Ritchie", "preceding_text": "I accept the essence of the point of order. I acknowledge that the constituency is probably classified as Londonderry East, but my shorthand for it happens to be “East Derry”. I do not think that there is any particular difference of opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-24b.105.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-24", "file": "debates2013-06-24b.xml", "sha256": "ef84fd1cb3319170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-24b.105.3", "colnum": "105", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Face Coverings (Prohibition) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Ritchie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Ritchie", "preceding_text": "as it will be in this instance, tell me what impact this sordid U-turn had on the credibility of the Northern Ireland Office and will have on any future NIO consultations? What faith will the people of Northern Ireland have in such consultations? The NIO and the Secretary of State must never forget that she and her equivalent in the Irish Government are the custodians of the Good Friday agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-24b.105.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-24", "file": "debates2013-06-24b.xml", "sha256": "ef84fd1cb3319170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-24b.108.5", "colnum": "108", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Face Coverings (Prohibition) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Ritchie", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Oh no.”", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Ritchie", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his intervention, but I think that there have been some memory losses here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-24b.108.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-24", "file": "debates2013-06-24b.xml", "sha256": "ef84fd1cb3319170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-24b.109.2", "colnum": "109", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Face Coverings (Prohibition) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jeffrey M Donaldson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeffrey M Donaldson", "preceding_text": "It might be longer, but, considering the length of the hon. Gentleman’s speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-24b.109.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-24", "file": "debates2013-06-24b.xml", "sha256": "ef84fd1cb3319170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-24b.110.2", "colnum": "110", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Face Coverings (Prohibition) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Dodds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Dodds", "preceding_text": "Given that these points were made so strongly by the hon. Member for South Down (Ms Ritchie) , it is right that we get the facts right. As for local government, this is not ancient history. Only in the last mandate, the term of local government was extended from elections in 2009 to elections in 2011, so that instead of serving four years, councillors had six years. The SDLP did not object—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-24b.110.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-24", "file": "debates2013-06-24b.xml", "sha256": "ef84fd1cb3319170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-24b.114.0", "colnum": "114", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Face Coverings (Prohibition) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "preceding_text": "embers did later, which I think is one of the many aspects that will be discussed in Committee, for there is much business to be done there. The hon. Member for Tewkesbury (Mr Robertson) , who chairs the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee, showing his usual great respect for the House by flying in from Belfast, and probably missing his lunch, rightly paid credit to the role of the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-24b.114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-24", "file": "debates2013-06-24b.xml", "sha256": "ef84fd1cb3319170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-24b.114.0", "colnum": "114", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Face Coverings (Prohibition) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "preceding_text": "ciated. The right hon. Member for Belfast North (Mr Dodds) used an expression that we kept returning to in different forms. He talked about the stability that we take for granted. I will add that we must never take it for granted. He also introduced the role of Tony Blair. I was as delighted as the next person to hear the great former leader of our nation mentioned on the Floor of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-24b.114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-24", "file": "debates2013-06-24b.xml", "sha256": "ef84fd1cb3319170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-24b.114.0", "colnum": "114", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Face Coverings (Prohibition) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "preceding_text": "urites of his songs is entitled “Still Blessed”. May I say that his constituents are still blessed? The hon. Member for Foyle (Mark Durkan) once again revealed to us the sophisticated, cosmopolitan ambiance of Derry in referring to the “tapas Bill”. I have sat in Sandinos wondering what on earth “tapas” were—I thought they were something water came out of.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-24b.114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-24", "file": "debates2013-06-24b.xml", "sha256": "ef84fd1cb3319170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-24b.131.0", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Careers Advice in Schools", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Birtwistle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Birtwistle", "preceding_text": "My role as apprenticeship ambassador for the Government brought me to believe that we had to do this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-24b.131.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-25", "file": "debates2013-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "76a837930a1ef750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-25a.144.2", "colnum": "144", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "The business bank, which was established last year, is now making loans to the funds that will lend to small businesses, creating non-bank lending channels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-25a.144.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-25", "file": "debates2013-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "76a837930a1ef750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-25a.144.4", "colnum": "144", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "ring-fence retail banking, as he thought that that would be a better approach. We also set up a cross-party parliamentary commission to consider the ring fence, and it thinks that the ring fence is the best approach. It made a specific recommendation that we should give the regulator the power to split up a bank that had refused to comply with the ring fence, and we are giving the regulator—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-25a.144.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-25", "file": "debates2013-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "76a837930a1ef750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-25a.149.10", "colnum": "149", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "It is because of the need to deal with the cost of living that we have taken measures such as controlling increases in council tax. That is why fuel duty is lower than it was in the plans that we inherited, and why we have taken the measures that we have taken in regard to the personal allowance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-25a.149.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-25", "file": "debates2013-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "76a837930a1ef750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-25a.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "Let me tell the hon. Gentleman the appalling situation. It was an 11% budget deficit that the Opposition left us when they left office—11%. It is now going to be 7.7%. Borrowing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-25a.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-25", "file": "debates2013-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "76a837930a1ef750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-25a.162.5", "colnum": "162", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "preceding_text": "This morning, it was Labour party policy to cut pensions to spend more on welfare. We have just heard that the party now supports the triple lock. Is the Chancellor optimistic that by tea time it might support our policy on controlled welfare spending?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-25a.162.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-25", "file": "debates2013-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "76a837930a1ef750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-25a.163.4", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "er is responsible for the content, including the accuracy, of his or her answers. I know that neither the shadow Chancellor nor the Chancellor would seek to draw me into a debate on substantive matters. That would be unworthy, and neither of them is an unworthy individual. The shadow Chancellor has raised his point of order. There is an opportunity for the Chancellor to respond if he wishes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-25a.163.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-25", "file": "debates2013-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "76a837930a1ef750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-25a.165.5", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day] — Lobbying", "cue_speaker": "Jon Trickett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jon Trickett", "preceding_text": ". The subject of today’s debate could not be more important for the reputation of the House of Commons, for every single right hon. and hon. Member knows in their heart of hearts that the perceived integrity of politicians is at an all-time low. The Prime Minister’s prediction that lobbying was the “next big scandal waiting to happen” has sadly proved to be all too correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-25a.165.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-25", "file": "debates2013-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "76a837930a1ef750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-25a.168.8", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day] — Lobbying", "cue_speaker": "Jon Trickett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Patricia Hewitt?”", "preceding_speaker": "Jon Trickett", "preceding_text": "e might be quicker than others. I shall refer to an Australian gentleman. In an Ashes summer, one would have thought that the Government would be on the British side rather than that of the Australians. He shall be nameless, but he is a highly paid adviser to the Prime Minister. Reportedly, he had discussions at Chequers prior to the Queen’s Speech with the Prime Minister and the Chancellor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-25a.168.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-25", "file": "debates2013-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "76a837930a1ef750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-25a.197.0", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day] — Lobbying", "cue_speaker": "Harriett Baldwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriett Baldwin", "preceding_text": "the fact that they name the private companies which employ public affairs representatives to come and lobby on behalf of their organisations. That is an advance in terms of transparency and I should have thought that the shadow Cabinet would welcome the opportunity to show that level of transparency as well. Many of the issues being raised today are ones that we as MPs can address ourselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-25a.197.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-25", "file": "debates2013-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "76a837930a1ef750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-25a.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day] — Lobbying", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman told us earlier about the renaming of a local square, which I think is very appropriate. He also referred to something that had been mentioned earlier by the shadow Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-25a.243.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-26", "file": "debates2013-06-26b.xml", "sha256": "bae6764d84523780", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-26b.290.5", "colnum": "290", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Michael Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Moore", "preceding_text": "I recognise the issue the hon. Gentleman raises on his constituents’ behalf, and others have done similar. I am very happy to meet him to discuss it further if he wishes. However, we want to ensure that we have an arrangement that helps those with disabilities, and others, to get into the workplace in a sustainable manner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-26b.290.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-26", "file": "debates2013-06-26b.xml", "sha256": "bae6764d84523780", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-26b.293.4", "colnum": "293", "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 for infrastructure spending. Our annual infrastructure investment is £33 billion, which is £4 billion more every year than was ever achieved under Labour. Now let me give him the figures for road schemes. We are investing more in major road schemes in each of the first—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-26b.293.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-26", "file": "debates2013-06-26b.xml", "sha256": "bae6764d84523780", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-26b.294.2", "colnum": "294", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman asks for the figures on housing, so let me give him those figures. We have delivered 84,000 new affordable homes. Housing supply is at the highest level since 2008, house building is increasing at a faster rate than for more than two years and we have put in place £11 billion for housing investment. Let me ask him again the question he will not answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-26b.294.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-26", "file": "debates2013-06-26b.xml", "sha256": "bae6764d84523780", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-26b.295.1", "colnum": "295", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " discipline on spending, but on Sunday, the shadow Chancellor, on the television, having been asked five times, admitted that yes, borrowing would go up. So there we have it: they want to borrow less by borrowing more; they want to spend less by spending more; they want to cap welfare by spending more on welfare. No wonder it is not just people at Wimbledon saying, “New balls, please.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-26b.295.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-26", "file": "debates2013-06-26b.xml", "sha256": "bae6764d84523780", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-26b.297.4", "colnum": "297", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jake Berry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jake Berry", "preceding_text": "With Armed Forces day —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-26b.297.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-26", "file": "debates2013-06-26b.xml", "sha256": "bae6764d84523780", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-26b.298.3", "colnum": "298", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "end my hon. Friend for this campaign that she is fighting for openness, transparency and clarity in our NHS. She makes an important point, which is that there was a culture under the previous Government of not revealing problems in the NHS. The former Health Secretary is shaking his head, but this is what the former head of the CQC, Baroness Young, appointed by the previous Government, said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-26b.298.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-26", "file": "debates2013-06-26b.xml", "sha256": "bae6764d84523780", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-26b.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " it is falling today. The task before us today is to spell out what that means for 2015-16. Total managed expenditure will be £745 billion. To put that huge sum into context, consider this: if Government spending had been allowed to rise through this Parliament at the average rate of the last three decades, that total would have been £120 billion higher. This Government have taken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-26b.303.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-26", "file": "debates2013-06-26b.xml", "sha256": "bae6764d84523780", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-26b.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “What?”", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "ience is an investment in our future. So yes, from the next generation of jet engines to cutting-edge supercomputers, we say: keep inventing, keep delivering; this country will back you all the way. We have infrastructure and we have science, but we still need an educated work force to make it happen. Because of our ongoing reforms to our universities, they are now better funded than before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-26b.310.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-26", "file": "debates2013-06-26b.xml", "sha256": "bae6764d84523780", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-26b.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "High Speed Rail (Preparation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Patrick McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "I find the hon. Lady’s position on the issue strange. I should have thought that the Green party would welcome such investment in public railway systems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-26b.338.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-26", "file": "debates2013-06-26b.xml", "sha256": "bae6764d84523780", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-26b.422.1", "colnum": "422", "heading": "HIGH SPEED RAIL (PREPARATION) BILL (MONEY)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "ation required under the Standing Order. For the sake of clarity, I was right that the Government are responsible for the remuneration of the assessor, but the amount of remuneration will be the product of a procurement process for the necessary expertise. I hope that is accurate and completes that thought. I hope that, notwithstanding the relative obscurity of these matters, the House will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-26b.422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-26", "file": "debates2013-06-26b.xml", "sha256": "bae6764d84523780", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-26b.423.1", "colnum": "423", "heading": "HIGH SPEED RAIL (PREPARATION) BILL (MONEY)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": " the Standing Orders relating to consideration of the hybrid Bill are, to that extent, unchanged. I will double check, but I think it is transparent that the environmental statement must of necessity relate to the hybrid Bill that is the subject of consideration by the hybrid Bill Committee. To what extent it needs, of necessity, to go beyond the precise considerations of the route, I do not know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-26b.423.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-27", "file": "debates2013-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "690e095be97b1eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-27a.465.1", "colnum": "465", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "lexibility to deliver the best possible road network for the UK’s motorists. We are legislating to ensure that these reforms and this investment are guaranteed. Where our predecessors left the road network on the hard shoulder, we are bringing it into the fast lane. We are not only building the roads of the future but developing the cars of the future. This Government remain committed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-27a.465.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-27", "file": "debates2013-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "690e095be97b1eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-27a.483.5", "colnum": "483", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "There are projects and programmes announced today, including on energy and broadband, which will be of huge benefit to the hon. Gentleman’s constituents, and I hope that he would welcome them, as well as the new prison in north Wales, which his hon. Friend the Member for Ynys Môn (Albert Owen) welcomed just a moment ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-27a.483.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-27", "file": "debates2013-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "690e095be97b1eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-27a.490.0", "colnum": "490", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to hear such a curmudgeonly response to what I thought was a very positive announcement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-27a.490.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-27", "file": "debates2013-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "690e095be97b1eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-27a.493.2", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "r prices on our railways. They want to bring back smoking indoors. We want to tackle the scourge of zero-hours contracts. I am proud of our Labour Back Benchers and the work they are doing, but can the Leader of the House tell us whether he can say the same about his? This alternative agenda kicks off next week with the plan to hijack the August bank holiday and turn it into Margaret Thatcher day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-27a.493.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-27", "file": "debates2013-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "690e095be97b1eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-27a.495.0", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "#8212;13p a litre—for the average motorist. If, on the other hand, the hon. Lady wants to debate the economy on 10 July , she will have the opportunity, among other things, to debate why we are in this situation: because they doubled the debt, leaving us with the highest deficit in the OECD and £157 billion of borrowing, which we have reduced by one third to £108 billion this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-27a.495.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-27", "file": "debates2013-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "690e095be97b1eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-27a.497.2", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "or and the Prime Minister made to proceed by way of a parliamentary commission rather than a public inquiry. That is what has enabled us to reach this point at this time. I will not repeat all that I said to the shadow Leader of the House, but we should not regard two days on Report as anything other than the exception. We have allowed it more often than our predecessors did, but it must be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-27a.497.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-27", "file": "debates2013-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "690e095be97b1eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-27a.502.1", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "Oh well, sarcasm does not always read so well in Hansard . The hon. Lady will find that I said this was one of the reasons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-27a.502.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-27", "file": "debates2013-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "690e095be97b1eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-27a.536.3", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Legal Aid Reform", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "involved, I can cite those of Binyam Mohamed, Serdar Mohamed, Yunus Rahmatullah, who is still in Bagram prison, and Baha Mousa. We are talking about: people who were subject to torture in which Britain was complicit; an innocent man beaten to death by British soldiers; people who have been rendered—and still are—to other countries; people who have been handed over to our allies —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-27a.536.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-06-27", "file": "debates2013-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "690e095be97b1eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-27a.559.0", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Legal Aid Reform", "cue_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "preceding_text": "een denied access to advice in areas such as social welfare, debt, employment and housing law. There has been a 30% fall in the providers of civil legal aid and a 12% fall in the providers of criminal legal aid. None of those providers was a fat cat or ambulance chaser. It is disappointing that the Justice Secretary is not here. If he was, he would have heard 30 mini tutorials on our legal system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-06-27a.559.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-01", "file": "debates2013-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c4846cc830768cf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.602.5", "colnum": "602", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "It is proving a success, because what it is doing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.602.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-01", "file": "debates2013-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c4846cc830768cf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.611.4", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Finance Bill (Ways and Means)", "cue_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "preceding_text": "cit by what they describe as “fair and reasonable means”, in politics it is actions, not mere words, that show priorities. The same Government, in tough times and against the backdrop of falling living standards—borrowing up last year, growth continuing to flatline and drastic cuts being made to benefits for hard-working families—have decided to give millionaires a tax cut.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.611.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-01", "file": "debates2013-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c4846cc830768cf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.613.3", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Finance Bill (Ways and Means)", "cue_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentleman can contain his excitement, I am sure he will have the opportunity to develop his arguments at some stage. It is important to recognise that the Government are doing many things that Labour simply would not do. We suggested a whole range of things that the Government could do to get growth back into the economy, and I will mention some of those today. It is important, however—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.613.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-01", "file": "debates2013-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c4846cc830768cf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.613.3", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Finance Bill (Ways and Means)", "cue_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "preceding_text": "ption. ] I hear the Minister from a sedentary position say, “Borrowing more”. Is that an admission that his Government are borrowing more than they set out to do, that they have not got the deficit down as planned, and that they have not brought growth back into the economy as they promised? I would be more than happy if the Minister wished to put something on the record at this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.613.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-01", "file": "debates2013-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c4846cc830768cf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.614.3", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Finance Bill (Ways and Means)", "cue_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "preceding_text": "ourse. He has made it clear that we would look at that overall spend and see how we could allot resources more fairly. Despite the fact that the Government tried to make much of fairness in the spending review, let us look at the millionaires who will benefit from the tax cut. First, 643 bankers earn more than £1 million and the combined tax cut will be worth £34.6 million to them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.614.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-01", "file": "debates2013-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c4846cc830768cf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.615.4", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Finance Bill (Ways and Means)", "cue_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely correct. Many members of the public will not look at the Chancellor’s spending review as a success—it is not—and they will recognise that this Government have, as we said at the outset, cut too far and too fast, so that we have had all the pain and none of the gain that the Government promised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.615.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-01", "file": "debates2013-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c4846cc830768cf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.633.1", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Finance Bill (Ways and Means)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Evans", "preceding_text": "ewed. We have heard so much about it being wonderful, but we must test the theory: is it stimulating the economy, bringing money through and making work pay? We will not know unless we have a review. That is why it is so important. I hope the Minister listens. I have a lot of time for him. As I have said, I was in Committee with him: he is sensible and takes a rational view of these matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.633.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-01", "file": "debates2013-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c4846cc830768cf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.635.1", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Finance Bill (Ways and Means)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Evans", "preceding_text": "n stood up, Ronald Reagan came to mind again, as I recalled him saying to Jimmy Carter in the 1980 election campaign, “There you go again.” The person sitting tonight at their kitchen table, worrying about paying the rent, the mortgage, the gas bill or the electric bill, and watching this debate—although given the time they will probably be watching “Pointless”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-01", "file": "debates2013-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c4846cc830768cf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.636.2", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Finance Bill (Ways and Means)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Evans", "preceding_text": " when Bob Diamond came to give evidence about LIBOR and that I was in the Chamber when the Chancellor announced the investigation. I listened to it and it made me sad. It made me sad because I realised for the very first time that people do not trust anybody any more. That is the problem. It goes much deeper than economics, politics, banking or whatever. People simply do not trust others any more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.636.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-01", "file": "debates2013-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c4846cc830768cf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.636.2", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Finance Bill (Ways and Means)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Evans", "preceding_text": "t let me ask the Minister one more question. When the Treasury was considering the 5p tax cut, did it also consider a 1p tax cut for those whose earnings were below the threshold? If it did not consider that option, why did it not do so, and if it did, why did it rule it out? You are clearly champing at the bit, Mr Deputy Speaker. Perhaps you want me to wind up my speech, and I shall try to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.636.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-01", "file": "debates2013-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c4846cc830768cf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.640.2", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Finance Bill (Ways and Means)", "cue_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "preceding_text": "nt of the Lib Dems. The hon. Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale (Tim Farron) has said: “Cutting the top rate was a stupid thing to do. It probably raised up to £3bn a year. We should pledge to restore the 50p rate at the next election. It’s not enough to be fair, you have to be seen to be fair.” That has been one of the threads running through this afternoon’s debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.640.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-01", "file": "debates2013-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c4846cc830768cf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.640.2", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Finance Bill (Ways and Means)", "cue_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "preceding_text": " a mild-mannered proposal that simply seeks to have a review of the impact of this measure and to bring forward further information for the interest of hon. Members across the House. That is a reasonable and sensible thing to do, and I know that the Minister, certainly in opposition, has regularly argued for this type of review. We have heard nothing from him today to explain why, suddenly —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.640.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-01", "file": "debates2013-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c4846cc830768cf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.650.5", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Finance Bill (Ways and Means)", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "is correct, but of course there would be a banding exercise, with different bands for properties worth more than £2 million, and we would see how far that goes. That is precisely why we need the Treasury to share some of its calculations with us. I am sure that it must be more than a back-of-a-fag-packet calculation from the Exchequer Secretary. Let us do the work, publish the findings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.650.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-01", "file": "debates2013-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c4846cc830768cf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.652.0", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Finance Bill (Ways and Means)", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "That is why we must ensure that we move the issue forward and get some proper workings from the Treasury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.652.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-01", "file": "debates2013-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c4846cc830768cf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.664.1", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Finance Bill (Ways and Means)", "cue_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "preceding_text": "But only Welsh farmers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-01", "file": "debates2013-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c4846cc830768cf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.666.1", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Finance Bill (Ways and Means)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Evans", "preceding_text": "t be there. That is the wonderful thing about the Liberal Democrats: it is the only party that can support something—have the bare-faced cheek to stand up in favour of something—and then vote for the exact opposite in the Division Lobby. That is what the Liberal Democrats should remember: in the marginal seats that they need to hold on to, they will be judged on their priorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.666.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-01", "file": "debates2013-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c4846cc830768cf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.667.6", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Finance Bill (Ways and Means)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Evans", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, Mr Deputy Speaker. Much as I think the Liberal Democrats believe that the world revolves around them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.667.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-01", "file": "debates2013-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c4846cc830768cf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.671.2", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Finance Bill (Ways and Means)", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "Let me reply by echoing what was said by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions during Question Time this afternoon. For all that we hear from Labour Members about the so-called bedroom tax—the spare-room subsidy—they have given no indication that they would reverse the current Government’s policy. For all the bluster on that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.671.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-01", "file": "debates2013-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "c4846cc830768cf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Finance Bill (Ways and Means)", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "It is good to see the Minister popping up in the debates on the Finance Bill for the first time, at the eleventh hour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-01a.707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-02", "file": "debates2013-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "6bc5a4489a6b7638", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-02a.744.0", "colnum": "744", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "It is all very well for Labour Members to say that it is a mess, but we are making changes that they recommended and said were necessary. We are making a financial decision to sort out a mess they left behind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-02a.744.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-02", "file": "debates2013-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "6bc5a4489a6b7638", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-02a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "e rebate in the years ahead on the same basis that we do now. It is fair, it is right, and, unlike the previous Government, this Government will not agree to weaken it or give any part of it away. At the Council there was a particular focus on tackling youth unemployment by supporting the private sector to create jobs and tackling burdens that hold back our businesses competing in the global race.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-02a.751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-02", "file": "debates2013-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "6bc5a4489a6b7638", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-02a.755.0", "colnum": "755", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "people have used work experience, which has got many of them off benefits and into work. Our Work programme, according to the figures announced yesterday, has seen 320,000 people getting work. That makes it almost twice as successful as the flexible new deal. In terms of international comparisons, over the last year youth unemployment fell faster than in the USA, Germany, Canada, France and Italy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-02a.755.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-02", "file": "debates2013-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "6bc5a4489a6b7638", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-02a.765.3", "colnum": "765", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "in this country to find new ways to recognise what our armed forces do and all they represent. For some years in the past—this is not a political point; I think that the last Prime Minister recognised this—we did not really do enough and we were not quite sure how to show our appreciation. Armed Forces day was a good step forward and the military covenant is a good step forward —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-02a.765.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-02", "file": "debates2013-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "6bc5a4489a6b7638", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-02a.817.2", "colnum": "817", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Mel Stride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mel Stride", "preceding_text": "Given the hon. Lady’s response to my previous intervention, I wanted to clarify the issue of John Mills and his donation to the Labour party. Does she accept that his donation is a case of tax avoidance—yes or no?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-02a.817.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-02", "file": "debates2013-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "6bc5a4489a6b7638", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-02a.823.4", "colnum": "823", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Debbie Abrahams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Debbie Abrahams", "preceding_text": " Office for Budget Responsibility who said that public spending cuts wiped 1.4% off growth last year. The International Monetary Fund followed suit shortly afterwards. Should anyone wish to know how we relate to the rest of the world, we come 18th in the G20, due to our appalling economic performance. Even after the IMF revised its multiplier, the Chancellor remains steadfast. I could go on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-02a.823.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-02", "file": "debates2013-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "6bc5a4489a6b7638", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-02a.824.0", "colnum": "824", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "t plan from the Opposition, including a cut in VAT, which was the flagship of that plan. On three occasions the hon. Lady was asked whether Labour still favoured a temporary cut in VAT under the current circumstances; on three occasions that question was evaded. I will happily give her the opportunity to intervene now if she wants to provide an answer. Do the Opposition believe in cutting VAT now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-02a.824.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-02", "file": "debates2013-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "6bc5a4489a6b7638", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-02a.867.1", "colnum": "867", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "preceding_text": " pay 50p to a tax year where they pay 45p? It was completely predictable, and it was even factored into the Treasury figures in the form of behavioural changes. The perverse thing was to hear the argument, “Oh, well, we are going to move to 45p instead of 50p because more money can be raised that way. Look, we are going to encourage our mates to move all their money to save tax”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-02a.867.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-02", "file": "debates2013-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "6bc5a4489a6b7638", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-02a.870.1", "colnum": "870", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": "UK fund manager, but have them domiciled elsewhere, and that is what has happened in recent years. Such a non-UK fund could hold exactly the same equities as a UK fund, and that is happening in large numbers. It could be managed by a UK fund manager, but the investor would—by investing in a fund in Luxembourg or Ireland, for instance—not need to pay schedule 19. Why should this matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-02a.870.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-02", "file": "debates2013-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "6bc5a4489a6b7638", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-02a.887.1", "colnum": "887", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "we are still waiting for the Government’s review to come to fruition—I am happy to give way to the Minister if he wants to confirm that—and we need to see the evidence. If we feel that any changes in tax and in spending are necessary, we want to spell out clearly where we would get the resources to pay for them. The fact that the Government have ignored not just our advice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-02a.887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-02", "file": "debates2013-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "6bc5a4489a6b7638", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-02a.888.0", "colnum": "888", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "o make at least a passing reference to the importance of growth in the economy, but there was absolutely nothing, and the same goes for this Bill. The problem is not just the neglect of growth and living standards; it is the Government’s failures on borrowing and the deficit, which should be to their shame. They have been totally unable to deliver the promises they made on deficit reduction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-02a.888.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-03", "file": "debates2013-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "fabfd84ef1e5bdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-03a.908.6", "colnum": "908", "heading": "M4", "cue_speaker": "David Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Jones", "preceding_text": "No, I do not. It is clear that there have to be reductions in legal aid spend, and a consultation is ongoing. Recently, my right hon. Friend the Justice Secretary made it clear that, having listened to representations, he believed that choice is important both to clients and to solicitors, and choice will be incorporated in the final proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-03a.908.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-03", "file": "debates2013-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "fabfd84ef1e5bdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-03a.913.0", "colnum": "913", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "I am speaking for parents up and down this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-03a.913.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-03", "file": "debates2013-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "fabfd84ef1e5bdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-03a.913.3", "colnum": "913", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman goes up and down the country speaking for Len McCluskey. No wonder the former Home Secretary calls them “the party of the graveyard”. I have the press release here: “How Unite plans to change the Labour Party”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-03a.913.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-03", "file": "debates2013-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "fabfd84ef1e5bdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-03a.918.1", "colnum": "918", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Steven Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steven Baker", "preceding_text": "ay, High Wycombe Rotarians raised more than £10,000 for local under-privileged children. I feel sure the Prime Minister will join me in encouraging membership of a full range of voluntary service clubs in the community, but does he agree that those wonderful voluntary institutions stand in stark contrast to the kind of institution that would try to block-buy political influence despite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-03a.918.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-03", "file": "debates2013-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "fabfd84ef1e5bdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-03a.920.1", "colnum": "920", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr Drax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-03a.920.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-03", "file": "debates2013-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "fabfd84ef1e5bdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-03a.920.3", "colnum": "920", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The question is about a party matter. It is not a matter of Government responsibility, not a matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-03a.920.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-03", "file": "debates2013-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "fabfd84ef1e5bdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-03a.928.1", "colnum": "928", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "ions being opened and those being vacated.” It was not clear from that wording quite when the intention to distribute was, but clearly significant numbers of Members had not received a copy of the tri-service site summary by location, which is a detailed piece of information on one sheet. It was, however, apparently available to members of the media. I hope that the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-03a.928.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2013-07-03", "file": "debates2013-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "fabfd84ef1e5bdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-03a.937.0", "colnum": "937", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Kilmarnock?", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": " deliver the military capability we require and allow reservists to receive the training offer that we have set out to them today. I regret that, in some cases, that will mean that people have to travel to an Army Reserve centre in an adjoining community, but I should mention that reservists receive home-to-duty travel allowance and will therefore be reimbursed for the costs of making the journey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-03a.936.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-03", "file": "debates2013-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "fabfd84ef1e5bdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-03a.1002.7", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Rail 2020", "cue_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "preceding_text": "I will give way in a while, if I may. The Government are continuing a strategy. There are, rightly, arguments about whether the franchising process was got exactly right, but to my mind, John Major’s privatisation of the railways was one of his most significant acts. It has transformed the way in which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-03a.1002.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-03", "file": "debates2013-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "fabfd84ef1e5bdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-03a.1019.0", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Rail 2020", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "rnment have committed over £16 billion to running and expanding the network between 2014 and 2019. We are providing capacity for an extra 140,000 commuter journeys into our major cities during the morning peak. Schemes such as Crossrail, Thameslink and the northern hub cross-Manchester link will have a transforming effect. They will increase capacity and connectivity and reduce journey times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-03a.1019.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-03", "file": "debates2013-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "fabfd84ef1e5bdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-03a.1020.5", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Rail 2020", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "to the railways post-Beeching. I accept what my hon. Friend says. We are well on the way to delivering a new high-speed railway for Britain, bringing extra capacity, faster journeys and better services and changing our economic geography. I am sorry that the hon. Member for North Durham is not as enthusiastic about this exciting way of improving connectivity, journey times and increasing capacity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-03a.1020.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-03", "file": "debates2013-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "fabfd84ef1e5bdc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-03a.1035.1", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "BENEFITS AND FOOD BANKS (COUNTY DURHAM)", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "ard trajectory, so we are clearing work faster. The national target is 90%, and we hit that. In the year to date, we have hit 79.5% in Sunderland, with the figure for May being 81.4%, so we are improving. On employment and support allowance clearance rates, hon. Members will be pleased to know that in the Sunderland benefits centre, which covers County Durham, we exceed the national target of 85%.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-03a.1035.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-04", "file": "debates2013-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "a8687466106614d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-04b.1070.4", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "As far as I am aware, that should not have happened and it was an excessive use of resources for that purpose. I am sure my hon. Friends at the Department of Health and in particular its permanent secretary will want to examine precisely why that happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-04b.1070.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-04", "file": "debates2013-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "a8687466106614d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-04b.1082.1", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State keeps saying “rubbish”, but he needs to listen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-04b.1082.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-04", "file": "debates2013-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "a8687466106614d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-04b.1082.1", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State keeps saying “rubbish”, but he needs to listen— [Interruption.] I did not realise that the Minister had brought along—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-04b.1082.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-04", "file": "debates2013-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "a8687466106614d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-04b.1082.3", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. If the Secretary of State wants to say something, he should make his own statements and not heckle. Given that the Work programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-04b.1082.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-04", "file": "debates2013-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "a8687466106614d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-04b.1129.3", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Backbench Business — NATO", "cue_speaker": "John Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Spellar", "preceding_text": "No doubt in the second world war, the hon. Gentleman would have complained if he had to meet both Montgomery and Eisenhower.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-04b.1129.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-04", "file": "debates2013-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "a8687466106614d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-04b.1138.1", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Backbench Business — NATO", "cue_speaker": "John Mann", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "John Mann", "preceding_text": "kle those countries that are suggesting that they will not co-operate even with the modest proposals emanating from the G8. We need effective enforcement with, as we have heard, clear sanctions for law breaking; we need criminal sanctions; we need the collecting of fines. On the corporate structure, I suggest that raising the cost of setting up a company from the current £15 and hypoth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-04b.1138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-04", "file": "debates2013-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "a8687466106614d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-04b.1138.1", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Backbench Business — NATO", "cue_speaker": "John Mann", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "John Mann", "preceding_text": "ng of fines. On the corporate structure, I suggest that raising the cost of setting up a company from the current £15 and hypoth— [ Interruption ] —and using that money explicitly and exclusively to ensure better regulation and policing. Hon. Members know which word I mean but I will not try to spit it out; we might be here for the rest of the afternoon. Hypothecating is the word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-04b.1138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-04", "file": "debates2013-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "a8687466106614d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-04b.1145.0", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Backbench Business — NATO", "cue_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": " course the best result would be an internationally agreed set of rules, but even in the absence of that there is a great deal that Britain can and should do. First, as a number of Members have said, the UK controls 10 Crown dependencies and overseas territories, which collectively embrace over one fifth, I think, of all the world’s tax havens. Most of them have signed up in principle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-04b.1145.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-05", "file": "debates2013-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "80585a87f81e803f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1171.5", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "European Union (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. He is making his points more usefully than some of his Whips have done so far—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1171.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-05", "file": "debates2013-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "80585a87f81e803f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1171.5", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "European Union (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. He is making his points more usefully than some of his Whips have done so far— [Interruption.] but is he aware of the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1171.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-05", "file": "debates2013-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "80585a87f81e803f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1171.5", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "European Union (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "preceding_text": "ing his points more usefully than some of his Whips have done so far— [Interruption.] but is he aware of the fact— [Interruption.] Tory Members should calm down. Is the hon. Gentleman aware that 40% of UK exports go to the EU tariff free, and that business leaders in this country have said that it would be dangerously destabilising if a referendum were to go ahead. Does he think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1171.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-05", "file": "debates2013-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "80585a87f81e803f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1172.4", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "European Union (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Frank Field", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Field", "preceding_text": "When we joined the European communion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1172.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-05", "file": "debates2013-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "80585a87f81e803f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1178.2", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "European Union (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way and support his Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1178.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-05", "file": "debates2013-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "80585a87f81e803f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1180.3", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "European Union (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Wharton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Wharton", "preceding_text": "en heeded. This Bill is about making good the central promise of our democracy: that we are the servants of the people and not their masters. We want to give the people a voice. I was born in Stockton-on-Tees, a town that I am now proud to represent in this place. I am also proud to be presenting this Bill, which will give not just the people of Stockton but the people of the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1180.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-05", "file": "debates2013-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "80585a87f81e803f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1187.4", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "European Union (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More!”", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "It is kind of Opposition Members to look forward to my speech. After the speech of the shadow Foreign Secretary, that is not altogether surprising. Rarely in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1187.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-05", "file": "debates2013-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "80585a87f81e803f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1189.4", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "European Union (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "Everyone can concede of Maastricht, Amsterdam and Nice that the party in government had said that it would ratify them in the general election campaign. The Lisbon treaty is in a special category, in that there was no mandate in a general election or a referendum from the people of this country. Persisting with the Lisbon treaty with no mandate from either a general election or a referendum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1189.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-05", "file": "debates2013-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "80585a87f81e803f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1190.0", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "European Union (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister and I are in exactly the same position. Of course we will vote to stay in a successfully reformed European Union. Now perhaps the right hon. Lady will tell us how she will vote on this Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-05", "file": "debates2013-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "80585a87f81e803f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1196.2", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "European Union (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Baron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Baron", "preceding_text": "It is a point of order Madam Deputy Speaker—or I hope it is. I seek your guidance. I have been misquoted by the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1196.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-05", "file": "debates2013-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "80585a87f81e803f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1196.2", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "European Union (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Baron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Baron", "preceding_text": "It is a point of order Madam Deputy Speaker—or I hope it is. I seek your guidance. I have been misquoted by the right hon. Gentleman. [ Interruption. ] I promise the House that I have been directly misquoted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1196.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-05", "file": "debates2013-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "80585a87f81e803f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1203.5", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "European Union (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": " as Members will be aware. Before I move on, I want to congratulate the hon. Member for Stockton South (James Wharton) on introducing this measure. He was obviously enjoying himself, and if he carries on like that he will undoubtedly be punished by being promoted to the Front Bench—sooner rather than later. I also congratulate those who are really behind this proposal—and that is UKIP.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1203.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-05", "file": "debates2013-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "80585a87f81e803f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1206.2", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "European Union (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "otiations are complete. I support renegotiations, and I have always been clear about that. I am glad to hear that Bob Crow appears to have greater support from those on the Government Benches than he has from those on the Opposition Benches in some cases. Ever since he declared that he would be biting the heads off only three babies a day his popularity has increased among many Government Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1206.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-05", "file": "debates2013-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "80585a87f81e803f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1222.3", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "European Union (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Why?”", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "I agree with the hon. Gentleman. The fact is that we need to reconnect by allowing people to have their say. I am very surprised that the Liberal Democrats have changed their view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1222.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-05", "file": "debates2013-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "80585a87f81e803f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1224.0", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "European Union (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "preceding_text": "t that stage. I am afraid that that was the completely consistent position through to the general election of 2010, and it is more or less our position now. The Deputy Prime Minister has set out our position, the only difference being that in the meantime we have passed the European Union Act 2011, which rather watered down the Liberal Democrat commitment to an in/out referendum and adopted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1224.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-05", "file": "debates2013-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "80585a87f81e803f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1225.1", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "European Union (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "preceding_text": "ime Minister must have been busy running the country at that point. The consistent position the Liberal Democrats have taken is to be in favour of an in/out referendum either at a time of major, fundamental treaty change or at a time of a transfer of power, which also has to happen under treaty provisions. That is the consistent position we have taken, and that is the position we still take today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-05", "file": "debates2013-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "80585a87f81e803f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1226.3", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "European Union (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "preceding_text": "sition has flip-flopped dramatically. The position in the Conservative manifesto was enacted in the European Union Act 2011, yet within a year and a few months the Prime Minister was expounding a completely different position. Even that has changed between his speech and this Bill, because the question has changed from whether to remain in the European Union to whether to be in the European Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1226.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-05", "file": "debates2013-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "80585a87f81e803f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1227.1", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "European Union (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "preceding_text": "I do not think I had better. I am really looking forward to seeing the variety of different Conservative positions being expounded in the remainder of the debate, and if I give way to everybody —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-05", "file": "debates2013-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "80585a87f81e803f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1252.7", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "European Union (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. The Bill would amend the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 so that the last Monday in August is known as Margaret Thatcher day. Baroness Thatcher was without doubt one of the greatest Prime Ministers in living memory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-05a.1252.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-08", "file": "debates2013-07-08c.xml", "sha256": "0f15c23785f289bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-08c.21.2", "colnum": "21", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Don Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Foster", "preceding_text": "Let me repeat to the hon. Lady the information we gave earlier: we have already provided £350 million in discretionary housing payments to local councils.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-08c.21.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-08", "file": "debates2013-07-08c.xml", "sha256": "0f15c23785f289bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-08c.38.0", "colnum": "38", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "seen that we said that people should understand “place-based exemplars at a variety of scales” and “the key processes in physical geography pertaining to…weather and climate”. In fact, the draft curriculum that we published in February contained more detail on the scientific processes behind climate change than the previous national curriculum, over which he presided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-08c.38.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-08", "file": "debates2013-07-08c.xml", "sha256": "0f15c23785f289bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-08c.45.3", "colnum": "45", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Neil Carmichael", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Neil Carmichael", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State will know that the Royal Academy of Engineering has stated that we will need at least 100,000 graduates in maths and engineering to compete with the rest of the world. This is something that informed my decision to hold a festival of engineering and manufacturing in my constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-08c.45.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-08", "file": "debates2013-07-08c.xml", "sha256": "0f15c23785f289bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-08c.86.1", "colnum": "86", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "John Thurso", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Thurso", "preceding_text": "kers will be likely to be more prudent—the ring fence enables that while protecting the ordinary depositor and the payment systems. This is a long and complicated subject, as I learned over many hours, and the flow of capital from the lady who puts some money into the bank to the company that needs it to expand and grow the economy is necessarily complex. One must therefore be careful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-08c.86.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-08", "file": "debates2013-07-08c.xml", "sha256": "0f15c23785f289bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-08c.102.2", "colnum": "102", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. It is a delight to see the Leader of the House on the Front Bench to debate with me the question of the leverage ratio—I favour the pronunciation, “leaverage”—and I am happy to give way to him if he has any concerns about it. As the Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-08c.102.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-08", "file": "debates2013-07-08c.xml", "sha256": "0f15c23785f289bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-08c.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "preceding_text": "As I am sure the hon. Gentleman is aware, I was not in this place or, indeed, a member of the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-08c.127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-09", "file": "debates2013-07-09c.xml", "sha256": "e3b2ce76bb581b09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-09c.159.7", "colnum": "159", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend and think that, as on so many other matters, the vast majority of the British people would also agree with him rather than the Labour party. If Labour Members want to turn their leader’s words today into action, we are prepared to work with them and use the forthcoming party funding Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-09c.159.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-09", "file": "debates2013-07-09c.xml", "sha256": "e3b2ce76bb581b09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-09c.162.0", "colnum": "162", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "he House will agree that it is important that we give young people more opportunities to get into work. That is why we have massively expanded the number of apprenticeships that are available to young people, on a scale that dwarfs anything the previous Government had planned, and why we have made available £1 billion for the Youth Contract. I urge the hon. Lady, if she has not done so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-09c.162.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-09", "file": "debates2013-07-09c.xml", "sha256": "e3b2ce76bb581b09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-09c.189.3", "colnum": "189", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ellis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ellis", "preceding_text": "ing powers over to Europe, thanks to her decision and this Government’s decision? Secondly, is it not right that the European arrest warrant, which I have criticised in the past, is now able to be supported because her decision to make these fundamental changes will make it a totally different thing from what it is now, and people will not be able to be extradited for stealing a wheelbarrow?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-09c.189.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-09", "file": "debates2013-07-09c.xml", "sha256": "e3b2ce76bb581b09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-09c.189.4", "colnum": "189", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "n will actually be. On my hon. Friend’s first point, yes, taking the decision on the opt-out from nearly 100 measures is important. It is part of the approach that this Government have taken. The Prime Minister exercised the veto for the first time. We have committed to work on the balance of competences, and of course as the Conservative party we are committed to a much wider renegotiation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-09c.189.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-09", "file": "debates2013-07-09c.xml", "sha256": "e3b2ce76bb581b09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-09c.281.1", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Financial Services (Banking Reform) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Durkan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Durkan", "preceding_text": "n a particular project, or even a rival project, I would again have made a point of always declaring it. Of course, I was often told by civil servants, “Look, you can’t do that every time. Northern Ireland is too small a place. You can hardly walk down a street without bumping into people. You couldn’t throw a stone without hitting somebody that you know or are related to.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-09c.281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-09", "file": "debates2013-07-09c.xml", "sha256": "e3b2ce76bb581b09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-09c.296.3", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Financial Services (Banking Reform) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Naomi Long", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Naomi Long", "preceding_text": "mise to ensure that double-jobbing between MLAs and MPs will now be brought to an end. I also recognise that, as a result of discussions in the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee, the Government have moved to include within that provision Members of Dail Eireann so that TDs, too, will not be able to hold a seat in the Assembly. I think that it is right that they have done so and welcome that move.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-09c.296.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-09", "file": "debates2013-07-09c.xml", "sha256": "e3b2ce76bb581b09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-09c.320.0", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Financial Services (Banking Reform) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Penning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Penning", "preceding_text": "This part of the debate has been enhanced by the presence and knowledge of the former Secretary of State, the right hon. Member for Torfaen (Paul Murphy) . He has saved me from going through half my speech to explain how we came to 108. Clause 6 is a huge nudge to the Executive and the Assembly. As the right hon. Member for Foyle (Mark Durkan) said, there is general agreement that trying to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-09c.320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-09", "file": "debates2013-07-09c.xml", "sha256": "e3b2ce76bb581b09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-09c.337.1", "colnum": "337", "heading": "DALGETY BAY (RADIATION)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Murrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Murrison", "preceding_text": "are bound by statute, but I hope that it will not come to statute because, as I have explained, our intention is to comply with statutory authorities voluntarily, but we need to explore the methodology that has gone into their assessment and take into account the views of Public Health England, which, despite its name, is of course the adviser to the Scottish Government on radiation matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-09c.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-10", "file": "debates2013-07-10c.xml", "sha256": "4f604e59b1a38c08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.350.2", "colnum": "350", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Theresa Villiers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa Villiers", "preceding_text": "We are pressing ahead as soon as possible with our start-up loan system, which we hope will be in operation within weeks; we have already agreed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.350.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-10", "file": "debates2013-07-10c.xml", "sha256": "4f604e59b1a38c08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.351.6", "colnum": "351", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Answer the question!”", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "n interest in party funding. Let us be frank: every donation to the Conservative party is fully set out and public. Let us be clear what this real scandal is about; it is about trade union fixing of political appointments to this House, so when he gets to his feet, let us hope he addresses the 40 seats that Unite has fiddled, and let us also hope he publishes the Falkirk report and tells us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.351.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-10", "file": "debates2013-07-10c.xml", "sha256": "4f604e59b1a38c08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.352.4", "colnum": "352", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Answer!”", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "First of all, let me deal with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.352.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-10", "file": "debates2013-07-10c.xml", "sha256": "4f604e59b1a38c08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.352.4", "colnum": "352", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "First of all, let me deal with—[Hon. Members: “Answer!”] I will answer. Let me deal with 6p a week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.352.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-10", "file": "debates2013-07-10c.xml", "sha256": "4f604e59b1a38c08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.352.6", "colnum": "352", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman became leader: £8 million from Unite, £4 million from GMB and £4 million from Unison. They have bought the policies, they have bought the candidates and they bought the leader. I have long supported caps on donations. I think we should have caps on donations, and they should apply to trade unions, to businesses and to individuals, but let me say this. There is a—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.352.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-10", "file": "debates2013-07-10c.xml", "sha256": "4f604e59b1a38c08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.352.9", "colnum": "352", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "So there we have the truth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.352.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-10", "file": "debates2013-07-10c.xml", "sha256": "4f604e59b1a38c08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I think that what matters is that everything is transparent and open. Those are the rules we agreed. The right hon. Gentleman made me an offer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-10", "file": "debates2013-07-10c.xml", "sha256": "4f604e59b1a38c08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.353.4", "colnum": "353", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "I have to say that the right hon. Gentleman will have to do a lot better than that. He must answer the question on second jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.353.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-10", "file": "debates2013-07-10c.xml", "sha256": "4f604e59b1a38c08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.353.4", "colnum": "353", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "n will have to do a lot better than that. He must answer the question on second jobs— [ Interruption. ] Let me tell him and all the Members opposite that between now and the general election, they will be subject to this test: do they support second jobs, new directorships and consultancies—yes or no? That is the test. Let us try the right hon. Gentleman with another test. I say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.353.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-10", "file": "debates2013-07-10c.xml", "sha256": "4f604e59b1a38c08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.354.0", "colnum": "354", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "It is not the party of the people; it is the party of Len McCluskey. That is the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-10", "file": "debates2013-07-10c.xml", "sha256": "4f604e59b1a38c08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.354.3", "colnum": "354", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Julian Huppert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Huppert", "preceding_text": "Three quarters of a million British people suffer from heart failure, a condition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.354.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-10", "file": "debates2013-07-10c.xml", "sha256": "4f604e59b1a38c08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.356.3", "colnum": "356", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Let me make it clear that disability living allowance, the main benefit received by disabled people, is being uprated by inflation and excluded from the welfare cap. When it comes to the spare room subsidy, anyone who needs to have a carer sleeping in another bedroom is exempt from it. There is also the discretionary payment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.356.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-10", "file": "debates2013-07-10c.xml", "sha256": "4f604e59b1a38c08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.357.5", "colnum": "357", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Let me just give the hon. Gentleman the figures: £8 million from Unite; £4 million from GMB; and £4 million from Unison. The difference is this. Those donations—they buy your leader, they buy your policy, they buy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.357.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-10", "file": "debates2013-07-10c.xml", "sha256": "4f604e59b1a38c08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.360.7", "colnum": "360", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "What I say to the hon. Gentleman is that he needs to examine again this relationship between the unions and the Labour party—that is the problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.360.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-10", "file": "debates2013-07-10c.xml", "sha256": "4f604e59b1a38c08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.388.2", "colnum": "388", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "ies, I also visited a Bedouin encampment—to illustrate this point—and I met some of the Bedouin. Their original land was in the Negev desert; they have since moved into areas of the west bank. We want to see those people—this is one of the reasons we want to see the middle east peace process taken forward—have their own clear rights and their own places where they can live.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.388.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-10", "file": "debates2013-07-10c.xml", "sha256": "4f604e59b1a38c08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.401.1", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Unallotted Day] — Disabled People", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman’s leader said categorically, in terms, that Labour would not reverse the spare room subsidy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-10", "file": "debates2013-07-10c.xml", "sha256": "4f604e59b1a38c08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.402.2", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Unallotted Day] — Disabled People", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "We believe that the bedroom tax should be dropped, and dropped today, because the evidence is mounting that it is going to cost more than it saves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.402.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-10", "file": "debates2013-07-10c.xml", "sha256": "4f604e59b1a38c08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.409.4", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Unallotted Day] — Disabled People", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "The previous Government were asked to supply cumulative impact assessments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.409.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-10", "file": "debates2013-07-10c.xml", "sha256": "4f604e59b1a38c08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.433.1", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Unallotted Day] — Disabled People", "cue_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "I have certainly felt that. The Minister made an extraordinarily complacent and bland statement; he read out a speech that he was given by a civil servant as though he was seeing it for the first time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-10", "file": "debates2013-07-10c.xml", "sha256": "4f604e59b1a38c08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.440.0", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Unallotted Day] — Disabled People", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "has set down the conditions beforehand. Frankly, that is pretty unheard of. I have never come across a Minister who wants the terms of reference—the “positive arguments”, as he put it—before he engages in a discussion. Surely a Minister who is advocating a policy should be prepared to discuss it with Members and representatives of their constituents in private conversation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.440.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-10", "file": "debates2013-07-10c.xml", "sha256": "4f604e59b1a38c08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.442.1", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Unallotted Day] — Disabled People", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": " almost agree with the hon. Member for Blackpool North and Cleveleys: this is not about putting disabled people into a benefits box. I agree that the social model is the right model for disability, but we cannot have a social model if people do not know whether they can have a spare bedroom for their wheelchair or if they do not have enough food on the table because money is being taken from them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-10c.442.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-11", "file": "debates2013-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "3d5fe2e7b345fb74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-11a.564.3", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "ant to the questions that I was asked that I remind the right hon. Gentleman of what he said when he was Health Secretary. “I am disappointed,” he said, that politicians “are going around Greater Manchester undermining the clinically-led process”.—[ Official Report , 30 March 2010; Vol. 508, c. 620 .] The local medical director says that these changes will save—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-11a.564.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-12", "file": "debates2013-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "6572b1b5fddd2e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-12a.682.1", "colnum": "682", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Oh!”", "preceding_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "preceding_text": "As I have explained, there has been no change of policy at all. What we have decided to do, based on the consultation, but most importantly based on what the Australian Government have done, is to look at that evidence as it emerges. I have spoken to the Australian high commissioner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-12a.682.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-15", "file": "debates2013-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc613c0f5fec4a08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-15a.793.3", "colnum": "793", "heading": "2014 JHA Opt-out Decision", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "To find a country where there is a problem does not disprove my case. My case is that if there is good will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-15a.793.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-15", "file": "debates2013-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc613c0f5fec4a08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-15a.824.1", "colnum": "824", "heading": "2014 JHA Opt-out Decision", "cue_speaker": "James Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Clappison", "preceding_text": "said that the fact that the UK was not part of the area of freedom, security and justice was the key difference between the defunct constitutional treaty and the treaty of Lisbon. They said that a referendum was not required so that Labour could withdraw its promise to hold a referendum, which it did virtually overnight. A referendum that had been promised to the British people was then withdrawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-15a.824.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-16", "file": "debates2013-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde7f66dbf0598a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.931.0", "colnum": "931", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "Mr Speaker, it is hard for a serving Health Secretary to admit that things can go wrong in the NHS, but we know today that it is even harder for a former Health Secretary. We have heard nothing but shameful denial. The right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.931.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-16", "file": "debates2013-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde7f66dbf0598a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.933.0", "colnum": "933", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I have tried to explain the position calmly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.933.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-16", "file": "debates2013-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde7f66dbf0598a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.933.1", "colnum": "933", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "So, Mr Speaker, let me briefly take the final two points raised by the right hon. Gentleman. He says the trusts have got worse since 2010, but what does he do when I criticise the lack of progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-16", "file": "debates2013-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde7f66dbf0598a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.933.3", "colnum": "933", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "ur hospitals? He criticises me for making an unbelievable statement and states that there are no coasting hospitals, but today proves that he is wrong. What is unbelievable is his total refusal to admit that it is not just a question of coasting hospitals, but a Labour party that has coasted for too long on its reputation on the NHS. Finally, the right hon. Gentleman says that we are trying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.933.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-16", "file": "debates2013-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde7f66dbf0598a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.933.3", "colnum": "933", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": " The best way to support the NHS is not to ignore poor care, not to muzzle the CQC, not to ignore requests for public inquiries and not to ignore warnings constantly. If founding the NHS is considered Labour’s proudest achievement, today is its darkest moment as a Labour Government are exposed as caring more about their own reputation than about our most vulnerable citizens in the NHS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.933.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-16", "file": "debates2013-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde7f66dbf0598a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.934.1", "colnum": "934", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "Thankfully, the quality of Sir Bruce Keogh’s report is vastly superior to that of the statement that we heard from the Secretary of State. Is it not the case that Sir Bruce Keogh—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-16", "file": "debates2013-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde7f66dbf0598a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.934.2", "colnum": "934", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am very concerned about the fact that someone shouted something, and I think I heard a word that was unparliamentary. I did not see an individual who was responsible, and I do not know who was responsible, but I simply say to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.934.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-16", "file": "debates2013-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde7f66dbf0598a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.934.2", "colnum": "934", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "ery concerned about the fact that someone shouted something, and I think I heard a word that was unparliamentary. I did not see an individual who was responsible, and I do not know who was responsible, but I simply say to the House— [Interruption.] Order. It is no good people burbling on about whistleblowers from a sedentary position. Let us lower the temperature, and have orderly exchanges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.934.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-16", "file": "debates2013-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde7f66dbf0598a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.936.0", "colnum": "936", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "Tackling failure in our NHS is not an easy path to take, but it is the right thing to do for patients. If my hon. Friend believes that all the care problems in the NHS started in 2010, I think he is the only Member who does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.936.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-16", "file": "debates2013-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde7f66dbf0598a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.937.6", "colnum": "937", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I suspect that in a quieter moment the Secretary of State will not think this statement was his proudest moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.937.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-16", "file": "debates2013-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde7f66dbf0598a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.939.0", "colnum": "939", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "That is exactly the reason why we are introducing measures to make sure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.939.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-16", "file": "debates2013-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde7f66dbf0598a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.939.5", "colnum": "939", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Margot James", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margot James", "preceding_text": "I warmly welcome my right hon. Friend’s break with the culture of cover-up that has been so prevalent in the past. I reject absolutely the shadow Health Secretary’s claim that the Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust’s performance has deteriorated since 2010—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.939.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-16", "file": "debates2013-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde7f66dbf0598a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.940.4", "colnum": "940", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "Staffing levels are indeed one of the issues that contribute to poor care, if we get them wrong. That is why we are committed to implementing the Francis recommendations on safe staffing levels, and why, having protected and increased the NHS budget—contrary to what the shadow Secretary of State wanted—we now have 6,000 additional doctors working in the NHS.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.940.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-16", "file": "debates2013-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde7f66dbf0598a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.944.3", "colnum": "944", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Bridgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Bridgen", "preceding_text": "d unexpectedly and alone at Queen’s hospital, Burton. The Keogh review has now shown that hospital to have had a higher mortality rate than Stafford since at least 2005. Will my right hon. Friend pledge to work tirelessly to heal our NHS, so that my constituents, my friends and my relatives do not continue to die unnecessarily because of the failed policies of the previous Labour Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.944.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-16", "file": "debates2013-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde7f66dbf0598a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.944.4", "colnum": "944", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "This is the problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.944.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-16", "file": "debates2013-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde7f66dbf0598a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.948.4", "colnum": "948", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "The same assurances I have given everyone else representing a hospital with troubles: we are totally committed to sorting out those problems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.948.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-16", "file": "debates2013-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde7f66dbf0598a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.952.3", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Ian Austin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Austin", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State has said repeatedly, and just a moment ago for the final time, that Members on the Opposition Benches had not supported a culture of transparency in the NHS, yet during these questions he has heard Member after Member, including myself, saying that we supported the inquiry, we provided details to it, we arranged meetings for our constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.952.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-16", "file": "debates2013-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde7f66dbf0598a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.952.3", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Ian Austin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Austin", "preceding_text": "at Members on the Opposition Benches had not supported a culture of transparency in the NHS, yet during these questions he has heard Member after Member, including myself, saying that we supported the inquiry, we provided details to it, we arranged meetings for our constituents— [Interruption.] What advice can you provide so that he does not come here and mislead the House in this way again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.952.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-16", "file": "debates2013-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde7f66dbf0598a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.969.5", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Defence Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ooh!”", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "You know me well, Mr Deputy Speaker. Since we were serious, we have always said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.969.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-16", "file": "debates2013-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde7f66dbf0598a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.970.4", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Defence Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. We are in danger of running tomorrow’s debate today. I do not want to do that; I want to get back to the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.970.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-16", "file": "debates2013-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde7f66dbf0598a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.970.5", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Defence Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. To be fair to the hon. Member for Cheltenham (Martin Horwood) , it was impossible for him not to take the bait.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.970.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-16", "file": "debates2013-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde7f66dbf0598a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.971.1", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Defence Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "That is a kind offer from the Secretary of State, although he could have done so off his own back, and the problem is that we are running out of time for named day questions and replies. The alternative, with his permission, would be for me simply to tweet his letter. That would be quicker and I would be happy to do so if he so wishes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-16", "file": "debates2013-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde7f66dbf0598a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.981.3", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Defence Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Julian Brazier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Brazier", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend will forgive me, I will move on to the main burden of what I want to say today, which relates to reserve forces. I strongly support the measures set out in part 3.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.981.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-16", "file": "debates2013-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde7f66dbf0598a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.994.0", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Defence Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "preceding_text": "m not specifically criticising the Bill here, but it would be helpful if the Minister outlined what steps he intends to take, so that we avoid this culture and what appears to the Committee to be an unhealthy relationship between some of our senior military leadership and the defence industry is tidied up. It is easy to knock civil servants. Politicians have never lost a vote by having a go—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.994.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-16", "file": "debates2013-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde7f66dbf0598a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.998.1", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Defence Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “He is over there.”", "preceding_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "preceding_text": " to sell them naval assets to protect their oil platforms, for example. Outside the MOD we need a more sophisticated view on exports. Much scepticism has been expressed in the Chamber this afternoon about an off-the-shelf approach, but people could be very reassured by reading the White Paper produced by my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Worcestershire (Peter Luff) , who is no longer in his place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.998.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-16", "file": "debates2013-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde7f66dbf0598a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.1007.3", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Defence Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "e into government, we decided to stop that process, because not one of the aircraft was able to get an airworthiness certificate and get into the sky. The Typhoon has also been mentioned many times: an example of procuring for the last war rather than looking ahead. It is a cold war fighter plane that is unable to hit anything on the ground. Not only does it have no ground attack capability—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.1007.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-16", "file": "debates2013-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde7f66dbf0598a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.1008.4", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Defence Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "ng and stabilisation roles. I am also pleased to see that the relationship between the MOD and the Department for International Development has changed substantially since the Iraq war, when DFID was told that the war was illegal and that it was not allowed to support our military operationally. That was absolutely wrong and I was astonished that Clare Short, in a debate on Iraq, admitted to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.1008.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-16", "file": "debates2013-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde7f66dbf0598a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.1019.3", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Defence Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Emma Reynolds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emma Reynolds", "preceding_text": "nchers, such as the hon. Member for Stockton South (James Wharton) , simply do not trust their own party leader and Prime Minister to deliver on his January speech. Although the Opposition will not oppose the money resolution attached to the Bill, the Government still need to answer serious and significant questions about the expenditure implications of the Bill. The shadow Europe Minister —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.1019.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-16", "file": "debates2013-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde7f66dbf0598a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.1022.2", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Defence Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "I suspect, Mr Speaker, that you would not wish me to get into the next debate so I shall not be tempted to go down that route.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.1022.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-16", "file": "debates2013-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde7f66dbf0598a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.1030.0", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Maria Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Miller", "preceding_text": "Thank you for bringing me into order, Mr Speaker. I would like to move on to Lords amendments 41 to 44, because the Bill also introduces—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.1030.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-16", "file": "debates2013-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde7f66dbf0598a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.1035.2", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "e all want to enjoy at weddings. However, I think we have a great opportunity to celebrate both weddings and marriages—that is what the Bill is about—and that long-term loving commitment that two people want to make to each other: to put up with each other when things get tough, to look after each other through illness or old age. Being able to make that commitment is hugely important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.1035.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-16", "file": "debates2013-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde7f66dbf0598a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.1041.1", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Burrowes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Burrowes", "preceding_text": "s met with derision in some ways. One area that met with derision concerned the amendment before us, as the point was made in a considered way that we needed to clarify the word “compelled”. So I welcome the fact that we have moved on from that derision. We have moved on from the swatting away of the amendments that sought this clarification in the Commons Public Bill Committee —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.1041.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-16", "file": "debates2013-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde7f66dbf0598a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.1050.2", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Maria Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Miller", "preceding_text": "I apologise for interrupting my hon. Friend’s speech, but it is important that the House is aware that registrars do not wish to have any sort of provision. They perform a public function and they believe it is very important that they do so without any sort of dispensation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.1050.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-16", "file": "debates2013-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde7f66dbf0598a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.1050.3", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton) tells me that there is no representative body for registrars and so they were not able to give a corporate view. However, there are registrars who do not wish to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.1050.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-16", "file": "debates2013-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "cde7f66dbf0598a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.1055.1", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "It is instructive that, despite your valiant efforts, Mr Speaker, this debate has been so discursive, because very little has changed in the other place. We had long, lyrical passages from the shadow Secretary of State about the beauty of marriage, but even a cursory examination of the amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-16a.1055.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-17", "file": "debates2013-07-17b.xml", "sha256": "3de31901893508bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1085.6", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "I was in Pakistan last week, when I had the chance to meet senior members of the Government and at the provincial level. We will be —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1085.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-17", "file": "debates2013-07-17b.xml", "sha256": "3de31901893508bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1092.1", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Glyn Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Glyn Davies", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1092.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-17", "file": "debates2013-07-17b.xml", "sha256": "3de31901893508bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1093.0", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "tion had nothing to say about it. In fact, I have done a bit of checking and he has not asked a full set of questions about the economy since February, because he knows that our policies are working and Britain’s economy is mending. My hon. Friend is absolutely right that the forecast was made that we would not make up for the loss of public sector jobs with jobs in the private sector—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1093.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-17", "file": "debates2013-07-17b.xml", "sha256": "3de31901893508bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1093.3", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "That was definitely a Whip’s handout—there is no doubt about that one. Let me explain to the hon. Lady an important distinction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1093.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-17", "file": "debates2013-07-17b.xml", "sha256": "3de31901893508bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1104.3", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Laws", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Laws", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Lady for the early comments she made. I should point out that what we are talking about is on entry to school, not at a ridiculous age.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1104.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-17", "file": "debates2013-07-17b.xml", "sha256": "3de31901893508bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1119.0", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "preceding_text": "Let me make a couple of brief points. When such consultations take place, respondents with a particular health perspective usually come from the angle of reducing health harms, but many contributors who want to retain the freedom to buy a wide range of alcohol without the state telling people how to behave will come from a different angle. Secondly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-17", "file": "debates2013-07-17b.xml", "sha256": "3de31901893508bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1122.3", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "preceding_text": " will of course have some impact. Fundamentally, there are two different ways we can see politics; I say this to Opposition Front Benchers. We can either believe that the state has primacy and should impose its decisions on individuals, or say that individuals should be given some discretion about how they live their own lives. I think that individuals should be free to make some personal choices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1122.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-17", "file": "debates2013-07-17b.xml", "sha256": "3de31901893508bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1136.3", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day] — Paid Directorships and Consultancies (MPs)", "cue_speaker": "Jon Trickett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jon Trickett", "preceding_text": "As I have said many times, the problem is the public perception that when an MP is earning several hundred thousands of pounds a year from a third-party commercial operation, they will take that into account when making a decision. I do not allege that any MP has so behaved, but the public believe —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1136.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-17", "file": "debates2013-07-17b.xml", "sha256": "3de31901893508bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1137.3", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day] — Paid Directorships and Consultancies (MPs)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "e motion is trying to achieve. It does not ensure that Members spend any given amount of time working with their constituents. A paid directorship or consultancy for one or two hours a week would be ruled out by this motion, but if a Member was engaged in travelling the world, for example, to undertake speaking engagements on behalf of some other organisation, which took them away for weeks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1137.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-17", "file": "debates2013-07-17b.xml", "sha256": "3de31901893508bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1157.4", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day] — Paid Directorships and Consultancies (MPs)", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. Mr Colvile, I am not sure that quite fits with paid directorships and consultancies, so I think we will let your good duty in court go—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1157.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-17", "file": "debates2013-07-17b.xml", "sha256": "3de31901893508bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1158.4", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day] — Paid Directorships and Consultancies (MPs)", "cue_speaker": "David Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Morris", "preceding_text": "e after rule just to grab headlines. What we are debating, as ever, strikes at the hypocrisy of the Opposition. They are worried about corporate lobbyists but not trade unions. They want to complain about outside earnings even though lots of their Members are being paid by the unions. They are worried about party funding, yet Co-op remains the only company in this country to own a political party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1158.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-17", "file": "debates2013-07-17b.xml", "sha256": "3de31901893508bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1159.0", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day] — Paid Directorships and Consultancies (MPs)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "The bit that the hon. Gentleman completely leaves out of the equation when he says, “Let’s leave it to the voters,” is that the truth of the matter is that the vast majority of parliamentary seats are safe seats where, frankly, anybody could be put up as long as they were from the right political party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-17", "file": "debates2013-07-17b.xml", "sha256": "3de31901893508bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1159.5", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day] — Paid Directorships and Consultancies (MPs)", "cue_speaker": "David Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Morris", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. It is arguable, though, is it not, how many Labour Members are being subsidised by the unions? Come on, hands up—let’s see you. How many are being supported by the unions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1159.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-17", "file": "debates2013-07-17b.xml", "sha256": "3de31901893508bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1162.1", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day] — Paid Directorships and Consultancies (MPs)", "cue_speaker": "Ian Lucas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Lucas", "preceding_text": "s. They understood that being a Minister was an important part of my job as a Member of Parliament. Ministers are also Members of Parliament, and I am sure that the hon. Gentleman is not suggesting that they in any way diminish themselves as MPs by being Ministers. The key to the motion is access to MPs. I have not spoken about the hundreds of thousands of pounds that some Government Members earn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-17", "file": "debates2013-07-17b.xml", "sha256": "3de31901893508bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1162.4", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day] — Paid Directorships and Consultancies (MPs)", "cue_speaker": "Michael Dugher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Dugher", "preceding_text": "ut simply popping off to London Bridge for a few hours to do a bit of work and bemoaned the creation of a political class, which was exactly the same argument raised in 1911 when it was decided to pay MPs in the first place. The prospect of the current arrangements continuing into the future, allowing right hon. and hon. Members to earn hundreds of thousands of pounds from outside interests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1162.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-17", "file": "debates2013-07-17b.xml", "sha256": "3de31901893508bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1172.5", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day] — Paid Directorships and Consultancies (MPs)", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "ncial stress and in the teeth of opposition from the public and the professions. If the Secretary of State truly believes, as he said yesterday, that transparency is a disinfectant—he is nodding—and if he wants to show leadership from the front from today onwards, should he not now commit to publishing the risk register that accompanied the Government’s reorganisation of the NHS?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1172.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-17", "file": "debates2013-07-17b.xml", "sha256": "3de31901893508bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day] — Paid Directorships and Consultancies (MPs)", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "I will give way to the hon. Gentleman, but I hope that his intervention will not be about Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-17", "file": "debates2013-07-17b.xml", "sha256": "3de31901893508bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1174.5", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day] — Paid Directorships and Consultancies (MPs)", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": " put staff morale at rock bottom, and where are the promised benefits of this reorganisation? Clinical commissioning groups are not, as we were promised, the powerhouse of the new NHS; they are embryonic at best and anonymous at worst. Members of all parties, I am sure, write letters to CCGs that get passed to NHS England, which then either does not provide a proper answer or passes them on again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1174.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-17", "file": "debates2013-07-17b.xml", "sha256": "3de31901893508bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1175.5", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day] — Paid Directorships and Consultancies (MPs)", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "No, I want to make some more progress. As I said a moment ago, what chance do these hospitals have when they get these misleading headlines running them down when they are trying and struggling to make progress, alarming staff, alarming patients, demoralising staff and casually trading figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1175.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-17", "file": "debates2013-07-17b.xml", "sha256": "3de31901893508bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1175.5", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day] — Paid Directorships and Consultancies (MPs)", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "No, I want to make some more progress. As I said a moment ago, what chance do these hospitals have when they get these misleading headlines running them down when they are trying and struggling to make progress, alarming staff, alarming patients, demoralising staff and casually trading figures— [Interruption.] No. I will not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1175.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-17", "file": "debates2013-07-17b.xml", "sha256": "3de31901893508bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1176.3", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day] — Paid Directorships and Consultancies (MPs)", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "He seriously expects us to believe it? Why are we being told that those responsible were representatives of Conservative Central Office?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1176.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-17", "file": "debates2013-07-17b.xml", "sha256": "3de31901893508bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1176.3", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day] — Paid Directorships and Consultancies (MPs)", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "viser is out of control” defence may have worked for the Secretary of State once, but it will not work for him twice. He must take responsibility for his own advisers, and for the advisers at Conservative headquarters. We were told explicitly that that is where the briefings came from, and the Secretary of State owes the House a full answer. He owes it to the House to put that on the record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1176.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-17", "file": "debates2013-07-17b.xml", "sha256": "3de31901893508bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1178.1", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day] — Paid Directorships and Consultancies (MPs)", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "This is all part of the spin in which Government Members have been engaging in recent days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-17", "file": "debates2013-07-17b.xml", "sha256": "3de31901893508bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1180.1", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day] — Paid Directorships and Consultancies (MPs)", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": " they would rather avoid. Staffing emerged as the main concern arising from the Keogh report, but the problems go way beyond 14 trusts. The CQC says that one in 10 trusts in England does not have adequate staffing levels. Can we agree today that the staffing in all hospitals must urgently be brought back up to adequate levels, as defined by the commission, with clear benchmarks set for the future?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-17", "file": "debates2013-07-17b.xml", "sha256": "3de31901893508bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1183.2", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day] — Paid Directorships and Consultancies (MPs)", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "The motion mentions the Francis inquiry. One of this Government’s first acts on coming to power was to set up the full public inquiry into Mid Staffs that families had been denied by the right hon. Gentleman’s Government for too long. We are implementing it, and fast. That is why a new chief inspector of hospitals started work yesterday, just five months after the report was published.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1183.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-17", "file": "debates2013-07-17b.xml", "sha256": "3de31901893508bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1193.3", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day] — Paid Directorships and Consultancies (MPs)", "cue_speaker": "Charlotte Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charlotte Leslie", "preceding_text": "ere is still time, there is information that I am still seeking, and anyone can come to me with it—about the three reports that were commissioned on the 60th anniversary of the NHS. The right hon. Member for Leigh shakes his head but I would very much like to meet him to see whether he can show me the minutes of the meetings which he must have attended, at which these reports were discussed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1193.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-17", "file": "debates2013-07-17b.xml", "sha256": "3de31901893508bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1203.0", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day] — Paid Directorships and Consultancies (MPs)", "cue_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "preceding_text": " of last year all 14 of those trusts were missing this Government’s lower A and E target, yet under the previous Government all 14 were meeting our higher A and E target. Instead of getting to grips with the real causes of the A and E crisis so that they can deliver real solutions for patients, the Government have consistently sought to score political points by blaming the 2004 GP contract.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1203.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-17", "file": "debates2013-07-17b.xml", "sha256": "3de31901893508bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1221.4", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "One of the review’s assumptions is that we would wish to maintain our sovereign submarine building capability. That is the policy of the Government and it sounds as though it is the hon. Gentleman’s policy, too—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1221.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-17", "file": "debates2013-07-17b.xml", "sha256": "3de31901893508bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1231.6", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "I did not say that, actually. I said what the Defence Secretary has said—that in thinking about the new nuclear submarines, we should consider whether it would be viable to have three. That is an option worth looking at. We would then have to bring forward the successor programme for Astute. If we deleted two boats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1231.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-17", "file": "debates2013-07-17b.xml", "sha256": "3de31901893508bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1233.5", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "ocrats that the alternatives to Trident would be cheaper, but their review shows that to be complete nonsense. We were told by the Chief Secretary yesterday that the review was not about savings, but about the nuclear deterrent. In conclusion, the Liberal Democrats’ review has not only unmasked their political posturing, but reinforced the case for the policy voted for by this House in 2006.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1233.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-17", "file": "debates2013-07-17b.xml", "sha256": "3de31901893508bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1233.5", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": " I know that it is not unusual for them to look both ways and ignore the truth, but the report clearly discredits most of the things that he has said over the past few years. The alternatives review has looked at the alternatives and come forward with the conclusion that we all thought it would reach: the minimum credible nuclear deterrent for the UK is submarine-based continuous-at-sea deterrent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1233.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-17", "file": "debates2013-07-17b.xml", "sha256": "3de31901893508bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1248.0", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "preceding_text": "l authorities that would be affected, and none with the Defence Secretary, except on one occasion during the two-year process. The Chief Secretary to the Treasury does not even have a pass for Main Building, which goes to show how little credibility he had. It is worth noting that he was flanked at all times by two heavies from the Ministry of Defence to ensure that he did not stray too far—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-17", "file": "debates2013-07-17b.xml", "sha256": "3de31901893508bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1258.1", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "nd defence. One or two fundamental questions need to be asked. A nuclear weapon is not a targeted weapon. Let us imagine we set off a nuclear weapon against, say, France. Let us suppose a Conservative Government got very angry with President Hollande. They are frequently angry with the French on most matters. They have never quite forgiven them for the 100 years war or the French revolution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1258.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-17", "file": "debates2013-07-17b.xml", "sha256": "3de31901893508bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1264.1", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Gemma Doyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gemma Doyle", "preceding_text": "I am sorry; I do not have time to. [ Interruption. ] The hon. Gentleman could have put in to speak and he chose not to. We are all aware of the important job that the Barrow work force do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-17b.1264.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-18", "file": "debates2013-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "46c70d81648264c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-18a.1298.3", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Michael Fallon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Fallon", "preceding_text": "Happily, I have not fully finalised my summer plans, so I shall add to them this visit to a motorway junction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-18a.1298.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-18", "file": "debates2013-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "46c70d81648264c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-18a.1323.1", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "ehalf of her constituents, it would be appropriate to do so on the Adjournment, so perhaps she can seek that opportunity. However, I entirely share the sense of achievement that yesterday’s statement takes us to the point where we are fulfilling the coalition agreement to provide an additional £2.5 billion in support of the pupil premium for the benefit of the most disadvantaged pupils.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-18a.1323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-07-18", "file": "debates2013-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "46c70d81648264c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-18a.1346.6", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "Communities and Local Government Committee Report: Private Rented Sector", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that continuing cross-party support at least.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-07-18a.1346.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-08-29", "file": "debates2013-08-29c.xml", "sha256": "326062aee292aaa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-08-29c.1444.1", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "Syria and the Use of Chemical Weapons", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "Well, that is the Attorney-General’s view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-08-29c.1444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-08-29", "file": "debates2013-08-29c.xml", "sha256": "326062aee292aaa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-08-29c.1445.1", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "Syria and the Use of Chemical Weapons", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "It depends on the case that has been set out and the extent to which international support has been developed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-08-29c.1445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-08-29", "file": "debates2013-08-29c.xml", "sha256": "326062aee292aaa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-08-29c.1450.0", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "Syria and the Use of Chemical Weapons", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "heir case. I think we are clear that chemical weapons were used, but we will get more information on that from the inspectors. We are also pretty clear that culpability for that is likely to have been with the Assad regime, but I say to the Prime Minister and to my right hon. Friends on the Opposition Front Bench that there was also very strong evidence about what we all thought Saddam held—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-08-29c.1450.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-08-29", "file": "debates2013-08-29c.xml", "sha256": "326062aee292aaa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-08-29c.1463.1", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "Syria and the Use of Chemical Weapons", "cue_speaker": "James Arbuthnot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Arbuthnot", "preceding_text": "am certainly in a minority in this country and probably in a minority in the House in saying that I personally believed Tony Blair when he said that he believed that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. I am certainly in a minority in the country when I say that I still believe that he was telling the truth as he believed it to be, but I think that he exaggerated the influence of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-08-29c.1463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-08-29", "file": "debates2013-08-29c.xml", "sha256": "326062aee292aaa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-08-29c.1472.5", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "Syria and the Use of Chemical Weapons", "cue_speaker": "George Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Galloway", "preceding_text": "That just shows the unreliability of green-ink letters, whether they come in the post or by e-mail. I said no such thing. But the Syrian rebels definitely had sarin gas, because they were caught with it by the Turkish Government, as the last speaker, the former Government Minister said—I hope he will forgive me because I have forgotten his constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-08-29c.1472.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-08-29", "file": "debates2013-08-29c.xml", "sha256": "326062aee292aaa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-08-29c.1480.3", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "Syria and the Use of Chemical Weapons", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman’s point is, unfortunately, a very strong one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-08-29c.1480.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-08-29", "file": "debates2013-08-29c.xml", "sha256": "326062aee292aaa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-08-29c.1496.0", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Syria and the Use of Chemical Weapons", "cue_speaker": "John Baron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Baron", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is attributing motives to me, which does not do him justice. The bottom line is that we have asked the UN inspectors to go in and inspect the site. We should at least wait and see what they say when they return—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-08-29c.1496.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-08-29", "file": "debates2013-08-29c.xml", "sha256": "326062aee292aaa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-08-29c.1500.4", "colnum": "1500", "heading": "Syria and the Use of Chemical Weapons", "cue_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "preceding_text": " East (Dr Lewis) very commanding indeed. I do not support Assad or the regime. As many Members have said, it has been an appalling regime for many years. It is worth remembering that we provided many of the regime’s arms. I wonder who provided the components that make up the chemical weapons. I would not be a bit surprised if some came from this country and other countries in the west—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-08-29c.1500.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-08-29", "file": "debates2013-08-29c.xml", "sha256": "326062aee292aaa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-08-29c.1525.0", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "Syria and the Use of Chemical Weapons", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "h a very difficult issue. I find these occasions, when we have to decide what is morally right and whether or not we will kill people and whether, by killing them, we save other people in the long run, immensely difficult. I have made it clear to the Prime Minister that I have not made up my mind tonight, and that my decision will rely entirely on the summing up by the Deputy Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-08-29c.1525.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-08-29", "file": "debates2013-08-29c.xml", "sha256": "326062aee292aaa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-08-29c.1541.1", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "Syria and the Use of Chemical Weapons", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "preceding_text": "I am keen to make a little progress. Let us be candid as to why we are gathered here this evening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-08-29c.1541.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-08-29", "file": "debates2013-08-29c.xml", "sha256": "326062aee292aaa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-08-29c.1544.3", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "Syria and the Use of Chemical Weapons", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "I can be unequivocal and unambiguous; yes. The motion is very clear on this point. There will be no decision taken on any military participation on the part of the UK without a separate debate and a separate vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-08-29c.1544.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-08-29", "file": "debates2013-08-29c.xml", "sha256": "326062aee292aaa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-08-29c.1544.7", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "Syria and the Use of Chemical Weapons", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "The only decision that we envisage needing to be taken is about direct military action in an American-led operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-08-29c.1544.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-08-29", "file": "debates2013-08-29c.xml", "sha256": "326062aee292aaa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-08-29c.1545.5", "colnum": "1545", "heading": "Syria and the Use of Chemical Weapons", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "We have not been presented with any scenario—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-08-29c.1545.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-08-29", "file": "debates2013-08-29c.xml", "sha256": "326062aee292aaa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-08-29c.1551.1", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "Syria and the Use of Chemical Weapons", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Question accordingly negatived.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-08-29c.1551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-02", "file": "debates2013-09-02b.xml", "sha256": "459e2f72cb528176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-02b.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Backbench Business — Private Members’ Bills", "cue_speaker": "Dan Rogerson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Rogerson", "preceding_text": "Absolutely; the hon. Lady is quite right. Many hon. Members have visited the North Cornwall constituency, including the Prime Minister. Some Members may have seen the pictures in the national media.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-02b.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-02", "file": "debates2013-09-02b.xml", "sha256": "459e2f72cb528176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-02b.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Backbench Business — Private Members’ Bills", "cue_speaker": "Jo Swinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jo Swinson", "preceding_text": "It is up to Parliament to defend that universal service. That lies in Parliament’s power. We have protections in place through the 2011 Act because the Government recognised that that is an important service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-02b.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-02", "file": "debates2013-09-02b.xml", "sha256": "459e2f72cb528176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-02b.73.0", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Backbench Business — Private Members’ Bills", "cue_speaker": "Chris Ruane", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Ruane", "preceding_text": "Promote him to the Cabinet!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-02b.73.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-02", "file": "debates2013-09-02b.xml", "sha256": "459e2f72cb528176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-02b.75.0", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Backbench Business — Private Members’ Bills", "cue_speaker": "Steve Brine", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ooh!”", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Brine", "preceding_text": "it work. How many MPs in the House have sent a copy of the report, or an e-mail with the link, to their chief executive or leader of their local council? How many know who the cycling champion is for their area and—more importantly—what they do? I am not trying to be the lead councillor for cycling in my constituency—if I wanted to be a councillor, I could have a far easier life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-02b.75.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-02", "file": "debates2013-09-02b.xml", "sha256": "459e2f72cb528176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-02b.77.4", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Backbench Business — Private Members’ Bills", "cue_speaker": "Chris Ruane", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Ruane", "preceding_text": "I think I have lost that minute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-02b.77.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-02", "file": "debates2013-09-02b.xml", "sha256": "459e2f72cb528176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-02b.86.0", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Backbench Business — Private Members’ Bills", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Wollaston", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Wollaston", "preceding_text": "I certainly agree with that. Indeed, if hon. Members want to see evidence of how cycling makes people look 10 years younger, they only have to look at the Chief Whip.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-02b.86.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-02", "file": "debates2013-09-02b.xml", "sha256": "459e2f72cb528176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-02b.86.0", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Backbench Business — Private Members’ Bills", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Wollaston", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “He’s only 80!", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Wollaston", "preceding_text": "I certainly agree with that. Indeed, if hon. Members want to see evidence of how cycling makes people look 10 years younger, they only have to look at the Chief Whip. [ Laughter. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-02b.86.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-02", "file": "debates2013-09-02b.xml", "sha256": "459e2f72cb528176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-02b.92.3", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Backbench Business — Private Members’ Bills", "cue_speaker": "Simon Danczuk", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Withdraw!”", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Danczuk", "preceding_text": "teve Brine) , I hold local councillors in high esteem, and I have good things to say about them. There has been much talk in the report and in the Chamber about the need for political leadership on cycling, and that is exactly right. Let me now put on record something that I have never put on record before: a Liberal Democrat councillor in Rochdale has done an excellent job in championing cycling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-02b.92.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-02", "file": "debates2013-09-02b.xml", "sha256": "459e2f72cb528176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-02b.95.0", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Backbench Business — Private Members’ Bills", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": "sters, “You know you’re no longer a Minister when you get into the back of a car and it does not start.” I found myself in that situation, but at that point, when I was 30-whatever, I was not a driver. When I hit 40, I decided that I would learn to drive and I could be found driving up Barnet high road trying to do so. On my third attempt, I recently got my driving licence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-02b.95.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-02", "file": "debates2013-09-02b.xml", "sha256": "459e2f72cb528176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-02b.102.1", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Backbench Business — Private Members’ Bills", "cue_speaker": "Hugh Bayley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugh Bayley", "preceding_text": "The House has a fairly rigid dress code, and I think I inadvertently broke it earlier today because, for the first time in my career, I wore a pair of cycle clips in the Chamber. That was not because I was trying to celebrate the debate, but because I had rushed here from one of my two bicycle visits today so that I would be in time to ask my question during Defence questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-02b.102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-02", "file": "debates2013-09-02b.xml", "sha256": "459e2f72cb528176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-02b.134.3", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Business without Debate — DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Relevant document: First Report from the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Scrutiny of the draft Public Bodies (Abolition of the Registrar of Public Lending Right) Order, HC 506.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That the draft Public Bodies (Abolition of the Registrar of Public Lending Right) Order 2013, which was laid before this House on 9 May , be approved.— (Nicky Morgan .)", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-02b.134.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-03", "file": "debates2013-09-03a.xml", "sha256": "a19ecfac2f8a8d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-03a.287.2", "colnum": "287", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Amess", "preceding_text": "er had died. As she is an actress, I did not initially believe what she had said. I could not get back in time for the very moving occasion when the House paid its own tributes, so I am unashamedly using this occasion to pay my tribute to Margaret Thatcher. I would like to refer Members to a speech I gave from this very place—from where I also made my maiden speech—on 7 December 1990 .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-03a.287.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-03", "file": "debates2013-09-03b.xml", "sha256": "1d16bbd98e048d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-03b.169.3", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. As a coalition Government, we inherited a legacy of a lack of trust and confidence in our political system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-03b.169.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-03", "file": "debates2013-09-03b.xml", "sha256": "1d16bbd98e048d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-03b.170.0", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "course, come on to explain in detail how aspects of the non-party campaigning provisions will work, but let me give this assurance. We are very clear that we are in no sense seeking substantively to change the boundary between campaigning on policies and issues, which charities and other third parties do to a substantial extent, and being required to register spending for electoral purposes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-03b.170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-03", "file": "debates2013-09-03b.xml", "sha256": "1d16bbd98e048d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-03b.170.4", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I look forward to the hon. Lady having an opportunity after today’s debate to go back to her constituents to tell them that the things they are alarmed about will not happen. I am very clear and the Bill is very clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-03b.170.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-03", "file": "debates2013-09-03b.xml", "sha256": "1d16bbd98e048d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-03b.171.3", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "If Members will forgive me, I am at risk of dealing with part 2 before I have dealt with part 1. I am going to talk simply about part 1—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-03b.171.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-03", "file": "debates2013-09-03b.xml", "sha256": "1d16bbd98e048d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-03b.171.5", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "t be construed to relate to existing legislation rather than the Bill that we are bringing forward. In truth, it is the responsibility of the Charity Commission, where charities are concerned, and the Electoral Commission for all third parties, to work together to ensure the soundness of the definitions in the Bill. Frankly, they are substantively the same definitions for electoral purposes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-03b.171.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-03", "file": "debates2013-09-03b.xml", "sha256": "1d16bbd98e048d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-03b.176.5", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "We could not simply rely on the parliamentary privilege provisions because they would not extend to all the activities of Members of Parliament beyond those in this Chamber and our activities directly in relation to the House. That is why in the Bill there is, we believe, both a specific exemption in schedule 1—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-03b.176.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-03", "file": "debates2013-09-03b.xml", "sha256": "1d16bbd98e048d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-03b.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I said that I would give way a little later on. As I was saying, the Bill strengthens the existing limits on the campaign spending of third parties. We have spending limits on parties at elections. That ensures a degree of equality of arms, and we should not see it undermined by distorting activity of disproportionate expenditure by third parties. The limits we are setting —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-03b.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-03", "file": "debates2013-09-03b.xml", "sha256": "1d16bbd98e048d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-03b.183.2", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I am now 46 minutes into my speech and I am not going to give way again, because I am going to explain the remainder of the Bill’s provisions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-03b.183.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-03", "file": "debates2013-09-03b.xml", "sha256": "1d16bbd98e048d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-03b.207.5", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Anne Main", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Main", "preceding_text": "bers—and, ultimately, made freedom of information requests. I discovered in a parliamentary answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Hertsmere (Mr Clappison) that my right hon. Friend the Member for Chipping Barnet (Mrs Villiers) , the then Transport Minister, admitted to having had a private luncheon meeting with the lead lobbyist for Helioslough, the developer, just after the refusal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-03b.207.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-03", "file": "debates2013-09-03b.xml", "sha256": "1d16bbd98e048d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-03b.215.1", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen McPartland", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen McPartland", "preceding_text": "out whether their activities would affect the outcome of an election and whether they are dealing with regulated expenditure. Many of those issues are already relevant today. I was asked earlier about the spending limit. Reducing the spending limit from just under £1 million to just under £400,000 is a positive step. Taking the big money out of politics is the most important thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-03b.215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-03", "file": "debates2013-09-03b.xml", "sha256": "1d16bbd98e048d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-03b.218.3", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "preceding_text": " of the Partnerships (Prosecution) (Scotland) Act 2013, because that relates to a point that is further expanded in clause 16, which addresses the statutory maximum of any penalty notices. There is a difference between Scotland and the rest of the UK in that context, and I hope Ministers will consider that. Madam Presiding Officer, in conclusion let me say I think I have made my views clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-03b.218.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-03", "file": "debates2013-09-03b.xml", "sha256": "1d16bbd98e048d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-03b.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Duddridge", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “It is.”", "preceding_speaker": "James Duddridge", "preceding_text": "gues have said that lobbying is an important function. It is, but we need to draw the line between open, transparent lobbying and closed, dirty lobbying that involves buying influence and lots of money. When I read through part 3, I was quite surprised, given the history of union negotiations and strikes and the importance of numbers and votes, that this basic information is not already available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-03b.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-03", "file": "debates2013-09-03b.xml", "sha256": "1d16bbd98e048d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-03b.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": " that. The Bill is also absolutely right to confine itself to professional lobbyists. It is surely reasonable that when a public company—for example, Coca-Cola or Shell—has a meeting with Ministers, we know and understand that they will be promoting their own business. However, when an obscure lobbyist wanders into Downing street, we want to know who that obscure lobbyist is promoting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-03b.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-03", "file": "debates2013-09-03b.xml", "sha256": "1d16bbd98e048d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-03b.255.1", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": " perhaps three of the four or five other candidates, it might find itself in the same position. The alternative to that is that it may well just put out a list of people who support their objectives. It is just a nonsense and a mishmash. I am frankly astonished that the Liberal Democrats, who made and built up their reputation as community activists, are going along with this proposed legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-03b.255.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-03", "file": "debates2013-09-03b.xml", "sha256": "1d16bbd98e048d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-03b.263.4", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "a register of members. Not a single objection has been raised to the certification officer in the past two years on these grounds. Lobbyists are being let off the hook almost entirely by the Bill, so why are trade unions gratuitously and wantonly being screwed down to tighten a system that is already working perfectly satisfactorily, without a shred of evidence being provided to suggest otherwise?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-03b.263.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-03", "file": "debates2013-09-03b.xml", "sha256": "1d16bbd98e048d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-03b.272.3", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tom Brake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Brake", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman will know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-03b.272.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-03", "file": "debates2013-09-03b.xml", "sha256": "1d16bbd98e048d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-03b.287.2", "colnum": "287", "heading": "BARONESS THATCHER'S LEGACY", "cue_speaker": "David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Amess", "preceding_text": "er had died. As she is an actress, I did not initially believe what she had said. I could not get back in time for the very moving occasion when the House paid its own tributes, so I am unashamedly using this occasion to pay my tribute to Margaret Thatcher. I would like to refer Members to a speech I gave from this very place—from where I also made my maiden speech—on 7 December 1990 .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-03b.287.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-04", "file": "debates2013-09-04a.xml", "sha256": "229b570b30b38444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-04a.302.2", "colnum": "302", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Chloe Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chloe Smith", "preceding_text": "I understand the point that the hon. Gentleman is seeking to make. What we seek is best value for the British taxpayer and to use the British Government’s procurement spend to allow for growth as far as possible in this country. We are of course bound by certain EU procurement rules, with which I am sure he is very familiar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-04a.302.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-04", "file": "debates2013-09-04a.xml", "sha256": "229b570b30b38444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-04a.303.6", "colnum": "303", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Chloe Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Chloe Smith", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows very well that we spent a significant amount of time on this in the House yesterday and that there is more opportunity to discuss it next week. He will also know that my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House and I met charity leaders on Monday and will continue to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-04a.303.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-04", "file": "debates2013-09-04a.xml", "sha256": "229b570b30b38444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-04a.307.0", "colnum": "307", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "There is no difference across this House on the need to stand up for the innocent people of Syria. The question at issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-04a.307.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-04", "file": "debates2013-09-04a.xml", "sha256": "229b570b30b38444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-04a.319.0", "colnum": "319", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "w, there is a layered approach at Calais. Checks are done by Border Force officers, and searching by the port authorities also takes place, using equipment supplied by us. We also have contractors, who were absolutely excellent and very successful when I visited in the summer. The day I was there, one of our contractors with detector dogs had that morning found 24 people attempting to enter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-04a.319.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-04", "file": "debates2013-09-04a.xml", "sha256": "229b570b30b38444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-04a.319.0", "colnum": "319", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "day I was there, one of our contractors with detector dogs had that morning found 24 people attempting to enter— [ Interruption. ] Well, with the greatest respect, I know that labradors are intelligent, but I do not think that that labrador was aware that a Minister was arriving to observe the search for clandestine immigrants. I believe that that level of performance is sustained every day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-04a.319.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-04", "file": "debates2013-09-04a.xml", "sha256": "229b570b30b38444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-04a.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Lady looks at the NAO’s report, which it compiled specifically on this issue for the 2012-13 financial year, she will see that during that period we were meeting and exceeding our targets on class A drugs and firearms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-04a.322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-04", "file": "debates2013-09-04a.xml", "sha256": "229b570b30b38444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-04a.322.5", "colnum": "322", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "I think I explained that in my response. I am the Immigration Minister, I am responsible for these parts of the Home Office, and the Home Secretary is content for me to deal with this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-04a.322.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-04", "file": "debates2013-09-04a.xml", "sha256": "229b570b30b38444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-04a.335.3", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day] — Living Standards", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. The list of the Government’s failures could have been an awful lot longer, but we wanted a motion that would fit on the Order Paper. He talks about VAT—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-04a.335.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-04", "file": "debates2013-09-04a.xml", "sha256": "229b570b30b38444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-04a.341.2", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day] — Living Standards", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "anned, but the exploitation of far too many workers is resulting in all the power shifting to employers and not to employees. The most recent figures show that real household disposable income fell by 1.7% in the latest quarter—the biggest fall for 26 years. The Chancellor claimed that living standards were improving and that incomes were rising. We all know why he made that desperate claim.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-04a.341.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-04", "file": "debates2013-09-04a.xml", "sha256": "229b570b30b38444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-04a.345.3", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day] — Living Standards", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a very good point. Of course, it was the ordinary working people who were struggling to get by who were penalised by that change. We have not had an apology for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-04a.345.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-04", "file": "debates2013-09-04a.xml", "sha256": "229b570b30b38444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-04a.350.4", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day] — Living Standards", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": " whether it had to be that way or whether they will repeat that failure, but personally I think it was unnecessary. We all hope—no one more fervently than the Opposition—that that is behind us now and we can look forward to a recovery that can be sustained. We do not want the Government killing off this recovery like they killed off the one that they inherited from us back in May 2010.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-04a.350.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-04", "file": "debates2013-09-04a.xml", "sha256": "229b570b30b38444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-04a.356.1", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day] — Living Standards", "cue_speaker": "Russell Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Russell Brown", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentleman would eat up my time, and I am not prepared to allow that to happen. I need all the time I have got. Taking money away from the poorest, who would have spent it on the high street, is bound to have an impact on what is going on. It takes even more jobs out of the economy. Let me put the record straight on energy and fuel costs. The hon. Gentleman made a point about fuel costs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-04a.356.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-04", "file": "debates2013-09-04a.xml", "sha256": "229b570b30b38444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-04a.373.0", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day] — Living Standards", "cue_speaker": "Fiona O'Donnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona O'Donnell", "preceding_text": " The debt charity StepChange has seen a dramatic increase in the number of my constituents seeking help with debt because of problems with payday lenders—the figure went up from 10% to 28%. So I appeal to the Government to do more; they are so concerned about debt—rightly—but why are they not more concerned about unsustainable debts that so many of our constituents are taking on?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-04a.373.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-04", "file": "debates2013-09-04a.xml", "sha256": "229b570b30b38444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-04a.375.1", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day] — Living Standards", "cue_speaker": "Fiona O'Donnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona O'Donnell", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that remark. I am afraid that I have just been very unkind and tweeted that not only were there only three Opposition Members—I think it was—in the Chamber, but the Opposition Whip had fallen asleep.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-04a.375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-04", "file": "debates2013-09-04a.xml", "sha256": "229b570b30b38444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-04a.386.3", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day] — Living Standards", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "ng, an approach that would lead to higher mortgage rates and ultimately higher taxes; and a Labour party that has opposed our council tax freeze. For Opposition Members to lecture us on living standards is extraordinary. As President Obama might have said, it is the audacity of the hopeless. If we want to help hard-working people—I think we all do—it is vital that we stick to the task.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-04a.386.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-10", "file": "debates2013-09-10b.xml", "sha256": "7c62c6239711e66c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-10b.859.7", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Access to Mental Health Services", "cue_speaker": "Andrew George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew George", "preceding_text": "I support new clause 4 and the other proposals my hon. Friend has tabled. Part 2 of the Bill is still taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Following Friday’s meeting, it is clear that organisations such as the NCVO are reassured—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-10b.859.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-10", "file": "debates2013-09-10b.xml", "sha256": "7c62c6239711e66c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-10b.894.8", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Access to Mental Health Services", "cue_speaker": "Tom Brake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Brake", "preceding_text": "in what constitutes controlled expenditure for a political party and for a recognised third party is a potential gap in the regulation of spending in the UK elections, hence the intention behind clause 26. I believe that aligning the definition of controlled expenditure is a reasonable and sensible measure. However, to achieve this, the current definition of election materials needs to be revised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-10b.894.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-10", "file": "debates2013-09-10b.xml", "sha256": "7c62c6239711e66c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-10b.900.0", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Access to Mental Health Services", "cue_speaker": "Tom Brake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Brake", "preceding_text": "to everybody what we are seeking to do. We believe that that would most simply be achieved, and the greatest reassurance would be given to campaigners and to the Electoral Commission, by a reversion to the situation set out by existing legislation, which defines controlled expenditure as expenditure “which can reasonably be regarded as intended to promote or procure electoral success”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-10b.900.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-10", "file": "debates2013-09-10b.xml", "sha256": "7c62c6239711e66c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-10b.900.4", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Access to Mental Health Services", "cue_speaker": "Tom Brake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Brake", "preceding_text": "I think that we shall have to wait and see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-10b.900.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-10", "file": "debates2013-09-10b.xml", "sha256": "7c62c6239711e66c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-10b.900.4", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Access to Mental Health Services", "cue_speaker": "Tom Brake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Brake", "preceding_text": "vote. References have been made to press conferences and rallies. I know that the TUC has expressed fears that it will not be allowed to hold its rally. Our view is that the TUC would not promote parties or political candidates at the rally—especially given what is happening at the TUC conference today, where it could almost be argued that the TUC is supporting anything but the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-10b.900.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-10", "file": "debates2013-09-10b.xml", "sha256": "7c62c6239711e66c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-10b.940.2", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Access to Mental Health Services", "cue_speaker": "Tom Brake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Brake", "preceding_text": "Committee listed a range of organisations that he said gave evidence to his Committee. I asked him whether any of them had told him in their evidence that the Government’s proposed cap of £390,000 would affect their ability to campaign politically during the next general election, and he did not respond. I suspect that he did not respond because none of them intended to spend that much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-10b.940.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-11", "file": "debates2013-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "4eab563bb06fb66a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.963.5", "colnum": "963", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Iain Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Stewart", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend share my concern that should a separate Scotland become a member state of the EU, a condition of membership will be an obligation to join the euro, with the further risk that that would expose Scotland to being part of a future bail-out of eurozone members?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.963.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-11", "file": "debates2013-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "4eab563bb06fb66a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.967.2", "colnum": "967", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "David Mundell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "David Mundell", "preceding_text": "I know that the people of Scotland are not buttoned up the back. They understand that the Scottish Government and the SNP say one thing in private and another thing in public. In private, John Swinney has made it absolutely clear that the affordability of pensions would be a serious issue in an independent Scotland. That is a fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.967.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-11", "file": "debates2013-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "4eab563bb06fb66a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.969.1", "colnum": "969", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hooray!”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "I join the Prime Minister in remembering the terrible events of 11 September 2001 , and especially all the British citizens who died on that day. The mindless cruelty of that attack must never be forgotten. Today, our thoughts are with the families and friends of those who died. Today’s fall in unemployment is welcome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-11", "file": "debates2013-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "4eab563bb06fb66a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.970.6", "colnum": "970", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "His speeches are so poor, as we saw yesterday, that it is difficult to know when he is finished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.970.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-11", "file": "debates2013-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "4eab563bb06fb66a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.971.2", "colnum": "971", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "ant to give maximum support to millionaires who are getting bonuses, so they give them a tax cut, but it is a different story for those who go to food banks. We know what the Government think about those who go to food banks, because the Secretary of State for Education, the right hon. Member for Surrey Heath (Michael Gove) , said that the people who go to food banks only have themselves to blame.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.971.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-11", "file": "debates2013-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "4eab563bb06fb66a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.976.7", "colnum": "976", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ople’s taxes by raising the personal allowance. That is how we can help households with their disposable income. If we listened to Labour and had more spending, more borrowing and more debt, the first things to go up would be interest rates and mortgage rates. For all the talk of the costs that families face, that increase in mortgage rates would wipe out all the hard work that we have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.976.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-11", "file": "debates2013-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "4eab563bb06fb66a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.988.4", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Medical Innovation (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Ian Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Murray", "preceding_text": " State for Business, Innovation and Skills, the hon. Member for East Dunbartonshire (Jo Swinson) , a Lib Dem Minister, shakes her head—and he is absolutely right; the Conservative party refuses point blank not only to give us any details of its membership, but to tell us how many members it has. I believe that is either because it cannot tell us or because its membership lists are deficient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.988.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-11", "file": "debates2013-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "4eab563bb06fb66a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.989.0", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Medical Innovation (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Hywel Francis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hywel Francis", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend raises some fundamental human rights issues. When I asked the Deputy Leader of the House yesterday why the Government had failed to produce a human rights memorandum, he failed to answer. Perhaps that speaks volumes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.989.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-11", "file": "debates2013-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "4eab563bb06fb66a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.989.1", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Medical Innovation (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Ian Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Murray", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We will move on to clause 37 later this afternoon, when we will address some of the issues relating to confidentiality and the European articles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.989.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-11", "file": "debates2013-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "4eab563bb06fb66a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.990.0", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Medical Innovation (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Ian Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Murray", "preceding_text": "ssing those issues in the Beecroft report, because they influence part 3 of the Bill. Perhaps Ministers, rather than chuntering from a sedentary position, might at last answer some of these questions when they come to the Dispatch Box. I was talking about the lack of suitable consultation. As far as I am aware, the Government have still not published an impact or cost assessment for part 3 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.990.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-11", "file": "debates2013-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "4eab563bb06fb66a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.1001.1", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Medical Innovation (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Ian Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Murray", "preceding_text": " the way in which part 3 has been completely rushed through, without any proper consultation or dialogue with the people who are involved. There is also no identifiable problem that will be resolved. My hon. Friend the Member for Hartlepool (Mr Wright) has just informed me that, as of 1.35 pm this afternoon, the Vote Office still did not have an impact assessment or a response to the consultation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.1001.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-11", "file": "debates2013-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "4eab563bb06fb66a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.1002.7", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Medical Innovation (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Ian Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Murray", "preceding_text": "ed Workers. That is as far as my responsibilities go in declaring such issues. If the hon. Member for Huntingdon would like a crash course on how to write amendments, I would be happy to meet him this evening. Perhaps he could then write some amendments to make the Bill better. All I would need to do is show him how to spell the word “delete”. That would certainly make the Bill better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.1002.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-11", "file": "debates2013-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "4eab563bb06fb66a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.1013.4", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Medical Innovation (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Stephen McPartland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen McPartland", "preceding_text": "I am not actually a member of trade union, and I never have been.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.1013.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-11", "file": "debates2013-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "4eab563bb06fb66a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.1016.2", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Medical Innovation (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Stephen McPartland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen McPartland", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady will be delighted to know that I read the impact assessment, so I understand that it will cost approximately 6p per member, which does not seem to be exorbitant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.1016.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-11", "file": "debates2013-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "4eab563bb06fb66a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.1029.3", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Medical Innovation (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "John Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Cryer", "preceding_text": "I am told that the hon. Member for Dover (Charlie Elphicke) regularly leads people astray—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.1029.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-11", "file": "debates2013-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "4eab563bb06fb66a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.1042.0", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Medical Innovation (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "David Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Anderson", "preceding_text": "ich the trade unions described at the time as a scabs’ charter. That was exactly what it was there for. It was there to help people to take on and undermine their own trade unions. It was a deliberate attempt by the Conservative party to undermine trade union legislation and trade union activity, and exactly the same thing is happening today. This Bill is part and parcel of that legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.1042.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-11", "file": "debates2013-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "4eab563bb06fb66a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.1050.5", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Medical Innovation (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Jo Swinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jo Swinson", "preceding_text": "I have some sympathy with the point that the hon. Lady makes. Like her, I am not a lawyer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.1050.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-11", "file": "debates2013-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "4eab563bb06fb66a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.1070.1", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Medical Innovation (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Ian Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Murray", "preceding_text": "trying to justify what is “satisfactory” and what is “not satisfactory”. The Oxford English Dictionary defines satisfactory as either “satisfying demands, expectations, or requirements; adequate” or “atoning” for one’s sins. I hope that the Liberal Democrat Minister will satisfactorily atone for her sins before the next general election —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.1070.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-11", "file": "debates2013-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "4eab563bb06fb66a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.1073.4", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Medical Innovation (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Ian Lavery", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Go on!”", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Lavery", "preceding_text": "nable opinion of the union justifies his removal, or (g) There are any other reasonable circumstances where the continuation of the assurer would be deemed inappropriate.” That is fair. If a trade union has complied with the legislation and appointed an assurer, it should be up to the trade union to get rid of the assurer in those circumstances. I could speak all day on the amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.1073.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-11", "file": "debates2013-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "4eab563bb06fb66a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.1080.0", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Medical Innovation (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Jo Swinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jo Swinson", "preceding_text": "er unions, that assurance needs to be independent if it is to be credible, which is why trade unions of more than 10,000 members must appoint a qualified independent person to provide the membership audit certificate, which will state whether, in the assurer’s opinion, the union’s systems are satisfactory in relation to compliance with the duties to maintain an accurate register—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.1080.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-11", "file": "debates2013-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "4eab563bb06fb66a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.1080.0", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Medical Innovation (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Jo Swinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jo Swinson", "preceding_text": "members must appoint a qualified independent person to provide the membership audit certificate, which will state whether, in the assurer’s opinion, the union’s systems are satisfactory in relation to compliance with the duties to maintain an accurate register— [ Interruption. ] If the hon. Member for Sheffield (Angela Smith) wants to intervene, I am happy for her to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.1080.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-11", "file": "debates2013-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "4eab563bb06fb66a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.1106.3", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Medical Innovation (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "Clause 17(1) states that “a London authority shall not exercise any power…unless they have first published a notice under this section.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.1106.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-11", "file": "debates2013-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "4eab563bb06fb66a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.1106.3", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Medical Innovation (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "Clause 17(1) states that “a London authority shall not exercise any power…unless they have first published a notice under this section.” [Interruption.] Okay, well that is what clause 17(1) says. Clause 17(2) says “unless the authorised person”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.1106.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-11", "file": "debates2013-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "4eab563bb06fb66a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.1107.1", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Medical Innovation (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": " which talks about an “authorised person”. The same issue arises about consultation and, as I have already said, I do not think that the powers in the Bill should be extended to authorised people. The same point arises from amendment 39, which will leave out subsection (3). Last but not least comes amendment 40. Clause 19 creates a new offence of unlawful use of a charging point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-11a.1107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-12", "file": "debates2013-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "fc37d0ea295a5c22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-12a.1142.6", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "The reason for the change in the timetable is the unfortunate episode with the west coast main line—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-12a.1142.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-12", "file": "debates2013-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "fc37d0ea295a5c22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-12a.1158.0", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Tom Brake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Brake", "preceding_text": "Government’s legislative programme is not light, as the hon. Lady suggests it is; in fact, it is very full. As for the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill, there was pre-legislative scrutiny in respect of the lobbying proposals, although it is correct that such scrutiny was not possible for the other aspects of the Bill. As I have stated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-12a.1158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-12", "file": "debates2013-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "fc37d0ea295a5c22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-12a.1161.0", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "wo questions. One was in relation to the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill. We have no intention of delaying Report stage. It was perfectly evident in the course of this week that the Opposition’s approach to the Bill was to talk on early groups of amendments at inordinate and absurd length in order to try to prevent scrutiny of later groups.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-12a.1161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-09-12", "file": "debates2013-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "fc37d0ea295a5c22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-12a.1223.0", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Child Protection", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "mbers, perhaps much more than I am. I am brought here as a result of a terrible and harrowing case, which has recently shocked the whole nation—the death in Coventry of Daniel Pelka. His parents, now both serving life sentences, having been convicted of murder, were living in my constituency. Let me make it clear to all my hon. Friends, two of whom I know are qualified social workers —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-09-12a.1223.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-08", "file": "debates2013-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "2a7bdc29c6377dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-08a.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "It feels like Groundhog day; we have been here before. You dragged us all here urgently in March to force us to look at a particular version of the charter, and we agreed almost unanimously. I do not know whether you have run out of sealing wax or quills or something—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-08a.50.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-09", "file": "debates2013-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "d38048278cb04e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-09a.173.3", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Coroners and Justice (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Wayne David", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wayne David", "preceding_text": "to that in a moment—but also that there has been no prior consultation with the devolved institutions or civil society. That sends out a negative message about the lack of thought and, as some might say, the less than benign intentions behind the Bill. All those points have been well made, and I thank those who have reinforced them. I will now move on to consider new clause 3 if I may—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-09a.173.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-09", "file": "debates2013-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "d38048278cb04e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-09a.199.3", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Coroners and Justice (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Tom Brake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Brake", "preceding_text": "I am aware of that, but I am equally aware that Karl Wilding, the NCVO’s director of public policy, said yesterday that it is partially happy about what the Government have done and that we have made some progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-09a.199.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-09", "file": "debates2013-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "d38048278cb04e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-09a.200.5", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Coroners and Justice (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Tom Brake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Brake", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that point. That campaign was clearly run on the basis of PPERA, which is what we are reverting to. If the Royal British Legion said, “We are endorsing a candidate who has supported our position and encourage people to vote for them,” it would be caught.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-09a.200.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-09", "file": "debates2013-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "d38048278cb04e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-09a.215.6", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Coroners and Justice (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Stephen McPartland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen McPartland", "preceding_text": "I am definitely on a list in the Whips Office, as my hon. Friend says. I would love to write to the hon. Member for Nottingham North (Mr Allen) about this. It is highly unlikely that I shall get preferment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-09a.215.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-09", "file": "debates2013-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "d38048278cb04e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-09a.246.0", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Coroners and Justice (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Angela Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Smith", "preceding_text": " Commission on the potential impact of the reduction in controlled expenditure by third parties in the context of existing limits for political parties’ spending. Clause 27 would therefore not come into force before such a report had been laid before Parliament. It is still not too late. The Government could still withdraw the Bill and enter into meaningful negotiations with the other—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-09a.246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-09", "file": "debates2013-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "d38048278cb04e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-09a.254.3", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Coroners and Justice (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "sage of the Bill we have fully exposed where those misrepresentations lie. The hon. Member for Nottingham North explained on many occasions in the course of his 190 minutes of offerings that there had not been sufficient scrutiny of the Bill. I gently say to him, however, that one does not take the moral high ground over lack of scrutiny by taking up more time than is needed to explain the issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-09a.254.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-09", "file": "debates2013-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "d38048278cb04e57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-09a.260.2", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Coroners and Justice (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Stephen McPartland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen McPartland", "preceding_text": "ed in successive stages would not have been captured by the proposed limits. Overall, we have moved the Bill in the right direction, and I am pleased that the Government Front-Bench team have listened to Back Benchers and Members of all parties. That is important, as we have tried to improve the Bill. As we have discussed many times, there is more that unites us on this Bill than divides us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-09a.260.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-10", "file": "debates2013-10-10b.xml", "sha256": "5f354f76cc52504c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-10b.287.3", "colnum": "287", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Pincher", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Aah!”", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Pincher", "preceding_text": "Regrettably I have no four-legged friend entered in the House of Commons dog show today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-10b.287.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-10", "file": "debates2013-10-10b.xml", "sha256": "5f354f76cc52504c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-10b.295.7", "colnum": "295", "heading": "CHURCH COMMISSIONERS", "cue_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Isn’t he a food bank himself?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-10b.295.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-10", "file": "debates2013-10-10b.xml", "sha256": "5f354f76cc52504c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-10b.351.5", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Adult Literacy and Numeracy", "cue_speaker": "Neil Parish", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Neil Parish", "preceding_text": " do not necessarily want to get into a debate on how the new finance will be handled. Retaining the business rates and the new homes bonus are all part of it. A system where it is shared more equally across all authorities in the future may be one answer, but I do not want to argue with all the Government’s policies. I just want them to carry on with the very sensible policies that they had.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-10b.351.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-10", "file": "debates2013-10-10b.xml", "sha256": "5f354f76cc52504c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-10b.373.0", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Adult Literacy and Numeracy", "cue_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "preceding_text": "f these things. The real cost of these cuts is not just to the bottom line of local government budgets, but to services and support that the most vulnerable in society rely upon. That cost is also felt in the impact on jobs and growth, which will stifle employment opportunities in our communities and exacerbate the existing north-south divide in terms of health, education and economic development.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-10b.373.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-10", "file": "debates2013-10-10b.xml", "sha256": "5f354f76cc52504c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-10b.373.0", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Adult Literacy and Numeracy", "cue_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "preceding_text": "ivide in terms of health, education and economic development. [Interruption.] In order for local authorities to continue their vital work, the Government must stop this relentless attack on local government. The communities that are hardest hit by the economic downturn are now being expected to shoulder the burden and pay for the failures of the coalition Government’s deficit reduction plan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-10b.373.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-14", "file": "debates2013-10-14b.xml", "sha256": "377305931a2ceb91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-14b.418.4", "colnum": "418", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Lloyd?”", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State is so out of touch he is even out of touch with his own Minister, Lloyd Freud—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-14b.418.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-14", "file": "debates2013-10-14b.xml", "sha256": "377305931a2ceb91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-14b.422.5", "colnum": "422", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "Can we please return to reality?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-14b.422.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-14", "file": "debates2013-10-14b.xml", "sha256": "377305931a2ceb91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-14b.447.1", "colnum": "447", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "David Laws", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Laws", "preceding_text": "I am happy to pursue the issue further with the hon. Lady. I have already promised a visit to Birmingham, so I am not at this stage ready to promise a visit to Shoreditch. I would, however, certainly like to engage with her on this topic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-14b.447.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-14", "file": "debates2013-10-14b.xml", "sha256": "377305931a2ceb91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-14b.453.1", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman, who not only raises a problem but proffers a solution, which it is extraordinarily generous of him to do all in one go. My own response is rather prosaic I am afraid. In the immediate term, I suggest to the hon. Gentleman—and I mean it very seriously—that he takes the matter up directly with the hon. Member for Broxbourne (Mr Walker) , the Chair of the Procedure Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-14b.453.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-14", "file": "debates2013-10-14b.xml", "sha256": "377305931a2ceb91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-14b.453.1", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": ". My own response is rather prosaic I am afraid. In the immediate term, I suggest to the hon. Gentleman—and I mean it very seriously—that he takes the matter up directly with the hon. Member for Broxbourne (Mr Walker) , the Chair of the Procedure Committee. [ Interruption. ] He says that he has already done that. I should have thought that the Procedure Committee would be dissatisfied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-14b.453.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-14", "file": "debates2013-10-14b.xml", "sha256": "377305931a2ceb91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-14b.462.3", "colnum": "462", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — National Insurance Contributions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "nd programme motion, the official Opposition are opposing the extra time on Report that the Government have volunteered. The Opposition did not request extra time, but they now argue there is not enough. As my hon. Friend the Member for Cambridge (Dr Huppert) rightly pointed out, if the Opposition succeed, the time devoted to discussing these important issues will be reduced rather than increased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-14b.462.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-14", "file": "debates2013-10-14b.xml", "sha256": "377305931a2ceb91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-14b.478.1", "colnum": "478", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — National Insurance Contributions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Diana Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Diana Johnson", "preceding_text": "he future orders. The demand for a criminal standard of proof was not actually in the Sexual Offences Act and there was some confusion therefore about the standard of proof required. The Home Office did issue guidance, which suggested a civil standard of proof—the “reasonable belief” approach. However, the courts tended to take a different approach and it was only in 2012 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-14b.478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-14", "file": "debates2013-10-14b.xml", "sha256": "377305931a2ceb91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-14b.514.0", "colnum": "514", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — National Insurance Contributions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "One of the things that I hope we do better now because of Select Committees is take time to get Bills right. We have pre-legislative scrutiny which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-14b.514.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-14", "file": "debates2013-10-14b.xml", "sha256": "377305931a2ceb91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-14b.540.7", "colnum": "540", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — National Insurance Contributions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "ember correctly, the shadow Minister quoted a cost of £1.5 million for breaches of IPNAs—allegedly; I am not quite sure where that figure comes from—but ASBO breaches cost money as well. If he wants to make a fair comparison, he ought to include that in his assessment. Let me turn to the amendments tabled by my right hon. Friend the Member for Southwark North and Bermondsey—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-14b.540.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-15", "file": "debates2013-10-15b.xml", "sha256": "f7f5e841a35eded5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-15b.607.1", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Regulation of the Private Rented Sector", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "As I said, I think it would be sensible, for the purposes of the debate and the convenience of the House, if the hon. Gentleman makes his case and I then respond to it at the end of the debate. I think that is better than pre-responding to the speech I suspect he will make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-15b.607.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-15", "file": "debates2013-10-15b.xml", "sha256": "f7f5e841a35eded5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-15b.684.2", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Regulation of the Private Rented Sector", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "I must not, because I have lots of people to try to reply to. I am sorry. I hope that I have been able to persuade Opposition Members that the approach put forward in the new clause is already provided for in the Bill. If they were minded to press it, I would invite the House to reject it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-15b.684.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-15", "file": "debates2013-10-15b.xml", "sha256": "f7f5e841a35eded5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-15b.691.3", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Regulation of the Private Rented Sector", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "I sense the hon. Lady is trying to lure me into a debate she has just had with my hon. Friend the Minister. I heard his speech, in which he replied fully to the points made by her and others. She says it is not too late, but, in practical terms, it is—we have just had a Division and have moved on to Third Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-15b.691.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-16", "file": "debates2013-10-16b.xml", "sha256": "bfac0c1225450638", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-16b.727.8", "colnum": "727", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Theresa Villiers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa Villiers", "preceding_text": "I am happy to give that assurance. I, too, welcome the setting up of an independent payments regulator, and I pay tribute to the work done by my hon. Friend and the Treasury Select Committee in bringing that about. It is crucial to the success of banking in Northern Ireland that we encourage new entrants into that market. This regulator will help to achieve that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-16b.727.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-16", "file": "debates2013-10-16b.xml", "sha256": "bfac0c1225450638", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-16b.777.0", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day] — Zero-hours Contracts", "cue_speaker": "George Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Freeman", "preceding_text": "ohn Cridland has said that if we had not had zero-hours contracts, “unemployment would have topped 3 million”. My final reason for supporting what the Government are doing is that it is working. The Government’s labour market reforms have had a stunning impact on our rate of job creation. There are 872,000 more jobs in the economy than there were at the time of the last election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-16b.777.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-21", "file": "debates2013-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "39982882c2664611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-21a.73.1", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Backbench Business — Future of the BBC", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "r accuracy in its news reporting. It may sometimes be that the BBC is not the fastest to report a story because it always waits until it has at least two people to confirm one. This afternoon, on the other hand, Wales Online, which belongs to Trinity Mirror, announced that the Prime Minister had resigned. Next to that item the website referred to “other stories” that people might like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-21a.73.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-22", "file": "debates2013-10-22b.xml", "sha256": "c07d05a830f7a051", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-22b.153.6", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "I do not think that anything further is required. The hon. Gentleman’s proffered assistance is generous in spirit but entirely unnecessary in practice. We shall leave it there for today. If there are no further points of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-22b.153.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-22", "file": "debates2013-10-22b.xml", "sha256": "c07d05a830f7a051", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-22b.182.1", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Descendants of Deceased Adopted People (Access to Information)", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "son not just for a future Labour Government, but for the present Government. When they sign procurement contracts, they must have benchmarks. I say to the Minister, however, that we do not have to wait until 2015; we can have exit checks now. He has not written back to me since his last appearance before the Select Committee, when I asked him to confirm that there were no exit checks on departure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-22b.182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-22", "file": "debates2013-10-22b.xml", "sha256": "c07d05a830f7a051", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-22b.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Descendants of Deceased Adopted People (Access to Information)", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Phillips", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Phillips", "preceding_text": "le to be a constituency MP in 2013 without those we represent, on whichever side of the House we sit, talking extensively about immigration. They do so because of the damning record of the previous Government, who effectively had open borders and let 3 million people into this country. Three times as many people entered this country between 1997 and 2010 as came here between the Conquest and 1950.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-22b.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-22", "file": "debates2013-10-22b.xml", "sha256": "c07d05a830f7a051", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-22b.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Descendants of Deceased Adopted People (Access to Information)", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Phillips", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Phillips", "preceding_text": "would stop shouting and actually listen to me and their constituents, they would learn why this is such an important issue. It is so important because of the pressure it has put on public services and because of the way the people of this country have reacted to that open border immigration policy, which has resulted in much of the tolerance for which this country is famed going out of the window.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-22b.249.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-22", "file": "debates2013-10-22b.xml", "sha256": "c07d05a830f7a051", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-22b.252.1", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Descendants of Deceased Adopted People (Access to Information)", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": ", for Brent North (Barry Gardiner) and for Slough (Fiona Mactaggart), and the hon. Member for Brent Central (Sarah Teather) , made extremely valid points on the implications of part 2. I happen to believe—the Opposition will test this in Committee—that the right of appeal is a fundamental tenet of British values. We need to deal in Committee with the fact that we are removing it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-22b.252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-22", "file": "debates2013-10-22b.xml", "sha256": "c07d05a830f7a051", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-22b.271.0", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Business without Debate", "cue_speaker": "Chris Heaton-Harris", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Heaton-Harris", "preceding_text": "asure to see other members of the Committee— the hon. Member for Luton North (Kelvin Hopkins) and my hon. Friend the Member for High Peak (Andrew Bingham) . I am sure the Minister is delighted that unfortunately my hon. Friend the Member for Stone (Mr Cash) cannot be here this evening, so I intend to fill in for him to a certain extent by taking the next 45 minutes of his life away from him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-22b.271.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-23", "file": "debates2013-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "e7b544a06f047689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-23a.293.3", "colnum": "293", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Let me answer that question directly. We need to roll back some of the green regulations and charges that are putting up bills. We all know who put them in place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-23a.293.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-23", "file": "debates2013-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "e7b544a06f047689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-23a.294.1", "colnum": "294", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ere were 17 companies in the market, now there are just six. I can help Opposition Members, because I have the briefing that Back-Bench Labour MPs have been given about their own energy policy. In case they have not read the briefing, they might want to hear it. Question 7: “what would stop the energy companies just increasing their prices beforehand?” Absolutely no answer. Question 6.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-23a.294.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-23", "file": "debates2013-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "e7b544a06f047689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-23a.299.0", "colnum": "299", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "This is an issue on which I have been repeatedly lobbied by people across the House and more broadly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-23a.299.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-28", "file": "debates2013-10-28b.xml", "sha256": "2ec356362f38c7dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-28b.684.1", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Local Audit and Accountability Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "e Secretary of State is that worried about East End Li fe, why did he not take action before coming to this House to ask for clause 38 and the extraordinary powers it contains? The Secretary of State is asking the House to give him the right, if he feels like it, to control local council publications. We have recently had a great deal of debate about the royal charter following the Leveson report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-28b.684.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-29", "file": "debates2013-10-29b.xml", "sha256": "060dd4692b36abd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-29b.788.1", "colnum": "788", "heading": "TABLE", "cue_speaker": "Gregg McClymont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregg McClymont", "preceding_text": " it reminds me of something I intended to say. The Government’s position on the pot follows member system appears to be supported only by the Government, the Minister and the ABI. First, the only pots liable for automatic transfer will be those for less than £10,000, and secondly no pots that are stranded before the date on which the legislation takes effect will count as stranded pots.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-29b.788.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-29", "file": "debates2013-10-29b.xml", "sha256": "060dd4692b36abd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-29b.789.0", "colnum": "789", "heading": "TABLE", "cue_speaker": "David Mowat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Mowat", "preceding_text": "I have just come back into the Chamber, but since the hon. Gentleman mentions the 40 Tory Members, I want to put on record the fact that as one of those 40, I was extremely happy to hear what the Minister said about the consultation, the 0.75% cap and his cognisance of the issues surrounding it. I shall therefore support the Government in any Divisions on these new clauses and amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-29b.789.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-29", "file": "debates2013-10-29b.xml", "sha256": "060dd4692b36abd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-29b.790.1", "colnum": "790", "heading": "TABLE", "cue_speaker": "Gregg McClymont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregg McClymont", "preceding_text": "as “failed”. I noted that the language used by those 40 MPs was stronger than anything I had used about the private pension market, and suggested that it is a little odd that Conservative MPs take a tougher line on the industry than the Liberal Democrat Minister. Perhaps it is not odd, however, because those who believe in free markets will want the pensions market to work effectively.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-29b.790.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-29", "file": "debates2013-10-29b.xml", "sha256": "060dd4692b36abd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-29b.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "TABLE", "cue_speaker": "Gregg McClymont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregg McClymont", "preceding_text": " under pressure to get going on reforming the private pensions market, specifically in terms of costs and charges. That was what one felt when listening to the Minister. Not only did he spend a lot of time rebutting Labour’s vision for private pensions, but he felt the need to oversell what the Government are doing. I would say he felt that need because he feels under pressure on this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-29b.792.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-30", "file": "debates2013-10-30b.xml", "sha256": "6910376a281f9021", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-30b.904.1", "colnum": "904", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Nick Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Hurd", "preceding_text": "isagree more with the hon. Gentleman. NSC is proving its value across communities. Many Opposition Members visited the programme over the summer and Opposition Front Benchers have nice words to say about it. We are determined to embed it in the youth sector and for it to be part of the landscape of programmes that try to help young people achieve their full potential. We are extremely proud of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-30b.904.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-30", "file": "debates2013-10-30b.xml", "sha256": "6910376a281f9021", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-30b.978.2", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day] — Qualified Teachers", "cue_speaker": "David Laws", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Laws", "preceding_text": "cret; it said this in the headline: “Every child should be taught by a qualified teacher.” As I say, that was in a Lib Dem press release in March, and it was reported in the Times Educational Supplement in the same month. It was commented on by the Department for Education itself, so what on earth was the shadow Schools Minister doing on that weekend of the Liberal Democrat conference?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-30b.978.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-30", "file": "debates2013-10-30b.xml", "sha256": "6910376a281f9021", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-30b.993.3", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day] — Qualified Teachers", "cue_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "preceding_text": "ve him power to do. In fact, that Act established local probation trusts, empowering them to commission services locally from whom they see fit. It was not about abolishing local probation trusts or commissioning services directly from Whitehall. My right hon. Friend the Member for Delyn (Mr Hanson) was at the time the Minister responsible for the legislation, and he knows exactly what it was for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-30b.993.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-30", "file": "debates2013-10-30b.xml", "sha256": "6910376a281f9021", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-30b.1009.0", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day] — Qualified Teachers", "cue_speaker": "Lorely Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lorely Burt", "preceding_text": "re that private companies, in particular, do not simply come along and pick the low-hanging fruit? How will we ensure that a very important Liberal Democrat principle is adhered to— [ Laughter. ] The right hon. and hon. Gentlemen on the Opposition Benches are having a laugh, as they say, but a decision on this very important principle was passed at the last Liberal Democrat conference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-30b.1009.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-30", "file": "debates2013-10-30b.xml", "sha256": "6910376a281f9021", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-30b.1030.3", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day] — Qualified Teachers", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Wright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Wright", "preceding_text": "I am confused—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-30b.1030.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-31", "file": "debates2013-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "865ffa214bde0f40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1068.6", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "I welcome the hon. Lady to the Front Bench, as I understand that this is her first outing. I do not believe that the issue of funding for the police is in any way connected with this matter, because otherwise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1068.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-31", "file": "debates2013-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "865ffa214bde0f40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1068.6", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "nected with this matter, because otherwise— [ Interruption. ] Otherwise, we would have seen a drop in the number of investigations of murder, homicide or complex fraud, and we are not seeing that. Other factors are at play, I think, including the number of historic allegations that are quite rightly coming forward and the fact that there is more encouragement of people to come forward—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1068.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-31", "file": "debates2013-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "865ffa214bde0f40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1075.3", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "ing street? The coalition agreement promised to “put a limit on the number on Special Advisers.” It has just emerged that there has been a 50% rise in the last three years, costing a record £7.2 million. The Deputy Prime Minister has 19 special advisers in his office alone, which is nearly 20% of the total. Does the Leader of the House agree that that is a complete waste of money?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1075.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-31", "file": "debates2013-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "865ffa214bde0f40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1077.0", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": ". We are getting the lowest tariffs available for customers, and doing everything we can to ensure efficiency and low costs to people, while delivering on our energy security, environmental and carbon reduction targets. The hon. Lady asked questions, perfectly reasonably, about the Bill for consideration on Friday 8 November , but that is a private Member’s Bill, not a Government Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1077.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-31", "file": "debates2013-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "865ffa214bde0f40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1077.0", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "ssue. I have not been here for the past two weeks, but it was fascinating listening to business questions and Prime Minister’s questions. Labour Members do not want to talk about employment because we have had record employment figures. They do not want to talk about the economy because figures last Friday demonstrated that the economy is growing at a faster rate than at any time since 2008.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1077.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-31", "file": "debates2013-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "865ffa214bde0f40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1082.2", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Steven Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steven Baker", "preceding_text": "When the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill returns to Parliament, will there be scope and time for a full and proper debate into the principles at stake and the circumstances that have emerged from Labour’s inquiry into the Falkirk selection process?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1082.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-31", "file": "debates2013-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "865ffa214bde0f40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1089.1", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Chris Ruane", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Ruane", "preceding_text": "At some time in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1089.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-31", "file": "debates2013-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "865ffa214bde0f40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "permanent energy savings, but the permanent energy change that we seek also needs more competitive markets. This, however, is not something that the Opposition understand, for the previous Government created the big six, and their irresponsible policies would only help the big six. In contrast, from day one, this coalition Government have been determined to take on the big six for consumers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-31", "file": "debates2013-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "865ffa214bde0f40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "ill, Ofgem now has powers to require energy companies to make compensation payments directly to consumers who have lost out, but today I want to go further. That is why I intend to consult on the introduction of criminal sanctions for anyone found manipulating energy markets and harming the consumer interest. Ours is a record of delivery and action. As set out in the annual energy statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-31", "file": "debates2013-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "865ffa214bde0f40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1104.7", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Chancellor produced, some time ago, a £250 million package to help energy-intensive industries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1104.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-31", "file": "debates2013-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "865ffa214bde0f40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1115.0", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ten.”", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "I am very glad to hear that. I do not know how many years after the project this has become apparent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1115.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-31", "file": "debates2013-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "865ffa214bde0f40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1123.1", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "s correct. That investment is expected to bring the greatest benefits to Birmingham, Nottingham, Sheffield, Leeds and Manchester: five cities. Does my hon. Friend think that if the £50 billion were broken up into nuggets of £10 billion, and if each city were offered that amount to promote its local economy, the five of them would decide to club together to pay for a high-speed rail link?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-31", "file": "debates2013-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "865ffa214bde0f40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1132.3", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "I will not give way, for the simple reason that many of my hon. Friends and many Opposition Members want to take part in the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1132.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-31", "file": "debates2013-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "865ffa214bde0f40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1136.1", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John McDonnell", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Riverside (Mrs Ellman) , who chairs the Transport Committee, has made the point time and again, with regard to the overall matter of strategic planning—with regard to aviation, I think that she and her Committee are absolutely clueless—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-31", "file": "debates2013-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "865ffa214bde0f40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1140.1", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "preceding_text": "I am glad to hear Conservative Members speak against privatisation. That is very encouraging. Perhaps they should have thought about that with regard to Royal Mail, when they transferred loads of people’s money from the taxpayer to private pockets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-31", "file": "debates2013-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "865ffa214bde0f40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1146.5", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “It is!”", "preceding_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "preceding_text": "Perhaps my hon. Friend will allow me to continue. Clearing the lines is obviously not possible all the time, but upgrading the line so that we can have through trains is not difficult.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1146.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-31", "file": "debates2013-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "865ffa214bde0f40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1149.0", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Eric Ollerenshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Ollerenshaw", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for bringing us back to reality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1149.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-31", "file": "debates2013-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "865ffa214bde0f40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1151.0", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Eric Ollerenshaw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Ollerenshaw", "preceding_text": "I assumed we were already joined to Scotland. That could be an exaggeration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1151.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-31", "file": "debates2013-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "865ffa214bde0f40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1160.10", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": " contains the cap they wanted. Also, if we had had some adjustments to this Bill, it would have encompassed the spend. If we are going to have a money Bill, it should not just cover the open-ended preparatory work—now my right hon. Friend is wanting to have his cake and eat it—but should cover the money that is going to be spent on the project. After all, he has been arguing for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1160.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-31", "file": "debates2013-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "865ffa214bde0f40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1162.1", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": " of the finance that we will need to look at, as it should be examined. One thing I have been trying to have a look at is Mr Higgins’s new employment contract, which I understand does not start until January. I have been denied sight of that, but I wanted to see what performance bonuses, or any other inducement or performance-related measure, it contained. Amendment 27, tabled by the —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-31", "file": "debates2013-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "865ffa214bde0f40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1162.3", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "As a former Secretary of State for Wales, I am particularly concerned —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1162.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-31", "file": "debates2013-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "865ffa214bde0f40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1173.3", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Patrick McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "as taken part in the Third Reading of many Bills—they have always been hour-long debates. In fact, it is only recently that we have had debates on Third Reading. Back in the days when the right hon. Member for Blackburn was Leader of the House, we sometimes did not have debates on Third Reading because we simply did not have the time. The Government are trying to help everybody we can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1173.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-10-31", "file": "debates2013-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "865ffa214bde0f40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1184.0", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "May I, too, welcome you to the Chair, Madam Deputy Speaker, as this is the first time I have spoken with you in that position, and offer many congratulations? I will be brief, because I have spoken at length before. I still think that HS2 is an expensive toy. I remember that we once had something else that went fast—it was called Concorde, and we know what happened to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-10-31a.1184.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-04", "file": "debates2013-11-04b.xml", "sha256": "f3065d6313bbf072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-04b.16.4", "colnum": "16", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend suggests, the reason a two-boat solution was not considered in the review is that it did not meet the hurdle test of providing a credible deterrent. I am actually rather more interested in the views of official Opposition Front Benchers on this matter than the views of our coalition partners. I welcome the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-04b.16.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-04", "file": "debates2013-11-04b.xml", "sha256": "f3065d6313bbf072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-04b.38.5", "colnum": "38", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "Another observation one could make is that there are no Labour Members of Parliament here because they are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-04b.38.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-04", "file": "debates2013-11-04b.xml", "sha256": "f3065d6313bbf072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-04b.42.4", "colnum": "42", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a good point. I want to turn to the employers’ national insurance contributions holiday, because I suspect it will feature in the speeches of Opposition Members. They will make the point that take-up was not as high as we had anticipated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-04b.42.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-04", "file": "debates2013-11-04b.xml", "sha256": "f3065d6313bbf072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-04b.42.4", "colnum": "42", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “How much?”", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "od point. I want to turn to the employers’ national insurance contributions holiday, because I suspect it will feature in the speeches of Opposition Members. They will make the point that take-up was not as high as we had anticipated. [ Interruption. ] Let me give the numbers: 26,000 employers and 90,000 employees have benefited from it. Our expectation was that take-up would be much higher.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-04b.42.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-04", "file": "debates2013-11-04b.xml", "sha256": "f3065d6313bbf072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-04b.72.2", "colnum": "72", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Catherine McKinnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Catherine McKinnell", "preceding_text": "loyers, however, because it was restricted. It did not apply to businesses in London and the south-east or east of England, as we mentioned earlier, and it extended only to new business start-ups, and then only to the first 10 employees of those firms—but, of course, only to those first 10 employees who had been hired in the first year of that business. I hope hon. Members are still with me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-04b.72.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-05", "file": "debates2013-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "a8f38e583fd2f4b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-05a.102.0", "colnum": "102", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. That has nothing to do with the responsibilities of the Chancellor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-05a.102.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-05", "file": "debates2013-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "a8f38e583fd2f4b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-05a.106.1", "colnum": "106", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "as also been an increase in the number of hours worked in the economy, and a lot of the recent increase in employment has come from full-time employment. Let us compare that with the disastrous situation we inherited from the Labour party, where unemployment was rocketing and youth unemployment was rocketing. Unemployment is now lower than it was at the general election, and many thousands —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-05a.106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-05", "file": "debates2013-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "a8f38e583fd2f4b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-05a.115.6", "colnum": "115", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "he Government’s programme. We are seeking to help young people into work through the Work programme and the Youth Contract. The good news is that the youth claimant count has fallen by many tens of thousands. I would have thought that the hon. Gentleman would use this opportunity to get up and point out that unemployment has fallen in his constituency over the last year, and there are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-05a.115.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-05", "file": "debates2013-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "a8f38e583fd2f4b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-05a.116.0", "colnum": "116", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "r more than 100 years, and with prices, including energy prices, rising faster than wages, for millions of people this is no recovery at all. Yet from the Chancellor’s earlier answers to the Chair of the Treasury Committee, he seems to think he can get away with cutting energy bills by simply shifting the burden of his green levies on to the ordinary taxpayer.Let me ask the Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-05a.116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-05", "file": "debates2013-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "a8f38e583fd2f4b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-05a.120.1", "colnum": "120", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " is not priced out of the global economy. We must also make reforms to the European Union, and Britain’s relationship with it, so that British businesses can thrive, compete and create jobs. I point out to my hon. Friend—he knows this anyway—that the cost of the European Union would have been much higher if my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister had not secured a very good deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-05a.120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-05", "file": "debates2013-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "a8f38e583fd2f4b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-05a.128.4", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Clive Efford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Efford", "preceding_text": "I start by welcoming the Under-Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, the hon. Member for Maidstone and The Weald (Mrs Grant) to her new post, which I neglected to do under pressure of time at questions last week. I look forward to debating with her over the coming years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-05a.128.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-05", "file": "debates2013-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "a8f38e583fd2f4b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-05a.136.1", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Clive Efford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Efford", "preceding_text": "rance that a legislative approach is valid. There is considerable good will among Members from all parts of the House, and in the other place, for such a measure. If we all work together, we should be able to ensure that this issue does not drag on too far into the future. The Government have said that they will legislate on unclaimed winnings and dormant betting accounts held by operators —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-05a.136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-05", "file": "debates2013-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "a8f38e583fd2f4b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-05a.208.0", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Water Industry", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "se when I last went to Luton on official business—to watch Millwall beat Luton Town—he was there to buy me a drink afterwards. I was very grateful—actually, I cannot remember whether I bought him a drink or he bought me one, but anyway it was a very nice pub, and I commend it. Luton has good breweries, beer and pubs. But we, as the away team, were very well received by our hosts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-05a.208.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-06", "file": "debates2013-11-06c.xml", "sha256": "e6f4d2b4d5a74ba2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.231.6", "colnum": "231", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Jim Sheridan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Sheridan", "preceding_text": "I welcome the Secretary of State to his first session of Scottish questions. I also send best wishes to his predecessor, who was a thoroughly decent man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.231.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-06", "file": "debates2013-11-06c.xml", "sha256": "e6f4d2b4d5a74ba2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.241.2", "colnum": "241", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "about the figures. If we look at what is happening in our hospital A and E departments, we see that the target has been missed for 15 consecutive weeks. The whole country will have heard that he cannot guarantee that there will not be a crisis in our A and E departments this winter, and that is because there already is a crisis. That is what the president of the College of Emergency Medicine says.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.241.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-06", "file": "debates2013-11-06c.xml", "sha256": "e6f4d2b4d5a74ba2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.241.3", "colnum": "241", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "As I said, A and E departments in this country are now treating 1.2 million more patients than they were under Labour. Let me give the right hon. Gentleman one simple fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.241.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-06", "file": "debates2013-11-06c.xml", "sha256": "e6f4d2b4d5a74ba2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.241.5", "colnum": "241", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Let me give the right hon. Gentleman one simple fact: today in our A and E departments the average waiting time is 50 minutes. When the shadow Health Secretary was sitting on the Government Front Bench the average waiting time was over 70 minutes. Those are the facts. Because this Government did not take the shadow Health Secretary’s advice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.241.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-06", "file": "debates2013-11-06c.xml", "sha256": "e6f4d2b4d5a74ba2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.242.2", "colnum": "242", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "What the shadow Health Secretary did was warn against cutting social care, and that is exactly what the Government did. That is the crisis the Prime Minister has produced. Here is the answer to the question he did not answer: 2,300 managers have received six-figure payoffs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.242.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-06", "file": "debates2013-11-06c.xml", "sha256": "e6f4d2b4d5a74ba2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.242.6", "colnum": "242", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "And we have a Prime Minister too clueless to know the facts about the NHS. Let us give him the answer, shall we? The answer is that over 2,000 people have been made redundant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.242.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-06", "file": "debates2013-11-06c.xml", "sha256": "e6f4d2b4d5a74ba2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.242.6", "colnum": "242", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "ut the NHS. Let us give him the answer, shall we? The answer is that over 2,000 people have been made redundant— [ Interruption. ] The hon. Gentleman says it is rubbish; it is absolutely true—we have a parliamentary answer from one of the Health Ministers. Two thousand people have been made redundant and re-hired, diverting money from the front line as this Prime Minister sacks nurses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.242.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-06", "file": "debates2013-11-06c.xml", "sha256": "e6f4d2b4d5a74ba2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.243.0", "colnum": "243", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "We have taken 20,000 administrators out of the NHS—and I am not going to take lectures from a Government who saw patients drinking out of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-06", "file": "debates2013-11-06c.xml", "sha256": "e6f4d2b4d5a74ba2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.245.4", "colnum": "245", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes an important point. The stamp duty change that we made is vital in ensuring that foreign buyers pay stamp duty in London. That needed to happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.245.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-06", "file": "debates2013-11-06c.xml", "sha256": "e6f4d2b4d5a74ba2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Millions of people in our country can be very proud of being trade unionists. The problem is that they are led so badly by bully-boys—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-06", "file": "debates2013-11-06c.xml", "sha256": "e6f4d2b4d5a74ba2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.248.2", "colnum": "248", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Actually, I think the question was about tribunals, if memory serves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.248.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-06", "file": "debates2013-11-06c.xml", "sha256": "e6f4d2b4d5a74ba2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.249.0", "colnum": "249", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ple in our country out of income tax altogether. The figures simply do not fit with the story he is trying to tell. Inequality is at its lowest level since 1986—fact. The pupil premium is directing more money to the poorest children in our schools—fact. Applications from disadvantaged children to universities have gone up, not down—fact. There are fewer workless households—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-06", "file": "debates2013-11-06c.xml", "sha256": "e6f4d2b4d5a74ba2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.250.6", "colnum": "250", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The point the hon. Lady should bear in mind is that bonuses were 85% higher when the shadow Chancellor was sitting in the Treasury. It is this Government who are making sure that people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.250.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-06", "file": "debates2013-11-06c.xml", "sha256": "e6f4d2b4d5a74ba2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.275.1", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th allotted day] — Energy Price Freeze", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:“The big seven.”", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "For the past month we have seen the Secretary of State and members of the Government standing up for the big six—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.275.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-06", "file": "debates2013-11-06c.xml", "sha256": "e6f4d2b4d5a74ba2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.286.0", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th allotted day] — Energy Price Freeze", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "I will not give way. Disposal incomes are now higher than in any year from 1997 to 2010. That is because of our income tax cuts for people on low and middle incomes, because we have taken action on fuel duty and frozen council tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.286.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-06", "file": "debates2013-11-06c.xml", "sha256": "e6f4d2b4d5a74ba2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.289.0", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th allotted day] — Energy Price Freeze", "cue_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "preceding_text": "The Opposition missed something else in the debate. In my constituency, more than 400 jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-06", "file": "debates2013-11-06c.xml", "sha256": "e6f4d2b4d5a74ba2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.289.0", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th allotted day] — Energy Price Freeze", "cue_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ooh!”", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "preceding_text": "The Opposition missed something else in the debate. In my constituency, more than 400 jobs— [ Interruption. ] Will the right hon. Member for Don Valley (Caroline Flint) listen to my point?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.289.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-06", "file": "debates2013-11-06c.xml", "sha256": "e6f4d2b4d5a74ba2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.302.0", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th allotted day] — Energy Price Freeze", "cue_speaker": "David Mowat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Mowat", "preceding_text": "think there is much point in having a cap if energy prices are higher than ours. The right hon. Lady also mentioned Scandinavia and its pool as a model for her pool. Again, if she looks at the gas and electricity prices in Denmark and Sweden, she will see that they are the highest in the EU—considerably higher than ours. We need to be careful, therefore, to look at these things in the round.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-06", "file": "debates2013-11-06c.xml", "sha256": "e6f4d2b4d5a74ba2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.312.2", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th allotted day] — Energy Price Freeze", "cue_speaker": "Neil Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Neil Carmichael", "preceding_text": "ely we do—the Government are right to emphasise that—but we have to produce some economic growth to help to drive down prices and to drive up wages and salaries where appropriate. We have to get that on the table and well understood. Thirdly, it is a bit rich for Labour Members to claim that this is all our fault when during 13 years they did not build one single nuclear power station.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.312.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-06", "file": "debates2013-11-06c.xml", "sha256": "e6f4d2b4d5a74ba2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.336.0", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Opposition Day — [10th allotted day] — Energy Price Freeze", "cue_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "d. Ever since Kyoto, global warming has made mitigating CO2 emissions the dominant challenge. The decline in the UK’s indigenous natural gas fields has made ensuring the security of supply and managing the energy sector’s impact on the balance of payments key objectives. Whether the liberalised market alone is capable of achieving those objectives automatically can be questioned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.336.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-06", "file": "debates2013-11-06c.xml", "sha256": "e6f4d2b4d5a74ba2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.373.0", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "preceding_text": "e. I am always in bewildered awe at the great education that our Clerks have had compared with ours. As colleagues who have tabled amendments over the years will know, we are often up against tight timetables. There are archaic rules about when amendments must be tabled by and I think it places an undue burden on the House service to expect that when someone comes in up against the deadline—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-06c.373.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-07", "file": "debates2013-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "5fd1c23c1df277c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-07b.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "e Department for Work and Pensions have already taken steps to secure the safe and sound delivery of the programme on time and on budget. She also referred to certain reports, which I have seen. I have talked to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and I can tell the House that there is no need for a statement. I can tell her and the House that there is no truth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-07b.418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-07", "file": "debates2013-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "5fd1c23c1df277c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-07b.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "Monitor, a health-related body, to exercise, as opposed to competition authorities doing so directly. The Health and Social Care Act has enabled us to deliver £5.5 billion-worth of savings in administration costs in this Parliament and to support the NHS in delivering, for example, 23,000 fewer administrators and 4,000 more clinicians. On the transparency Bill, no pause is taking place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-07b.418.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-08", "file": "debates2013-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "e84a07c4a530d780", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-08a.553.4", "colnum": "553", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend, and that is why I have tabled amendments that would apply either the local government franchise or the European Parliament franchise. That would meet his point about Scotland. I was going to come to the question of prisoners later—not prisoners, Members of the House of Lords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-08a.553.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-11", "file": "debates2013-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "8c9ecd7f7cefe6ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-11a.670.1", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Iran and Syria", "cue_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "preceding_text": "If the Justice Secretary was saying that he had evidence that privatising probation worked or that it would save money, he would have an argument. He is saying neither, which is why we suspect that this is all about ideology rather than the evidence about what works. Although we agree with the broad objectives of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-11a.670.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-11", "file": "debates2013-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "8c9ecd7f7cefe6ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-11a.672.0", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Iran and Syria", "cue_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "preceding_text": "ry’s plans half-baked; and probation staff warning that the fragmentation of the service goes against everything that we know about what works in supervising offenders. The Ministry of Justice’s own risk register warns that there is an 80% risk of an unacceptable drop in operational performance; with regard to dealing with offenders, that can only lead to higher risks to public safety.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-11a.672.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-11", "file": "debates2013-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "8c9ecd7f7cefe6ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-11a.679.6", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Iran and Syria", "cue_speaker": "Alan Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Beith", "preceding_text": "ortant questions about the Bill and the structure of the probation service that will be necessary to support it that must be considered. The first is whether there is a market out there. Are there enough potential providers that could take on the contracts and that could engage, as is necessary, with the wide range of charities, voluntary organisations and other bodies in which there is expertise?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-11a.679.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-11", "file": "debates2013-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "8c9ecd7f7cefe6ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-11a.713.0", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Iran and Syria", "cue_speaker": "Lorely Burt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Lorely Burt", "preceding_text": "erns have been expressed about who will run the system, who the bidders will be and what real value they will be able to add to what is already an exceptional probation service for longer-term offenders. Let me say that now I would be dismayed if my Government contemplated considering a bid from any organisation that was under investigation for defrauding the taxpayer on other outsourced services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-11a.713.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-11", "file": "debates2013-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "8c9ecd7f7cefe6ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-11a.723.1", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Iran and Syria", "cue_speaker": "John Glen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Glen", "preceding_text": "ortant point about the challenge of freeing people from drugs. As a magistrate for six years, I was deeply frustrated at the recurrent sentencing of the same individuals, knowing that typically someone would have to go through a programme six or seven times. I do not want it thought that Conservative Members think the solution is to send everything out to the private sector. I do not believe that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-11a.723.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-11", "file": "debates2013-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "8c9ecd7f7cefe6ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-11a.728.3", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Iran and Syria", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "I accept what the shadow Minister says, but I want to say something to the Minister. I respect him as a Minister who does engage with people when they debate with him; I have great regard for him for that. However, I have to say to him that given that he does not know the cost of this farrago he is going into, he should not ask me about costs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-11a.728.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-11", "file": "debates2013-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "8c9ecd7f7cefe6ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-11a.728.4", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Iran and Syria", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Wright", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “How?", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Wright", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way; I know he is short of time. The point is that I know how I will pay for it, but he does not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-11a.728.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-11", "file": "debates2013-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "8c9ecd7f7cefe6ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-11a.741.0", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Iran and Syria", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Wright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Wright", "preceding_text": "It is a great pleasure to respond to the debate. It has been a good and wide-ranging debate, but it is about to reach a very strange conclusion, because there is no real disagreement on the Bill’s contents. All hon. Members I have listened to this evening agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-11a.741.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-11", "file": "debates2013-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "8c9ecd7f7cefe6ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-11a.758.7", "colnum": "758", "heading": "OFFENDER REHABILITATION BILL [LORDS] (MONEY)", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for that information. Of course, his knowledge of European matters is second to none in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-11a.758.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-11", "file": "debates2013-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "8c9ecd7f7cefe6ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-11a.763.4", "colnum": "763", "heading": "OFFENDER REHABILITATION BILL [LORDS] (MONEY)", "cue_speaker": "Diana Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Diana Johnson", "preceding_text": "I am going to move on because I do not want to get sidetracked into a debate on khat as that is not the purpose of this debate. Perhaps the hon. Gentleman could ask his Ministers about their position as they are part of the Government who are not using—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-11a.763.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-11", "file": "debates2013-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "8c9ecd7f7cefe6ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-11a.768.2", "colnum": "768", "heading": "OFFENDER REHABILITATION BILL [LORDS] (MONEY)", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "Order. I am struggling to understand how the hon. Gentleman is going to relate all this to subsidiarity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-11a.768.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-11", "file": "debates2013-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "8c9ecd7f7cefe6ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-11a.771.1", "colnum": "771", "heading": "OFFENDER REHABILITATION BILL [LORDS] (MONEY)", "cue_speaker": "Julian Huppert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Huppert", "preceding_text": "about how we proceed, because a global ban would give rise to all sorts of problems. We have touched on the Home Secretary’s decision to ban khat. She has tabled a statutory instrument to do so. That was her decision; it was not a jointly signed off one, and I was very disappointed by it. I was also very disappointed and surprised that the shadow Minister had no idea what her own policy was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-11a.771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-12", "file": "debates2013-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "f0f045cc2236c968", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.805.2", "colnum": "805", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "nd. Urgent and emergency care covers a range of areas, including accident and emergency departments, NHS 111 centres and other emergency telephone services, ambulances, minor injury units, and urgent care centres. The review is being led by Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England’s medical director. A report on phase 1 of the review is being published tomorrow, and it is embargoed until then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.805.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-12", "file": "debates2013-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "f0f045cc2236c968", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.805.2", "colnum": "805", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "iew is being led by Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England’s medical director. A report on phase 1 of the review is being published tomorrow, and it is embargoed until then. [Interruption.] This is an NHS England report, and NHS England is an independent body, accountable to me through the mandate. The report that will be published tomorrow is a preliminary one, setting out initial thinking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.805.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-12", "file": "debates2013-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "f0f045cc2236c968", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.806.1", "colnum": "806", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "l sort out those problems. Yes there are difficult decisions, but they are decisions his Government ducked and left the public exposed as a result. Before the right hon. Gentleman runs down our A and E services, let me just gently remind him that he talked about a recruitment crisis, but we have 300 more A and E consultants than when he was Health Secretary, we have nearly 2,000 more people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-12", "file": "debates2013-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "f0f045cc2236c968", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.810.3", "colnum": "810", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "That is exactly what tomorrow’s report is designed to clarify. It is not for me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.810.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-12", "file": "debates2013-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "f0f045cc2236c968", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.810.3", "colnum": "810", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "That is exactly what tomorrow’s report is designed to clarify. It is not for me— [ Interruption. ] Let me say very straightforwardly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.810.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-12", "file": "debates2013-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "f0f045cc2236c968", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.814.5", "colnum": "814", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady makes some important points, and I congratulate her on being the first Opposition Member to raise the fact that it has become harder and harder to get an appointment with a GP.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.814.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-12", "file": "debates2013-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "f0f045cc2236c968", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.815.6", "colnum": "815", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Virendra Sharma", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Virendra Sharma", "preceding_text": "Last week, the Secretary of State assured—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.815.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-12", "file": "debates2013-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "f0f045cc2236c968", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.826.5", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day] — Housing Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "I say that instead of presiding over the lowest rate of house building since the 1920s, this Government should get on and build some houses. No wonder the Trussell Trust—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.826.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-12", "file": "debates2013-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "f0f045cc2236c968", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.827.2", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day] — Housing Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "First, as the hon. Lady knows, the Government’s policy is retrospective whereas in the private sector it is not. Also, the discretionary housing payments are not nearly enough to cover this. In my constituency in Leeds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.827.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-12", "file": "debates2013-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "f0f045cc2236c968", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.827.2", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day] — Housing Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "First, as the hon. Lady knows, the Government’s policy is retrospective whereas in the private sector it is not. Also, the discretionary housing payments are not nearly enough to cover this. In my constituency in Leeds— [ Interruption. ] The hon. Lady has asked the question; perhaps she will listen to —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.827.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-12", "file": "debates2013-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "f0f045cc2236c968", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.828.1", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day] — Housing Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Andrew McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew McDonald", "preceding_text": " do happen? In my constituency, David Holdsworth is in renal failure and attached to tubes. He cannot occupy the same bedroom as his wife, and the other bedroom is occupied by their adult disabled daughter. They do not qualify for DHP—they have been denied it. This is more evidence of how pernicious this tax is and how out of touch this Government are with the most vulnerable in our society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.828.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-12", "file": "debates2013-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "f0f045cc2236c968", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.837.3", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day] — Housing Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "here are often no records of how much has been spent on adaptation, trying to write that into the law of the land would not have been an effective way to help those in need. We therefore decided that we would estimate the cost of protecting those with substantially adapted properties—our estimate was £25 million—and allocated the money to local authorities to assist those in need.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.837.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-12", "file": "debates2013-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "f0f045cc2236c968", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.839.0", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day] — Housing Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend and his colleagues for the extra allocation of money. My local authority has bid for an extra £600,000, which I hope it will receive. I supported the motion at the Liberal Democrat conference arguing for changes in this policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.839.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-12", "file": "debates2013-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "f0f045cc2236c968", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.839.6", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day] — Housing Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "t under £1 million to Manchester, of which more than £500,000 was repaid. This year we have allocated nearly £2 million to Manchester to address those concerns. If it finds that it is still short of cash, despite sending back £500,000 last year, we will of course consider an application to our top-up fund, which we have not so far received. We have heard nothing from the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.839.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-12", "file": "debates2013-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "f0f045cc2236c968", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.843.5", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day] — Housing Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Therese Coffey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “What?”", "preceding_speaker": "Therese Coffey", "preceding_text": "n fund was set aside for new ideas for councils working together. At that time, only five councils had applied for that funding, and I would encourage our colleagues to speak to their councillors about that. The hon. Member for Islington South and Finsbury (Emily Thornberry) talked about pensioners. There might be some people who can work an extra three hours to capture that extra £14 a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.843.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-12", "file": "debates2013-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "f0f045cc2236c968", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.858.4", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day] — Housing Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Anne Main", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Main", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I think that Mr Twigg can just ponder for a while—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.858.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-12", "file": "debates2013-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "f0f045cc2236c968", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.863.5", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day] — Housing Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Mike Freer", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Freer", "preceding_text": "I would never be rude to you, Madam Deputy Speaker, as you well know, but I feel passionately about this. I was raised in a two-up, two-down, with no outside toilet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.863.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-12", "file": "debates2013-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "f0f045cc2236c968", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.884.1", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day] — Housing Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "I was getting flashbacks to 1970s socialism during that contribution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.884.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-12", "file": "debates2013-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "f0f045cc2236c968", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.886.0", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day] — Housing Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "preceding_text": "ent are. The Government are also out of touch because they appear to have no idea of the circumstances in which ordinary people live. Listening to Government Members, one might think there was a swathe of empty rooms across the whole UK, but my constituents who have come to speak to me about the bedroom tax are the grannies who help with the child care and often have the kids at the weekend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.886.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-12", "file": "debates2013-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "f0f045cc2236c968", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.888.2", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day] — Housing Benefit", "cue_speaker": "John Hemming", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hemming", "preceding_text": "hat it did not affect anyone who was already on housing benefit; it only affected new claims. The hon. Member for Westminster North (Ms Buck) was very good on that point. To be fair, if we applied the same approach now, or had done so back in April, so that this did not affect anyone until they got a new tenancy, nobody would really bother about it. The problem with that is that we have a deficit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.888.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-12", "file": "debates2013-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "f0f045cc2236c968", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.913.1", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day] — Housing Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Kate Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kate Green", "preceding_text": "can that be sensible? People are being forced to leave sheltered accommodation that, by definition, cannot be taken up by families who do not have the special needs or meet the criteria to live in those homes. Hon. Members on both sides of the House have rightly said that the answer to the problem is to build more housing. I am proud that Labour has committed to building 1 million new homes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.913.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-12", "file": "debates2013-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "f0f045cc2236c968", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.915.4", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day] — Housing Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Esther McVey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Esther McVey", "preceding_text": "support them to move into accommodation—all the things we should be doing. Yes, 660,000 people are affected by these changes, but only earlier today I spoke to one of the biggest online home swap companies. It has 320,000 accommodations for people to move to. By the way, it has only 6.7% market share, so we are easily able, should we be working in this way, to find houses for people to swap.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.915.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-12", "file": "debates2013-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "f0f045cc2236c968", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.916.0", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day] — Housing Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. There is simply too much noise in the Chamber. It is not possible to hear what the Minister is saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-12f.916.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-18", "file": "debates2013-11-18b.xml", "sha256": "dd030741504054a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-18b.946.9", "colnum": "946", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "As I said to the hon. Lady when I appeared in front of her Committee in July, we have been very clear that we would roll out universal credit on the plan and programme already set out. The pathfinders are on track. Those before Christmas and those after Christmas are on track—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-18b.946.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-19", "file": "debates2013-11-19d.xml", "sha256": "708b857f7282817a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-19d.1172.3", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Women and the Cost of Living", "cue_speaker": "Alison McGovern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alison McGovern", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the hon. Gentleman intervened to patronise me and say that I do not like to hear facts— [ Interruption. ] I am glad that he intervened to patronise me in that way, because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-19d.1172.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-19", "file": "debates2013-11-19d.xml", "sha256": "708b857f7282817a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-19d.1188.2", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Women and the Cost of Living", "cue_speaker": "Stephen McPartland", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen McPartland", "preceding_text": "f further education, who is going off to university or who wants to set up a new business, to go out there and think “Yes, I can succeed.” I accept that I am an optimist. When I was growing up I saw a poster in the 1992 election which read “What does the Conservative Party offer a working class kid from Brixton? They made him Prime Minister.” So I will maintain my approach.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-19d.1188.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-19", "file": "debates2013-11-19d.xml", "sha256": "708b857f7282817a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-19d.1193.1", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Women and the Cost of Living", "cue_speaker": "Sharon Hodgson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sharon Hodgson", "preceding_text": "I just do not recognise those figures. Our figures from the Library—and any other figures that we have seen on this matter—show that women are £1,600 a year worse off under this Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-19d.1193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-20", "file": "debates2013-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fccfdebbce09111c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1218.5", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Crabb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Crabb", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is quite right: economic inactivity and worklessness have been a curse on Wales for too long. Under the last Labour Government, economic inactivity rates averaged around 21%; under this Government they are down to around 21%.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1218.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-20", "file": "debates2013-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fccfdebbce09111c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1219.4", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Unfortunately the question has got nothing to do with the current level of taxation in Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1219.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-20", "file": "debates2013-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fccfdebbce09111c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1222.2", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "We all wish the right hon. Gentleman luck in his fight as a local Member of Parliament. Imagine what he could achieve if he were Prime Minister of the country! I think that we have established the Prime Minister’s double standards in Oxfordshire. Let us take another example. In Tory Essex—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1222.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-20", "file": "debates2013-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fccfdebbce09111c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1222.4", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "Let us talk about the people the Prime Minister associates with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1222.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-20", "file": "debates2013-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fccfdebbce09111c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1223.3", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "What the Prime Minister has shown comprehensively today is that he has no answers on the cost of living crisis facing families up and down the country. That is the truth and his close friend the planning Minister is right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1223.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-20", "file": "debates2013-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fccfdebbce09111c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1224.0", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "What this proves is the right hon. Gentleman cannot ask about the economy because it is growing, he cannot ask about the deficit because it is falling, he cannot ask about the number of people in work because that is rising, and he cannot even ask about banking because he is mired in his own banking scandal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1224.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-20", "file": "debates2013-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fccfdebbce09111c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1224.0", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "What this proves is the right hon. Gentleman cannot ask about the economy because it is growing, he cannot ask about the deficit because it is falling, he cannot ask about the number of people in work because that is rising, and he cannot even ask about banking because he is mired in his own banking scandal. [Interruption.] What we have learned in the last fortnight is that he is too—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1224.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-20", "file": "debates2013-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fccfdebbce09111c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1227.0", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Offord", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Offord", "preceding_text": "I refer the House to the Register of Members’ Financial Interests because I have recently returned from a delegation to Israel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1227.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-20", "file": "debates2013-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fccfdebbce09111c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1229.0", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": ", investment in our nuclear deterrent has not ceased. Actually, we are taking all the necessary steps to make that main gate decision possible. Also, we have had the alternative study, which I do not think came up with a convincing answer. I have to say, however, that I do not feel that I would satisfy him even if I gave him a nuclear submarine to park off the coast of his New Forest constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1229.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-20", "file": "debates2013-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fccfdebbce09111c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1230.0", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ant point, which is directly relevant to the issue of debt. The former Mayor, Ken Livingstone, said this: “Gordon Brown was borrowing £20 billion a year at the height of the boom in the first decade of this century in order to avoid having to increase taxes, because he wanted to increase public spending. It was an act of cowardice.” That is, if you like, the “daymare”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-20", "file": "debates2013-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fccfdebbce09111c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1230.1", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Teresa Pearce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Teresa Pearce", "preceding_text": "The housing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-20", "file": "debates2013-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fccfdebbce09111c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1233.1", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr Speaker. As you will have heard and as everyone else in the House heard, I asked a perfectly reasonable question which was based on clear documentary evidence, as I indicated. Is it parliamentary for the Prime Minister to respond by accusing another right hon. Member of sounding as if he has been taking mind-altering substances? Is that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-20", "file": "debates2013-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fccfdebbce09111c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1245.1", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Gibraltar", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "preceding_text": "owth in the number of people over 30 being helped to realise their full entrepreneurial potential through the programme’s mentoring and financial support. In August we introduced specialised support to finance ex-military service personnel who want to start their own business within the start-up loans scheme. I am pleased to announce that today we have made the 100,000th start-up loan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-20", "file": "debates2013-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fccfdebbce09111c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1246.0", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Gibraltar", "cue_speaker": "Toby Perkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Toby Perkins", "preceding_text": " to support small firms with access to finance cannot be camouflaged by this worthwhile scheme. Given that the Government have overseen a £14 billion reduction in lending to small business, will the Minister, at the same time as he celebrates his £50 million scheme, recognise that total lending from it is less than 1% of the shortfall in net lending that British business has experienced?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-20", "file": "debates2013-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fccfdebbce09111c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1263.2", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "Regulation of Refractive Eye Surgery", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way at this early stage in the debate. I hope it might be helpful if I indicate to the House at this stage that we are minded to accept the principle of his new clause 1. Indeed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1263.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-20", "file": "debates2013-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fccfdebbce09111c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1280.2", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Regulation of Refractive Eye Surgery", "cue_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Secretary of State.”", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to the former Minister for giving way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1280.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-20", "file": "debates2013-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fccfdebbce09111c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1282.4", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "Regulation of Refractive Eye Surgery", "cue_speaker": "James Arbuthnot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Arbuthnot", "preceding_text": "gratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Canterbury, who, as a Back Bencher— the right hon. Member for Coventry North East (Mr Ainsworth) made the point—has achieved more in supporting and championing the Reserves than I or my right hon. Friend the Member for Mid Sussex did, when we were Ministers. My hon. Friend’s contribution to the Reserves debate deserves an immediate dukedom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1282.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-20", "file": "debates2013-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fccfdebbce09111c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1284.6", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Regulation of Refractive Eye Surgery", "cue_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "preceding_text": " involvement of the hon. Member for Canterbury (Mr Brazier) with the Reserves. He has achieved something that very few of us have managed to do, even with our own Governments—he has brought forward and had accepted an amendment to a Government Bill, and I congratulate him on that. He will disagree with my remarks on new clause 3, but we all recognise that new clause 1 will be an improvement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1284.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-20", "file": "debates2013-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fccfdebbce09111c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1288.0", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Regulation of Refractive Eye Surgery", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “This is about Reservists.”", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "I, too, welcome the hon. Gentleman to his position. Will he place on the record his thoughts on the fact that our commitments in Camp Bastion and in Afghanistan are to be downsized, with 9,000 troops coming home? In that situation, would a Labour Government keep the armed forces, particularly the Army, at the same size, bearing in mind that downsize, or return it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1288.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-20", "file": "debates2013-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fccfdebbce09111c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1288.1", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Regulation of Refractive Eye Surgery", "cue_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "preceding_text": "I have said on countless occasions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-20", "file": "debates2013-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fccfdebbce09111c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1297.3", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "Regulation of Refractive Eye Surgery", "cue_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "preceding_text": "ting time off work. These are the words of the Secretary of State’s Parliamentary Private Secretary, the hon. Member for Portsmouth North (Penny Mordaunt) : “a lot of reservists find it difficult to get time off for deployment or training courses”.—[ Official Report, 23 April 2013; Vol. 561, c. 273WH .] I am sorry that she is not in her place today. Perhaps she is training.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1297.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-20", "file": "debates2013-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fccfdebbce09111c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1298.1", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Regulation of Refractive Eye Surgery", "cue_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "preceding_text": "led. I do not know where the hon. Gentleman was before he came into the Chamber, but Reservists already receive pay when they are on training. This proposal is not about additional training time; it is about meeting requirements for the training they have to undertake. If his only concern is about the funding element, I can reassure him that there is no additional spending cost. It actually—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-20", "file": "debates2013-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fccfdebbce09111c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1307.0", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "Regulation of Refractive Eye Surgery", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": " Parliament. We did not need to spend a whole shedload of money reversing the plan for two aircraft carriers and to adopt a preposterous plan for one functional and one non-functional aircraft carrier, and then spend another shedload of money reverting to the original position. Nor do we need to spend £40 billion or £50 billion on a high-speed train service to the north of England—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1307.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-20", "file": "debates2013-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fccfdebbce09111c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1308.2", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Regulation of Refractive Eye Surgery", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "w we are told that that linkage no longer exists. My hon. Friend the Member for North Wiltshire asked what we will do if we find that in fact the Reserve scheme is not working. If I understood him correctly—I think I did—he said that, by the time we discovered that we were not going to get the 30,000 Reservists, it would be too late to regenerate any of the loss in the 20,000 Regulars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1308.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-20", "file": "debates2013-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fccfdebbce09111c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1308.2", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Regulation of Refractive Eye Surgery", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": " the first place. If we are to be told that we have to accept cuts in this country’s defence capability, we should be told that honestly. We should not constantly be confronted with shifting goalposts. If the recruitment of 30,000 Reservists may or may not be achieved, and if the 20,000 cut in Regulars will happen nevertheless and is irreversible, we should have been told that at the outset.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1308.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-20", "file": "debates2013-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fccfdebbce09111c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1316.3", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "Regulation of Refractive Eye Surgery", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": " has spent a lot of time looking at the issues. The point I am trying to address is whether that situation will be repeated in the future. Will this House have an appetite to commit troops with boots on the ground or will it say, “What has it got to do with us? We cannot guarantee that we will vote on it”? We have to be prepared and ask ourselves what it is that our armed forces—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1316.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-20", "file": "debates2013-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fccfdebbce09111c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1339.2", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Regulation of Refractive Eye Surgery", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "That is a very good change of heart.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1339.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-20", "file": "debates2013-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fccfdebbce09111c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1339.2", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Regulation of Refractive Eye Surgery", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "It is a change of heart; that is not what has been going on over the past few years since the right hon. Gentleman has been Secretary of State. I know it is an issue that the Chairman of the Select Committee has raised as well. I take that at face value and we will test the system, as the Secretary of State has made the offer on the Floor of the House. We will not press the motion to a vote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-20b.1339.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-21", "file": "debates2013-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "3bfe11aeeced018c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-21a.1354.8", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "I agree entirely with my hon. Friend. I wish we could go back to the bipartisan approach of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, when we got this disease beaten—we got it down to 0.01%.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-21a.1354.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-21", "file": "debates2013-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "3bfe11aeeced018c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-21a.1381.2", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "portant point. He will know that there are 7.6 million Co-op members across the country who will not get a dividend, whereas last year they received a dividend of £64 million. That is 7.6 million people who have a legitimate question to ask about why they will not get a dividend when, through the Co-op, loans continue to be made to the Labour party, including in the past few months and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-21a.1381.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-21", "file": "debates2013-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "3bfe11aeeced018c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-21a.1410.1", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "Backbench Business — Finances of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "preceding_text": "y to follow suit? In his final remarks he mentioned the potential court case. I do not accept that an exemplary employer will, at some stage, inevitably end up in court, and I urge the House to use all resources available to you, Mr Speaker, the Committees and the Commission, to work to resolve that problem and avoid the courts. Court costs are astronomical. Lawyers get rich in these things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-21a.1410.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-21", "file": "debates2013-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "3bfe11aeeced018c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-21a.1451.0", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "preceding_text": "ether it was appropriate to do so and came to the conclusion that it was—even though some might accuse me of abusing my position as an MP in putting these issues to Ministers—because of the concerns I have as someone currently experiencing some of these behaviours. Before I do that, I want to add my own personal tribute to the right hon. Member for Dwyfor Meirionnydd (Mr Llwyd) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-21a.1451.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-22", "file": "debates2013-11-22b.xml", "sha256": "d0f9ca9648b29e32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-22b.1483.2", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "preceding_text": "It is a genuine point of order, because I did not want the House to be inadvertently misled in any way. I simply want to put on record the fact that common fisheries negotiations were well advanced under the previous Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-22b.1483.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-22", "file": "debates2013-11-22b.xml", "sha256": "d0f9ca9648b29e32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-22b.1486.1", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is a great expert on Friday debates. I am prepared to listen carefully to him if he wishes to make further interventions, but at this stage of my contribution, I want to concentrate on the specifics of my amendments, not on hypothetical questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-22b.1486.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-22", "file": "debates2013-11-22b.xml", "sha256": "d0f9ca9648b29e32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-22b.1488.1", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "Of course we would. However, as the Foreign Secretary made clear in giving evidence to the Foreign Affairs Committee, the Government do not propose that. They have this balance of competences review, which is being denounced on some websites, and by some of the more Europhobic commentators, as a put-up job by the Europhiles who run the FCO.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-22b.1488.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-22", "file": "debates2013-11-22b.xml", "sha256": "d0f9ca9648b29e32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-22b.1491.1", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Baron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Baron", "preceding_text": "I will not give way, because time is short.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-22b.1491.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-22", "file": "debates2013-11-22b.xml", "sha256": "d0f9ca9648b29e32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-22b.1492.3", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Baron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Baron", "preceding_text": "From my point of view, there are no shortages of powers that need repatriating. Let us be clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-22b.1492.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-26", "file": "debates2013-11-26b.xml", "sha256": "968ded893c669928", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-26b.188.3", "colnum": "188", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Clive Efford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Efford", "preceding_text": "e are pushing her to do. When we talk about dormant accounts, we are also talking about bets that are void because the horse did not run, about unclaimed winnings and about the accounts of people who have left money sitting in them for more than a year. That money should be put to use for good causes, such as treatment. I know that an element of it is used in that way, but we do not know how much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-26b.188.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-26", "file": "debates2013-11-26b.xml", "sha256": "968ded893c669928", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-26b.228.2", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Business of the House (2 December)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "iew, in order to protect Government time, it is important for us to ensure that we have allowed these motions to be brought forward for the House to debate. I freely admit to the House that it has been difficult to find Government time. The Backbench Business Committee, as my hon. Friends will know, does not have the capacity to use its own time to bring forward its own motions relating to itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-26b.228.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-27", "file": "debates2013-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "5b809c994544791a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-27a.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Alex Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister agree with the Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions, the hon. Member for Hemel Hempstead (Mike Penning) that Northern Ireland is getting the best deal on welfare when changes could potentially take £450 million a year out of vulnerable people’s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-27a.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-27", "file": "debates2013-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "5b809c994544791a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-27a.249.4", "colnum": "249", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "uite simply, we cannot pretend that we can have it both ways; that we can continue to benefit from the Treasury—we get back more than we raise in taxes—while people in other parts of the UK suffer from the reforms.” These are necessary welfare reforms across the United Kingdom. We support them and I think the hon. Gentleman will find that his constituents support them, too—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-27a.249.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-27", "file": "debates2013-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "5b809c994544791a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-27a.269.1", "colnum": "269", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The temperature is rising. I keep a close eye on these things, and I understood the reference to be a collective reference, not an accusation of individual impropriety.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-27a.269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-27", "file": "debates2013-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "5b809c994544791a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-27a.277.4", "colnum": "277", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "I have indicated that the habitual residency test will be available from 1 January , and that the measures for those people who will be removed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-27a.277.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-27", "file": "debates2013-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "5b809c994544791a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-27a.303.4", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Opposition Day — 13th Allotted Day — Cost of Living", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether you voted against those measures, Mr Deputy Speaker, but we appreciate any efforts to help alleviate the cost of living. Does the hon. Gentleman believe that when people fill up their tank at the petrol station, they think, “How grateful we are to the Conservatives for the cost of petrol today”? When it comes to the cost of living—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-27a.303.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-27", "file": "debates2013-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "5b809c994544791a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-27a.304.8", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Opposition Day — 13th Allotted Day — Cost of Living", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. Everybody else has sat down, but somehow the hon. Member for Vale of Glamorgan (Alun Cairns) feels he can hang around for another five minutes. I assure him that he cannot. The Minister will give way when he wishes to, not when the hon. Gentleman demands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-27a.304.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-27", "file": "debates2013-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "5b809c994544791a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-27a.310.9", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Opposition Day — 13th Allotted Day — Cost of Living", "cue_speaker": "Brooks Newmark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brooks Newmark", "preceding_text": "It is a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. The hon. Member for Nottingham East (Chris Leslie) was asked a question about the deficit. Unfortunately, his answer was about debt. Rather like Rev. Paul Flowers, he does not know basic economics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-27a.310.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-27", "file": "debates2013-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "5b809c994544791a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-27a.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Opposition Day — 13th Allotted Day — Cost of Living", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. I will let that go. It is up to the shadow Minister how he wishes to answer the question. It is not for you, Mr Newmark, to waste the House’s time on an irrelevant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-27a.311.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-27", "file": "debates2013-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "5b809c994544791a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-27a.361.5", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Opposition Day — 13th Allotted Day — Cost of Living", "cue_speaker": "Lyn Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lyn Brown", "preceding_text": "I will not give way. Two hon. Members still want to speak, and I promised that I would not give way. I recently surveyed my constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-27a.361.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-27", "file": "debates2013-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "5b809c994544791a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-27a.363.1", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Opposition Day — 13th Allotted Day — Cost of Living", "cue_speaker": "Sheila Gilmore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sheila Gilmore", "preceding_text": "Time is very limited, so I will not take any interventions. During that period, economic growth has gone backwards and we have found ourselves in a position of stagnation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-27a.363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-28", "file": "debates2013-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "fea5bfe75565f155", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-28b.393.2", "colnum": "393", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "preceding_text": "There were 1,173 plans in the system, as of October, and 594 are having measures installed and 219 at the end of October—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-28b.393.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-28", "file": "debates2013-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "fea5bfe75565f155", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-28b.406.1", "colnum": "406", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Munt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Munt", "preceding_text": "I know the Secretary of State will want to commend the work of the Somerset Community Foundation. Under its “Surviving Winter” appeal, people can redistribute their winter fuel allowance, if they do not need some or all of it, to those who need money to heat their homes. Will the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-28b.406.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2013-11-28", "file": "debates2013-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "fea5bfe75565f155", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-28b.408.2", "colnum": "408", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "We have got that evidence.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Ellison", "preceding_text": " of public health policy, and it is important to follow a clear process and to follow the evidence. The hon. Lady might not believe me, but perhaps she will believe the right hon. Member for Leigh (Andy Burnham) , who in November 2009, when he was Health Secretary, wrote: “we would need…convincing evidence showing the health benefits of this policy before it would be acceptable”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-28b.408.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-28", "file": "debates2013-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "fea5bfe75565f155", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-28b.440.3", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "I am comfortable that it was right to raise all these issues in Sri Lanka. As I mentioned as gently as I could earlier, we could not have done that had we not been there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-28b.440.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-28", "file": "debates2013-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "fea5bfe75565f155", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-28b.440.5", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "So there is a little redefinition, but that is allowed. So we have made an impact on this issue in Sri Lanka that we could not have made otherwise, particularly in the speech —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-28b.440.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-28", "file": "debates2013-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "fea5bfe75565f155", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-28b.442.0", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": " the full list of questions that I still have. As a former Secretary of State, I have always held the view that the political relationship between the two Front Benches is largely set from the Government Dispatch Box. I hope that I am not going to have to adjust, on this or any other issue, to the fact that even my request for a telephone conversation with the Secretary of State was refused—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-28b.442.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-28", "file": "debates2013-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "fea5bfe75565f155", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-28b.453.2", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "Order. I think that I have the gist of it. Every individual Member is responsible for what they say in the House. If a Member feels that they need to correct the record in any way whatsoever, there is a route open to them, but it is not currently a matter for the Chair. If there are no further points of order, we will move on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-28b.453.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-28", "file": "debates2013-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "fea5bfe75565f155", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-28b.491.1", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Small Businesses", "cue_speaker": "Toby Perkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Toby Perkins", "preceding_text": "le and the hon. Member for Colchester (Sir Bob Russell) spoke, among many others, about the tremendous difficulties caused by the increase in business rates, which I shall return to. My hon. Friend the Member for Ogmore (Huw Irranca-Davies) promoted the value of local innovative firms and also focused on access to finance. The hon. Member for Rossendale and Darwen (Jake Berry) is not in his place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-28b.491.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-28", "file": "debates2013-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "fea5bfe75565f155", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-28b.501.1", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Small Businesses", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "uch) , my colleague on the all-party group. It is also a great pleasure to see you in the Chair, Madam Deputy Speaker. This is my first opportunity to contribute to a debate under your chairmanship, and I would like to congratulate you on your election. While I am handing out congratulations, I would like to congratulate the Prime Minister, too, on the personal commitment he has shown on dementia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-28b.501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-28", "file": "debates2013-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "fea5bfe75565f155", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-28b.515.0", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Small Businesses", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "s. The intention is to consolidate resources as effectively as possible. Our approach represents a clear shift from repair to prevention, and all hon. Members who spoke recognised the importance of focusing on prevention. The shadow Minister says that she wants more ambition. When I met adult social care directors, I was struck by how many were considering pooling the whole of their budgets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-28b.515.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-29", "file": "debates2013-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "31660835d29e8c7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-29b.536.0", "colnum": "536", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Tom Greatrex", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Greatrex", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. You may be aware that there was extensive media coverage last night and this morning of the fact that the Government, after claiming for several weeks that an energy price freeze was not possible, are asking companies to freeze their prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-29b.536.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-29", "file": "debates2013-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "31660835d29e8c7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-29b.552.2", "colnum": "552", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Jim Fitzpatrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Fitzpatrick", "preceding_text": "Forgive me if I missed this in my hon. Friend’s opening remarks, but did he explain how he arrived at £50? That is a significant amount. It is about the same amount as my hon. Friend the Member for Ilford South (Mike Gapes) and I will pay to see West Ham beat Fulham tomorrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-29b.552.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-29", "file": "debates2013-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "31660835d29e8c7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-29b.563.0", "colnum": "563", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Gareth Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Gareth Thomas", "preceding_text": " consideration by the Secretary of State, and crucially by Members on both sides of the House. Therefore, I can see the case that my hon. Friend makes, in particular for amendment 55. We know that the Conservative party is divided on the timetable for this legislation. We had the amendment tabled by the hon. Member for Windsor (Adam Afriyie) . Some want the referendum next year, others want—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-29b.563.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-29", "file": "debates2013-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "31660835d29e8c7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-29b.572.0", "colnum": "572", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "aw the British people’s right to decide at the right time on the right question. Under the lamentable record of the Labour party, the EU was for 13 years taken in a direction that the British people did not agree with, but Labour never had the courage to consult the British people in a referendum and never once gave the British people their say. We have shown in three and a half years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-29b.572.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-29", "file": "debates2013-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "31660835d29e8c7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-29b.581.0", "colnum": "581", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": ". Will the Foreign Secretary now intervene and tell me whether he agrees that leaving the European Union would be “folly beyond belief”? If he does not want to respond on that issue, he might wish to comment on Lord Heseltine’s statement that the whole process, which has been instigated by the Conservative party, is “an unnecessary gamble” with Britain’s future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-29b.581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-11-29", "file": "debates2013-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "31660835d29e8c7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-29b.581.0", "colnum": "581", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "rdy. If someone is living in Spain and suddenly their home country is no longer part of the European Union, and their citizenship is then of a non-EU state as opposed to an EU state, there could be huge implications for their future in Spain or in any other EU country. We are denying those people democracy. Some people are claiming that I am being undemocratic because I am trying to subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-11-29b.581.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-02", "file": "debates2013-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "1d331d79c6d9b439", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-02a.610.3", "colnum": "610", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "Three million Bulgarians have left their country to work in other countries over the last few years, because they have had the right to access 15 European countries. Is not a lot of the rhetoric that we have heard recently just scaremongering, following on from the disgraceful situation in the Eastleigh by-election?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-02a.610.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-02", "file": "debates2013-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "1d331d79c6d9b439", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-02a.660.3", "colnum": "660", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Driving Whilst Disqualified (Repeat Offenders) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Penning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Penning", "preceding_text": "Nothing is perfect, but there was nothing there before, and if we had carried on the way we were going, nothing would be there, going forward, for people who are suffering so much, and who need help today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-02a.660.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-02", "file": "debates2013-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "1d331d79c6d9b439", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-02a.663.1", "colnum": "663", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Driving Whilst Disqualified (Repeat Offenders) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Penning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Penning", "preceding_text": "I am coming to the end of my comments. We have no doubt that the principle of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-02a.663.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-04", "file": "debates2013-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "81f27193aa81d01e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-04b.946.3", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Recall of Elected Representatives", "cue_speaker": "Tom Greatrex", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Greatrex", "preceding_text": "d the slow build of the plants commissioned in 2007-08 were the result of a number of plants using defective steel. They are likely to operate at a loss. They are completing commissioning to make less of a loss than if they had been abandoned—that is the reality. I accept the hon. Gentleman’s general point about Germany. There is a danger that we almost fetishise the German experience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-04b.946.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-04", "file": "debates2013-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "81f27193aa81d01e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-04b.994.2", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Business Rates", "cue_speaker": "Toby Perkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Toby Perkins", "preceding_text": "ighest rate of commercial property tax in the EU. By contrast, we are set to have the lowest corporation tax in the G20 by 2015. Labour understands the importance of a competitive corporation tax rate. It might interest Conservative Members to learn that the biggest increase in corporation tax in the past 40 years was introduced by—I cannot hear the correct answer—Edward Heath in 1973.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-04b.994.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-04", "file": "debates2013-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "81f27193aa81d01e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-04b.998.0", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Business Rates", "cue_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "preceding_text": "As another former business owner, I can guarantee my hon. Friend that the Labour party really does understand that the face of business in this country has changed. That is why this debate is so important. Government Members do not seem to appreciate just how many more businesses there are these days compared with when the business rate regime was set up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-04b.998.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-04", "file": "debates2013-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "81f27193aa81d01e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-04b.998.0", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Business Rates", "cue_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "preceding_text": "y hon. Friend that the Labour party really does understand that the face of business in this country has changed. That is why this debate is so important. Government Members do not seem to appreciate just how many more businesses there are these days compared with when the business rate regime was set up. [Interruption.] That is why this debate and my hon. Friend’s proposal are so important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-04b.998.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-04", "file": "debates2013-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "81f27193aa81d01e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-04b.1006.0", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Business Rates", "cue_speaker": "Simon Danczuk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Danczuk", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister accept the analysis provided by Bill Grimsey’s alternative high street review, which shows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-04b.1006.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-04", "file": "debates2013-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "81f27193aa81d01e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-04b.1020.0", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Business Rates", "cue_speaker": "Nick de Bois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick de Bois", "preceding_text": " of an uprating system that is flawed and, to cut through the politics, the reality is that this has been going on for a long time. This is not a problem created by the Government parties. Incidentally, I notice that although this is an Opposition day debate, there have been consistently more Conservative Members in the Chamber discussing this issue. I think it is worth putting that on the record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-04b.1020.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-04", "file": "debates2013-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "81f27193aa81d01e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-04b.1020.0", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Business Rates", "cue_speaker": "Nick de Bois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick de Bois", "preceding_text": "ime. This is not a problem created by the Government parties. Incidentally, I notice that although this is an Opposition day debate, there have been consistently more Conservative Members in the Chamber discussing this issue. I think it is worth putting that on the record. [Interruption.] . I pay tribute to all who have spoken in the debate, however, because all the contributions have been useful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-04b.1020.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-04", "file": "debates2013-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "81f27193aa81d01e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-04b.1023.2", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Business Rates", "cue_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "preceding_text": "ll stated by him and many business leaders in the advice we have all received for this debate and over a much longer period. My hon. Friend the Member for Chesterfield (Toby Perkins) mentioned 1973 and the Heath Government. By way of context, it is instructive to consider the changes in business in the 40 years since. When the hon. Member for Enfield North moved on to other matters, however—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-04b.1023.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-04", "file": "debates2013-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "81f27193aa81d01e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-04b.1029.4", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Business Rates", "cue_speaker": "Brian Binley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Binley", "preceding_text": "ten a salutary exercise. We would not be where we are today if there were not a load of history behind all the stuff that we are now facing. That seems to have been forgotten by some of the younger Members on the Opposition Benches, so I will help them. I am going to elucidate and explain why we are where we are today. We had a structural deficit in the previous Government from 2002 onwards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-04b.1029.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-05", "file": "debates2013-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "d3a3897f430170fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-05a.1075.6", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Jo Swinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jo Swinson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes an important and powerful point. We want to ensure job security by having falling unemployment and a growing economy. That is exactly what the Government are delivering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-05a.1075.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-05", "file": "debates2013-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "d3a3897f430170fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-05a.1089.0", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "hon. Friend quite what is going to happen, because he has a habit of re-emerging in different guises. He has had more regenerations than Dr Who. The hon. Lady asked about the written statement by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in which he set out the further steps we have been taking to trial, learn, implement and put in place an effective online digital system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-05a.1089.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-05", "file": "debates2013-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "d3a3897f430170fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-05a.1099.0", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Councillors should be accountable for the decisions they make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-05a.1099.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-05", "file": "debates2013-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "d3a3897f430170fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-05a.1100.3", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Tom Blenkinsop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": "Average weekly gross pay for women in my constituency has fallen by £12.30 since 2010, while long-term female unemployment has risen by 144% since May 2010—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-05a.1100.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-05", "file": "debates2013-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "d3a3897f430170fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-05a.1101.3", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "ry rich paying the most. We are also helping families with their energy bills, not with a transparent con by pretending that we can control the world oil price, but instead by focusing on the thing that Government can and should control—the levies and charges that previous Energy Secretaries piled on bills. [Interruption.] This week we deliver on the promise made by the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-05a.1101.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-05", "file": "debates2013-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "d3a3897f430170fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-05a.1113.1", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I appeal to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-05a.1113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-05", "file": "debates2013-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "d3a3897f430170fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-05a.1113.2", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": " of touch with the cost of living crisis facing millions of people in our country. Can he confirm that, on average, working people in our country are £1,600 a year worse off than they were when the Government came into office in 2010, that prices will continue to rise faster than wages this year and into next year and that, as a result, people will be worse off in 2015 than they were in 2010?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-05a.1113.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-05", "file": "debates2013-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "d3a3897f430170fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-05a.1114.0", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "o business is now down by £100 billion compared with May 2010? Did he not make the No. 1 test of his economic credibility keeping the triple A credit rating, yet it has been downgraded not once but twice? As for his promise to balance the books by 2015, did he not confirm today that in 2015 he will not be balancing the books but borrowing £79 billion? For all his smoke and mirrors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-05a.1114.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-05", "file": "debates2013-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "d3a3897f430170fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-05a.1114.0", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "o, a married couple where both are paying basic-rate income tax will get no benefit at all. [ Interruption. ] No wonder his own Chancellor of the Exchequer has this week told The Daily Telegraph that he thinks the Prime Minister’s policy is “a turkey of an idea”. The Chancellor thinks the Prime Minister’s policy is a turkey. Merry Christmas, Prime Minister, Merry Christmas!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-05a.1114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-05", "file": "debates2013-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "d3a3897f430170fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-05a.1115.0", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It is very simple; this just lengthens the proceedings. It does not bother me; I very much enjoy chairing the proceedings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-05a.1115.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-05", "file": "debates2013-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "d3a3897f430170fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-05a.1115.1", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "way with tinkering at the edges, letting the free market rip, and waiting for the wealth to trickle down? Is not what the Chancellor has announced today the clearest evidence yet that the Government just do not understand the scale of the challenge we face to get an investment-led recovery that works for all and not just a few—a strong recovery built to last? Let me ask the Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-05a.1115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-05", "file": "debates2013-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "d3a3897f430170fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-05a.1115.1", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "e Chancellor— [ Interruption. ] With the permission of the House, let me ask the Chancellor this: with house building under this Government at its lowest level since the 1920s, does he not see that his Help to Buy scheme to boost mortgage demand can deliver a strong and balanced recovery only if he does what we and the IMF have urged and invests in housing supply—more affordable homes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-05a.1115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-05", "file": "debates2013-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "d3a3897f430170fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-05a.1121.3", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "The people who sucked up to the bankers and brought the British banking system to its knees are sitting on the Labour Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-05a.1121.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-10", "file": "debates2013-12-10b.xml", "sha256": "5889ca1670ad3a17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-10b.174.1", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Business of the House (Today)", "cue_speaker": "Shabana Mahmood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shabana Mahmood", "preceding_text": " I believe that the Government should have come back with a much bolder offer in the autumn statement. It was a missed opportunity to go further and faster. The Minister will not be surprised to hear that I think the Government should have adopted our alternative proposal for a compulsory jobs guarantee for every young person under the age of 25 who is out of work, funded by a tax on bank bonuses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-10b.174.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-10", "file": "debates2013-12-10b.xml", "sha256": "5889ca1670ad3a17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-10b.178.0", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Business of the House (Today)", "cue_speaker": "Sheila Gilmore", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Sheila Gilmore", "preceding_text": "e that relates to the claimant count, which is not always the same as youth unemployment, because some people in the 18-to-25 age group will have run out of contributory benefits and fallen off the claimant count. I still see an issue when I look around me, even in a city that, in comparison with the rest of Scotland, has always done better with regard to employment. Of course, it is a good thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-10b.178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-10", "file": "debates2013-12-10b.xml", "sha256": "5889ca1670ad3a17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-10b.195.5", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Business of the House (Today)", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Oh dear!”", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. I thank all Members for the valuable insight that they have provided throughout the Bill’s passage so far. Their expert scrutiny has gone a long way towards ensuring that it reaches the statute book in good shape. Indeed, my officials suggested that I describe it as being “in good NIC”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-10b.195.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-11", "file": "debates2013-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "309422faef056d03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-11a.230.4", "colnum": "230", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "ts right across the world. It was attended by a number of UK Ministers, including my right hon. Friends the Foreign Secretary and the Prime Minister. We hope that this will develop, with more Governments taking part and with a deepening of the relationship with civil society organisations in some countries where their life is not nearly as protected as the life of civil society organisations here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-11a.230.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-11", "file": "debates2013-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "309422faef056d03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-11a.234.1", "colnum": "234", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "In case the right hon. Gentleman has forgotten, he has been the Prime Minister for three and a half years. But I think we are making progress, because last Thursday the Chancellor said that living standards were rising.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-11a.234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-11", "file": "debates2013-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "309422faef056d03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-11a.234.1", "colnum": "234", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": " right hon. Gentleman has forgotten, he has been the Prime Minister for three and a half years. But I think we are making progress, because last Thursday the Chancellor said that living standards were rising. [Interruption.] His own Office for Budget Responsibility says: “Almost whichever way you look at it…average earnings, wages and salaries…the levels have been falling”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-11a.234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-11", "file": "debates2013-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "309422faef056d03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-11a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "I will tell the right hon. Gentleman what happened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-11a.235.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-11", "file": "debates2013-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "309422faef056d03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-11a.239.0", "colnum": "239", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend tempts me. The point I was trying to make is that cutting the cost of politics has a role to play alongside this argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-11a.239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-11", "file": "debates2013-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "309422faef056d03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-11a.240.6", "colnum": "240", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a very important point. At the end of the day, you can talk all you like about how you want to help people with their living standards and to keep their tax bills—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-11a.240.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-11", "file": "debates2013-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "309422faef056d03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-11a.240.6", "colnum": "240", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " hon. Friend makes a very important point. At the end of the day, you can talk all you like about how you want to help people with their living standards and to keep their tax bills— [ Interruption. ] Is it not extraordinary? After last week, and all that, the shadow Chancellor is at it again—heckling. We learned something last week: he can dish it out but he can’t take it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-11a.240.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-11", "file": "debates2013-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "309422faef056d03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-11a.273.5", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Subsequent stages", "cue_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "preceding_text": "vent the taking of a decision that results in the failure of a bank. That sets a high threshold and, as has already been pointed out, it is not clear who, of those who may have behaved in a reckless way in our banks and who may have brought down the banking system before, would have been prosecuted. The Minister has not been able to assist us as to who might have been prosecuted under the offence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-11a.273.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-11", "file": "debates2013-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "309422faef056d03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-11a.291.3", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Subsequent stages", "cue_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "preceding_text": " remit. The Minister said that he believed that the FCA had the resources to ensure that the system will be set up on time and will make progress as planned. I contrast that to the approach on payday lending, and I shall move on now to considering that issue. At the outset, I must say that we welcome the Government’s U-turn on the issue of capping the costs of the controversial payday loans.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-11a.291.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-11", "file": "debates2013-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "309422faef056d03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-11a.316.2", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Business without Debate", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hollobone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hollobone", "preceding_text": "part of two hours and 15 minutes, I hope he will forgive me on this occasion. As somebody who no doubt has travelled a lot on the West Anglia rail line, he will be used to delays in any event. I wished to catch your eye, Madam Deputy Speaker, because we have just had absolutely no explanation from the Deputy Leader of the House for why tomorrow’s sitting in Westminster Hall is to be changed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-11a.316.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-11", "file": "debates2013-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "309422faef056d03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-11a.320.0", "colnum": "320", "heading": "WEST ANGLIA RAIL LINE", "cue_speaker": "Alan Haselhurst", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Haselhurst", "preceding_text": "gested that good times would come when we had new longer franchises, but I am not sure that that policy still holds; that may have now changed to having rather shorter franchises. I would be interested to know what my hon. Friend the Minister has to say on that subject. Indeed, in addition to those other new circumstances, we have a new Minister. In fact he is the second since the previous debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-11a.320.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-12", "file": "debates2013-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "9a8c78894c675bd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-12a.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Fishing Industry", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": " mine, I have no doubt that they feel as though they have been kicked in the stomach because of what has happened to them and that they are having to suffer through no fault of their own. That is why I say that Ford—and in particular Ford in the United States of America, which I believe is leading Ford in the UK on this issue—should sit down and quietly consider their conscience again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-12a.427.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-16", "file": "debates2013-12-16b.xml", "sha256": "70012a4edf3c5bda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-16b.499.2", "colnum": "499", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — House of Commons Members’ Fund Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State began by quoting the principles of the NHS. I was always led to believe that one of the principles is that the NHS should respect need—that funds should follow those in greatest need.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-16b.499.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-16", "file": "debates2013-12-16b.xml", "sha256": "70012a4edf3c5bda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-16b.587.3", "colnum": "587", "heading": "ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "nswer to the hon. Gentleman is that certain standards should obtain in this House. If a Member is to raise a matter relating to the conduct of another Member, there is an obligation to notify the Member about whom the complaint is to be made some reasonable time in advance of getting up to make the complaint. Simply to send an e-mail a few moments beforehand is way below the standard of behaviour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-16b.587.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.724.0", "colnum": "724", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "preceding_text": "I may be wrong, and if I am I apologise, but I do not think my hon. Friend is right about the relative taxation of whisky and other alcoholic drinks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.724.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.729.6", "colnum": "729", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "preceding_text": "t about every other issue. The fact is that my hon. Friend the fisheries Minister led the delegation this year to the December Fisheries Council with exceptional skill. He delivered for the Scottish fleet the things that really mattered. In particular, he ensured that there was no further cut in effort and brought home important flexibility on monkfish quotas. He is to be commended for that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.729.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.734.0", "colnum": "734", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "Let us talk about the Prime Minister’s predictions. He said that he would balance the books in five years; he has failed. He said that he would secure Britain’s credit rating; he has failed. The worst prediction of all is that he said he would be good at being Prime Minister, and he has certainly failed at that. He has got no answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.734.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.734.5", "colnum": "734", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "jobs and 1.2 million more people in work, it is time that the right hon. Gentleman apologised for his prediction talking the economy down. He asks about the cost of living; let us compare our records on the cost of living. They doubled council tax; we have frozen it. They put up petrol tax times 12 times; we have frozen it. They put up the basic state pension by 75p; we have put it up by £15.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.734.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.734.5", "colnum": "734", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "s 12 times; we have frozen it. They put up the basic state pension by 75p; we have put it up by £15. [ Interruption. ] Ah, we have a new hand gesture from the shadow Chancellor! I would have thought that after today’s briefing in the papers the hand gesture for the shadow Chancellor should be bye-bye. You don’t need it to be Christmas to know when you are sitting next to a turkey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.734.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.735.3", "colnum": "735", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "We all know what the Prime Minister’s long-term plan is: to cut taxes for those on his Christmas card list and make everyone else sink or swim. That is his long-term plan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.735.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.736.1", "colnum": "736", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.736.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.736.2", "colnum": "736", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We will just have to keep going a bit longer, because I am not going to have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.736.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.738.2", "colnum": "738", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Ian Swales", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Swales", "preceding_text": "Experts said that Labour’s energy price freeze announcement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.738.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.740.3", "colnum": "740", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Order.”", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I think that people should read that report before they start shouting across the House of Commons in a completely inappropriate way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.740.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " are raising to £10,000 the amount people can earn before they pay income tax. That is worth £705 to a typical taxpayer. Because of the progress we have already made, disposable income this year is higher than it was in any year between 1997 and 2010. Opposition Members might not like those facts, but they are true. It is worth remembering why we are in this situation in the first place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.746.1", "colnum": "746", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Brandon Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brandon Lewis", "preceding_text": "8217;s promised £52 billion of cuts would come from. In reality, we have heard nothing new this morning. This statement comes after last year’s statement set out a two-year settlement for local authorities. In fact, whereas more than 3% had been predicted, this year local authorities will get a 2.9% reduction, falling to below 2% next year. So it is a good news day for local government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.746.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.746.2", "colnum": "746", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Mr Ronnie Campbell— [Interruption.] Order. Your apprenticeship to become a statesman will never be completed at this rate. I know you are a bit over-ebullient, but you must calm yourself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.746.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.747.0", "colnum": "747", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Brandon Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brandon Lewis", "preceding_text": "rred to councils such as Liverpool. I gently remind him that Liverpool and Newcastle are similar in being among the best-supported councils in the country and having the highest spending power per dwelling. For example, Newcastle receives £2,400 per dwelling, which is about £900 more than areas such as Windsor and Maidenhead. I think that he and his colleagues should look at the figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.747.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.760.2", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "would be incumbent on the Minister to find a way of disseminating that information to Members of the House other than by purely electronic means. If that did not happen, I understand that there may be some disappointment on that front. It is not something I can pursue further today, but in response to his inquiry I think I have put the point clearly on the record as to what ordinarily is expected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.760.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.766.2", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Accident and Emergency", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "d, we now read that it is Government policy to ask councils to set up more, even though they have just cut the funding of the councils with the most food banks. It is unbelievable. It suggests to me that they expect food poverty to be with us for some time to come and have no real intention of tackling it. People will go on having to choose between eating properly and putting the heating on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.766.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.767.0", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Accident and Emergency", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "une 2010 and, as a result, we all hear stories, do we not, of people saying that they are getting up and ringing the surgery at 8 or 9 o’clock in the morning and are being told that there is nothing available for days. That is a result of the Government’s decision to remove the two-day guarantee. That is why people are facing that frustration. I shall explain that in more detail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.767.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.770.0", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Accident and Emergency", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": " face—into a political argument regardless of the impact on patients or staff. Vulnerable people are relying on our emergency services this winter, so to whip up fear and run down performance, as he has done, is frankly shameful. It is putting politics before patients, and not for the first time from the Opposition Benches. If the right hon. Gentleman does not want to talk about Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.770.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.773.8", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Accident and Emergency", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": " pressure in the short and the long term. For this winter, we have distributed more financial help—£400 million in total—than ever before. So far, that money has paid for 2,900 additional staff, 1,100 more hospital beds, and 1,200 more community beds. It has also paid for additional support for ambulance services and 111 centres. We distributed that money earlier than ever before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.773.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.782.0", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Accident and Emergency", "cue_speaker": "Phillip Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phillip Lee", "preceding_text": "t the plans for many of the configurations have been somewhat made up on the hoof. They have usually been created and pushed by a series of local issues—such as 19th or 20th-century buildings that can no longer deliver 21st-century health care—but I recognise the need for a plan, and I will come back to that at the end of my speech. I fear that a perfect storm is looming at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.782.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Accident and Emergency", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "preceding_text": "The Montague medical centre in Goole had to close its lists down, but if we ask why, we find that it was due to the large uncontrolled immigration we had from the A8 countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.798.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Accident and Emergency", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "preceding_text": " we ask why, we find that it was due to the large uncontrolled immigration we had from the A8 countries. [Interruption.] That is a fact. That is why the lists had to be closed—due to the previous Government’s failure to plan for the number of people coming here—so I thank the hon. Gentleman for that helpful intervention. Let me deal with a couple of issues in my own constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.798.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Accident and Emergency", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "preceding_text": "have made through the Health Committee—not just to convey people, but to treat them in their homes. We established an emergency care practitioner in Goole, which in the first six to eight weeks saved 56 double-crew manned hours and numerous transfers to Scunthorpe A and E. That has proved to be an effective use of our ambulance services, and I hope that we can start to see it moving through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.798.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.806.5", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Accident and Emergency", "cue_speaker": "Robert Halfon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Halfon", "preceding_text": "May I also mention to the hon. Lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.806.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.807.3", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Accident and Emergency", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": "No. Let me make it clear that I will not take many interventions because of the number—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.807.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.809.2", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Accident and Emergency", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": "No. To suggest that people can just arrive at a food bank asking for free food shows how out of touch Ministers are with the way food banks work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.809.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.810.3", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Accident and Emergency", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": "No. The number of those paid less than a living wage is up by 1.4 million since 2009, to 4.8 million workers in the UK last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.810.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.810.3", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Accident and Emergency", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": "No. The number of those paid less than a living wage is up by 1.4 million since 2009, to 4.8 million workers in the UK last year— [Interruption.] No, I have been very clear that I am not giving way again in this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.810.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.810.3", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Accident and Emergency", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": "No. The number of those paid less than a living wage is up by 1.4 million since 2009, to 4.8 million workers in the UK last year— [Interruption.] No, I have been very clear that I am not giving way again in this debate. [Interruption.] As pay packets shrink in real terms, prices continue to rise, and they rise faster than wages. That has happened for 41 of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.810.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.810.4", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Accident and Emergency", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "Order. I do not understand why there are conversations going on all around the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.810.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.812.2", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Accident and Emergency", "cue_speaker": "Esther McVey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Esther McVey", "preceding_text": "I will continue a little, because the truth must be heard. While Labour was in office, it gradually wore away the financial strength of this country, eroding its savings and savings culture, and then it crashed the economy. Gas bills doubled, council tax doubled and fuel duty went up 12 times. The only things that grew under Labour were debt and overspending. It left the UK with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.812.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.812.4", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Accident and Emergency", "cue_speaker": "Esther McVey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Esther McVey", "preceding_text": "f living beyond our means—that increase in prices, debt and unaffordability—had to come to a stop. It came to a stop suddenly and, sadly, we are all paying the price. The Government are paying the price, charities are paying the price, businesses are paying the price and individuals are paying the price as we try to balance not only our household budgets, but the budget of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.812.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.813.3", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Accident and Emergency", "cue_speaker": "Esther McVey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Esther McVey", "preceding_text": "on for getting benefits has increased by six percentage points. Let us not get away from how this started under Labour. What each and every one of us does is important. I have heard nothing from Opposition Members about the news that, because of our welfare-to-work programme, 30 million people are in jobs today. We know that under Labour, the number of households with nobody working doubled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.813.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.814.0", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Accident and Emergency", "cue_speaker": "Esther McVey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “ Give way!”", "preceding_speaker": "Esther McVey", "preceding_text": "overnment it was the fact that not only are this Government doing more to get people into work—I will say it again, although I heard no positive sounds from the Labour Benches before: there are 30 million people in work—and that businesses have helped to support people and have taken them on, but that the community has come together to support one another. That must be a positive move.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.814.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.814.0", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Accident and Emergency", "cue_speaker": "Esther McVey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Esther McVey", "preceding_text": "s the dodgy dossier and never wanted verification of the facts—why let the facts get in the way of a tale of fiction? It is only correct that we get our facts right and deliver this report at the right time, as we are doing. As we have said, it is positive; people are reaching out to support others in church groups, community groups, local supermarkets and other groups. That is a fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.814.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.814.2", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Accident and Emergency", "cue_speaker": "Esther McVey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “ Give way!”", "preceding_speaker": "Esther McVey", "preceding_text": "In the UK, it is right to say that more people are visiting food banks, as we would expect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.814.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.814.2", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Accident and Emergency", "cue_speaker": "Esther McVey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Esther McVey", "preceding_text": " debt that we saw under Labour. It is important to look at what is happening around the world. The UK has a population of 63 million and 60,000 people are visiting food banks according to the Trussell Trust. In Germany, however, with a population of 82 million, there are 1.5 million users of food banks. Canada has population of 35 million, and there are 830,000 monthly users of the Trussell Trust.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.814.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.814.2", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Accident and Emergency", "cue_speaker": "Esther McVey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Esther McVey", "preceding_text": "ssell Trust. In Germany, however, with a population of 82 million, there are 1.5 million users of food banks. Canada has population of 35 million, and there are 830,000 monthly users of the Trussell Trust. [ Interruption. ] We must put everything in context and look at what happened, whether that is the overspending and not being able to balance the books from 2002, or the financial crash of 2007.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.814.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.814.3", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Accident and Emergency", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.814.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.814.3", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Accident and Emergency", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. [ Interruption. ] Order. The House should pause for a moment, calm down and listen to the Minister. Everyone will have a turn to make their point in due course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.814.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.814.4", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Accident and Emergency", "cue_speaker": "Esther McVey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Esther McVey", "preceding_text": "get people into work. Children are three times more likely to be in poverty if they are in a workless household. Labour is the party that gave us workless households. I will say this again because the Opposition still have not acknowledged it. Thirty million people are in jobs today. That means that a further 1.25 million people are in jobs since the general election. The Opposition told us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.814.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.815.0", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Accident and Emergency", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. If hon. Members do not keep quiet and listen to the Minister, she will have to repeat her speech over and over again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.815.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.815.1", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Accident and Emergency", "cue_speaker": "Esther McVey", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Esther McVey", "preceding_text": "are also wrong on food banks. That is why we must compare Labour’s legacy of a debt-fuelled boom with what this Government have done. What are this Government doing and how have we supported people? Under Labour, 5 million were on out-of-work benefits, the number of households where nobody worked doubled, and 2 million children lived in workless households. That is what we do not want—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.815.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.815.3", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Accident and Emergency", "cue_speaker": "Esther McVey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Esther McVey", "preceding_text": "van £1,000. All of that is key. The winter fuel allowance and cold weather payments have stayed, and we have given tax breaks to young people who are going to be in a job. That is what we have done to support people. When we talk about what happened under what Government, what happened when and how the Trussell Trust started, and when we talk about the removal of the spare room subsidy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.815.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.816.1", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Accident and Emergency", "cue_speaker": "Sheila Gilmore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sheila Gilmore", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to the Minister. On the one hand, she has spent a long time telling us that there are now many more people in work, although the rate of employment has still not returned to pre-recession levels. But if —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.816.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.816.6", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Accident and Emergency", "cue_speaker": "Esther McVey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Esther McVey", "preceding_text": " Something to ponder on for a second is that it was the shadow Secretary of State, the hon. Member for Leeds West (Rachel Reeves) , who said that the Opposition want to be tougher on benefits and do more than we are doing. I wonder how Opposition Members feel about that and whether they believe that use of the Trussell Trust would be higher or lower were that to happen. I will come to a close now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.816.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.816.6", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Accident and Emergency", "cue_speaker": "Esther McVey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Esther McVey", "preceding_text": "t to be tougher on benefits and do more than we are doing. I wonder how Opposition Members feel about that and whether they believe that use of the Trussell Trust would be higher or lower were that to happen. I will come to a close now. [Interruption.] Sadly, there is chanting from the Opposition. I find how the Opposition left this country—in a vulnerable position—a really sad moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.816.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.829.2", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Accident and Emergency", "cue_speaker": "Roger Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Williams", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Lady for that intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.829.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Accident and Emergency", "cue_speaker": "John Glen", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "John Glen", "preceding_text": " be uncomfortable for some Government Members, as might its implications and the way the tone of the debate has taken an unfortunate turn this afternoon. We have to acknowledge the growth in food banks. In 2005-06, there were fewer than 3,000 users, but that had risen to 40,000 by 2009-10. I accept that we have seen a similar scale of use. The question is: why and what are we going to do about it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.853.0", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Accident and Emergency", "cue_speaker": "Adam Holloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Holloway", "preceding_text": "Some years ago I spent five months living homeless in London among the dispossessed and the mentally ill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.853.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-18", "file": "debates2013-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e028748b136179ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.854.3", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Accident and Emergency", "cue_speaker": "Simon Danczuk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Danczuk", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister accept that scrapping the national social fund has made it more difficult for people to get crisis loans, which has pushed people towards food banks?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-18b.854.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-19", "file": "debates2013-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "9aa98de0debbf02a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-19b.895.0", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": " to ensure that, in the next period of regulation, they deliver the best possible benefits and value for money to consumers. I know that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change supports that work. I am sad to have to tell the hon. Lady that I am not responsible at this Dispatch Box for what the Conservative party has put in its 2014 “campaign toolkit”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-19b.895.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2013-12-19", "file": "debates2013-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "9aa98de0debbf02a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-19b.899.1", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “She wants a better answer.”", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady has just missed Transport questions—[Hon. Members: “She was here.”] I beg her pardon. I did not mean that she was not here. I meant that she did not get her question in—[Hon. Members: “She did.”] Oh, I apologise. If she has asked that question, she has, from a business point of view, already had a chance to raise it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2013-12-19b.899.1"}
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