{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-06", "file": "debates2014-01-06a.xml", "sha256": "74877035cc2d709b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-06a.4.2", "colnum": "4", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Rob Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rob Wilson", "preceding_text": "I hope that the Secretary of State will shortly announce the approval of the Maiden Erlegh free school in my constituency, but is he as concerned as I am by Labour’s secret plan to review free school premises and buildings? Is that not simply a back-door way to destroy the free school movement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-06a.4.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-06", "file": "debates2014-01-06a.xml", "sha256": "74877035cc2d709b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-06a.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should have intervened on me if he was concerned that I had not covered his new clause. I echo the point that the Minister made—the Silk commission is examining the issue and will report in the spring.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-06a.72.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-08", "file": "debates2014-01-08c.xml", "sha256": "6ef839e02cb3b4d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-08c.302.1", "colnum": "302", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "Could I agree with the Prime Minister— [ Interruption. ] It is genuinely absurd that the leader of the no campaign in Scotland cannot get a debate with the leader of the yes campaign in Scotland, and that the leader of the yes campaign in Scotland demands a debate with somebody who does not have a vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-08c.302.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-08", "file": "debates2014-01-08c.xml", "sha256": "6ef839e02cb3b4d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-08c.302.4", "colnum": "302", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More!", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "I am not finished!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-08c.302.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-08", "file": "debates2014-01-08c.xml", "sha256": "6ef839e02cb3b4d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-08c.331.0", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day] — Housing", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": " he did at least have the modesty to put out one press release which was headed: “No complacency in the drive to build more homes.” The Secretary of State should listen to the plans and proposals Labour have put forward about what more needs to be done. Let us consider affordable homes. What did the Government do? One of their first acts was to cut the affordable housing budget by 60%.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-08c.331.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-08", "file": "debates2014-01-08c.xml", "sha256": "6ef839e02cb3b4d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-08c.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day] — Housing", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "rker carried out her review into the housing market a decade ago she found two factors that we need to consider. First, she said that “limited land supply means the competition tends to be focused on land acquisition rather than on consumers”. Secondly, she found that “many housebuilders ‘trickle out’ houses…to protect themselves against price volatility”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-08c.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-08", "file": "debates2014-01-08c.xml", "sha256": "6ef839e02cb3b4d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-08c.335.3", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day] — Housing", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman is well aware, there was a very difficult period—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-08c.335.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-08", "file": "debates2014-01-08c.xml", "sha256": "6ef839e02cb3b4d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-08c.339.7", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day] — Housing", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": " him to consider that brick makers stayed at work over the Christmas period—very unusually—to catch up with demand for bricks to build new homes. Including empty homes being brought back into use, the new homes bonus has made available more than half a million more homes to buy and rent. I must say that I have, after a fashion, become attached to the right hon. Member for Leeds Central", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-08c.339.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-08", "file": "debates2014-01-08c.xml", "sha256": "6ef839e02cb3b4d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-08c.343.1", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day] — Housing", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "Perhaps we could nationalise them— [ Interruption. ] I thought that would get the hon. Member for Blyth Valley (Mr Campbell) excited. Perhaps we should confiscate the land. Perhaps we should use a North Korean solution and start arresting and executing them for failing to do that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-08c.343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-08", "file": "debates2014-01-08c.xml", "sha256": "6ef839e02cb3b4d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-08c.352.1", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day] — Housing", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": " that and it is the coalition that is creating the opportunity for it to happen. Contrary to what the hon. Member for Great Grimsby said, this country now has a policy whereby, when a social home is sold, another will be built in its place. He would be right to say that it takes a little while to get the planning permission and other stuff in place, but the policy and the delivery of it are there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-08c.352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-08", "file": "debates2014-01-08c.xml", "sha256": "6ef839e02cb3b4d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-08c.357.1", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day] — Housing", "cue_speaker": "Emma Reynolds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emma Reynolds", "preceding_text": " direct quote—that I would love to see a Labour Government starting four or five new towns. We are looking at current legislation on new towns, and also to learn lessons from the generation of new towns that were delivered in the post-war period. We have asked Sir Michael Lyons and a panel of experts, including the Town and Country Planning Association and the big home builder Barratt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-08c.357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-08", "file": "debates2014-01-08c.xml", "sha256": "6ef839e02cb3b4d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-08c.359.3", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day] — Housing", "cue_speaker": "Kris Hopkins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Kris Hopkins", "preceding_text": "mber for Elmet and Rothwell (Alec Shelbrooke) talked about local plans and a strong local voice, and I know that he is a powerful voice in his community. The right hon. Member for Hazel Grove (Sir Andrew Stunell) talked about localism and the increasing number of social houses. He also pointed out that Labour delivered 50% of its desire to get rid of boom and bust—it got rid of the boom bit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-08c.359.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-08", "file": "debates2014-01-08c.xml", "sha256": "6ef839e02cb3b4d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-08c.367.6", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day] — Housing", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend that the Conservative party seems not to be taking any responsibility for things that are happening under its watch. Let me add some further evidence about deprivation —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-08c.367.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-08", "file": "debates2014-01-08c.xml", "sha256": "6ef839e02cb3b4d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-08c.372.1", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day] — Housing", "cue_speaker": "Clive Efford", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Efford", "preceding_text": "islation to go back and take licences for those machines away from betting shops, but that is what is included in the motion. If that is what the hon. Gentleman is calling for, he can vote with us. Perhaps the most damning fact is the Government’s claim that councils have powers to stop the clustering of betting shops. Again in her comments on today’s debate, the shadow Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-08c.372.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-08", "file": "debates2014-01-08c.xml", "sha256": "6ef839e02cb3b4d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-08c.411.1", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day] — Housing", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Boles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Boles", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, I will not give way; I have only two minutes. That Labour councillor introduced an article 4 measure with immediate effect to prevent the conversion of more premises from other use classes to that of a betting shop. Let me quote that Labour councillor’s words on the Southwark council website—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-08c.411.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-09", "file": "debates2014-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "db952838302ff76c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-09b.451.0", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "earned and acted in order to make sure there is safe and sound implementation. Part of that was always in anticipation of the transfer of responsibility from the Government Digital Service to the DWP’s own digital team. I thought the highlight of the hon. Lady’s remarks was her question on hairdressing. I am quite pleased that people up in the Gallery can have a good look at the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-09b.451.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-09", "file": "debates2014-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "db952838302ff76c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-09b.451.0", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "ghlight of the hon. Lady’s remarks was her question on hairdressing. I am quite pleased that people up in the Gallery can have a good look at the— [ Interruption ] —try to get that one into Hansard , Mr Speaker. When I visit Mr Polito’s in Cambridge, as I perhaps will this weekend, he will be able to advise me. [ Interruption. ] Mr Polito’s is not a person but a shop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-09b.451.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-13", "file": "debates2014-01-13d.xml", "sha256": "12d108385c8526cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-13d.567.2", "colnum": "567", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "I am not sure from that whether the right hon. Gentleman supports the change or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-13d.567.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-13", "file": "debates2014-01-13d.xml", "sha256": "12d108385c8526cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-13d.579.0", "colnum": "579", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "Universal credit is set to roll out according to the timetable I laid out the other day. We have been round this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-13d.579.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-13", "file": "debates2014-01-13d.xml", "sha256": "12d108385c8526cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-13d.609.3", "colnum": "609", "heading": "European Union (Approvals) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Helen Goodman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Goodman", "preceding_text": "lain. I have some observations and questions for the Minister about these two major themes in the Bill. As he has explained, EU documents will be archived at the European University Institute in Florence so that future historians can benefit from complete records. The Clerk of the House has explained to me that our own material is archived in Victoria Tower. Will the Minister tell the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-13d.609.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-13", "file": "debates2014-01-13d.xml", "sha256": "12d108385c8526cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-13d.631.3", "colnum": "631", "heading": "European Union (Approvals) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “The French!”", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "ay it themselves, it must be true, but, by and large, it is not true. The paragraph goes on to tell the great joke—I doubt you ever thought, Mr Deputy Speaker, there would be such humour in a European Union document—about long-term stable growth. Tell that to the Greeks, the Italians, the Cypriots, the Spanish, the Portuguese and the Irish. Are there any other offers from hon. Members?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-13d.631.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-13", "file": "debates2014-01-13d.xml", "sha256": "12d108385c8526cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-13d.633.5", "colnum": "633", "heading": "European Union (Approvals) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": " one sentence—probably many more—of complete gobbledegook, so I shall quote one. It may be that a cleverer hon. Member present will be able to translate it. It states: “A horizontal dimension of the Programme should ensure the valorisation and transferability of results for enhanced impact and long-term sustainability.” Ain’t that just fine and dandy? I want to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-13d.633.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-13", "file": "debates2014-01-13d.xml", "sha256": "12d108385c8526cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-13d.635.0", "colnum": "635", "heading": "European Union (Approvals) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "preceding_text": "nds on the Front Bench for most of the debate. It is true that we invited Justice Ministers to wind up the debate, because archives are obviously an important element of their portfolio, but for some reason we found that none was available. It is therefore down to me, with the leave of the House, to wind up the debate. It is very rare for a Minister to open and close a Second Reading debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-13d.635.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-13", "file": "debates2014-01-13d.xml", "sha256": "12d108385c8526cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-13d.635.0", "colnum": "635", "heading": "European Union (Approvals) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "preceding_text": "ited Justice Ministers to wind up the debate, because archives are obviously an important element of their portfolio, but for some reason we found that none was available. It is therefore down to me, with the leave of the House, to wind up the debate. It is very rare for a Minister to open and close a Second Reading debate— [ Interruption. ] Apart from two weeks ago, it is a very rare event.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-13d.635.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-13", "file": "debates2014-01-13d.xml", "sha256": "12d108385c8526cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-13d.635.0", "colnum": "635", "heading": "European Union (Approvals) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "preceding_text": "e— [ Interruption. ] Apart from two weeks ago, it is a very rare event. [ Interruption. ] It happens all the time, according to the hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) . Here I am, however, closing a debate that I opened. Let me begin by asking the hon. Gentleman not to intervene from a sedentary position. Frankly, if he has something to say, he should come to the Dispatch Box and say it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-13d.635.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-13", "file": "debates2014-01-13d.xml", "sha256": "12d108385c8526cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-13d.654.5", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Welfare Reforms and Poverty", "cue_speaker": "Steve Rotheram", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “We can’t.”", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Rotheram", "preceding_text": "gage repayment problems to seek early advice rather than allowing the problems to build up. Unfortunately, the cuts to citizens advice bureaux and legal aid make it more difficult to get appropriate advice. One of the advice centres in my constituency has had to close. In quarter 2 of this financial year—I am going to run out of time unless somebody intervenes on my to allow me an extension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-13d.654.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-13", "file": "debates2014-01-13d.xml", "sha256": "12d108385c8526cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-13d.679.0", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Welfare Reforms and Poverty", "cue_speaker": "Michael Penning", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “It is a Back-Bench debate.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Penning", "preceding_text": "ere so determined that they wanted this they could have had this debate and pushed for this inquiry during Opposition day debates last week or later in this week. They could even have signed the motion tabled by the right hon. Member for Oldham West and Royton (Mr Meacher) , but they did not; there are three names on the Order Paper, but none from the Front Bench. They have suddenly decided—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-13d.679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-13", "file": "debates2014-01-13d.xml", "sha256": "12d108385c8526cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-13d.679.0", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Welfare Reforms and Poverty", "cue_speaker": "Michael Penning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Penning", "preceding_text": "m West and Royton (Mr Meacher) , but they did not; there are three names on the Order Paper, but none from the Front Bench. They have suddenly decided—[Hon. Members: “It is a Back-Bench debate.] So why did we have the debate last week? What about the business next week? They have not done it. Let us not get into the semantics of what went on but look at what happened during the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-13d.679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-13", "file": "debates2014-01-13d.xml", "sha256": "12d108385c8526cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-13d.679.0", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Welfare Reforms and Poverty", "cue_speaker": "Michael Penning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Penning", "preceding_text": "e that the work capability assessments were introduced by the previous Administration, as was the Atos contract, which we discussed at Work and Pensions questions. So we inherited the assessments that are being complained about by hon. Members from across the House today, particularly those being carried out by Atos. We are working hard to improve the situation and deal with the mess we inherited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-13d.679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-13", "file": "debates2014-01-13d.xml", "sha256": "12d108385c8526cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-13d.680.1", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Welfare Reforms and Poverty", "cue_speaker": "Michael Penning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Penning", "preceding_text": " that the shadow Secretary of State said that Labour would be tougher than the Tories on welfare and on welfare reforms. There was no nuance about helping more people. Labour said it would be tougher than the Tories on welfare. We have saved £83 billion on welfare spending—that is the predicted saving. I would like to know where those cuts would take place if not through welfare reform.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-13d.680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-13", "file": "debates2014-01-13d.xml", "sha256": "12d108385c8526cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-13d.681.5", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Welfare Reforms and Poverty", "cue_speaker": "Michael Penning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Penning", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Oldham East and Saddleworth talked about bogus appointments. I would love to know about that and how it happened, so perhaps we can meet after the debate. It is obviously fundamentally wrong for bogus appointments to be made and for people to then be sanctioned. It would be much appreciated if she or any other hon. Member could help us with such issues. Mr Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-13d.681.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-13", "file": "debates2014-01-13d.xml", "sha256": "12d108385c8526cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-13d.685.0", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Welfare Reforms and Poverty", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his point of order, but it is not a matter for the Chair. If the Minister of State wants to respond, he can, but he is under no obligation to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-13d.685.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-14", "file": "debates2014-01-14b.xml", "sha256": "7e1e0e84f583d35b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-14b.699.2", "colnum": "699", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "221; caused by a top-down reorganisation no one wanted and nobody voted for. Ministers dismantled work force planning structures, making redundant the very people who could have done something to stop the locum bill spiralling out of control. Will he now concede that breaking the coalition agreement promise of no top-down reorganisation has weakened the NHS and made the A and E crisis worse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-14b.699.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-14", "file": "debates2014-01-14b.xml", "sha256": "7e1e0e84f583d35b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-14b.700.2", "colnum": "700", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "I think the figures about which the hon. Gentleman is talking are efficiencies and not actual cuts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-14b.700.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-14", "file": "debates2014-01-14b.xml", "sha256": "7e1e0e84f583d35b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-14b.742.8", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Offender Rehabilitation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Champion", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Champion", "preceding_text": "May I begin by apologising as I will not be able to be present for the final winding-up speeches? I mean no disrespect, but I have an outstanding parliamentary engagement I just cannot get rid of.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-14b.742.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-14", "file": "debates2014-01-14b.xml", "sha256": "7e1e0e84f583d35b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-14b.792.3", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Offender Rehabilitation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": ", the handling of money and so on. That is another issue that has rightly been identified. In March 2008, I tabled a number of questions to the Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice, asking how many inmates in UK prisons there were from service backgrounds. I was told that that figure was not available. In the summer of that year, together with NAPO and the redoubtable Harry Fletcher—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-14b.792.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-14", "file": "debates2014-01-14b.xml", "sha256": "7e1e0e84f583d35b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-14b.821.1", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Offender Rehabilitation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Burt", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Burt", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr Speaker. With the leave of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-14b.821.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-15", "file": "debates2014-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "31398acd592eae95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-15a.839.1", "colnum": "839", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": " back to May 2010, I think he might note that the good people of England comprehensively rejected the Labour party and all its works at that time, which I think was pretty sensible of them. As the hon. Gentleman knows, we are looking after the interests of everyone in the United Kingdom. For instance, 1.6 million private sector jobs have been created since 2010, including jobs in Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-15a.839.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-15", "file": "debates2014-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "31398acd592eae95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-15a.840.7", "colnum": "840", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "First, may I say how much I appreciated the hon. Lady’s contribution to the meeting we had yesterday with the disabled police officers in Northern Ireland, to whom we owe a great deal? I understand the hon. Lady’s concerns about the issues she raises but these are entirely devolved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-15a.840.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-15", "file": "debates2014-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "31398acd592eae95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-15a.840.7", "colnum": "840", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": " disabled police officers in Northern Ireland, to whom we owe a great deal? I understand the hon. Lady’s concerns about the issues she raises but these are entirely devolved. [Interruption.] The commissioning and provision of medical services in Northern Ireland are matters for the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety in Northern Ireland and the Health and Social Care Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-15a.840.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-15", "file": "debates2014-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "31398acd592eae95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-15a.844.0", "colnum": "844", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I will tell the right hon. Gentleman exactly what we are saying to RBS: if there are any proposals to increase the overall pay—that is, the pay and bonus bill—at RBS, at the investment bank, we will veto them. What a pity that the previous Government never took an approach like that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-15a.844.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-15", "file": "debates2014-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "31398acd592eae95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-15a.857.1", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day] — Banking", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "n Britain in the absence of domestic action, but believes that the Government as a majority shareholder in RBS should not approve any request to increase the cap; and calls on the Government to prevent a return to business-as-usual in the banking sector, which continues to require real reform and competition so that the UK can earn its way out of the cost of living crisis. Mr Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-15a.857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-15", "file": "debates2014-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "31398acd592eae95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-15a.857.1", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day] — Banking", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "increase the cap; and calls on the Government to prevent a return to business-as-usual in the banking sector, which continues to require real reform and competition so that the UK can earn its way out of the cost of living crisis. Mr Deputy Speaker— [ Interruption. ] My apologies, Mr Speaker; I correct my first sentence. I want to explain to the House that for many of our constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-15a.857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-15", "file": "debates2014-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "31398acd592eae95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-15a.859.3", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day] — Banking", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "There they go again, denying that the banks had any responsibility whatever for the global financial crisis. Obviously, it was Labour’s investment in schools and hospitals that caused the devastation in dozens of countries worldwide and recession across—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-15a.859.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-15", "file": "debates2014-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "31398acd592eae95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-15a.882.0", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day] — Banking", "cue_speaker": "Ian Lucas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Lucas", "preceding_text": " clear the deficit by 2015. He has changed his mind since then; he has failed according to his own terms. He has redefined the rules of the game. We need a complete change. We do not want to go back to 2006 or 2007; we need to go back to an economic system with devolved power and finance. We need a regional banking system based not on North Korea, but on Germany, where the Sparkassen system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-15a.882.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-15", "file": "debates2014-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "31398acd592eae95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-15a.901.0", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day] — Banking", "cue_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "preceding_text": "o earn our way out of the cost of living crisis. As I highlighted when we were debating the banking reform Bill, the danger is assuming that the job is done and that no further reform is necessary. Now that that Bill has been passed, our concern, which was reflected by many of my hon. Friends, is that the banks will simply slide back into previous practices or wish to go back to business as usual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-15a.901.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-15", "file": "debates2014-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "31398acd592eae95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-15a.905.5", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day] — Banking", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "No, I shall make some progress. We did not hear anything about the bankers’ bonus tax from Labour today—at least we do not see much about it in its motion—although it is customary on these occasions for Labour to identify yet another spending programme to be funded by it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-15a.905.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-15", "file": "debates2014-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "31398acd592eae95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-15a.915.6", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day] — Banking", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "For 41 of the 42 months that the Prime Minister has been in office, prices have risen at a faster rate than wages, and that continues to be the case. The only month that it was not the case was in April last year, when bank bonuses were deferred from March to April to take advantage of the cuts in the top rate of tax from 50p to 45p.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-15a.915.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-15", "file": "debates2014-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "31398acd592eae95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-15a.915.7", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day] — Banking", "cue_speaker": "Brooks Newmark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brooks Newmark", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-15a.915.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-15", "file": "debates2014-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "31398acd592eae95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-15a.917.6", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day] — Banking", "cue_speaker": "Guy Opperman", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Guy Opperman", "preceding_text": "Can we get to the nuts and bolts of policy? Will the hon. Lady give the House an assurance that policies such as the petrol duty freeze and the council tax freeze—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-15a.917.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-15", "file": "debates2014-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "31398acd592eae95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-15a.921.4", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day] — Banking", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "a little difficult to do so in the face of the relentless tribalism that we have just heard, but I would say at the outset that the introduction of the national minimum wage was a real achievement of the previous Government. There were not many achievements, but two will stand the test of time: the establishment of the independent Bank of England and the establishment of the national minimum wage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-15a.921.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-15", "file": "debates2014-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "31398acd592eae95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-15a.927.2", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day] — Banking", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "I think it is £2.68, and it was going to be frozen at £2.65.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-15a.927.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-15", "file": "debates2014-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "31398acd592eae95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-15a.938.0", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day] — Banking", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Birtwistle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Birtwistle", "preceding_text": "e words. If they were in the motion, I would vote for it; unfortunately, they are not. The Opposition do not have the confidence to include in the motion what they believe the minimum wage should be. I understand that what they suggest runs for only 12 months. What will happen after 12 months? Will everyone go back to what they had before, or will people lose their jobs? It is a half-baked motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-15a.938.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-15", "file": "debates2014-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "31398acd592eae95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-15a.955.0", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day] — Banking", "cue_speaker": "Nicky Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicky Morgan", "preceding_text": "to us. I will try, shortly, to address as many of the points raised as possible in the time allowed to me. The shadow Secretary of State and many Opposition Members have taken great pride in pointing out that 17 years ago some members of my party had reservations about the impact that a minimum wage might have on UK businesses. The Opposition are right to point out that some of those fears —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-15a.955.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-15", "file": "debates2014-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "31398acd592eae95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-15a.955.2", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day] — Banking", "cue_speaker": "Nicky Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicky Morgan", "preceding_text": "to pay the wages with penalties and publicity will be so important. Let me turn to the points that have been made by Members across the House this afternoon. We started with a typically thoughtful contribution from my hon. Friend the Member for Harlow (Robert Halfon) , who has looked a great deal at this area. He mentioned the reintroduction of the 10p tax band, which is an interesting suggestion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-15a.955.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-17", "file": "debates2014-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "31b6266e7244e5c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-17a.1140.0", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Guy Opperman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Guy Opperman", "preceding_text": "I will pass on my hon. Friend’s apologies to the university of Essex. The harsh reality is that there is ample evidence from a variety of sources, including from other universities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-17a.1140.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-20", "file": "debates2014-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "016f85ea8e245f8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-20a.100.0", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Payday Loan Companies", "cue_speaker": "Gregg McClymont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregg McClymont", "preceding_text": "utgoings had not been met, and they redeemed when they were paid—over and again, week after week. Of course, the world has changed enormously in the past 100 years. Everyone’s standard of living has increased significantly. I would argue that it is not coincidental that that happened at the same time as the Labour party was formed to advance the interests of people in those situations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-20a.100.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-20", "file": "debates2014-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "016f85ea8e245f8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-20a.122.0", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Payday Loan Companies", "cue_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "preceding_text": "l as well as interventions. Most of the speakers seemed to reach a consensus on a way forward, although, as my hon. Friend the Member for East Lothian (Fiona O'Donnell) pointed out, the slight exception might be the hon. Member for Stratford-on-Avon (Nadhim Zahawi) , who has just returned to his place. He tried his best to be consensual, but every now and again he was straining at the seams—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-20a.122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-20", "file": "debates2014-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "016f85ea8e245f8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-20a.131.0", "colnum": "131", "heading": "PREPAYMENT METERS AND FUEL POVERTY", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Member for East Lothian (Fiona O’Donnell) on an excellent maiden Adjournment debate—I believe she said it is the first time she has secured one—and may I say upfront that she raised some sensible and pertinent points that I take very seriously? I doubt that I will be able to answer all the points she has raised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-20a.131.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-21", "file": "debates2014-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "b3404659436eb1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-21a.160.3", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day] — Pub Companies", "cue_speaker": "Toby Perkins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Toby Perkins", "preceding_text": "P’s life when he can vote for something that is both popular and right. In the last decade, our expectations of our locals have changed, and consumers now rank food higher than beer or sociability among their reasons for choosing a pub. As I know there is so much common ground between many Members across the House, I shall argue the case for reform in as unpartisan a way as I am capable of .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-21a.160.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-21", "file": "debates2014-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "b3404659436eb1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-21a.203.4", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day] — Pub Companies", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I think that you would become apoplectic, Madam Deputy Speaker, if I were to wax lyrical on why pubs are closing. We all know that it is due to changing social demographics, to the fact that people are spending more time at home, to the drink-driving laws and to the supermarkets. There are many reasons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-21a.203.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-21", "file": "debates2014-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "b3404659436eb1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-21a.209.1", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day] — Pub Companies", "cue_speaker": "Jennifer Willott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jennifer Willott", "preceding_text": "the proposals would represent a real step change for the industry, offering tenants the protection of a code of practice enshrined in statute and an independent and reliable body to which they could turn for assistance— [ Interruption. ] The proposed code has at its core two important principles: the principle of fair dealing and the principle that a tied tenant should be no worse off—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-21a.209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-21", "file": "debates2014-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "b3404659436eb1e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-21a.223.7", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day] — Pub Companies", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "e will try to get firearms or other weapons again to pursue a UK attack? The Security Service and the judge told us a year ago that this man was a serious risk; now the Home Secretary is removing all his restrictions. We have a right to know whether she still thinks he is a risk or whether that risk has gone. I will give way to the Home Secretary if she will tell us now whether CD is still a risk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-21a.223.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-22", "file": "debates2014-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "f463d763e8e27987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-22a.287.3", "colnum": "287", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Glyn Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Glyn Davies", "preceding_text": "South Sudan won independence with great hopes of democracy and freedom, but it has collapsed into near civil war. Will the Minister tell us what steps she has taken to help deal with the humanitarian crisis in that country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-22a.287.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-22", "file": "debates2014-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "f463d763e8e27987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-22a.288.1", "colnum": "288", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Pat Glass", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pat Glass", "preceding_text": "How certain is the Minister that the TradeMark East Africa project is having—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-22a.288.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2014-01-22", "file": "debates2014-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "f463d763e8e27987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-22a.289.8", "colnum": "289", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "and to Simon Chase who were tragically killed in Kabul on Sunday in a cowardly terrorist attack. Both were there to support the Afghan Government and to improve the lives of the Afghan people. Del Singh was a friend to many in the House and had given so much time and dedication to troubled regions across the world. Our thoughts should be with their families and friends at this very difficult time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-22a.289.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-22", "file": "debates2014-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "f463d763e8e27987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-22a.291.1", "colnum": "291", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I do not think that there is a disagreement between us. The problem I see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-22a.291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-22", "file": "debates2014-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "f463d763e8e27987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-22a.292.1", "colnum": "292", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "I hope that the Prime Minister will take this away and, as I say, open discussions with the United Nations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-22a.292.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-22", "file": "debates2014-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "f463d763e8e27987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-22a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael McCann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael McCann", "preceding_text": "As the Deputy Prime Minister knows, sorry is still the hardest word to say, but does the Prime Minister agree that Alex Salmond owes the people of Scotland an apology for a White Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-22a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-22", "file": "debates2014-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "f463d763e8e27987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-22a.314.0", "colnum": "314", "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": "ency regime and to address a specific problem. It may help if I first remind the House of the context for the part 1 provisions—the unique open government context in which they have been developed. Transparency is at the heart of this Government’s agenda. We are opening up government and the public sector, and by doing so we are enhancing transparency, participation and accountability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-22a.314.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-22", "file": "debates2014-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "f463d763e8e27987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-22a.344.1", "colnum": "344", "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": "amendments on Report in recognition of the character of the preceding debate and consultation in Committee. Members of the House of Lords often raised issues in Committee. My noble Friends Lord Wallace of Tankerness, Lord Wallace of Saltaire and Lord Gardiner did magnificent work in determining where it was appropriate for the Government to make amendments in recognition of the concerns expressed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-22a.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-22", "file": "debates2014-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "f463d763e8e27987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-22a.344.3", "colnum": "344", "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": "There is a distinction between the handling of staff costs for political parties and their handling for non-party campaigning. That was the point I was making: in so far as political parties have permanent staffing costs, they are not necessarily included, but it was determined in the 2000 Act that we should aim to identify the additional costs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-22a.344.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-22", "file": "debates2014-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "f463d763e8e27987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-22a.346.1", "colnum": "346", "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": "s because they erroneously assume that when they are undertaking a national activity there will be disaggregation to individual constituency limits, because of, as it were, the coincidence of where that activity takes place. It will form part of a constituency activity in circumstances in which there is a significant effect in that constituency; otherwise, it will form part of a national activity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-22a.346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-22", "file": "debates2014-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "f463d763e8e27987", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-22a.347.5", "colnum": "347", "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 shall not wag my finger at the hon. Gentleman, but he has made a ridiculous point. If the members of his Select Committee wanted to produce an additional report, they should have directed themselves to the Lords amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-22a.347.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-23", "file": "debates2014-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "4370e06f7e64b412", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-23b.438.3", "colnum": "438", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "I should be delighted to go to Wellingborough. Indeed, I should like to make the visit a political one as well, and, on behalf of my Department, to express my appreciation of someone who has given so much support to the coalition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-23b.438.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-23", "file": "debates2014-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "4370e06f7e64b412", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-23b.486.3", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Shrewsbury 24 (Release of Papers)", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "ves had absolutely nothing to do with the strike or industry in question. The statistics make interesting reading, because it was at this time after the second world war that Britain was going substantially down the tubes. Successive Conservative Governments had failed not only to turn back but to arrest the ratchet of socialism that had driven through this country in the immediate post-war years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-23b.486.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-23", "file": "debates2014-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "4370e06f7e64b412", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-23b.488.1", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Shrewsbury 24 (Release of Papers)", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “When?”", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman, who is also a friend, will have to be patient. I will deal with that point in my own time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-23b.488.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-27", "file": "debates2014-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "b42e8f8b9c4e84f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-27a.665.1", "colnum": "665", "heading": "European Union (Approvals) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Chris Heaton-Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Heaton-Harris", "preceding_text": "I would not like to say that, because I am completely convinced that the Minister is 100% engaged with this regulation, and fully aware of past issues. However, I have been in meetings in which Members of the European Parliament—as I was then—sit down with staff of the European Commission and, indeed, member state civil servants to negotiate a trialogue that sets out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-27a.665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-27", "file": "debates2014-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "b42e8f8b9c4e84f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-27a.669.0", "colnum": "669", "heading": "European Union (Approvals) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "an Union’s powers, which are already too large, are increasing day by day through court judgments, directives and regulations, with nothing being done to contain them. The Labour party gave away 168 vetoes on crucial policies, so there are now huge areas on which we cannot respond to our constituents’ wishes to change or improve things, because we are under the control of European law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-27a.669.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-27", "file": "debates2014-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "b42e8f8b9c4e84f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-27a.672.2", "colnum": "672", "heading": "European Union (Approvals) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "preceding_text": "ree that it seems strange that although those on the Government Front Bench have said they want to bring back powers from Europe and will have a referendum—something we all want; well, I certainly do—and although we have here an opportunity to say no to something that the British people overwhelmingly want to say no to, we get excuses and all sorts of things to put the measure through?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-27a.672.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-27", "file": "debates2014-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "b42e8f8b9c4e84f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-27a.677.2", "colnum": "677", "heading": "European Union (Approvals) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Leyton and Wanstead.”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "preceding_text": "I merely note that the experts who were present for the Second Reading debate are experts on so many European matters that they are spread thinly, but able to participate in important European debates wherever they may take place in Europe. There arises from that an important point, which was made by the hon. Member for Hornchurch.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-27a.677.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-29", "file": "debates2014-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "f4f57a1ae532c99d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-29a.933.3", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Opposition Day — [19th Allotted Day] — UNHCR Syrian Refugees Programme", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "ts funding agreement to hire unqualified teachers, because its funding agreement was constructed, written and agreed before the change in policy. The South Leeds academy has advertised for trainees under a policy that has been in place since at least 1982. I made that point in this House, and I invited the hon. Gentleman to acknowledge that he had made a mistake. I did so as graciously as I could.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-29a.933.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-29", "file": "debates2014-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "f4f57a1ae532c99d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-29a.934.1", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Opposition Day — [19th Allotted Day] — UNHCR Syrian Refugees Programme", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "Alas, Mr Brennan, you are not in the Chair today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-29a.934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-29", "file": "debates2014-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "f4f57a1ae532c99d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-29a.935.5", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Opposition Day — [19th Allotted Day] — UNHCR Syrian Refugees Programme", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "That is a very well made point.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-29a.935.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-29", "file": "debates2014-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "f4f57a1ae532c99d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-29a.939.4", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Opposition Day — [19th Allotted Day] — UNHCR Syrian Refugees Programme", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "I, too, have been in the House a very long time, Madam Deputy Speaker. The conventions are what they are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-29a.939.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-30", "file": "debates2014-01-30b.xml", "sha256": "e4558a78547357e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-30b.997.3", "colnum": "997", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Robert Halfon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Halfon", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that Harlow is the cultural capital of the east of England?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-30b.997.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-30", "file": "debates2014-01-30b.xml", "sha256": "e4558a78547357e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-30b.1003.2", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "Charming as the Secretary of State and the sports Minister are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-30b.1003.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-30", "file": "debates2014-01-30b.xml", "sha256": "e4558a78547357e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-30b.1041.0", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. As far as I can see, there are no copies of the manuscript amendments on the Table. It seems bizarre, on the matter of whether people should be deprived of their citizenship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-30b.1041.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-30", "file": "debates2014-01-30b.xml", "sha256": "e4558a78547357e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-30b.1043.3", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "The individual would then be stateless. It would depend on where they were. The whole point of the measure is to be able to remove certain people from the United Kingdom, which we are currently unable to do. If they are declared stateless—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-30b.1043.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-30", "file": "debates2014-01-30b.xml", "sha256": "e4558a78547357e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-30b.1052.4", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but I answered that question earlier. I said that I will respond to the comments that my hon. Friend the Member for Esher and Walton makes, and see whether he moves the new clause. I will make the Government’s position clear to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-30b.1052.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-30", "file": "debates2014-01-30b.xml", "sha256": "e4558a78547357e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-30b.1055.1", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "ister in the previous Government who dealt with terrorist activity and looked at terrorist plots and the information to which the Home Secretary is now privileged, I know there are circumstances where the Government need to address serious issues. The question I put to the hon. Gentleman and the Home Secretary is this: new clause 18 was tabled 24 hours ago and there has been no consultation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-30b.1055.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-30", "file": "debates2014-01-30b.xml", "sha256": "e4558a78547357e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-30b.1061.3", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "I am dealing with the practicalities of the issue before us today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-30b.1061.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-30", "file": "debates2014-01-30b.xml", "sha256": "e4558a78547357e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-30b.1070.3", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the Attorney-General and the hon. Member for Esher and Walton have had discussions about this, but for the avoidance of doubt, it does not lie in my mouth to suggest that the Attorney-General’s advice to Ministers should be made public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-30b.1070.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-01-30", "file": "debates2014-01-30b.xml", "sha256": "e4558a78547357e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-30b.1073.1", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "preceding_text": "detention for extended periods because we are unable to move them to the country of their origin either because it is not safe to do so or because we cannot obtain travel papers. We have been repeatedly criticised for the number of people we detain and for the length of the period for which we detain them. Indeed, the detained fast track system seems to be largely used for administrative purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-01-30b.1073.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-03", "file": "debates2014-02-03b.xml", "sha256": "b7a0c43977ea56de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-03b.27.5", "colnum": "27", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his comments. He and my hon. Friend the Member for North East Somerset (Jacob Rees-Mogg) were both present at the two meetings in which we discussed the broad outline of the plan. As he knows, having represented the area for some years, it is simply not possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-03b.27.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-03", "file": "debates2014-02-03b.xml", "sha256": "b7a0c43977ea56de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-03b.37.6", "colnum": "37", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "tter of what regulations or indeed statutory guidance are in place, but a matter of how things are enforced. We have been taking considerable steps to ensure that the agencies responsible for regulation enforce in a way that is much more conscious of the needs of our businesses. In that context, clause 61, which is probably the single most important clause in the Bill, creates a growth duty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-03b.37.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-03", "file": "debates2014-02-03b.xml", "sha256": "b7a0c43977ea56de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-03b.42.0", "colnum": "42", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "ot only are people who like rambling and walking through the countryside going to be able to continue to do so, but people who have a problem with rights of way that intrude on their privacy—and which may have been created willy-nilly by a group of difficult people—will have a chance to fight back without being bankrupted by large organisations that they cannot afford to fight against?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-03b.42.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-03", "file": "debates2014-02-03b.xml", "sha256": "b7a0c43977ea56de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-03b.42.1", "colnum": "42", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "Yes, I can give my hon. Friend some comfort on that. Incidentally, it is rather interesting to hear Opposition Front Benchers chuntering away as if this is somehow a preoccupation of those who have large houses. Not at all. I do not know about my hon. Friend’s constituents, but I have a constituent who has quite a small house, who—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-03b.42.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-03", "file": "debates2014-02-03b.xml", "sha256": "b7a0c43977ea56de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-03b.47.1", "colnum": "47", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Chi Onwurah", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chi Onwurah", "preceding_text": " he disagrees with the FSB, we would be pleased to hear the evidence on which that is based. The Government sacked hundreds of staff at great expense several years ago, and they are now seeking to re-employ them through a recruitment firm, hiring at least half of them. I have seen the job advert, and apparently they will work on the Government’s red tape challenge and deregulation programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-03b.47.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-03", "file": "debates2014-02-03b.xml", "sha256": "b7a0c43977ea56de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-03b.88.1", "colnum": "88", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "John Mann", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Mann", "preceding_text": "When even the Minister who is responding to the debate has not read the Bill it is a bit of a problem. Read schedule 1. Most of the employees that I had were self-employed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-03b.88.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-03", "file": "debates2014-02-03b.xml", "sha256": "b7a0c43977ea56de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-03b.89.3", "colnum": "89", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "John Mann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Mann", "preceding_text": "We are now dealing with the most extraordinary Conservative party. When the people being brought in are self-employed—and that is not an unusual situation. It depends what industry they are working in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-03b.89.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-03", "file": "debates2014-02-03b.xml", "sha256": "b7a0c43977ea56de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-03b.92.3", "colnum": "92", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "John Mann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Mann", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will therefore know that he has a legal duty, if he is taking people with him, to carry out a risk assessment, and the removal of precisely that legal duty is the danger of clause 1. That is the danger of ill-thought legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-03b.92.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-03", "file": "debates2014-02-03b.xml", "sha256": "b7a0c43977ea56de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-03b.92.3", "colnum": "92", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "John Mann", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Mann", "preceding_text": "on this kind of work, which is why there are virtually no one, two or three-dwelling property starts in Nottinghamshire. Newark and Sherwood led the way, and others have followed, using new regulation—new burdens on small builders and aspiring home owners—brought in over the past 12 months. I trust that the Minister will confirm that there will be a change and that these burdens—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-03b.92.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-03", "file": "debates2014-02-03b.xml", "sha256": "b7a0c43977ea56de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-03b.92.3", "colnum": "92", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "John Mann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Mann", "preceding_text": "den on business will be classified as regulation. In terms of one in, two out, they can be classified as part of the in; at the moment, they are not. This is fundamental to the Government’s approach of shifting the burden on to the courts—we will see more cases going to court—and insurers under the pretext that this is all the fault of Labour regulation. I will end on this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-03b.92.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-04", "file": "debates2014-02-04c.xml", "sha256": "491da37cfd6fac66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-04c.129.1", "colnum": "129", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "Obviously that will be a decision for individual police and crime commissioners, but they will all be very aware of the need to help, in particular, the most vulnerable victims. As I have said, not only will the total budget available be greater than ever before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-04c.129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-04", "file": "debates2014-02-04c.xml", "sha256": "491da37cfd6fac66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-04c.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR, CRIME AND POLICING BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "nder review, because we want to ensure that we eliminate all such cases as far as it is possible to do so. We share that objective across the House. Comments were also made about the control of dogs. I welcome the fact that we have now rationalised the powers and made them more effective. I am sorry that the Opposition appear to be wedded to dog control notices as the only solution to the problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-04c.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-04", "file": "debates2014-02-04c.xml", "sha256": "491da37cfd6fac66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-04c.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR, CRIME AND POLICING BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "rationalised the powers and made them more effective. I am sorry that the Opposition appear to be wedded to dog control notices as the only solution to the problem. [Interruption.] I am delighted that it is not the case of either/or, because the range of powers that we are including in the Bill gives us the opportunity to deal with problems that arise with dogs in a comprehensive and cohesive way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-04c.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-05", "file": "debates2014-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "cdebfb3087a2d338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.264.0", "colnum": "264", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "First, let me go back to the very important issue of flooding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-05", "file": "debates2014-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "cdebfb3087a2d338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.264.2", "colnum": "264", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " In the period 2010 to 2014, when this Government were in office, the funding was £2.4 billion—more than when Labour was in office. Secondly, let me say—this will be of interest to a number of constituency MPs—that when it comes to funding, the Bellwin scheme also matters because it is the way in which the Government support local authorities. So let me tell the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.264.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-05", "file": "debates2014-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "cdebfb3087a2d338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.264.2", "colnum": "264", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ment were in office, the funding was £2.4 billion—more than when Labour was in office. Secondly, let me say—this will be of interest to a number of constituency MPs—that when it comes to funding, the Bellwin scheme also matters because it is the way in which the Government support local authorities. So let me tell the House— [Interruption.] Let me tell the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.264.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-05", "file": "debates2014-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "cdebfb3087a2d338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.264.4", "colnum": "264", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I know that many hon. Members with flooded homes in their constituencies will want to hear about the Bellwin scheme, because it is the way in which central Government help local government, so let me say we will be paying local authorities 100% of eligible costs above the Bellwin grant threshold, we will be extending the eligible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.264.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-05", "file": "debates2014-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "cdebfb3087a2d338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.264.5", "colnum": "264", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. However long this session takes, the questions will be heard and the answers will be heard. That is what—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.264.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-05", "file": "debates2014-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "cdebfb3087a2d338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.264.6", "colnum": "264", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ll not listen to the answers. We are extending the eligible spending period for Bellwin claims until the end of March 2014, recognising that the bad weather is continuing, and I can say to colleagues in Cornwall that we will make sure they do not suffer from having a unitary authority, which I know they believe is very important. On the important issue of getting more women into public life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.264.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-05", "file": "debates2014-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "cdebfb3087a2d338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.265.0", "colnum": "265", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "I have to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.265.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-05", "file": "debates2014-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "cdebfb3087a2d338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.265.0", "colnum": "265", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "I have to say— [Interruption.] I do have to say a picture tells a thousand words. This is a Prime Minister who says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.265.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-05", "file": "debates2014-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "cdebfb3087a2d338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.265.3", "colnum": "265", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "members of the Cabinet who are Conservatives, 24%—a quarter of them—are women. That is not enough; I want to see that grow. Of the Front-Bench Conservative Ministers, around 20% are women. That is below the 33% that I want to achieve. We are making progress, and we will make more progress. Let me make this point: this party is proud of the fact that we had a woman Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.265.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-05", "file": "debates2014-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "cdebfb3087a2d338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.270.3", "colnum": "270", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes an important point and the IFS report, out this morning, states that the change in economic outlook from a year ago is “really quite remarkable”, and: “The UK recovery is getting ever closer to achieving ‘escape velocity’”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.270.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-05", "file": "debates2014-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "cdebfb3087a2d338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.282.0", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day] — NHS", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": " the figure was 350,000. There has been a big increase in the number of people who are waiting a long time. I was going to come on to the average waiting time, but since he mentions it, let me make the situation clear now. The figure that he is talking about and which appears in the Government amendment relates to the waiting time until an initial assessment, not the total waiting time in A and E.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.282.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-05", "file": "debates2014-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "cdebfb3087a2d338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.285.3", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day] — NHS", "cue_speaker": "Andy Slaughter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Slaughter", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I may help my right hon. Friend by saying that the campaign in North Norfolk began on the Minister’s website after the excellent campaign run by the Labour prospective parliamentary candidate, Denise Burke, who pointed out how deficient local services were—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.285.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-05", "file": "debates2014-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "cdebfb3087a2d338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.287.3", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day] — NHS", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should climb off his high horse for a moment. In answer to an important point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Stretford and Urmston (Kate Green) , I pointed to the increase in cases of scurvy, rickets and malnutrition. If he wants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.287.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-05", "file": "debates2014-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "cdebfb3087a2d338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.287.3", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day] — NHS", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should climb off his high horse for a moment. In answer to an important point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Stretford and Urmston (Kate Green) , I pointed to the increase in cases of scurvy, rickets and malnutrition. If he wants— [ Interruption. ] If he wants to deny that that is the case, that is up to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.287.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-05", "file": "debates2014-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "cdebfb3087a2d338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.288.1", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day] — NHS", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "I suggest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-05", "file": "debates2014-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "cdebfb3087a2d338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.289.2", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day] — NHS", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right. She knows the pressure people are under in our area. What we have heard from the Government is denial that this is the reality in many parts of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.289.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-05", "file": "debates2014-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "cdebfb3087a2d338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.292.1", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day] — NHS", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "’s Fund: “I have a problem with the OFT being involved in all of these procurement issues… I think that’s got to change… In my view I think it should be scrapped in the future… That might happen at some future date… we’ve got to look at the barriers and address them and sort them out.” Is that just his view, or the view of the whole Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-05", "file": "debates2014-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "cdebfb3087a2d338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.294.2", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day] — NHS", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": " in A and E, but as ever, when we look at the facts, they simply do not stack up. Let us look at the last week available for A and E statistics, which is the week ending 26 January . Over 96% of patients were seen within four hours. At this stage in the winter, we have missed the target four times; at the same stage when he was Health Secretary, he had missed it 12 times. That is three times more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.294.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-05", "file": "debates2014-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "cdebfb3087a2d338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.296.3", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day] — NHS", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "y are about hyperbole and spin. As someone who has been Health Secretary, he must know—this is a serious point—the effect that lurid headlines based on dubious statistics have on morale for staff and those using the NHS, but still we get the same cracked record, because for him, politics always matters more than patients. It is not just A and E performance; under this Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.296.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-05", "file": "debates2014-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "cdebfb3087a2d338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.299.1", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day] — NHS", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "Yes, I can explain that. When drafting the Act, my predecessor wanted to ensure that investigations would not be carried out by both Monitor and the Competition Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-05", "file": "debates2014-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "cdebfb3087a2d338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.299.5", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day] — NHS", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": ". While we are correcting some facts, the right hon. Gentleman may be interested to know—as would my hon. Friend the Member for Taunton Deane (Mr Browne) , but he is no longer in the Chamber—that we have the figures for the number of people admitted to the NHS with scurvy in 2011-12 and in 2012-13. In 2011-12, the number of admissions not just to A and E departments but in total—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.299.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-05", "file": "debates2014-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "cdebfb3087a2d338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.300.2", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day] — NHS", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "preceding_text": "the omissions in their motion is the lack of any apology for the £63 billion ticking time bomb generated by off-balance-sheet dodgy deals under the private finance initiative? The worst in the whole country, which was signed off by the right hon. Member for Leigh (Andy Burnham) at Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals Trust, has produced an indicative structural debt of £40 million a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.300.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-05", "file": "debates2014-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "cdebfb3087a2d338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.309.0", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day] — NHS", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "the truth, and that is how we should read the amendment. It is false in what it says. It then goes on to say that it “notes that the rules on tendering are no different to the rules that apply to primary care trusts.” That is not true. The rules changed when the Health and Social Care Act was passed. That is why competition and changes in the health service are matters for lawyers now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.309.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-05", "file": "debates2014-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "cdebfb3087a2d338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.314.2", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day] — NHS", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman seems to be arguing that the Health and Social Care Act 2012 is perfect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.314.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-05", "file": "debates2014-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "cdebfb3087a2d338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.318.0", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day] — NHS", "cue_speaker": "Therese Coffey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Therese Coffey", "preceding_text": "ot the message, and together we are starting to turn the situation around. We have heard about aspects of hospital provision. I do not wish to go on for too much longer, Madam Deputy Speaker, because it is important that everyone who wants to have their say can do so. In fact, I am putting in a bit of a bid for an Adjournment debate in Westminster Hall about NHS funding and the elderly population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.318.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-05", "file": "debates2014-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "cdebfb3087a2d338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day] — NHS", "cue_speaker": "Chuka Umunna", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Chuka Umunna", "preceding_text": "opt a proper industrial strategy to help create more high-skilled, better paid jobs so the UK can earn its way out of the cost of living crisis with stronger and better-balanced growth. It is a pleasure, Madam Deputy Speaker, to serve for the first time under your chairship. I move the motion at a time when our country’s economy has thankfully returned to some growth after three years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.344.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-05", "file": "debates2014-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "cdebfb3087a2d338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day] — NHS", "cue_speaker": "Chuka Umunna", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chuka Umunna", "preceding_text": "d take action to make work pay by expanding free child care for working parents. We would freeze gas and electricity bills while we make long-term changes to the energy market. We would introduce a 10p starting rate of tax, funded by a mansion tax. The Secretary of State was in favour of that once, but seems to have taken to voting against it, as well as against our motions about it in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-05", "file": "debates2014-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "cdebfb3087a2d338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.353.0", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day] — NHS", "cue_speaker": "Chuka Umunna", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chuka Umunna", "preceding_text": "In relation to business reform, if the hon. Gentleman looks at the comments that we made during the passage of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-05", "file": "debates2014-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "cdebfb3087a2d338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.376.0", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted Day] — NHS", "cue_speaker": "Sheila Gilmore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sheila Gilmore", "preceding_text": "the myths that have been perpetuated. It is constantly stated that Labour Governments always leave office with unemployment higher than when they came to office. That is not true. Between 1945 and 1951, unemployment fell under a Labour Government. For much of the 1950s and 1960s, the position was very stable. Let us contrast that with the 18 years of Conservative Government between 1979 and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-05a.376.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-06", "file": "debates2014-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "8da1788be56195ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-06b.418.5", "colnum": "418", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "preceding_text": "I fear that once again we are kicking an issue into the long grass. Sadly, we have lost the opportunity to relocate to east London now that the Olympic park is soon to reopen. Would not a relocation to somewhere such as, say, Birmingham, in the centre of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-06b.418.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-06", "file": "debates2014-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "8da1788be56195ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-06b.423.3", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "al Democrat HR team has had to redraft the job description for the re-appointment. It now reads: “Must have extensive experience in crisis management.” This week has shown that the Tory party has let the modernising mask slip. It capitulated in the face of its Back Benchers on the Immigration Bill. There was not a single woman on the Front Bench during Prime Minister’s questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-06b.423.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-06", "file": "debates2014-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "8da1788be56195ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-06b.425.0", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "hen a vacancy emerges, to refresh or change the leadership of public bodies. I point the hon. Lady to the figures on the political activity that has been signalled by those who are appointed to public appointments. In 2012-13, 3.3% of those people declared Conservative political activity, 3% declared Labour activity, 1% declared Liberal Democrat activity and 1.7% declared other political activity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-06b.425.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-06", "file": "debates2014-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "8da1788be56195ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-06b.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "I can recognise an elephant trap when it is there. With regard to eligibility, absolutely—the local authority will of course be eligible for the scheme. The hon. Gentleman’s council has not yet made a claim, which is not unreasonable, and that is why we have extended it to the end of March. The amount of building on the floodplain is at an all-time low. In fact, it is the lowest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-06b.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-06", "file": "debates2014-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "8da1788be56195ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-06b.450.4", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Chris Williamson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Williamson", "preceding_text": "and that there are lessons to be learned about the “resilience of our nation”, so I assume that he regrets the swingeing cuts to flood defence work. In view of the increased extreme weather, will he accept that it is time to implement the Pitt review in relation to the statutory responsibilities of the fire and rescue services, and to reverse the cuts that he is making to firefighters?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-06b.450.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-06", "file": "debates2014-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "8da1788be56195ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-06b.450.4", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Chris Williamson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Williamson", "preceding_text": "cuts to flood defence work. In view of the increased extreme weather, will he accept that it is time to implement the Pitt review in relation to the statutory responsibilities of the fire and rescue services, and to reverse the cuts that he is making to firefighters? [ Interruption. ] There will 5,000 fewer firefighters by 2015 than there were in 2010. They do heroic work in rescuing people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-06b.450.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-06", "file": "debates2014-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "8da1788be56195ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-06b.468.0", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jimmy Hood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jimmy Hood", "preceding_text": "Well, of course. Wherever we see poverty, we have empathy with those who are suffering it. As we have heard said many times, poverty is just as important to us if it is by the River Thames or the River Clyde. That has always been the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-06b.468.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-06", "file": "debates2014-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "8da1788be56195ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-06b.475.1", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "I have had enough of that “You cannae do that stuff”, so I thank the hon. Gentleman. We have a decision to take. It is a choice between negativity and positivity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-06b.475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-06", "file": "debates2014-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "8da1788be56195ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-06b.482.3", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Graeme Morrice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graeme Morrice", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention. On day one of independence, were Scots to vote for it, the rest of the United Kingdom would remain within the European Union but Scotland would not, so it clearly would not benefit from the EU single market, to the great detriment of Scottish business and Scotland overall. Mr Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-06b.482.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-06", "file": "debates2014-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "8da1788be56195ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-06b.482.3", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Graeme Morrice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graeme Morrice", "preceding_text": " day one of independence, were Scots to vote for it, the rest of the United Kingdom would remain within the European Union but Scotland would not, so it clearly would not benefit from the EU single market, to the great detriment of Scottish business and Scotland overall. Mr Deputy Speaker— [ Interruption. ] Welcome, Madam Deputy Speaker; it is great to see a Scot in the Chair this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-06b.482.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-06", "file": "debates2014-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "8da1788be56195ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-06b.485.0", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "preceding_text": "first. It is an odd insult to Scotland that here in Westminster every other nation is seen as independent but Scotland is insulted by the word “separate” or “separatism”. We will be independent like the others, too. The right hon. Member for Edinburgh South West (Mr Darling) —the darling leader of the no campaign—often says that independence is a one-way street.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-06b.485.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-06", "file": "debates2014-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "8da1788be56195ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-06b.487.0", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "preceding_text": "Time does not allow. Only this week, the Financial Times backs this with the immortal line—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-06b.487.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-06", "file": "debates2014-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "8da1788be56195ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-06b.492.5", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Gregg McClymont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregg McClymont", "preceding_text": "because it illuminates the nationalists’ view of the world—my response is very straightforward: how can you be a lodger in your own house? We built this house together, and it is ours as much as anyone else’s. That house has of course been refurbished; it is not unchanging. The biggest constitutional change in this country in 300 years was the creation of the Scottish Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-06b.492.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-10", "file": "debates2014-02-10b.xml", "sha256": "59139f04f0d55375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-10b.608.3", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Children and Families Bill (Programme No. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Jane Ellison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Ellison", "preceding_text": "Enforcement has been the subject of much of the debate in both Houses over a number of years, and clearly the detail of that would be looked at in regulation, if the House is minded to give the Government a steer on the principle of this. So that is not a matter for today’s debate, but I am sure it will be —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-10b.608.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-11", "file": "debates2014-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "cedadb296cacf76e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-11a.703.1", "colnum": "703", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "I can see how angry the hon. Gentleman is about that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-11a.703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-11", "file": "debates2014-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "cedadb296cacf76e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-11a.713.2", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "never regarded the Deputy Prime Minister as a shy or reticent individual. I doubt that he is ever cowed into quietude by the hon. Gentleman. The hon. Gentleman’s point has been registered and doubtless he will correspond with the Deputy Prime Minister on the matter. If I stretch my imagination to its limit, he might even have a cup of tea with the Deputy Prime Minister to discuss the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-11a.713.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-11", "file": "debates2014-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "cedadb296cacf76e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-11a.731.2", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Edwards", "preceding_text": "crutiny before the relevant Committees of the devolved legislatures, and meet with the devolved Governments, just as he has to with the Chancellor and the relevant Select Committees in Westminster. In addition, the four external members of the Monetary Policy Committee should be nominated by the four nations, rather than hand-picked by the Chancellor of the day from the self-serving banking elite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-11a.731.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-11", "file": "debates2014-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "cedadb296cacf76e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-11a.748.1", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely correct. Johann Lamont has a cuts commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-11a.748.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-11", "file": "debates2014-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "cedadb296cacf76e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-11a.754.1", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. It is because of my modesty and kindness that I want to share the wisdom of others. I do not see myself as the sole well of wisdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-11a.754.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-11", "file": "debates2014-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "cedadb296cacf76e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-11a.768.0", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Russell Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Russell Brown", "preceding_text": "ccessive government of all political hues have presided over an underlying trend of rising income inequality since the early 1980s”. There can be no doubt that over the past 30 years or so there have been some particularly difficult and distressing times for many families, but during the early years after the change of government in 1997 rapid improvements were made right across the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-11a.768.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-11", "file": "debates2014-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "cedadb296cacf76e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-11a.769.1", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Russell Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Russell Brown", "preceding_text": "I will come to that in just a moment. It is not that I need time to think.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-11a.769.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-11", "file": "debates2014-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "cedadb296cacf76e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-11a.805.1", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Sheila Gilmore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sheila Gilmore", "preceding_text": " Labour government should not be forgotten. Many pensioners will not forget that. A lot of what that Government did created the base on which this Government propose to build with the single-tier pension. As I have said before, it was not the triple lock that produced the highest cash payment to pensioners but inflation—an inflationary rise made necessary by the Government’s own—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-11a.805.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-12", "file": "debates2014-02-12b.xml", "sha256": "141ca77d54b90c00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-12b.869.2", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Housing Benefit and Universal Credit in the Social Housing Sector (Regular Payments)", "cue_speaker": "Ian Lavery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Lavery", "preceding_text": " that have been adapted for their needs and who have built up local support networks with their friends, family and neighbours. The future for them lies in communities that are unknown and foreign to them. They have been cast out like the proverbial dog in the night. In the past months, it has emerged that a loophole in policy exempts thousands of people. Instead of looking at that loophole—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-12b.869.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-13", "file": "debates2014-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "8a629ef2bd563c15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-13a.1044.4", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "I accept one aspect of what my hon. Friend says. He has had cases relating to the misbehaviour of police officers in his constituency and has done a great deal to defend them, sometimes but not always with the help of the federation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-13a.1044.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-24", "file": "debates2014-02-24c.xml", "sha256": "49f3d9fa61bad480", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-24c.55.4", "colnum": "55", "heading": "NEW MEMBER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": " raise the upper age limit for jurors to 75. That was a lacuna that needed to be dealt with. May I ask him to go a little further on age limits? Would he consider putting the age limit for judicial retirement back up to 75, because we are losing a great resource at the moment? That would not mean that everyone had to stay on until they were 75, but there are plenty of judges who could do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-24c.55.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-24", "file": "debates2014-02-24c.xml", "sha256": "49f3d9fa61bad480", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-24c.118.1", "colnum": "118", "heading": "NEW MEMBER", "cue_speaker": "Andy Slaughter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Slaughter", "preceding_text": "t do not have in place. I fear that the hon. Member for Shipley may have been slightly taken in by the rhetoric rather the actuality of what is in part 1. The changes to sentences for the most serious and violent criminals are a poor substitute for indeterminate sentences for public protection, which this Government abolished in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-24c.118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-24", "file": "debates2014-02-24c.xml", "sha256": "49f3d9fa61bad480", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-24c.123.5", "colnum": "123", "heading": "NEW MEMBER", "cue_speaker": "Shailesh Vara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shailesh Vara", "preceding_text": " herself admitted, in one of her interventions, that before she entered the House, she ran a group and was regularly involved in judicial reviews. If people are going to throw ammunition at this side, it is important that they at least put things in context. My hon. Friend the Member for Dartford (Gareth Johnson) spoke with experience and was right to put education at the heart of secure colleges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-24c.123.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-25", "file": "debates2014-02-25c.xml", "sha256": "d338eef4b041ffc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-25c.147.2", "colnum": "147", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "nderstand that this big public debate is happening because this Government did something that the previous Government did not do: we said that if we are going to use anonymised data for the benefit of scientific discovery in the NHS, people should have the right to opt out. We introduced that right and sent a leaflet to every house in the country, and it is important that we have the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-25c.147.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-25", "file": "debates2014-02-25c.xml", "sha256": "d338eef4b041ffc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-25c.148.2", "colnum": "148", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "I will do that, and NHS England was absolutely right to have a pause so that we ensure that we give people such reassurance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-25c.148.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-25", "file": "debates2014-02-25c.xml", "sha256": "d338eef4b041ffc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-25c.181.3", "colnum": "181", "heading": "National Insurance (Renaming)", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "I did not hear the hon. Gentleman say where the extra cash would come from—the bankers’ bonus tax, perhaps? Is he saying that it should be 2.7% or not? As a debating point he is saying that it should, but he has no idea where the money would come from.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-25c.181.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-25", "file": "debates2014-02-25c.xml", "sha256": "d338eef4b041ffc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-25c.183.0", "colnum": "183", "heading": "National Insurance (Renaming)", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "ere are particular pensioner price indices, but they do not include all pensioners. We simply use one number that, on average and over time, captures inflation, but spending patterns differ. This Government have clearly taken steps to help people at the bottom of the pile. To counter what the hon. Lady said, inequality rose under the previous Labour Government and has fallen under this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-25c.183.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-25", "file": "debates2014-02-25c.xml", "sha256": "d338eef4b041ffc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-25c.184.5", "colnum": "184", "heading": "National Insurance (Renaming)", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will know that the level of pensioner poverty has fallen in the long run because of the factors that I have described.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-25c.184.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-25", "file": "debates2014-02-25c.xml", "sha256": "d338eef4b041ffc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-25c.196.0", "colnum": "196", "heading": "National Insurance (Renaming)", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Edwards", "preceding_text": "ber state. Coming from that position, it is difficult to argue wholeheartedly against building on the EU single market by developing the TTIP. The EU single market essentially offers free movement of goods, services, capital and labour, and the TTIP would extend the same principles for goods, services and capital. However, putting a Marxist cap on for a minute, the TTIP would neglect labour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-25c.196.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-25", "file": "debates2014-02-25c.xml", "sha256": "d338eef4b041ffc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-25c.203.1", "colnum": "203", "heading": "National Insurance (Renaming)", "cue_speaker": "Jim Sheridan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Sheridan", "preceding_text": "e. We need to retain our ability to run EU member states as we see fit, rather than as multinational corporations see fit. A question was asked earlier about the possible impact of our leaving the EU on this potential deal. I would also ask about the impact of Scotland’s pulling out of the UK. Unfortunately, not for the first time, no representative of the Scottish National party is present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-25c.203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-25", "file": "debates2014-02-25c.xml", "sha256": "d338eef4b041ffc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-25c.239.3", "colnum": "239", "heading": "EU FUNDING", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "ufacturing research in the civil nuclear sector. The centre is proving brilliantly successful and expanding rapidly. It is the source of the world’s most advanced research factory through the £43 million Factory of the Future project, to which we have granted £10 million. A similar story can be told about Merseyside. I do not think that there are any Merseyside MPs here, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-25c.239.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-26", "file": "debates2014-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "d8a785bb82194f05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-26b.254.3", "colnum": "254", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the figures the Prime Minister is quoting are phoney, and I believe he knows it. This is what the UK Statistics Authority says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-26b.254.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-26", "file": "debates2014-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "d8a785bb82194f05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-26b.255.1", "colnum": "255", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "h the Government themselves: compared with the Government the right hon. Gentleman left in 2010, when he was Energy and Climate Change Secretary, the Government’s own carbon emissions are down 14%. Let me just return to the issue of flood defence spending, because I think the people of this country will want to know this. The right hon. Gentleman is committed to a zero-based spending review.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-26b.255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-26", "file": "debates2014-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "d8a785bb82194f05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-26b.256.1", "colnum": "256", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "will have heard that the Prime Minister cannot answer the question about whether people need to believe in man-made climate change to be part of his Government. He has gone from thinking that it was a basic part of his credo to thinking that it is a matter of individual conscience. He used to claim that it was his passion above all else. Here’s the thing: if we are properly to protect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-26b.256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-26", "file": "debates2014-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "d8a785bb82194f05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-26b.276.5", "colnum": "276", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "So far as rescinding of the letters is concerned, that is not a matter for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-26b.276.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-26", "file": "debates2014-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "d8a785bb82194f05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-26b.294.3", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Cooper", "preceding_text": "I absolutely agree with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-26b.294.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-26", "file": "debates2014-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "d8a785bb82194f05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-26b.296.3", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "John Hemming", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hemming", "preceding_text": "I got another one today. They may not be on that website, but they do exist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-26b.296.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-26", "file": "debates2014-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "d8a785bb82194f05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-26b.300.1", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Heather Wheeler", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Heather Wheeler", "preceding_text": "That is the whole point: it was not overnight; there was at least two years’ notice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-26b.300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-26", "file": "debates2014-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "d8a785bb82194f05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-26b.300.2", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I presume that the hon. Lady is going to vote with the Government to close the loophole. I presume she will only do that—or else she would think herself to be cruel—if she knows how many people she will be adding to the list of those affected by the bedroom tax. Does she know that number for her own constituency? Does she know the number for the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-26b.300.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-26", "file": "debates2014-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "d8a785bb82194f05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-26b.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Esther McVey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Esther McVey", "preceding_text": "pass, because it is completely inaccurate and should not be responded to. Let me give the House some of the answers to the FOI request. Local authorities did have some cases, but the number that they were still investigating was nearly double that amount. Those two amounts have been added together for the purpose of this argument, however, and that is not correct. It is factually misleading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-26b.311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-26", "file": "debates2014-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "d8a785bb82194f05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-26b.323.2", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": "No, not at this time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-26b.323.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-26", "file": "debates2014-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "d8a785bb82194f05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-26b.325.2", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "nk that despite the hon. Lady’s best endeavours, there is a lot of common ground between the Government and the Opposition on this motion. Unless the right hon. Member for Leeds Central (Hilary Benn) , who will put the case for the Labour party towards the end of the debate, is particularly aggressive and provocative, it is certainly not the Government’s intention to oppose the motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-26b.325.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2014-02-26", "file": "debates2014-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "d8a785bb82194f05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-26b.335.4", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Will the Secretary of State give way?", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "As the floodwaters recede and the dark skies clear, there will be lessons to be learnt about the role and policies of quangos, the influence of man-made interventions on our landscape and rivers, and the resilience of our nation as a whole in the 21st century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-26b.335.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2014-02-26", "file": "debates2014-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "d8a785bb82194f05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-26b.335.6", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Will the Secretary of State give way?", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "However, the first and the primary role of Governments is the defence of the realm. This Government will take whatever action is necessary to defend our nation from the forces of nature—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-26b.335.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-26", "file": "debates2014-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "d8a785bb82194f05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-26b.345.2", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Hugh Bayley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugh Bayley", "preceding_text": "f the House, whichever party is in government, that gives the public confidence that the Government will provide the investment in flood protection that is necessary to minimise the risks. In his speech the Secretary of State seemed to make the case that because a substantial number of Government Back Benchers got up to thank him for putting investment into flood protection measures, all was fine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-26b.345.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-26", "file": "debates2014-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "d8a785bb82194f05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-26b.347.3", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Hugh Bayley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugh Bayley", "preceding_text": "I just have found a different way of phrasing it. I wish the Secretary of State a speedy recovery, but when he returns he should make a statement to the House to apologise for inadvertently misleading us and to confirm that figures issued on flood protection will in future be provided as official statistics from the UK Statistics Authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-26b.347.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-27", "file": "debates2014-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "06f941e56e708a75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-27a.508.0", "colnum": "508", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "preceding_text": ". of the seats on influential Cabinet Committees are held by women, but how many of them are BME? Zero. Of the 85 policy tsars appointed since 2010, 13 are women. How many are BME? Zero. Of the 19 Select Committees chaired by a Conservative MP, how many are chaired by a woman? One. Who is she? The hon. Member for Thirsk and Malton (Miss McIntosh) , and we know how that movie ended. How many—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-27a.508.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-27", "file": "debates2014-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "b6a1096465670e1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-27b.419.1", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mark Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Pawsey", "preceding_text": "right hon. Friend has already referred to local government finance, but may we have a debate on how councils can better manage their affairs? Conservative-controlled Rugby borough council set its budget this week, and this successful district council, working effectively as part of the two-tier system in Warwickshire, is not just freezing council tax, but going further and reducing it by 3%—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-27b.419.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-02-27", "file": "debates2014-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "b6a1096465670e1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-27b.506.2", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Julian Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “What about the Front Bench?”", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Smith", "preceding_text": "I congratulate everyone who has been involved in moving things on so well since the Speaker’s Conference report was published. The Conservative party has done a great deal in the past few years to increase the number of women on our Back Benches and, most importantly, the number of high-quality women on our Back Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-02-27b.506.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-05", "file": "debates2014-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "ffa956b3ed61f85d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-05a.885.3", "colnum": "885", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister share my astonishment at a decision announced yesterday that First TransPennine Express, whose train services cover the whole of the north of England, is to lose one in eight of its trains, which are to be transferred to Chiltern Railways for the greater comfort and convenience of commuters in the south of England?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-05a.885.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-05", "file": "debates2014-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "ffa956b3ed61f85d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-05a.885.5", "colnum": "885", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr Speaker. This may be a laughing matter to Government Members, but it is certainly not a laughing matter to people in the north of England. Could the Prime Minister bear it in mind that this decision has been made without the agreement of the train operating company, but by Porterbrook and the leasing company?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-05a.885.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-05", "file": "debates2014-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "ffa956b3ed61f85d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-05a.889.3", "colnum": "889", "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 for the north-east since the last election. There are 24,000 more people in work in the north-east since the last election. There are 40,000 more private sector jobs since the last election. Unemployment has fallen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-05a.889.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-05", "file": "debates2014-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "ffa956b3ed61f85d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-05a.909.4", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Business without Debate", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "t of why Mid Staffs was ever allowed to happen, but while no one is questioning the integrity or good intentions of Ministers in that period, those mistakes have never been acknowledged by the Labour party, even though the entire tragedy happened on its watch. Labour continues to make a political issue of which party can be “trusted” with the NHS, but cannot see that the refusal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-05a.909.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-05", "file": "debates2014-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "ffa956b3ed61f85d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-05a.915.3", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Business without Debate", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "That is the problem. The Government’s focus is on hospitals. All the while, alternatives to A and E are being degraded and taken away. It is an undeniable fact that it has become much harder to get a GP appointment under this Government. The Patients Association warns that it may soon be the norm to have to wait for up to a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-05a.915.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-06", "file": "debates2014-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "181a70b531c209b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-06b.1047.0", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "our only purpose in being here. In recent years, and during this Parliament, the House has established a very positive track record of debating the issues that matter to the people of this country alongside making progress on Government legislation. There is no merit in filling the House with legislation for its own sake. The previous Labour Government put 53 Bills before the House in one Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-06b.1047.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-06", "file": "debates2014-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "181a70b531c209b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-06b.1056.1", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "What my hon. Friend says is very encouraging. I am pleased to have the opportunity to join him in congratulating Dennis Eagle on its advanced manufacturing supply chain initiative award. We are in favour of all Eagles, in their place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-06b.1056.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-06", "file": "debates2014-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "181a70b531c209b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-06b.1056.3", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": " more businesses than there were in 2010, many of which were set up by women. The hon. Gentleman may have an opportunity to raise the issue further in this afternoon’s Westminster Hall debate on the contribution of women to the economy. If we can raise the rate of women entrepreneurship in this country to the level in the United States, it will dramatically increase our prospects for growth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-06b.1056.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-06", "file": "debates2014-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "181a70b531c209b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-06b.1119.1", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Future Army 2020", "cue_speaker": "Albert Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Albert Owen", "preceding_text": " am speaking, of course, of the Scottish debate about independence, which has been pushed by the nationalist agenda. I am also speaking about the separatists on the Conservative Back Benches, who have been pushing for exit from the European Union. Indeed, they are the tail that has wagged the Conservative dog throughout most of this Parliament, with the Prime Minister trying to steer a very—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-06b.1119.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-10", "file": "debates2014-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "161e2d372ac1c425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-10a.87.3", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Care Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": " clause 12 already allows for the collection of such information if we choose to require it. On amendments 31 to 33, we have carefully considered the issue of time frames in the care planning process, including reviews. On balance, we feel that a flexible approach is best. It is important for local authorities to retain the ability to be proportionate to the needs to be met. For some people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-10a.87.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-11", "file": "debates2014-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "336f178f11bda157", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-11a.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Sajid Javid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sajid Javid", "preceding_text": "Appointments to the MPC should always be made on merit and— [Interruption.] Diversity is, of course, always an important consideration. Factors in decisions on appointing external members to the MPC include looking at career training and background as well as ethnicity and gender. [Interruption.] The Government would like to see more women on the MPC and will encourage them to apply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-11a.165.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-11", "file": "debates2014-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "336f178f11bda157", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-11a.175.3", "colnum": "175", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Therese Coffey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “House!”", "preceding_speaker": "Therese Coffey", "preceding_text": "A few weeks ago, I joined my hon. Friends the Members for Harlow (Robert Halfon), for Northampton South (Mr Binley) and for Waveney (Peter Aldous) in presenting to the Chancellor a Boost Bingo petition with over 300,000 signatures, calling for a cut in bingo duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-11a.175.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-11", "file": "debates2014-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "336f178f11bda157", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-11a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Oh!”", "preceding_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "preceding_text": "al health economy that extend beyond the trust that is failing. The fundamental problem is that clause 119 seeks to change the trust special administration process in a way that was never intended. It has the potential radically to change the configuration of our NHS services. When hospitals are identified as being no longer viable, it risks being used as a Trojan horse to privatise our hospitals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-11a.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-11", "file": "debates2014-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "336f178f11bda157", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-11a.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "preceding_text": "I am absolutely amazed. I share my right hon. Friend’s incredulity that the Secretary of State is not here. In my view, clause 119 is one power too many for a Secretary of State who apparently believes the NHS to be a 60-year-old mistake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-11a.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-11", "file": "debates2014-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "336f178f11bda157", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-11a.251.1", "colnum": "251", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Jim Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Cunningham", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right when she says that the Secretary of State wants the power to privatise—I will be brutal about it—NHS services. We must recall—this is why we cannot believe the Minister or the Secretary of State—that before and during the general election, the Prime Minister said that there would be no top-down reorganisation of the national health service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-11a.251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-11", "file": "debates2014-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "336f178f11bda157", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-11a.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "this House three years ago. And I shall tell the right hon. Gentleman why I believe it. I was saying that politicians of all parties must strengthen their backbone and be prepared to look at each case of reconfiguration on its merits, and then take difficult decisions if they are in the best interests of patients. I believe that reconfigurations should initially be determined at local level—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-11a.259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-11", "file": "debates2014-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "336f178f11bda157", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-11a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "The short answer to the hon. Gentleman, because I have the freedom of the Back Benches, is that I do not share that view. I was privy to the discussions that led to South London being put into special measures. That was done because there were real and significant problems to which it was impossible at a local level, within NHS London and elsewhere, to find a coherent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-11a.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-11", "file": "debates2014-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "336f178f11bda157", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-11a.261.2", "colnum": "261", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "It is wrong. The right hon. Gentleman will know that when he arrived at the Department of Health in May 2010, there was a plan in place called “A picture of health”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-11a.261.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-11", "file": "debates2014-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "336f178f11bda157", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-11a.265.8", "colnum": "265", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Poulter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Poulter", "preceding_text": "Quite frankly, it was because the right hon. Gentleman’s legislation was not worded effectively enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-11a.265.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-12", "file": "debates2014-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0c40053b47fe612a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-12a.307.2", "colnum": "307", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "I accept the compliment that the hon. Gentleman pays me—gracefully, I hope—but the issue he raises is not one with which I am familiar. I am sure that my right hon. Friends in the Treasury will want to look at it. It is a great pleasure to have representation from the Opposition about excessive regulation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-12a.307.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-12", "file": "debates2014-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0c40053b47fe612a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-12a.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "Actually, we voted for measures that will ensure that there is local consultation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-12a.310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-12", "file": "debates2014-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0c40053b47fe612a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-12a.311.3", "colnum": "311", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "We will have a bankers’ bonus tax for youth jobs because youth unemployment has doubled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-12a.311.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-12", "file": "debates2014-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0c40053b47fe612a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-12a.312.1", "colnum": "312", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "However the right hon. and learned Lady wishes to characterise things, she has a record that she needs to defend: of boom and bust, of sucking up to the City and of presiding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-12a.312.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-12", "file": "debates2014-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0c40053b47fe612a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-12a.359.3", "colnum": "359", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "preceding_text": "ections in May. That has come about because the decision was made to realign councils and reduce the number of councillors. The prime mover of that was efficiency, but it was also to produce council administrations that can deliver. In my area, North Down and Ards will come together. Those of us who live in the Ards area perhaps find an alliance with North Down very difficult to accommodate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-12a.359.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-12", "file": "debates2014-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0c40053b47fe612a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-12a.360.0", "colnum": "360", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "preceding_text": "It is awfully nice of the hon. Gentleman, my constituency neighbour, to give way. I wonder whether he would love to take this opportunity to put on the record his admiration for the people of North Down, just to make sure that nothing in his remarks a moment ago might be misconstrued. North Down is, in fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-12a.360.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-12", "file": "debates2014-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0c40053b47fe612a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-12a.362.1", "colnum": "362", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "preceding_text": "The contribution made earlier by the right hon. Member for Belfast North (Mr Dodds) was extraordinarily impressive in that it was the first time I have ever heard any politician on the Floor of the House seek a diminution of powers and a reduction in the number of elected Members. The leaner and, if not meaner, then certainly cleaner and greener Executive and Assembly, as was mentioned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-12a.362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-12", "file": "debates2014-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0c40053b47fe612a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-12a.363.2", "colnum": "363", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": ") to hear that I, too, have argued endlessly for a reduction in the number of Members in this House, just as a turkey might wish for Christmas. I have always said that there are too many Members of the House of Commons. Personally, I would reduce the number to 500, although that is not my party’s current policy. I welcome the views of the right hon. Member for Belfast East on progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-12a.363.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-12", "file": "debates2014-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "0c40053b47fe612a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-12a.366.3", "colnum": "366", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "Currently, I understand, the civil service commissioners for Northern Ireland answer to the UK Government, but by devolving this issue, they will answer to the Northern Ireland Executive. I believe that to be the case, but just in case I am wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-12a.366.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-13", "file": "debates2014-03-13b.xml", "sha256": "6eb65ea2874999cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-13b.429.0", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "preceding_text": "orry, I will not take up 1,400 words, as the Minister did—a trebling in the number of primary schools with more than 800 pupils. The pressures are real, which is why it is so alarming that according to NAO data two thirds of all places created by the free school programme are being diverted from areas of high and severe need for primary places. In secondary schools, only 19% of places—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-13b.429.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-13", "file": "debates2014-03-13b.xml", "sha256": "6eb65ea2874999cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-13b.429.0", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "preceding_text": "tent Government? The Minister claimed that previous Governments did nothing on this. That is nonsense. The Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned that a new national funding formula will have winners and losers. If Ministers are pursuing the national funding formula, they must do so in an open and transparent way and be clear about who will lose out. So can the right hon. Gentleman confirm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-13b.429.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-13", "file": "debates2014-03-13b.xml", "sha256": "6eb65ea2874999cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-13b.436.5", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Laws", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Laws", "preceding_text": "Labour Members are making a lot of noise, which reflects their embarrassment at the fact that this was a problem for years under a Labour Government and they did nothing about it. I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman does not like to hear good news, but I can give him some more good news for Suffolk, whose funding will go up by more than £9 million, from £4,241 a pupil to £4,347.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-13b.436.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-13", "file": "debates2014-03-13b.xml", "sha256": "6eb65ea2874999cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-13b.437.6", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Laws", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Laws", "preceding_text": "I can confirm that north Yorkshire is one of the authorities affected by today’s announcement. Its current funding per pupil is £4,338 and, if the consultation goes ahead, it will rise to £4,435.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-13b.437.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-13", "file": "debates2014-03-13b.xml", "sha256": "6eb65ea2874999cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-13b.458.3", "colnum": "458", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I always understood it to be a convention of this House that if any Member quoted from a document in the public domain, the document should be tabled before the debate, to be available to every hon. Member so that they, too, may quote from it. I do not believe that the document is yet in the public domain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-13b.458.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-13", "file": "debates2014-03-13b.xml", "sha256": "6eb65ea2874999cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-13b.522.0", "colnum": "522", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "That is not a matter for me, as the hon. Gentleman is well aware, but I am sure that his point will have been heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-13b.522.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-18", "file": "debates2014-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "4ea2cef038d127b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-18a.631.1", "colnum": "631", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Shailesh Vara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shailesh Vara", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will appreciate that that is the legacy of the previous Government and that the backlog is being dealt with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-18a.631.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-18", "file": "debates2014-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "4ea2cef038d127b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-18a.631.1", "colnum": "631", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Shailesh Vara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shailesh Vara", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will appreciate that that is the legacy of the previous Government and that the backlog is being dealt with— [ Interruption. ] I appreciate that this is difficult for the Opposition, but the truth often hurts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-18a.631.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-18", "file": "debates2014-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "4ea2cef038d127b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-18a.651.2", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Brown Hare (Protection)", "cue_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "preceding_text": "Does the Foreign Secretary acknowledge that there are legitimate and acceptable ways in which to pursue constitutional change—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-18a.651.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-18", "file": "debates2014-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "4ea2cef038d127b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-18a.651.2", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Brown Hare (Protection)", "cue_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "preceding_text": "Does the Foreign Secretary acknowledge that there are legitimate and acceptable ways in which to pursue constitutional change— [Interruption] —and that, in such a way, the United States Secretary of State, John Kerry, and Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski have highlighted the forthcoming independence referendum in Scotland as an agreed process?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-18a.651.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-18", "file": "debates2014-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "4ea2cef038d127b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-18a.700.7", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Brown Hare (Protection)", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": ". What I say to him in all seriousness and solemnity, recognising that the concern he expresses is probably more widely shared, is that ultimately it is for the House to decide what is the meaning of a particular decision taken. That is not a matter for the Chair but it is a matter for the House, and it is a point to which he and others can return if they so wish, but we cannot dilate upon it now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-18a.700.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-18", "file": "debates2014-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "4ea2cef038d127b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-18a.709.1", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Brown Hare (Protection)", "cue_speaker": "Andy Sawford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Sawford", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may wish to ask the Secretary of State why he agrees with us that the proposal makes sense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-18a.709.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-19", "file": "debates2014-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "a3909a5a4ac97dbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-19a.764.0", "colnum": "764", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "David Mundell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Mundell", "preceding_text": "Each month, the hon. Lady raises welfare issues and plumbs new depths of hypocrisy. The Scottish Government produced a 670-page—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-19a.764.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-19", "file": "debates2014-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "a3909a5a4ac97dbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-19a.764.1", "colnum": "764", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am quite clear that the context in which the hon. Gentleman is using that term is not collective but individual and personal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-19a.764.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-19", "file": "debates2014-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "a3909a5a4ac97dbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-19a.795.2", "colnum": "795", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor spoke for nearly an hour, but he did not mention one central fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-19a.795.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-19", "file": "debates2014-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "a3909a5a4ac97dbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-19a.795.4", "colnum": "795", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "y an hour, but he did not mention one central fact: the working people of Britain are worse off under the Tories. Living standards are down, month after month, year after year. In 2011, living standards, down; 2012, living standards, down; 2013, living standards, down. Since the election, working people’s living standards are £1,600 a year down. You are worse off under the Tories—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-19a.795.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-19", "file": "debates2014-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "a3909a5a4ac97dbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-19a.797.1", "colnum": "797", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": " on land, even though they cannot solve the housing crisis without that. They will not force the banks to improve competition even though small businesses say they need it. They will not stand up to the energy companies and freeze energy bills, even though the public support it. Same old Tories. We know what their long-term plan is: more tax cuts for the richest, while everyone else gets squeezed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-19a.797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-19", "file": "debates2014-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "a3909a5a4ac97dbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-19a.797.3", "colnum": "797", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "h. Even now, after all the embarrassment of the millionaires’ tax cut, they will not rule out going further. Maybe today we can get the straight answer that we have not had so far. Will the Chancellor rule out a further tax cut for millionaires to 40p? Just nod your head if you will rule it out. Come on, come on. Just nod your head. Maybe the Prime Minister would like to. Just nod your head.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-19a.797.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-19", "file": "debates2014-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "a3909a5a4ac97dbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-19a.798.1", "colnum": "798", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "r is by making them poorer. Just as they paint a picture of the country that working people will not recognise, so, too, themselves. The Prime Minister is an expert in rebranding. Remember the huskies, the bike and the tree? That was before they said, “Cut the green crap.” What is the latest rebranding from the Bullingdon club? It is beyond parody. What do this lot now call themselves?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-19a.798.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-19", "file": "debates2014-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "a3909a5a4ac97dbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-19a.810.0", "colnum": "810", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Ian Swales", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Swales", "preceding_text": "t it at that level throughout their time—to 50% on 6 April 2010 . That was an important day for two reasons: first, the higher rate went up to 50%; and secondly, Parliament was dissolved. Labour Members were on the Government Benches only for a few hours while the top rate was 50%, so we should not take any lessons from them. All the Budget documents show that the rich are paying a lot more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-19a.810.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-19", "file": "debates2014-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "a3909a5a4ac97dbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-19a.818.0", "colnum": "818", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Tom Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Harris", "preceding_text": "May I say how glad I am that the hon. Member for Fareham (Mr Hoban) is still in his seat? I enjoyed his contribution and it had passed me by that he had left the Government and returned to the Back Benches—the curse of Harris strikes again; just about every Conservative Minister that I have any time for, like, or respect has somehow found their way back on to the Back Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-19a.818.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-19", "file": "debates2014-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "a3909a5a4ac97dbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-19a.851.0", "colnum": "851", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "James Duddridge", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Aah!", "preceding_speaker": "James Duddridge", "preceding_text": "end the Member for Harlow (Robert Halfon) on campaigning for that change, and I commend the Chancellor for implementing it. There was also good news on bingo. We did not get the 15% tax cut that had been requested, but one of 10%. The good people at the Mecca bingo hall in the Victoria ward in Southend might now invite me back. They told me last time that I would not really be welcomed back—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-19a.851.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-19", "file": "debates2014-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "a3909a5a4ac97dbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-19a.854.2", "colnum": "854", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Birtwistle", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Birtwistle", "preceding_text": "ots in the country. This morning I got the figures for my constituency, and unemployment has now dropped to 5% and the town is listed 173rd for unemployment. That is a dramatic recovery. The increase in personal allowances was the major issue for me in the Budget. It was something that I had campaigned for and that was on the front page of the Liberal Democrat manifesto at the last election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-19a.854.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-19", "file": "debates2014-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "a3909a5a4ac97dbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-19a.855.3", "colnum": "855", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Birtwistle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Birtwistle", "preceding_text": "young apprentices at Next were absolutely amazing and a credit to the young people of this country. I did not realise that Next ran such an excellent apprenticeship scheme, which rivals the one run by Rolls-Royce. Next is committed to its young people, and it sees apprentices as its assets for the future. It is fantastic to see the massive rise in apprenticeships. Apprentices are the future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-19a.855.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-19", "file": "debates2014-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "a3909a5a4ac97dbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-19a.857.0", "colnum": "857", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Yasmin Qureshi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yasmin Qureshi", "preceding_text": "s financial mismanagement by the Labour Government that caused the economic crisis. That is not true, because there was a worldwide recession. Perhaps I can help Government Members with some facts and figures. When Labour came to power in 1997, the ratio of gross domestic product to national debt was about 47%, but by 2001, after four years of Labour government, that percentage was in the low 30s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-19a.857.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-19", "file": "debates2014-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "a3909a5a4ac97dbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-19a.865.0", "colnum": "865", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "preceding_text": "It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for South West Bedfordshire (Andrew Selous) , who seems to have been spellbound by the Wizard of Osborne’s Wonga economics. I say that because since the arrival of this Government, debt as a share of GDP has risen from 55% to 75%, and it will rise to 80% when they leave office next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-19a.865.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-19", "file": "debates2014-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "a3909a5a4ac97dbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-19a.872.2", "colnum": "872", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Alison McGovern", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Alison McGovern", "preceding_text": "rful for the people of Cambridge—but Cambridge was doing pretty well anyway. I really do not understand how investing in Cambridge was supposed to amount to rebalancing. Meanwhile, the north-west is doing pretty well and I am really proud of it, but much of the credit for that goes to the leadership of the cities of the north-west rather than to the Chancellor. Where is the north-east—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-19a.872.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-19", "file": "debates2014-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "a3909a5a4ac97dbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-19a.885.0", "colnum": "885", "heading": "HEALTH CARE (GLOUCESTERSHIRE)", "cue_speaker": "Jack Lopresti", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Lopresti", "preceding_text": "remarks will focus on my local hospital, Frenchay. Before I begin, I would like to declare a personal interest of sorts. I have had a lot of serious health issues over the past year and have spent a lot of time in and out of Frenchay hospital. I want to place on the record my huge thanks and appreciation to all the doctors, nurses and staff who looked after me and made me better while I was there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-19a.885.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-20", "file": "debates2014-03-20c.xml", "sha256": "aca3f9bd25ce105d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-20c.897.1", "colnum": "897", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "If it was so dismal, I do not understand why Hitachi has moved here because of the intercity express programme, but we will move on from that, because it was a Labour decision that caused that announcement today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-20c.897.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-20", "file": "debates2014-03-20c.xml", "sha256": "aca3f9bd25ce105d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-20c.908.7", "colnum": "908", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Tom Brake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Brake", "preceding_text": "All will be well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-20c.908.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-20", "file": "debates2014-03-20c.xml", "sha256": "aca3f9bd25ce105d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-20c.908.7", "colnum": "908", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Tom Brake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Brake", "preceding_text": "All will be well— [Interruption.] There are so many questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-20c.908.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-20", "file": "debates2014-03-20c.xml", "sha256": "aca3f9bd25ce105d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-20c.913.2", "colnum": "913", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "eople realise the power they have to change the world for the better will be his lasting legacy. Everyone who heard Tony Benn speak, whether they shared his views or not, could not help but admire and learn from the passion and conviction he brought to the causes he believed in. Over his lifetime, Tony Benn went from being vilified to being lauded by the press; perhaps there is hope for all of us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-20c.913.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-20", "file": "debates2014-03-20c.xml", "sha256": "aca3f9bd25ce105d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-20c.921.0", "colnum": "921", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Applause.", "preceding_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Elsie Tanner, Tony Booth, the vicar from “Emmerdale Farm”—they all came, and I introduced him on the minibus. Then he asked, “Is there anything else I should do, Dennis?” I said, “Yes. Put a tie on. You are the ambassador of a market town.” And Tony Benn—the Tony Benn—turned up the following day in a tie. How could I do other than love the man?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-20c.921.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-20", "file": "debates2014-03-20c.xml", "sha256": "aca3f9bd25ce105d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-20c.933.1", "colnum": "933", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Applause .", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "ought. He was not afraid to say it. He showed constancy and courage in the face of adversity. Whatever the scribes and the Pharisees may have to say about his life, it is from the words and kindnesses of those whose lives he touched that we—those who loved him most—take the greatest strength. After all, any life that inspires and encourages so many others is a life that was well lived.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-20c.933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-20", "file": "debates2014-03-20c.xml", "sha256": "aca3f9bd25ce105d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-20c.945.4", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": " maintain the downward pressure on what would otherwise be escalating welfare budgets, which were not controlled under the previous Government, is not the issue. We need to focus resources on the people who are most in need, and that is what we are doing. I will talk with my right hon. and hon. Friends at the Department for Work and Pensions about the circumstances of the case she describes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-20c.945.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-20", "file": "debates2014-03-20c.xml", "sha256": "aca3f9bd25ce105d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-20c.952.0", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Gregg McClymont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregg McClymont", "preceding_text": "s have gone quiet now. When we get into the detail, which they do not understand, the picture looks a little different. We need clarity on that guidance. We need to know what protections there will be for savers in the new investment products that are to be developed. What is the track record of the investment industry in delivering innovative new products that deliver value for money at low cost?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-20c.952.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-20", "file": "debates2014-03-20c.xml", "sha256": "aca3f9bd25ce105d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-20c.957.2", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Lady knows, there are redress mechanisms for people who receive poor quality independent financial advice. It is a regulated process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-20c.957.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-20", "file": "debates2014-03-20c.xml", "sha256": "aca3f9bd25ce105d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-20c.960.3", "colnum": "960", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": " who have been told that they will not even get the below-inflation pay rise they were promised certainly are not feeling it. With wages still rising slower than prices, and working people worse off than they were when this Chancellor took office, the Office for Budget Responsibility revealed yesterday, in table 3.6 of its economic forecast, that real wages will be 5.6% lower in 2015 than in 2010.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-20c.960.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-20", "file": "debates2014-03-20c.xml", "sha256": "aca3f9bd25ce105d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-20c.971.1", "colnum": "971", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "My understanding is that the employment rate, if the hon. Lady is talking about the total adult population in work, is now at its highest level ever—higher even than in the United States, which is famed for a flexible labour market. I am surprised that Opposition Members feel that there are issues to pursue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-20c.971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-20", "file": "debates2014-03-20c.xml", "sha256": "aca3f9bd25ce105d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-20c.977.2", "colnum": "977", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "The element that relates to the European emissions trading scheme has already been paid. The companies have already received the cheque. The sums are not large because the ETS scheme proved to be pretty ineffective, but none the less the compensation is being paid and it is now being extended to a wider range of costs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-20c.977.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-20", "file": "debates2014-03-20c.xml", "sha256": "aca3f9bd25ce105d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-20c.977.3", "colnum": "977", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Chris Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Kelly", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State is talking about energy-intensive industry and there is still a great deal of that in my constituency. Does he agree we do not want these industries going offshore where environmental legislation may not be as stringently enforced as it is in the UK? We need to keep those industries here in the UK, and yesterday’s Budget helps us to achieve that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-20c.977.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-24", "file": "debates2014-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "8c3921c99a6ce0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-24b.13.2", "colnum": "13", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "preceding_text": "The first thing I would say is that we have ameliorated the change so that no institution will lose more than 2% in the coming financial year. The second thing I would say is that we had to make this change because of the mess left in the public finances by the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-24b.13.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-24", "file": "debates2014-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "8c3921c99a6ce0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-24b.36.4", "colnum": "36", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Patrick McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "Before we start talking about fiascos and the TransPennine Express, I chide the hon. Gentleman for not pushing a bit further and getting more electrification when he sat on the Government Benches, and getting more rolling stock—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-24b.36.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-24", "file": "debates2014-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "8c3921c99a6ce0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-24b.77.0", "colnum": "77", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": " growth would mean less need for spending cuts and a quicker reduction in the Budget deficit. The austerity programme, which this Budget continues to drive forward is based upon what I call the big deceit of British politics: that Labour “overspending” left the country with the mountainous levels of debt and borrowing which the Tory-Lib Dem Government inherited after the 2010 election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-24b.77.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-24", "file": "debates2014-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "8c3921c99a6ce0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-24b.77.0", "colnum": "77", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "this Budget continues to drive forward is based upon what I call the big deceit of British politics: that Labour “overspending” left the country with the mountainous levels of debt and borrowing which the Tory-Lib Dem Government inherited after the 2010 election. [Interruption.] The idea that the global credit crunch was caused by Labour’s public investment in Britain is risible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-24b.77.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-24", "file": "debates2014-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "8c3921c99a6ce0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-24b.77.0", "colnum": "77", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "crunch was caused by Labour’s public investment in Britain is risible. [Interruption.] The proposition that by building new hospitals and new schools, and by recruiting tens of thousands of extra nurses, doctors, teachers and police officers in Britain, Labour caused the sub-prime mortgage defaults in the US that ricocheted throughout the world’s financial institutions is preposterous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-24b.77.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-24", "file": "debates2014-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "8c3921c99a6ce0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-24b.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "Absolutely. It was not Labour’s public spending that triggered Britain’s or the world’s economic crisis; it was the global inter-dependency of reckless banking that the Conservatives wanted to be less regulated that in 2008 triggered an economic meltdown in Britain and right across the globe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-24b.78.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-24", "file": "debates2014-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "8c3921c99a6ce0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-24b.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Give way.”", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "ng public spending and borrowing to offset the catastrophic collapse in private sector spending, and the £90 billion spent on bank bail-outs plunged the public sector into record annual deficits, but these were deficits that stopped a shocking slide into a fatal slump and laid the basis for recovery from the biggest shock to hit the world economy in peacetime since the 1930s great depression.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-24b.78.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-24", "file": "debates2014-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "8c3921c99a6ce0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-24b.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": " markets had full confidence in its policies, and that they were not clamouring for the right-wing dogma subsequently visited upon Britain. Indeed, so desperate was the right hon. Member for Witney (Mr Cameron) to identify with Labour’s success on spending, investment, jobs and growth that he pledged to match Labour’s spending plans for three further years in September 2007 up to 2010.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-24b.78.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-24", "file": "debates2014-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "8c3921c99a6ce0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-24b.79.1", "colnum": "79", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I agree with the right hon. Gentleman to this extent: we did not regulate the banks well enough or carefully enough, but his party—not necessarily him, but his leadership—was saying that there should be less regulation of the banks at that time, yet now they have the temerity to attack our spending plans when we brought borrowing down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-24b.79.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-24", "file": "debates2014-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "8c3921c99a6ce0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-24b.124.0", "colnum": "124", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Nicky Morgan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Yes, he is.”", "preceding_speaker": "Nicky Morgan", "preceding_text": "remit on monitoring the housing market. The latest remit was published last week, on 19 March , and, as the FPC has said, it will monitor in particular developments in house prices, “relative to indicators of affordability and sustainability.” The right hon. Member for Southampton, Itchen (Mr Denham) talked about student loans and debt. I do not think he is in his place now, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-24b.124.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-25", "file": "debates2014-03-25c.xml", "sha256": "0c0061a99f9ab97c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-25c.149.4", "colnum": "149", "heading": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is covering a much broader area than that raised in the question. As I think she would agree, the Serious Fraud Office has a superb unit that is actively after the money that it leads on—£100 million—and it is believed to be extremely competent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-25c.149.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-25", "file": "debates2014-03-25c.xml", "sha256": "0c0061a99f9ab97c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-25c.158.0", "colnum": "158", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Energy in Buildings Bill", "cue_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "preceding_text": " happens in the dreadful event of this country being required to take military action? Would the brave men and women who served so proudly in the British armed forces be represented and have their voices heard? Unfortunately, the hon. Gentleman did not mention what would happen in the other place. There are Members of the House of Lords who arguably would face a constitutional issue as well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-25c.158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-25", "file": "debates2014-03-25c.xml", "sha256": "0c0061a99f9ab97c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-25c.162.3", "colnum": "162", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "Last week the Chancellor presented his Budget, reiterating this Government’s commitment to a long-term economic plan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-25c.162.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-25", "file": "debates2014-03-25c.xml", "sha256": "0c0061a99f9ab97c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-25c.170.0", "colnum": "170", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "eeds West what she meant by something she said when addressing a meeting of Christian socialists—perhaps they were just socialists, but I am not sure. She said: “It will be much better if we can say all the changes that the Government has introduced we can reverse and all benefits can be universal.” There we have the beating heart of Labour, and the public should know this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-25c.170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-25", "file": "debates2014-03-25c.xml", "sha256": "0c0061a99f9ab97c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-25c.171.0", "colnum": "171", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "t, I have found in the past few weeks that I cannot really answer for bishops. They usually think they can answer for me, which is a fair response, but I am happy to avoid that challenge. The Opposition have been quite confused about the welfare cap. They say that they are going to support it, but within the cap they have a policy they say they are going to change by ending the spare room subsidy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-25c.171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-25", "file": "debates2014-03-25c.xml", "sha256": "0c0061a99f9ab97c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-25c.178.2", "colnum": "178", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "I will start by drawing attention to the question that I asked the shadow Secretary of State. I notice that she did not deny saying that she wanted to reverse all the changes that the Government have made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-25c.178.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-25", "file": "debates2014-03-25c.xml", "sha256": "0c0061a99f9ab97c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-25c.178.2", "colnum": "178", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "I will start by drawing attention to the question that I asked the shadow Secretary of State. I notice that she did not deny saying that she wanted to reverse all the changes that the Government have made— [ Interruption. ] Well, according to the well-known Guido Fawkes website, with which I believe one or two Members are familiar—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-25c.178.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-25", "file": "debates2014-03-25c.xml", "sha256": "0c0061a99f9ab97c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-25c.256.1", "colnum": "256", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "I rather agree with the analysis that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions set out on that question. In his opening remarks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-25c.256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-26", "file": "debates2014-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "09590f86513725fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.337.1", "colnum": "337", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "David Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Jones", "preceding_text": "I am sure the hon. Gentleman would support the principle of individual electoral registration. The recent confirmation dry run matched 78% of electors across Great Britain, 79.9% across Wales, and in the hon. Gentleman’s constituency of the Vale of Clwyd it was 81.4%. I have faith in the process and I am sure that he should too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.337.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-26", "file": "debates2014-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "09590f86513725fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.344.2", "colnum": "344", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "We are helping families with child care, not least by giving 15 hours— [Interruption.] That is happening before the election; it has happened under this Government in this Parliament—15 hours of free nursery care for three-year-olds and four-year-olds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.344.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-26", "file": "debates2014-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "09590f86513725fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.344.2", "colnum": "344", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "We are helping families with child care, not least by giving 15 hours— [Interruption.] That is happening before the election; it has happened under this Government in this Parliament—15 hours of free nursery care for three-year-olds and four-year-olds. [Interruption.] Opposition Members say it is not enough; it is more than Labour ever provided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.344.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-26", "file": "debates2014-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "09590f86513725fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.352.0", "colnum": "352", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": ", because of what Russia has done, we were to pull back from these agreements that we would otherwise be signing. On the question about why the US is taking a slightly different approach to the EU in terms of the specific individuals targeted for asset freezes and travel bans, the approach we take in the EU is that the individual concerned should have a proper link with the action taken in Crimea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.352.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-26", "file": "debates2014-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "09590f86513725fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.365.4", "colnum": "365", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Lady for what she says about Britain’s support for the 40% carbon reduction target. It is important to get the EU to sign up to that deal, so that the EU can provide global leadership at the Paris summit. The reason why I do not support total decarbonisation of our energy sector—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.365.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-26", "file": "debates2014-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "09590f86513725fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.376.6", "colnum": "376", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "peech on the welfare cap in a moment. I want to go back to the remark the Chancellor just made about last night’s vote. We have said that we do not think we should go ahead with the next cut in corporation tax and instead use all the money for a freeze in business rates for small businesses. Is the Chancellor really saying that large companies are business, but small businesses do not count?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.376.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-26", "file": "debates2014-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "09590f86513725fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.376.10", "colnum": "376", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "None, because we have capped housing benefit payments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.376.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-26", "file": "debates2014-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "09590f86513725fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.376.10", "colnum": "376", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "None, because we have capped housing benefit payments. [ Interruption. ] Just to clear up the previous point, Labour is going to say to the country, “Elect a Labour Government and business tax will be higher and corporation tax will be higher.” That is a terrible message to send to the rest of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.376.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-26", "file": "debates2014-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "09590f86513725fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.377.4", "colnum": "377", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor will not misrepresent Labour policy. All the money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.377.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-26", "file": "debates2014-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "09590f86513725fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.377.11", "colnum": "377", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I will give way in a moment. Let me make progress with my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.377.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-26", "file": "debates2014-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "09590f86513725fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.377.12", "colnum": "377", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "We will raise the corporation tax rate to cut taxes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.377.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-26", "file": "debates2014-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "09590f86513725fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.378.4", "colnum": "378", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "nt Bench. A day or two ago it was, “We are going to vote for the Government’s welfare cap.” Clearly, Labour MPs did not like that, so this morning the shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, said that Labour will sign up to something called a welfare cap, but that “We would do it in different ways”. What different ways? Does that mean different benefits would be included?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.378.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-26", "file": "debates2014-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "09590f86513725fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.380.3", "colnum": "380", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " been treated shockingly by a Labour Administration who had not got their administration right. As I was saying, we will set the cash limit for the welfare cap at £119 billion. If inflation is higher than forecast, the Government cannot wash their hands of that either. Public services such as the police and transport have to absorb higher inflation, so why should welfare budgets be different?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.380.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-26", "file": "debates2014-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "09590f86513725fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.380.6", "colnum": "380", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "No; I am going to end my speech now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.380.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-26", "file": "debates2014-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "09590f86513725fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.382.1", "colnum": "382", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "tand what is before us. I have to ask the Chancellor this: how on earth did he end up putting before the House a week after his Budget a motion that puts up in lights the fact that he is failing his own target to reduce the national debt? What an own goal! Is he going to blame the chair of the Conservative party for that one, too? It gets worse for the Chancellor. The charter goes on to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-26", "file": "debates2014-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "09590f86513725fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.382.1", "colnum": "382", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "s: how on earth did he end up putting before the House a week after his Budget a motion that puts up in lights the fact that he is failing his own target to reduce the national debt? What an own goal! Is he going to blame the chair of the Conservative party for that one, too? It gets worse for the Chancellor. The charter goes on to say— [Interruption.] Government Members should listen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-26", "file": "debates2014-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "09590f86513725fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.382.5", "colnum": "382", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "We have said, Mr Deputy Speaker, that all the money from not proceeding with a further cut in corporation tax will go to small business with a business rates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.382.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-26", "file": "debates2014-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "09590f86513725fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.383.1", "colnum": "383", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "First, I went to an even lesser private school than the Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-26", "file": "debates2014-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "09590f86513725fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.383.1", "colnum": "383", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "First, I went to an even lesser private school than the Chancellor of the Exchequer. [Interruption.] Neither of us went to Eton, unfortunately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-26", "file": "debates2014-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "09590f86513725fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.383.1", "colnum": "383", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "First, I went to an even lesser private school than the Chancellor of the Exchequer. [Interruption.] Neither of us went to Eton, unfortunately. [Interruption.] I agree with the hon. Member for The Wrekin (Mark Pritchard) that the rise in employment is good news, but I am concerned that in his—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-26", "file": "debates2014-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "09590f86513725fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.383.3", "colnum": "383", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "g I am concerned about—this relates directly to the welfare cap—is that in the constituency of the hon. Member for The Wrekin long-term youth unemployment has gone up by 129% since 2010. I presume the hon. Gentleman would agree that that rise, based on the jobseeker’s allowance claimant count, is a real concern. I think he should be backing our welfare reforms. The fact is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.383.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-26", "file": "debates2014-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "09590f86513725fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.384.6", "colnum": "384", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "Let me answer the hon. Member for The Wrekin and then I will come to the soon to be ex-hon. Member for Dover.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.384.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-26", "file": "debates2014-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "09590f86513725fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.387.1", "colnum": "387", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "preceding_text": "’ time people will look back and wonder why on earth we had not come to this point earlier. The reason, as we have heard so often from Opposition Members—they prefer to pretend that it is not their position now, because the shadow Work and Pensions Secretary said in private a few days ago that they would prefer all the Government’s reforms on welfare to have been reversed —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-26", "file": "debates2014-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "09590f86513725fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.388.1", "colnum": "388", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "preceding_text": "I will give way, but does the right hon. Gentleman want to let me finish my point before he intervenes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-26", "file": "debates2014-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "09590f86513725fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.388.3", "colnum": "388", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "preceding_text": "Actually, I do not. If the shadow Chancellor reads further, he will find the key point. There is an entire portion beforehand suggesting something, which his colleague, the hon. Member for Leeds West (Rachel Reeves) , said that the Opposition disagreed with. Here we come to the crux of the matter. The fact is that people will not believe the Chancellor when he talks about sticking to a cap—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.388.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-26", "file": "debates2014-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "09590f86513725fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.388.3", "colnum": "388", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "preceding_text": "further, he will find the key point. There is an entire portion beforehand suggesting something, which his colleague, the hon. Member for Leeds West (Rachel Reeves) , said that the Opposition disagreed with. Here we come to the crux of the matter. The fact is that people will not believe the Chancellor when he talks about sticking to a cap— [Interruption.] I mean the shadow Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.388.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-26", "file": "debates2014-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "09590f86513725fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.388.3", "colnum": "388", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "preceding_text": "fact is that people will not believe the Chancellor when he talks about sticking to a cap— [Interruption.] I mean the shadow Chancellor— [Interruption.] Yes, it is as close as he will get. He was the author of the golden rule, which claimed that there would be no excess debt over the economic cycle of his Government. None the less from 2002, the Government were running a deficit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.388.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-26", "file": "debates2014-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "09590f86513725fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.388.5", "colnum": "388", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ah.”", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "preceding_text": " again digging himself into a hole. He wrote a golden rule that claimed that there were would be no deficit over the cycle. He ran a deficit and he is now proposing that there should be a cap on welfare spending. I wish to pin him precisely on the terms of his agreement with the Government. What he has told his Back Benchers in private seems to be rather different from what he is saying in public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.388.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-26", "file": "debates2014-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "09590f86513725fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.389.1", "colnum": "389", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ah.”", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "preceding_text": "Not at all. Now his Back Benchers may wish to draw their own inference from that. In private, the shadow Chancellor has been going round saying that he would change it. He would put one in and take one out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-26", "file": "debates2014-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "09590f86513725fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.389.1", "colnum": "389", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "preceding_text": ". How does he make up that £400 million difference? He has been forced to come to this House to explain his maths. That is precisely why this cap is important. It forces a degree of accountability on the shadow Chancellor in making him explain to the British public how his sums add up, when it is clear that they do not. How does he account for the £400 million difference between the two?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-26", "file": "debates2014-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "09590f86513725fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.389.1", "colnum": "389", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Gummer", "preceding_text": "ced to come to this House to explain his maths. That is precisely why this cap is important. It forces a degree of accountability on the shadow Chancellor in making him explain to the British public how his sums add up, when it is clear that they do not. How does he account for the £400 million difference between the two? [ Interruption. ] I wish to know the answer as does the British public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-26", "file": "debates2014-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "09590f86513725fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.419.1", "colnum": "419", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "wn, as their families discover when the time comes for them to leave. Such programmes are run, by different organisations, across the year, and I have referred to three already. We want to make them more effective and I have started to engage with officials and my colleague in the other House, Lord Faulks, who leads specifically on wills in the Ministry of Justice, to work together with him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-26", "file": "debates2014-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "09590f86513725fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.431.2", "colnum": "431", "heading": "WILLENHALL CROWN POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Winnick", "preceding_text": "I applied for this Adjournment debate because of the strong concern felt in Willenhall, in the borough of Walsall, about the closure of the Crown post office. It is one of 70 such post offices that I understand are listed to be closed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-26a.431.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-27", "file": "debates2014-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "eac04b0826a0ad20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-27a.442.4", "colnum": "442", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his kind comments. I do not recollect storming out of anywhere. We have been punctilious in keeping Parliament informed through regular statements, and the issue comes up regularly at questions. The last vote, with a majority of 61, very clearly endorsed our strategy, which is very wide and encompasses other actions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-27a.442.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-27", "file": "debates2014-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "eac04b0826a0ad20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-27a.449.7", "colnum": "449", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "George Eustice", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "George Eustice", "preceding_text": "Yes, the initiative in Leighton Buzzard my hon. Friend describes is an excellent example of good practice in action. I will be delighted to visit his constituency in Leighton Buzzard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-27a.449.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-27", "file": "debates2014-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "eac04b0826a0ad20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-27a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Oh.”", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the Minister on the recent announcement on helping very hard-pressed fishermen, who have been the unsung victims of recent floods. I am awaiting a reply from him to my letter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-27a.450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-27", "file": "debates2014-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "eac04b0826a0ad20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-27a.462.1", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "You have—sold your soul for a mess of pottage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-27a.462.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-27", "file": "debates2014-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "eac04b0826a0ad20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-27a.490.0", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "try”— that is good, is it not? —by putting a 1% cap on pension charges”. I wonder whether he has moved a bit because he saw what we were doing. I get a slight sense that might be the case. The hon. Gentleman asked about the timetable. Our consultation document made it clear that every scheme would have a cap in place by April 2015. We are today delivering on that timetable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-27a.490.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-27", "file": "debates2014-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "eac04b0826a0ad20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-27a.506.2", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Dodds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Dodds", "preceding_text": "I shall be brief. Given the gravity of the situation and the need to ensure that these matters are properly aired, I do want to give time to other hon. Members to contribute. The hon. Member for North Down has rightly pointed to the reasons for the absence of the right hon. Member for Neath. We understand also that the Minister of State has another commitment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-27a.506.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-31", "file": "debates2014-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "6f2d5199c979d668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-31a.579.3", "colnum": "579", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Esther McVey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Esther McVey", "preceding_text": "I would like to have a word with the young chap you are talking about, because I would like to give him hope and optimism, which is something that you are distinctly not giving—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-31a.579.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-31", "file": "debates2014-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "6f2d5199c979d668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-31a.580.6", "colnum": "580", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "It is interesting that the Opposition and the hon. Lady take the view that people moving is a bad thing. Let me just tell her—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-31a.580.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-31", "file": "debates2014-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "6f2d5199c979d668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-31a.587.3", "colnum": "587", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "s we develop it and report back. May I simply say that instead of moaning about this system, Opposition Members might like to visit it, as many other MPs have done, because they will see how successful its rolling out has been? Some 90% of the claims for JSA as a result of universal credit are now made online, and 78% are monthly payments—these are people confident to receive those payments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-31a.587.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-31", "file": "debates2014-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "6f2d5199c979d668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-31a.589.3", "colnum": "589", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "We were pleased this week to find elements of—that new families formed were no longer breaking up. These figures came out last week to ensure that we are making our programmes work for very good reasons. Families are now staying together. Stable families in households being able to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-31a.589.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-31", "file": "debates2014-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "6f2d5199c979d668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-31a.590.3", "colnum": "590", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "Let me remind the hon. Lady that, as I said earlier, for these people, and the previous Government made no effort whatsoever to get them back to work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-31a.590.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-31", "file": "debates2014-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "6f2d5199c979d668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-31a.591.2", "colnum": "591", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Michael Penning", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Penning", "preceding_text": "There are two separate answers to that question. On WCA, Atos is leaving and we will bring in a new contractor before moving to multiple contractors to ensure that the suppliers can do what is said on the tin, all without paying a single piece of compensation to Atos—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-31a.591.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-31", "file": "debates2014-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "6f2d5199c979d668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-31a.595.0", "colnum": "595", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "In my constituency the waiting time for PIP assessments is now 26 weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-31a.595.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-31", "file": "debates2014-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "6f2d5199c979d668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-31a.618.3", "colnum": "618", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "That is a very good point that we ought to consider. I would, of course, not support parliamentary or Assembly expenses being deployed for party political reasons. I will move on to the minor taxes, particularly stamp duty land tax and landfill tax. We heard very little detail from the Secretary of Sport—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-31a.618.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-31", "file": "debates2014-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "6f2d5199c979d668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-31a.622.1", "colnum": "622", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Shrewsbury and Atcham (Daniel Kawczynski) shakes his head. I presume he is pleased, is he, that the poorest of his constituents in Shrewsbury pay more as a proportion of their income as a result of the VAT increases that his party brought in? Or is he not pleased that they are paying that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-31a.622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-31", "file": "debates2014-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "6f2d5199c979d668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-31a.624.1", "colnum": "624", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "No, I would label it as a progressive change and I will explain why we feel the need to introduce such a change. The second way in which we would change the question relates to our concerns about the fact that this Tory Government and an increasingly right-wing nationalist party in Wales are proposing to cut the top rate of tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-31a.624.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-31", "file": "debates2014-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "6f2d5199c979d668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-31a.624.2", "colnum": "624", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Alun Cairns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Cairns", "preceding_text": " He says that he wants to extend the tax-varying powers by 15%, but he also says that he is against tax competition, and then he says that he only wants to put taxes up. We can have lots of debates about those inconsistencies, but there is one very serious point: every nation and region of the UK is seeking to attract investment. What sort of message is being sent when the shadow Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-31a.624.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-31", "file": "debates2014-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "6f2d5199c979d668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-31a.625.2", "colnum": "625", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "Order. [ Interruption. ] Order. The hon. Gentleman must not appear to be concerned or to question when he is called to order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-31a.625.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-31", "file": "debates2014-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "6f2d5199c979d668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-31a.632.2", "colnum": "632", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": " Members of Plaid Cymru also have a clear position: they want it to have as many powers as possible. We have a right to know what Labour actually stands for in this regard. This worries me, because I know that Labour Members are Unionists, but they do not seem to realise that we are sleepwalking into a disaster. One day, perhaps 10, 20 or 30 years hence, we are going to wake up and discover—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-31a.632.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-03-31", "file": "debates2014-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "6f2d5199c979d668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-31a.655.2", "colnum": "655", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Wayne David", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wayne David", "preceding_text": "n the Bill. In an intervention on my right hon. Friend the Member for Neath (Mr Hain) I referred to the fact that, in the impact assessment the Government have said that they want to change the 2006 Act because smaller parties say that they have difficulty in coming forward with a sufficiently large pool of “high quality candidates to represent them in elections.” That is what it says.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-03-31a.655.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-01", "file": "debates2014-04-01b.xml", "sha256": "e11df733cab90a59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-01b.728.3", "colnum": "728", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. There is much interest in this subject that I am keen to accommodate, but some pithiness from Back and Front Benchers alike would be appreciated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-01b.728.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-01", "file": "debates2014-04-01b.xml", "sha256": "e11df733cab90a59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-01b.749.4", "colnum": "749", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady might well ask her own Front-Bench team why they increased the top rate of tax for their last few days in office, given that it was clear that it was not going to raise the money it supposedly would have raised. We have made sure that the wealthiest in this country are paying a far greater share of income tax than they did in any year under the previous Government —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-01b.749.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-01", "file": "debates2014-04-01b.xml", "sha256": "e11df733cab90a59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-01b.751.0", "colnum": "751", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "ral Democrat election manifesto, and I welcome his confirmation of that point. He should recognise that the coalition Government came together to sort out the catastrophic economic mess that was made by his party in the previous few years. When we came into office, we were borrowing £150 billion a year—for every £4 we were spending under his party, £1 had to be borrowed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-01b.751.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-01", "file": "debates2014-04-01b.xml", "sha256": "e11df733cab90a59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-01b.755.3", "colnum": "755", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "cannot promise to get rid of the VAT increase that they have put in place, contrary to the manifesto on which he stood—yet another Liberal Democrat broken promise. When Labour makes promises in our manifesto at the next general election, we will make sure that they are fully funded and that the sums add up. If we do make promises, everybody will be clear where the money will come from—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-01b.755.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-01", "file": "debates2014-04-01b.xml", "sha256": "e11df733cab90a59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-01b.760.1", "colnum": "760", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "s that it was not a mistake that they should go down and now they are going up, but that, I am afraid, is typical of Liberal Democrats who like to face both ways on these matters. In chapter 2 we have the married couple’s tax allowance. The Chief Secretary is deep in conversation, but I want to give way to him in a moment specifically on the issue of the married couple’s tax allowance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-01b.760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-01", "file": "debates2014-04-01b.xml", "sha256": "e11df733cab90a59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-01b.763.6", "colnum": "763", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "on in collective funds, increased its holdings by about 7% in 2013. I do not think that £145 million is an unreasonable sum to ask from a sector that has been doing very well in recent years. We should be making sure that we pursue a fair policy and so will oppose that clause. We then come to the Bill’s tax avoidance measures. We know that the Government have a bad record on that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-01b.763.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-01", "file": "debates2014-04-01b.xml", "sha256": "e11df733cab90a59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-01b.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Doughty", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Shame!”", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Doughty", "preceding_text": "ies and individuals engaging in aggressive tax avoidance and tax avoidance schemes, and about individuals who fritter away this economy’s wealth in tax havens and through other loopholes, rather than contributing. I will examine the provisions closely and follow the debates with interest. I am unlikely to serve on the Finance Bill Committee this year, although I enjoyed it greatly last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-01b.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-01", "file": "debates2014-04-01b.xml", "sha256": "e11df733cab90a59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-01b.786.1", "colnum": "786", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Ian Swales", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “He is here.”", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Swales", "preceding_text": " (Vince Cable) , now the Business Secretary, said at the time. He was warning of the difficulties many years before they actually arose. I am quite certain that our party was watching the situation carefully, and that it could see what was happening. There is a growing myth, which was repeated by the hon. Member for Cardiff South and Penarth (Stephen Doughty) , who is no longer in his place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-01b.786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-01", "file": "debates2014-04-01b.xml", "sha256": "e11df733cab90a59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-01b.787.3", "colnum": "787", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Ian Swales", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “No it is not.”", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Swales", "preceding_text": "ome comments about it. First, at that time we had not seen the note left by the previous Chief Secretary to the Treasury saying that there was no money left. Secondly, and unfortunately, the Liberal Democrats were 269 short of an overall majority at the last election, so we did not have the power to implement our manifesto. Thirdly, VAT is a good, progressive way of raising money from the wealthy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-01b.787.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-01", "file": "debates2014-04-01b.xml", "sha256": "e11df733cab90a59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-01b.824.0", "colnum": "824", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Guy Opperman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Guy Opperman", "preceding_text": "l of whom are SMEs and businesses in the north-east. They said: “The NECC is pleased to see recognition of some of its key priorities in the Budget and that these figures demonstrate that increased business confidence, as reflected by the NECC quarterly economic survey, is manifesting into real growth and jobs.” I welcome the fact that the jobs situation is improving in the north-east.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-01b.824.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-01", "file": "debates2014-04-01b.xml", "sha256": "e11df733cab90a59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-01b.836.1", "colnum": "836", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Shabana Mahmood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shabana Mahmood", "preceding_text": "I will not for the moment. I will make some more progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-01b.836.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-01", "file": "debates2014-04-01b.xml", "sha256": "e11df733cab90a59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-01b.838.1", "colnum": "838", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Shabana Mahmood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shabana Mahmood", "preceding_text": "rate has been applied to potential cases under the GAAR when a case on the GAAR has yet to go to court. We will scrutinise the Government’s numbers in Committee: they have a history of overestimating the impact of their avoidance measures. We have spoken a lot today about the Swiss deal, which raised £2.3 billion less than expected. I am sure that the Exchequer Secretary will not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-01b.838.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-01", "file": "debates2014-04-01b.xml", "sha256": "e11df733cab90a59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-01b.841.1", "colnum": "841", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "The Labour party presided over the greatest recession that this country has seen for more than a century, which had an impact on people’s living standards. It is now up to this party and this coalition Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-01b.841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-01", "file": "debates2014-04-01b.xml", "sha256": "e11df733cab90a59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-01b.841.3", "colnum": "841", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "here is the annual investment allowance, which will help manufacturing and other businesses up and down the country. It means that nearly 5 million businesses will get 100% relief on capital expenditure. That was welcomed by the hon. Member for Houghton and Sunderland South. Labour Members will vote against that. There are the reforms to R and D tax credits, which will help businesses to start up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-01b.841.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-02", "file": "debates2014-04-02c.xml", "sha256": "ffa3fd0c5ea32959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-02c.875.6", "colnum": "875", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The shares are trading ahead of where they were sold, but the fact is this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-02c.875.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-02", "file": "debates2014-04-02c.xml", "sha256": "ffa3fd0c5ea32959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-02c.876.2", "colnum": "876", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "Again, the Prime Minister cannot answer the question. The answer is that the taxpayer would have got £1.4 billion less for this valuable asset than it is worth today. Here is the thing, Mr Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-02c.876.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-02", "file": "debates2014-04-02c.xml", "sha256": "ffa3fd0c5ea32959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-02c.876.7", "colnum": "876", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "What happened is that the taxpayer is £2 billion better off. Yes, and anyone who has sold shares has missed out on what is a successful business. The truth is this: the right hon. Gentleman sat in a Cabinet that wanted to privatise Royal Mail. They could not do it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-02c.876.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-02", "file": "debates2014-04-02c.xml", "sha256": "ffa3fd0c5ea32959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-02c.878.0", "colnum": "878", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Anas Sarwar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anas Sarwar", "preceding_text": "Thirty-five years ago, the Scottish National party and the Tories united to bring down a Labour Government and bring in Margaret Thatcher—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-02c.878.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-02", "file": "debates2014-04-02c.xml", "sha256": "ffa3fd0c5ea32959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-02c.880.6", "colnum": "880", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "preceding_text": "Today the Ford Motor Company agreed a multi-million pound contribution towards the Visteon pension fund for former Ford employees. Will the Prime Minister congratulate Unite the union which, alongside a cross-party group of MPs, has struggled to get a fair deal for former Ford workers? Will he commit to supporting pensioners facing the same plight at the hands of other multinational companies?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-02c.880.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-02", "file": "debates2014-04-02c.xml", "sha256": "ffa3fd0c5ea32959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-02c.881.3", "colnum": "881", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Siobhain McDonagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Siobhain McDonagh", "preceding_text": "Three months ago I asked the Prime Minister about his £1,000 bobby tax, which anyone joining the police has to pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-02c.881.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-02", "file": "debates2014-04-02c.xml", "sha256": "ffa3fd0c5ea32959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-02c.882.4", "colnum": "882", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right to raise this because, frankly, what is happening in our NHS in Wales is a scandal. It is a scandal that is entirely the responsibility of the Labour party running the Welsh Assembly Government, who made the decision to cut NHS spending by 8% in Wales. As a result, they have not met an A and E target since 2009. The last time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-02c.882.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-02", "file": "debates2014-04-02c.xml", "sha256": "ffa3fd0c5ea32959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-02c.883.6", "colnum": "883", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Morris", "preceding_text": "It appears from my council tax bill that the Labour-led Lancashire county council and the Labour-led Lancaster district council have raised council tax by 2%.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-02c.883.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-02", "file": "debates2014-04-02c.xml", "sha256": "ffa3fd0c5ea32959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-02c.893.1", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Go on!”", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "t’s tinkering, according to their impact assessment some 400,000 homes will not receive energy insulation. That is not something to stand up and crow about. Hon. Members may recall that there were those who said that a price freeze was unworkable and impossible to deliver. It is not normally in my nature to name and shame people when their arguments have been well and truly demolished—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-02c.893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-02", "file": "debates2014-04-02c.xml", "sha256": "ffa3fd0c5ea32959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-02c.895.5", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "In 2011, Labour, under my right hon. Friend the Member for Doncaster North (Edward Miliband) , a previous Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, supported a full market investigation. The former Secretary of State opposed that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-02c.895.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-02", "file": "debates2014-04-02c.xml", "sha256": "ffa3fd0c5ea32959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-02c.904.3", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "issue and we realised that this needs to continue further. So if my hon. Friend looks at the community energy strategy, he will see that we are taking action. We have set up a working group to look at it—not just to take on the licence lite issue, which was so badly handled under the last Government, but to see what else we can do to help precisely the people my hon. Friend is talking about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-02c.904.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-02", "file": "debates2014-04-02c.xml", "sha256": "ffa3fd0c5ea32959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-02c.906.1", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "der the last Government and this one, so let us go through them. We should not fall into the trap of simply blaming the energy markets and Labour’s big six for higher energy bills. Let us be honest: everyone in this House knows that the main driver of energy price rises in recent years has been rising wholesale costs. The average wholesale gas price in 2013 was more than double that of 2007.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-02c.906.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-02", "file": "debates2014-04-02c.xml", "sha256": "ffa3fd0c5ea32959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-02c.907.1", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "ng the freeze, would suppliers be forced to continue it until the freeze ends, penalising firms who try to help their customers? We know the problem for smaller competitors if wholesale prices rise. They tell us that they would go bust under Labour’s energy price freeze. But what if wholesale prices fall during the freeze? Is Labour proposing to prevent firms from passing on that price fall?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-02c.907.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-02", "file": "debates2014-04-02c.xml", "sha256": "ffa3fd0c5ea32959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-02c.914.1", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "t. The danger that the price freeze will discourage new investment has already been shown by some of the reactions. My hon. Friend the Member for Warrington South (David Mowat) referred to Centrica. It is all very well for Sam Laidlaw to say that, in the event of vertical integration coming to an end, Centrica would stop investment, but the truth is that in the UK it has already stopped investing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-02c.914.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-03", "file": "debates2014-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "bba74bb0b03b8803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-03a.1038.0", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "umber of herd breakdowns tripled from 1,226 to 3,634 and the number of cattle slaughtered rose sixfold, from 4,102 to 24,000. I also remind her that when we adopted a bipartisan approach back in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, we all but had this disease beat, with a prevalence of 0.01%. All that I ask is for her to work with us and follow the example of other nations with a severe reservoir of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-03a.1038.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-03", "file": "debates2014-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "bba74bb0b03b8803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-03a.1039.1", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": " the Government she supported, only 32%, 37% and 39% respectively were culled in three of the trial areas, but in those areas the culls did contribute to disease reduction later on. The hon. Lady also mentioned cost. We are heading for a bill of £1 billion. We simply must address the disease in cattle and in wildlife, as has happened in every other country to which I referred in my statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-03a.1039.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-03", "file": "debates2014-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "bba74bb0b03b8803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-03a.1040.2", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "preceding_text": "Like the Secretary of State, I think it is important that the House tries to work together, because whatever happens next spring I suspect the coalition will not exist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-03a.1040.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-03", "file": "debates2014-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "bba74bb0b03b8803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-03a.1041.2", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "and clear lessons in practical terms that we learned from the cull companies, so sensibly we are continuing with the existing two pilots so we can perfect this system of removing diseased wildlife. Once we are happy we have got that system perfected, we will look to a further roll-out. The original intention was to have 10 areas, and we have over 30 expressions of interest from around the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-03a.1041.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-03", "file": "debates2014-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "bba74bb0b03b8803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-03a.1079.0", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "I will not for now, because I only have a short period and I want to respond to all the points that Members have made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-03a.1079.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-03", "file": "debates2014-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "bba74bb0b03b8803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-03a.1081.3", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "I wonder if the right hon. Gentleman will allow me to continue. I have not given way to anybody else, and I hope he will forgive me if I am consistent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-03a.1081.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-07", "file": "debates2014-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "e436fd32acce1898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-07a.3.6", "colnum": "3", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Williams", "preceding_text": "I will certainly join my hon. Friend in congratulating Crawley council on its record. I stress yet again that this Government are committed to building new affordable homes, including social homes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-07a.3.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-07", "file": "debates2014-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "e436fd32acce1898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-07a.18.0", "colnum": "18", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "The Planning Minister is absolutely right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-07a.18.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-07", "file": "debates2014-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "e436fd32acce1898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-07a.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Justice and Home Affairs Opt-out", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": ", saving British taxpayers over £8 billion; vetoing a new EU fiscal treaty which did not guarantee a level playing field for British businesses; and refusing to spend British taxes on bailing out the euro. Only the Conservatives have a credible plan to reshape Britain’s relationship with the European Union and to put this to the British people in an in-out referendum by the end of 2017.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-07a.32.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-07", "file": "debates2014-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "e436fd32acce1898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-07a.55.0", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Justice and Home Affairs Opt-out", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "ritish liberties and so on. The second irony is that even as we are talking about democratic accountability, as the hon. Member for South Northamptonshire (Andrea Leadsom) just did, the Government have tabled a motion on the Order Paper which will mean that Mr Speaker cannot call an amendment to the Queen’s Speech. The hon. Lady may want to sign an amendment to that motion later today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-07a.55.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-07", "file": "debates2014-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "e436fd32acce1898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-07a.55.0", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Justice and Home Affairs Opt-out", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "e hon. Member for South Northamptonshire (Andrea Leadsom) just did, the Government have tabled a motion on the Order Paper which will mean that Mr Speaker cannot call an amendment to the Queen’s Speech. The hon. Lady may want to sign an amendment to that motion later today— [ Interruption. ] I am sure that the hon. Member for Bury North (Mr Nuttall) , if he has not signed it yet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-07a.55.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-07", "file": "debates2014-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "e436fd32acce1898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-07a.61.0", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Justice and Home Affairs Opt-out", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman raises the question of those people for whom the word “Europe” raises all kinds of spectres.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-07a.61.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-07", "file": "debates2014-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "e436fd32acce1898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-07a.87.2", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Justice and Home Affairs Opt-out", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "n Court of Justice in December 2014, as a result of the Lisbon treaty signed by the previous Government. It is important to point out to my hon. Friends that this Government have secured the opt-out. Had we not been able to reach agreement on that, we would have been required under the terms of the treaty to participate in all those 130-plus measures. The opt-out has been a significant step—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-07a.87.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-08", "file": "debates2014-04-08b.xml", "sha256": "49051e81a4db86b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-08b.111.3", "colnum": "111", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hollobone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hollobone", "preceding_text": "Brazil is the leading economic and political power in south America. How successful are we being in persuading the Brazilians of the merits of the Falkland Islanders’ case that their sovereignty should be decided by the islanders themselves and not by their Argentine neighbours?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-08b.111.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-08", "file": "debates2014-04-08b.xml", "sha256": "49051e81a4db86b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-08b.125.0", "colnum": "125", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "he House should seek to obtrude a partisan element. The Standards Committee has never operated on a partisan basis, and I have no reason to believe that the party affiliation of its members has had any direct bearing on their views of the cases that they consider. On the contrary, they consider cases on their merits, and seek to reach a consensus. The fact that the Committee has lay members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-08b.125.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-08", "file": "debates2014-04-08b.xml", "sha256": "49051e81a4db86b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-08b.154.2", "colnum": "154", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "bby against my own party’s Front Benchers if the case had been well made and I felt that the Laffer effect of lower business rates was well established. I have profoundly shocked my Front-Bench colleagues now, having earned myself a brownie point through my earlier remarks. As they are well aware, they are quite safe, because there is no proposal on the amendment paper to cut business rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-08b.154.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-08", "file": "debates2014-04-08b.xml", "sha256": "49051e81a4db86b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-08b.198.1", "colnum": "198", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "I suppose we are talking about the people who for almost the entire time the Labour party was in power were paying a lower rate of income tax, a lower rate of capital gains tax and a lower rate of stamp duty. I hear the Labour party’s position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-08b.198.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-09", "file": "debates2014-04-09d.xml", "sha256": "eb66290e4863618b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-09d.260.1", "colnum": "260", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr Tim Farron. [Interruption.] Order. There should not be a collective groan. The hon. Gentleman is good-humoured about it, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-09d.260.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-09", "file": "debates2014-04-09d.xml", "sha256": "eb66290e4863618b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-09d.261.0", "colnum": "261", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "On the day when BBC Radio 4’s “Woman’s Hour” has put the distinguished geneticist Professor Nazneen Rahman at No. 3 in its power list, I am pleased to remind the Prime Minister of his challenge to me to suggest practical policies that could address the damaging and long-standing under-representation of women in science and engineering careers. So what is his response—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-09d.261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-09", "file": "debates2014-04-09d.xml", "sha256": "eb66290e4863618b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-09d.273.0", "colnum": "273", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Catherine McKinnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Catherine McKinnell", "preceding_text": "We know what the Chancellor thinks about this marriage tax allowance. He thinks that the idea is a turkey, both politically and economically. Indeed, an article in The Daily Telegraph went so far as to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-09d.273.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-28", "file": "debates2014-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab3cf2f97308628f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-28a.574.3", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Speaker’s Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": " transport infrastructure. Let me turn to reductions in travel times. High Speed 2 will not just increase capacity; it will use the latest high-speed technology to reduce travel times between Scotland, the north, the midlands and London. It will connect with existing railway lines so that from the end of phase 1 direct high-speed services can be operated from Glasgow, Wigan, Preston and Liverpool.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-28a.574.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-28", "file": "debates2014-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab3cf2f97308628f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-28a.593.2", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Speaker’s Statement", "cue_speaker": "Lorely Burt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Where are your party colleagues?”", "preceding_speaker": "Lorely Burt", "preceding_text": "It is a refreshing change to speak in a debate on a Bill that has overall cross-party support. My party was, I think, the first to commit to high-speed rail, before the heady days of Government ever came along.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-28a.593.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-28", "file": "debates2014-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab3cf2f97308628f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-28a.595.0", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Speaker’s Statement", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "een able to make an intervention on the right hon. Member for Chesham and Amersham (Mrs Gillan) in her untimed speech, I would have asked her, given that she accepts that need for increased capacity, how she intended to achieve it in the absence of HS2. I have been in the Chamber since the moment the debate started, and everyone has accepted that the west coast main line is full to capacity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-28a.595.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-28", "file": "debates2014-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab3cf2f97308628f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-28a.659.0", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Speaker’s Statement", "cue_speaker": "Robert Goodwill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Goodwill", "preceding_text": " near the proposed route are understandably worried. They deserve generous assistance and they will receive it. We have already helped more than 100 households under the exceptional hardship scheme, and we have now launched an express purchase scheme for land safeguarded for phase 1, helping owner-occupiers to sell quickly and with less fuss, regardless of whether their property is needed for HS2.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-28a.659.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-28", "file": "debates2014-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "ab3cf2f97308628f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-28a.659.0", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Speaker’s Statement", "cue_speaker": "Robert Goodwill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Goodwill", "preceding_text": "0 households under the exceptional hardship scheme, and we have now launched an express purchase scheme for land safeguarded for phase 1, helping owner-occupiers to sell quickly and with less fuss, regardless of whether their property is needed for HS2. [ Interruption. ] They get the full, unblighted open-market value of their property, plus 10%, plus reasonable moving costs, including stamp duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-28a.659.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-29", "file": "debates2014-04-29b.xml", "sha256": "14d3eb8cc58e2340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-29b.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "We are introducing a cap on payday lending, and that will be an important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-29b.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-29", "file": "debates2014-04-29b.xml", "sha256": "14d3eb8cc58e2340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-29b.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "We are introducing a cap on payday lending, and that will be an important— [Interruption.] The shadow Chancellor chuckles. He was the City Minister; he could have taken that decision at any point when he was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-29b.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-29", "file": "debates2014-04-29b.xml", "sha256": "14d3eb8cc58e2340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-29b.696.3", "colnum": "696", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I join my hon. Friend in thanking those who went to work today on our tube system. The strike is totally irresponsible and unnecessary. It impacts on the economy and makes it difficult for people in London to get to work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-29b.696.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-29", "file": "debates2014-04-29b.xml", "sha256": "14d3eb8cc58e2340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-29b.697.2", "colnum": "697", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "This country was borrowing £150 billion a year when this Government came to office, and we are on course to reduce the deficit by a half this year. We are taking —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-29b.697.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-29", "file": "debates2014-04-29b.xml", "sha256": "14d3eb8cc58e2340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-29b.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Business of the House (No. 1)", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "We come now to the four motions on the High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Bill, which it is appropriate to debate together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-29b.707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-29", "file": "debates2014-04-29b.xml", "sha256": "14d3eb8cc58e2340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-29b.732.4", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Business of the House (No. 1)", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "I would agree with that. I have known the Secretary of State for a very long time. Indeed, my mother was on his selection committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-29b.732.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-29", "file": "debates2014-04-29b.xml", "sha256": "14d3eb8cc58e2340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-29b.797.0", "colnum": "797", "heading": "RURAL BUS SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Richard Drax", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Drax", "preceding_text": "Again, I agree with my hon. Friend. I have some experiences in my constituency—I am wandering slightly off the point—where, as I understand it, school children cannot get to school because the school bus will not pick them up, as they are not quite in the catchment area, yet if the bus travelled another mile or so, they would be. Again, this goes back to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-29b.797.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-30", "file": "debates2014-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "184fec29a964e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-30a.814.7", "colnum": "814", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": " correlation between jobs lost and jobs replaced. We need to have the skills in the civil service to do what needs to be done to serve Britain today so that we can win in a very competitive world. That means that some jobs become redundant, but some new capabilities are needed. No Government or organisation I have ever come across think that they sit in a steady state and never recruit new people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-30a.814.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-30", "file": "debates2014-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "184fec29a964e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-30a.818.3", "colnum": "818", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "No, Mr Speaker. I am raising an issue about a rip-off of the taxpayer, which the British people know when they see it. The reason this matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-30a.818.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-30", "file": "debates2014-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "184fec29a964e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-30a.818.5", "colnum": "818", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "s is that the sale was grossly undervalued. Shares that were sold for £1.7 billion on privatisation are now worth £2.7 billion, and who cashed in? Twelve of the 16 so-called long-term investors made a killing worth hundreds of millions of pounds within weeks. Yesterday, the representative of the bank that sold the shares said there was an “understanding” with those investors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-30a.818.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-30", "file": "debates2014-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "184fec29a964e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-30a.819.4", "colnum": "819", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The Post Office workers were given their shares, and it is right that they were given their shares—let us celebrate the popular capitalism. I thought the right hon. Gentleman believed in empowering workers. We now have 140,000 workers who have got those shares. On the risk to the taxpayer, he ought to reflect on this —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-30a.819.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-30", "file": "debates2014-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "184fec29a964e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-30a.821.3", "colnum": "821", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Peter Tapsell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Tapsell", "preceding_text": "heir criticisms of, the way in which the Royal Mail launch was handled show their total ignorance of City markets? The fact is that when one tries to make an immense sale, one has to take infinite trouble to find people to underwrite it, and they are not able to prophesy what stock markets will be like a week ahead. Therefore, the prudent way in which this sale was handled was very sensible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-30a.821.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-30", "file": "debates2014-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "184fec29a964e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-30a.829.1", "colnum": "829", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Applause .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "bers: not only working for the interests of their constituencies and constituents, but often as the last resort of the homeless and hopeless, the people whom society has let down. This is a worthy calling, and should be properly acknowledged and appreciated. This House is the precious centre of our Parliamentary democracy; and with all my heart I wish it well. Yours sincerely, Robert Rogers”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-30a.829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-30", "file": "debates2014-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "184fec29a964e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-30a.834.0", "colnum": "834", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "hen breaching the PACE codes ceased to be a disciplinary offence? That date was April 1999, when her party was in power. Checks and balances were weakened by her Government and strengthened by this Government. When Labour was in power, no-suspicion stop-and-search did not go down; it went up. Section 60 stops went from fewer than 8,000 in 1997-98 to 150,000 in 2008-09, but down to 5,000 last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-30a.834.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-30", "file": "debates2014-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "184fec29a964e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-30a.854.0", "colnum": "854", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicky Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicky Morgan", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right, and he tempts me down a particular path—to say whether membership of the EU broadly benefits this country. I am sure that we could have a whole debate on that, and I know that he could go on for hours and hours on that particular subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-30a.854.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-30", "file": "debates2014-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "184fec29a964e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-30a.888.2", "colnum": "888", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman reads my amendment, he will see that it is very balanced. It simply calls for an independent review, the report of which would go to the Secretary of State, who would lay it before each House of Parliament so that it could be considered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-30a.888.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-30", "file": "debates2014-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "184fec29a964e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-30a.892.0", "colnum": "892", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his intervention. There is a clear principle in our system. Of course we represent localities in one sense, but we represent electors and not big empty spaces and fields full of sheep and other animals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-30a.892.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-30", "file": "debates2014-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "184fec29a964e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-30a.895.0", "colnum": "895", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "ms, people are elected because of the party that they represent, not based on any of their individual qualities. So, to take the specific point raised by the hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside (Mark Tami) , I am not sure I buy the concept that when people are elected on a list system, if someone loses it has necessarily been a vote against them rather than a positive vote for one of their opponents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-30a.895.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-30", "file": "debates2014-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "184fec29a964e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-30a.896.4", "colnum": "896", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "s a valid criticism of every list system in which the voter can vote only for the party and has no ability to rank candidates, because in such systems whoever is at the top of the list will almost certainly get elected regardless of whether voters think highly of their personal qualities, but I do not think it is a valid criticism of the changes in the Bill we are considering today. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-30a.896.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-30", "file": "debates2014-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "184fec29a964e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-30a.899.1", "colnum": "899", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Edwards", "preceding_text": "rs or for fewer, the new clause essentially states that when the time comes to make that decision, it should be made by the National Assembly, not the House of Commons. It is a point of principle about where power lies in these matters. Given the shadow Secretary of State’s comments when he intervened on me earlier, I look forward to the Labour party’s support when we vote later—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-30a.899.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-30", "file": "debates2014-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "184fec29a964e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-30a.913.3", "colnum": "913", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "f this Bill gets enacted unamended, the Plaid Cymru party leader, Leanne Wood, will be able to implement—indeed quite possibly is already implementing—the comprehensive strategy she laid out in a remarkably candid memorandum in August 2003 when she was a list Assembly Member. My hon. Friend the Member for Pontypridd (Owen Smith) has quoted from that document, so I will not do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-30a.913.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-30", "file": "debates2014-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "184fec29a964e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-30a.917.1", "colnum": "917", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Albert Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Albert Owen", "preceding_text": "ntroduced the restriction. The question that the hon. Gentleman should be asking is why are we having this debate now? The Silk commission itself—we are having government by commissions—did not make this proposal. I am ready to be corrected by Ministers, but I do not think it was in their manifesto to reverse the ban. If I am wrong, I will take an intervention, but I do not think I am.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-30a.917.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-30", "file": "debates2014-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "184fec29a964e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-30a.926.6", "colnum": "926", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Jones", "preceding_text": "No, I will make some progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-30a.926.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-30", "file": "debates2014-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "184fec29a964e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-30a.956.1", "colnum": "956", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "I entirely understand that point, absolutely, completely and utterly. I also understand that the leader of the Conservative party in Wales has placed on the record his desire to cut solely the top rate of tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-30a.956.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-04-30", "file": "debates2014-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "184fec29a964e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-30a.956.1", "colnum": "956", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "n. I presume that he is referring to his colleague, the leader of the Tory party in Wales, because it was he who called for a cut to the top rate of tax. We understand perfectly well how this legislation will work in Wales, but we are not in favour of any one part of Britain undercutting another through tax competition, which is unfortunately the position of the Secretary of State for Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-04-30a.956.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-05-01", "file": "debates2014-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "737d36e9d2acdcf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-01a.978.1", "colnum": "978", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hollobone", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hollobone", "preceding_text": "Kettering Town football club has scored more goals in the lifetime of the FA cup competition than any other club in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-01a.978.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-05-01", "file": "debates2014-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "737d36e9d2acdcf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-01a.996.0", "colnum": "996", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "ow has it been held to account?” I was told that the Care Quality Commission could not prosecute because it had to serve a notice first, and if the company complied with the notice, nothing could be done. A flawed regulatory regime was established when the CQC came into being. We are changing that so that providers of care can be prosecuted if they fail to meet fundamental standards of care.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-01a.996.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-05-01", "file": "debates2014-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "737d36e9d2acdcf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-01a.1007.0", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "House did. Additional time was found to ensure that we had a very full debate on Monday of this week, and time on Tuesday to debate the future processes for scrutinising the HS2 Bill. There was a majority of more than 400 in favour of the Bill, which was a very satisfactory outcome. As the shadow Leader of the House knows, the Prime Minister is a very busy man. His support for HS2 is not in doubt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-01a.1007.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-05-01", "file": "debates2014-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "737d36e9d2acdcf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-01a.1007.0", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "sions—a considerably improved performance. In fact, it is not only an improved voting performance but an improved performance as Prime Minister. We have not had an opportunity to announce and discuss the future business of the House since 10 April , and I was struck by the fact that the shadow Leader of the House did not ask for a debate on the economy, on jobs, on the progress on inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-01a.1007.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-05-01", "file": "debates2014-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "737d36e9d2acdcf1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-01a.1054.0", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "preceding_text": " not possible because of the consequences of the legal aid changes introduced by the Lord Chancellor. This case alone has cost the taxpayer tens of thousand of pounds and justice has not been done, but it is extremely serious for the criminal justice system in this country, which has not just been brought into disrepute, but is now rendered ineffective by a Lord Chancellor who is out of his depth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-01a.1054.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-05-06", "file": "debates2014-05-06b.xml", "sha256": "5b50ceb0d85762c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-06b.103.5", "colnum": "103", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Nia Griffith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nia Griffith", "preceding_text": "I am saying that in England it has been the worst year for decades for A and E, with almost 1 million people waiting more than four hours. It has been much harder to get to see a GP in England since the Government scrapped Labour’s 48-hour appointment guarantee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-06b.103.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-05-06", "file": "debates2014-05-06b.xml", "sha256": "5b50ceb0d85762c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-06b.104.0", "colnum": "104", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "er for Llanelli (Nia Griffith) then proceeded to criticise standards of health care in England, yet somehow that is okay because she is just pointing out facts. Absolute nonsense. If we see things wrong in our constituencies it is our duty as elected Members to point them out. My hon. Friend was simply pointing out to the Committee problems in his constituency that had been raised by constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-06b.104.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-05-07", "file": "debates2014-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "1337702d82ac72c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-07a.133.9", "colnum": "133", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "preceding_text": "hat what matters to business is the bottom line: the profit and loss account and the balance sheet. If businesses felt that independence was going to be good for them, they would be lining up to support it. Since the turn of the new year, we have heard a steady chorus from the business community, who have all been coming out to underline the risks and uncertainty that would come from independence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-07a.133.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-05-07", "file": "debates2014-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "1337702d82ac72c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-07a.157.0", "colnum": "157", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "enants actively disengaging them. The Residential Landlords Association recently pointed out that it is clear from relevant British standards and Local Authorities Co-ordinators of Regulatory Services guidance, that in certain situations the fitting of a heat alarm is more appropriate. Smoke detectors are not appropriate in kitchens because of the higher risk of accidentally setting off the alarm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-07a.157.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-05-07", "file": "debates2014-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "1337702d82ac72c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-07a.184.0", "colnum": "184", "heading": "WATER BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "preceding_text": "mmittee and elsewhere that that will be a very small number of people, but they are an important group all the same. It is important to have a mechanism that allows people to understand why have they have been drawn outside the scheme, and that they should have a right of appeal. Like my hon. Friend the Member for Thirsk and Malton, I ask Ministers to consider this. I do not want to say much more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-07a.184.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-05-07", "file": "debates2014-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "1337702d82ac72c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-07a.204.3", "colnum": "204", "heading": "IMMIGRATION BILL (MONEY) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "I could do worse than to cite what Lord Deben, a Conservative peer, has said —[Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman looks as though he lacks concern about this, but I am expressing a number of concerns that have been expressed, both in this House and in —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-07a.204.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-05-07", "file": "debates2014-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "1337702d82ac72c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-07a.204.3", "colnum": "204", "heading": "IMMIGRATION BILL (MONEY) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "n.] My view is that we need to ensure that if we take this step, we do it in an effective and appropriate way that does not damage the credibility of the anti-terrorism case. Removing someone’s citizenship is an extreme measure and it has to be done in a way that is appropriate. The Minister has not made it clear to me that the “reasonable” judgments of the Home Secretary —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-07a.204.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-05-07", "file": "debates2014-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "1337702d82ac72c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-07a.219.1", "colnum": "219", "heading": "IMMIGRATION BILL (MONEY) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "James Brokenshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Brokenshire", "preceding_text": " cross-border trafficking. The evil of child trafficking extends not only to those who are trafficked across our borders but to children who are trafficked within the UK, as the horrific sexual exploitation of girls in Rochdale and Oxford has shown. That is why our specialist independent advocates will offer support to all victims of child trafficking, not just those trafficked across our borders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-07a.219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-05-08", "file": "debates2014-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1bb36013747fe3c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-08a.269.1", "colnum": "269", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Patrick McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "Let me deal with whether the academy should be in Coventry in the west midlands. Of course, the west midlands is a very large area. From Coventry to Wolverhampton to Birmingham, all those areas are making bids for the college and I am very pleased about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-08a.269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-05-08", "file": "debates2014-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1bb36013747fe3c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-08a.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": " he responded was a model for Governments to follow. I am glad to have had the chance to say that properly here. On privilege, I am pleased that the Government are not going down the legislative route. It is better that the privilege of this House is rooted in history, is not open to challenge, and is simple and straightforward, in the straightforward language that people used in the 17th century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-08a.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-05-08", "file": "debates2014-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1bb36013747fe3c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-08a.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "John Hemming", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hemming", "preceding_text": "t people who are told that they will be imprisoned if they talk to an MP believe that that is true—in fact, it is not true—and that, sadly, guides what they do. A very serious concern is therefore a live one in 2014. Even if petitioning has gone on since the 1300s, it is a live concern today. Although the work of the right hon. Member for Haltem and Howdenprice or whatever it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-08a.350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-05-08", "file": "debates2014-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1bb36013747fe3c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-08a.352.0", "colnum": "352", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "preceding_text": "overnment. We therefore believe that further work needs to be done to ensure that the public understand. My hon. Friend the Member for North East Derbyshire (Natascha Engel) estimates that 10 million people have signed petitions. That is an impressive number, but I wonder whether, as with some popular television shows, the number of individuals who have taken part is not quite the headline figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-08a.352.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-05-14", "file": "debates2014-05-14d.xml", "sha256": "8e2a695b90394cf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-14d.807.0", "colnum": "807", "heading": "DEREGULATION BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. It would be a shame not to join the party. I can only thank all those who supported me, congratulate the winner, commiserate with the other hon. Members who stood and say that I am very sorry for whoever it was who hoped to replace me on the Intelligence and Security Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-14d.807.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-05-14", "file": "debates2014-05-14d.xml", "sha256": "8e2a695b90394cf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-14d.835.1", "colnum": "835", "heading": "DEREGULATION BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "No, I am going to continue for a moment. I was asked about support from organisations with a business background. Yes, they support these provisions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-14d.835.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-05-14", "file": "debates2014-05-14d.xml", "sha256": "8e2a695b90394cf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-14d.835.3", "colnum": "835", "heading": "DEREGULATION BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "I will give way in a few seconds. Another point was raised about confusion between the workplace—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-14d.835.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-05-14", "file": "debates2014-05-14d.xml", "sha256": "8e2a695b90394cf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-14d.836.2", "colnum": "836", "heading": "DEREGULATION BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "I have one or two more points to make, and then I shall see if I can give way again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-14d.836.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-05-14", "file": "debates2014-05-14d.xml", "sha256": "8e2a695b90394cf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-14d.836.3", "colnum": "836", "heading": "DEREGULATION BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Williamson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Williamson", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman says that the provisions are clear and that there is no confusion, but clearly there is confusion. Why cannot the Solicitor-General see it? I thought he was a solicitor with a legal brain, so surely he must be able to understand it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-05-14d.836.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-04", "file": "debates2014-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "ad04b08ae7d61739", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-04a.7.3", "colnum": "7", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Oh!”", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Well, the coalition parties have changed the order of speakers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-04a.7.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-04", "file": "debates2014-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "ad04b08ae7d61739", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-04a.7.4", "colnum": "7", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “ Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "preceding_text": "at the time as “underhand, unfair and damned un-English”. Four years later, she hailed the awesome step-change in fire power brought by the Dreadnought. Today, the Type 45s, the most sophisticated and capable warships in the world, call Portsmouth home, and so too will the Queen Elizabeth class carriers, the first of which will be named exactly one month from today after our sovereign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-04a.7.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-04", "file": "debates2014-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "ad04b08ae7d61739", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-04a.10.1", "colnum": "10", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Gainsborough (Sir Edward Leigh) is concerned about the consequence of the coalition running its full course. He might see us as the Thelma and Louise of the parliamentary Session, driving at top speed to the Grand Canyon of electoral defeat. Let me reassure him that this will not be the case, because, unlike a 1966 Thunderbird, this coalition is right-hand drive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-04a.10.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-04", "file": "debates2014-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "ad04b08ae7d61739", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-04a.13.0", "colnum": "13", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "am he would ring up to find out if there was work for him. More often than not, there was none. He had a family to bring up. The fact that this is happening in 21st century Britain, the fourth richest country in the world, should shame us all. This is not the Britain that that man believes in, it is not the Britain we believe in, and it should not be the Britain this House is prepared to tolerate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-04a.13.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-04", "file": "debates2014-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "ad04b08ae7d61739", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-04a.17.0", "colnum": "17", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "ow the people of this country that we get what is happening, but this Queen’s Speech does not do that. Britain, like countries all round the world, faces a huge challenge of creating the decent, middle-income jobs that we used to take for granted, and many of those jobs will be created by small businesses. There is a Bill in this Queen’s Speech on small business, but we all know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-04a.17.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-04", "file": "debates2014-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "ad04b08ae7d61739", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-04a.18.3", "colnum": "18", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady speaks from a sedentary position, but I say that that challenge has not been met for 30 years. Part of the challenge we face as a country is facing up to the long-term challenges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-04a.18.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-04", "file": "debates2014-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "ad04b08ae7d61739", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-04a.18.5", "colnum": "18", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": " doubled their profit margins. That is a test of whether the House will stand up to powerful vested interests and act or say that nothing can be done. The companies can afford it, the public need it, and the Government have ignored it: this Queen’s Speech fails that test. Another test for the Queen’s Speech is whether it responds to the anxieties people feel in their communities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-04a.18.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-04", "file": "debates2014-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "ad04b08ae7d61739", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-04a.18.5", "colnum": "18", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": ", the public need it, and the Government have ignored it: this Queen’s Speech fails that test. Another test for the Queen’s Speech is whether it responds to the anxieties people feel in their communities— [ Interruption. ] I say to the hon. Member for South Staffordshire (Gavin Williamson) that shouting from a sedentary position is another thing people hate about this Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-04a.18.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-04", "file": "debates2014-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "ad04b08ae7d61739", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-04a.20.5", "colnum": "20", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "Speech does not do that, but it can be done. That is the choice the country will face in less than a year’s time. This is what a different Queen’s Speech would have looked like: a “make work pay” Bill to reward hard work, a banking Bill to support small businesses, a community Bill to devolve power, an immigration Bill to stop workers being undercut, a consumers Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-04a.20.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-04", "file": "debates2014-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "ad04b08ae7d61739", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-04a.26.0", "colnum": "26", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "lable. That is absolutely vital, and it is also important that we make sure that there is greater transparency in this industry, but the idea of rent controls that would lock people out of housing is a throwback to the 1970s and would not work. As we recover from Labour’s great recession, the British public want to know that we will do everything possible to deliver financial security—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-04a.26.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-04", "file": "debates2014-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "ad04b08ae7d61739", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-04a.26.1", "colnum": "26", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Ian Austin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Austin", "preceding_text": "Returning to the question of Europe, why, under the Prime Minister’s policy, do the British people have to wait three years for this referendum?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-04a.26.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-04", "file": "debates2014-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "ad04b08ae7d61739", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-04a.26.1", "colnum": "26", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Ian Austin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Austin", "preceding_text": "Returning to the question of Europe, why, under the Prime Minister’s policy, do the British people have to wait three years for this referendum? [Interruption.] I accept that my views on this are not shared by others, but I am prepared—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-04a.26.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-04", "file": "debates2014-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "ad04b08ae7d61739", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-04a.27.2", "colnum": "27", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Labour had 13 years to act on zero-hours contracts and did absolutely nothing. We are outlawing exclusivity in zero-hours contracts. I thought this was one of the problems with the Leader of the Opposition’s response —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-04a.27.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-04", "file": "debates2014-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "ad04b08ae7d61739", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-04a.28.5", "colnum": "28", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Again, in Swansea the number of people claiming unemployment benefit is down by more than 10% in the last 12 months—that is what has happened. The hon. Gentleman is talking about people on low pay —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-04a.28.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-04", "file": "debates2014-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "ad04b08ae7d61739", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-04a.39.1", "colnum": "39", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "-taxing work. I am pleased that the Gracious Speech refers to the need for more and better roads. In the past 15 years, our road building has fallen well behind what needs to be done to support the economic recovery and to promote industry, commerce and more jobs around the country. I look forward to seeing the detailed proposals. What I primarily wish to do this afternoon is to speak for England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-04a.39.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-04", "file": "debates2014-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "ad04b08ae7d61739", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-04a.107.0", "colnum": "107", "heading": "OUTLAWRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "anges with UK Over 50s Housing Weekly? As you mention them, I copy this to them and I can make it available to others interested. Please let me know when you or your firm were first engaged to represent or to advise your client. May I be sent a chronology of Tchenguiz links, including of influence, control, ownership and benefit in by and from Peverel and anything associated with it?”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-04a.107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-05", "file": "debates2014-06-05c.xml", "sha256": "e0bc1b6ac78734a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-05c.145.0", "colnum": "145", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Weir", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Weir", "preceding_text": "I am pleased that Labour has now supported early winter fuel payments, for which I have been pushing for some time. Does the right hon. Lady recognise that one of the other problems is that the energy company obligation does not include off-grid boilers? Would Labour be prepared to push forward a measure on that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-05c.145.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-05", "file": "debates2014-06-05c.xml", "sha256": "e0bc1b6ac78734a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-05c.148.0", "colnum": "148", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "r, who tells me that there is, in France, something called the Picard law. She writes that the law “states it is illegal to take money off someone who has been mentally manipulated.” That put me in mind of the case that was brought by the Moonies—the rather eccentric religious sect—some years ago against the Daily Mail , for which, I hasten to add, I was acting at the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-05c.148.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-05", "file": "debates2014-06-05c.xml", "sha256": "e0bc1b6ac78734a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-05c.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": " this. If we set in place proper arrangements—we make sure there are lifejackets if people are going out in canoes and all that sort of stuff—then it strikes me that common sense is already in play. What I am concerned about, however, is the concept of heroic negligence. I would be very interested to hear from a Minister from the Ministry of Justice the definition of heroic negligence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-05c.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-05", "file": "debates2014-06-05c.xml", "sha256": "e0bc1b6ac78734a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-05c.153.2", "colnum": "153", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “No!”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "for a single-party Conservative Government. I cannot wait for Robert Jenrick, the next Member of Parliament for Newark, to take his place in this House. Given that this debate continues until next Thursday, I hope he will be able to make his maiden speech during the Queen’s Speech debate, if he is fortunate enough to catch your eye, Mr Speaker. I am now getting into the area of waffle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-05c.153.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-05", "file": "debates2014-06-05c.xml", "sha256": "e0bc1b6ac78734a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-05c.182.0", "colnum": "182", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Albert Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Albert Owen", "preceding_text": "ted that the core of the economic plan was to eliminate the deficit by 2015, but that has changed. Cuts are being felt by communities across the United Kingdom, but we have not eliminated the deficit and that is a big failure of the Government’s economic plan. It was their words, their actions, and their failure, and they will be judged on that as in recent elections and in the future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-05c.182.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-05", "file": "debates2014-06-05c.xml", "sha256": "e0bc1b6ac78734a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-05c.183.1", "colnum": "183", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Albert Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Albert Owen", "preceding_text": "I will take an intervention if the hon. Gentleman wants to defend the fact that the deficit has not been eliminated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-05c.183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-05", "file": "debates2014-06-05c.xml", "sha256": "e0bc1b6ac78734a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-05c.188.1", "colnum": "188", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "preceding_text": "alked about how great it is that council tax is not increasing. In our big cities we have a history of council tax being artificially held low. Governments of both parties have talked about re-banding, but then lost their nerve. We are not re-banding, unless the Secretary of State tells us that we are. On top of that, we have a cap which says that beyond a certain level we are going to need—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-05c.188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-05", "file": "debates2014-06-05c.xml", "sha256": "e0bc1b6ac78734a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-05c.225.0", "colnum": "225", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": " making the case for what could have been done in the Gracious Speech to do something about markets that do not work in the interests of consumers, which has dominated this afternoon’s debate. The hon. and learned Member for Harborough (Sir Edward Garnier) gave what I would describe as an hon. and learned master-class—one with which I was not familiar before—on heroic negligence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-05c.225.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-05", "file": "debates2014-06-05c.xml", "sha256": "e0bc1b6ac78734a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-05c.225.0", "colnum": "225", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "a home, which is why we would stop lettings agents from charging fees to tenants—as is now the case in Scotland. After all, when we buy a house, it is the seller who pays the estate agent, and not the buyer; that is the parallel. I welcome what the Government propose to do in relation to transparency, but it does not tackle the root of the problem. To be fair to Ministers for a moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-05c.225.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-09", "file": "debates2014-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "29bf6378f879f340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-09a.270.3", "colnum": "270", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "work he has done to ensure that state-funded schools can provide children and parents in Blackburn with an Islamic faith education that equips them for the 21st century. Let me emphasise that there is a key distinction, which this Government have drawn, between perfectly respectable religious conservatism, whatever the faith, and extremist activity. It is vital that that distinction is maintained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-09a.270.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-09", "file": "debates2014-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "29bf6378f879f340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-09a.290.1", "colnum": "290", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is an ingenious and indefatigable Member. He probably knows that I can best describe that as an attempted point of order, because it is not a matter for the Chair. That said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-09a.290.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-09", "file": "debates2014-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "29bf6378f879f340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-09a.293.0", "colnum": "293", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "nd community care they already commission. When combined with the joint commissioning of social care through the better care fund, we will have, for the first time in this country, one local organisation responsible for commissioning nearly all care, following best practice seen in other parts of the world, whether Ribera Salud Grupo in Spain, or Kaiser Permanente and Group Health in the US—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-09a.293.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-09", "file": "debates2014-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "29bf6378f879f340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-09a.361.0", "colnum": "361", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "preceding_text": "er trying to ignore me—but 1 million of them are on zero-hours contracts. People are moving from benefits into zero-hours contracts, which leads to discontinuity in their benefits. They are having to go to food banks. They are under stress and feeling hungry, which leads to ill health for them and their children. Research suggests that 45% of people in debt have mental health problems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-09a.361.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-10", "file": "debates2014-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "d37d41d7c03af4b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-10c.404.4", "colnum": "404", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "I agree, and that is why NHS England undertook the work to analyse exactly what the position is across the country. In fact it is very varied. There are some regions where it is fine, and others where it is not acceptable. I think we would all agree that it is completely unacceptable for children to be sent sometimes hundreds of miles away from home. When it publishes its report, it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-10c.404.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-11", "file": "debates2014-06-11b.xml", "sha256": "2a48734691a09bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-11b.576.3", "colnum": "576", "heading": "G7", "cue_speaker": "Chuka Umunna", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chuka Umunna", "preceding_text": "he Labour Government who led the way in that by setting up the Automotive Council. When it comes to creating the right environment, ensuring that people have the skills our businesses need is crucial. Increasing the quantity and quality of apprenticeships is a must. We have a record to be proud of. In government, we rescued apprenticeships from the scrap heap. We more than quadrupled starts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-11b.576.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-11", "file": "debates2014-06-11b.xml", "sha256": "2a48734691a09bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-11b.579.1", "colnum": "579", "heading": "G7", "cue_speaker": "Chuka Umunna", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chuka Umunna", "preceding_text": "rect lending scheme, launched to great fanfare several months ago, have not helped a single firm. We need to see much more competent delivery of these schemes. It is clear that our country has huge potential, and there is a huge amount of talent waiting to be unlocked, but people need a Government to empower them to realise their dreams and aspirations. That is not happening under this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-11b.579.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-12", "file": "debates2014-06-12c.xml", "sha256": "9c0bc98e20cdcf23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-12c.684.5", "colnum": "684", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "ady has had months and months to work out that splendid rhetorical blast—I get on with the day job. I was at the cereals show yesterday talking to real farmers who are producing food, and welcoming the first investment in this country by Bayer— following our agri-tech policy—bringing in wheat testing and leading on to the breeding of wheat. That is what an active Department does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-12c.684.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-12", "file": "debates2014-06-12c.xml", "sha256": "9c0bc98e20cdcf23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-12c.695.0", "colnum": "695", "heading": "CHURCH COMMISSIONERS", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": " of staff throughout this period and will continue to do so, as I have indicated. The shadow Home Secretary asked about the difference between straightforward and more complex cases. A case is straightforward when all the information is there and the application form has been properly filled in, signed and so forth. In those cases it is possible to deal with a straightforward renewal very quickly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-12c.695.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-12", "file": "debates2014-06-12c.xml", "sha256": "9c0bc98e20cdcf23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-12c.709.3", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Where are they?”", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "l service, their special advisers, the last Labour Government, and now they are even trying to blame Oxfam. The Prime Minister wanted to reshuffle his deck, but has now realised that he has got a pack of jokers. The Liberal Democrat headquarters managed to tweet: “we didn’t go into govt because it was the right thing to do, we went into govt because it was the right thing to do”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-12c.709.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-12", "file": "debates2014-06-12c.xml", "sha256": "9c0bc98e20cdcf23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-12c.803.1", "colnum": "803", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nicky Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicky Morgan", "preceding_text": "I cannot take any more interventions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-12c.803.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-16", "file": "debates2014-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "b2e898140e361933", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-16a.824.2", "colnum": "824", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "I do not mind embarrassment personally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-16a.824.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-16", "file": "debates2014-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "b2e898140e361933", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-16a.862.1", "colnum": "862", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “When?”", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "No, I do not agree with that. Nor do I think that the recent events in Iraq should be turned into a proxy debate about Tony Blair and everything that he has ever said or done. The shadow Foreign Secretary is looking rather alarmed about the idea of a proxy debate about Tony Blair. In any case, we have set up an inquiry in this House into the Iraq war, and that inquiry will report in due course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-16a.862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-16", "file": "debates2014-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "b2e898140e361933", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-16a.904.1", "colnum": "904", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Jennifer Willott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jennifer Willott", "preceding_text": " is greater protection for consumers under this legislation. Amendment 19 has brought out a rash of agreement across the House from some unlikely parties. The principle here is transparency. Consumers must be aware of any limitations on their service at the point of sale. They are then free to pick and choose a service that suits them. Internet service providers are already legally required—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-16a.904.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-16", "file": "debates2014-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "b2e898140e361933", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-16a.907.0", "colnum": "907", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "preceding_text": "I add my congratulations, Madam Deputy Speaker, to those of other hon. Members. Indeed, there is nothing like a dame.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-16a.907.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-16", "file": "debates2014-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "b2e898140e361933", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-16a.907.0", "colnum": "907", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "preceding_text": "rtake such practices. That is compounded by the fact that all estate agents in most of our constituencies are monitored from a rural Welsh constituency by Powys county council. It cannot understand how these half a million people are behaving, or how we reached the stage when a fee of thousands of pounds could be applied. There is complacency about a clear rip-off that our constituents are facing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-16a.907.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-16", "file": "debates2014-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "b2e898140e361933", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-16a.907.0", "colnum": "907", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "preceding_text": "ake progress, yet again, and all our constituents miss out. I fear for the Minister when one of his constituents comes to him with one of those contracts, under which they are paying £6,000 or £7,000 to an estate agent as a fee to buy a property under sale of tender, and he justifies doing nothing about it. This Bill is an opportunity to make progress. We on the Opposition Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-16a.907.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-16", "file": "debates2014-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "b2e898140e361933", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-16a.928.5", "colnum": "928", "heading": "PETITION — Removal of Trees from Thirsk Market Place", "cue_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "preceding_text": "Would it be in order to congratulate you on the preferment that was shown to you in the Queen’s honours, Madam Deputy Speaker?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-16a.928.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-17", "file": "debates2014-06-17b.xml", "sha256": "fb454b9a228b86ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-17b.979.1", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Courts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bob Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Neill", "preceding_text": "draw my remarks to a close, because I know that my right hon. Friend the Member for Wokingham (Mr Redwood) has a great deal of expertise on this matter. I will also welcome the contribution of the hon. Member for Aberavon (Dr Francis) , not least because his predecessor was a member of my chambers who led me on a number of cases, including some judicial review matters with which he dealt expertly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-17b.979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-17", "file": "debates2014-06-17b.xml", "sha256": "fb454b9a228b86ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-17b.1034.2", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Courts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Julian Huppert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Huppert", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman wants to personalise this, in fact, I did not support it. He can check the record on that one, although I accept that, like all of us, he has not memorised every single Division ever in this House. To my mind, there is a huge conceptual difference between possession and the act of threatening someone, because one of them is so much closer to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-17b.1034.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-17", "file": "debates2014-06-17b.xml", "sha256": "fb454b9a228b86ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-17b.1039.2", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Courts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Julian Huppert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Huppert", "preceding_text": " consider in deciding whether to go ahead. Incidentally, it is also a strong argument for more rational sentencing decisions to ensure that we are locking up the right people and not the wrong people. We ought also to be more rational about how many years people get for different offences. We have already heard from Labour’s Front Benchers that we should just open up more prisons, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-17b.1039.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-17", "file": "debates2014-06-17b.xml", "sha256": "fb454b9a228b86ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-17b.1069.2", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Courts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. Let me start by thanking all the right hon. and hon. Members who served in Committee, spoke on Report and took part in the debates on the Bill. It has benefited from the interesting and lively debate that we have had—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-17b.1069.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-17", "file": "debates2014-06-17b.xml", "sha256": "fb454b9a228b86ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-17b.1074.3", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Courts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "preceding_text": "I appreciate that a reshuffle is due and the hon. Gentleman needs to impress the Whips, but he will recognise during a quieter moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-17b.1074.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-17", "file": "debates2014-06-17b.xml", "sha256": "fb454b9a228b86ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-17b.1081.1", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Courts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Yasmin Qureshi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yasmin Qureshi", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for that helpful intervention. I have never said that people should not be imprisoned. When people commit serious offences, or repeat an offence, they should be given prison sentences. My point is that we incarcerate too many people for far too long. No one here will disagree with that point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-17b.1081.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-18", "file": "debates2014-06-18b.xml", "sha256": "2eb0ffaf995f0159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-18b.1102.6", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "finalising funding to the World Health Organisation to respond to the national Ebola emergency response proposal through training, the use of surveillance tools, the purchase of infection control equipment and the provision of global expertise. We are also working with non-governmental organisation partners to make sure that people are well aware of the outbreak that is taking place in the region.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-18b.1102.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-18", "file": "debates2014-06-18b.xml", "sha256": "2eb0ffaf995f0159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-18b.1110.1", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "at I can report to the House, after four years in government, is that it has met those efficiency challenges every single year under this Government, and that money has been ploughed back into better patient care in our NHS. The great question for the NHS in British politics today, I would argue, is: why is it that in Wales—under Labour control—8% cuts have been made in the NHS budget?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-18b.1110.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-18", "file": "debates2014-06-18b.xml", "sha256": "2eb0ffaf995f0159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-18b.1118.0", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "point of order and for giving my office advance notice of it. I can reassure her and the House that there can be no question of the integrity of the ballot being compromised in any way. The fact of the documentary is well known. Those undertaking it have been told explicitly that they must not interfere with the running of the ballot or in any way put at risk the secrecy of the ballots being cast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-18b.1118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-18", "file": "debates2014-06-18b.xml", "sha256": "2eb0ffaf995f0159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-18b.1118.7", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “What is wrong with it?”", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "arently to be winging its way towards me, to which neither the hon. Lady nor any other Member has referred today, which I would regard as wholly intrusive, unfair to Members and unacceptable. If such a request to interfere with the private space of Members when they are relaxing, enjoying themselves and consuming food or drink in the Tea Room is made, those making the request will be disappointed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-18b.1118.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-18", "file": "debates2014-06-18b.xml", "sha256": "2eb0ffaf995f0159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-18b.1119.5", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Plotting!”", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "unclear as to your answer to my hon. Friend the Member for South Derbyshire (Heather Wheeler) . Whether the remarks of the Secretary of State for Education will now be part of the national curriculum may be another matter, but I think it is pertinent to this House whether cameras will be allowed into the Division Lobby. Often, extremely private conversations take place in the Division Lobby—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-18b.1119.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-18", "file": "debates2014-06-18b.xml", "sha256": "2eb0ffaf995f0159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-18b.1127.5", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "t listen to the warnings. Why did the Home Secretary not act in January when the Passport Office says it first realised there was a problem? Why did she not act in February when applications kept going up? My right hon. Friend the Member for Delyn, the shadow Immigration Minister, wrote to the Immigration Minister in March, three months ago, to warn him about the problem. Why did she not act then?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-18b.1127.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-18", "file": "debates2014-06-18b.xml", "sha256": "2eb0ffaf995f0159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-18b.1135.4", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman characterised the Passport Office in a particular way, which I think was unfortunate in respect of the staff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-18b.1135.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-18", "file": "debates2014-06-18b.xml", "sha256": "2eb0ffaf995f0159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-18b.1138.5", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "Opposition Members have indeed been getting in touch with the Immigration Minister. The Chairman of the Home Affairs Committee, the right hon. Member for Leicester East (Keith Vaz) , texted me on Saturday, and I was able to ensure that someone from the Passport Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-18b.1138.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-18", "file": "debates2014-06-18b.xml", "sha256": "2eb0ffaf995f0159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-18b.1139.3", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "Of course Ministers receive regular reports on what is happening in the Passport Office, just as other parts of the Home Office receive regular reports on various aspects of the immigration system. Of course, the Immigration Minister is currently receiving updates more regularly than is usually the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-18b.1139.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-18", "file": "debates2014-06-18b.xml", "sha256": "2eb0ffaf995f0159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-18b.1154.0", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Stephen McPartland", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “We need you.”", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen McPartland", "preceding_text": "have been put in place are therefore working. However, I agree with the hon. Member for Leeds East (Mr Mudie) that it is a personal tragedy for every single person affected and their families, and we would hope not to be in such a situation. I should declare that I worked at the passport office in Liverpool of an evening to work my way through university, and I spent many a pleasurable hour there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-18b.1154.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-18", "file": "debates2014-06-18b.xml", "sha256": "2eb0ffaf995f0159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-18b.1176.0", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "James Brokenshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Brokenshire", "preceding_text": "n to getting passport applications turned round. I also stress that 650 extra staff are working on the customer helpline—an increase to 1,000. We understand people’s anxieties and action has been taken. As the Home Secretary has said, we are ensuring that those who need to travel in the next seven days whose applications have been outstanding for more than three weeks through no—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-18b.1176.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-18", "file": "debates2014-06-18b.xml", "sha256": "2eb0ffaf995f0159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-18b.1195.3", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": " would have acted. I therefore commissioned the research on what action Labour’s leader, when Energy Secretary, had actually taken on wholesale energy prices—what announcements he had made. The research has come back, so let me read it: “You asked for any statements of information provided by the last government on the link between wholesale and retail energy prices”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-18b.1195.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-18", "file": "debates2014-06-18b.xml", "sha256": "2eb0ffaf995f0159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-18b.1197.0", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "preceding_text": "Is not the key difference that we are now in a situation where, because of the flatlining of the economy for the past three or four years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-18b.1197.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-18", "file": "debates2014-06-18b.xml", "sha256": "2eb0ffaf995f0159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-18b.1198.4", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "The House can probably see why I made that choice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-18b.1198.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-18", "file": "debates2014-06-18b.xml", "sha256": "2eb0ffaf995f0159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-18b.1201.2", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jake Berry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jake Berry", "preceding_text": "o reduce their energy costs. On my bill was a note saying that I was on the cheapest variable tariff, but there was also another note—in a prominent position, on an EDF bill—saying that if I switched to the online saver, I could save a further £85 a year on a dual fuel bill. I had never seen that on my bill before and, knowing that this debate was coming up, I was grateful for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-18b.1201.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-18", "file": "debates2014-06-18b.xml", "sha256": "2eb0ffaf995f0159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-18b.1222.0", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "preceding_text": " and where investors are driven away by reams of anti-business legislation? At a stroke, Labour’s arbitrary proposals to impose 1970s-style price controls would torch the investment we so desperately need. It would hobble consumer choice and put the clock back decades. Labour’s energy policy is pure British Leyland economics, from the most left-wing Opposition since Michael Foot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-18b.1222.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-19", "file": "debates2014-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "eb26d6a3905c680b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-19a.1252.2", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "I think I have proved that I certainly do care, because we have done a lot more than the previous Government. Let me take up the point about the wholesale market. The previous Government did absolutely nothing; they created the big six that sell energy to each other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-19a.1252.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-19", "file": "debates2014-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "eb26d6a3905c680b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-19a.1277.2", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "At the Dispatch Box, I speak on behalf of the Government. The hon. Gentleman referred to matters in the European Parliament; they are not the responsibility of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-19a.1277.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-19", "file": "debates2014-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "eb26d6a3905c680b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-19a.1289.0", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "ch Box and the House believes what he says. I regard him as exceptionally good. I have not said that about many Home Office Ministers in the past, but I mean it about him. However, the immigration portfolio is a job on its own. I know the reasons why it was put together with security, but when the reshuffle comes, which I am told it will imminently, I hope there will be plenty of volunteers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-19a.1289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-19", "file": "debates2014-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "eb26d6a3905c680b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-19a.1338.0", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Bob Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Stewart", "preceding_text": "Forty-two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-19a.1338.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-19", "file": "debates2014-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "eb26d6a3905c680b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-19a.1343.0", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “No, no!”", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "le about the workings of the Intelligence and Security Committee. That is at 4 o’clock, so I will not be able to return in time for the wind-ups, and I apologise to both Front-Bench teams and to the House more widely for that. My second apology is for the fact that, having only yesterday stepped off a transatlantic plane, my contribution today may be slightly more incoherent even than usual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-19a.1343.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-19", "file": "debates2014-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "eb26d6a3905c680b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-19a.1363.5", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ah!”", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "a memorial service for those members of the 7th Armoured Brigade who lost their lives in their recent tour of Afghanistan, reminding us all in this House that our armed forces continue to exhibit the upmost courage and bravery on our nation’s behalf. Finally on personnel matters, I understand that my opposite number, the hon. Member for North Durham (Mr Jones) , is getting married next week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-19a.1363.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-23", "file": "debates2014-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "b537ceb60ac6ebdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.1.7", "colnum": "1", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Michael Penning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Penning", "preceding_text": "When the coalition Government came to office, the WCA backlog did not suddenly happen; the problem already existed. However, we take responsibility for what we are doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.1.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-23", "file": "debates2014-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "b537ceb60ac6ebdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.4.0", "colnum": "4", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Michael Penning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Penning", "preceding_text": "Clearly Her Majesty’s Opposition have a short memory as to what happened when they were in government. This problem started under Labour, Atos was in place under Labour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.4.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-23", "file": "debates2014-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "b537ceb60ac6ebdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.5.1", "colnum": "5", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Michael Penning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Penning", "preceding_text": "It is interesting that yet again a Labour Member uses the word “fiasco”, and I know the Public Accounts Committee Chairman, the right hon. Member for Barking (Margaret Hodge) , made a similar comment. It was not actually in the PAC report, however, so this was a made-up comment that was not in the report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.5.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-23", "file": "debates2014-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "b537ceb60ac6ebdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.10.1", "colnum": "10", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "I think I made that clear before, but I will repeat it again. Back in 2012, I was not happy with the plan for the roll-out, because it mirrored too much the roll-outs that used to happen under the previous Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.10.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-23", "file": "debates2014-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "b537ceb60ac6ebdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.10.1", "colnum": "10", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "I think I made that clear before, but I will repeat it again. Back in 2012, I was not happy with the plan for the roll-out, because it mirrored too much the roll-outs that used to happen under the previous Government— [Interruption.] We hit the bump.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.10.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-23", "file": "debates2014-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "b537ceb60ac6ebdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.12.2", "colnum": "12", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "On the contrary, the Pensions Commission—the hon. Gentleman often refers to the Pensions Commission, one of whose members is now a Labour peer—recommended that low earners needed an 80% replacement rate. Someone on the wage that he just gave gets an 80% replacement rate based on the state pension alone, so we are delivering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.12.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-23", "file": "debates2014-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "b537ceb60ac6ebdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.12.2", "colnum": "12", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "he contrary, the Pensions Commission—the hon. Gentleman often refers to the Pensions Commission, one of whose members is now a Labour peer—recommended that low earners needed an 80% replacement rate. Someone on the wage that he just gave gets an 80% replacement rate based on the state pension alone, so we are delivering— [ Interruption. ] That is after tax and national insurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.12.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-23", "file": "debates2014-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "b537ceb60ac6ebdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.20.1", "colnum": "20", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "Let us pause and get this absolutely right. The reality is that what the Opposition are now saying is utterly illogical.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.20.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-23", "file": "debates2014-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "b537ceb60ac6ebdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.22.0", "colnum": "22", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "Isn’t that interesting? What a revealing statement. We have endlessly offered the Opposition Front Bench team the opportunity to visit jobcentres where universal credit is rolling out, but only one spokesman went—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.22.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-23", "file": "debates2014-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "b537ceb60ac6ebdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.37.0", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Deregulation Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "If the licence is the guarantee of safety and the person driving the minicab would need the permission of a licence holder, is that not the continued guarantee?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.37.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-23", "file": "debates2014-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "b537ceb60ac6ebdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.41.1", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Deregulation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right. In the context of this debate, the MH370 incident shows that in other circumstances, where such incidents might affect British ships and citizens, Ministers must have flexibility and the power to reopen inquiries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.41.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-23", "file": "debates2014-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "b537ceb60ac6ebdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.74.2", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Deregulation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Brooks Newmark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brooks Newmark", "preceding_text": "Excuse me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.74.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-23", "file": "debates2014-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "b537ceb60ac6ebdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.94.4", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Deregulation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "Of course—it stands to reason that the hon. and learned Gentleman was present; otherwise, he would not have been able to speak to the amendments. That is a rather redundant, kind of tautologous point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.94.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-23", "file": "debates2014-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "b537ceb60ac6ebdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Deregulation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I believe the latter is the only logical and commonsensical way of proceeding. That is why I am strongly supportive of the amendments that my hon. Friend the Member for Bishop Auckland has tabled, because that is precisely what they do. It would be extraordinary if the Government were to oppose our amendments this evening. I know that the Solicitor-General is sometimes a very reasonable man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.98.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-23", "file": "debates2014-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "b537ceb60ac6ebdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.98.5", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Deregulation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "whole policy in the round, rather than doing it piecemeal in a deregulation Bill. That takes me to the key point about sanctions. Whatever regime one moves to—whether one decriminalises or not—one needs some form of sanction if one is not fundamentally to undermine the licence fee. As I understand it, the Government do not want to undermine the licence fee. They still support it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.98.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-23", "file": "debates2014-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "b537ceb60ac6ebdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.101.1", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Deregulation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "I hope the hon. Gentleman would accept that we are where we are. That may not be novel, but it is true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-23", "file": "debates2014-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "b537ceb60ac6ebdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.101.1", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Deregulation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "had within its scope the enforcement arrangements for the licence fee. My hon. Friend the Member for North West Leicestershire—not me—was concerned about the issue, which garnered considerable support in the House. He was persuasive in saying that it was right to review this area and take the powers at this convenient opportunity, in case the review comes to the same conclusion as him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-23", "file": "debates2014-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "b537ceb60ac6ebdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.101.3", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Deregulation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "It is certainly not the intention to do anything that does not take into account the full context—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.101.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-23", "file": "debates2014-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "b537ceb60ac6ebdd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.115.5", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Deregulation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "work in a Tesco Express to work every hour that God sends on a Sunday. They can work from 6 am to 11 pm, yet if they worked in a big Tesco, they would have to be protected from working those long hours. It is a completely absurd argument. With the high street facing competition from the internet, we must give our shops the opportunity to compete. People can shop at all hours on the internet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-23b.115.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-24", "file": "debates2014-06-24b.xml", "sha256": "553597927988f424", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-24b.190.6", "colnum": "190", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "I apologise to the right hon. Gentleman, but points of order come after urgent questions and statements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-24b.190.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-24", "file": "debates2014-06-24b.xml", "sha256": "553597927988f424", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-24b.190.6", "colnum": "190", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "I apologise to the right hon. Gentleman, but points of order come after urgent questions and statements. [ Interruption. ] Well, that is the procedure, but I am always agog to hear the right hon. Gentleman. He can toddle back after the UQ and the statement, and I will be in the Chair to hear him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-24b.190.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-24", "file": "debates2014-06-24b.xml", "sha256": "553597927988f424", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-24b.209.0", "colnum": "209", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "James Brokenshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Brokenshire", "preceding_text": "y this matter. From today, there is a designated student helpline available specifically for all students at the affected institutions. Dedicated staff will take calls to the helpline to ensure that students have an avenue for their questions to be answered and their concerns alleviated. We are also setting up a working group with relevant education establishments, including Universities UK—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-24b.209.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-24", "file": "debates2014-06-24b.xml", "sha256": "553597927988f424", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-24b.228.1", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "That is a misrepresentation of my position, but I have come to expect little else from the hon. Gentleman or, as he is also known, the shadow shadow Welsh Secretary—well, shadow shadow Foreign Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-24b.228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-24", "file": "debates2014-06-24b.xml", "sha256": "553597927988f424", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-24b.228.3", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "It was well worth waiting for the Secretary of State to intervene, but I think that the answer is no. Had he been paying attention, he would know that the First Minister has been very clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-24b.228.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-24", "file": "debates2014-06-24b.xml", "sha256": "553597927988f424", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-24b.243.0", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "preceding_text": " points made by the hon. Member for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr (Jonathan Edwards) , but I want to concentrate on my party’s new clause 4 on reserved powers. I very much welcome the new clause, which relates to the laying of “a report before each House of Parliament on the further legislative steps needed to move to a model of reserved powers for the National Assembly for Wales”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-24b.243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-25", "file": "debates2014-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "07032b69062c0edc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-25a.302.4", "colnum": "302", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Yes, it is.”", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "This is in no sense an attack on membership of trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-25a.302.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-25", "file": "debates2014-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "07032b69062c0edc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-25a.307.1", "colnum": "307", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ns. They were also thoroughly gone into by the Leveson inquiry—an inquiry the right hon. Gentleman supported. He talks about warnings. Specifically on the warning from The Guardian , Leveson had this to say: “The editor of the Guardian did not raise the issue with Mr Cameron at meetings both in the month after the article was published and the following year.” He says this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-25a.307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-25", "file": "debates2014-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "07032b69062c0edc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-25a.307.3", "colnum": "307", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Every single one of these issues was dealt with by the Leveson inquiry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-25a.307.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-25", "file": "debates2014-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "07032b69062c0edc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-25a.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "r it, but Leveson made no criticism of my conduct in this regard whatsoever. You cannot call for a judge-led inquiry, participate in a judge-led inquiry, write the terms of reference of a judge-led inquiry, and then ignore what it has to say. I have to say, Mr Speaker, that all of the questions he is raising today are not new; they are the questions dealt with by the Leveson inquiry. I know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-25a.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-25", "file": "debates2014-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "07032b69062c0edc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-25a.308.2", "colnum": "308", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Prime Minister is offering an answer and it must be heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-25a.308.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-25", "file": "debates2014-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "07032b69062c0edc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-25a.308.4", "colnum": "308", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "No answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-25a.308.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-25", "file": "debates2014-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "07032b69062c0edc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-25a.308.4", "colnum": "308", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "No answer— [ Interruption. ] No answer on any of the questions. No answer on why he did not act on The Guardian; no answer on why he did not act on the Deputy Prime Minister; no answer on why he did not act on The New York Times . Let us come to the issue of vetting. Amid all those warnings, the very least he should have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-25a.308.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-25", "file": "debates2014-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "07032b69062c0edc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-25a.309.0", "colnum": "309", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Again, Leveson, in his inquiry, looked directly into that issue. This is what he found—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-25a.309.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-25", "file": "debates2014-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "07032b69062c0edc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-25a.309.1", "colnum": "309", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Weak!", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "Now it is clear from the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-25a.309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-25", "file": "debates2014-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "07032b69062c0edc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-25a.309.1", "colnum": "309", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "Now it is clear from the Prime Minister—[Hon. Members: “Weak!] I will tell them what is weak: failing to stand up for doing the right thing, and that is what this Prime Minister has done. Now we know the rule of this Prime Minister: the buck does not stop here, and he blames the civil service. On the civil service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-25a.309.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-25", "file": "debates2014-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "07032b69062c0edc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-25a.324.9", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Emma Reynolds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emma Reynolds", "preceding_text": "I simply do not agree with the hon. Gentleman. According to Shelter, which conducted a survey of letting agents throughout Scotland, there is no evidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-25a.324.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-25", "file": "debates2014-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "07032b69062c0edc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-25a.325.3", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Emma Reynolds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emma Reynolds", "preceding_text": " the hon. Gentleman did not listen. We will put a ceiling on rent increases during the three-year tenancies, at the end of year one and at the end of year two. In Ireland there is a ceiling on rent increases during its four-year tenancies, and there is also a ceiling in Spain. We will consult industry representatives in order to reach agreement on what the best ceiling would be, but Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-25a.325.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-25", "file": "debates2014-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "07032b69062c0edc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-25a.396.1", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Nicky Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicky Morgan", "preceding_text": "It is not a question of not bothering to have the conversation. If the right hon. Gentleman has had a conversation, where is the transcript and why has it not been released to the House? If he has a transcript, we would like to see it. We would like to know what the head of the OBR said about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-25a.396.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-25", "file": "debates2014-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "07032b69062c0edc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-25a.402.0", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Gary Streeter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gary Streeter", "preceding_text": "and a point of principle. I am against this motion in principle, and I hope to clearly set out why. First, however, may I gently say that if I were compiling a list of colleagues in this House who had the skills-mix to bring together a cross-party consensus, I am not sure the shadow Chancellor would be top of my list, in the same way as I would not want to invite King Herod to babysit my children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-25a.402.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-25", "file": "debates2014-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "07032b69062c0edc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-25a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "er grab by the right hon. Gentleman within his own party. This House of Commons, this noble House, this honourable House, is debating whether the right hon. Member for Morley and Outwood (Ed Balls) should be in charge of the Labour party. This is really a debate about his leadership ambitions. They may be a good thing. Members of the Labour party ought to decide that, better than I possibly could.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-25a.407.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-30", "file": "debates2014-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b36c241f07cbc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.602.1", "colnum": "602", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "alked out of a European Council announcing that he had vetoed a treaty, but it went ahead anyway and he just looked absurd. Now, he wants to negotiate a new treaty when he cannot say what he wants in it. All the time, this is driven by a party whose centre of gravity is drifting towards exit. Does he not accept that, with Mr Juncker, the strategy of threatening exit was put to the test and failed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.602.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-30", "file": "debates2014-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b36c241f07cbc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "f a President, how on earth is he going to get 27 countries to support a new treaty? This weekend has shown conclusively to everyone but this Prime Minister that his renegotiation strategy is in tatters. We know where it would end: he would be caught in the gulf between his Back Benchers who want to leave and what he can negotiate. The Prime Minister failed over Mr Juncker. He was outwitted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.603.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-30", "file": "debates2014-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b36c241f07cbc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.612.2", "colnum": "612", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Of course we will set those out very clearly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.612.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-30", "file": "debates2014-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b36c241f07cbc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.618.1", "colnum": "618", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Richard Burden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Burden", "preceding_text": "A year or so ago, one of the Prime Minister’s Back Benchers was quoted as saying that he—the Prime Minister—was in danger of coming over a bit Melchett.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.618.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-30", "file": "debates2014-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b36c241f07cbc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.623.3", "colnum": "623", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "preceding_text": "I spent Armed Forces day at a very moving service in Hereford cathedral organised by the Royal British Legion. In that spirit, I congratulate the Prime Minister on standing up both for constitutional principle and for the voice of Britain, of reform and of the nation state, and on doing so with one hand tied behind his back by the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.623.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-30", "file": "debates2014-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b36c241f07cbc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.623.3", "colnum": "623", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "preceding_text": "orces day at a very moving service in Hereford cathedral organised by the Royal British Legion. In that spirit, I congratulate the Prime Minister on standing up both for constitutional principle and for the voice of Britain, of reform and of the nation state, and on doing so with one hand tied behind his back by the Labour party— [Interruption]— because of the Nice and Lisbon treaties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.623.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-30", "file": "debates2014-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b36c241f07cbc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.624.5", "colnum": "624", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "preceding_text": "Today we have learned that the Prime Minister’s approach to Europe now has the full backing of the right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr Redwood) and the hon. Member for Stone (Sir William Cash) .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.624.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-30", "file": "debates2014-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b36c241f07cbc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.635.2", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "preceding_text": "been caught by the double whammy of delays involving, first, the disability living allowance and now PIP. They have waited long periods for a resolution, but because a decision is being reconsidered, their Motability—the lifeline that has enabled them to get out of their homes—has been taken away before that decision has been made. Is that not a horrendous indictment of the Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.635.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-30", "file": "debates2014-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b36c241f07cbc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.636.3", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "Well, I will send the Secretary of State all the letters I have had from his correspondence unit, not one of them signed by him. [Interruption.] Well, letters that I have written to the Department about the challenges facing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.636.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-30", "file": "debates2014-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b36c241f07cbc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.636.3", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "Well, I will send the Secretary of State all the letters I have had from his correspondence unit, not one of them signed by him. [Interruption.] Well, letters that I have written to the Department about the challenges facing— [Interruption.] The right hon. Gentleman says he replies to these letters; he has not written a single letter to me about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.636.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-30", "file": "debates2014-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b36c241f07cbc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.636.5", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "If the Secretary of State now claims that he signs his letters “The correspondence unit”, perhaps he has replied, but I would have expected the Secretary of State to sign the letters and I will be very happy to forward all the letters to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.636.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-30", "file": "debates2014-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b36c241f07cbc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.637.3", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "The Minister for disabled people has never replied to the letters I have sent to the Department for Work and Pensions about people in my constituency. I have given two examples today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.637.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-30", "file": "debates2014-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b36c241f07cbc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.637.4", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Penning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Penning", "preceding_text": "Letters from a Privy Counsellor, which the right hon. Lady is, will be responded to by the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.637.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-30", "file": "debates2014-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b36c241f07cbc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.643.8", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": " scheme for universal credit. At that rate—£120 million lost—we do not need any of their rescues. On child maintenance, 75,000 cases were lost in the system. There were no effective financial arrangements at all for more than half the children. The IT system cost £74 million a year in operating costs alone, even as the number of expensively managed clerical cases hit 100,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.643.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-30", "file": "debates2014-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b36c241f07cbc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.644.0", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "preceding_text": "I just want to make sure that I understand correctly what the right hon. Gentleman has said. I believe that he has just given an undertaking to the House that work capability assessments will be done in 10 days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.644.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-30", "file": "debates2014-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b36c241f07cbc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.644.1", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "I was referring to PIP and the fact that the terminally ill will not have to wait longer than 10 days to be seen. I think that the hon. Lady is referring to WCA. They will go straight to the support group.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.644.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-30", "file": "debates2014-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b36c241f07cbc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.647.1", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "I do not need people to intervene on me; the hon. Gentleman makes enough noise for all of them. One thing I do know is that he needs to listen more and talk less. We made the deliberate choice to introduce PIP in a controlled and phased way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.647.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-30", "file": "debates2014-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b36c241f07cbc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.665.3", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Hollingbery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Hollingbery", "preceding_text": "No. I have already made it clear that I am not going to give way. The risk register is also identified in the motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.665.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-30", "file": "debates2014-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b36c241f07cbc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.665.3", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Hollingbery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Hollingbery", "preceding_text": "No. I have already made it clear that I am not going to give way. The risk register is also identified in the motion— [ Interruption. ] I notice that my time now seems to be infinite, which is absolutely splendid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.665.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-06-30", "file": "debates2014-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "2b36c241f07cbc4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.682.0", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "preceding_text": "using, “You must move, and if you don’t and you can’t, because there isn’t social housing available for you of an appropriate size, we will not give you all your rent. You will continue to be charged all your rent, and out of the tiny amount of money that you get on welfare, you will need to pay that towards your rent or you will be evicted.” That is a big difference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-06-30a.682.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-07-01", "file": "debates2014-07-01c.xml", "sha256": "b6d9950e6ecf560a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-01c.742.0", "colnum": "742", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "Mr Speaker, I can reassure you that the proportion of offenders who are sent to open prisons and who subsequently abscond is 20% of what it was when Labour was in power a decade ago. My question to the right hon. Member for Tooting (Sadiq Khan) is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-01c.742.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-07-01", "file": "debates2014-07-01c.xml", "sha256": "b6d9950e6ecf560a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-01c.742.0", "colnum": "742", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "Mr Speaker, I can reassure you that the proportion of offenders who are sent to open prisons and who subsequently abscond is 20% of what it was when Labour was in power a decade ago. My question to the right hon. Member for Tooting (Sadiq Khan) is— [ Interruption. ] Over the past few weeks, as this has become a more high-profile issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-01c.742.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-07-01", "file": "debates2014-07-01c.xml", "sha256": "b6d9950e6ecf560a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-01c.783.2", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chi Onwurah", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chi Onwurah", "preceding_text": "I shall be brief. The new clause would force the Chancellor to publish a report that made it clear how the Government were balancing the books on the backs of the poor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-01c.783.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-07-01", "file": "debates2014-07-01c.xml", "sha256": "b6d9950e6ecf560a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-01c.797.2", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes an important point. It is investors in pension schemes who will bear the cost. The UK investment management industry, which exists up and down the country—we had a debate about the regional nature of that industry—will also be damaged. The cost makes it hard for UK-domiciled funds to compete. We want UK-domiciled funds to compete.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-01c.797.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-07-01", "file": "debates2014-07-01c.xml", "sha256": "b6d9950e6ecf560a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-01c.797.4", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "of making a tax cut for hedge funds. In the shadow Chancellor’s response to the autumn statement in December last year—he gave a speech that many of us will remember for a long time—he called on the Government to reverse the tax cut for hedge funds. It appears that the Labour Front-Bench position is to accept that there is no tax cut for hedge funds. That, I suppose, is progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-01c.797.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-07-01", "file": "debates2014-07-01c.xml", "sha256": "b6d9950e6ecf560a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-01c.797.5", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "preceding_text": "ted this issue. Not only did we debate it in Committee, as the Minister acknowledged; we also debated it in last year’s Finance Bill. In fact, it is almost a year ago to the day that my esteemed colleague the hon. Member for Nottingham East (Chris Leslie) was standing at this Dispatch Box trying, as I will be, to make the Government see sense and accept our call for a report to be published.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-01c.797.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-07-01", "file": "debates2014-07-01c.xml", "sha256": "b6d9950e6ecf560a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-01c.814.1", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Catherine McKinnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Catherine McKinnell", "preceding_text": "21;. Even the Deputy Prime Minister has contributed to the headlines, with FT.com reporting in January that “Nick Clegg urges end of ?‘shares for rights’”. I am quoting headlines from internet searches because it is incredibly difficult to get any information out of the Government on the take-up and impact of the policy. The purpose of the new clause is to get to the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-01c.814.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-07-02", "file": "debates2014-07-02b.xml", "sha256": "8ea755fe86dea092", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-02b.882.6", "colnum": "882", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "What I am saying is that we introduced for the first time ever a cancer drugs fund, which is treating 50,000 people. That is what is happening. The number of people being treated for cancer is up 15%. This is all in stark contrast to Wales, where Labour is in charge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-02b.882.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-07-02", "file": "debates2014-07-02b.xml", "sha256": "8ea755fe86dea092", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-02b.889.0", "colnum": "889", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I have always thought it terribly unfair to hold against people things they might have done in their youth. If that was the right hon. Gentleman’s idea of fun as a 14-year-old, then, obviously, we have to make room for everybody. The point is this: it is in the interests of the British people to have a renegotiation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-02b.889.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-07-02", "file": "debates2014-07-02b.xml", "sha256": "8ea755fe86dea092", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-02b.904.3", "colnum": "904", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Affordable Homes Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "the hon. Gentleman will understand that now is not the occasion for the Government to set out the details of how this will operate, but there will come a point when we will do that. There will be plenty of opportunity for the House to debate those matters. I have no doubt that he is looking forward to that opportunity and will scrutinise our policies on this matter with his customary vigour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-02b.904.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-07-02", "file": "debates2014-07-02b.xml", "sha256": "8ea755fe86dea092", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-02b.983.1", "colnum": "983", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED — Affordable Homes Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for another example of Labour opposing yet another measure that this Government have taken to try to reduce the deficit. At least Labour Members did not make another spending pledge on this occasion, but we will, of course, continue to monitor their remarks very closely because they frequently do make spending pledges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-02b.983.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-07-03", "file": "debates2014-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "d0cc2e573272c588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-03a.1075.8", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "Nicky Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicky Morgan", "preceding_text": "I entirely agree with the hon. Gentleman. I assume that he supports the EBacc and that he welcomes the work of the Under-Secretary of State for Education, my hon. Friend the Member for South West Norfolk (Elizabeth Truss) , who I think has done more than anyone else in recent years to triumph and to talk about the importance of all students, particularly girls, studying science and maths.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-03a.1075.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-07-03", "file": "debates2014-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "d0cc2e573272c588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-03a.1081.0", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Yes!”", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "part of the rebate. Our Prime Minister protected the rebate and cut the budget, and that is important. He will win those battles again. Finally, I did have the pleasure of going to the summer party last night. I did not see my noble Friend Danny Finkelstein— [Interruption.] I did not buy the champagne, which was bought not for drinking purposes but because it was signed by Margaret Thatcher.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-03a.1081.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-07-09", "file": "debates2014-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b7137fd59963e53d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-09a.357.5", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tristram Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tristram Hunt", "preceding_text": "I would have thought the Minister would want to listen to what the CBI has to say. This week’s CBI survey found that 58% of businesses are not confident that they will have enough highly skilled staff available for their future needs, which is up from 46% last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-09a.357.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-07-09", "file": "debates2014-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b7137fd59963e53d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-09a.361.3", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Opposition Day — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tristram Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tristram Hunt", "preceding_text": "The fact is that the number of starts for under-25s has gone down by 11,400. Ministers can rebadge their apprenticeships and reconfigure the figures as much as they like, but people in the country know that on apprenticeships, this lot are not to be believed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-09a.361.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-07-10", "file": "debates2014-07-10c.xml", "sha256": "8dd03e66d37603bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-10c.490.3", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "nables extradition to take place more quickly. As I have indicated, the Council of Europe arrangements, which were in place previously, had a time limit. Had the European arrest warrant not been in place, we would not have been able to extradite the individual I mentioned earlier, Mr Cullen, back to the UK to face justice, and his victims would not have seen justice done. All the provisions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-10c.490.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-07-10", "file": "debates2014-07-10c.xml", "sha256": "8dd03e66d37603bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-10c.493.1", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "be sure that I am looking at the measures to which he is referring and I think that they are Council Framework Decisions 2009/315/JHA and 2009/316/JHA. They require member states to inform each other about convictions of EU nationals and are an important tool for sharing data. The reason I am hesitating here is that we were certainly discussing the possibility of rejoining this particular measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-10c.493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-07-10", "file": "debates2014-07-10c.xml", "sha256": "8dd03e66d37603bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-10c.501.1", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend raises important issues, but my chief point to the Home Secretary is that she could have indicated her commitment to opting in to these issues more strongly and earlier, which would have put her in a much better place in the negotiations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-10c.501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-07-10", "file": "debates2014-07-10c.xml", "sha256": "8dd03e66d37603bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-10c.508.0", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "In this context, does the right hon. Gentleman regard Albania’s candidacy for the European Union with equanimity?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-10c.508.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-07-14", "file": "debates2014-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ff4400d18c21736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-14a.571.3", "colnum": "571", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "preceding_text": "It would be churlish not to start by wishing everyone well in the forthcoming reshuffle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-14a.571.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-07-14", "file": "debates2014-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ff4400d18c21736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-14a.577.5", "colnum": "577", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "What I can say to the hon. Gentleman is that my Department has an excellent relationship with the DWP, looking at ways in which we can support those who are out of work and seeking to acquire the skills, soft and hard, necessary to get back into work, to get them into the reserve forces and trained in the reserve forces while looking for civilian employment at the same time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-14a.577.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-07-14", "file": "debates2014-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ff4400d18c21736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-14a.588.3", "colnum": "588", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "12;Egypt is a sovereign state that will make its own decisions in its own national interest and hopefully the interests of the wider region, but I have discussed this matter with the Foreign Minister of Egypt. The Egyptian Government at the time of the last ceasefire had much closer links with Hamas than the Egyptian Government do today, so the situation is a little different in that regard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-14a.588.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-07-14", "file": "debates2014-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ff4400d18c21736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-14a.607.3", "colnum": "607", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Nicky Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicky Morgan", "preceding_text": "I do not think there is a lack of clarity. We have published regulations today and there will be further debate during the Bill’s Committee stage, so may I suggest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-14a.607.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-07-14", "file": "debates2014-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "0ff4400d18c21736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-14a.626.2", "colnum": "626", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Therese Coffey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Therese Coffey", "preceding_text": "nly Switzerland’s is higher. I think that it is fair to say that under Labour the number of childminders decreased significantly and costs went up. Before the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne North springs to her feet—if she is not following the latest reshuffle news on Twitter—let me say that I recognise that that trend has continued, but it is not going on at the same level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-14a.626.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-07-15", "file": "debates2014-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "1603c84af3358638", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-15a.785.0", "colnum": "785", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "ay, with no question of their being party to underhand arrangements. Finally, may I apologise to the House for my late entry to this important debate, and, indeed, for my attire? I spent the entire day at the Farnborough air show, where the screaming of fast jets must have excluded the noise of my telephone ringing repeatedly from Downing street, offering me an alternative way to serve the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-15a.785.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-07-16", "file": "debates2014-07-16b.xml", "sha256": "e80d75eceb42f985", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-16b.907.0", "colnum": "907", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Counsellors and Psychotherapists (Regulation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Williamson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Williamson", "preceding_text": "Although it is welcome that those jobs have been created, will the Secretary of State accept that many of them are insecure and low paid? If people do not have money in their pockets because they are working on zero-hours contracts, that will have a negative impact on the long-term economic recovery of our country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-16b.907.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-07-16", "file": "debates2014-07-16b.xml", "sha256": "e80d75eceb42f985", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-16b.918.4", "colnum": "918", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Counsellors and Psychotherapists (Regulation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chuka Umunna", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chuka Umunna", "preceding_text": "No, I have not been to see the Queen yet. I will be as quick as I can, Mr Deputy Speaker. It is good to see the Secretary of State back in his place after the reshuffle, leading this debate. I note that he has acquired some new Conservative minders. He no longer has three, but five.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-16b.918.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-07-16", "file": "debates2014-07-16b.xml", "sha256": "e80d75eceb42f985", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-16b.966.0", "colnum": "966", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — Counsellors and Psychotherapists (Regulation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "preceding_text": "t rule into law. Underneath the bluster, I think the Opposition supported the proposal on public sector procurement—I am not quite sure—but ending the revolving door of pay-outs in the public sector will certainly help. There was a huge amount of discussion about pubcos and strong support for that part of the Bill. The crucial action we are trying to take is to bring the balance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-16b.966.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-07-16", "file": "debates2014-07-16b.xml", "sha256": "e80d75eceb42f985", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-16b.973.6", "colnum": "973", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "preceding_text": "I present a petition on behalf of my constituents regarding the proposed flight path changes at Birmingham airport in my constituency, which has been signed by more than 2,000 residents in the community at the southerly end of the runway. When a planning application was submitted in 2008—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-16b.973.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-07-17", "file": "debates2014-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "5e91655602599575", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-17a.991.2", "colnum": "991", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "George Eustice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Eustice", "preceding_text": "ow that my hon. Friend is a long-standing campaigner on this issue, but, as I have explained to him before, the introduction of a compulsory labelling scheme for halal and kosher meat would present challenges, because there is no single unified definition. Nevertheless, the European Commission is currently conducting a review, and we will consider its report when it is published later in the year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-17a.991.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-07-17", "file": "debates2014-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "5e91655602599575", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-17a.1024.0", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Where is he?”", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "to it. May I also congratulate him on his success in negotiating a huge pay rise for the Leader of the House in a triumph that surely indicates he has a new career opening up when he leaves Parliament at the next election as a trade union negotiator! I welcome the right hon. Member for Surrey Heath (Michael Gove) to—I was going to say to his new job as Chief Whip, but he is not in his place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-17a.1024.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-07-17", "file": "debates2014-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "5e91655602599575", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-17a.1026.1", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "al Democrats intend to catch up in the coming decades. It is an even higher proportion than was achieved under the previous Government and we are proud of that. The hon. Lady asked about holding an emergency debate on what Liberal Democrats have said today about the spare room subsidy. I do not think we will be able to have an emergency debate on every occasion they change their policy, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-17a.1026.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-07-22", "file": "debates2014-07-22c.xml", "sha256": "3160ed33d21efbd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-22c.1233.3", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady will know that I went to the UNHRC to speak in favour of a resolution, which has brought about the inquiry. We still say that the Sri Lankan Government should listen to what is being suggested and should abide by the UN ruling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-22c.1233.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-07-22", "file": "debates2014-07-22c.xml", "sha256": "3160ed33d21efbd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-22c.1251.0", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Nicky Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicky Morgan", "preceding_text": "sses the overall point. This is not a matter on which to be partisan. I think we can agree that there is absolutely no place for extremism in our schools, which is what he said. But in relation to governance, he will perhaps recall the point that Sir Peter Clarke made on page 90 of the report: “I have seen no evidence to suggest that there is a problem with governance generally”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-22c.1251.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-07-22", "file": "debates2014-07-22c.xml", "sha256": "3160ed33d21efbd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-22c.1262.5", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Steven Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steven Baker", "preceding_text": "In diverse places such as High Wycombe dedicated people have worked hard for many years to identify shared values and build harmonious communities, which often centre on our schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-22c.1262.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-07-22", "file": "debates2014-07-22c.xml", "sha256": "3160ed33d21efbd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-22c.1262.6", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Nicky Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicky Morgan", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that question. I heard sniggers from the Opposition Benches about the words he used about his constituency. If Opposition Members have no idea about the diversity of the community in High Wycombe, frankly they should visit it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-22c.1262.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-07-22", "file": "debates2014-07-22c.xml", "sha256": "3160ed33d21efbd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-22c.1313.0", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Child Benefit Entitlement (Disqualification of Non-UK EU Nationals)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Skidmore", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear! Hear! Congratulations.”", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Skidmore", "preceding_text": "much at the heart of local people’s feelings. People in Kingswood have come there to be born, to die, to be treated and to be cared for. My mother was a nurse for 40 years. She was inspired by the idea of nursing in the 1960s when, as a child, she had her tonsils out. She then went on to have a career in the NHS. I had the pleasure of attending an ante-natal class at Cossham on Monday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-07-22c.1313.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-01", "file": "debates2014-09-01a.xml", "sha256": "6af636762dd82712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-01a.15.3", "colnum": "15", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "There are no sticking points, but these matters need to be agreed carefully. This test-first-and-then-implement process is the way all future programmes will be implemented. I just want to quote Mr Manzoni, the new chief executive of the Major Projects Authority, who made it clear to the Public Accounts Committee in June that universal credit is stable and on track with the reset plan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-01a.15.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-01", "file": "debates2014-09-01a.xml", "sha256": "6af636762dd82712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-01a.64.5", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-01a.64.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-01", "file": "debates2014-09-01a.xml", "sha256": "6af636762dd82712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-01a.106.1", "colnum": "106", "heading": "bill presented", "cue_speaker": "Robert Flello", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Flello", "preceding_text": "end of the day, there is concern about this matter. I have a concern—perhaps I am the only Member in this House who does—but if, as I fear, this legislation goes ahead in the autumn, I do not want to have to come back to this House to say to future generations, “Look what we did.” Once we go down this route and children start being born, there will be no turning back—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-01a.106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-02", "file": "debates2014-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "eec33a0d69c4caa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-02a.164.0", "colnum": "164", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "This has been the subject of much discussion across the Dispatch Box, and I have pointed out that while this Government have been in office we have had the near collapse of the eurozone economy on our doorstep—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-02a.164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-02", "file": "debates2014-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "eec33a0d69c4caa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-02a.170.0", "colnum": "170", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "another, independent force to look at these issues and whether further action needs to be taken as a result of what the police did over the period of time covered by the Jay report. In relation to the question of the police and crime commissioner, I have to say this to the right hon. Lady. She made some points that were an attempt to raise political issues around the police and crime commissioner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-02a.170.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-03", "file": "debates2014-09-03b.xml", "sha256": "1d1ce2ccb83d6c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-03b.281.4", "colnum": "281", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "reasons that have been given, if we were to lose the Union, it would be not only a disaster for Scotland, but a national humiliation of catastrophic proportions. I say gently to the three party leaders that perhaps we have been a bit complacent up to now. I urge them, over the next two weeks, to drop everything else and stand shoulder to shoulder to fight for the Union that we love and believe in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-03b.281.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-03", "file": "debates2014-09-03b.xml", "sha256": "1d1ce2ccb83d6c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-03b.299.1", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "I absolutely agree. I can hear the Secretary of State saying over and over that it is already available—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-03b.299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-03", "file": "debates2014-09-03b.xml", "sha256": "1d1ce2ccb83d6c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-03b.299.3", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “What is he afraid of?”", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. The question we should be asking the energy companies is, “Why would you be afraid of this?” The question we have to ask the Secretary of State is, “What is his problem?”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-03b.299.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-03", "file": "debates2014-09-03b.xml", "sha256": "1d1ce2ccb83d6c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-03b.312.0", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Whitehead", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Whitehead", "preceding_text": "The first thing that would be of interest to the House in this debate this afternoon would be to find out what the Secretary of State really thinks about this matter. I was at an interesting meeting yesterday when I was privileged to hear the Secretary of State speak. First, he effectively apologised for being a Minister in the coalition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-03b.312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-03", "file": "debates2014-09-03b.xml", "sha256": "1d1ce2ccb83d6c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-03b.330.2", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Heather Wheeler", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Yes, we have!”", "preceding_speaker": "Heather Wheeler", "preceding_text": "I wish the hon. Lady was speaking from the Opposition Front Bench. The difficulty is we have not been told in what circumstances the Opposition Front Bench team would impose this regulation. They have not given us any examples—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-03b.330.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-03", "file": "debates2014-09-03b.xml", "sha256": "1d1ce2ccb83d6c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-03b.331.6", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Tom Blenkinsop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": "her sector of the economy, can be held to account for their actions and behave within the regulations. It is the old philosophical debate between those of us on the Labour Benches and those on the other side of the House. We want regulation; they consistently argue against it—in particular, prior to the 2007-08 financial crash, when they were asking for less regulation in financial services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-03b.331.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-03", "file": "debates2014-09-03b.xml", "sha256": "1d1ce2ccb83d6c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-03b.340.2", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Amber Rudd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Amber Rudd", "preceding_text": "I am going to proceed with my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-03b.340.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-03", "file": "debates2014-09-03b.xml", "sha256": "1d1ce2ccb83d6c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-03b.340.4", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Amber Rudd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Amber Rudd", "preceding_text": "I am happy to clarify that for the hon. Gentleman. The current set-up is that there is an option for the licence to be revoked, but it happens over a much longer period and is likely to take longer. The concern I have over this proposal is that it is a nuclear option that would be so dramatic that it would impact deleteriously on consumers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-03b.340.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-03", "file": "debates2014-09-03b.xml", "sha256": "1d1ce2ccb83d6c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-03b.356.5", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Nicky Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicky Morgan", "preceding_text": "I will make some progress. We had a long-term economic plan to get the economy back in shape.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-03b.356.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-03", "file": "debates2014-09-03b.xml", "sha256": "1d1ce2ccb83d6c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-03b.366.1", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Justin Tomlinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justin Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "ouncillors blocked it. They blocked it for the same reason that Labour MPs today are putting forward in their interventions and speeches—namely, that there are surplus places in other schools. These were schools that were not good; they were not exceptional, they were not acceptable to parents, and they were a long way away, but Labour councillors, determined to remove parental choice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-03b.366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-03", "file": "debates2014-09-03b.xml", "sha256": "1d1ce2ccb83d6c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-03b.370.1", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Toby Perkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Toby Perkins", "preceding_text": "ested that they could join the governing body of the school in their catchment area and see whether they could improve that, I was told, “Well, it is a bit of a risk.” So I said, “You are setting up a school that doesn’t exist, that has no teachers, that has no building, that has no other pupils and that has no facilities. That is not ‘not a risk’, is it?”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-03b.370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-03", "file": "debates2014-09-03b.xml", "sha256": "1d1ce2ccb83d6c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-03b.376.3", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. The debate title is “Infant Class Sizes”. I have been very lenient and allowed some latitude, but that does not mean that we can concentrate on GCSE results.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-03b.376.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-03", "file": "debates2014-09-03b.xml", "sha256": "1d1ce2ccb83d6c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-03b.381.1", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Chris Heaton-Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Heaton-Harris", "preceding_text": "needs across the country, because they are so varied in every location. I know that my constituency is remarkably different from many others. I have the privilege of sitting on the Public Accounts Committee and I will make a few points with regard to that in a moment when I talk class sizes. The Chairman of the Committee is a feisty Member of Parliament and represents Dagenham and Redbridge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-03b.381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-03", "file": "debates2014-09-03b.xml", "sha256": "1d1ce2ccb83d6c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-03b.387.1", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Opposition Day — [5th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "preceding_text": "be topical for a moment—that the coalition Government have now introduced compulsory setting, in that the two Schools Ministers are not allowed to be in the same room at the same time. That perhaps explains why the right hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr Laws) is not here with us this afternoon. However, it would be useful if the Minister in this debate would clarify in his winding-up speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-03b.387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-04", "file": "debates2014-09-04b.xml", "sha256": "2b2ef68e0e93d2cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-04b.428.0", "colnum": "428", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to say that I have spent the last two months working hard with UK Coal, meeting the head of the National Union of Mineworkers and the Union of Democratic Mineworkers to ensure that we can come to an arrangement that will help and support coal mining in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-04b.428.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-04", "file": "debates2014-09-04b.xml", "sha256": "2b2ef68e0e93d2cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-04b.431.0", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "capacity and capability, introducing new unannounced audit checks by the food industry and many other measures. They are set out in the written ministerial statement. The hon. Lady took the Chief Whip to task again, although I was a bit disappointed that it was the same joke about his being in the toilet as seven weeks ago. Recycling has its limits and we would like slightly more up-to-date—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-04b.431.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-04", "file": "debates2014-09-04b.xml", "sha256": "2b2ef68e0e93d2cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-04b.442.2", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Robertson", "preceding_text": "ave ever seen in my time in politics. My right hon. Friend the Member for East Renfrewshire (Mr Murphy) was attacked not only when he was speaking, but when he was protecting an elderly lady. Freedom of speech is being attacked. Given next year’s general election and a possible referendum, when the stakes will be high, we need to look at the issue again and make sure that intimidation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-04b.442.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-04", "file": "debates2014-09-04b.xml", "sha256": "2b2ef68e0e93d2cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-04b.448.0", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Given that modest pauses seem to be the order of the day, can we have a modest pause in bogus points of order made not, as is usually the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-04b.448.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-04", "file": "debates2014-09-04b.xml", "sha256": "2b2ef68e0e93d2cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-04b.448.0", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Given that modest pauses seem to be the order of the day, can we have a modest pause in bogus points of order made not, as is usually the case— [Interruption.] I did not heckle my hon. Friend the Member for Lichfield (Michael Fabricant) , and I will thank him not to heckle me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-04b.448.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-04", "file": "debates2014-09-04b.xml", "sha256": "2b2ef68e0e93d2cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-04b.449.3", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Robert Flello", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Flello", "preceding_text": "Abraham, Stuart Vernon, Rebecca Weller, the team at Bellenden, Julia Carr at Canine Action UK, Tim Wass, Nicola Howell in my office, CARIAD and Diesel. I am also grateful for the backing of Blue Cross, Dog Rescue Federation, the Dog Advisory Council, Dogs Trust, the Kennel Club, Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, Wood Green Animal Shelter, and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-04b.449.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-05", "file": "debates2014-09-05b.xml", "sha256": "d2f32342e9599b60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-05b.551.7", "colnum": "551", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew George", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ah!”", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew George", "preceding_text": "I have had a wide range of discussions, and when the Bill is considered in Committee, we will doubtless have an opportunity to do that. I was disappointed that, having sought Ministers’ co-operation to advance the Bill, I was told that I would not have that co-operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-05b.551.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-05", "file": "debates2014-09-05b.xml", "sha256": "d2f32342e9599b60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-05b.559.3", "colnum": "559", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has clearly not been listening to the debate. My hon. Friend the Member for Dumfries and Galloway (Mr Brown) very forcefully made the point that the policy introduced by the previous Labour Government was not retrospective and did not penalise people on the basis of their existing circumstances. Quite simply, given the higher cost—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-05b.559.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-05", "file": "debates2014-09-05b.xml", "sha256": "d2f32342e9599b60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-05b.565.0", "colnum": "565", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": "policy conundrums for me was why the previous Labour Government introduced almost identical proposals for tenants in the private rented sector— [ Interruption. ] I will come on to this in some detail, don’t you worry! Why did they think that it was appropriate to treat tenants on housing benefit in social housing differently from tenants on housing benefit in the private rented sector?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-05b.565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-05", "file": "debates2014-09-05b.xml", "sha256": "d2f32342e9599b60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-05b.573.2", "colnum": "573", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tim Farron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Farron", "preceding_text": "osition were by definition less likely to vote. That is changing, and that generation is crying out for people who will step up to the plate and argue their case. Britain’s future depends on being able to house our young people—all our people—in an affordable and decent way. I commend the Bill of my right hon. Friend, or rather my hon. Friend the Member for St Ives to this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-05b.573.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-05", "file": "debates2014-09-05b.xml", "sha256": "d2f32342e9599b60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-05b.583.2", "colnum": "583", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I have already said that I will not give way again. The hon. Gentleman will get a whole speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-05b.583.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-05", "file": "debates2014-09-05b.xml", "sha256": "d2f32342e9599b60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-05b.584.4", "colnum": "584", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. I have heard it all before. Let us go back to the Liberal Democrats. There is of course more rejoicing in heaven when one sinner, or one party, repenteth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-05b.584.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-08", "file": "debates2014-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "640ecef90a42bc04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-08a.650.7", "colnum": "650", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Dinenage", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Dinenage", "preceding_text": "This Saturday I shall be cleaning up Gosport with my local litter action group.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-08a.650.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-08", "file": "debates2014-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "640ecef90a42bc04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-08a.651.3", "colnum": "651", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Bob Blackman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Blackman", "preceding_text": " summer, a disabled pensioner in my constituency received a parking penalty notice after his car had suffered a puncture. He was pushed to the side of the road by good Samaritans, and when he got out of his car to go into the premises of a firm to find some people to help him to change the tyre, a traffic warden came along and gave him a parking ticket. Ealing council refused to cancel the ticket.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-08a.651.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-08", "file": "debates2014-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "640ecef90a42bc04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-08a.653.1", "colnum": "653", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ong-term and often difficult decisions to put our defence budget on a sustainable footing, and the fruits of that are now coming through. We are equipping all three of our services with the best and most modern military hardware that money can buy. This includes a £3.5 billion contract for Scout armoured vehicles, which I announced on Friday—the largest such order in over three decades.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-08a.653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-09", "file": "debates2014-09-09b.xml", "sha256": "8f4e31d0774c5109", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-09b.806.5", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a good point. The costs of the project are a matter of concern right across the board and to all Members. Hon. Members ought to bear in mind that today the Minister has brought savings to the Dispatch Box —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-09b.806.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-09", "file": "debates2014-09-09b.xml", "sha256": "8f4e31d0774c5109", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-09b.814.4", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "No, I am sure he does not wish to put the record straight. I do not think that was a point of order, or that it could possibly be the interpretation of what the right hon. Gentleman said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-09b.814.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-09", "file": "debates2014-09-09b.xml", "sha256": "8f4e31d0774c5109", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-09b.878.6", "colnum": "878", "heading": "HIGH SPEED RAIL (LONDON - WEST MIDLANDS) BILL: INSTRUCTION (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "inst the Bill, it will go to an unopposed Bill Committee and will not even come back on Report unless the Committee finds some reason to amend it, and it will then go straight through on Third Reading. However, that is an expensive process. I hope that by the time the Bill returns for Third Reading we will have more news about the private Member’s Bill to which my right hon. Friend referred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-09b.878.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-10", "file": "debates2014-09-10b.xml", "sha256": "21d7cbe2516019c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-10b.891.3", "colnum": "891", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Brooks Newmark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brooks Newmark", "preceding_text": " question along those lines, so I have stitched together a response for her. Charities, with all their expertise, have long been at the forefront of helping to tackle some of the country’s biggest social challenges and have an important role to play in helping shape a Government policy, but they must stay out of party politics, which has been a long-standing requirement by charity law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-10b.891.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-10", "file": "debates2014-09-10b.xml", "sha256": "21d7cbe2516019c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-10b.893.0", "colnum": "893", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "Actually, we sometimes need to get the right skills that do not exist in government, and by and large we will make sure that we have the right skills available on the right terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-10b.893.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-10", "file": "debates2014-09-10b.xml", "sha256": "21d7cbe2516019c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-10b.1047.0", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "at, to an extent, we make it up as we go along. In this country, there are not really any constitutional experts; there are just people who insist that they know more about the constitution than the next person they talk to. There is an enormous amount of bluffing when people tell us what our constitution is. The more authoritatively people say they know what it is, the more they get away with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-10b.1047.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-11", "file": "debates2014-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "d10a4449688186c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-11a.1070.0", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "George Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Freeman", "preceding_text": " protected the science budget. We inherited one of the worst crises the public finances, and we have a duty to correct it. This country is internationally respected for the level of scientific advice that we put into policy making. Across the board—on badgers, on genetic modification, and on all the other difficult issues that we face—we are basing policy on the best scientific advice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-11a.1070.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-11", "file": "debates2014-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "d10a4449688186c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-11a.1078.0", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": " referendum—on developments in foreign affairs. Yesterday we had a foreign affairs debate in which many hon. Members took part. The Government will keep the House updated whenever possible. I am pleased—it is unusual for me to say this—that the Labour party is out campaigning. The shadow Leader and I will be doing so—not together, although we will both be in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-11a.1078.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-12", "file": "debates2014-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb60dd3121d717ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-12a.1225.4", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "id not change the law. The cat has already been let out of the bag. It was rather galling to see the right hon. Member for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath (Mr Brown) lecture the House on how we should not be breaking our promises. The man who promised a referendum on the Lisbon treaty and who shamefully and shamelessly avoided that promise has absolutely no right to come here and lecture the rest of us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-12a.1225.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-12", "file": "debates2014-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb60dd3121d717ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-12a.1235.1", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ah!”", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": ", someone can support 0.7% of the budget going in overseas aid without supporting this Bill, because it already happens. We are supposed to pass laws here because we actually need a law to help something or prevent something that is very bad. He has rightly identified that the Bill is a solution looking for a problem, but I do not agree with him that we should be spending 0.7% of our budget on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-12a.1235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-12", "file": "debates2014-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb60dd3121d717ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-12a.1235.1", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "I agree with him. This Government have made such an effort to stop welfare dependency at home, and I support everything that the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has done to try to stop a culture of welfare dependency in this country. People cannot expect to sit and wait for their next handout from the state. How one earth can a Government who have done so much on welfare dependency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-12a.1235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-12", "file": "debates2014-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb60dd3121d717ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-12a.1235.3", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "Deputy Speaker, for your guidance. As I said at the start, we have had three hours of speeches from Members who are in favour of this Bill. As you have rightly said, I have spoken for 40 minutes in opposition. But I am a generous man, and I always seek to please you in particular. If it will please you, I will seek to draw my remarks to a close, but if you could indulge me for a couple more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-12a.1235.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-12", "file": "debates2014-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb60dd3121d717ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-12a.1237.0", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Fiona Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona Bruce", "preceding_text": "cannot pass by on the other side and that is why legislating in this regard is so important. I believe that as we promote the Bill the majority of UK taxpayers are with us. Younger people certainly are. We need only to consider how generously they respond to disaster relief requests. A child is vaccinated every two seconds through the work of this nation and a child’s life saved every—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-12a.1237.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-26", "file": "debates2014-09-26a.xml", "sha256": "e3470305194d63bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-26a.1265.6", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Richard Burden", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Burden", "preceding_text": "I am grateful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-26a.1265.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-26", "file": "debates2014-09-26a.xml", "sha256": "e3470305194d63bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-26a.1271.2", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Bridgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Bridgen", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that the Government have a moral obligation to help the Iraqi people in their hour of need—an obligation which, like the deficit, this Government did not create, but has to deal with?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-26a.1271.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-26", "file": "debates2014-09-26a.xml", "sha256": "e3470305194d63bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-26a.1283.3", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Iraq.”", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "ration and perhaps a little emotion, not least, of course, because he resigned from the Government as a result of his views and joined the rest of us who voted against them in the Lobby that evening. This is not, however, 2003. It is an entirely different set of circumstances, an important feature of which is the fact that we would be responding to a request made by the lawful Government of Syria.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-26a.1283.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-26", "file": "debates2014-09-26a.xml", "sha256": "e3470305194d63bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-26a.1285.5", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Alison McGovern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alison McGovern", "preceding_text": "hope for the future. In addition, what is the risk to wider health care needs? The Iraqi Government must be supported to maintain not simply the hard infrastructure that the country will need—power, transport and water—but the vital infrastructure of public services. Development assistance must work alongside military answers to ISIL. Is DFID working alongside the military in planning?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-26a.1285.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-09-26", "file": "debates2014-09-26a.xml", "sha256": "e3470305194d63bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-26a.1357.4", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "What the Prime Minister said, and what I think every reasonable person would accept, is that if any Government at any point find that they need to act very quickly indeed to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe or to protect British citizens here or abroad, clearly the Government of the day have the right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-09-26a.1357.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-13", "file": "debates2014-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "c27c5cc3d68bb5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-13b.1.6", "colnum": "1", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "I remember that when I was a young barrister practising in Bow Street magistrates court—I could not get a better brief anywhere else—the police officers just rolled up with their note books and justice was swift and usually fair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-13b.1.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-13", "file": "debates2014-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "c27c5cc3d68bb5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-13b.18.1", "colnum": "18", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "That is a bit rich coming from an Opposition Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-13b.18.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-13", "file": "debates2014-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "c27c5cc3d68bb5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-13b.56.5", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "preceding_text": "I echo that sentiment, and having campaigned on a number of occasions with my hon. Friend in his constituency during the referendum campaign, I was not in any way surprised that his constituents voted by such a handsome margin; it was almost as good as the decision in Orkney—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-13b.56.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-13", "file": "debates2014-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "c27c5cc3d68bb5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-13b.60.4", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "preceding_text": "s) has already said, where we have devolved, we have devolved to a legislature, be it a Parliament or an Assembly, that is elected proportionally. That has been an important part of the way in which we have gone about the process of devolution, and I think that the people of England should be entitled to that as well. The essential difficulty that the hon. Gentleman touches on is that it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-13b.60.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-13", "file": "debates2014-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "c27c5cc3d68bb5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-13b.66.1", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I will not take issue with the right hon. Gentleman on that, but I think that the boundaries are perhaps the least of the problems that we are addressing. I am saying something that has applied to British policy for generations, as it has to the policies of other countries. We recognise a state when the territory in question has a Government, an army, military capability—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-13b.66.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-13", "file": "debates2014-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "c27c5cc3d68bb5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-13b.85.1", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Offord", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Offord", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for another helpful intervention, but I assure my hon. Friend that this is certainly not an Israeli Government press release.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-13b.85.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-13", "file": "debates2014-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "c27c5cc3d68bb5fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-13b.100.0", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Lilley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Lilley", "preceding_text": "I am sure that it is extremely significant, as is any contribution that I make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-13b.100.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-14", "file": "debates2014-10-14b.xml", "sha256": "611c7dcdd30c772c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-14b.146.3", "colnum": "146", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sadiq Khan", "preceding_text": "I welcome the Deputy Prime Minister’s words about the need for a constitutional convention and about 16 and 17-year-olds rejoicing at the chance to vote in the Scottish referendum. He has always been an advocate for 16 and 17-year-olds having the vote. Bearing in mind the fact that, if we are honest, MPs have nothing to do between now and May—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-14b.146.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-14", "file": "debates2014-10-14b.xml", "sha256": "611c7dcdd30c772c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-14b.164.0", "colnum": "164", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "David Nuttall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Nuttall", "preceding_text": " is true that were it not for the support that carers provide, the burden of providing that care and support would very often fall on the state. The issue under discussion, however, is not whether carers provide valuable support, but whether it is right that taxpayers should be asked to pay for the provision of rooms in social housing which for the vast majority of the time stand empty and unused.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-14b.164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-14", "file": "debates2014-10-14b.xml", "sha256": "611c7dcdd30c772c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-14b.177.4", "colnum": "177", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "I think across the House we want to be practical and pragmatic about the devolution of powers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-14b.177.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-14", "file": "debates2014-10-14b.xml", "sha256": "611c7dcdd30c772c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-14b.179.5", "colnum": "179", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "I can observe the annunciator just as well as the hon. Gentleman. I simply advise him that the title of the debate is, “Devolution following the Scotland referendum”. The debate is about devolution. Nothing disorderly has happened. The Leader of the House is entirely in order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-14b.179.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-14", "file": "debates2014-10-14b.xml", "sha256": "611c7dcdd30c772c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-14b.188.1", "colnum": "188", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Iain Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Stewart", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman keeps referring to a Westminster stitch-up or a knee-jerk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-14b.188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-14", "file": "debates2014-10-14b.xml", "sha256": "611c7dcdd30c772c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-14b.197.3", "colnum": "197", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": " of Parliament to vote on income tax, on a matter as substantial as the Budget, in this Parliament of the United Kingdom. Until now, any income tax rise has been based on the principle that all contribute and all benefit. Now, under the Conservative proposal, all, including Scotland, would benefit from such a tax rise, if it were ever to happen, but only some, excluding Scotland, would contribute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-14b.197.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-14", "file": "debates2014-10-14b.xml", "sha256": "611c7dcdd30c772c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-14b.197.3", "colnum": "197", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ute and all benefit. Now, under the Conservative proposal, all, including Scotland, would benefit from such a tax rise, if it were ever to happen, but only some, excluding Scotland, would contribute. [Interruption.] This is the Conservative party proposal. It is a radical proposal to devolve all income tax in Scotland and then preclude Members of Parliament in this House from voting on the Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-14b.197.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-14", "file": "debates2014-10-14b.xml", "sha256": "611c7dcdd30c772c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-14b.200.2", "colnum": "200", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "My constituents in Letchworth want to know why it is that the right hon. Gentleman should be able to vote in this place about education in Letchworth when I have absolutely no say on those matters in Kirkcaldy in his constituency. It is not right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-14b.200.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-14", "file": "debates2014-10-14b.xml", "sha256": "611c7dcdd30c772c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-14b.213.4", "colnum": "213", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady raises an important point. When we talk about England-only legislation, we are talking about legislation that does not impact on Scotland. Our group of MPs discusses that issue every week. I could explain to her our Whip on legislation that significantly impacts on Scotland. For example, we voted on tuition fees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-14b.213.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-14", "file": "debates2014-10-14b.xml", "sha256": "611c7dcdd30c772c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-14b.227.5", "colnum": "227", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "he moment there are two categories of Members of Parliament: there are those such as the former Prime Minister, who is not allowed to vote on domestic matters in his own constituency, and there are those like as me who are able to vote on such domestic matters. In fact, he is in a category all on his own, because there are things he can vote on in my constituency that he cannot vote on in his own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-14b.227.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-14", "file": "debates2014-10-14b.xml", "sha256": "611c7dcdd30c772c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-14b.229.0", "colnum": "229", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Robert Syms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Syms", "preceding_text": "There was one very big difference: in the 1970s, the legislation and the debate happened in Parliament and then there was the referendum, but under the Blair Government, the referendum was held first and then there was the legislation, so some of the issues were not explored.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-14b.229.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-14", "file": "debates2014-10-14b.xml", "sha256": "611c7dcdd30c772c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-14b.231.0", "colnum": "231", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Iain Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Stewart", "preceding_text": "esents 84% of the population and economy—overwhelmingly dominated the other three parts of the federation. To address the point raised by the hon. Member for Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Mr MacNeil) —I hope he notes my good pronunciation—there is a debate about further decentralisation within England and within Scotland, but that is a separate point from what happens here in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-14b.231.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-14", "file": "debates2014-10-14b.xml", "sha256": "611c7dcdd30c772c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-14b.237.4", "colnum": "237", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "preceding_text": "write the outcome of the referendum. May I ask him to confirm that the first page of the Scottish Government’s submission to the Smith commission makes plain our understanding that the commission will simply be about devolution and will not lead to independence, and that we absolutely understand and respect the outcome of the referendum? Will he now work with us to maximise the powers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-14b.237.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-14", "file": "debates2014-10-14b.xml", "sha256": "611c7dcdd30c772c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-14b.257.2", "colnum": "257", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Neil Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Neil Carmichael", "preceding_text": "uld be threatened by increased transfers of power. What we think about tomorrow matters. We must therefore put on the table now the question of English law, English votes and English power. I want to talk a little about the Barnett formula, which has been touched on a few times. It was really introduced as a sop to Scottish nationalists back in 1978 while the discussion on devolution was going on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-14b.257.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-15", "file": "debates2014-10-15b.xml", "sha256": "3b940f7d6aa35252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-15b.335.4", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Ian Swales", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Swales", "preceding_text": "I certainly support the work that the hon. Gentleman’s Government did on the national minimum wage, but does he not regret the fact that when they left office people earning the minimum wage were paying £1,000 a year in tax? By April they will have seen that figure cut by £800 through the work of the Liberal Democrats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-15b.335.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-15", "file": "debates2014-10-15b.xml", "sha256": "3b940f7d6aa35252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-15b.346.0", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andy Sawford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Sawford", "preceding_text": "It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Bedford (Richard Fuller) . He made some important points. I will return to some of them, such as the one about procurement and the supply chain. My constituency has been fighting for better wages for more than a century. I dare say that the struggle goes back even further. In 1905, Raunds boot and shoe workers marched to London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-15b.346.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-15", "file": "debates2014-10-15b.xml", "sha256": "3b940f7d6aa35252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-15b.374.3", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "ng in new taxes that the country is not paying at the moment. The right hon. Gentleman talked about structural reforms. We ought to discuss the structural reforms that he chose not to talk about, such as making the Care Quality Commission independent, with new chief inspectors for hospitals, adult social care and general practice. He tried to vote down that legislation in this House. So far—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-15b.374.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-15", "file": "debates2014-10-15b.xml", "sha256": "3b940f7d6aa35252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-15b.375.1", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "Let us deal with the cancer target. When the right hon. Gentleman left office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-15b.375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-15", "file": "debates2014-10-15b.xml", "sha256": "3b940f7d6aa35252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-15b.376.1", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "ws that the biggest single privatisation decision in NHS history—the decision to contract out a whole district general hospital to the private sector—was allowed not by me, but by him when he was Heath Secretary. Let us set the record straight, because he tried to give the impression to my hon. Friend the Member for Selby and Ainsty (Nigel Adams) that that decision was not taken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-15b.376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-15", "file": "debates2014-10-15b.xml", "sha256": "3b940f7d6aa35252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-15b.376.1", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "at decision was not taken— [ Interruption. ] Let me make my point, and then I will give way. The right hon. Gentleman approved a shortlist for Hinchingbrooke hospital, which had on it two private sector providers and an NHS provider. He did not tell my hon. Friend that the NHS provider then pulled out, and that he accepted the continuation of that process with an all-private shortlist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-15b.376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-15", "file": "debates2014-10-15b.xml", "sha256": "3b940f7d6aa35252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-15b.401.0", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Gavin Shuker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gavin Shuker", "preceding_text": "Many hon. Members on both sides of the House have talked about their personal experiences of the NHS, and movingly about the care that they and others have received. It might not have escaped the House’s notice, but I am statistically one of the least likely Members to access NHS services, being under the age of 40—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-15b.401.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-15", "file": "debates2014-10-15b.xml", "sha256": "3b940f7d6aa35252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-15b.404.1", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "preceding_text": "I will not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-15b.404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-15", "file": "debates2014-10-15b.xml", "sha256": "3b940f7d6aa35252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-15b.404.3", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "preceding_text": ";limited assurance” in the figures. It also states that “strategic health authority staff did not verify the figures submitted to them by primary care trusts” and that it “saw no evidence that the” Government “challenged these figures.” Far from being independently verified, as the Health Secretary claims, they have been made up on the back of an envelope.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-15b.404.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-16", "file": "debates2014-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "a6fadb81063a5ef3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-16a.424.1", "colnum": "424", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Get on with it!”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "preceding_text": "Mr Speaker, I am incredibly grateful for your guidance. You are quite right that, with your permission, I would like to take this question with Question 3, which I also hotly anticipate. Thank you for correcting me. My eagerness got ahead of me in wishing to communicate to the hon. Lady that for the first time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-16a.424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-16", "file": "debates2014-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "a6fadb81063a5ef3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-16a.451.2", "colnum": "451", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "preceding_text": "We can support the steel industry, as we have been doing, and ensure that, if there is a transition, we support those affected. The central point, however, is that the best way to secure the jobs that are increasingly available in Stockton and elsewhere in the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-16a.451.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-16", "file": "debates2014-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "a6fadb81063a5ef3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-16a.451.2", "colnum": "451", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "preceding_text": "e central point, however, is that the best way to secure the jobs that are increasingly available in Stockton and elsewhere in the country— [Interruption.] Unemployment has fallen by almost 30% in Stockton; the hon. Gentleman should look at our economic record in Stockton, because there and elsewhere, there are more jobs available, while, nationally, unemployment is falling at a record rate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-16a.451.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-16", "file": "debates2014-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "a6fadb81063a5ef3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-16a.463.3", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "preceding_text": "The Leader of the House said that there would be a cheer for the first Opposition Member who mentioned the deficit, so I thought that I would take him up on the offer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-16a.463.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-16", "file": "debates2014-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "a6fadb81063a5ef3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-16a.465.4", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "and the alternative vote system used in those elections predates the referendum that I mentioned a moment ago. I am not sure whether the absence of a Liberal Democrat candidate in south Yorkshire will make a huge difference to the outcome of the election, whatever it is going to be in south Yorkshire, although some of my hon. Friends may disagree with me on that. It may not make a vast difference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-16a.465.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-16", "file": "debates2014-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "a6fadb81063a5ef3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-16a.507.2", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Cycling", "cue_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "preceding_text": "am well aware that many women wish to go fast in Lycra, but that is not for me; I do not quite have the figure for it, for a start. A lot of cyclists do not want to go fast, hammering down the streets. Hackney works to try to signpost people down quiet side roads that suit them. That is very important, because aggressive cyclists can be as off-putting to people as bad traffic, noise and pollution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-16a.507.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-16", "file": "debates2014-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "a6fadb81063a5ef3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-16a.560.1", "colnum": "560", "heading": "UK GOVERNMENT: SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "preceding_text": "Yes. Barnett is safe, because it was in the vow. I caution the hon. Gentleman. He seeks time and again to suggest that, somehow or another, the vow made by the party leaders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-16a.560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-16", "file": "debates2014-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "a6fadb81063a5ef3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-16a.563.1", "colnum": "563", "heading": "UK GOVERNMENT: SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the hon. Gentleman accepts at last that the United Kingdom parties are proceeding in good faith. It would be a shame if he were unable ever to stand up and say it in public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-16a.563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-17", "file": "debates2014-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "caf25dc2e2c50e02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.566.4", "colnum": "566", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Bob Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Neill", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I have no doubt that if there were those—either present today, or not present today—who were tempted, having not put up or shut up at today’s Second Reading, to use various Westminster village procedural games and devices to frustrate the giving of a say to the British people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.566.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-17", "file": "debates2014-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "caf25dc2e2c50e02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.567.5", "colnum": "567", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Hemming", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "John Hemming", "preceding_text": "Although, as my hon. Friend will recognise, I did back the earlier Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.567.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-17", "file": "debates2014-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "caf25dc2e2c50e02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.568.2", "colnum": "568", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Bob Neill", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Neill", "preceding_text": "The greatest threat to British business would be the return to government of the hon. Lady’s party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.568.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-17", "file": "debates2014-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "caf25dc2e2c50e02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.569.4", "colnum": "569", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Bob Neill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Neill", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right on all matters concerning football, and—with respect—absolutely wrong about pretty much everything else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.569.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-17", "file": "debates2014-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "caf25dc2e2c50e02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.573.1", "colnum": "573", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "preceding_text": "I always feel confident that when I am in a minority among my Labour colleagues on this referendum Bill, although some are here supporting it, I am not in a minority among Labour voters in the country. I am very confident that my party will have a change of mind on this issue, even between now and the general election. I think that the Liberal Democrats, who usually change back and forward —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-17", "file": "debates2014-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "caf25dc2e2c50e02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.577.0", "colnum": "577", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "preceding_text": " It would be shocking, given that this is a Government who are meant to be Eurosceptic or Euro-realist, if they were to opt back in in a few weeks. Our criminal justice system would then for ever be part of this European way of doing things, which is not the British way of doing things. I want to end by appealing to my own party, though there are not many of them in the Chamber to appeal to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.577.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-17", "file": "debates2014-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "caf25dc2e2c50e02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.582.4", "colnum": "582", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for being so generous in giving way. Unlike some of the younger Members of the House, I am old enough to have voted in the last European referendum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.582.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-17", "file": "debates2014-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "caf25dc2e2c50e02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.586.3", "colnum": "586", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "preceding_text": "re that he is familiar with the Beecroft report, commissioned by this Government, which really let the cat out of the bag. The rationale for repatriation being supported by so many of his colleagues is that it would bring powers home in order to take away workers’ rights. We know that, and Conservative Back Benchers know that, yet it is significant that the Prime Minister chose not to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.586.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-17", "file": "debates2014-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "caf25dc2e2c50e02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.589.1", "colnum": "589", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "preceding_text": "Of course there needs to be continuing fundamental and serious change in the eurozone, not least given the challenges that the peripheral countries face in relation to productivity and the frankly worrying current levels of growth across the eurozone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-17", "file": "debates2014-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "caf25dc2e2c50e02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.589.1", "colnum": "589", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "preceding_text": "hat the peripheral countries face in relation to productivity and the frankly worrying current levels of growth across the eurozone. [ Interruption. ] The Foreign Secretary says it is a fundamental point in relation to treaty change, so I offer him the opportunity to step back up to the Dispatch Box and name one member of the eurozone that is publicly advocating treaty change between now and 2017.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-17", "file": "debates2014-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "caf25dc2e2c50e02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.594.3", "colnum": "594", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "preceding_text": "It is always revealing when those on the Government Front Benches give up an argument and simply go for abuse. If that is the best the Foreign Secretary can do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.594.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-17", "file": "debates2014-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "caf25dc2e2c50e02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.599.1", "colnum": "599", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "re think. They are proud to be members of a democratic European Union, and we in Britain should be proud of our part in building this peaceful and prosperous continent. I am very much in favour of letting the British people hear these arguments and of putting them to them in a referendum. I am also proud to be a member of the only party in this House that is wholeheartedly in favour of that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.599.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-17", "file": "debates2014-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "caf25dc2e2c50e02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.607.1", "colnum": "607", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Hemming", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hemming", "preceding_text": "Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland are members of the EEA but not of the EU. If we look at the pattern of different memberships, we find that some countries are members of the Council of Europe, but others are not. It is quite complex. The Vatican, for example, is a member of nothing, yet it can print euros.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.607.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-17", "file": "debates2014-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "caf25dc2e2c50e02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.619.1", "colnum": "619", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "preceding_text": " to get in. Another problem with the timetable is that it assumes that the Prime Minister will be able to renegotiate by the end of 2017. My right hon. Friend the Member for Paisley and Renfrewshire South (Mr Alexander) spoke eloquently about the Prime Minister’s track record of not being the strongest at winning friends and influencing people, not just in his own party, but in 27 countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.619.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-17", "file": "debates2014-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "caf25dc2e2c50e02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.621.4", "colnum": "621", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “He was!”", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": ". It is a great pleasure for me to speak, given the sense of groundhog day and coming back again a year on, so I decided to dust off my speeches and found them on the shelf, although I then decided not to repeat them because I wanted to say other things. Today is a good news day in one respect, and it is a shame that the hon. Member for Clacton (Douglas Carswell) is not present to hear this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.621.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-17", "file": "debates2014-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "caf25dc2e2c50e02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.621.4", "colnum": "621", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "nderstand that the Conservatives and the European People’s Party were somehow behind that, and if that is the case I congratulate them on what they have done to reduce the amount of money going to UKIP. We are debating a Bill that has exactly the same wording as the Bill promoted last year by the hon. Member for Stockton South (James Wharton) , whom I am pleased to see is in his place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.621.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-17", "file": "debates2014-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "caf25dc2e2c50e02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.621.4", "colnum": "621", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "ve or six months before the end of this Parliament, without giving us time properly to debate, consider and amend the legislation. They are hoping to get the Bill through today on Second Reading, rush it through Committee and its remaining stages, and then invoke the Parliament Act so that the other place cannot scrutinise it and bring forward sensible proposals for amendment, as it did last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.621.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-17", "file": "debates2014-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "caf25dc2e2c50e02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.623.0", "colnum": "623", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "ry week on various topics. In addition, there will have to be another Minister present to represent UK interests during the six-month period. Is it really sensible to envisage a referendum during that time when, instead of focusing on reform and progress in the EU, British Ministers, who are also Members of this House, will have to be involved in trying to deal with the politics of the referendum?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.623.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-17", "file": "debates2014-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "caf25dc2e2c50e02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.627.2", "colnum": "627", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "preceding_text": "ates in the House, the press and the country. It has seized the consciousness of much of the British public. At some stage we must put it to the British public, and at some stage we must answer the questions that lie behind it and get on with the life of this country. Let me point out, with apologies to the Leader of the House, that some of you will not be here in 30 or 40 years’ time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-17a.627.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-20", "file": "debates2014-10-20b.xml", "sha256": "118a60c7c3237ec4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-20b.690.3", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andy Slaughter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Slaughter", "preceding_text": "Indeed. The Minister must be picking up, if not from this debate, but from the Bill’s previous stages, that at best there is weariness with more soundbite legislation and littering the statute books —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-20b.690.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-20", "file": "debates2014-10-20b.xml", "sha256": "118a60c7c3237ec4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-20b.691.0", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Shailesh Vara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shailesh Vara", "preceding_text": "laims, were emphasised. I am sure that the House will be surprised and indeed appalled by the example given by the Cheshire fire and rescue service, which has been sued by passers-by who have tripped over hoses being unwound by firemen to extinguish a fire. Those rescue workers were clearly acting in an emergency and their priority was to reach anybody who might be inside a burning building—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-20b.691.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-20", "file": "debates2014-10-20b.xml", "sha256": "118a60c7c3237ec4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-20b.695.5", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "en the person was acting heroically by intervening in an emergency to assist an individual in danger”. I make my preliminary point again: is an act of heroism something that is found by the judge as a matter of law, or is it a matter of fact that could change from one set of facts to another? I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Shipley (Philip Davies) and, it pains me to say so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-20b.695.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-21", "file": "debates2014-10-21c.xml", "sha256": "b3404341b2a326d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-21c.745.2", "colnum": "745", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "e English patient admitted for treatment in a Welsh hospital, five Welsh patients are admitted for treatment in an English hospital, which creates huge pressure for them. I have written to the Welsh Health Minister to say that the NHS is happy to treat more Welsh patients, but the trouble is that NHS Wales is not prepared to pay for it. That is why Welsh patients get a second-class health service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-21c.745.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-21", "file": "debates2014-10-21c.xml", "sha256": "b3404341b2a326d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-21c.752.2", "colnum": "752", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Jane Ellison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Ellison", "preceding_text": "We had a good debate last week in Westminster Hall. My reply remains what it was then: there is not complete clarity in clinical evidence on safe levels of drinking. That is exactly why the chief medical officer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-21c.752.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-21", "file": "debates2014-10-21c.xml", "sha256": "b3404341b2a326d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-21c.756.4", "colnum": "756", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "As I said earlier, we welcome the fact that Labour is now interested in cancer policy. If we look at the reason for those delays, which we are working hard to address, it is because the number of cancer referrals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-21c.756.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-21", "file": "debates2014-10-21c.xml", "sha256": "b3404341b2a326d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-21c.762.1", "colnum": "762", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "We have not just protected the NHS budget, but increased it in real terms, which I think is a huge achievement given the state of the economy we inherited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-21c.762.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-21", "file": "debates2014-10-21c.xml", "sha256": "b3404341b2a326d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-21c.763.2", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "am asked whether the shadow Foreign Secretary should come to the House in these circumstances, I think my response—I am well advised on these matters—is that there is no need for that to happen. It is a matter of judgment for the individual Member concerned. In any case, the hon. and learned Gentleman has put his point very firmly, very clearly and, I hope, intelligently on the record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-21c.763.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-21", "file": "debates2014-10-21c.xml", "sha256": "b3404341b2a326d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-21c.763.2", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": " these matters—is that there is no need for that to happen. It is a matter of judgment for the individual Member concerned. In any case, the hon. and learned Gentleman has put his point very firmly, very clearly and, I hope, intelligently on the record. [Interruption.] It is true that there was a quotation in German, but I was exercising a generosity of spirit that I thought was appropriate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-21c.763.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-21", "file": "debates2014-10-21c.xml", "sha256": "b3404341b2a326d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-21c.786.4", "colnum": "786", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — General Practitioner Surgeries (Rural Areas) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "preceding_text": "ber for South Dorset (Richard Drax) , could there be a limited number of recall petitions per Parliament? Some of the American states with the power of recall limit the number of times it can be allowed within a legislative term. Are the proposed thresholds reasonable? Could there be a higher threshold at the early stage? Members on both sides of the House are in favour of the principle of recall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-21c.786.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-21", "file": "debates2014-10-21c.xml", "sha256": "b3404341b2a326d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-21c.799.0", "colnum": "799", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — General Practitioner Surgeries (Rural Areas) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must have hacked into my computer, because he has basically said what I am about to say in my next couple of paragraphs. That is not an allegation of misconduct, by the way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-21c.799.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-22", "file": "debates2014-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "1d27f53603e990ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-22a.900.3", "colnum": "900", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "nd, and the candidate to whom he rightly refers, is absolutely right that we need to get a grip on immigration—wherever it is coming from. This Government have made very big steps forward, closing down 700 bogus colleges. For the first time, we have had an economic cap on migration from outside the EU, and a whole series of rules coming in about benefit claimants, abuse and all those issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-22a.900.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-22", "file": "debates2014-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "1d27f53603e990ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-22a.960.0", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Bob Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Stewart", "preceding_text": "I took a lot of comfort from the words of the hon. Member for Foyle (Mark Durkan) . To me he suggested that some things have changed and that there was a possibility that the SDLP would now consider the matter. That is the way I read the speech. Perhaps I am wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-22a.960.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-22", "file": "debates2014-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "1d27f53603e990ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-22a.992.1", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "William McCrea", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William McCrea", "preceding_text": "ir entitlements should not be a postcode lottery. There should be equal support for all military personnel, wherever they live within this United Kingdom. I am sorry that we do not have any nationalist Members or Social Democratic and Labour party Members taking part in this debate but I remind everyone in this House that whenever our soldiers defended us on the streets of Northern Ireland —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-22a.992.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-27", "file": "debates2014-10-27b.xml", "sha256": "85ca6e6f860aa94a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-27b.83.0", "colnum": "83", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — International Trade Agreements (Scrutiny)", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": " to Members. My proposals skate on the very edge of what counts as parliamentary privilege and what does not. If the words had been uttered here, they would not be covered by the recall procedure, but I do not think they should be covered by that procedure rather than by having a general election. That is my answer. What mechanism am I proposing? It is for 100 electors from the constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-27b.83.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-27", "file": "debates2014-10-27b.xml", "sha256": "85ca6e6f860aa94a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-27b.89.3", "colnum": "89", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — International Trade Agreements (Scrutiny)", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "Exactly, and I made that point last week. If I had the £250 million or £300 million the hon. Member for Richmond Park has, I would not have to worry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-27b.89.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-27", "file": "debates2014-10-27b.xml", "sha256": "85ca6e6f860aa94a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-27b.89.3", "colnum": "89", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — International Trade Agreements (Scrutiny)", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "Exactly, and I made that point last week. If I had the £250 million or £300 million the hon. Member for Richmond Park has, I would not have to worry. [Interruption.] Well, I am sorry, but it is a matter of fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-27b.89.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-27", "file": "debates2014-10-27b.xml", "sha256": "85ca6e6f860aa94a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-27b.91.5", "colnum": "91", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — International Trade Agreements (Scrutiny)", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "I agree. I would not consider myself to be in the same class as the hon. Member for Richmond Park, for example. The fact is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-27b.91.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-27", "file": "debates2014-10-27b.xml", "sha256": "85ca6e6f860aa94a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-27b.104.0", "colnum": "104", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED — International Trade Agreements (Scrutiny)", "cue_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “38 Degrees.”", "preceding_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "preceding_text": " it strikes me that the essence of what they propose is in fact in direct contradiction with the aim of encouraging noble behaviour such as that of past politicians—not only in America, but here—who stood up for what they believed was right, not what was popular. During this simple debate, many of us—possibly all of us—will have been inundated with e-mails from 360 Degrees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-27b.104.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-10-30", "file": "debates2014-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "c87cebb0fcf24afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-30a.508.0", "colnum": "508", "heading": "GENERAL PRACTICES (COVENTRY)", "cue_speaker": "Jim Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry North West (Mr Robinson) for the invitation to contribute to this evening’s Adjournment debate. I am told—I hope I have got this right—that it is the Minister’s birthday today, so may I get off on the right footing by wishing him a happy birthday?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-10-30a.508.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-03", "file": "debates2014-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "c002043299f123aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-03a.519.7", "colnum": "519", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "It is difficult to know which of those dubious assertions to choose from that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-03a.519.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-03", "file": "debates2014-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "c002043299f123aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-03a.519.7", "colnum": "519", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "It is difficult to know which of those dubious assertions to choose from that question. [Interruption.] The hon. Lady asks which one is dubious. She says that 3% of what she calls welfare spending goes to the unemployed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-03a.519.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-03", "file": "debates2014-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "c002043299f123aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-03a.525.5", "colnum": "525", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ah!”", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "I would point out to the hon. Lady that we have had some problems with the work capability assessment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-03a.525.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-03", "file": "debates2014-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "c002043299f123aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-03a.527.2", "colnum": "527", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Esther McVey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Esther McVey", "preceding_text": "It would have been better had the hon. Gentleman stopped after his first sentence. Not only am I plausible—I was giving the true statistics. Let us be honest: it was the Opposition who said that unemployment would be up by a million at this stage. How wrong they were.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-03a.527.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-03", "file": "debates2014-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "c002043299f123aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-03a.527.2", "colnum": "527", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Esther McVey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Esther McVey", "preceding_text": "It would have been better had the hon. Gentleman stopped after his first sentence. Not only am I plausible—I was giving the true statistics. Let us be honest: it was the Opposition who said that unemployment would be up by a million at this stage. How wrong they were. [Interruption.] We have unemployment up by 2 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-03a.527.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-03", "file": "debates2014-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "c002043299f123aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-03a.535.2", "colnum": "535", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "First, let us start from where we are: more women are now in work than ever before, which is a huge start. I also accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-03a.535.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-03", "file": "debates2014-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "c002043299f123aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-03a.537.1", "colnum": "537", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "A point of order will come after questions. If it relates to these matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-03a.537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-03", "file": "debates2014-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "c002043299f123aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-03a.537.5", "colnum": "537", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Esther McVey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Esther McVey", "preceding_text": "ing young people into work but the young people who have now got a job and are on their career journey, which we hope will be successful for them. Equally, I congratulate my hon. Friend on having a jobs fair in Leamington town hall and helping more people into work. It is Members on the Government Benches who are having jobs fair after jobs fair and really looking at ways to help people into work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-03a.537.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-03", "file": "debates2014-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "c002043299f123aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-03a.571.0", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Clause 6 — Petition officers", "cue_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "preceding_text": "For the sake of clarity, can the Minister sum up what the position is now in Northern Ireland for someone who wishes to go and vote in person? They will be required, as in a general election, to produce photographic ID and if they do not turn up in person, the same rules for proxy and postal voting will definitely pertain, to ensure that we do not have vote stealing again in Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-03a.571.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-03", "file": "debates2014-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "c002043299f123aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-03a.596.4", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Clause 6 — Petition officers", "cue_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I can be helpful to the Minister. The hon. Member for North Down (Lady Hermon) raises an important point, and as I understand it—the Minister may wish to get inspiration on this—the Speaker is not challengeable under judicial review and parliamentary privilege—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-03a.596.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-03", "file": "debates2014-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "c002043299f123aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-03a.596.5", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Clause 6 — Petition officers", "cue_speaker": "Tom Brake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Brake", "preceding_text": "clearly want clarity for staff on the impact that any recall would have on their future employment, particularly during the petition process, and immediately afterwards during the by-election should the Member seek to stand. If the Member decides not to stand in that by-election, what terms and conditions would apply to their staff? On that point, in the absence of more detailed inspiration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-03a.596.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-03", "file": "debates2014-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "c002043299f123aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-03a.600.0", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Clause 6 — Petition officers", "cue_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "preceding_text": "It is very kind of you, Sir Roger Gale, to call me to speak when I have not indicated that I wish to do so. I moved on the Bench to indicate to the Minister that I was most displeased with the response to my earlier intervention. I feel that I need to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-03a.600.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-03", "file": "debates2014-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "c002043299f123aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-03a.603.2", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Clause 6 — Petition officers", "cue_speaker": "Tom Brake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Brake", "preceding_text": "ich was reflected in the points that the hon. Member for Dunfermline and West Fife (Thomas Docherty) made about how to ensure a level playing field in expenditure. I am happy to look at the point he made about whether it would be practical to have a total cap on the for and against campaigns. However, I am sure that experienced campaigners will be able to find their way around that approach—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-03a.603.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-03", "file": "debates2014-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "c002043299f123aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-03a.620.1", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Clause 6 — Petition officers", "cue_speaker": "Michael Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Moore", "preceding_text": "I am not asking for a blank cheque. I certainly accept that this House needs to take a view, in due course, on how much should be spent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-03a.620.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-03", "file": "debates2014-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "c002043299f123aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-03a.622.5", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Clause 6 — Petition officers", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Doughty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Doughty", "preceding_text": "n and Bellshill (Mr Clarke) . I am disappointed listening to Conservative Back Benchers, because it seems that they are attempting to undermine the clearly expressed will in this House in a vote on a Friday and to use this debate to pursue other agendas. That is disappointing because DFID helps some of the poorest people in the world, who are suffering from diseases such as Ebola and so on —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-03a.622.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-04", "file": "debates2014-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "65d3d08cf1b0bb64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-04a.660.4", "colnum": "660", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister achieved a good deal for the United Kingdom, and got away from the solid and fixed renewables target that the Labour Government signed up to. If the hon. Gentleman wants Britain to leave the European Union, that will be achieved with a Conservative Government offering a referendum, and him having a vote and seeing what the outcome is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-04a.660.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-04", "file": "debates2014-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "65d3d08cf1b0bb64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-04a.704.2", "colnum": "704", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "The Minister speaks very well on Parliament giving affirmative support to these proposals. Does she envisage that being given before the first week of May next year?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-04a.704.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-05", "file": "debates2014-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "efc78aebeafdc133", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.813.6", "colnum": "813", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Nia Griffith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nia Griffith", "preceding_text": "While £600 million of UK aid is being channelled through the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.813.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-05", "file": "debates2014-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "efc78aebeafdc133", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.817.1", "colnum": "817", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "Let us talk about his party: defections, rebellions, demands for a pact with UKIP, and that is before the Rochester and Strood by-election. Everyone will have heard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.817.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-05", "file": "debates2014-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "efc78aebeafdc133", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.818.3", "colnum": "818", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ritain to stay in a reformed European Union. Unlike the Labour party, we have a plan to get that reform and hold that referendum. This comes at the end of a week when the last Labour Chancellor said that the Tories are right over a referendum; the shadow Deputy Leader of the House said that Labour is in a dreadful position; and John Prescott said that Labour had a problem communicating in English.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.818.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-05", "file": "debates2014-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "efc78aebeafdc133", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.821.2", "colnum": "821", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "We have demonstrated in this Parliament that if you manage the economy properly, it is possible to reduce spending, to reduce the deficit and to reduce taxes at the same time. That is exactly what we have done. During this Parliament, we have taken the personal allowance—the amount people can earn before paying income tax—from about £6,000 to £10,500.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.821.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-05", "file": "debates2014-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "efc78aebeafdc133", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.829.0", "colnum": "829", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "preceding_text": "on) . I very much look forward to working with him, colleagues and others to ensure that those who are affected get the support they need, but the 4,000-job increase in Rolls-Royce employment over the last four years has, in large part, been in exactly the sorts of high-skilled, high-quality jobs we all want to see. I do not think it behoves the hon. Gentleman well to try to deny that in some way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.829.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-05", "file": "debates2014-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "efc78aebeafdc133", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.841.0", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Armed Forces (Prevention of Discrimination)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ah!”", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "alth, for example, has now ceased to exist. I put it gently to the hon. Gentleman that we need to alter attitudes. However, I do not believe that in this case it would be appropriate to use the heavy hand of legislation and of litigation, which inevitably follows—unless we want to pay lawyers’ fees. I know the hon. Gentleman and he may be surprised to hear me say that I quite like him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.841.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-05", "file": "debates2014-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "efc78aebeafdc133", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.843.0", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Armed Forces (Prevention of Discrimination)", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "The House will take its own view on the matter. I simply recall that the right hon. Member for South Leicestershire (Mr Robathan) was a soldier for at least 15 years, but I cannot believe that he was ever either rude or licentious. The thought simply does not occur.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.843.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-05", "file": "debates2014-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "efc78aebeafdc133", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.847.0", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Paul Uppal", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Uppal", "preceding_text": "Unlike those on the Opposition Benches, I have been poor—dirt poor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.847.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-05", "file": "debates2014-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "efc78aebeafdc133", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.849.4", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "I do not agree that it would be incidental, but I have never suggested that it is the full solution to dealing with the deficit. However, it is an important part of it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.849.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-05", "file": "debates2014-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "efc78aebeafdc133", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.850.0", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "We are making a little progress, because the Minister has at least acknowledged that the static cost of this change is £3 billion, and we have also pinned down the fact that it was HMRC and the Treasury, not the Office for Budget Responsibility, that picked the TIE rate, which is the device he used to massage the figure down to £100 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.850.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-05", "file": "debates2014-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "efc78aebeafdc133", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.850.4", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Iain McKenzie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain McKenzie", "preceding_text": "To bring my hon. Friend back to the whole subject of fairness in taxation, especially in these economic times, it was this Government who told us that those with the broadest shoulders should bear the majority of the burden, yet the first thing they did was reduce the tax rate to take that burden off their shoulders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.850.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-05", "file": "debates2014-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "efc78aebeafdc133", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.850.5", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "There is a lot of protest coming from Government Members. Only those who are not standing for Parliament again will dare to stand up and defend cutting the 50p rate. Mr Speaker, I have heard your entreaties about being a little more strategic in the way we progress through the arguments, but I thought that it was important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.850.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-05", "file": "debates2014-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "efc78aebeafdc133", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.850.6", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I say to the hon. Member for Taunton Deane (Mr Browne) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.850.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-05", "file": "debates2014-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "efc78aebeafdc133", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.851.0", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Taunton Deane (Mr Browne) might be demob happy, but his constituents are demob happier. I want to look at some of the other arguments we will hear from the Minister. When he came up with his calculation of £100 million, which was supposedly the only revenue from cutting the 50p rate, HMRC did not take into account the forestalling effect it would have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.851.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-05", "file": "debates2014-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "efc78aebeafdc133", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.858.4", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kate Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kate Green", "preceding_text": "sterday about the gender impact of a cut in the top rate of tax. As we know, men are disproportionately likely to benefit from cuts to income tax, particularly cuts to higher-rate taxes, and women are disproportionately affected by rises in consumption taxes because of their responsibility for managing the household budget. This has a direct feed-through to levels of child poverty. If women—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.858.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-05", "file": "debates2014-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "efc78aebeafdc133", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.858.4", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kate Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kate Green", "preceding_text": "their responsibility for managing the household budget. This has a direct feed-through to levels of child poverty. If women— [ Interruption. ] The hon. Member for Taunton Deane (Mr Browne) has clearly not looked at the many decades of social policy analysis in relation to this. If he has time later, I will take him through it. There is plenty of evidence that poor children have poor mothers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.858.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-05", "file": "debates2014-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "efc78aebeafdc133", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.861.0", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Bridgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Bridgen", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.861.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-05", "file": "debates2014-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "efc78aebeafdc133", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.861.0", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Bridgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Bridgen", "preceding_text": "nd is absolutely right. [ Interruption. ] It is in the nature of the Labour party that there is always another tax. Labour Members say, “One more tax will do it”, but it never ends, does it? He is quite right that the ability to earn—I stress that the word is “earn”, not “be given” or “inherit”—£150,000 a year or more does not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.861.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-05", "file": "debates2014-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "efc78aebeafdc133", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.865.0", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman knows, being from south Wales I normally support miners, but I would say that he is very much an intellectual minor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.865.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-05", "file": "debates2014-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "efc78aebeafdc133", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.869.0", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Rushanara Ali", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Rushanara Ali", "preceding_text": " to focus on. On average, households will be £1,600 a year worse off by 2015 due to tax and benefit changes made by this Government. Changes made to taxes and benefits since 2010 have meant that families where one parent is working to support children are nearly £4,000 worse off. Let us consider youth unemployment, which is still close to 800,000. Why is it that Government Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.869.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-05", "file": "debates2014-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "efc78aebeafdc133", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.876.0", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "I support the motion, because I think it is about time that the rich paid a fairer share of income tax. They have been getting away with 40%, 40p in the pound, for far too long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.876.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-05", "file": "debates2014-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "efc78aebeafdc133", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.878.1", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Barbara Keeley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barbara Keeley", "preceding_text": "I wanted to intervene because my right hon. Friend is talking about behavioural change among bankers, but Government Members were shaking their heads and tutting when we were referring to disabled people, and I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-05", "file": "debates2014-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "efc78aebeafdc133", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.892.1", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "re outside London their fare is not capped and they pay far more. Buses take people to the GP and to hospital appointments. When I visited Plymouth in July, Labour council leader Tudor Evans, my hon. Friend the Member for Plymouth, Moor View (Alison Seabeck) and Labour candidate Luke Pollard told me how a previous short-sighted Tory city council had sold off the city’s municipal bus company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.892.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-05", "file": "debates2014-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "efc78aebeafdc133", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.892.3", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "The bus services are privatised in London too. I have nothing against privatisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.892.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-05", "file": "debates2014-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "efc78aebeafdc133", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.894.5", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes an interesting point. Of course, the relationship between the owner of Stagecoach and a particular party north of the border is well known, although I will leave it at that. On air pollution, Labour’s parliamentary candidate, Andrew Pakes, invited me to Milton Keynes, where I was delighted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.894.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-05", "file": "debates2014-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "efc78aebeafdc133", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.895.1", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tom Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Harris", "preceding_text": "Very briefly, for clarity and in defence of Baroness Thatcher—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.895.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-05", "file": "debates2014-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "efc78aebeafdc133", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.898.1", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "It was, and it included Conservative representation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.898.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-05", "file": "debates2014-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "efc78aebeafdc133", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.898.3", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Name him!”", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Perhaps we should have a bell that Members can ring. I am not sure that I should say who attended the summit. Officers from Devon county council attended, as did one Conservative leader, but I am not sure that he would be pleased with me if I named him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.898.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-05", "file": "debates2014-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "efc78aebeafdc133", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.898.3", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Perhaps we should have a bell that Members can ring. I am not sure that I should say who attended the summit. Officers from Devon county council attended, as did one Conservative leader, but I am not sure that he would be pleased with me if I named him. [Hon. Members: “Name him!”] No, I will not. It is for me to know and for other Members to find out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.898.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-05", "file": "debates2014-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "efc78aebeafdc133", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.900.6", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Patrick McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "The simple fact is that, if my memory is correct, it is legislation enacted in 2000 that allowed quality contracts to come in, yet none was introduced during that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.900.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-05", "file": "debates2014-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "efc78aebeafdc133", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.901.1", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Patrick McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "No. As I have just pointed out, the trend has been reversed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-05a.901.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-06", "file": "debates2014-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "51fcaea108b7f90d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-06b.964.0", "colnum": "964", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Oil and gas companies get tax breaks to exploit narrow seams of oil; renewables get subsidies; nuclear power gets subsidies; the only industry that does not get any help is the coal industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-06b.964.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-06", "file": "debates2014-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "51fcaea108b7f90d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-06b.969.0", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "ments has not completed its consideration of this statutory instrument, which is a substantial one, because it brings together all the measures necessary for opting in to those of the 35 measures that require regulation to be passed. It is substantial, and I understand that the Committee will return to this on Tuesday. It is not unprecedented for the House to consider a statutory instrument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-06b.969.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2014-11-07", "file": "debates2014-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "98179032100c355d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-07a.1150.3", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS (MAXIMUM MEMBERSHIP) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Bill to be read a Second time on Friday 21 November .", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": "I have it in command from Her Majesty the Queen to acquaint the House that Her Majesty, having been informed of the purport of the Bill, has consented to place her prerogative and interest, so far as they are affected by the Bill, at the disposal of Parliament for the purposes of the Bill. Motion made, That the Bill be now read a Second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-07a.1150.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2014-11-07", "file": "debates2014-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "98179032100c355d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-07a.1150.6", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "WILD ANIMALS IN CIRCUSES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Bill to be read a Second time on Friday —", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That the Bill be now read a Second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-07a.1150.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2014-11-07", "file": "debates2014-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "98179032100c355d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-07a.1150.11", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "EU MEMBERSHIP (AUDIT OF COSTS AND BENEFITS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Debate to be resumed on Friday 21 November .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That the Bill be now read a Second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-07a.1150.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2014-11-07", "file": "debates2014-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "98179032100c355d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-07a.1150.14", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "WILD ANIMALS IN CIRCUSES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Bill to be read a Second time on Friday 21 November .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That the Bill be now read a Second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-07a.1150.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-10", "file": "debates2014-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "a42b07a87146b0ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1164.3", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "preceding_text": "As I said earlier, it was Labour that introduced the retirement age at 60, but this is an issue that I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1164.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-10", "file": "debates2014-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "a42b07a87146b0ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1177.3", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "First, may I express great sadness that the right hon. Gentleman was not on his feet yesterday to defend his leader? For him to be missing seems to me to be deeply shameful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1177.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-10", "file": "debates2014-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "a42b07a87146b0ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1184.0", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "vernment had legal advice that the UK rebate somehow might not apply. If the legal advice exists, the Chancellor should publish it. Mr Barroso’s spokesperson, Mr Mark Gray, has directly contradicted the Treasury’s claims, saying: “Commission position on this clear at European Council—rebate was never in doubt”. The Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan agrees. He said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-10", "file": "debates2014-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "a42b07a87146b0ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1185.0", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "est rates on any delayed payments should be fair. Well, I disagree. I do not think we should pay any interest at all, and we are not, but what is revealing about this fourth test is the number he himself gave for the fines Britain might face. He said: “Britain could face a…fine of £114,000 a day.” Does he confirm that that is what he said in the article: £114,000 a day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1185.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2014-11-10", "file": "debates2014-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "a42b07a87146b0ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1185.1", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More!", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "tand up for Britain’s interests in Europe, but he gave away billions of pounds of the rebate, he signed us up to billions of pounds of eurozone bail-out, and he still refuses to give the British people a say on our future in Europe. May I suggest to him that he should leave the strong leadership in Europe to us, and he should get on with throwing over the weak leadership in the Labour party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1185.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2014-11-10", "file": "debates2014-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "a42b07a87146b0ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1186.6", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "Can the Chancellor explain why the EU Commissioner said on 27 October that the UK would benefit in any event from the rebate that was due? Also—this is at the heart of the problem—what evidence does the right hon. Gentleman have to suggest to the House, other than in a gross act of deception worthy more of Goebbels than of the British Chancellor of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1186.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-10", "file": "debates2014-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "a42b07a87146b0ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1187.4", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "d apply to the additional demand on the UK’s contributions. Despite the shadow Chancellor’s assertions just now, the Leader of the Opposition said nothing about the rebate two weeks ago; he said nothing until my right hon. Friend actually secured it. Will my right hon. Friend confirm that the rebate will still apply to UK net contributions in future years, as it would have done before?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1187.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-10", "file": "debates2014-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "a42b07a87146b0ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1193.6", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I do not want to discourage members of the Opposition Front-Bench team from taking to the airwaves and criticising their leader, because it is very good. It is only after the event that we hear that they think he is useless. They did not tell us that beforehand. My hon. Friend is right. The Opposition did not raise the issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1193.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-10", "file": "debates2014-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "a42b07a87146b0ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1198.0", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " worked with the other member states to achieve the deal at ECOFIN. We needed the agreement of the other member states on the delay, paying no interest and the permanent change in the rules. It is always good to get lectures from Labour Members about working with and supporting colleagues, so we look forward to the shadow Chancellor’s speech supporting his leader in the next couple of weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1198.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-10", "file": "debates2014-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "a42b07a87146b0ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1201.6", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "The answer is that we are voting on the regulations, which I am sure the hon. Gentleman has studied comprehensively. When he says that he is confused, I find it hard to credit. He is a sophisticated barrister and has served in the House for 31 years and five months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1201.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-10", "file": "debates2014-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "a42b07a87146b0ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1205.1", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Business of the House (Today)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": " be permissible. The points that have been raised on the European arrest warrant will be addressed by the Home Secretary in her speech. I also want to explain to the House why I will not be able to support the Home Secretary in the main debate today. In my capacity as Lord Chancellor I have to speak at the lord mayor’s banquet tonight, and will not be able to take part in that debate.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-10", "file": "debates2014-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "a42b07a87146b0ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1205.4", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Business of the House (Today)", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "ppearing magic trick! One minute the European arrest warrant is there, the next minute it is gone. One minute you see it, the next it disappears. It’s her Paul Daniels act! Unfortunately, she has sent the Justice Secretary to be her glamorous assistant Debbie McGee and to come and present it to the House! She thinks they’ll like it—not a lot, but she thinks they’ll like it!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1205.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-10", "file": "debates2014-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "a42b07a87146b0ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1215.0", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Business of the House (Today)", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "I can see the force of that proposition. If other Members are prepared to exercise a self-denying ordinance and to hear from the Home Secretary, they can do so. It would be normal to allow the shadow Minister, who, in any case, wants to speak if at all only very briefly, to do so. Does the right hon. Gentleman still wish to contribute?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1215.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-10", "file": "debates2014-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "a42b07a87146b0ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1215.0", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Business of the House (Today)", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "d to hear from the Home Secretary, they can do so. It would be normal to allow the shadow Minister, who, in any case, wants to speak if at all only very briefly, to do so. Does the right hon. Gentleman still wish to contribute? [Interruption.] He appears to be exercising a self-denying ordinance and I have a sense that colleagues would like to hear from the Home Secretary in winding up the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1215.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-10", "file": "debates2014-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "a42b07a87146b0ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1215.1", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Business of the House (Today)", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "e and vote on the European arrest warrant. Let me let you into a secret, Mr Speaker: so do we. We would like to vote on the European arrest warrant and to give the Home Secretary our support, and I believe the Liberal Democrats would like to support her, too. We happen to take a view that murderers, child pornographers, bank robbers and fraudsters should be brought to justice in this House —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-10", "file": "debates2014-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "a42b07a87146b0ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1216.1", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Business of the House (Today)", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": " House today. Let us defeat that programme motion, and use the 90 minutes on the 11 measures. Let the Home Secretary go away from this House, listen to what people have said from all parts of the House, bring back a formal motion to debate the other measures, including the European arrest warrant, and let people, such as the right hon. Member for Wokingham who takes a different view from me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-10", "file": "debates2014-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "a42b07a87146b0ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1217.4", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "Business of the House (Today)", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": " clarification in your statement—that the debate we will be having on the motion on the regulations will be wide-ranging and, indeed, will include a debate on the European arrest warrant. I say to Members of the House that it is my intention to speak about the European arrest warrant when that debate takes place. I also say to right hon. and hon. Members that if they vote against this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1217.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-10", "file": "debates2014-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "a42b07a87146b0ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1218.2", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Business of the House (Today)", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "No. The European arrest warrant is not on that list because it does not need to be transposed into legislation, because that has already been done. However, the Government are clear that the vote that will take place on the regulations will be the vote that determines whether or not we opt into these measures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1218.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-10", "file": "debates2014-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "a42b07a87146b0ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1244.1", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Business of the House (Today)", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Come on!”", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": " is not a vote on the European arrest warrant, yet communications to Government Back Benchers were very clear that it was. Let me now give the Home Secretary the opportunity to agree from the Dispatch Box that there will be a vote—an additional vote—on the European arrest warrant before the Rochester and Strood by-election. Let me give way to the Home Secretary so that she can do this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1244.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-10", "file": "debates2014-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "a42b07a87146b0ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1251.1", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "Business of the House (Today)", "cue_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "preceding_text": "Is the Home Secretary saying that, if the House votes to terminate this debate today, she will refuse to have a further debate on the European arrest warrant and the statutory instruments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-10", "file": "debates2014-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "a42b07a87146b0ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1252.0", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Business of the House (Today)", "cue_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "preceding_text": "I am mindful of the fact that my right hon. Friend has stressed the importance of the timetable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1252.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-10", "file": "debates2014-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "a42b07a87146b0ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1258.3", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Business of the House (Today)", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful for your guidance, Mr Speaker. I have been at pains to avoid mentioning anything that might fall outside the motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1258.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-10", "file": "debates2014-11-10b.xml", "sha256": "a42b07a87146b0ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1258.5", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Business of the House (Today)", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "What I would say to the hon. Gentleman is that it is very difficult to interpret the precise will of the House on these matters without notice. I am alert to the argument for closure, which is what he is seeking, but several other Members have been standing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-10b.1258.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-11", "file": "debates2014-11-11c.xml", "sha256": "029068073d5cabfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-11c.1341.3", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "BACKBENCH BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Alan Haselhurst", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Haselhurst", "preceding_text": "n an increase in the value of transactions as more product lines are introduced, some of which are exclusive to that shop. The summer fair in July in Westminster Hall built on the success of last year’s Christmas fair, and the Christmas fair itself will be repeated on 2 December upcoming, with 60 new product lines available. In the matter of encaustic tiles, I owe the House an apology—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-11c.1341.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-17", "file": "debates2014-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c8561f3c591290d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-17a.64.5", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "John McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John McDonnell", "preceding_text": "t week was a choreographed exercise between the Daily Mail and Conservative central office to take a remark I made on the Sunday and publish it on the Thursday in order to detract from the speech made by the leader of the Labour party. If the hon. Lady is concerned, as I am, about women’s issues, she should join me in voting against the closure of women’s refuges and the charges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-17a.64.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-18", "file": "debates2014-11-18b.xml", "sha256": "f6df0eeb330f3ba7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-18b.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "planned. They said they would balance the books by 2015, but the deficit is likely to be £75 billion by then. Stagnant wages and too many low-paid jobs have led to a shortfall in tax receipts, meaning more Government borrowing. With thousands more people reliant on in-work benefits, it emerged last week that the Government have spent £25 billion more than they planned on social security.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-18b.127.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-19", "file": "debates2014-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "f45362b0137ff6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-19a.351.4", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Oh yes you do!”", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "I was just about to say that. I do not want this to sound like self-congratulation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-19a.351.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-19", "file": "debates2014-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "f45362b0137ff6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-19a.371.0", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Carswell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Carswell", "preceding_text": "The motion proposes “That this House endorses” the Government’s application to opt back into the European arrest warrant. We should not do so. Mine is the only party to state unequivocally that we should not do so: there is 100% agreement on this Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-19a.371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-19", "file": "debates2014-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "f45362b0137ff6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-19a.374.1", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Martin Vickers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Vickers", "preceding_text": "ood constitutional arguments and instinctively I tend to support them, but on this occasion, as with everything, it is a question of balance. One of the roles we perform here in this Chamber is to articulate the concerns of those we represent, and on this matter, although I represent an area that is by a large margin Eurosceptic, I am quite certain I am speaking for my constituents, because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-19a.374.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-19", "file": "debates2014-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "f45362b0137ff6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-19a.374.1", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Martin Vickers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Vickers", "preceding_text": "20;We have a sensible package. We have sought to operate in the national interest and to reflect the views of the law enforcement community about what it needs to fight organised crime. I am clear that I do not want, and will not tolerate, the idea of us becoming part of a Europeanised justice system.”—[ Official Report , 7 April 2014; Vol. 579, c. 93 .] I share those views, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-19a.374.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-19", "file": "debates2014-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "f45362b0137ff6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-19a.374.3", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Martin Vickers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Vickers", "preceding_text": "uld mention. It is somewhat bizarre that with this motion, when 500 or so of us are going to troop through the Lobby in favour, they choose their time to highlight their own weaknesses. Their weakness is of course that they have no coherent alternative to the current Government’s economic policies. I reaffirm my opposition to membership of the EU, but I have always taken the view that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-19a.374.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-19", "file": "debates2014-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "f45362b0137ff6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-19a.374.3", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Martin Vickers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Vickers", "preceding_text": "ight their own weaknesses. Their weakness is of course that they have no coherent alternative to the current Government’s economic policies. I reaffirm my opposition to membership of the EU, but I have always taken the view that— [Interruption.] I have always taken the view that while we are a member of that organisation, we should use its structures and powers to benefit this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-19a.374.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-19", "file": "debates2014-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "f45362b0137ff6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-19a.374.3", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Martin Vickers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Vickers", "preceding_text": "policies. I reaffirm my opposition to membership of the EU, but I have always taken the view that— [Interruption.] I have always taken the view that while we are a member of that organisation, we should use its structures and powers to benefit this country. [Interruption.] We may as well say we are not going to accept its money if it wants to give us a grant from the social fund or wherever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-19a.374.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-19", "file": "debates2014-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "f45362b0137ff6d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-19a.374.3", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Martin Vickers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Vickers", "preceding_text": "e social fund or wherever. [Interruption.] My original opposition to the then Common Market and to what has evolved from that has always been one of sovereignty, but I recognise that sovereignty given away by this House can be reclaimed by this House; otherwise there would be no point in discussing a referendum or debating such issues. So on this occasion I support the Government’s decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-19a.374.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-20", "file": "debates2014-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "e26a6da5248af2ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-20b.477.3", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Anne Main", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Main", "preceding_text": "I can get away from it—I can ask the hon. Gentleman to sit down. My constituents are as much in need of services as any other constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-20b.477.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-20", "file": "debates2014-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "e26a6da5248af2ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-20b.481.3", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Alan Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Reid", "preceding_text": "erendum—just before polling day—was that the Barnett formula would continue. I think any reasonable person would interpret that as meaning it would continue as it is. I note that the hon. Gentleman’s party leader made that promise in the run-up to the referendum. I assume that his party leader went through the policy-making procedures of his own party before he made that promise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-20b.481.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-20", "file": "debates2014-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "e26a6da5248af2ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-20b.491.0", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "eing a sop it actually fuelled it. I took part in the Scotland referendum, along with my right hon. Friend the Member for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (Michael Moore) . I went up to Scotland and as an Anglo-Scot—my Douglas family are on the borders of Scotland—I found it a very depressing experience. I believe it has opened Pandora’s box. Reference has been made to the vow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-20b.491.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-20", "file": "debates2014-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "e26a6da5248af2ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-20b.502.2", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "preceding_text": "here he will find an interview between Jeremy Paxman and Alex Salmond from seven years ago. Mr Salmond was asked whether a referendum would be a once-in-a-generation event, or whatever, and he said that the referendum would either be once in a generation or when there was another electoral mandate for one. He was very clear on that. He said that in his view it should be once in a generation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-20b.502.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-21", "file": "debates2014-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "94ea280f954ab5c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-21a.564.1", "colnum": "564", "heading": "NEW MEMBER", "cue_speaker": "Mark Reckless", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Reckless", "preceding_text": "My party believes in the NHS as a service that is free at the point of delivery. My father is a doctor, and my mother is a nurse. That belief is core to my values, and to the values of my party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-21a.564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-21", "file": "debates2014-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "94ea280f954ab5c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-21a.567.1", "colnum": "567", "heading": "NEW MEMBER", "cue_speaker": "Mark Reckless", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Reckless", "preceding_text": " not to have it, and in many areas I would prefer that to be local. My party wants to see health boards elected on a county basis. My party also wants European competition law to be taken out of the NHS, and the Bill is exemplary in that regard. I strongly support that provision. I have signed a pledge on TTIP, along with most other candidates in the by-election, except for the Conservative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-21a.567.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-21", "file": "debates2014-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "94ea280f954ab5c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-21a.573.5", "colnum": "573", "heading": "NEW MEMBER", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "ever be touched by any TTIP treaty. In particular, I commend my hon. Friend for saying that it is about time this House regained full sovereignty over the national health service. They gave it away—the Eurosceptics sitting there on the Government Back Benches—when they mandated open tendering of services. By doing that, they placed the NHS in the full glare of European competition law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-21a.573.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-21", "file": "debates2014-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "94ea280f954ab5c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-21a.574.4", "colnum": "574", "heading": "NEW MEMBER", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I may have inadvertently said that the contract was let, but I do not believe that I did. The true position is that it was the right hon. Gentleman who took the decision to privatise the services in that hospital, and it is wrong for him to seek to deny it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-21a.574.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-21", "file": "debates2014-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "94ea280f954ab5c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-21a.582.0", "colnum": "582", "heading": "NEW MEMBER", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Poulter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Poulter", "preceding_text": "aware of them. In this Conservative-led Government, we are very proud of the contribution that people from all over the world make to our NHS, and I believe that that needs to continue in the future. As we have seen from the hon. Gentleman’s leader, his party makes it up as it goes along on things to do with the NHS. It is in favour of privatisation and does not value the contribution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-21a.582.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-21", "file": "debates2014-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "94ea280f954ab5c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-21a.592.0", "colnum": "592", "heading": "NEW MEMBER", "cue_speaker": "Barbara Keeley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barbara Keeley", "preceding_text": "ing in providing NHS services. We recently looked at what is happening in Stoke and Staffordshire. There have been a few references to that in this debate and I will talk some more about it, but we looked at it under the label of the integrated care pioneers pilot. I want to talk more about that development as an example of just what can happen under this Government’s market framework—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-21a.592.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-26", "file": "debates2014-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "07ef101f60572ffd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-26a.943.1", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": "d out are making our long-term sustainable plan and our economy—this leads to the increase in living standards—so viable. Regaining the lost ground can be achieved only by backing growth in our economy, supporting those who back business and support job creation, and underpinning it with sound public finances and strong business investment. We have a plan in place and it is delivering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-26a.943.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-26", "file": "debates2014-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "07ef101f60572ffd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-26a.965.0", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Birtwistle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Birtwistle", "preceding_text": "s to invest. That is what has been happening over the last four and a half years. Four and a half years ago, the country was basically bankrupt. We cannot turn that round in four and half years—it will take longer. As long as we create the environment to ensure that the turnaround takes place, I am confident that it will happen. Look at my constituency. When I became the MP in Burnley—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-26a.965.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-26", "file": "debates2014-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "07ef101f60572ffd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-26a.965.0", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Birtwistle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Birtwistle", "preceding_text": "nley in 2009 with 46 people. It now employs more than 700 people and is investing £20 million in a brand new factory. Hopefully, it will have 1,500 people by this time next year. It is so confident in the Government’s economic plan that it realises it can afford to invest £20 million of its own money, while giving the whole work force a 15% increase. It is investing for the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-26a.965.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-26", "file": "debates2014-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "07ef101f60572ffd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-26a.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Birtwistle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Birtwistle", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful for that intervention. I am delighted that my hon. Friend’s area is doing so well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-26a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-26", "file": "debates2014-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "07ef101f60572ffd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-26a.967.0", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "William Bain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Bain", "preceding_text": "nomy that will work in this century. This has been a very interesting debate. I was particularly struck by a couple of counter-intuitive contributions from the hon. Member for Watford (Richard Harrington) , who is no longer in his place, and the hon. Member for Winchester (Steve Brine) , who quoted Bill Clinton. I am going to do something counter-intuitive as well, which is to quote Ronald Reagan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-26a.967.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-26", "file": "debates2014-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "07ef101f60572ffd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-26a.986.6", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Crabb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Crabb", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. The shadow Secretary of State has just claimed from the Dispatch Box that I was laughing at the news that the ward in Caerphilly is now the most deprived—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-26a.986.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-26", "file": "debates2014-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "07ef101f60572ffd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-26a.988.6", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "re losing £1,600 a year. That is why Labour will do something about low wages in Wales. We have made it very clear that we will set the national minimum wage at 58% of median earnings by 2020. That will mean a minimum wage of £8 in Wales and will put an extra £2.50 per week in the pockets of working people. It will mean 60 quid a week or £3,000 a year for hard-working families.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-26a.988.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-26", "file": "debates2014-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "07ef101f60572ffd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-26a.995.3", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Crabb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Crabb", "preceding_text": "o ridicule someone’s home just because they had a white van parked outside it and were displaying the flag of St George. The Labour party can no longer with any credibility claim to be the workers’ party. It is the party of the liberal metropolitan elite, that sneers at hard-working people. Today Labour Members should be on their feet championing workers in their constituencies —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-26a.995.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-26", "file": "debates2014-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "07ef101f60572ffd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-26a.1000.9", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Crabb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Crabb", "preceding_text": "nt, and I am delighted to be able to say that inward investment into Wales is on the rise. In the past year in Wales alone, 79 projects have got under way—the highest number for almost 25 years. The 13 years of the last Labour Government did nothing for boosting inward investment in Wales, but I have seen for myself what this Government’s policies have done for inward investment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-26a.1000.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-26", "file": "debates2014-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "07ef101f60572ffd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-26a.1020.1", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Chris Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Evans", "preceding_text": "I must commend the hon. Gentleman for his command of English. That was one of the best insults I have heard in the Chamber. I always liked Eeyore; he was my favourite character in the Winnie the Pooh stories. Success can only pay dividends for so long. In the past four years, unfortunately, we have heard Ministers consistently talk down the Welsh economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-26a.1020.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-11-27", "file": "debates2014-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "99a45afce2c0c66f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-27a.1101.3", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "John Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Robertson", "preceding_text": "May I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman and my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow East (Margaret Curran) on their hard work? I also congratulate the six SNP Members in particular—it must have been very difficult for them to compromise on an area on which they do not usually compromise in any shape or form.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-11-27a.1101.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-01", "file": "debates2014-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "67e17d24610f88a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-01b.12.5", "colnum": "12", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Tristram Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tristram Hunt", "preceding_text": "This is the politics of the status quo. Once upon a time the Prime Minister said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-01b.12.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-01", "file": "debates2014-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "67e17d24610f88a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-01b.51.0", "colnum": "51", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "rpet. The right hon. Gentleman used the word “spin”, but he might like to reflect on the massive harm done to patients when under a Labour Government poor care was covered up by Labour spin—surely it was Labour’s darkest period ever when it came to running the NHS. Government Members have a long-term plan for the economy, and a long-term plan for the NHS. In contrast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-01b.51.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-01", "file": "debates2014-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "67e17d24610f88a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-01b.80.3", "colnum": "80", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Cox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Cox", "preceding_text": "mportant a matter. The tone was cynical and frankly insulting to those of us on the Government Benches who have spent many years of our lives fighting for the rights of individuals in the courts. I should, before I begin, draw the attention of the House to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. I appear in courts, specifically in the administrative court, quite frequently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-01b.80.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-01", "file": "debates2014-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "67e17d24610f88a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-01b.83.0", "colnum": "83", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “The Whips.”", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "ment are trying to shut down that avenue for redress. The Joint Committee on Human Rights has said it sees no evidence to support the Government’s reforms, and neither does Justice, Liberty, JustRights, Human Rights Watch, the Howard League, Redress, Inquest, Mencap, Amnesty International—the list goes on; can anyone report which groups actually support the Government in these changes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-01b.83.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-02", "file": "debates2014-12-02b.xml", "sha256": "be2e93e04a719781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-02b.151.0", "colnum": "151", "heading": "ISIL", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "preceding_text": "The Foreign Secretary has just paid generous tribute to the Department for International Development, and I echo those sentiments. However, he is reported to have recently called the Government’s own commitment to enshrine in law a pledge to spend 0.7% of UK GDP on international aid as “bizarre” when he was thousands of miles away from Westminster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-02b.151.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-02", "file": "debates2014-12-02b.xml", "sha256": "be2e93e04a719781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-02b.157.2", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "tation and opinion, but my last point would be that as far as the public is concerned I think the material is readily accessible and, arguably, as a result of this approach more accessible. Now, to judge by the rather sceptical expression on the right hon. Gentleman’s face, I fear I may have some way to go before persuading him of the merit of our approach. But what I am seeking to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-02b.157.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-02", "file": "debates2014-12-02b.xml", "sha256": "be2e93e04a719781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-02b.244.1", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Overseas Voters (15 Year Rule)", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "When I heard the hon. Gentleman, in his articulate fashion, make that point in an earlier intervention, I felt, frankly, that it was a counsel of despair. If he is saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-02b.244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-02", "file": "debates2014-12-02b.xml", "sha256": "be2e93e04a719781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-02b.244.1", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Overseas Voters (15 Year Rule)", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "When I heard the hon. Gentleman, in his articulate fashion, make that point in an earlier intervention, I felt, frankly, that it was a counsel of despair. If he is saying— [ Interruption. ] Let me give him my answer. If he is saying that the only way to stop terrorism is to bring peace to the middle east, then, frankly, we are never going to stop terrorism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-02b.244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-02", "file": "debates2014-12-02b.xml", "sha256": "be2e93e04a719781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-02b.280.1", "colnum": "280", "heading": "TACKLING CORRUPTION", "cue_speaker": "Karen Bradley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Karen Bradley", "preceding_text": "#8217;s enforcement response to cases of bribery and corruption. That work is ongoing, and Ministers will consider the findings in due course. My hon. Friend raised points regarding Malawi, and I would appreciate it if we could discuss that point further. If he can provide detailed information about individuals who might be involved, or any other information, it would really assist us in our work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-02b.280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-03", "file": "debates2014-12-03c.xml", "sha256": "565a918becc06438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.291.3", "colnum": "291", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Crabb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Crabb", "preceding_text": "I spent two days in north Wales meeting business leaders and local authorities to talk about how we can drive up the quality of infrastructure in north Wales, and I can tell the hon. Gentleman that we have a long-term plan that will deliver the improvements for infrastructure in south Wales and north Wales too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.291.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-03", "file": "debates2014-12-03c.xml", "sha256": "565a918becc06438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.294.5", "colnum": "294", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "What we have done is seen more doctors, more nurses, more patients treated, but if we are on promises, I have a little list. I have a list of the right hon. Gentleman’s promises. Right, here we go. Mr Speaker, he promised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.294.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-03", "file": "debates2014-12-03c.xml", "sha256": "565a918becc06438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.295.1", "colnum": "295", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Yes, I meant it, and 26 million people are having their taxes cut, and 3 million people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-03", "file": "debates2014-12-03c.xml", "sha256": "565a918becc06438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.295.5", "colnum": "295", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "We promised to cut the deficit. It is down by a third. In a moment or two, we will see the progress that has been made. Obviously, I cannot reveal what is in the Chancellor’s autumn statement, as that would not be proper, but I make this prediction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.295.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-03", "file": "debates2014-12-03c.xml", "sha256": "565a918becc06438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.295.7", "colnum": "295", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I simply make this prediction: in a moment or two, the right hon. Gentleman will be looking as awkward as when he ate that bacon sandwich.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.295.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-03", "file": "debates2014-12-03c.xml", "sha256": "565a918becc06438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.295.7", "colnum": "295", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Wrong!”", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ent or two, the right hon. Gentleman will be looking as awkward as when he ate that bacon sandwich. [ Interruption. ] Oh yes! If we are talking about predictions, let us remember the right hon. Gentleman’s predictions. He said that our policy would lead to the disappearance of 1 million jobs—wrong. He said that it was a fantasy that the private sector would create the jobs—wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.295.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-03", "file": "debates2014-12-03c.xml", "sha256": "565a918becc06438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.295.7", "colnum": "295", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Wrong!”", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ndwich. [ Interruption. ] Oh yes! If we are talking about predictions, let us remember the right hon. Gentleman’s predictions. He said that our policy would lead to the disappearance of 1 million jobs—wrong. He said that it was a fantasy that the private sector would create the jobs—wrong. [Hon. Members: “Wrong!”] He said that we would choke off jobs and growth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.295.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-03", "file": "debates2014-12-03c.xml", "sha256": "565a918becc06438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.298.3", "colnum": "298", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "This Government have had to borrow a lot of money because we inherited the biggest budget deficit in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.298.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-03", "file": "debates2014-12-03c.xml", "sha256": "565a918becc06438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.298.3", "colnum": "298", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "n we came to government. We have already cut it by a third, and we will hear in a moment or two how we are now getting on. I would like to highlight something the shadow Chancellor said this week. He said that he would be tough on the deficit and tough on the causes of the deficit. As he is one of the causes of the deficit, I think we have just found the first ever example of political masosadism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.298.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-03", "file": "debates2014-12-03c.xml", "sha256": "565a918becc06438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.298.5", "colnum": "298", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "preceding_text": "Thank you very much, Mr Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.298.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-03", "file": "debates2014-12-03c.xml", "sha256": "565a918becc06438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.299.0", "colnum": "299", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I look forward to the opportunity of visiting Shrewsbury if I can. Let me be clear: I meant to say, “masochism”. I am sorry, Mr Speaker. Normally I say that the shadow Chancellor likes to dish it out but can’t take it, but after this quote I think he obviously quite likes taking it as well. So there we are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.299.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-03", "file": "debates2014-12-03c.xml", "sha256": "565a918becc06438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "eeks that I would have to announce today that the deficit was rising and that borrowing this year would be higher than last year. We discover today—I am afraid not for the first time—that their predictions are wrong: the deficit is falling this year and every year, and, not only that, but in the final four years of the forecast, borrowing is actually lower than predicted in the Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-03", "file": "debates2014-12-03c.xml", "sha256": "565a918becc06438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " year. We discover today—I am afraid not for the first time—that their predictions are wrong: the deficit is falling this year and every year, and, not only that, but in the final four years of the forecast, borrowing is actually lower than predicted in the Budget. [Interruption.] The Office for National Statistics has made revisions to the way the national accounts are measured—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-03", "file": "debates2014-12-03c.xml", "sha256": "565a918becc06438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "borrowing is actually lower than predicted in the Budget. [Interruption.] The Office for National Statistics has made revisions to the way the national accounts are measured— [Interruption.]— and one of the advantages of having created an independent OBR is that it has ensured that the figures presented today are comparable on a like-for-like basis with the forecast made in the Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-03", "file": "debates2014-12-03c.xml", "sha256": "565a918becc06438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " on a like-for-like basis with the forecast made in the Budget. [Interruption.] On this revised basis, the forecast at the Budget would have shown borrowing falling from the £150 billion we inherited to £99.3 billion last year, £86.4 billion this year, £68.3 billion next year, then £41.5 billion, £15.8 billion, and then a small surplus of £3.7 billion in 2018-19.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-03", "file": "debates2014-12-03c.xml", "sha256": "565a918becc06438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "ade in the Budget. [Interruption.] On this revised basis, the forecast at the Budget would have shown borrowing falling from the £150 billion we inherited to £99.3 billion last year, £86.4 billion this year, £68.3 billion next year, then £41.5 billion, £15.8 billion, and then a small surplus of £3.7 billion in 2018-19. [Interruption.] That is the Budget forecast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-03", "file": "debates2014-12-03c.xml", "sha256": "565a918becc06438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "217;s forecast shows borrowing falling from £97.5 billion last year to £91.3 billion this year, then £75.9 billion next year, then £40.9 billion, £14.5 billion, and then a surplus of £4 billion in 2018-19. So borrowing falls every year. It falls slightly less than expected in the first two years, but then falls slightly more than expected in the four years after that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.305.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-03", "file": "debates2014-12-03c.xml", "sha256": "565a918becc06438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.307.1", "colnum": "307", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " allowance to £10,000. Next year, the tax-free personal allowance, which was set to rise to £10,500, will rise instead to £10,600. That is a total wage boost for working people of £825 a year. It means that 3.5 million of the lowest paid will now be taken out of tax altogether. That shows that we on the Government Benches do not sneer at people who want to work hard and get on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.307.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-03", "file": "debates2014-12-03c.xml", "sha256": "565a918becc06438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.317.3", "colnum": "317", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I made it clear that the Chancellor must be heard with courtesy and the same goes for the shadow Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.317.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-03", "file": "debates2014-12-03c.xml", "sha256": "565a918becc06438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.317.4", "colnum": "317", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": " the OBR’s analysis? Will he tell us how much tax revenue has been lost this year because of stagnating wages and forced part-time employment? The result of that shortfall in tax revenues is that, once again, the Chancellor has had to revise up his forecasts for Government borrowing. He told the House today that the deficit for this fiscal year is now expected to be £91.3 billion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.317.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-03", "file": "debates2014-12-03c.xml", "sha256": "565a918becc06438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.318.1", "colnum": "318", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "t to fall, but to rise? While he has clearly missed his targets, he did not tell us the scale by which he has missed them. How much more will he have borrowed in this Parliament than he planned back in 2010? Wages, income and borrowing have been hit so hard because productivity growth has been so weak. Today the Chancellor announced that he is forecasting that growth will not accelerate but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-03", "file": "debates2014-12-03c.xml", "sha256": "565a918becc06438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.318.1", "colnum": "318", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": " ’20s. On infrastructure, for all the Chancellor’s preheated re-announcements, barely a fifth of projects are in construction, and infrastructure output is down over 11% since 2010. On business rates, the research and development tax credit and air passenger duty, we welcome the action that the Chancellor has taken. We will support what he has proposed on APD, but let me ask him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-03", "file": "debates2014-12-03c.xml", "sha256": "565a918becc06438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.329.5", "colnum": "329", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Eric Ollerenshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Ollerenshaw", "preceding_text": "If we are to have a shale gas industry, I welcome the idea of a sovereign wealth fund. Does the Chancellor agree that northern money for northern investment could be a real game changer? When he sets up the fund, will he take into account the fact that it looks as though the majority of the gas will come from Lancashire, not Yorkshire?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.329.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-03", "file": "debates2014-12-03c.xml", "sha256": "565a918becc06438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.334.1", "colnum": "334", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right. It is a major reform of stamp duty that gets rid of the very distorting slab system. The current stamp duty system has attracted huge criticism from all sorts of groups, including property websites, those who help people to move home and, of course, home buyers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-03", "file": "debates2014-12-03c.xml", "sha256": "565a918becc06438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.341.1", "colnum": "341", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady neglected to say that in her constituency unemployment has fallen by 17%—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-03", "file": "debates2014-12-03c.xml", "sha256": "565a918becc06438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.346.9", "colnum": "346", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "The stamp duty changes must be introduced with immediate effect today because otherwise transactions in the housing market would stop as people waited for them. Given that 98% of home buyers will see a tax reduction, that would freeze quite a large part of the market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.346.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-03", "file": "debates2014-12-03c.xml", "sha256": "565a918becc06438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.348.2", "colnum": "348", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "Yes, I will. When it comes to these Pacer trains—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.348.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-03", "file": "debates2014-12-03c.xml", "sha256": "565a918becc06438", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.394.0", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cathy Jamieson", "preceding_text": " fair share of time, he would keep me on track. I thank the Clerks in the Public Bill Office for their drafting advice and the role they played in ensuring that amendments were tabled in the appropriate manner. I also thank Library staff, who were excellent as always; they efficiently answered all my questions and responded to all my additional requests for information. I thank the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-03c.394.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-04", "file": "debates2014-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "cf0c336c09c65e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-04a.410.6", "colnum": "410", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Lilian Greenwood", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Lilian Greenwood", "preceding_text": " “encouraged” to buy new trains. Yet another study for the south-west was announced, shunting the issue further down the line. He also promised to put the “great” back into the Great Eastern main line, but not a penny of new investment was announced for East Anglia’s railways. Is it not the case that across the country this Government are taking passengers for a ride?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-04a.410.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-04", "file": "debates2014-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "cf0c336c09c65e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-04a.429.0", "colnum": "429", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "ew on the World at One a few weeks ago, which bears revisiting. He said: “The state that the Labour party is in right now is we are in a dreadful position.” It is commendable honesty. That was only the beginning, because he went on to say that the Opposition have “got to be honest about ourselves…The electorate looks at us and has no idea what our polices are.”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-04a.429.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-04", "file": "debates2014-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "cf0c336c09c65e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-04a.444.0", "colnum": "444", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Gregg McClymont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregg McClymont", "preceding_text": ", to the progress of universal credit. Will the Minister comment on that? The context of the statement is that the Government have been forced to borrow much more than they believed they would have to borrow. Their failing economic policy means that those in most need are paying the price. The Minister trumpets the increases to pensioner benefits and the state pension, but let us not forget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-04a.444.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-04", "file": "debates2014-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "cf0c336c09c65e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-04a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “No.”", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call the Minister to move the motion. Is the Minister not present?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-04a.450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-04", "file": "debates2014-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "cf0c336c09c65e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-04a.454.2", "colnum": "454", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Thomas Docherty", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr Speaker. As far as I can see, no Minister is present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-04a.454.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-04", "file": "debates2014-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "cf0c336c09c65e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-04a.457.0", "colnum": "457", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "The answer is that the hon. Lady would need the leave of the House to proceed in that way, but my strong sense is that the leave of the House would be forthcoming.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-04a.457.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-04", "file": "debates2014-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "cf0c336c09c65e4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-04a.457.0", "colnum": "457", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "The answer is that the hon. Lady would need the leave of the House to proceed in that way, but my strong sense is that the leave of the House would be forthcoming. [Interruption.] I am in receipt of intelligence on this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-04a.457.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-08", "file": "debates2014-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "faa1ad5b3b400a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-08b.632.2", "colnum": "632", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "Of course local government has had to play its part in the savings, but local authorities can make choices. My local authority in Gloucestershire has protected the value of social care because it thinks that protecting older people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-08b.632.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-08", "file": "debates2014-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "faa1ad5b3b400a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-08b.632.2", "colnum": "632", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "Of course local government has had to play its part in the savings, but local authorities can make choices. My local authority in Gloucestershire has protected the value of social care because it thinks that protecting older people— [Interruption.] No, my local authority has faced cuts, like all local authorities, but it has chosen to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-08b.632.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-08", "file": "debates2014-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "faa1ad5b3b400a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-08b.650.2", "colnum": "650", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "I must inform the House that I have selected amendment (b)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-08b.650.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-08", "file": "debates2014-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "faa1ad5b3b400a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-08b.655.1", "colnum": "655", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “What sort?”", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "at the Government have instructed the Highways Agency to look at the impact that all new road schemes will have on the interests of cyclists. That had not been done previously. On the particular point, because I never want to neglect the opportunity or waste the chance of an interface with the hon. Gentleman, I would be delighted to invite him to my Department for a cup of tea and a biscuit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-08b.655.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-08", "file": "debates2014-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "faa1ad5b3b400a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-08b.657.3", "colnum": "657", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “They are now.”", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": " rather than having first to transfer it back to the parent Department. This measure will once again reduce bureaucracy in the transfer of land, meaning that disused Government-owned land can be brought to the market more quickly to build homes and improve communities. As you know, Mr Speaker, the Government are committed to England’s public forest estate remaining in public ownership—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-08b.657.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-08", "file": "debates2014-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "faa1ad5b3b400a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-08b.729.2", "colnum": "729", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "David Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Morris", "preceding_text": "he area. My constituents know only too well the benefits of infrastructure to our local economy. No area in the country should be left to stand still, and I welcome the Government’s ambitions for a northern powerhouse. My constituents welcome the Chancellor’s vision, because they believe that too many of our past Governments’ policies have benefited only the south of our country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-08b.729.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-09", "file": "debates2014-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "5ce66fc36449f49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-09a.761.3", "colnum": "761", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "Our plans do not require us to raise taxes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-09a.761.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-09", "file": "debates2014-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "5ce66fc36449f49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-09a.762.0", "colnum": "762", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Charlie Elphicke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charlie Elphicke", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that non-oil corporation tax receipts have risen 16% over the course of this Parliament so far, compared with a rise of just 8% over the entirety of the previous 13 years? Does that not show that if you cut the rate, you up the take?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-09a.762.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-09", "file": "debates2014-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "5ce66fc36449f49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-09a.771.1", "colnum": "771", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "preceding_text": "out balancing the books, but in fact what they are talking about is borrowing more once their current budget is in surplus, and that is a complete fabrication, because what the Opposition need to recognise is that the only way to return this country to prosperity is not just to deal with the massive debt left by Labour but also to get our economy back into long-term growth and long-term surpluses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-09a.771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-09", "file": "debates2014-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "5ce66fc36449f49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-09a.816.2", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Funeral Services", "cue_speaker": "George Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Howarth", "preceding_text": "alist. There are thousands and thousands of people online who would consider themselves journalists but who may well have ulterior motives or connections with a terrorist community or with people plotting terrorism. As a matter of principle, I think my hon. Friend is right, but we need to find proper ways to make sure that exceptions to the rule are governed under the same rules as everybody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-09a.816.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-09", "file": "debates2014-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "5ce66fc36449f49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-09a.820.0", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Funeral Services", "cue_speaker": "Mark Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Field", "preceding_text": "roud of the traditions of a free press in this country. The hon. Gentleman has not yet answered on the extent of journalism. I accept that new clause 1(6) is not exhaustive, but he has not mentioned religious counsellors, whom many would consider to have a similar duty of care. Does the hon. Gentleman have any thoughts on that, though I accept that he has not made an exhaustive list at this stage?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-09a.820.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-10", "file": "debates2014-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "90bf0d7c4095c1ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-10a.866.3", "colnum": "866", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "k that the British people are going to trust her and her party on the economy? Of course not. Manufacturing jobs were destroyed three times faster under Labour than they were under Margaret Thatcher. This was the party— [Interruption.] In fact, the shadow Health Secretary, sitting there demurely, is the only man in England who has ever privatised an NHS hospital, and they dare to lecture us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-10a.866.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-10", "file": "debates2014-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "90bf0d7c4095c1ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-10a.875.1", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Gregg McClymont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregg McClymont", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Is it in order for the Deputy Prime Minister to make claims about an issue as important as pensioner poverty and not back them up with any facts whatsoever? If he has inadvertently misled the House, should he not withdraw those claims?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-10a.875.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-10", "file": "debates2014-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "90bf0d7c4095c1ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-10a.886.3", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Resettlement of Vulnerable Syrian Refugees", "cue_speaker": "James Brokenshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Brokenshire", "preceding_text": "irst two months, which was rapid given the significant needs of so many of the people involved. Many have medical needs and have suffered huge trauma, and the arrangements have been implemented appropriately to ensure that we provide them with the help that they need when they arrive. They do not simply arrive here and then wait for assistance; there is wrap-around care when they arrive in the UK.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-10a.886.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-10", "file": "debates2014-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "90bf0d7c4095c1ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-10a.927.1", "colnum": "927", "heading": "WALES BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO.3)", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "to illustrate why he thinks we should do so—he talked repeatedly about accountability and responsibility—but I must say that none of them was quite as blunt and honest as the rationale he gave to the Institute of Welsh Affairs a few weeks ago. He said clearly that his objective in providing the tax varying powers was to “end the politics of the begging bowl in Wales”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-10a.927.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-10", "file": "debates2014-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "90bf0d7c4095c1ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-10a.931.1", "colnum": "931", "heading": "WALES BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO.3)", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "se performance in terms of corporate and income tax receipts across the UK as a result of the low- wage, deeply insecure, second-rate economy that the Tory Government are building. Wales has been particularly ill served by what has happened because of the additional fragilities of our economy due to our industrial heritage and the preponderance of low-wage jobs in Wales. The reality is that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-10a.931.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-10", "file": "debates2014-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "90bf0d7c4095c1ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-10a.936.4", "colnum": "936", "heading": "WALES BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO.3)", "cue_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "preceding_text": " UKIP Assembly Members and a regional list? Oh, there is such a prospect; well there we are. What prospect is there of a newly emerging rainbow alliance—perhaps a very unfortunate rainbow with not a crock of gold but a crock of something much more unpleasant at the bottom of it, which will generate a cynical, unfair tax proposition that will lead us back into the dark ages? That is possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-10a.936.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-11", "file": "debates2014-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "e5449b4e69927ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-11a.976.3", "colnum": "976", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "David Rutley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Oh!”", "preceding_speaker": "David Rutley", "preceding_text": "I welcome the announcement that funds will be provided to ensure that the path is completed by 2020. As co-chair of the mountaineering all-party parliamentary group, the pinnacle of APPGs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-11a.976.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-11", "file": "debates2014-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "e5449b4e69927ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-11a.1001.4", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "The norms regarding the laying of money resolutions for Bills that have secured a Second Reading do not currently apply. Yes, what the hon. Gentleman describes was the norm in the past, but that norm predated the coalition Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-11a.1001.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-11", "file": "debates2014-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "e5449b4e69927ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-11a.1010.0", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Frank Doran", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Oh!”", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Doran", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is right, but we have not had a dedicated female Fisheries Minister. I am not sure if that is a job for a woman, although the hon. Lady might reach that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-11a.1010.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-11", "file": "debates2014-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "e5449b4e69927ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-11a.1023.0", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "unities too, no matter how fantastic the contributions have been from hon. Members across the House. We need to re-establish the connection between our fishing industry and fishing communities, and the wider population. Frankly, fish do not come pre-packed in Tesco, Morrisons, Waitrose, Lidl and so on—I do not want to get into trouble with anybody for not mentioning a particular supermarket.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-11a.1023.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-11", "file": "debates2014-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "e5449b4e69927ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-11a.1034.1", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Iain Wright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Wright", "preceding_text": " hon. Member for Waveney mentioned, and which requires member states to use transparent and objective criteria, including those of an environmental, social and economic nature, when allocating fishing opportunities? Article 17 should move the quota system away from a method based on what was caught before and away from a system that disproportionately favours those who caught the most in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-11a.1034.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-11", "file": "debates2014-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "e5449b4e69927ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-11a.1073.0", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "It is 33 years since I first met my hon. Friend the Member for Gainsborough (Sir Edward Leigh) , and it is a real pleasure to sit beside him in the Chamber today and listen to his very sensible remarks about a situation that might see him classified as a bit of a peacenik.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-11a.1073.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-11", "file": "debates2014-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "e5449b4e69927ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-11a.1073.0", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": " with his view of the condemnation-worthy activities that Russia is carrying out. However, I do not agree with saying that if Russia gets its way in Ukraine and in places such as Moldova and Georgia, then its next step will be to threaten the Baltic states, because we must not lump these things together. NATO membership must never be offered glibly, lightly, or without thought of the consequences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-11a.1073.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-15", "file": "debates2014-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ee7f1fecc27183b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-15a.1110.9", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Brandon Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brandon Lewis", "preceding_text": "As before, I am sure there was a question in there somewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-15a.1110.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-15", "file": "debates2014-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ee7f1fecc27183b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-15a.1113.3", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "preceding_text": "If I can answer that question and remain in order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-15a.1113.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-15", "file": "debates2014-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ee7f1fecc27183b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-15a.1118.0", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "preceding_text": "illiams report. We are putting in place protections that firefighters have not had before, including for those on the 2006 scheme, which requires them to work until 60. They are entitled to ill health retirement, as before, on an enhanced basis. Those who are unable to retain their fitness as they age—this is specifically for older workers—will get another role or an unreduced pension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-15a.1118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-15", "file": "debates2014-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ee7f1fecc27183b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-15a.1149.0", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "business of the house (today)", "cue_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "preceding_text": "No, the House should be clear that no alternative scheme is available. If the regulations were revoked, a new scheme would have to be designed and consulted on and then introduced in April, and there is very little time to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-15a.1149.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-15", "file": "debates2014-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ee7f1fecc27183b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-15a.1150.2", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "business of the house (today)", "cue_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Give way!", "preceding_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "preceding_text": "n the coming years. Firefighters are not immune to those longevity increases, and the average firefighter retiring aged 50 today after a 30-year career is expected to live and draw a pension for 37 years in retirement. It should come as no surprise to any Member of this House that a pension scheme in which the average member spends 25% more time in retirement than in employment is not sustainable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-15a.1150.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-15", "file": "debates2014-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ee7f1fecc27183b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-15a.1150.2", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "business of the house (today)", "cue_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "preceding_text": " some progress. That is why one of this Government’s first acts was to ask Lord Hutton to chair the independent public service pensions commission and undertake a fundamental review of the structure of public service pension provision. Lord Hutton was clear in his report that the status quo was not tenable, and he proposed that a normal pension age for firefighters should be set at 60—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-15a.1150.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-15", "file": "debates2014-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ee7f1fecc27183b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-15a.1150.4", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "business of the house (today)", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady will appreciate that that is not a point of order for the Chair; it is a contribution to the debate, and I am sure that the Minister will put her view or correct the record if she wishes in due course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-15a.1150.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-15", "file": "debates2014-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ee7f1fecc27183b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-15a.1152.0", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "business of the house (today)", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "That is not a point of order. The Member who has the floor can answer interventions as he or she wishes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-15a.1152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-15", "file": "debates2014-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ee7f1fecc27183b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-15a.1155.3", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "business of the house (today)", "cue_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "preceding_text": "calculated that using the actual earnings and inflation figures between September 2008 and September 2012 to set the factors would result in an early retirement reduction of about 27% at age 55 under active factors. This compares with the early retirement reduction of 21.8% under the 2015 scheme regulations—a massive improvement, of course, and almost half of what the 2006 scheme introduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-15a.1155.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-15", "file": "debates2014-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ee7f1fecc27183b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-15a.1155.5", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "business of the house (today)", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "Order. The Minister is not giving way. Members must allow her—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-15a.1155.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-15", "file": "debates2014-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ee7f1fecc27183b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-15a.1167.0", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "business of the house (today)", "cue_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "preceding_text": "I am very happy to give those assurances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-15a.1167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-15", "file": "debates2014-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ee7f1fecc27183b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-15a.1173.8", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "business of the house (today)", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "t is why it is important that we look at the new clauses and amendments before us in what will be, I hope, a positive discussion and debate. The Government believe there is a need to legislate on counter-terrorism. There is a terrorism threat in the United Kingdom: on 29 August the independent joint terrorism analysis centre raised the UK national terrorist threat level from substantial to severe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-15a.1173.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-15", "file": "debates2014-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ee7f1fecc27183b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-15a.1213.0", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "business of the house (today)", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "he powers in the Bill.” I could have turned the television on at any time in the past month and seen the names of individuals that we know have travelled abroad—individuals that are publicly travelling abroad and that relatives have said have travelled abroad. It is quite possible for the Home Secretary not to make these two possibilities mutually exclusive. The issue is simply —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-15a.1213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-16", "file": "debates2014-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ad2d50d3644e517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-16a.1265.1", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "enting constituencies outside England may vote on legislation that does not affect their constituents, while English MPs are not able to influence these policies in other nations where they are devolved. Both coalition parties believe that this so-called West Lothian question needs to be addressed and have put forward their proposals in the Command Paper. The Liberal Democrat party believes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-16a.1265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-16", "file": "debates2014-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ad2d50d3644e517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-16a.1266.1", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": " Parliament on devolved matters. The key advantage of this proposal is that it would give English, or English and Welsh, MPs a crucial say over the content of legislation and a secure veto over its passing while not excluding other MPs from its consideration in the full House of Commons. The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats invite comment and views on all the options in the Command Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-16a.1266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-16", "file": "debates2014-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ad2d50d3644e517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-16a.1275.0", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “You did last night.”", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "The Leader of the House will of course know that the Scottish National party does not vote on English-only issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-16a.1275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-16", "file": "debates2014-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ad2d50d3644e517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-16a.1275.1", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "I respect the fact that the Scottish National party does not usually vote on such issues, although I think that it breaks that self-imposed rule now and again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-16a.1275.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-16", "file": "debates2014-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ad2d50d3644e517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-16a.1284.2", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "The answer is that Members of the other House are not elected representatives of any particular part of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-16a.1284.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-16", "file": "debates2014-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ad2d50d3644e517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-16a.1295.5", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. We set great store by credit unions. As he knows, we have invested about £38 million in the credit union expansion project. Previous Government interventions in this space were well-meaning but did not create a new sustainability for the credit union movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-16a.1295.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-16", "file": "debates2014-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ad2d50d3644e517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-16a.1311.1", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "use 21—if there is a duty to prevent people being drawn into terrorism we will have to challenge the ideology. If it is implicit, what is wrong with making it explicit? The Prime Minister has said time and again—in his Munich speech, for example, and in his speech in Canberra—that this is a long-term generational struggle. It therefore ought to be explicit within the legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-16a.1311.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-17", "file": "debates2014-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "17ef349bfde179aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1393.0", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "We are aware of those serious allegations. I expect SOCO, as a British-listed company, to adhere to the highest standards. In June this year, SOCO and the WWF announced that it would complete their existing programme of work at Virunga and then not undertake or commission exploratory or other drilling within the national park unless UNESCO and the Government of the DRC agreed to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1393.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-17", "file": "debates2014-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "17ef349bfde179aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1393.5", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "Government were represented by the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. I should also like to update the House. Since Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines last year, we have done a huge amount of work with the Government there, and that is one of the reasons that they were better prepared to cope with the storm that came in recently. I am proud of the work that our DFID staff have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1393.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-17", "file": "debates2014-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "17ef349bfde179aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1414.6", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Money!”", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "e have had in this case. I agree with what was said by my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Rushcliffe (Mr Clarke) , and I share the sense of shock that I think the whole House feels about the people who made up such shocking lies about our armed forces. It is good that the forces have been cleared, but is there any indication of what the motivation was? Was it hostility to our country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1414.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-17", "file": "debates2014-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "17ef349bfde179aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1421.2", "colnum": "1421", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": ", I intend no discourtesy to him, but he was in my view—and I have to make the judgment, not he—taking too long to get to the gravamen of his question. I say very kindly to him that he ought not immediately to think, “Where did the Chair go wrong?” but perhaps to think, “Where did I go wrong and how might I do better?” But of course I will happily see him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1421.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-17", "file": "debates2014-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "17ef349bfde179aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1422.3", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman will be aware that I cannot know what he is about to say, but I should like to establish this point. I hope that he is not seeking to use the device of a point of order to say what he would have said if he had gone ahead in the way that I was advised he should not do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1422.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-17", "file": "debates2014-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "17ef349bfde179aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1422.5", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Speaker", "preceding_text": "is within the power of the House to grant, and it is hard to see how that requirement could be satisfied when the matter in question is actively before the courts. In these circumstances, I have taken the view that a petition should not be received. The hon. Member for Birmingham, Yardley might wish to take this matter up with the Procedure Committee, of which he is a distinguished ornament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1422.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-17", "file": "debates2014-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "17ef349bfde179aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1433.0", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Several hon. Members", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Several hon. Members", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1433.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-17", "file": "debates2014-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "17ef349bfde179aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1433.1", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "Have you got something to say, Mr de Bois?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-17", "file": "debates2014-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "17ef349bfde179aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1434.1", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "No, I will not. I have barely started my speech, and I want to make sure that I finish in the 20 minutes or so that the occupant of the Chair indicated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-17", "file": "debates2014-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "17ef349bfde179aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1435.1", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "hould share all of it. Trading individual cases and trying to politicise them is not the right thing to do; we should discuss the policy. I could cite a number of cases where the spare room subsidy has led to a positive position for someone’s housing, but that is not a very sensible way of proceeding. If one is going to lay out a case, one should lay it out in full and not mislead the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-17", "file": "debates2014-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "17ef349bfde179aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1438.5", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "f those affected and unemployed had looked for a job, and one in five of them intended to plan to earn more. It was alleged that the change would move people into poverty. In fact, the figures show that thousands of those affected have moved into work. Despite the Opposition’s scaremongering about evictions and arrears, the evidence has been to the contrary. The latest statistics show—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1438.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-17", "file": "debates2014-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "17ef349bfde179aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1443.3", "colnum": "1443", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kwasi Kwarteng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kwasi Kwarteng", "preceding_text": "e. Each and every one of those reforms and attempts to reduce expenditure have been opposed by the Labour party. It is well and truly said that Labour is the party of welfare: by my estimate, it has opposed £83 billion of welfare spending savings this Parliament. Under the previous Government it was notorious and a scandal that the maximum housing benefit award was £104,000 a year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1443.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-17", "file": "debates2014-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "17ef349bfde179aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1444.1", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kwasi Kwarteng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kwasi Kwarteng", "preceding_text": "gree on—and the general public agree—is that reform in this crucial area was needed. Neither of the interventions that I have taken addressed the fact that there is massive overcrowding, and that a quarter of a million families are living in accommodation that is physically too small for them. In such a situation, surely it is common sense to try to equalise and rationalise the supply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-17", "file": "debates2014-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "17ef349bfde179aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1448.6", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Robertson", "preceding_text": "The one thing we know about Ministers, who are having a wee chat among themselves, is that they do not listen to anybody. That is the problem with the Government. They sit and have their little chats because they are bored of the common people in the Opposition trying to help them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1448.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-17", "file": "debates2014-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "17ef349bfde179aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1449.1", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Robertson", "preceding_text": "The Minister is right, except for one thing: it was thanks to the Labour party north of the border frightening the Scottish Government into it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-17", "file": "debates2014-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "17ef349bfde179aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1449.1", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Robertson", "preceding_text": " cannot come and stay, even to look after him when he is not well. That is due to this Tory-led Government—make no mistake about that. It is the Tories who have done this. I know the Minister said he did not want to hear about cases, but I will mention another one. I know why he does not want to hear about cases: because they are about real people, people we care about but they do not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-17", "file": "debates2014-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "17ef349bfde179aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1458.1", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Eilidh Whiteford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eilidh Whiteford", "preceding_text": "I did not say that Labour Members did not vote against the bedroom tax; I was talking about what was alleged in the report in The Guardian on 25 October . If that is true, it is a shocking indictment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1458.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-17", "file": "debates2014-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "17ef349bfde179aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1461.2", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "preceding_text": "Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1461.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-17", "file": "debates2014-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "17ef349bfde179aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1465.0", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kate Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kate Green", "preceding_text": "pernicious tax. Most have lost £14 a week, or a total of £1,260 to date. People under-occupying by two or more rooms have lost considerably more—£25 a week—and disabled people, who also lose £14 a week, have so far lost a total of £415.8 million as a result of the bedroom tax. That is a disgraceful hit on disabled people and their households. As a result—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1465.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-17", "file": "debates2014-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "17ef349bfde179aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1467.0", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "enants. Utterly incoherent. The third thing I waited for in the hon. Lady’s speech—just like her leader who forgot the deficit, she forgot to say how Labour would pay for this policy—was a word that never passed her lips: overcrowding. She did not mention the plight of overcrowded people once, and we heard case studies of people affected by these measures during the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1467.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-17", "file": "debates2014-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "17ef349bfde179aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1469.4", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Robertson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I wonder whether you could protect this Back Bencher from a Minister making a statement that I never made. I never said we were the worst area of all. I said we were one of the worst. That is completely different.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1469.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-17", "file": "debates2014-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "17ef349bfde179aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1480.1", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Welcome!”", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": "e for all working parents of three and four year olds. I welcome the Minister for Civil Society to his place in what is, I think, his first debate from the Front Bench, but I note that the Environment Secretary is not taking part in this debate. She transferred a question about food poisoning away from her Department just this week. She does not want to talk about food aid today, but she is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-17", "file": "debates2014-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "17ef349bfde179aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1487.0", "colnum": "1487", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for his very reasonable point. Of course, I have no responsibility for the actions of the Government, but I am quite sure that those on the Treasury Bench will have heard what he has said. If it is indeed the case that something that should have been reported first to the House has been published elsewhere, I am sure that Mr Speaker will take a very dim view of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1487.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-17", "file": "debates2014-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "17ef349bfde179aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1489.0", "colnum": "1489", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "Order. Five people are standing and shouting at the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1489.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-17", "file": "debates2014-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "17ef349bfde179aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1492.0", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Rob Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Rob Wilson", "preceding_text": "We are taking action to help hard-working families with food costs. For example, all infant children in England’s state schools are now entitled to a free meal at school every school day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1492.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-17", "file": "debates2014-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "17ef349bfde179aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1494.0", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Morris", "preceding_text": "It is a pleasure to speak under your guidance, Mr Speaker. Not one person in this Chamber got into Parliament to make people’s lives a misery and not one person in this Chamber agrees that people should be hungry out there on our streets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1494.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-17", "file": "debates2014-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "17ef349bfde179aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1494.0", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Morris", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “What amendment?”", "preceding_speaker": "David Morris", "preceding_text": "s Chamber got into Parliament to make people’s lives a misery and not one person in this Chamber agrees that people should be hungry out there on our streets. [ Interruption. ] Millions should not be hungry, as has been said. What I want to question is the validity of the amendment. I have e-mails from the chief executive of the Trussell Trust telling me that he does not have any valid data.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1494.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-17", "file": "debates2014-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "17ef349bfde179aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1494.0", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Morris", "preceding_text": " a misery and not one person in this Chamber agrees that people should be hungry out there on our streets. [ Interruption. ] Millions should not be hungry, as has been said. What I want to question is the validity of the amendment. I have e-mails from the chief executive of the Trussell Trust telling me that he does not have any valid data. [Hon. Members: “What amendment?”] The motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1494.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-17", "file": "debates2014-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "17ef349bfde179aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1504.1", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Hemming", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hemming", "preceding_text": "One aspect of that is that people such as myself who were unable to refer anyone to a food bank before can now do so. I have always seen people in a state of crisis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-17", "file": "debates2014-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "17ef349bfde179aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1517.3", "colnum": "1517", "heading": "Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "preceding_text": "We have all met members of the Trussell Trust. The Secretary of State refused to meet the chairman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-17b.1517.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-18", "file": "debates2014-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "ceb97c8473732662", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-18a.1546.2", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Invidious!”", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right that we need investment in our energy infrastructure, including gas-powered fire stations. The capacity market auction on which many of those investment decisions will be made is under way this week and is continuing today to get the best possible value for money for energy consumers. It would be insidious of me to comment on an auction while it is under way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-18a.1546.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-18", "file": "debates2014-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "ceb97c8473732662", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-18a.1554.0", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": " there are fears that things will get worse when the House is in recess. Given that, it should not be for me to drag the Secretary of State here today to explain what he is doing to prevent a full winter crisis in the NHS. The question he did not answer, but must answer today, is this: does he have a winter plan? If he does, will he publish it? People working in the NHS need to know what is in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-18a.1554.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-18", "file": "debates2014-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "ceb97c8473732662", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-18a.1555.0", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": " just to the £400 million, but the extra £300 million that was agreed in September and allocated through October. That is a record amount. Let us consider what is happening in his own constituency. In Wigan borough, since 2010, because of spending that he opposed, Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust has taken on 78 more doctors, 149 more nurses and 209 more clinical—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-18a.1555.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-18", "file": "debates2014-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "ceb97c8473732662", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-18a.1575.2", "colnum": "1575", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "l be on Wednesday 18 March . May I take this opportunity to wish you, Mr Speaker, and all right hon. and hon. Members a very merry Christmas? I am sure that the whole House will join me in recognising the outstanding work that goes on to support the House throughout the year. I thank all staff who work in the service of the House and wish them a restful and peaceful Christmas and a happy new year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-18a.1575.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-18", "file": "debates2014-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "ceb97c8473732662", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-18a.1595.0", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Kris Hopkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kris Hopkins", "preceding_text": "w much money has been spent historically in this area. It will be up to the local council to set those priorities and make sure that that money is available. The right hon. Gentleman talked about counties not being included in some of the devolution, but this Government are completely open-minded on devolution and look forward to all areas coming forward with ideas about how we can devolve powers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-18a.1595.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-18", "file": "debates2014-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "ceb97c8473732662", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-18a.1595.0", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Kris Hopkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kris Hopkins", "preceding_text": "rnment are completely open-minded on devolution and look forward to all areas coming forward with ideas about how we can devolve powers. [Interruption.] Finally, there was an ask about women’s refuges. The Prime Minister himself thinks that this is extremely important and intervened on the issue of women’s refuges and domestic violence and saw that an extra £10 million was put in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-18a.1595.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2014-12-18", "file": "debates2014-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "ceb97c8473732662", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-18a.1657.0", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Tom Brake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Brake", "preceding_text": "n still go on to Google Earth to look at the concentration camps in North Korea. I commend to all Members “Escape from Camp 14” on Shin Dong-hyuk. I have read it and it sets out in the bleakest terms possible exactly what conditions political prisoners and others in North Korean camps are kept in. The hon. Member for Rochester and Strood (Mark Reckless) referred to the estuary airport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2014-12-18a.1657.0"}
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