{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-09", "file": "debates2017-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "7ef5c225332ce49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-09b.43.3", "colnum": "43", "heading": "MENTAL HEALTH AND NHS PERFORMANCE", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "I actually think that broadly the hon. Gentleman makes an important point. It is not just about decisions to downgrade or close A&E departments when there is no alternative provision; it is also about community hospitals, which are very important places for A&E departments and hospitals to step people down to. He is right to say that the NHS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-09b.43.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-09", "file": "debates2017-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "7ef5c225332ce49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-09b.48.3", "colnum": "48", "heading": "MENTAL HEALTH AND NHS PERFORMANCE", "cue_speaker": "James Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Davies", "preceding_text": "s consistently longer in Wales than in England, but waiting times for routine procedures can be as much as two and a half times longer in Wales. I regularly see constituents in tears who are waiting well in excess of a year for hip operations. Does the Secretary of State agree that the Labour party must start to acknowledge the challenges facing the NHS in Wales and accept responsibility for them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-09b.48.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-09", "file": "debates2017-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "7ef5c225332ce49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-09b.52.1", "colnum": "52", "heading": "MENTAL HEALTH AND NHS PERFORMANCE", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Lady is worried about funding, she might explain why funding for the NHS in England went up by double the rate of funding for the NHS in Scotland over the last Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-09b.52.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-09", "file": "debates2017-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "7ef5c225332ce49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-09b.54.3", "colnum": "54", "heading": "MENTAL HEALTH AND NHS PERFORMANCE", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "I take seriously, of course, everything my hon. Friend says. I will say that the NHS does not always get these things right. I led a campaign against an A&E closure in my constituency when I was a Back Bencher—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-09b.54.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-09", "file": "debates2017-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "7ef5c225332ce49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-09b.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "MENTAL HEALTH AND NHS PERFORMANCE", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "Everyone knows that the Secretary of State has an impossible job, which he does with humanity and energy. One part of his impossible job relates to the two-tier system, whereby much depends on where people live. In rural north Lincolnshire, people can wait more than three weeks to see a doctor and can wait two hours for an ambulance to come—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-09b.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-09", "file": "debates2017-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "7ef5c225332ce49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-09b.60.3", "colnum": "60", "heading": "MENTAL HEALTH AND NHS PERFORMANCE", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "None of those examples of poor care is remotely acceptable. On my watch and under this Government we will see no return to the bad old days when people were routinely waiting far too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-09b.60.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-09", "file": "debates2017-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "7ef5c225332ce49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-09b.66.2", "colnum": "66", "heading": "MENTAL HEALTH AND NHS PERFORMANCE", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "May I reassure the hon. Lady that we will not be kicking the issue into the long grass? The Prime Minister has made a statement that we will have a Green Paper. There is a very specific reason why we need a bit of time: we want to ensure that the changes that we make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-09b.66.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-09", "file": "debates2017-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "7ef5c225332ce49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-09b.91.2", "colnum": "91", "heading": "TECHNICAL AND FURTHER EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Rob Marris", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Legal practice course.”", "preceding_speaker": "Rob Marris", "preceding_text": "that led to what was, in a sense, the equivalent of an apprenticeship. It was called “articles of clerkship”, and it involved two years in a solicitor’s office. What had been a national exam taken by everyone who wished to be a solicitor in England and Wales then became a moderated Law Society final exam. My hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff Central (Jo Stevens) will remind me what it was called.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-09b.91.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-09", "file": "debates2017-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "7ef5c225332ce49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-09b.121.0", "colnum": "121", "heading": "TECHNICAL AND FURTHER EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": ". The House agreed to the rules and they have now been applied. Going over all that is not going to change anything. I thank the hon. Gentleman for raising the point of order and he has now put his point on the record. The bottom line is, however, that these are the rules that the House has chosen, as he well knows. That is the end of it. We move on to Third Reading. Perhaps time for a cup of tea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-09b.121.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-10", "file": "debates2017-01-10c.xml", "sha256": "b9958ddafe090664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-10c.156.4", "colnum": "156", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "the doctrinal difference is actually almost insignificant. Both agree on the absolute centrality of the Prophet Muhammad, but the big issue is about the succession—whether the successor was Ali, the cousin and son-in-law, or Abu Bakr, the father-in-law. She is absolutely right that if the two sides can be reconciled, prosperity and security will improve, and I hope Britain can have a role to play.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-10c.156.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-10", "file": "debates2017-01-10c.xml", "sha256": "b9958ddafe090664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-10c.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "POLICING AND CRIME BILL", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "I hope the Government will not be intimidated by a campaign the press are waging at the moment to try to deter them from implementing the Leveson recommendations. May I just tell the Minister that yesterday I submitted my monthly article for the Aldershot News & Mail, as I had been invited to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-10c.248.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-11", "file": "debates2017-01-11c.xml", "sha256": "2c7f80c7ae2f9749", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-11c.302.4", "colnum": "302", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": "I am pleased to confirm that we are indeed working on a range of co-existence programmes in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories to support tangible improvements, as my hon. Friend the Minister of State has said. The programme is now in its final design phase and will be launched at the beginning of the financial year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-11c.302.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-11", "file": "debates2017-01-11c.xml", "sha256": "2c7f80c7ae2f9749", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-11c.303.0", "colnum": "303", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": "servatives, I, too, want to focus on making sure that every penny of taxpayers’ money goes to helping the world’s poorest, which is exactly the mission of our Department. At the same time, my hon. Friend will know that overseas development assistance saves lives and transforms lives. He specifically refers to money spent on consultants, which is something that my Department is currently reviewing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-11c.303.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-11", "file": "debates2017-01-11c.xml", "sha256": "2c7f80c7ae2f9749", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-11c.308.0", "colnum": "308", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman asked me those questions in the last PMQs before Christmas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-11c.308.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-11", "file": "debates2017-01-11c.xml", "sha256": "2c7f80c7ae2f9749", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-11c.309.2", "colnum": "309", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "preceding_text": "ly. So it stands to reason then that if there is no Northern Ireland Assembly and no Northern Ireland Executive for much of the time before the March timetable that she has set for invoking article 50, she will be unable to consult properly, to discuss fully and to find agreement on the complex issues during this period. In these circumstances, will the Prime Minister postpone invoking article 50—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-11c.309.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-11", "file": "debates2017-01-11c.xml", "sha256": "2c7f80c7ae2f9749", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-11c.336.7", "colnum": "336", "heading": "NHS AND SOCIAL CARE FUNDING", "cue_speaker": "Jon Ashworth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “She still is.”", "preceding_speaker": "Jon Ashworth", "preceding_text": "I entirely respect the hon. Lady’s work as a nurse before she came into this place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-11c.336.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-11", "file": "debates2017-01-11c.xml", "sha256": "2c7f80c7ae2f9749", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-11c.341.3", "colnum": "341", "heading": "NHS AND SOCIAL CARE FUNDING", "cue_speaker": "Jon Ashworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jon Ashworth", "preceding_text": "t to qualify for access to an A&E? How will we determine these new access standards? How quickly will they be available? Will patients with visible injuries be exempt from a new triage system? If so, which injuries will qualify? If the Secretary of State is not moving away from this four-hour standard, he needs to clarify matters urgently, because the impression has been given that he is doing so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-11c.341.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-11", "file": "debates2017-01-11c.xml", "sha256": "2c7f80c7ae2f9749", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-11c.346.0", "colnum": "346", "heading": "NHS AND SOCIAL CARE FUNDING", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": ", and that is a shame. This is an important debate for our constituents—for his and for mine—and for the NHS. The country deserves a proper debate, but that is difficult when we are given misinformation at a time when the NHS is under sustained pressure. I am also very pleased to see the Leader of the Opposition in his place. I think that he has become rather a fan of my parliamentary appearances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-11c.346.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-11", "file": "debates2017-01-11c.xml", "sha256": "2c7f80c7ae2f9749", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-11c.355.0", "colnum": "355", "heading": "NHS AND SOCIAL CARE FUNDING", "cue_speaker": "Philippa Whitford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philippa Whitford", "preceding_text": "Here we are again debating the NHS.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-11c.355.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-11", "file": "debates2017-01-11c.xml", "sha256": "2c7f80c7ae2f9749", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-11c.361.0", "colnum": "361", "heading": "NHS AND SOCIAL CARE FUNDING", "cue_speaker": "Philippa Whitford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philippa Whitford", "preceding_text": "That means that if there is a call about the person, the doctor who goes to see them knows that they will not be throwing them in an ambulance but will be keeping them comfortable. The discussion has already been had, and the aim is for them to be at home. England has to gain the ability not just to analyse data at a later point but to share information as a first step. In finishing off my speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-11c.361.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-11", "file": "debates2017-01-11c.xml", "sha256": "2c7f80c7ae2f9749", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-11c.369.3", "colnum": "369", "heading": "NHS AND SOCIAL CARE FUNDING", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "I am afraid not, because I am about to finish. Much has been said about the STP programme. We have an STP in Mid and South Essex, and I strongly support it, because it is completely focused on improving and enhancing the quality of accident and emergency care. What annoys me is that people wish to politicise it for grubby political reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-11c.369.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-11", "file": "debates2017-01-11c.xml", "sha256": "2c7f80c7ae2f9749", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-11c.395.4", "colnum": "395", "heading": "NHS AND SOCIAL CARE FUNDING", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "I join many others in commending those who work in our NHS and in our care system, including the hon. Members for Lewes (Maria Caulfield) and for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich (Dr Poulter) both of whom continue to work in the NHS, I think without payment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-11c.395.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-11", "file": "debates2017-01-11c.xml", "sha256": "2c7f80c7ae2f9749", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-11c.420.0", "colnum": "420", "heading": "NHS AND SOCIAL CARE FUNDING", "cue_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "preceding_text": "unity pharmacists to be paid for providing minor ailments services. I am pleased to be able to tell her that that is precisely what we are doing. The Under-Secretary of State for Health, my hon. Friend the Member for Warrington South (David Mowat) , was discussing that only this morning in Westminster Hall, and I regret to say that not a single Labour Member was present to hear what he had to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-11c.420.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-11", "file": "debates2017-01-11c.xml", "sha256": "2c7f80c7ae2f9749", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-11c.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "PETITION - BOAT MOORINGS ON THE RIVER AVON", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Steady!”", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. He is absolutely right. In fact, my colleague from just across the border, my hon. Friend the Member for Montgomeryshire (Glyn Davies) , always joins us at our meetings with our hospital trust. We almost think of him as a Salopian.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-11c.431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-12", "file": "debates2017-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "b17e68c0974448a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-12b.442.4", "colnum": "442", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “For tomorrow.”", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "May I start by wishing the hon. Gentleman a happy birthday?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-12b.442.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-12", "file": "debates2017-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "b17e68c0974448a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-12b.473.2", "colnum": "473", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "David Lidington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lidington", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is sincere, as always, in speaking up for her private Member’s Bill, but it is also the case that the Bill was published, I think, only two or three days before it was introduced, and there was no memorandum of costs associated with it. Frankly, it is also the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-12b.473.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-12", "file": "debates2017-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "b17e68c0974448a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-12b.488.0", "colnum": "488", "heading": "WOMEN IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "Off the top of my head, my advice is as follows. My principal suggestion is that the hon. Gentleman go to the Table Office and seek its advice on the nature and terms of the questions to be tabled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-12b.488.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-12", "file": "debates2017-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "b17e68c0974448a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-12b.488.3", "colnum": "488", "heading": "WOMEN IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Desmond Swayne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Desmond Swayne", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Momentarily, I felt moved to be charitable. I always thought that when I addressed the Chair, I was addressing the House—and, if I may say so, my pleasure in so doing is magnified when I address the Chair and you, Sir, are occupying it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-12b.488.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-12", "file": "debates2017-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "b17e68c0974448a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-12b.504.1", "colnum": "504", "heading": "YEMEN", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "The worst thing about my having intervened from a sedentary position is that the hon. Gentleman did not hear what I said. My sister and I were both born there, it is just that he said that we were born when he arrived in Aden, and I was making the point that the two events were not connected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-12b.504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-12", "file": "debates2017-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "b17e68c0974448a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-12b.511.0", "colnum": "511", "heading": "YEMEN", "cue_speaker": "Seema Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Seema Kennedy", "preceding_text": "umanitarian crisis. I do not want to go over those details again, as many hon. and right hon. Members who have spent time in Yemen have detailed that. However, I would like to put on the record my thanks—and, I think, the thanks of us all—for the Government’s great contribution to helping the Yemenis, including the £100 million of Department for International Development money that has been spent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-12b.511.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-12", "file": "debates2017-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "b17e68c0974448a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-12b.533.3", "colnum": "533", "heading": "YEMEN", "cue_speaker": "Graham Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Jones", "preceding_text": "s have included tanks, attack aircraft, rocket launchers and MiG jets. All those have been provided to the nation of Yemen. But I will tell you one country that has not supplied arms to Yemen: the United Kingdom. We have not supplied arms to Yemen, but all those other countries have done so. That ought to be noted. We have a good, robust system of arms export controls, far better than many others—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-12b.533.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-12", "file": "debates2017-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "b17e68c0974448a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-12b.537.0", "colnum": "537", "heading": "YEMEN", "cue_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "preceding_text": "hes, may I say that it is possible to agree with the principles of the UN resolution while disagreeing profoundly, first, with the way in which this has been enforced and the way alleged violations of international law are being investigated and, secondly, with the abject failure of the British Government to bring this war to an end? First, let me deal with the investigation of alleged war crimes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-12b.537.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-12", "file": "debates2017-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "b17e68c0974448a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-12b.538.1", "colnum": "538", "heading": "YEMEN", "cue_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "preceding_text": "ide reports when it has made mistakes. If it has only to identify mistakes, contrary to everything the Government have claimed, the JIAT is not investigating whether international law has been breached; it is just being taken on trust. All the JIAT is doing is looking at a handful of high-profile incidents and in one or two cases saying that a mistake has been made. Again, that is not good enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-12b.538.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-13", "file": "debates2017-01-13c.xml", "sha256": "9bd5c7df5e9cd3f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-13c.620.0", "colnum": "620", "heading": "BROADCASTING (RADIO MULTIPLEX SERVICES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Tom Pursglove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Pursglove", "preceding_text": " centres, or in cases where people are not able to get out for various reasons. The radio service keeps people connected to the local community, allowing them to ring in as part feedback programmes, giving them the confidence that things are going on around them and sometimes providing an avenue of support. Those things are welcome. I commend my hon. Friend for her work on the issue of loneliness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-13c.620.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-13", "file": "debates2017-01-13c.xml", "sha256": "9bd5c7df5e9cd3f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-13c.631.1", "colnum": "631", "heading": "BROADCASTING (RADIO MULTIPLEX SERVICES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Jo Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jo Churchill", "preceding_text": "day on Radio Suffolk we have Mark Murphy, and he is leading a great campaign on people not using mobile phones when they are driving. That is another great thing community radio stations can do: they can start that campaigning zeal which we all appreciate in this place. The use of a mobile phone in the car is one of the top four causes of death, along with not putting a seatbelt on, drink-driving—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-13c.631.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-13", "file": "debates2017-01-13c.xml", "sha256": "9bd5c7df5e9cd3f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-13c.638.0", "colnum": "638", "heading": "BROADCASTING (RADIO MULTIPLEX SERVICES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Foster", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Oh!”", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Foster", "preceding_text": "With the leave of the House, may I thank all Members, and particularly the Minister and the shadow Minister, for their remarks and support? I am glad to note that I seem to be on the same wavelength as everyone else in the Chamber today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-13c.638.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-13", "file": "debates2017-01-13c.xml", "sha256": "9bd5c7df5e9cd3f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-13c.645.0", "colnum": "645", "heading": "BROADCASTING (RADIO MULTIPLEX SERVICES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Rupa Huq", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Rupa Huq", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman mentioned Martin Loat and Claire Beale. They are my constituents—they live in the next road to me in Ealing—and, as he pointed out, they were the first people in the British Isles to enter into a civil partnership. However, they had to go to the Isle of Man to do that. I am sure the Isle of Man is a lovely place, but if the Bill is passed, no one will have to make that journey again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-13c.645.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-13", "file": "debates2017-01-13c.xml", "sha256": "9bd5c7df5e9cd3f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-13c.645.0", "colnum": "645", "heading": "BROADCASTING (RADIO MULTIPLEX SERVICES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Rupa Huq", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rupa Huq", "preceding_text": " as he pointed out, they were the first people in the British Isles to enter into a civil partnership. However, they had to go to the Isle of Man to do that. I am sure the Isle of Man is a lovely place, but if the Bill is passed, no one will have to make that journey again. [Laughter.] Let me say, before people write to me from the Isle of Man, that I am sure it is lovely. I have never been there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-13c.645.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-13", "file": "debates2017-01-13c.xml", "sha256": "9bd5c7df5e9cd3f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-13c.648.0", "colnum": "648", "heading": "BROADCASTING (RADIO MULTIPLEX SERVICES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Robert Halfon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Halfon", "preceding_text": "I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton) on introducing this Bill. He said that this was the first time that he has been able to speak on a private Member’s Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-13c.648.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-16", "file": "debates2017-01-16c.xml", "sha256": "e74afa58f81cd05e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-16c.666.0", "colnum": "666", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sajid Javid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sajid Javid", "preceding_text": "What the Minister recognises is that the additional funding announced in December will make a big difference: £240 million of additional money is coming in from the new homes bonus repurposing; and an additional almost £600—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-16c.666.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-16", "file": "debates2017-01-16c.xml", "sha256": "e74afa58f81cd05e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-16c.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": " one of the most distinguished political scientists of this generation. He was a brilliant teacher, he was an outstanding communicator, not least on television when giving his analysis of by-elections, and he was a prodigious and illuminating writer. Personally, I feel every day a sense of gratitude to Tony for what he did for me; and God, I must have been an awkward student to teach 30 years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-16c.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-16", "file": "debates2017-01-16c.xml", "sha256": "e74afa58f81cd05e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-16c.712.0", "colnum": "712", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Susan Elan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Susan Elan Jones", "preceding_text": "l programmes, such as charity trusteeship. Its point is that while 18 to 24-year-olds make up 12% of this country’s population, they make up just 1% of charity trustees. It is important to develop the scheme and get its participants involved in being trustees and in other leadership roles. Of course, many of us here who are in middle age will recognise that one does not stay aged 15 to 17 forever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-16c.712.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-17", "file": "debates2017-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "d6ff735e4f705680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-17a.796.0", "colnum": "796", "heading": "NEW PARTNERSHIP WITH THE EU", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "Well, not many and not for long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-17a.796.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-17", "file": "debates2017-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "d6ff735e4f705680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-17a.799.0", "colnum": "799", "heading": "NEW PARTNERSHIP WITH THE EU", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "First, on my right hon. Friend’s slip of the tongue, I often make the same mistake; it is probably why I am where I am.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-17a.799.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-17", "file": "debates2017-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "d6ff735e4f705680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-17a.803.3", "colnum": "803", "heading": "NEW PARTNERSHIP WITH THE EU", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More!”", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "I do not understand when reading the Prime Minister’s statement or listening to my right hon. Friend is which country in the world is going to enter into a trade agreement with this country on the basis that the rules are entirely what the British say they are going to be on any particular day and that if there is any dispute about the rules, it is going to be sorted out by the British Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-17a.803.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-17", "file": "debates2017-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "d6ff735e4f705680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-17a.815.4", "colnum": "815", "heading": "NEW PARTNERSHIP WITH THE EU", "cue_speaker": "Gareth Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gareth Johnson", "preceding_text": "Some 44% of our exports go to the European Union. Does the Secretary of State agree that in many respects, that figure is part of the problem, given that just 7% of the world’s population live in the EU? Does he agree that today’s decision to come out of the single market gives us a wonderful opportunity to be more global and international with our trading partners?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-17a.815.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-17", "file": "debates2017-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "d6ff735e4f705680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-17a.819.0", "colnum": "819", "heading": "NEW PARTNERSHIP WITH THE EU", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "he has not quite got Michel Barnier’s statement right. What he is reported to have said, although I think he subsequently denied it, is that he saw that there would be risks to the financial stability of the European Union if it did not maintain open access for the City of London. The hon. and learned Lady was also wrong in saying that we had talked about special deals for any sector. We have not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-17a.819.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-17", "file": "debates2017-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "d6ff735e4f705680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-17a.832.0", "colnum": "832", "heading": "LEAVING THE EU: THE RURAL ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Calum Kerr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Calum Kerr", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend’s contribution reinforces the point I was making and gives it a bit more colour. Given the announcements today and the consensus in Scotland against a hard Brexit, we must have powers over immigration devolved to the Scottish Parliament in order to pursue our own distinct policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-17a.832.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-17", "file": "debates2017-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "d6ff735e4f705680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-17a.863.0", "colnum": "863", "heading": "LEAVING THE EU: THE RURAL ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "tward while the UK wants to pull up the drawbridge. It is a UK where the welcome mat is no longer put out, a UK closed to Europe and European migration. It reminds me of the newspaper headline from the past: “Fog in the channel, continent cut off.” The reality of a hard Brexit is that the UK will be cut off—from the single market and from European trade. Look at what the Prime Minister said today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-17a.863.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-17", "file": "debates2017-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "d6ff735e4f705680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-17a.882.1", "colnum": "882", "heading": "LEAVING THE EU: THE RURAL ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Debbie Abrahams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Debbie Abrahams", "preceding_text": "I am sorry but I will not; otherwise, people are going to miss out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-17a.882.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-17", "file": "debates2017-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "d6ff735e4f705680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-17a.883.2", "colnum": "883", "heading": "LEAVING THE EU: THE RURAL ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Stewart McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart McDonald", "preceding_text": "gow, the city I represent, has the highest unemployment rate in Scotland, and that shames me—I am not proud of that badge—and I would want to work with the Minister to improve on that, but I do not see how we can do so by reducing the number of jobcentres from 16 to eight. That is a 50% cut against what is supposed to be a 20% reduction elsewhere. Glasgow is being targeted by the Tories yet again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-17a.883.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-17", "file": "debates2017-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "d6ff735e4f705680", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-17a.891.0", "colnum": "891", "heading": "LEAVING THE EU: THE RURAL ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Foster", "preceding_text": " in 2010. It is remarkable that the impact of the national living wage, which results in millions of low earners getting a pay rise, has been ignored. That makes a huge difference and for many people gives a real value to work, particularly in areas like Torbay where we have many tourism and social care jobs. [Interruption.] Many people are now getting a wage that better reflects the work they do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-17a.891.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-18", "file": "debates2017-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "0e40a5749c6d2ef3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-18a.931.3", "colnum": "931", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "preceding_text": "Scotland’s leading economic forecaster says that real wages will fall—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-18a.931.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-18", "file": "debates2017-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "0e40a5749c6d2ef3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-18a.938.1", "colnum": "938", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "e that there are more doctors in his NHS foundation trust and significantly more nurses, but the—[Interruption.] I know what the hon. Gentleman is talking about and I am about to comment on it, but the hon. Member for Ashton-under-Lyne (Angela Rayner) , who is shouting from a sedentary position, might have recognised that he started off talking about the NHS, which is what I am also commenting on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-18a.938.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-18", "file": "debates2017-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "0e40a5749c6d2ef3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-18a.938.2", "colnum": "938", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "Order. I am not going to allow an exchange across the Dispatch Box or across the House at this point. The Prime Minister was asked a question", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-18a.938.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-19", "file": "debates2017-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "69558ab0bb43e580", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-19b.1075.1", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Ian Mearns", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Mearns", "preceding_text": "Many happy returns, Mr Speaker. Forty is a difficult age, so beware.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-19b.1075.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-19", "file": "debates2017-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "69558ab0bb43e580", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-19b.1080.2", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "David Lidington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lidington", "preceding_text": "No, no—they say it in the nicest possible way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-19b.1080.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-19", "file": "debates2017-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "69558ab0bb43e580", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-19b.1081.2", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "ism and appeasement. He raised those matters in this Chamber, but he was spat at when he went to the Carlton Club that night. He was killed in action in the second world war, on 22 December 1944, and his shield is on the wall of this Chamber. Do we not owe a debt of gratitude to such people, and should we not be doing everything in our power to put an end to anti-Semitism and prejudice in our era?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-19b.1081.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-19", "file": "debates2017-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "69558ab0bb43e580", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-19b.1100.1", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "KASHMIR", "cue_speaker": "Virendra Sharma", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Virendra Sharma", "preceding_text": "rorism to further their ends. In 2004, Pakistan made a public commitment to prevent terrorist groups from using its territory to plan, prepare or launch attacks against India. Since then the Pakistani spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence—ISI—has been heavily implicated in India’s most notorious terrorist incidents, most notably the 2008 Mumbai attacks which left nearly 200 dead. That behaviour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-19b.1100.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-26", "file": "debates2017-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "9d26d7e91e84b28b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-26a.462.6", "colnum": "462", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "Some in this place can talk for Britain—not me, of course—but we can hardly complain that we are getting five days on a two-clause Bill, including until midnight on Tuesday. No more delay. The Bill is just implementing the will of the British people. But, just to put the icing on our cake—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-26a.462.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-26", "file": "debates2017-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "9d26d7e91e84b28b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-26a.536.2", "colnum": "536", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Chris Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Leslie", "preceding_text": " at the passing of this motion, we should approach the Table and hand them over to the Clerks. I suspect that there will be a great deal of demand for the Clerks’ time and attention. Indeed, one issue that I wish to raise—perhaps the Minister can respond to this—is to do with the pressure that will be on the Clerks over the coming days because of the demands of Members wanting to table amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-26a.536.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-27", "file": "debates2017-01-27b.xml", "sha256": "a5e515c0f060d69c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-27b.604.0", "colnum": "604", "heading": "HOMELESSNESS REDUCTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Clive Betts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Betts", "preceding_text": "ess. However, congratulations are due, particularly to the hon. Member for Harrow East (Bob Blackman) —on this occasion, I will reciprocate and call him my hon. Friend. We should not underestimate the amount of time, sheer hard work and effort that he and his staff have put into bringing the Bill to this stage, as well as the forbearance—there must have been times when he was tearing his hair out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-27b.604.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-27", "file": "debates2017-01-27b.xml", "sha256": "a5e515c0f060d69c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-27b.606.0", "colnum": "606", "heading": "HOMELESSNESS REDUCTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "David Burrowes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Burrowes", "preceding_text": "uding the Government, wanted to encourage him to take an easier route—a hand-out Bill. That would have involved less effort but would not have addressed a burning injustice—a phrase rightly used by the Prime Minister. Homelessness is a burning injustice, and it is right that my hon. Friend chose it. It was a great pleasure on this occasion, and probably the last occasion, to be a “Whip” on a Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-27b.606.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-30", "file": "debates2017-01-30b.xml", "sha256": "445f13a6f2b54022", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-30b.651.2", "colnum": "651", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Harriett Baldwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriett Baldwin", "preceding_text": "The Royal Navy is growing for the first time in a generation, with new aircraft carriers, submarines, frigates, patrol vessels and aircraft all on their way; 2017 is the start of a new era of maritime power, projecting Britain’s influence globally and delivering security at home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-30b.651.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-30", "file": "debates2017-01-30b.xml", "sha256": "445f13a6f2b54022", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-30b.675.0", "colnum": "675", "heading": "US IMMIGRATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "fence, intelligence and security, we work together more closely than any other two countries in the world. That relationship is overwhelmingly to our benefit. The Prime Minister’s highly successful visit to the White House last week underlined the strength of that transatlantic alliance. Where we have differences with the Unites States, we will not quail from expressing them, as I have done today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-30b.675.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-30", "file": "debates2017-01-30b.xml", "sha256": "445f13a6f2b54022", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-30b.677.3", "colnum": "677", "heading": "US IMMIGRATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh", "preceding_text": "nflict in Syria. This action is inhumane, racist and immoral, and I welcome the fact that this House is now treating the threat posed by President Trump with the seriousness it deserves. We on these Benches would also like to pay tribute to and support the strong statements made on this issue by Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, and welcome the work that has already been done by so many—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-30b.677.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-30", "file": "debates2017-01-30b.xml", "sha256": "445f13a6f2b54022", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-30b.678.2", "colnum": "678", "heading": "US IMMIGRATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend is entirely right, in the sense that the Prime Minister succeeded the other day in getting her message across about NATO and President Trump affirmed very strongly his commitment to that alliance; it is vital for our security, particularly the article 5 guarantee, and the new President is very much in the right place on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-30b.678.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-30", "file": "debates2017-01-30b.xml", "sha256": "445f13a6f2b54022", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-30b.683.6", "colnum": "683", "heading": "US IMMIGRATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "sidential visits to the United Kingdom. Can the Foreign Secretary confirm that George W. Bush and Barack Obama were President for more than two years before they made a state visit, and that many previous Presidents did not have state visits at all, although they did visit this country in the course of their duties? Why on earth has Theresa the appeaser got this President here within a few months?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-30b.683.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-30", "file": "debates2017-01-30b.xml", "sha256": "445f13a6f2b54022", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-30b.684.0", "colnum": "684", "heading": "US IMMIGRATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman will have heard the response to what he said, but my immediate reaction is that the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-30b.684.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-30", "file": "debates2017-01-30b.xml", "sha256": "445f13a6f2b54022", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-30b.689.4", "colnum": "689", "heading": "US IMMIGRATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to my hon. Friend for raising a point about which many Members of the House would have been ignorant until this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-30b.689.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-30", "file": "debates2017-01-30b.xml", "sha256": "445f13a6f2b54022", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-30b.698.0", "colnum": "698", "heading": "US IMMIGRATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Chi Onwurah", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chi Onwurah", "preceding_text": "Does the Foreign Secretary agree that, regardless of the exemption for UK nationals, the Trump presidency is tainted by this bigoted, immoral ban, that the Prime Minister is tainted by her hand-in-hand association and that he is tainted by his craven complacency?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-30b.698.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-30", "file": "debates2017-01-30b.xml", "sha256": "445f13a6f2b54022", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-30b.701.2", "colnum": "701", "heading": "US IMMIGRATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Soames", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. Like you, I thank the hon. Lady for her kindness in warning me that she was going to complain of this. I thought that in her question to the Foreign Secretary she snapped at him a bit at the end, so I offered her a friendly canine salute in return. No offence was intended, and I apologise to the hon. Lady if she was offended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-30b.701.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-30", "file": "debates2017-01-30b.xml", "sha256": "445f13a6f2b54022", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-30b.730.0", "colnum": "730", "heading": "CHANGES IN US IMMIGRATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "preceding_text": " right. This will be counter-productive. This will not achieve what you want, and it will divide our nation.” She clearly has not done that. The opportunity to engage was on the table, and she did not take it. I think that that damages all of us in the United Kingdom who defend the importance of our Government in leading such engagement. The Minister may disagree with me, but I feel very strongly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-30b.730.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-30", "file": "debates2017-01-30b.xml", "sha256": "445f13a6f2b54022", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-30b.748.4", "colnum": "748", "heading": "CHANGES IN US IMMIGRATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way. I am going to explain this. We have received assurances from the US embassy that the Executive order will make no difference to any British passport holder, irrespective of their country of birth or whether they hold another passport—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-30b.748.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-30", "file": "debates2017-01-30b.xml", "sha256": "445f13a6f2b54022", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-30b.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "CHANGES IN US IMMIGRATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": " Foreign Secretary said in his statement earlier, we have already made very clear our anxiety about measures that discriminate on grounds of nationality in ways that we consider to be divisive and wrong. Indeed, it does not really help—although it is true—to say that, although all the countries listed are Muslim countries, the list does not include all Muslim countries. In fact, the vast majority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-30b.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-30", "file": "debates2017-01-30b.xml", "sha256": "445f13a6f2b54022", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-30b.750.0", "colnum": "750", "heading": "CHANGES IN US IMMIGRATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Millions!”", "preceding_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "preceding_text": "g to the President, that is proportionate to the feeling of this House of Commons. I apologise for having briefly gone outside because I was due to speak at the event that was taking place, although I never quite made it to speak. There were tens of thousands of people, I think, or thousands of people. One must not get into crowd size estimates given recent experience; I do not want to do a Trump—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-30b.750.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-30", "file": "debates2017-01-30b.xml", "sha256": "445f13a6f2b54022", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-30b.758.5", "colnum": "758", "heading": "PENSION SCHEMES BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Debbie Abrahams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Debbie Abrahams", "preceding_text": "ounding the Cridland review of the state pension age, which has not been brought to this place, and there are lost opportunities when it comes to the defined benefit Green Paper. It was due later this year, but it has now been decided that it will not be brought to this place for scrutiny in connection with this Bill. I will move on, Madam Deputy Speaker, because I know I am testing your patience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-30b.758.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-31", "file": "debates2017-01-31c.xml", "sha256": "9ff6ce7b79afccaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-31c.811.4", "colnum": "811", "heading": "BUSINESS, ENERGY AND INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "I call Mr David Nuttall. I thought that he was interested in this question. Has his appetite diminished?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-31c.811.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-31", "file": "debates2017-01-31c.xml", "sha256": "9ff6ce7b79afccaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-31c.815.0", "colnum": "815", "heading": "CRIME (AGGRAVATED MURDER OF AND VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN)", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "ld make some progress. I am afraid, however, that while tackling one element of political correctness, she has opened up another politically correct can of worms. The main reason I oppose this Bill is that it relates only to female victims and not all victims. I fear that we are going to have a rerun of the debate on the Istanbul convention that we had not so long ago in this House. We cannot let—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-31c.815.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-31", "file": "debates2017-01-31c.xml", "sha256": "9ff6ce7b79afccaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-31c.815.0", "colnum": "815", "heading": "CRIME (AGGRAVATED MURDER OF AND VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN)", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "politically correct can of worms. The main reason I oppose this Bill is that it relates only to female victims and not all victims. I fear that we are going to have a rerun of the debate on the Istanbul convention that we had not so long ago in this House. We cannot let—[Interruption.] I know that people do not like any other opinions being expressed, but this is a Parliament; this is a democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-31c.815.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-31", "file": "debates2017-01-31c.xml", "sha256": "9ff6ce7b79afccaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-31c.819.6", "colnum": "819", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (NOTIFICATION OF WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "Order. I do not want to have to keep saying this, because I know it is very tedious. I know that the Secretary of State is a most attentive Minister, but may I appeal to him not to keep turning around and looking at people behind him? It is incredibly frustrating for the House. I know that is the natural temptation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-31c.819.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-01-31", "file": "debates2017-01-31c.xml", "sha256": "9ff6ce7b79afccaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-31c.842.5", "colnum": "842", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (NOTIFICATION OF WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Tomorrow.”", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "of time to speak. The only thing on which I disagree with my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Rushcliffe is that we are not the Hatter’s tea party. The Hatter’s tea party is sitting in opposition. I do not know who the dormouse is or who the Hatter is, but I am sure they will tell us later. Having listened throughout to all these debates, I will be voting tonight to trigger article 50.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-01-31c.842.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-01", "file": "debates2017-02-01b.xml", "sha256": "7aef455566a5a69f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-01b.1005.237", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (NOTIFICATION OF WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman makes precisely my point, and I am grateful to him for doing so. He may be able to tell me how many member states of the United Nations are not in a regional trade agreement. Anybody?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-01b.1005.237"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-01", "file": "debates2017-02-01b.xml", "sha256": "7aef455566a5a69f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-01b.1005.254", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (NOTIFICATION OF WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Jim Dowd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “What if they say no?”", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Dowd", "preceding_text": "re early agreement on reciprocal arrangements in Europe for British nationals living in EU countries. I say, as do others, that the answer is in her own hands. She can reassure EU nationals living in this country now by saying that their future, and that of their families, is secure. She can then go, quite rightly, to the chambers and the councils of Europe, and say, “We demand the same from you.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-01b.1005.254"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-01", "file": "debates2017-02-01b.xml", "sha256": "7aef455566a5a69f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-01b.1005.301", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (NOTIFICATION OF WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Peter Grant", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Grant", "preceding_text": " Nobody here has the right to tell anybody that they are being dishonest or anti-democratic by exercising their vote. I have had that as well. I received an email darkly hinting that there are a number of people in my constituency who want to leave and threatening me with deselection if I dare to vote against the Government tonight. Given that the email came from Labour Leave, I have no intention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-01b.1005.301"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-01", "file": "debates2017-02-01b.xml", "sha256": "7aef455566a5a69f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-01b.1005.301", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (NOTIFICATION OF WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Peter Grant", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Grant", "preceding_text": "t to leave and threatening me with deselection if I dare to vote against the Government tonight. Given that the email came from Labour Leave, I have no intention—[Laughter.] It did cross my mind that, pension-wise, I could get a much better deal by losing rather than retiring. Maybe when I decide that the time has come to leave, I will stand as a Labour candidate to guarantee my “loser’s pension”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-01b.1005.301"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-01", "file": "debates2017-02-01b.xml", "sha256": "7aef455566a5a69f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-01b.1005.314", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (NOTIFICATION OF WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "James Cartlidge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Cartlidge", "preceding_text": "The local paper did speculate on this matter, and when asked about my wife’s views, I said, “Well, she is my father-in-law’s daughter”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-01b.1005.314"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-01", "file": "debates2017-02-01b.xml", "sha256": "7aef455566a5a69f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-01b.1005.326", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (NOTIFICATION OF WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "There were divisions, threats and altercations in Wales. When John Prescott, who was Deputy Prime Minister at the time, went to Newport town centre, one of his spin doctors ordered a young campaigner off the streets, saying, “I have the Deputy Prime Minister’s authority for doing this.” The resulting fracas made the third bong on “News at 10”. I will not reveal the identity of the person involved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-01b.1005.326"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-01", "file": "debates2017-02-01b.xml", "sha256": "7aef455566a5a69f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-01b.1005.356", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (NOTIFICATION OF WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Liz Saville-Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liz Saville-Roberts", "preceding_text": " of liberty that have arguably underpinned the political divide for centuries. However, if we strip away much of the leave campaign’s divisive and reprehensible rhetoric, we find that it is its dogmatic belief in a freedom from Brussels that catalyses its distrust of the EU. In its polarised, simplistic view, now that we are free from the Eurocrats, once again the sun will never set on our shores.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-01b.1005.356"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-01", "file": "debates2017-02-01b.xml", "sha256": "7aef455566a5a69f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-01b.1005.402", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (NOTIFICATION OF WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "David Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "David Jones", "preceding_text": "l publish our White Paper tomorrow, before Committee. The White Paper, however, is entirely separate from this Bill, which simply gives the Government the power to trigger the process of exit from the EU, in accordance with the instructions that we have received from the people of this country. There has also been much debate over the past two days about the many opportunities that leaving the UK—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-01b.1005.402"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-02", "file": "debates2017-02-02b.xml", "sha256": "cbcf970c7cd15c49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-02b.1225.0", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "EXITING THE EU: NEW PARTNERSHIP", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "The Government’s thinking on Brexit is very clear. If someone disagrees with it, that does not mean that it does not exist. That is the problem that SNP Members have had all the way through this process. They just do not like it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-02b.1225.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-03", "file": "debates2017-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "e50122ba4bcf0536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-03a.1304.0", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "PARKING PLACES (VARIATION OF CHARGES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Wendy Morton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wendy Morton", "preceding_text": "xpayer or a constituent, “Variation of Charges” does not make it 100% clear whether the Bill is about prices going up or down, so I now start to see why my hon. Friend tabled his new clause. That said, I read it for a while and tried to understand where it would fit in the Bill, which is why I asked at the start of the debate how it would work in practice. Quite frankly, I could not see its point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-03a.1304.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-03", "file": "debates2017-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "e50122ba4bcf0536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-03a.1319.0", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "PARKING PLACES (VARIATION OF CHARGES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Craig Whittaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Disgraceful!”", "preceding_speaker": "Craig Whittaker", "preceding_text": "ng charges to generate additional revenue. Although I cannot comment on the choices that other local authorities have made in the last few years, I can say a few words about Calderdale’s unflattering record in that regard. In 2012, the cabinet of Calderdale Council approved a raft of additional car parking charges. The title of the cabinet committee paper was “The Parking Income Generation Study”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-03a.1319.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-06", "file": "debates2017-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "fa6f4460bba74dc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-06b.48.0", "colnum": "48", "heading": "INFORMAL EUROPEAN COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. Two words: well done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-06b.48.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-06", "file": "debates2017-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "fa6f4460bba74dc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-06b.67.2", "colnum": "67", "heading": "INFORMAL EUROPEAN COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "I can confirm to the House that Norway is not a member of the European Union. That is indeed true. Part of the reason why I was on the remain side of the argument was that the Norway deal is not very good at all and not a model to be followed. My view was that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-06b.67.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-06", "file": "debates2017-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "fa6f4460bba74dc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-06b.71.2", "colnum": "71", "heading": "INFORMAL EUROPEAN COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for trying to intervene, but I need to finish replying to the right hon. Lady before I can take his intervention. I am also conscious of the fact that I have only one more point to make after I have finished my points about EU nationals, and I want to give other Members the chance to contribute to the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-06b.71.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-06", "file": "debates2017-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "fa6f4460bba74dc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-06b.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "INFORMAL EUROPEAN COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Bill Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Cash", "preceding_text": "gum up the works to such an extent on matters of intelligence, security and all sorts of things that we would actually end up not receiving any limité documents at all. With great respect, the hon. Member for Greenwich and Woolwich (Matthew Pennycook) , who led from the Opposition Front Bench, may or may not have been dealing with these matters for some time, and I will not criticise him for that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-06b.76.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-06", "file": "debates2017-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "fa6f4460bba74dc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-06b.76.2", "colnum": "76", "heading": "INFORMAL EUROPEAN COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Gethins", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Last year.”", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Gethins", "preceding_text": "policy makers in this place. Given that this is such a big decision, our ability to have any meaningful scrutiny is woeful. Regardless of the vote, the role of Parliament is to scrutinise the work of Government. That is the entire point of our sitting here and having a Parliament in the first place. I remind Conservative Members that the SNP won the election earlier this year with 47% of the vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-06b.76.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-06", "file": "debates2017-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "fa6f4460bba74dc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-06b.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "INFORMAL EUROPEAN COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "preceding_text": "lect Committee, and which has been touched on today: the opportunity of EU nationals to secure their position by means of the permanent residence card. I say to the Minister of State, Department for Exiting the European Union, the right hon. Member for Clwyd West (Mr Jones) , that he should be talking about this to his colleagues in the Home Office, because there are enormous difficulties with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-06b.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-06", "file": "debates2017-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "fa6f4460bba74dc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-06b.104.2", "colnum": "104", "heading": "INFORMAL EUROPEAN COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Helen Goodman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Goodman", "preceding_text": "Let me tell the right hon. Lady about the views that were expressed in my constituency, even though they might be different from those being expressed in her own. When we discussed the social chapter and people’s employment rights, my constituents said, in terms, “You can’t trust the Tories.” It is because of that feeling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-06b.104.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-06", "file": "debates2017-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "fa6f4460bba74dc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-06b.109.1", "colnum": "109", "heading": "INFORMAL EUROPEAN COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "preceding_text": "h those other assessments. They suggest a hard Brexit could result in the loss of some 80,000 Scottish jobs within a decade and a drop in wages averaging about £2,000. I do not think any politician, of any party, would willingly say, “Let’s embark on a course of action that will lead to the near impoverishment of many people in society”, but that is where we are with the hard Tory Brexit argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-06b.109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-06", "file": "debates2017-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "fa6f4460bba74dc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-06b.111.1", "colnum": "111", "heading": "INFORMAL EUROPEAN COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Wollaston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Wollaston", "preceding_text": "I agree with that, and I have also heard from constituents of mine who are British citizens now living in the EU. But my point is that, come what may, it is inconceivable that we would seek to separate families such as this one. There is no doubt that many people are sleepless and sick with worry about this, and we have all seen them in our surgeries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-06b.111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-06", "file": "debates2017-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "fa6f4460bba74dc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-06b.112.0", "colnum": "112", "heading": "INFORMAL EUROPEAN COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": " that the Government produced last Thursday: the 70-odd skimpy pages of the White Paper, 10% of which is actually white or blocked out. It is the whitest White Paper I think the House has ever seen. I contrast that with the 200-odd page report that the Treasury produced ahead of the referendum, which detailed the minutiae of all the impacts anticipated as a result of the changes in respect of GDP—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-06b.112.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-06", "file": "debates2017-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "fa6f4460bba74dc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-06b.141.0", "colnum": "141", "heading": "INFORMAL EUROPEAN COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Ian Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Murray", "preceding_text": "While the right hon. Gentleman is talking about distinctions, I want to make another distinction as a reminder to him and the House: the Scottish National party is not the entirety of Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-06b.141.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-06", "file": "debates2017-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "fa6f4460bba74dc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-06b.151.5", "colnum": "151", "heading": "INFORMAL EUROPEAN COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh", "preceding_text": "te effect of the UK’s exit from the EU on the Irish border. That is because such a deal is not just possible but absolutely essential to Scotland, in a number of ways. It is essential for Scottish business. The British Chambers of Commerce’s “International Trade Survey” is further evidence of the damaging impact that the threat of a Tory hard Brexit is already having on Scottish and UK businesses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-06b.151.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-06", "file": "debates2017-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "fa6f4460bba74dc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-06b.153.0", "colnum": "153", "heading": "INFORMAL EUROPEAN COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady referred earlier to the impact of the pound being devalued. Could she tell us which currency an independent Scotland would have? Would it be the pound, the euro or some other currency of her invention, or of the invention of the right hon. Member for Gordon (Alex Salmond) ?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-06b.153.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-06", "file": "debates2017-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "fa6f4460bba74dc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-06b.158.2", "colnum": "158", "heading": "INFORMAL EUROPEAN COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "I speak as the son and grandson of fish merchants, and I should point out that it was the Scottish nationalist party—[Interruption]—that wanted to keep us in the EU and to maintain the common fisheries policy, which has destroyed jobs and industries, and which is why 54% of people in the parliamentary constituency of Banff and Buchan voted to leave.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-06b.158.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-08", "file": "debates2017-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "fb444fbfbfffb879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-08b.446.8", "colnum": "446", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (NOTIFICATION OF WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Paul Blomfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Blomfield", "preceding_text": "As I said, the right hon. Gentleman has had lots of time during Committee of the whole House. I want to move on to a different topic, and I am sure that he will want to get in later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-08b.446.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-08", "file": "debates2017-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "fb444fbfbfffb879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-08b.458.3", "colnum": "458", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (NOTIFICATION OF WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Joanna Cherry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joanna Cherry", "preceding_text": "I am sure that Government Members would be loth to encourage the Prime Minister to break her word—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-08b.458.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-08", "file": "debates2017-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "fb444fbfbfffb879", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-08b.502.2", "colnum": "502", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (NOTIFICATION OF WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Suella Fernandes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Suella Fernandes", "preceding_text": "made recommendations on the practical ways in which the Home Office could deal with the considerable number of applications and the paperwork. Home Office officials will have over 1 million cases to deal with, so we recommend that the local authority nationality checking services be given first-line responsibility for processing and approving applications for permanent residency. I shall conclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-08b.502.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-21", "file": "debates2017-02-21b.xml", "sha256": "c2b6af4cb42aaec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-21b.950.3", "colnum": "950", "heading": "CRIMINAL FINANCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Rupa Huq", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rupa Huq", "preceding_text": "orists have previously been able to fund their attacks and gangsters have stored their ill-gotten gains. We should not be dragging our feet on this. Some of these jurisdictions, including the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands, have hidden behind the fig leaf of the consultation. I shall dispense with the rest of what I was going to say, but we wish to press new clause 17 to a Division—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-21b.950.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-22", "file": "debates2017-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bbfeccb612fe155b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-22a.1010.2", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "In 2010, there was the highest ever level of satisfaction with the national health service, delivered by a Labour Government. The British Medical Association—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-22a.1010.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-22", "file": "debates2017-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bbfeccb612fe155b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-22a.1012.0", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "ents at the very end of their lives. The lack of care in the community prevents people from having the dignity of dying at home. There is a nursing shortage and something should be done about it, such as reinstating the nurses’ bursary. The Prime Minister’s Government have put the NHS and social care in a state of emergency. Nine out of 10 NHS trusts are unsafe, 18,000 patients a week are waiting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-22a.1012.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-22", "file": "debates2017-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bbfeccb612fe155b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-22a.1012.0", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "e and something should be done about it, such as reinstating the nurses’ bursary. The Prime Minister’s Government have put the NHS and social care in a state of emergency. Nine out of 10 NHS trusts are unsafe, 18,000 patients a week are waiting—[Interruption.] Mr Speaker, I repeat the figure: 18,000 patients a week are waiting on trolleys in hospital corridors and 1.2 million often very dependent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-22a.1012.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-22", "file": "debates2017-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bbfeccb612fe155b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-22a.1012.1", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "First, the right hon. Gentleman should consider correcting the record, because 54% of hospital trusts are considered good or outstanding—quite different from the figure he cited. Secondly, I will take no lessons on the NHS from the party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-22a.1012.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-22", "file": "debates2017-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bbfeccb612fe155b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-22a.1012.1", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "uld learn lessons: the Labour party, which still fails to recognise that if you are going to fund the NHS—we are putting money in, and there are more doctors, more operations and more nurses—you need a strong economy. We now know, however, that Labour has a different sort of phrase for its approach to these things. Remember when it used to talk about “boom and bust”? Now it is borrow and bankrupt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-22a.1012.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-22", "file": "debates2017-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bbfeccb612fe155b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-22a.1020.0", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Paul Scully", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Scully", "preceding_text": "Mr Speaker, you saw at first hand what a cup run means to a town and a club such as Sutton. With AFC Wimbledon out of the picture, I wonder whether my right hon. Friend will join me in congratulating Sutton United on such a spirited performance on Monday, and in wishing Lincoln City well for keeping the non-league spirit alive in the next round of the FA cup. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-22a.1020.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-22", "file": "debates2017-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bbfeccb612fe155b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-22a.1026.0", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "LEE VALLEY REGIONAL PARK (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "preceding_text": "I rise to oppose this legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-22a.1026.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-22", "file": "debates2017-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bbfeccb612fe155b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-22a.1026.0", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "LEE VALLEY REGIONAL PARK (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "preceding_text": "ic recreational facilities on their doorstep in London. But this is not just about whether people are visiting, but about this concept of a green lung. The quality of air in our city has never been worse. I am sure that, like me, he has constituents who are deeply concerned about air quality in London. The value of our green space therefore becomes paramount not just to those who live in the area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-22a.1026.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-22", "file": "debates2017-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bbfeccb612fe155b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-22a.1026.0", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "LEE VALLEY REGIONAL PARK (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "preceding_text": "reater now as we face this crisis—I am talking about the quality of our air and of our natural environment in our city. We have 14 sites of special scientific interest in the Lee valley regional park. Rather than not visiting the area, I invite the hon. Gentleman to join me when we open the Walthamstow wetlands to see for himself the benefit of the site. It will be a national site of significance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-22a.1026.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-22", "file": "debates2017-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bbfeccb612fe155b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-22a.1026.0", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "LEE VALLEY REGIONAL PARK (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "preceding_text": "onal park. Rather than not visiting the area, I invite the hon. Gentleman to join me when we open the Walthamstow wetlands to see for himself the benefit of the site. It will be a national site of significance. [Interruption.] Forgive me, I would like to invite all the Members on the Government Benches to visit the Walthamstow wetlands. They should come and see the herons and cormorants in London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-22a.1026.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-22", "file": "debates2017-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bbfeccb612fe155b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-22a.1026.0", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "LEE VALLEY REGIONAL PARK (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "preceding_text": "portunity. It was set up in the 1960s to recognise the mutual benefit of investing in green and recreational spaces in London, and in 2017, the case for those spaces grows ever bigger. The hon. Gentleman’s proposed legislation would have more merit if he was expressing an equally forensic concern about the visits by the residents of Kingston to, say, the royal parks and asking about their funding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-22a.1026.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-22", "file": "debates2017-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bbfeccb612fe155b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-22a.1026.0", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "LEE VALLEY REGIONAL PARK (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "preceding_text": "sidents of Kingston to, say, the royal parks and asking about their funding. [Interruption.] I did listen to what he said, but I have looked at his legislation and he is not suggesting a similar cut in the royal parks’ funding to reflect his concern about whether residents from Kingston actually visit those parks. That is the point: we invest in these regional organisations for our mutual benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-22a.1026.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-22", "file": "debates2017-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bbfeccb612fe155b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-22a.1061.0", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "POLICE GRANT", "cue_speaker": "Brandon Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brandon Lewis", "preceding_text": "ut the police funding formula review work that we are going forward with. I am pleased to hear that the hon. Member for Swansea East (Carolyn Harris) will support us in getting that done, but I am slightly curious why the Labour party never did it when they were in government. Opposition Members have talked as though there was no point in any kind of budget deficit. They sometimes forget the mess—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-22a.1061.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-22", "file": "debates2017-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bbfeccb612fe155b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-22a.1086.1", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "preceding_text": "I could not agree more. My hon. Friend makes a compelling point. Broxtowe Borough Council has done a terrific job, and I pay credit to the previous authority, run by Labour and the Lib Dems, which started the sharing of back office functions. Obviously I take the firm view that the new Conservative-run council is even better—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-22a.1086.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-22", "file": "debates2017-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bbfeccb612fe155b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-22a.1106.0", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Hollinrake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Hollinrake", "preceding_text": "g power are in London, yet nine of the 10 authorities with the lowest council tax are also in London. That is simply unfair. It would be perfectly appropriate as long as the need drivers were taken into account. Let us take Harrow as an example plucked out of thin air. Harrow has £80 a year more spending power than North Yorkshire, yet it has a richer and younger population. How can that be right?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-22a.1106.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-22", "file": "debates2017-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bbfeccb612fe155b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-22a.1117.2", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "BUSINESS WITHOUT DEBATE", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hoare", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hoare", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am most grateful to you for that very kind introduction and warm up, but I am afraid that I will probably disappoint. I do not intend to detain the Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, my hon. Friend the Member for Brigg and Goole (Andrew Percy) for the 55 minutes available for this Adjournment debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-22a.1117.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-22", "file": "debates2017-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bbfeccb612fe155b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-22a.1119.1", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "BUSINESS WITHOUT DEBATE", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hoare", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hoare", "preceding_text": " a gap in the guidance if, in a housing association-tenant relationship, there is no additional duty of care or responsibility for the behaviour of its tenants. Under Aster’s rules, if a tenant commits antisocial behaviour and is in breach of their tenancy agreements, that should be that, but it is not. If my constituent was married to a 6 foot 2, burly weightlifter-type guy who was always around—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-22a.1119.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-23", "file": "debates2017-02-23b.xml", "sha256": "e338c031587723e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-23b.1161.1", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "JAMAL AL-HARITH", "cue_speaker": "Ben Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Wallace", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady will know that there is a bulletin of TPIM numbers every year. If my memory serves me correctly, the latest number was nine, or perhaps six.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-23b.1161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-23", "file": "debates2017-02-23b.xml", "sha256": "e338c031587723e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-23b.1169.2", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "David Lidington", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "David Lidington", "preceding_text": "s important to remember that the arts and creative industries are major generators of wealth and employment, as well as bringing first-class entertainment to people. I rather suspect that when the hon. Gentleman went to the awards last night he was hoping against hope that perhaps next year there might be a guest slot for MP4, so we could see him and his colleagues in all their entertaining glory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-23b.1169.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-23", "file": "debates2017-02-23b.xml", "sha256": "e338c031587723e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-23b.1247.3", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "UNACCOMPANIED CHILDREN (GREECE AND ITALY)", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Cox", "cue_text": "Applause.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Cox", "preceding_text": "nd Italy and make practical and effective our obligations under international law—whether under Dubs or Dublin. We need to be seen to do more. The plight of a child, wherever they are—in Europe or the middle east—is much more important morally and legally than the kinds of arguments sometimes deployed about pull and push factors: “Suffer the little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me”.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-23b.1247.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-23", "file": "debates2017-02-23b.xml", "sha256": "e338c031587723e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-23b.1281.0", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "HIGH SPEED 2 (NEWTON)", "cue_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Not quite.”", "preceding_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "port to the Secretary of State about this discussion today. This can be resolved, but they must ensure that the Meadowhall idea is continued. That would resolve the problems in Newton and in Mexborough. It could also solve the problem in Bramley in the Rother valley. In my opinion, those are the most sensible things that the Ministers could do to solve this problem. Have I done quarter of an hour?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-23b.1281.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-24", "file": "debates2017-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "93240e8e2b2d2e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-24a.1294.0", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "PREVENTING AND COMBATING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (RATIFICATION OF CONVENTION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "ntion. You would think that they would have learned their lesson and would actually want, this time around, to learn what was in the convention—but apparently not. I am not entirely sure whether the position of the hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire (Pete Wishart) , who is on his knees and facing the wrong way, is in order during a speech, but it is certainly not normal behaviour from him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-24a.1294.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-27", "file": "debates2017-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "f5b44a7e934d327e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-27b.27.0", "colnum": "27", "heading": "NHS SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "ess pursuit” of the private sector. More seriously, the hon. Gentleman is quoted in this morning’s edition of The Guardian as saying: “Patient safety will have been put seriously at risk.” As he knows, patient safety is always our primary concern, but if he had listened to my response he would have heard that, as things stand, there is no evidence so far that patients’ safety has been put at risk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-27b.27.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-27", "file": "debates2017-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "f5b44a7e934d327e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-27b.35.1", "colnum": "35", "heading": "NHS SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "k it is completely extraordinary that for such a long period it was not noticed that the data had gone missing. It was discovered towards the end of the SPS contract. There are lessons for the NHS—this relates very closely to what other hon. Members have said—about the dangers of over-reliance on paper rather than electronic systems, with which it is much easier to keep track of what is happening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-27b.35.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-02-27", "file": "debates2017-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "f5b44a7e934d327e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-27b.38.1", "colnum": "38", "heading": "NHS SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "olence (Ratification of Convention) Bill. Thereafter I had to go to my own constituency, so I was not present. The hon. Lady tells me that the Whips objected. Well, Whips do tend to do these things. It is quite commonplace. It is what they think of as one of their functions from time to time, among other miscellaneous functions—sometimes subterranean functions, but we had better not dwell on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-02-27b.38.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-02", "file": "debates2017-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "a55c36f1aa18dd33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-02a.515.3", "colnum": "515", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY", "cue_speaker": "Chris Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Davies", "preceding_text": "We would be delighted to see more hydro, and we are certainly delighted to support the tidal barrage and lagoon down in Swansea. Opposition Members do not seem to acknowledge that the tidal lagoon will benefit the whole of Wales, not just Gower, Swansea or south Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-02a.515.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-02", "file": "debates2017-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "a55c36f1aa18dd33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-02a.530.1", "colnum": "530", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY", "cue_speaker": "Jessica Morden", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “No! No!”", "preceding_speaker": "Jessica Morden", "preceding_text": "y shown that the economic benefit that could be generated by improving the connectivity between Bristol, Newport and Cardiff would be greater than that generated by similar investment in Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool. This is a huge opportunity and I would like to see Wales Office Ministers engaging with the project. I was going to let the subject of the Severn bridge tolls go, on this occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-02a.530.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-08", "file": "debates2017-03-08c.xml", "sha256": "5ed13d5be0628669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-08c.881.3", "colnum": "881", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Foster", "preceding_text": "ng-term debate about how we manage the future liabilities and pressures that will come on those services. We debated what that means for the future of local government in the Local Government Finance Bill Committee. All of us want to know that when we or our loved ones reach our 70s, 80s or 90s—one of the greatest successes of the NHS is that more people are doing so—the social care will be there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-08c.881.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-08", "file": "debates2017-03-08c.xml", "sha256": "5ed13d5be0628669", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-08c.885.0", "colnum": "885", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "preceding_text": "n down the road. The Liberal Democrats welcome the extra money for social care, but I fear that it will ultimately be inadequate, and that we will be in the middle of another NHS winter crisis this time next year. I wonder how many more crises our NHS will be able to sustain while retaining good-quality staff and providing the service that we enjoy at present. My final point is about spirits duty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-08c.885.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-15", "file": "debates2017-03-15c.xml", "sha256": "cb809be15f6433a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-15c.398.0", "colnum": "398", "heading": "PERSONAL INDEPENDENCE PAYMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "fit that they were previously awarded by the DWP. The Committee says that a tribunal may have lifted the awards of some people, and it is indeed possible that that has happened. We will not claim back money that those people have received during the period before the new regulations come into force, and no one will receive less than they were awarded by the DWP. That is what I have said all along.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-15c.398.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-15", "file": "debates2017-03-15c.xml", "sha256": "cb809be15f6433a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-15c.404.2", "colnum": "404", "heading": "PERSONAL INDEPENDENCE PAYMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "They are not. I can only repeat what I have said before, and if necessary, I will quote the facts again, or the detailed case that I gave to the right hon. Member for East Ham (Stephen Timms) . I could go into the details, but I suspect that your patience would be tested by that, Mr Speaker. Do you want me to read the descriptors out again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-15c.404.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-20", "file": "debates2017-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e7b4c86d54e3e2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-20a.677.9", "colnum": "677", "heading": "PRISONS AND COURTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Richard Burgon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Burgon", "preceding_text": "tion to safeguards, and we will seek to put those in place. On whiplash, the clauses in part 5 will have come as a relief to many. The Government have backed away from increasing the small claims limit across personal injury, and that is welcome. However, they see a personal injury lawyer lurking around every corner—the Minister with responsibility for courts and tribunals even mistook me for one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-20a.677.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-21", "file": "debates2017-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "90d4b165236518b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-21b.780.0", "colnum": "780", "heading": "MONEY LAUNDERING: BRITISH BANKS", "cue_speaker": "Simon Kirby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Kirby", "preceding_text": "o investigate this, if appropriate. We have not only world-leading financial regulation but world-leading financial services. More than 1 million people across the country are employed in financial services in all our constituencies, and the vast majority of them work hard, do a good job and represent customers as well as they can. We have outlined the measures that the Government are undertaking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-21b.780.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-21", "file": "debates2017-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "90d4b165236518b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-21b.780.3", "colnum": "780", "heading": "MONEY LAUNDERING: BRITISH BANKS", "cue_speaker": "John Mann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Mann", "preceding_text": "To counter the impression that he has been promoted beyond his competence, can the Minister tell us which British banks have been convicted of money laundering over the past five years? What specific, individual thing has he learned from reading those judgments?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-21b.780.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-21", "file": "debates2017-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "90d4b165236518b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-21b.810.0", "colnum": "810", "heading": "INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (UNJUSTIFIED THREATS) BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "o longer in his place, noted that prices will go up substantially because of currency movements in the recent past. With such limitations, the last thing we need is price discrimination—for that is what it is—being foisted on us. Where people live should not result in their being penalised by having to pay higher network charges. Where is the “one nation” that the UK Government speak of so fondly?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-21b.810.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-21", "file": "debates2017-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "90d4b165236518b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-21b.818.1", "colnum": "818", "heading": "INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (UNJUSTIFIED THREATS) BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Marion Fellows", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marion Fellows", "preceding_text": "re representing the Scottish Government. The electrification of heat is a joke in some of the far-flung places in the highlands and islands. If we electrify heat, we are then causing more carbon emissions in many regards, depending on what fuel we use. We in Scotland already have huge power resources run by water power, and the Scottish Government only recently opened a new dam that would produce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-21b.818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-21", "file": "debates2017-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "90d4b165236518b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-21b.827.1", "colnum": "827", "heading": "INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (UNJUSTIFIED THREATS) BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "preceding_text": "The statistics show that only 7% of fuel-poor households were rated B or C or higher in 2014, which clearly shows that the fuel poverty target we have adopted, which was set in 2014, is ambitious, and rightly so. That legal target makes it clear that the Government do not accept the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-21b.827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-22", "file": "debates2017-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "9224f0a6b95dbfec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-22a.898.1", "colnum": "898", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Richard Harrington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Harrington", "preceding_text": "o come. Hopefully, within two years a clear regulatory system will be in place and the regulator has made very clear what trusts exist. We have taken quite a lot of care to ensure that this will not happen. I feel that the measures suggested in the new clause are totally disproportionate to the problem. For those reasons, I urge the hon. Gentleman to withdraw it, although I do not believe he will.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-22a.898.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-22", "file": "debates2017-03-22b.xml", "sha256": "79cd28f5907e9c91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-22b.855.4", "colnum": "855", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "What matters for all of us who are concerned about education in this country is that we ensure that the quality of education that is provided for our children enables them to get on in life and have a better future. That is what this Government are about. It is about ensuring that in this country you get on on the basis of merit, not privilege; it is about ensuring that every child—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-22b.855.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-22", "file": "debates2017-03-22b.xml", "sha256": "79cd28f5907e9c91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-22b.858.1", "colnum": "858", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Yes, it is.”", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "This is not a question about whether the people of Scotland should have a choice about the future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-22b.858.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-22", "file": "debates2017-03-22b.xml", "sha256": "79cd28f5907e9c91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-22b.876.1", "colnum": "876", "heading": "AVIATION SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "own) was quite a steely fellow himself, but if I am in any sense mistaken on that front, may I commend to him the benefits of acquiring at least one of the characteristics of the rhinoceros? I am referring not of course to aesthetic beauty, but to notable resilience. We will leave it there for now. If there are no further points of order, at any rate for now, we come to the presentation of a Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-22b.876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-22", "file": "debates2017-03-22b.xml", "sha256": "79cd28f5907e9c91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-22b.883.0", "colnum": "883", "heading": "PENSION SCHEMES BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Alex Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Cunningham", "preceding_text": "hat the pausing of payments into the scheme under a pause order is fundamentally against what auto-enrolment sought to achieve. As it stands, the Bill would mean that if a pause order had been put on a master trust, the trust would no longer receive contributions from the employer or employee. I note there is a similar amendment from the SNP, and I believe we are trying to achieve the same things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-22b.883.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-22", "file": "debates2017-03-22b.xml", "sha256": "79cd28f5907e9c91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-22b.898.1", "colnum": "898", "heading": "PENSION SCHEMES BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Richard Harrington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Harrington", "preceding_text": "o come. Hopefully, within two years a clear regulatory system will be in place and the regulator has made very clear what trusts exist. We have taken quite a lot of care to ensure that this will not happen. I feel that the measures suggested in the new clause are totally disproportionate to the problem. For those reasons, I urge the hon. Gentleman to withdraw it, although I do not believe he will.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-22b.898.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-23", "file": "debates2017-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "df2487bfeed22daa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-23b.926.0", "colnum": "926", "heading": "LONDON ATTACKS", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "ically, as the House will know, 48-year-old PC Keith Palmer was killed. PC Palmer had devoted his life to the service of his country. He had been a member of the parliamentary and diplomatic protection command for 15 years, and a soldier in the Royal Artillery before that. He was a husband and a father, killed doing a job he loved. He was every inch a hero, and his actions will never be forgotten.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-23b.926.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-23", "file": "debates2017-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "df2487bfeed22daa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-23b.926.0", "colnum": "926", "heading": "LONDON ATTACKS", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "nd the Government secure zone. All of us in this House have a responsibility for the security and safety of our staff, and advice is available for Members who need it. Yesterday, we saw the worst of humanity, but we will remember the best. We will remember the extraordinary efforts to save the life of PC Keith Palmer, including those of my hon. Friend the Member for Bournemouth East (Mr Ellwood) .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-23b.926.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-23", "file": "debates2017-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "df2487bfeed22daa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-23b.963.2", "colnum": "963", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "David Lidington", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "David Lidington", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes an important point: we cannot distribute wealth unless business has created it in the first place. It is the job of government, and this Government’s commitment, to foster the economic climate in which businessmen in every part of the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-23b.963.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-24", "file": "debates2017-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "2fbf9b28e8a7bb78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-24a.1082.4", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "LOCAL AUDIT (PUBLIC ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that is commercially confidential.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-24a.1082.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-24", "file": "debates2017-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "2fbf9b28e8a7bb78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-24a.1086.1", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "LOCAL AUDIT (PUBLIC ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "preceding_text": "It is a pleasure, Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-24a.1086.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-27", "file": "debates2017-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "594b3d5cd48d3704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-27a.7.2", "colnum": "7", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady will know that that is not within my gift; it is for the usual channels. It is not correct to say that the regulations will affect 160,000 people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-27a.7.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-27", "file": "debates2017-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "594b3d5cd48d3704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-27a.12.3", "colnum": "12", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Damian Hinds", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Hinds", "preceding_text": "The roll-out of universal credit continues to roll out to plan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-27a.12.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-27", "file": "debates2017-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "594b3d5cd48d3704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-27a.13.3", "colnum": "13", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Damian Hinds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Hinds", "preceding_text": "The purpose of the limit on support through universal credit or tax credits to the first two children, in the case of new claims and new births, is to reduce our welfare spending and to target it in a particular way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-27a.13.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-27", "file": "debates2017-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "594b3d5cd48d3704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-27a.82.1", "colnum": "82", "heading": "BUS SERVICES BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Jones", "preceding_text": "I recognise what the hon. Gentleman says, but it is also fair to say that no local authority has either set up a municipal bus company or approached me with a view to doing so. Therefore, this is in some ways a slightly notional or theoretical debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-27a.82.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-28", "file": "debates2017-03-28c.xml", "sha256": "8c93a59dbb70c065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-28c.105.8", "colnum": "105", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "I call the Minister, the right hon. Tobias Ellwood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-28c.105.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-28", "file": "debates2017-03-28c.xml", "sha256": "8c93a59dbb70c065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-28c.110.2", "colnum": "110", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Khalid Mahmood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Khalid Mahmood", "preceding_text": "Has the Minister received the same representation as we have from the Polish and other European embassies on the difficulties that many EU nationals are having with the 85-page form that they have to complete in order to apply for permanent residency in the UK? Has he relayed those concerns to the Home Office?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-28c.110.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-28", "file": "debates2017-03-28c.xml", "sha256": "8c93a59dbb70c065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-28c.178.3", "colnum": "178", "heading": "NEIGHBOURHOOD PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Gavin Barwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gavin Barwell", "preceding_text": " saying that Members who wish to speak on this group of amendments might have anticipated the debate on the second group lasting for longer. I will try to talk at a little more length to give my hon. Friends time to arrive in the Chamber to take part. This is the third group of amendments and I want to provide the House with an update on the other amendments made to the Bill in the House of Lords—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-28c.178.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-29", "file": "debates2017-03-29c.xml", "sha256": "7fb0c2894fe00e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "preceding_text": "ourselves with the condolences given by the Prime Minister and the leader of the Labour party and their praise for the emergency and security services during and in the wake of the appalling terrorist atrocity last week. Last year, the Prime Minister promised that before she triggered article 50 on leaving the European Union she would secure a UK-wide approach—an agreement—with the Governments of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-29", "file": "debates2017-03-29c.xml", "sha256": "7fb0c2894fe00e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.244.0", "colnum": "244", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “National.”", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "I say to the right hon. Gentleman that we are taking forward the views of the United Kingdom into the negotiations with the European Union on the United Kingdom exiting the European Union. The Scottish nationalist party consistently talks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.244.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-29", "file": "debates2017-03-29c.xml", "sha256": "7fb0c2894fe00e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.247.4", "colnum": "247", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "I am very happy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.247.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-29", "file": "debates2017-03-29c.xml", "sha256": "7fb0c2894fe00e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.250.6", "colnum": "250", "heading": "ARTICLE 50", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "hange stronger, fairer, more united and more outward-looking than ever before. I want us to be a secure, prosperous, tolerant country, a magnet for international talent and a home to the pioneers and innovators who will shape the world ahead. I want us to be a truly global Britain: the best friend and neighbour to our European partners, but a country that reaches beyond the borders of Europe, too—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.250.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-29", "file": "debates2017-03-29c.xml", "sha256": "7fb0c2894fe00e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.250.8", "colnum": "250", "heading": "ARTICLE 50", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "and special partnership between Britain and the European Union—a partnership of values; a partnership of interests; a partnership based on co-operation in areas such as security and economic affairs; and a partnership that works in the best interests of the United Kingdom, the European Union and the wider world. Perhaps now, more than ever, the world needs the liberal, democratic values of Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.250.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-29", "file": "debates2017-03-29c.xml", "sha256": "7fb0c2894fe00e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.258.0", "colnum": "258", "heading": "ARTICLE 50", "cue_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "preceding_text": "ave said that she would try to seek an agreement with European partners on the plan which could have protected Scotland’s place in the single European market—but she did not. The Prime Minister could have taken the views of the Scottish, the Welsh and the Northern Irish Governments seriously and reached an agreement before triggering article 50, as she promised. She did not, and she does not have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.258.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-29", "file": "debates2017-03-29c.xml", "sha256": "7fb0c2894fe00e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.258.1", "colnum": "258", "heading": "ARTICLE 50", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "Order. I apologise for interrupting the right hon. Gentleman, but we cannot have side exchanges taking place while he should have the Floor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-29", "file": "debates2017-03-29c.xml", "sha256": "7fb0c2894fe00e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.258.2", "colnum": "258", "heading": "ARTICLE 50", "cue_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr Speaker. We on the SNP Benches have become accustomed to the views of Conservative Members as being incapable of understanding that the people of Scotland voted to remain in the European Union. The Prime Minister promised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.258.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-29", "file": "debates2017-03-29c.xml", "sha256": "7fb0c2894fe00e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.258.2", "colnum": "258", "heading": "ARTICLE 50", "cue_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "preceding_text": "done? They have carried on blithely ignoring the views of people in Scotland and its democratically elected representatives. Europe is watching the way that this Government treat parts of the United Kingdom that voted to remain with Europe. The UK Government had a mandate to hold a Brexit referendum. We accept that, and we accept the leave result in the rest of the United Kingdom. In that context—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.258.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-29", "file": "debates2017-03-29c.xml", "sha256": "7fb0c2894fe00e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.258.2", "colnum": "258", "heading": "ARTICLE 50", "cue_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "preceding_text": "uded? The Prime Minister says that she thinks that Brexit will bring unity to the United Kingdom. It will not. On this issue, it is not a United Kingdom, and the Prime Minster needs to respect—respect—the differences across the nations of the United Kingdom. If she does not—if she remains intransigent and if she denies Scotland a choice on our future—she will make Scottish independence inevitable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.258.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-29", "file": "debates2017-03-29c.xml", "sha256": "7fb0c2894fe00e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "ARTICLE 50", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr Speaker. The right hon. Gentleman has said this afternoon on a number of occasions, as he has on many occasions in this House before, that Scotland voted to remain in the European Union and should therefore be treated differently. My constituency voted to remain in the European Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-29", "file": "debates2017-03-29c.xml", "sha256": "7fb0c2894fe00e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "ARTICLE 50", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "n having been given to people of the United Kingdom, we should now respect that vote and get on with the job of delivering for everybody across the whole of the United Kingdom. The right hon. Gentleman refers to the issue of Scottish independence and its impact on membership of the European Union. It is the case, and the European Union has reinforced the Barroso doctrine, that if Scotland were to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-29", "file": "debates2017-03-29c.xml", "sha256": "7fb0c2894fe00e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.260.4", "colnum": "260", "heading": "ARTICLE 50", "cue_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "preceding_text": " But that may change in the next two years. Who knows what might happen? The EU may move away from that principle of the free movement of people. In view of that, could the Prime Minister give an assurance that she has not turned her back on membership of the single market? It is what British business wants, it would see off Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP’s outrageous demands for a second referendum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.260.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-29", "file": "debates2017-03-29c.xml", "sha256": "7fb0c2894fe00e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "ARTICLE 50", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "Order. In congratulating the hon. Member for Morley and Outwood (Andrea Jenkyns) on the excellent news to which the hon. Member for Colne Valley (Jason McCartney) has just referred, I think it right also to congratulate the hon. Member for Filton and Bradley Stoke (Jack Lopresti) , who I think had some hand in the matter as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-29", "file": "debates2017-03-29c.xml", "sha256": "7fb0c2894fe00e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.284.1", "colnum": "284", "heading": "ARTICLE 50", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "This is truly a red, white and blue letter day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-29", "file": "debates2017-03-29c.xml", "sha256": "7fb0c2894fe00e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.289.2", "colnum": "289", "heading": "ARTICLE 50", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More!”", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "We have already heard from the fella—I had forgotten. I do apologise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.289.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-29", "file": "debates2017-03-29c.xml", "sha256": "7fb0c2894fe00e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.295.4", "colnum": "295", "heading": "ARTICLE 50", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "None of us wants to see xenophobic behaviour from people here in the United Kingdom. We have welcomed EU citizens, they have worked alongside us and lived alongside us, and they contribute to our economy and our society. Looking ahead, I want to ensure that we get a reciprocal agreement for EU citizens living here and for UK citizens—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.295.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-29", "file": "debates2017-03-29c.xml", "sha256": "7fb0c2894fe00e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.300.3", "colnum": "300", "heading": "ARTICLE 50", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr Speaker. You and I, and several other Members of this House, have taken more than a passing interest in one of the largest infrastructure projects in Europe: HS2. It has been brought to my attention on the wires this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.300.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-29", "file": "debates2017-03-29c.xml", "sha256": "7fb0c2894fe00e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.311.7", "colnum": "311", "heading": "PERSONAL INDEPENDENCE PAYMENT: REGULATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Debbie Abrahams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Debbie Abrahams", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but I do not see the hon. Gentleman’s logic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.311.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-29", "file": "debates2017-03-29c.xml", "sha256": "7fb0c2894fe00e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.334.2", "colnum": "334", "heading": "PERSONAL INDEPENDENCE PAYMENT: REGULATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Charles Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Walker", "preceding_text": "nadvertently misleading it during my Adjournment debate last Thursday on the Ratty’s Lane incinerator? I said that in 2012 Hertfordshire County Council objected to 46 of Veolia’s HGV movements a day, and that the company was now proposing 212 HGV movements a day. That figure was provided to me by Veolia on 4 March 2016, but I have since discovered that the actual number is 268 HGV movements a day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.334.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-29", "file": "debates2017-03-29c.xml", "sha256": "7fb0c2894fe00e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.349.0", "colnum": "349", "heading": "PENSION SCHEMES BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Debbie Abrahams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Debbie Abrahams", "preceding_text": "roughout these debates to address a number of serious issues through pragmatic engagement with the Bill, and by highlighting its many gaps. One would think that the Government would have had time to include much more detail on this piece of primary legislation to allow for proper scrutiny in both Houses. It seems, however, that they were unable to get their act together on this aspect of pensions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-29c.349.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-30", "file": "debates2017-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "61a161543b0ad411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-30a.411.0", "colnum": "411", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "David Lidington", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “The Scottish Parliament’s.”", "preceding_speaker": "David Lidington", "preceding_text": "opean treaties to this country and, as international agreements, they are reserved matters under the terms of the Scotland Act 1998. I cannot at this stage rule out some hypothetical piece of future secondary legislation, but it is not right to exaggerate fears of something that is very unlikely to come about. The hon. Gentleman then asked me about the First Minister’s call for another referendum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-30a.411.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-30", "file": "debates2017-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "61a161543b0ad411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-30a.415.2", "colnum": "415", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "t. We could also consider whether HS2 can explain what it is going to do with Bechtel and Mace, the other bidders—whether the contract will be started from scratch, or we are going to have to take its word that there was no conflict of interest if one of them is appointed. We could also clarify the roles of individuals such as Chris Reynolds and the raft of CH2M secondees working in HS2, and also—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-30a.415.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-30", "file": "debates2017-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "61a161543b0ad411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-30a.415.2", "colnum": "415", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "—whether the contract will be started from scratch, or we are going to have to take its word that there was no conflict of interest if one of them is appointed. We could also clarify the roles of individuals such as Chris Reynolds and the raft of CH2M secondees working in HS2, and also—[Interruption.] Perhaps we could also look at the role of the chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-30a.415.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-30", "file": "debates2017-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "61a161543b0ad411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-30a.431.0", "colnum": "431", "heading": "LEGISLATING FOR UK WITHDRAWAL FROM THE EU", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Then say it!”", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "At the end of my statement, I said that I hoped the House would come together in making this task happen. I reiterate that point to the hon. and learned Member for Holborn and St Pancras (Keir Starmer) , my opposite number. He says that no change should be made to rights through delegated legislation, but I would have thought that that almost goes without saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-30a.431.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-30", "file": "debates2017-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "61a161543b0ad411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-30a.439.3", "colnum": "439", "heading": "LEGISLATING FOR UK WITHDRAWAL FROM THE EU", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman continues with his habit of reading half of what we say and ignoring the other half when it suits him. One of the things I have said from the beginning of this process is that we will bring into British law all European law, including case law, except where there are significant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-30a.439.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-30", "file": "debates2017-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "61a161543b0ad411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-30a.439.3", "colnum": "439", "heading": "LEGISLATING FOR UK WITHDRAWAL FROM THE EU", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "tinues with his habit of reading half of what we say and ignoring the other half when it suits him. One of the things I have said from the beginning of this process is that we will bring into British law all European law, including case law, except where there are significant—[Interruption.] This is what the Bill will do. It will of course require statutory instruments to modify technical aspects—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-30a.439.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-30", "file": "debates2017-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "61a161543b0ad411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-30a.442.0", "colnum": "442", "heading": "LEGISLATING FOR UK WITHDRAWAL FROM THE EU", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "The 40 are not in the UK; they are across the Union. It may be appropriate and it may not. It depends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-30a.442.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-30", "file": "debates2017-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "61a161543b0ad411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-30a.470.2", "colnum": "470", "heading": "ANIMAL WELFARE", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Colvile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Colvile", "preceding_text": "lling in no uncertain terms her heart-wrenching stories about how some people end up abusing animals. I come back to the point that I made in an intervention: it is important that we better educate children so that they understand the value and importance of looking after animals. I will not pretend for one moment that I have ever lived in a family with lots of dogs and cats, and things like that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-30a.470.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-30", "file": "debates2017-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "61a161543b0ad411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-30a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "ANIMAL WELFARE", "cue_speaker": "Rebecca Pow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rebecca Pow", "preceding_text": "It is not cheating; I try to do a useful education job. We have talked so much about education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-30a.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-30", "file": "debates2017-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "61a161543b0ad411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-30a.492.0", "colnum": "492", "heading": "ANIMAL WELFARE", "cue_speaker": "David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Amess", "preceding_text": "on. Member for Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle (Alan Johnson) to talk about the wonderful books that he has written. Tonight, after I have left here, I will go to the Southend’s Got Talent competition. In May, stilt-walkers will walk nonstop from Southend to No. 10 Downing Street, where they will present the Prime Minister with a letter from our good selves asking for Southend to become a city—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-30a.492.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-30", "file": "debates2017-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "61a161543b0ad411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-30a.502.0", "colnum": "502", "heading": "ANIMAL WELFARE", "cue_speaker": "Liz McInnes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liz McInnes", "preceding_text": "It is a pleasure to follow my right hon. Friend the Member for Leicester East (Keith Vaz) . I should just like to thank him for blowing my cover; I was trying to keep my birthday quiet. He was the first person in the House to wish me a happy birthday today, however, and I am grateful to him for that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-30a.502.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-03-30", "file": "debates2017-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "61a161543b0ad411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-30a.507.0", "colnum": "507", "heading": "ANIMAL WELFARE", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ellis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ellis", "preceding_text": " way, he should speak to me. The next Member to speak was my hon. Friend the Member for Southend West (Sir David Amess) who most certainly is in his place. Traditionally, he puts on a tour de force at the end-of-term Adjournment debates. He spoke of Southend, the alternative city of culture, and about Southend’s Got Talent competition, which is on tonight. I do not know whether he is a contestant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-03-30a.507.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-18", "file": "debates2017-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "5b0bbe8d71ee25fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-18b.534.6", "colnum": "534", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Jane Ellison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Ellison", "preceding_text": "We look to support the tourism sector in a whole range of ways, and the sector is doing very well. We have seen great increases in the number of tourists, and my hon. Friend is a great advocate for his region. Tourism is one of the highest performing sectors in the economy. For example, the UK has one of the highest VAT registration thresholds in the EU—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-18b.534.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-18", "file": "debates2017-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "5b0bbe8d71ee25fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-18b.550.3", "colnum": "550", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Jess Phillips", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jess Phillips", "preceding_text": "I was not going to speak, but like everybody else sat in this Chamber it may well be the last time I get the chance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-18b.550.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-18", "file": "debates2017-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "5b0bbe8d71ee25fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-18b.555.1", "colnum": "555", "heading": "SYRIA AND NORTH KOREA", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady has said, for instance, that the west is divided in its attitude towards sanctions. Let us be absolutely clear that all we are trying to do is to follow where the evidential trail leads—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-18b.555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-18", "file": "debates2017-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "5b0bbe8d71ee25fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-18b.555.4", "colnum": "555", "heading": "SYRIA AND NORTH KOREA", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "id, for the first time in five years, that action has shown that the west is willing to stand up to the use of these vile weapons. This has given us a political opportunity that we have hitherto not had, and I think that her best bet would be to support this Government and the efforts of western countries in trying to drive that forward and get the Russians to deliver a genuine political solution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-18b.555.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-18", "file": "debates2017-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "5b0bbe8d71ee25fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-18b.563.2", "colnum": "563", "heading": "SYRIA AND NORTH KOREA", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "tleman. Of course, it is difficult. Of course the Russians have been backing Assad for many years, but this is an opportunity for them to have a new bargain in which there is a ceasefire, an end to the barrel bombs and an end to the chemical weapons—a real political solution—and in exchange they get a genuine relationship with the United States, join the rest of the world in the war against Daesh—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-18b.563.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-18", "file": "debates2017-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "5b0bbe8d71ee25fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-18b.577.0", "colnum": "577", "heading": "FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "preceding_text": "er, which is packed-out, for this scintillating debate? I do not think anyone would have thought that. Only a few weeks have passed since the Chancellor’s shambolic Budget U-turn, yet today the Prime Minister has announced a U-turn in relation to the general election. We all thought the lady was not for turning, as she has led us to believe on at least seven occasions, and of course we were wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-18b.577.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-18", "file": "debates2017-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "5b0bbe8d71ee25fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-18b.577.0", "colnum": "577", "heading": "FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "preceding_text": "et, it is only right that we start this debate by offering a reminder of its contents. Notwithstanding what the Minister has just said, the Budget continued the Government’s programme of tax cuts for multinational corporations and the super rich: by the end of 2021 they would have received £70 billion-worth of tax breaks, paid for by those on middle and low incomes and of course the self-employed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-18b.577.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-18", "file": "debates2017-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "5b0bbe8d71ee25fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-18b.577.0", "colnum": "577", "heading": "FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "preceding_text": " before about the OECD. The British people wait to see any benefits of growth, but the only growth they can expect to see is in the size of the Government’s Finance Bills; this one is a whopper, coming in at 762 pages, longer than any previous Finance Bill and one of the largest pieces of proposed legislation ever presented to this House. Those 762 pages are hardly riveting reading, I have to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-18b.577.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-18", "file": "debates2017-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "5b0bbe8d71ee25fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-18b.593.1", "colnum": "593", "heading": "FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "preceding_text": "t the Scottish people will be delighted to hear that the hon. Lady thinks that somehow they do not pay taxes and that they are dependent on the largesse of ladies like her to fund our welfare system. We have had a very small amount of welfare devolved. If she wants to make such a contribution, she can read out the rest of the Whips’ briefing note when she catches your eye later, Mr Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-18b.593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-18", "file": "debates2017-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "5b0bbe8d71ee25fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-18b.601.2", "colnum": "601", "heading": "FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Steve McCabe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve McCabe", "preceding_text": "refusals to call a general election—after assurance after assurance that there would be no election before 2020—that the Prime Minister now needs one? What does she know that the rest of us do not know? I suspect that what she knows is that the NHS is in chaos, our schools are in chaos, the Brexit talks are in chaos, and the economy is heading for the doldrums. That is what I suspect is happening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-18b.601.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-19", "file": "debates2017-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "b4ef8ece1625c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.658.6", "colnum": "658", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "David Mundell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Mundell", "preceding_text": "I have been clear that Scotland’s place in Europe did play an important part in the Government’s thinking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.658.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-19", "file": "debates2017-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "b4ef8ece1625c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.659.7", "colnum": "659", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Chris Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Davies", "preceding_text": "Now that the Scottish Government have unprecedented power to shape the economy of Scotland, will my right hon. Friend join me in calling on the Scottish National party to start delivering jobs and economic growth in Scotland, rather than focusing on a second independence referendum?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.659.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-19", "file": "debates2017-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "b4ef8ece1625c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.661.8", "colnum": "661", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Bob Blackman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Blackman", "preceding_text": "What assessment has my right hon. Friend made of the opportunities for increasing whisky exports across the world as part of a free trade agreement once we leave the European Union?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.661.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-19", "file": "debates2017-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "b4ef8ece1625c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.666.0", "colnum": "666", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "I know that it has taken the right hon. Gentleman a little time to get the hang of Prime Minister’s questions, but he stands up week in, week out and asks me questions and I respond to those questions. With a stronger—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.666.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-19", "file": "debates2017-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "b4ef8ece1625c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.668.3", "colnum": "668", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "preceding_text": "It is disappointing that the Prime Minister did not take the opportunity to condemn intemperate language in describing other democratic politicians as—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.668.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-19", "file": "debates2017-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "b4ef8ece1625c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.668.4", "colnum": "668", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "that people in this Chamber should stand up for the freedom of the press. As to the TV debates, I can assure him that I will be out there campaigning in every part of the United Kingdom, taking out there our proud record of a Conservative Government that has delivered for every part of the United Kingdom. I might also suggest to the Scottish nationalists that now is the time for them to put aside—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.668.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-19", "file": "debates2017-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "b4ef8ece1625c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.673.3", "colnum": "673", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "general election because Parliament was blocking Brexit, but three quarters of MPs and two thirds of the Lords voted for article 50, so that’s not true, is it? A month ago, she told her official spokesman to rule out an early general election, and that wasn’t true either, was it? She wants us to believe that she is a woman of her word. Isn’t the truth that we cannot believe a single word she says?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.673.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-19", "file": "debates2017-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "b4ef8ece1625c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.676.6", "colnum": "676", "heading": "CHILD MAINTENANCE (ASSESSMENT OF PARENTS’ INCOME)", "cue_speaker": "David Burrowes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Burrowes", "preceding_text": "used on the next motion rather than on my Bill. However, many parents have waited all too long for fair child maintenance for their children, and they will not let a general election get in the way of their campaign. The campaign message at the heart of my Bill, to use the Prime Minister’s parlance, is that we need a child maintenance service that works for everyone, not just for a privileged few.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.676.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-19", "file": "debates2017-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "b4ef8ece1625c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.688.1", "colnum": "688", "heading": "EARLY PARLIAMENTARY GENERAL ELECTION", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "Order. Is the right hon. Member for Islington North (Jeremy Corbyn) giving way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-19", "file": "debates2017-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "b4ef8ece1625c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.688.1", "colnum": "688", "heading": "EARLY PARLIAMENTARY GENERAL ELECTION", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "Order. Is the right hon. Member for Islington North (Jeremy Corbyn) giving way? [Interruption.] No, he has finished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-19", "file": "debates2017-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "b4ef8ece1625c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.688.1", "colnum": "688", "heading": "EARLY PARLIAMENTARY GENERAL ELECTION", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": ". Is the right hon. Member for Islington North (Jeremy Corbyn) giving way? [Interruption.] No, he has finished. [Interruption.] Order. I have known the right hon. Member for Rayleigh and Wickford (Mr Francois) for more than 30 years, since we stood against each other in a student election. He is not going to take it personally, but the right hon. Member for Islington North has finished his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-19", "file": "debates2017-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "b4ef8ece1625c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.691.7", "colnum": "691", "heading": "EARLY PARLIAMENTARY GENERAL ELECTION", "cue_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "preceding_text": "cal parties abusing their position and putting party before country. Today the Tories are going to do just that, and, sadly, the Labour party is going to vote with the Tories and make life easy for them. We on these Benches will not vote with the Tories but, given the reality—the Labour party will be voting with the Tories—there will be a general election, and boy, we look forward to that contest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.691.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-19", "file": "debates2017-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "b4ef8ece1625c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.692.6", "colnum": "692", "heading": "EARLY PARLIAMENTARY GENERAL ELECTION", "cue_speaker": "Anne Main", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Main", "preceding_text": " takes place on 8 June , individual Members may well find themselves in difficulties with their constituencies because of whatever views they have expressed about leadership, but I am proud to be standing behind a Prime Minister who has made it brutally clear that this is about not making gains in this place, but delivering a Brexit that is for the good of the European Union, that is not just for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.692.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-19", "file": "debates2017-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "b4ef8ece1625c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.692.6", "colnum": "692", "heading": "EARLY PARLIAMENTARY GENERAL ELECTION", "cue_speaker": "Anne Main", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Main", "preceding_text": "untry? I suggest that the answer is no. I suggest that the British public, when deciding who to vote for on 8 June , will look forward with confidence to a Prime Minister with an increased mandate to take us through the next five years, and I am delighted that she is giving the country this opportunity to examine our record. Since 2010, there has been a 73% drop in youth unemployment in St Albans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.692.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-19", "file": "debates2017-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "b4ef8ece1625c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.693.1", "colnum": "693", "heading": "EARLY PARLIAMENTARY GENERAL ELECTION", "cue_speaker": "Anne Main", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Main", "preceding_text": "No. I am about to finish my speech. We need to make the future secure for all our young people and all our families. The game-playing in this place does a disservice to the British public. They are probably fed up with having elections anyway, but let us get on with it and get a mandate for our Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-19", "file": "debates2017-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "b4ef8ece1625c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.694.9", "colnum": "694", "heading": "EARLY PARLIAMENTARY GENERAL ELECTION", "cue_speaker": "Tim Farron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Farron", "preceding_text": "I have responded to the hon. Gentleman’s intervention. It is very clear that we are not talking about balanced Parliaments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.694.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-19", "file": "debates2017-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "b4ef8ece1625c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.694.9", "colnum": "694", "heading": "EARLY PARLIAMENTARY GENERAL ELECTION", "cue_speaker": "Tim Farron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Farron", "preceding_text": "I have responded to the hon. Gentleman’s intervention. It is very clear that we are not talking about balanced Parliaments. [Interruption.] The Prime Minister takes the view that calling this general election gives her an opportunity to have a 100-seat majority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.694.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-19", "file": "debates2017-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "b4ef8ece1625c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.694.9", "colnum": "694", "heading": "EARLY PARLIAMENTARY GENERAL ELECTION", "cue_speaker": "Tim Farron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Farron", "preceding_text": "ervention. It is very clear that we are not talking about balanced Parliaments. [Interruption.] The Prime Minister takes the view that calling this general election gives her an opportunity to have a 100-seat majority. [Interruption.] She takes the view that this gives her an opportunity to drive through not just a hard Brexit, but her agenda to slim down the national health service, to slim down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.694.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-19", "file": "debates2017-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "b4ef8ece1625c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.696.0", "colnum": "696", "heading": "EARLY PARLIAMENTARY GENERAL ELECTION", "cue_speaker": "Tim Farron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Farron", "preceding_text": "The outcome of this general election is uncertain, and in the days and weeks to come we will no doubt talk about what will happen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.696.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-19", "file": "debates2017-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "b4ef8ece1625c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.697.2", "colnum": "697", "heading": "EARLY PARLIAMENTARY GENERAL ELECTION", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "mstances has come about. We have had a change of Prime Minister and a change of all the senior Ministers. We have moved from having a Government who were anti-Brexit to one who are pro-Brexit. That is why I will cast my vote today in support of the Government motion. It is up to each Member to make their own decision. I believe that this proves that the Fixed- term Parliaments Act 2011 is working—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.697.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-19", "file": "debates2017-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "b4ef8ece1625c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.720.2", "colnum": "720", "heading": "TECHNICAL AND FURTHER EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "preceding_text": "No, I am sorry, but I am not going to give way again. The hon. Gentleman has had two shouts and he is out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.720.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-19", "file": "debates2017-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "b4ef8ece1625c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.732.0", "colnum": "732", "heading": "SECTION 5 OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (AMENDMENT) ACT 1993", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "bined with the Office for Budget Responsibility’s Economic and Fiscal Outlook and Fiscal Sustainability Report, which forms the basis of the United Kingdom’s Convergence Programme. The legal requirement to give the European Commission an update of the UK’s economic and budgetary position—our convergence programme—means there is a welcome opportunity for a wider economic debate, should we want one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.732.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-19", "file": "debates2017-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "b4ef8ece1625c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.732.0", "colnum": "732", "heading": "SECTION 5 OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (AMENDMENT) ACT 1993", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "ity’s Economic and Fiscal Outlook and Fiscal Sustainability Report, which forms the basis of the United Kingdom’s Convergence Programme. The legal requirement to give the European Commission an update of the UK’s economic and budgetary position—our convergence programme—means there is a welcome opportunity for a wider economic debate, should we want one. [Interruption.] Clearly, since last year’s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.732.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-19", "file": "debates2017-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "b4ef8ece1625c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.737.1", "colnum": "737", "heading": "SECTION 5 OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (AMENDMENT) ACT 1993", "cue_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Yes, he did.”", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "preceding_text": "inister says that the Government created them, and I completely accept that, but they have to give them significant powers and responsibilities. The Government have been dragging their feet in many regards on that. Under seven years of Tory mismanagement, our economy has seen stagnant wages, slow growth and low productivity. I note that the Minister did not mention productivity once in his speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-19a.737.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-24", "file": "debates2017-04-24c.xml", "sha256": "5ef324d204e2c37a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-24c.929.1", "colnum": "929", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS AND REGIONAL RATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "David Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Anderson", "preceding_text": "I do, but I am not prepared to detail such cases today, because I prepared that one, and as I said at the beginning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-24c.929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-24", "file": "debates2017-04-24c.xml", "sha256": "5ef324d204e2c37a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-24c.933.1", "colnum": "933", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS AND REGIONAL RATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Alasdair McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Alasdair McDonnell", "preceding_text": "n Féin, and I do not think I will ever want to be, but is the hon. Gentleman seriously suggesting that all of us should have turned a blind eye to the crisis over the renewable heat initiative and done nothing? To my mind, he ignores the fact that this crisis was triggered by a serious issue of confidence that needs to be dealt with and resolved. Other things have piled in, and we can throw abuse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-24c.933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-24", "file": "debates2017-04-24c.xml", "sha256": "5ef324d204e2c37a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-24c.938.2", "colnum": "938", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS AND REGIONAL RATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "I know Members do not like this, but I should say that there are very few tools left in the Secretary of State’s box and one is to put financial pressure on the political parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-24c.938.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-24", "file": "debates2017-04-24c.xml", "sha256": "5ef324d204e2c37a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-24c.958.4", "colnum": "958", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS AND REGIONAL RATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "preceding_text": "mily have been waiting 46 years for such a matter to be addressed. The families of the four UDR men about whom we recently had a debate in the House—Members on these Benches took the time to attend and offer their support—have been waiting some 27 years for justice for those people. We are looking for justice, we want to see it coming, and we want to hear people saying that throughout the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-24c.958.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-24", "file": "debates2017-04-24c.xml", "sha256": "5ef324d204e2c37a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-24c.958.4", "colnum": "958", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS AND REGIONAL RATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "preceding_text": "see it coming, and we want to hear people saying that throughout the Chamber—[Interruption.] I am quite happy to respect everyone else, and if there is a case to be answered, let us answer it, but to be honest, if there is a case involving our side, I want to hear people talking a wee bit more about it. I want to hear about inquiries for Unionist people who have endured some 35 years of terrorism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-24c.958.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-24", "file": "debates2017-04-24c.xml", "sha256": "5ef324d204e2c37a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-24c.962.4", "colnum": "962", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS AND REGIONAL RATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mark Durkan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Durkan", "preceding_text": " Friend that when it came to the Stormont House talks, it was the SDLP who submitted the papers on a whole community approach to tackling paramilitarism, it was the SDLP who put in a whole enforcement approach to tackling paramilitarism, and, in fact, it was the SDLP who wanted paramilitarism and criminality on the agenda of those all-party talks. It was the DUP who helped to veto that originally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-24c.962.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-24", "file": "debates2017-04-24c.xml", "sha256": "5ef324d204e2c37a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-24c.962.7", "colnum": "962", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS AND REGIONAL RATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Alasdair McDonnell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ooh!”", "preceding_speaker": "Alasdair McDonnell", "preceding_text": "Thank you very much, Madam Deputy Speaker, but allegations were made and I felt that I had to refute them. I will leave it at that and perhaps sort it out with the right hon. Gentleman privately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-24c.962.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-25", "file": "debates2017-04-25b.xml", "sha256": "5d7ba2fa7f93d086", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-25b.1006.1", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady does not seem to understand that this is about supporting victims of rape and domestic abuse. This approach is crucial to protect women who are faced with very difficult circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-25b.1006.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-25", "file": "debates2017-04-25b.xml", "sha256": "5d7ba2fa7f93d086", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-25b.1007.6", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Sue Hayman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sue Hayman", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. To clarify, the letters were signed “Trudy Harrison, MP”, and across the top it said “MP”. She described herself as an MP.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-25b.1007.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-25", "file": "debates2017-04-25b.xml", "sha256": "5d7ba2fa7f93d086", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-25b.1007.7", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "not clear to me that the hon. Member for Copeland (Trudy Harrison) has broken any convention. It is certainly a convention to notify another Member of an intention to visit his or her constituency in a political public capacity. It is also a very well established convention that a Member of Parliament should not purport to represent or offer to represent people who are not her or his constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-25b.1007.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-25", "file": "debates2017-04-25b.xml", "sha256": "5d7ba2fa7f93d086", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-25b.1034.0", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Jane Ellison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Ellison", "preceding_text": "will continue to benefit from the previous change to spirit duty rates. While we are on spirits, I should touch on another great British success: the UK gin industry. When I met the Wine and Spirit Trade Association, it informed me that, in 2016, gin sales exceeded £1 billion for the first time in the UK. I suspect that many of us will be partaking of a number of these products in the weeks ahead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-25b.1034.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-25", "file": "debates2017-04-25b.xml", "sha256": "5d7ba2fa7f93d086", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-25b.1034.0", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Jane Ellison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Ellison", "preceding_text": "n for the first time in the UK. I suspect that many of us will be partaking of a number of these products in the weeks ahead. [Interruption.] I said many of us. We will be partaking perhaps in celebration or perhaps for sustenance or who knows what reason. It is good that we put these British success stories on record. I was also told that the number of gin brands has more than doubled since 2010.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-25b.1034.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-26", "file": "debates2017-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "efbda4cd00bb9352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-26a.1100.6", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "THE PRIME MINISTER WAS ASKED—", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More!”", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "of this Parliament, so I think it would be appropriate if we all paid tribute to those colleagues who have decided to leave the House. I thank them for their service to democracy in this country. I also thank you, Mr Speaker, for the way in which you have presided over this House and sought to reach out to the wider communities in this country. When I became Leader of the Opposition 18 months ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-26a.1100.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-26", "file": "debates2017-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "efbda4cd00bb9352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-26a.1102.1", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "THE PRIME MINISTER WAS ASKED—", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "Labour is not slashing school budgets. Labour is not putting money into pet projects. We want every child—every child—to have a decent chance in a decent school. We do not want an education system that relies on begging letters from schools to maintain employment and books in the classroom. Many people feel that the system is rigged against them. Maureen wrote to me this week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-26a.1102.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-26", "file": "debates2017-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "efbda4cd00bb9352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-26a.1111.0", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "THE PRIME MINISTER WAS ASKED—", "cue_speaker": "Tim Farron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Farron", "preceding_text": "n the nine months that the Prime Minister has held office, she has closed the door on desperate child refugees and ignored the plight of those suffering under the crisis in health and social care, and she is responsible for the shameful rape clause. Twenty years ago, she berated the Conservative party for being the “nasty party”, but her party has never been nastier. The legacy of this Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-26a.1111.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-26", "file": "debates2017-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "efbda4cd00bb9352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-26a.1114.5", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "THE PRIME MINISTER WAS ASKED—", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "Order. I will now take points of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-26a.1114.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-26", "file": "debates2017-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "efbda4cd00bb9352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-26a.1117.3", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "THE PRIME MINISTER WAS ASKED—", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "Well, I did call 35 Members. I will take one further point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-26a.1117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-26", "file": "debates2017-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "efbda4cd00bb9352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-26a.1118.1", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY (PROTECTION OF CASH RETENTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Alan Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Brown", "preceding_text": "a Bill to make provision to safeguard, and for the release of, cash retentions in the construction industry; and for connected purposes. When I secured this ten-minute rule Bill slot, I genuinely hoped it was going to be the start of new legislation, but unfortunately the right hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May) was apparently so scared of what I was proposing that she called a general election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-26a.1118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-26", "file": "debates2017-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "efbda4cd00bb9352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-26a.1137.1", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "DIGITAL ECONOMY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sharon Hodgson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sharon Hodgson", "preceding_text": "Correct—his thunder. I wanted to mention that I have had an email from Claire Turnham, as I know you have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-26a.1137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-26", "file": "debates2017-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "efbda4cd00bb9352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-26a.1137.2", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "DIGITAL ECONOMY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Adams", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More!”", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Adams", "preceding_text": "t of deceptive advertising but that to act on those issues it needs evidence and examples to be reported, either from consumers who have been turned away from events after buying a ticket from a company using a sponsored link on Google, or from the Advertising Standards Authority. Such information has not been forthcoming thus far. In conclusion—I can see the joy on the Whip’s face at those words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-26a.1137.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-26", "file": "debates2017-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "efbda4cd00bb9352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-26a.1137.2", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "DIGITAL ECONOMY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Adams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Adams", "preceding_text": "and examples to be reported, either from consumers who have been turned away from events after buying a ticket from a company using a sponsored link on Google, or from the Advertising Standards Authority. Such information has not been forthcoming thus far. In conclusion—I can see the joy on the Whip’s face at those words. [Hon. Members: “More!”] There is more, if Members would like me to continue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-26a.1137.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-04-27", "file": "debates2017-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "e9655cf02ebcbbc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-27a.1207.2", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "EXITING THE EUROPEAN UNION", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "Order. The right hon. Gentleman is a very fine man, but his name is not Sir Edward Leigh.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-04-27a.1207.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-13", "file": "debates2017-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "1c3601887598ef72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-13a.7.0", "colnum": "7", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "d career in the House, punctuated this year by his speech in the Brexit debate during which he lamented that his party had become “mildly anti-immigrant”. How new a development that might be is open to debate, but I am sorry to note that the party is also at best—to put it generously—mildly anti-worker, anti-disabled people, anti-pensioner and anti-young people. I am sorry to be so divisive today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-13a.7.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-13", "file": "debates2017-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "1c3601887598ef72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-13a.7.0", "colnum": "7", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Shame!”", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "o would seek to divide and destroy the democracy in our society. I also congratulate you on the way in which you have conducted yourself and on the inclusive debates with which you have made sure that Back Benchers are fully involved over the years that you have been Speaker. We have at least two things in common, Mr Speaker-Elect. First—this is very divisive—is our love for Arsenal football club.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-13a.7.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-13", "file": "debates2017-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "6eab51bd861a261b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-13b.3.0", "colnum": "3", "heading": "ELECTION OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More!”", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": " role—we are all pleased to welcome the new Members on both sides of the House. They might not realise that the Speaker’s office, under that name, goes back a mere 640 years. The Speaker was then the agent of the King, and was afforded little protection. If the agent of the King offered bad news, he suffered the monarch’s wrath, and no fewer than seven Speakers were beheaded between 1394 and 1535—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-13b.3.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-13", "file": "debates2017-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "6eab51bd861a261b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-13b.3.0", "colnum": "3", "heading": "ELECTION OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "s and our rights as Back Benchers without fear of losing his head—except, I have to say, when Members misbehave in the Chamber. Compared with the Father of the House, with his 47 years of experience, I am just a youngster in this place. However, I have seen many changes over the 25 years I have served in Parliament. The wigs have gone, except for the one that I see being worn for a state occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-13b.3.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-13", "file": "debates2017-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "6eab51bd861a261b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-13b.7.0", "colnum": "7", "heading": "ELECTION OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "d career in the House, punctuated this year by his speech in the Brexit debate during which he lamented that his party had become “mildly anti-immigrant”. How new a development that might be is open to debate, but I am sorry to note that the party is also at best—to put it generously—mildly anti-worker, anti-disabled people, anti-pensioner and anti-young people. I am sorry to be so divisive today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-13b.7.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-13", "file": "debates2017-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "6eab51bd861a261b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-13b.7.0", "colnum": "7", "heading": "ELECTION OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Shame!”", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "o would seek to divide and destroy the democracy in our society. I also congratulate you on the way in which you have conducted yourself and on the inclusive debates with which you have made sure that Back Benchers are fully involved over the years that you have been Speaker. We have at least two things in common, Mr Speaker-Elect. First—this is very divisive—is our love for Arsenal football club.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-13b.7.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-13", "file": "debates2017-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "6eab51bd861a261b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-13b.9.0", "colnum": "9", "heading": "ELECTION OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Tim Farron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Farron", "preceding_text": "ciate myself with the generous remarks made, correctly so, about the right hon. and learned Members for Camberwell and Peckham (Ms Harman) and for Rushcliffe (Mr Clarke), and also with the remarks made by the right hon. Member for Chesham and Amersham (Mrs Gillan) , who did make one mistake—she said that we have got rid of nearly all the Whigs. May I say that there are 12 of us now—a 50% increase?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-13b.9.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-13", "file": "debates2017-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "6eab51bd861a261b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-13b.9.0", "colnum": "9", "heading": "ELECTION OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Tim Farron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Farron", "preceding_text": "s made, correctly so, about the right hon. and learned Members for Camberwell and Peckham (Ms Harman) and for Rushcliffe (Mr Clarke), and also with the remarks made by the right hon. Member for Chesham and Amersham (Mrs Gillan) , who did make one mistake—she said that we have got rid of nearly all the Whigs. May I say that there are 12 of us now—a 50% increase? [Interruption.] Thank you very much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-13b.9.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-13", "file": "debates2017-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "6eab51bd861a261b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-13b.9.0", "colnum": "9", "heading": "ELECTION OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Tim Farron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Farron", "preceding_text": "and learned Members for Camberwell and Peckham (Ms Harman) and for Rushcliffe (Mr Clarke), and also with the remarks made by the right hon. Member for Chesham and Amersham (Mrs Gillan) , who did make one mistake—she said that we have got rid of nearly all the Whigs. May I say that there are 12 of us now—a 50% increase? [Interruption.] Thank you very much. [Interruption.] Come on—I’m here all week!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-13b.9.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-14", "file": "debates2017-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "ab60e120c3e6639e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-14a.14.1", "colnum": "14", "heading": "MEMBERS SWORN", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "ropose to be in the Chair for swearing in tomorrow from 9.30 am until 11.30 am, to return at 12 noon until 1.30 pm, and then again, if required, from 2.30 pm until 4.30 pm. I hope that by the end of tomorrow afternoon we will have made sufficient progress to enable all Members to swear in who wish to do so. However, if required, we will sit for swearing in at 2 pm on the day of the Queen’s Speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-14a.14.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-21", "file": "debates2017-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9766ec701a67d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.32.2", "colnum": "32", "heading": "SPEAKER’S STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": " or take photographs in or around the Chamber. Before moving to the first business of the new Parliament, I would like to express my very best wishes for the forthcoming Session to all Members—both new and returning—and all those who work here. I also send best wishes to those former Members not returned at the election, and thank them for their service to this House and to our democratic process—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.32.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-21", "file": "debates2017-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9766ec701a67d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.37.2", "colnum": "37", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Richard Benyon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Benyon", "preceding_text": " reality that I have gone straight from being young thruster to old codger, with nothing in between. I wrestled the Newbury constituency from the Liberal Democrats at the third attempt. I want it on the record that in doing so, I reduced the number of Members of this House who were educated at Eton by one. That may be why some Opposition Members consider me to be something of a working-class hero.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.37.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-21", "file": "debates2017-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9766ec701a67d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.37.2", "colnum": "37", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Richard Benyon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Shame!”", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Benyon", "preceding_text": "ll be pleased that one particular sword has been beaten into a ploughshare: the runway at the now decommissioned Greenham Common airbase was taken up and crushed to form Newbury’s new and infamous bypass. The only other Member for Newbury to have moved the Loyal Address was William Mount in 1905. A year later, he lost his seat, due to a combination of negative campaigning by the Liberal candidate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.37.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-21", "file": "debates2017-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9766ec701a67d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.40.0", "colnum": "40", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Kwasi Kwarteng", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Kwasi Kwarteng", "preceding_text": "dfather or any other member of my family. It is a great honour to be invited to second this Humble Address, which was moved so eloquently by my right hon. Friend the Member for Newbury (Richard Benyon) . He was both charming and funny, and that is a much rarer quality than you would expect, Mr Speaker. It is wonderful to see everything in its place. We have you, Mr Speaker; we have the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.40.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-21", "file": "debates2017-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9766ec701a67d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.40.0", "colnum": "40", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Kwasi Kwarteng", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More!”", "preceding_speaker": "Kwasi Kwarteng", "preceding_text": "ry is at stake. The complexities of the great repeal Bill will be debated extensively in the next two years. It will be a great landmark in the parliamentary and constitutional history of this country. A new Immigration Bill will seek, rightly, to reduce migration to sustainable levels. Once passed, both these Acts will shape Britain very considerably in the years ahead. In conclusion, Mr Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.40.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-21", "file": "debates2017-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9766ec701a67d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "will always triumph over hate. The House will know that the first part of a successful Queen’s Speech is finding someone to propose the address. That is, of course, intended to be a witty speech, as indeed the speech of my right hon. Friend the Member for Newbury (Richard Benyon) was today—from my point of view a little too witty, as he took all the jokes I had written in my speech. I have to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-21", "file": "debates2017-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9766ec701a67d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.55.0", "colnum": "55", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Toby Perkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Toby Perkins", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister is celebrating her immense triumph following the recent campaign, but I could not help but notice something as she and the Leader of the Opposition went off to listen to the Queen’s Speech. Thinking back to when I was at school and we came back having not seen people for six weeks, I thought, “Has she shrunk, or has he grown?”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.55.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-21", "file": "debates2017-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9766ec701a67d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.55.2", "colnum": "55", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "Order. We are going to hear from the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.55.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-21", "file": "debates2017-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9766ec701a67d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.59.5", "colnum": "59", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "Let me just point out a few facts to the hon. Gentleman. Which party got the highest percentage share of the vote, Labour or Conservative? Conservative. Which party got more votes—800,000 more—than the other party, Labour or Conservative? Conservative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.59.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-21", "file": "debates2017-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9766ec701a67d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.59.5", "colnum": "59", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "Let me just point out a few facts to the hon. Gentleman. Which party got the highest percentage share of the vote, Labour or Conservative? Conservative. Which party got more votes—800,000 more—than the other party, Labour or Conservative? Conservative—[Interruption.] Which party got 56 more seats than the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.59.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-21", "file": "debates2017-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9766ec701a67d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.59.6", "colnum": "59", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "Order. I will not have the Prime Minister, or the Leader of the Opposition, or any Member of this House shouted down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.59.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-21", "file": "debates2017-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9766ec701a67d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.59.6", "colnum": "59", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "Order. I will not have the Prime Minister, or the Leader of the Opposition, or any Member of this House shouted down—[Interruption.] Order. Mr Campbell, I’m sure you mean well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.59.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-21", "file": "debates2017-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9766ec701a67d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.63.6", "colnum": "63", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "May I begin by echoing the tributes of the Leader of the Opposition and the Prime Minister to Members who have passed away—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.63.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-21", "file": "debates2017-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9766ec701a67d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.64.0", "colnum": "64", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "Order. May I say two things? First, if Members leaving the Chamber did so quickly and quietly, it would be greatly appreciated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.64.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-21", "file": "debates2017-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9766ec701a67d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.65.3", "colnum": "65", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "approach might have involved the Prime Minister seeking consensus and working to protect the country from the most damaging potential impacts of a hard Brexit. That was, after all, what the Prime Minister promised us last year. Instead, we have a Prime Minister who called an unnecessary election designed to crush any opposition to her. Well, how did that work? Her gamble having backfired, she has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.65.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-21", "file": "debates2017-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9766ec701a67d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.68.3", "colnum": "68", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "h this land grab from Westminster. Powers over fisheries and agriculture must remain with the Scottish Parliament. There is a real question for Scottish Conservative Members: whose side will they be on? Will they be on the side of London or on the side of the people of Scotland? Let me tell them that if they do not stand up for Scotland, they will pay a price at the ballot box in future elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.68.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-21", "file": "debates2017-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9766ec701a67d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.69.5", "colnum": "69", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “They’re getting sued.”", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr Speaker. I hope that new Members will appreciate your sage advice. There is an important point here. A failed Conservative candidate is being elevated to the House of Lords and standing down from his position in the European Parliament, and the Conservatives seem to want to appoint to the European Parliament someone who was fifth on their list.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.69.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-21", "file": "debates2017-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9766ec701a67d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.70.3", "colnum": "70", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "e SNP in demanding that we remain members of the single market. That is the salient point. The Queen’s Speech fails not only on minimising the impact of Brexit. It fails even harder on reversing the damage caused by almost a decade of austerity. For this Tory Government, austerity cuts are not simply a policy response to a particular economic situation. They are an ideology and a political choice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.70.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-21", "file": "debates2017-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9766ec701a67d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.73.1", "colnum": "73", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hurray!”", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "I absolutely agree. I see that the Prime Minister is present. I hope that she has listened very carefully to what my hon. Friend has said, and that the Government will reflect on the issue and deal with it in short order. In conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.73.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-21", "file": "debates2017-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9766ec701a67d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.83.0", "colnum": "83", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "I agree with my right hon. Friend. I always credit him with consistently sound principles. I have the same respect for him that I have for the two right hon. Friends who have interrupted me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.83.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-21", "file": "debates2017-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9766ec701a67d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.115.0", "colnum": "115", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Bill Cash", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Cash", "preceding_text": "I support the Gracious Speech, except the proposal for a Bill on HS2, which I shall oppose, as I have done so far. I will support my constituents relentlessly on that matter. I turn to Brexit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.115.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-21", "file": "debates2017-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9766ec701a67d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Alan Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Brown", "preceding_text": "customs union. Again, where does that leave the UK in the negotiations? Apparently, the new Scottish Tory intake is so poor that a rejected candidate is now being fast-tracked through the Lords so he can work for the Scotland Office. What does that say about the make-up of the new candidates? Given the Prime Minister’s weak position, it is clear that she does not have a mandate for a hard breakfa—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-21a.145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-22", "file": "debates2017-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "a610277cb16f620a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-22a.176.3", "colnum": "176", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "at the cladding was indeed combustible, as testing showed—is chilling, and will be horrifying confirmation of what we all saw on our television screens; but it will be even more frightening for others. There are 58 tower blocks in my constituency, and there are thousands all around the country. May I suggest that the Prime Minister get a grip on this personally, right away, and that what she does—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-22a.176.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-22", "file": "debates2017-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "a610277cb16f620a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-22a.233.4", "colnum": "233", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "esponsibilities. Last but not least, may I welcome the Secretary of State and his old team back to the Front Bench? There is a new Housing Minister, but, sadly, he comes with no new ideas or plans to deal with the housing crisis in this country. These are extraordinary times. There is a Government Bench without a Government, a Prime Minister who cannot even seal a deal with the DWP—I mean the DUP.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-22a.233.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-22", "file": "debates2017-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "a610277cb16f620a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-22a.245.6", "colnum": "245", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Richard Bacon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Bacon", "preceding_text": "peech that they want to build more houses, which is an approach I strongly support. The title of the recent housing White Paper is “Fixing our broken housing market”—an important title and an admission of something that has been increasingly clear for many decades under Governments of all parties: our housing market simply does not work properly. The supply of housing does not rise to meet demand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-22a.245.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-22", "file": "debates2017-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "a610277cb16f620a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-22a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Richard Bacon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Bacon", "preceding_text": "duals” who want to get a serviced plot of land to build a house. An “association of individuals” could be anyone: a group of friends; the governors of a school looking to provide accommodation to help recruit and retain teachers in difficult-to-fill subjects; or the Royal British Legion or a similar veterans’ body, such as Help for Heroes, working with veterans to fulfil their accommodation needs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-22a.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-22", "file": "debates2017-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "a610277cb16f620a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-22a.268.0", "colnum": "268", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Zac Goldsmith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Zac Goldsmith", "preceding_text": "It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Enfield, Southgate (Bambos Charalambous) who made a brilliant maiden speech. I am grateful for having been here for most of the maiden speeches today. I wondered whether I qualified to make one, but apparently not. I see Mr Speaker shaking his head—this is therefore not a maiden speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-22a.268.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-22", "file": "debates2017-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "a610277cb16f620a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-22a.279.0", "colnum": "279", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Dowden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Dowden", "preceding_text": "pressure on that. I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Richmond Park (Zac Goldsmith) , the former candidate for Mayor of London, that we should not overlook aesthetics. Low-rise housing is denser than high-rise housing, but it is much more pleasant for people to live in. Certainly, one regret from my time at No. 10 was that we started to pioneer the idea of replacing high-rise with low-rise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-22a.279.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-22", "file": "debates2017-06-22b.xml", "sha256": "6576d77f3b4ac767", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-22b.176.3", "colnum": "176", "heading": "GRENFELL TOWER", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "at the cladding was indeed combustible, as testing showed—is chilling, and will be horrifying confirmation of what we all saw on our television screens; but it will be even more frightening for others. There are 58 tower blocks in my constituency, and there are thousands all around the country. May I suggest that the Prime Minister get a grip on this personally, right away, and that what she does—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-22b.176.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-22", "file": "debates2017-06-22b.xml", "sha256": "6576d77f3b4ac767", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-22b.233.4", "colnum": "233", "heading": "HOUSING AND SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "esponsibilities. Last but not least, may I welcome the Secretary of State and his old team back to the Front Bench? There is a new Housing Minister, but, sadly, he comes with no new ideas or plans to deal with the housing crisis in this country. These are extraordinary times. There is a Government Bench without a Government, a Prime Minister who cannot even seal a deal with the DWP—I mean the DUP.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-22b.233.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-22", "file": "debates2017-06-22b.xml", "sha256": "6576d77f3b4ac767", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-22b.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "HOUSING AND SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Richard Bacon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Bacon", "preceding_text": "duals” who want to get a serviced plot of land to build a house. An “association of individuals” could be anyone: a group of friends; the governors of a school looking to provide accommodation to help recruit and retain teachers in difficult-to-fill subjects; or the Royal British Legion or a similar veterans’ body, such as Help for Heroes, working with veterans to fulfil their accommodation needs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-22b.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-22", "file": "debates2017-06-22b.xml", "sha256": "6576d77f3b4ac767", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-22b.268.0", "colnum": "268", "heading": "HOUSING AND SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Zac Goldsmith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Zac Goldsmith", "preceding_text": "It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Enfield, Southgate (Bambos Charalambous) who made a brilliant maiden speech. I am grateful for having been here for most of the maiden speeches today. I wondered whether I qualified to make one, but apparently not. I see Mr Speaker shaking his head—this is therefore not a maiden speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-22b.268.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-26", "file": "debates2017-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "264f8803320212c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-26a.304.0", "colnum": "304", "heading": "EUROPEAN COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": " Back Benches, are still determined to force Britain over a cliff edge. The Prime Minister needs to ignore them; she needs now to listen. So I ask her, as she has promised to restore supremacy to this Parliament, will she now be more transparent and involve it properly in the Brexit negotiation process? Will she now finally rule out the possibility of no deal being a viable option for the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-26a.304.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-26", "file": "debates2017-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "264f8803320212c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-26a.378.1", "colnum": "378", "heading": "BREXIT AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "ude to date has alienated our allies and left Britain isolated. We need a more constructive and responsible approach. We share values with our EU partners, with whom we have a shared history. We will continue to share values, and we want a shared future: not membership of the EU—that was decided last year—but a full and meaningful partnership, based on principles of co-operation and collaboration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-26a.378.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-27", "file": "debates2017-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f3acf3cfadc9d9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-27a.463.1", "colnum": "463", "heading": "NHS SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "ounding it were set up in 2008, at a time when a Labour Government were rather keen on contracting with the private sector? I know that things have changed, but the fact of the matter is that throughout this process our priority has been to keep patients safe. Transparency is nearly always the right thing; I am the Secretary of State who introduced transparency over standards of care in hospitals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-27a.463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-27", "file": "debates2017-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f3acf3cfadc9d9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-27a.464.1", "colnum": "464", "heading": "NHS SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "Absolutely. There is a short-term and long-term lesson. The short-term point is that it is unlikely this would happen again because it was paper correspondence, and we are increasingly moving all the transfer of correspondence to electronic systems. The longer-term point is exactly that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-27a.464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-27", "file": "debates2017-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f3acf3cfadc9d9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-27a.474.0", "colnum": "474", "heading": "CONFIDENCE AND SUPPLY ARRANGEMENT", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": " I am not persuaded that this matter is proper to be discussed under Standing Order No. 24 . I do realise that that will disappoint the hon. Gentleman, but he is a persistent terrier, and I feel sure that he and other Members from his Benches will raise this matter in all sorts of ways in days to come, and they will not be deterred in any way by the thought that they might be repeating themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-27a.474.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-27", "file": "debates2017-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f3acf3cfadc9d9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-27a.478.1", "colnum": "478", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "If I could make a little progress, that would be appreciated. I am sure there will be plenty of opportunities for interventions. As I was saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-27a.478.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-27", "file": "debates2017-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f3acf3cfadc9d9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-27a.484.0", "colnum": "484", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "ve led to 2.8 million jobs being created in our economy, which has provided opportunity for young people who would otherwise have been sat at home getting unemployment benefits, with their careers on hold until they were able to get them kick-started. That is what we have been doing. The final thing we have been doing is tackling the huge, huge deficit left by the Labour party when it left office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-27a.484.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-27", "file": "debates2017-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f3acf3cfadc9d9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-27a.484.0", "colnum": "484", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "tunity for young people who would otherwise have been sat at home getting unemployment benefits, with their careers on hold until they were able to get them kick-started. That is what we have been doing. The final thing we have been doing is tackling the huge, huge deficit left by the Labour party when it left office. [Interruption.] The Opposition are bored with hearing about it, because clearly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-27a.484.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-27", "file": "debates2017-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f3acf3cfadc9d9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-27a.484.0", "colnum": "484", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": " sorry they are in such uproar at being reminded that when we came to power, the country was living £151 billion a year beyond our means—borrowing that was due to be passed on to young people. Clearly, the Labour party has learned nothing from this at all. Its only answer to every single question it faces in any policy area is, “Spend more money, but don’t worry about where it comes from because”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-27a.484.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-27", "file": "debates2017-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f3acf3cfadc9d9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-27a.488.1", "colnum": "488", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hooray!”", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "As I said, we are committed to introducing fair funding. It is right that we hold all schools to the same standards and the same accountability framework, and it makes sense that we should ensure that children with comparable needs are funded comparably wherever in the country they are. I will set out shortly the details of how we will do that following the consultation. I will finish my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-27a.488.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-27", "file": "debates2017-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "3f3acf3cfadc9d9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-27a.538.0", "colnum": "538", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "David Linden", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "David Linden", "preceding_text": "ive my maiden speech in the House today. I start by paying tribute to my predecessor, Natalie McGarry. During her time in this House, Ms McGarry clearly had a heart for international relations—in particular the situation in Kurdistan. I am sure I speak on behalf of all hon. Members when I wish her and her husband all the very best for the future, and for the impending arrival of their first child.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-27a.538.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-28", "file": "debates2017-06-28d.xml", "sha256": "ad8dee8d43d615ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-28d.594.5", "colnum": "594", "heading": "THE PRIME MINISTER WAS ASKED--", "cue_speaker": "Marion Fellows", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marion Fellows", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr Speaker. I shall repeat what I said. It is outrageous that our police and fire services should pay VAT, when that has cost the front-line services £35 million last year alone. Now that the Prime Minister has found the magic money tree, will she extend the VAT exemption to Police Scotland and the Scottish Fire and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-28d.594.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-29", "file": "debates2017-06-29b.xml", "sha256": "051c290b45500ff9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-29b.774.5", "colnum": "774", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "The short answer to the hon. Gentleman is that this is something provided for, if memory serves me correctly, in the conventions and courtesies of the House. The traditional approach was that a Member—effectively, as was implied by the right hon. Member for Broxtowe (Anna Soubry) , a male Member—would be wearing a tie—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-29b.774.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-06-29", "file": "debates2017-06-29c.xml", "sha256": "f3c2f1d71d76e377", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-29c.773.4", "colnum": "773", "heading": "21ST CENTURY FOX/SKY MERGER", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "ore we come to points of order—this is intended to be helpful to the House—I just mention that, a matter of only minutes before the intended resumption of the debate on the Queen’s Speech, I observed that many, many hon. Members who have applied to speak in the debate are not currently present in the Chamber. I know the Whips are doing their best to ensure that that situation is addressed at once.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-06-29c.773.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-03", "file": "debates2017-07-03b.xml", "sha256": "2aeabdbd13e3de9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-03b.978.0", "colnum": "978", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Eddie Hughes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Eddie Hughes", "preceding_text": "unds were in any way threatened by companies going out of business, so the Bill is incredibly important. Some Members might not have been present when the Minister opened the debate, but I firmly endorse his sartorial standpoint of not taking interventions from male Members who are not wearing ties. I bought this suit at the weekend specifically to wear when making my first speech in this Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-03b.978.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-03", "file": "debates2017-07-03b.xml", "sha256": "2aeabdbd13e3de9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-03b.978.0", "colnum": "978", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Eddie Hughes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Boo!”", "preceding_speaker": "Eddie Hughes", "preceding_text": "s were delighted—and, I guess, relieved—that I went to grammar school. I then went on to university—I was the first in my family to do so—and it was at university that I developed an interest in politics. As soon as I graduated, I went back to night school to do A-levels in politics and economics to give me a bit of a basic grounding. Although, unfortunately, I voted Labour the first time I voted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-03b.978.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-03", "file": "debates2017-07-03b.xml", "sha256": "2aeabdbd13e3de9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-03b.978.0", "colnum": "978", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Eddie Hughes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Eddie Hughes", "preceding_text": " then went on to university—I was the first in my family to do so—and it was at university that I developed an interest in politics. As soon as I graduated, I went back to night school to do A-levels in politics and economics to give me a bit of a basic grounding. Although, unfortunately, I voted Labour the first time I voted—[Hon. Members: “Boo!”] I know, but I was actually a closet Conservative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-03b.978.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-03", "file": "debates2017-07-03e.xml", "sha256": "557a35f7c986a552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-03e.888.1", "colnum": "888", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Amber Rudd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Amber Rudd", "preceding_text": "I say to all colleagues on both sides of the House that we have protected police spending—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-03e.888.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-03", "file": "debates2017-07-03e.xml", "sha256": "557a35f7c986a552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-03e.903.4", "colnum": "903", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND: POLITICAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Deidre Brock", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Deidre Brock", "preceding_text": "the Constitutional Research Council and its donations, and restore confidence in the Government’s impartiality? Lastly, the devolved Administrations are supposed to be involved in the Brexit negotiations. Can the Secretary of State tell us who has been providing the input from Stormont and whether it is less or more than the input from the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government? Very lastly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-03e.903.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-03", "file": "debates2017-07-03e.xml", "sha256": "557a35f7c986a552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-03e.942.3", "colnum": "942", "heading": "AIR TRAVEL ORGANISERS’ LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Robert Courts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Courts", "preceding_text": "uld apply to airlines that have an air service operator’s licence from another EU member state and therefore would not need any of the licences that have been granted by the Civil Aviation Act 1982. The House will be delighted that this is a short Bill, containing only four clauses. I have needed to deal with only three, so I do not need to go through the other one—I am sure everyone is delighted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-03e.942.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-03", "file": "debates2017-07-03e.xml", "sha256": "557a35f7c986a552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-03e.978.0", "colnum": "978", "heading": "AIR TRAVEL ORGANISERS’ LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Eddie Hughes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Eddie Hughes", "preceding_text": "unds were in any way threatened by companies going out of business, so the Bill is incredibly important. Some Members might not have been present when the Minister opened the debate, but I firmly endorse his sartorial standpoint of not taking interventions from male Members who are not wearing ties. I bought this suit at the weekend specifically to wear when making my first speech in this Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-03e.978.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-03", "file": "debates2017-07-03e.xml", "sha256": "557a35f7c986a552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-03e.978.0", "colnum": "978", "heading": "AIR TRAVEL ORGANISERS’ LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Eddie Hughes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Boo!”", "preceding_speaker": "Eddie Hughes", "preceding_text": "s were delighted—and, I guess, relieved—that I went to grammar school. I then went on to university—I was the first in my family to do so—and it was at university that I developed an interest in politics. As soon as I graduated, I went back to night school to do A-levels in politics and economics to give me a bit of a basic grounding. Although, unfortunately, I voted Labour the first time I voted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-03e.978.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-03", "file": "debates2017-07-03e.xml", "sha256": "557a35f7c986a552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-03e.978.0", "colnum": "978", "heading": "AIR TRAVEL ORGANISERS’ LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Eddie Hughes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Eddie Hughes", "preceding_text": " then went on to university—I was the first in my family to do so—and it was at university that I developed an interest in politics. As soon as I graduated, I went back to night school to do A-levels in politics and economics to give me a bit of a basic grounding. Although, unfortunately, I voted Labour the first time I voted—[Hon. Members: “Boo!”] I know, but I was actually a closet Conservative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-03e.978.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-03", "file": "debates2017-07-03e.xml", "sha256": "557a35f7c986a552", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-03e.984.0", "colnum": "984", "heading": "AIR TRAVEL ORGANISERS’ LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Alister Jack", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alister Jack", "preceding_text": " the whole of the south of Scotland. In conclusion, I thank the House for the consideration that it has shown to me this evening. I would add only that I am proud to have been elected to represent Dumfries and Galloway; proud to be one of a baker’s dozen of Scottish Conservatives returned to Westminster; and proud that we have turned the tables and imposed a Conservative Government on the English!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-03e.984.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-04", "file": "debates2017-07-04e.xml", "sha256": "92229ba1de419b52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-04e.1053.3", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (APPROVALS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "preceding_text": "I think we are in danger of wandering away from the subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-04e.1053.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-04", "file": "debates2017-07-04e.xml", "sha256": "92229ba1de419b52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-04e.1068.1", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (APPROVALS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "preceding_text": "things out—remaining within the realms of the debate—to cover our future relationship with Canada more generally. I do so as our former trade envoy to Canada, a role that I very much enjoyed until I was made a Minister, and which we probably need to fill again in the near future. I can think of one or two possible candidates—tall, dark, handsome former Ministers from the north of England, perhaps—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-04e.1068.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-04", "file": "debates2017-07-04e.xml", "sha256": "92229ba1de419b52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-04e.1083.0", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SELECT COMMITTEES)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "preceding_text": "ing. All I would say is that when we talk about equalities, it is not just about gender. Many of us who come from non-traditional, poorer backgrounds think that the House is not always representative of those of us who come from more challenged backgrounds. Replacing a man with a middle-class or upper middle-class woman does not, perhaps, do a great deal for equality. We should always be cautious—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-04e.1083.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-04", "file": "debates2017-07-04e.xml", "sha256": "92229ba1de419b52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-04e.1097.3", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "CHRIS GIBB REPORT: IMPROVEMENTS TO SOUTHERN RAILWAY", "cue_speaker": "Andy McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy McDonald", "preceding_text": "That is not accurate and I will tell the right hon. Gentleman why. If it were not for the stitch-up with Serco and Abellio taking £17 million out of the deal and £5 million that we could use to have a guard on every train, we would not have the problem. So, yet again, he just serves this up to his mates. He does his deals with these people, extracting the value from our railway system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-04e.1097.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-04", "file": "debates2017-07-04e.xml", "sha256": "92229ba1de419b52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-04e.1105.1", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "CHRIS GIBB REPORT: IMPROVEMENTS TO SOUTHERN RAILWAY", "cue_speaker": "Alan Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Brown", "preceding_text": "the east coast main line, that public sector services are not only viable, but profitable for the taxman. The refusal of the Government to acknowledge this and the rush to reprivatise the east coast main line is frankly shocking. The franchise has raised £1 billion, and 2015 was rated as the best year in its history. It shows that public sector franchises can lead the way over private sector ones.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-04e.1105.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-05", "file": "debates2017-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "5898bbc14f33f22e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-05a.1158.3", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "First, may I join the right hon. Gentleman in wishing everybody who is going to take part in Pride London on Saturday an excellent day? I am sure it will be a very good occasion, as it always has been. May I also say that I and all Members of this House value the incredibly important work done by our public sector workers, including—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-05a.1158.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-05", "file": "debates2017-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "5898bbc14f33f22e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-05a.1160.0", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "s been hard for people who have been working hard and making sacrifices over the years as we have been dealing with Labour’s mismanagement of the economy, but let me remind the right hon. Gentleman of what happens when you do not deal with the deficit. This is not a theoretical issue. Let us look at those countries that failed to deal with it. In Greece, where they have not dealt with the deficit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-05a.1160.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-05", "file": "debates2017-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "5898bbc14f33f22e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-05a.1163.4", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should look at the Queen’s Speech, in which we referred to what we are doing in this area. We recognise these issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-05a.1163.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-05", "file": "debates2017-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "5898bbc14f33f22e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-05a.1178.4", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "PUBLIC SECTOR PAY CAP", "cue_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "preceding_text": "eing fair to the people working in public services—giving them the training and opportunities they deserve, and paying them fairly—while at the same time making sure that they will be able to continue to work in those public services in the future. If we look at what happened in Greece when the deficit got out of control, we can see that there was a 36% reduction in spending on the health service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-05a.1178.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-05", "file": "debates2017-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "5898bbc14f33f22e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-05a.1180.1", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "PUBLIC SECTOR PAY CAP", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Maclean", "preceding_text": "Does the Chief Secretary agree that as a result of Labour’s economic mismanagement in 2008 to 2009, average wages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-05a.1180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-05", "file": "debates2017-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "5898bbc14f33f22e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-05a.1181.5", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "PUBLIC SECTOR PAY CAP", "cue_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "preceding_text": "It is great to have one of my Scottish colleagues pointing out the facts about what is happening in Scotland. The Scottish National party has failed to deliver. We see worse performance in the Scottish NHS, and school standards in Scotland are falling, which is a huge shame.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-05a.1181.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-05", "file": "debates2017-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "5898bbc14f33f22e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-05a.1199.0", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "GRENFELL REHOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Alok Sharma", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alok Sharma", "preceding_text": "First, I am sorry to have to say this to the hon. Gentleman, but my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has been working incredibly hard on this issue from day one with me. This is a time for us to work together and to come together, particularly on this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-05a.1199.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-05", "file": "debates2017-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "5898bbc14f33f22e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-05a.1214.1", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "preceding_text": "If there is a free dinner, there is an occasion to be there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-05a.1214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-05", "file": "debates2017-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "5898bbc14f33f22e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-05a.1232.2", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "SUPPLY AND APPROPRIATION (MAIN ESTIMATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "preceding_text": "Before the hon. Gentleman jump up and down, let me just finish my point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-05a.1232.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-06", "file": "debates2017-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "001c36866f88cee3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-06b.1288.6", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL TRADE", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "I gently say to the Minister that the grouping is with Nos. 10 and 12.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-06b.1288.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-06", "file": "debates2017-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "001c36866f88cee3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-06b.1313.10", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "ADULT SOCIAL CARE FUNDING", "cue_speaker": "Steve Brine", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Brine", "preceding_text": "Yes, I do. There were many disappointing things for me about the recent general election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-06b.1313.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-06", "file": "debates2017-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "001c36866f88cee3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-06b.1324.5", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "JOBCENTRE PLUS: CLOSURES", "cue_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "preceding_text": "Obviously, we are having this debate in the context of record employment. On both sides of the House, we should be welcoming the fact that fewer people are unemployed now than ever before. That has brought with it enormous social benefits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-06b.1324.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-06", "file": "debates2017-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "001c36866f88cee3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-06b.1333.2", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "POINTS OF ORDER", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": " of order. I have heard what the hon. Lady has said. I did not hear what was allegedly said, and I am not going to criticise an hon. Member when I did not hear what he is alleged to have said. All I would say is that the hon. Member for Shipley is an extremely assiduous attender in the Chamber and a very frequent contributor. Sometimes, some of the things that he says will displease other Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-06b.1333.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-06", "file": "debates2017-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "001c36866f88cee3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-06b.1382.0", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "EXITING THE EUROPEAN UNION AND GLOBAL TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Hannah Bardell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hannah Bardell", "preceding_text": "of people from the free flow of goods, services and investments”. Trade agreements are about give and take. The Government, the Ministers on the Front Bench and others who have spoken do not seem to understand that concept. The plans for a hard Tory Brexit have already immersed the UK economy in uncertainty, with inflation escalating and companies preparing to move their operations outside the UK.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-06b.1382.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-10", "file": "debates2017-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "332deca190d4df08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-10a.9.4", "colnum": "9", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Lady for calling me the Secretary of State; I hope that if enough people say that, it will actually—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-10a.9.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-10", "file": "debates2017-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "332deca190d4df08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-10a.69.1", "colnum": "69", "heading": "TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE (RELIEF FROM NON-DOMESTIC RATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Gwynne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Gwynne", "preceding_text": "b, which threatens to destroy high streets and town centres across the country. Labour advocates introducing statutory annual revaluations to stop businesses facing periodic and unmanageable hikes, and guarantees a fair and transparent appeals process. We will reform business rates, scrap quarterly reporting and end the scourge of late payments, because it is Labour which is the party of business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-10a.69.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-10", "file": "debates2017-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "332deca190d4df08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-10a.72.2", "colnum": "72", "heading": "TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE (RELIEF FROM NON-DOMESTIC RATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Gwynne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Gwynne", "preceding_text": "As I said in answer to the hon. Member for Faversham and Mid Kent (Helen Whately) , it is a question of priorities. We can give tax cuts to big business, or we can invest in public services. The point is that we made a very clear choice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-10a.72.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-10", "file": "debates2017-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "332deca190d4df08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-10a.75.0", "colnum": "75", "heading": "TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE (RELIEF FROM NON-DOMESTIC RATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Ed Vaizey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Ed Vaizey", "preceding_text": "and, which shows how well the job has been done. He finessed his speech to talk widely about the important issue of business rates, but only mentioned broadband briefly. I understand why and respect his reasons because, under the stewardship of the Minister, we have of course seen the most successful rural broadband programme ever devised anywhere in the world. There was meant to be a cheer there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-10a.75.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-10", "file": "debates2017-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "332deca190d4df08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-10a.75.0", "colnum": "75", "heading": "TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE (RELIEF FROM NON-DOMESTIC RATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Ed Vaizey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ed Vaizey", "preceding_text": " that the money starts to be paid back once take-up passes a certain threshold. I echo the words of my hon. Friend the Member for Faversham and Mid Kent (Helen Whately) . She talked about the 20% of premises in her constituency that have superfast broadband. It is very important that we see our cup as half full. The Opposition Chief Whip spends his time thinking his cup is half full at the moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-10a.75.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-10", "file": "debates2017-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "332deca190d4df08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-10a.80.0", "colnum": "80", "heading": "TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE (RELIEF FROM NON-DOMESTIC RATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hoare", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hoare", "preceding_text": " one of those wonderful shops, Madam Deputy Speaker, that I know you will cherish and love as I do. It is the sort of shop that you walk into and do not say, “Do you sell?”, but merely ask, “Where can I find?”, because it sells absolutely everything, from powdered egg, to blackout curtains, to knicker elastic and sock gaiters—it is all there. You require none of those things, Madam Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-10a.80.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-10", "file": "debates2017-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "332deca190d4df08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-10a.82.3", "colnum": "82", "heading": "TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE (RELIEF FROM NON-DOMESTIC RATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hoare", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hoare", "preceding_text": "eTime and other mechanisms will help keep families together by keeping those intergenerational conversations going when geography means that a weekly visit may not always be appropriate, feasible or affordable. Towns such as Sturminster are not unique. Glastonbury, which I think is in the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Somerton and Frome (David Warburton) , has lost all of it banks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-10a.82.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-10", "file": "debates2017-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "332deca190d4df08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-10a.101.1", "colnum": "101", "heading": "TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE (RELIEF FROM NON-DOMESTIC RATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Ranil Jayawardena", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ranil Jayawardena", "preceding_text": "om the 20th century. Some people in Bramley are nearer Chineham in the constituency of my right hon. Friend the Member for Basingstoke (Mrs Miller) , but none the less they are connected by cables from Bramley. Those cables are actually steel, not copper, because apparently when the cables were installed by BT, then state-owned—I do not know whether the Labour party plans to renationalise BT, too—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-10a.101.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-10", "file": "debates2017-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "332deca190d4df08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-10a.107.4", "colnum": "107", "heading": "TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE (RELIEF FROM NON-DOMESTIC RATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. I have a slight problem. I did not expect to have to bring in a time limit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-10a.107.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-10", "file": "debates2017-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "332deca190d4df08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-10a.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE (RELIEF FROM NON-DOMESTIC RATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. I will give you an extra lesson—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-10a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-10", "file": "debates2017-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "332deca190d4df08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-10a.121.5", "colnum": "121", "heading": "TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE (RELIEF FROM NON-DOMESTIC RATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Huw Merriman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Huw Merriman", "preceding_text": "st for the short term but for the long term. I am sure that they will be absolutely delighted that this Government have been returned to deliver just that. In conclusion to my conclusion, I very much welcome the steps that this Government have taken to incentivise further broadband roll-out. I hope that they will help my constituents in Rother, which is, as I have said, in the bottom 10 districts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-10a.121.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-10", "file": "debates2017-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "332deca190d4df08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-10a.126.1", "colnum": "126", "heading": "TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE (RELIEF FROM NON-DOMESTIC RATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Marcus Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marcus Jones", "preceding_text": "I concur with my hon. Friend. My hon. Friend the Member for Sleaford and North Hykeham (Dr Johnson) made the same comments in regard to how these types of measures will help those in her constituency engaged in the agricultural industry and farming. In conclusion, this Bill will help businesses and households with their broadband and support the economy. It is only one of several measures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-10a.126.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-11", "file": "debates2017-07-11g.xml", "sha256": "0268658b49c564f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-11g.143.3", "colnum": "143", "heading": "THE SECRETARY OF STATE WAS ASKED—", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "I have strong family relationships in Canada. Is the Minister not aware that senior diplomats in Canada are absolutely aghast at how this Government are handling our withdrawal from Europe and its impact on world trade? They believe that this swashbuckling sector of Ministers are not the right people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-11g.143.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-12", "file": "debates2017-07-12b.xml", "sha256": "11376af461df14ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-12b.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "THE PRIME MINISTER WAS ASKED—", "cue_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "preceding_text": "If the First Secretary of State wants to talk about unemployment, let me ask him this: will he publish the Treasury’s assessment of the impact that a no deal outcome would have on jobs and growth in Britain? Will he publish that today—I don’t think so. Let us continue. If he will not tell the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-12b.286.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-12", "file": "debates2017-07-12b.xml", "sha256": "11376af461df14ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-12b.319.0", "colnum": "319", "heading": "HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN MOSUL", "cue_speaker": "Rebecca Pow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rebecca Pow", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is making a good point, and of course these people, their homes and rehousing them is of the utmost importance, but to politicise the figures and to argue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-12b.319.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-12", "file": "debates2017-07-12b.xml", "sha256": "11376af461df14ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-12b.329.0", "colnum": "329", "heading": "HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN MOSUL", "cue_speaker": "Joanna Cherry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joanna Cherry", "preceding_text": "That is not a decision for me. I am bringing to the House’s attention the perfectly valid concern of local people about the judge’s ability to chair the inquiry. I was careful to preface that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-12b.329.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-12", "file": "debates2017-07-12b.xml", "sha256": "11376af461df14ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-12b.329.0", "colnum": "329", "heading": "HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN MOSUL", "cue_speaker": "Joanna Cherry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joanna Cherry", "preceding_text": "red to sit alongside the inquiry judge to advise on a variety of issues. A local organisation, BME Lawyers 4 Grenfell, has made a number of demands, including that there should be such a properly diverse panel to advise on issues including housing need, and fire and safety construction. I respectfully suggest that doubts about the ability of the judge may be allayed if that suggestion is followed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-12b.329.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-12", "file": "debates2017-07-12b.xml", "sha256": "11376af461df14ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-12b.394.3", "colnum": "394", "heading": "HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN MOSUL", "cue_speaker": "Alok Sharma", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alok Sharma", "preceding_text": "r tragedy. Finally, on social housing, I know that we will have opportunities to debate these matters in the months and possibly years ahead, but may I just point out to the shadow Secretary of State, the right hon. Member for Wentworth and Dearne, that, during the period of 1997 to 2010, the number of social rented homes fell by 420,000. Since 2010, we have delivered 333,000 new affordable homes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-12b.394.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-13", "file": "debates2017-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "e81f3d84434f2995", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-13a.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "THE SECRETARY OF STATE WAS ASKED—", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is being untypically churlish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-13a.412.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-13", "file": "debates2017-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "e81f3d84434f2995", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-13a.427.0", "colnum": "427", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "preceding_text": "e Opposition parties have been talking about Opposition days, and I gather that there has been an offer of an Opposition day in the next short sitting. We are absolutely getting on with the business at pace and in accordance with normal procedures. I am left to conclude that this is just game playing by the Opposition. On the anniversary of her leadership of this country, the Prime Minister asked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-13a.427.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-13", "file": "debates2017-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "e81f3d84434f2995", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-13a.432.1", "colnum": "432", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Esther McVey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Esther McVey", "preceding_text": "Alderley Park in my constituency is the largest bio-centre in the United Kingdom. It is a true world leader, and it is currently undergoing a 10-year transformation. Will the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy make a statement on the country’s industrial strategy and how Alderley Park fits into it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-13a.432.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-13", "file": "debates2017-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "e81f3d84434f2995", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-13a.434.4", "colnum": "434", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "preceding_text": "ommittees. If he looks back through history, he will see that we are moving exactly as quickly as any other new Government. We are trying to establish these Committees as quickly as we can. He says we are not discussing anything of any value; I think he must agree that we had the Grenfell Tower debate, and there is the issue of abuse and intimidation of parliamentary candidates, which is damaging—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-13a.434.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-13", "file": "debates2017-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "e81f3d84434f2995", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-13a.461.1", "colnum": "461", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "preceding_text": "eral times for debates on issues that directly affect our constituents. We have just completed an election where we asked people to vote for us. As a parliamentary democracy, they expect us to debate and vote on motions that were relevant to their lives 31 days ago. Our constituents expected us to come back to work straight away; instead, since the Gracious Speech there have only been seven votes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-13a.461.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-17", "file": "debates2017-07-17e.xml", "sha256": "c6a10d0c34e85e29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-17e.589.1", "colnum": "589", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "preceding_text": "Book. Rules and procedures have to be consistent, certain and clear. What does the book say about Opposition days? Standing Order 14 says: “Twenty days shall be allotted in each session for proceedings on opposition business, seventeen of which shall be at the disposal of the Leader of the Opposition and three of which shall be at the disposal of the leader of the second largest opposition party”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-17e.589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-17", "file": "debates2017-07-17e.xml", "sha256": "c6a10d0c34e85e29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-17e.594.2", "colnum": "594", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": " us the number of days between the Queen’s Speech and the recess, since the Government set the date of the recess and delayed the date of the Queen’s Speech. In 1997, how many days were there before the recess? Two. In 2001? One. In 2005? Five. In 2010? Two—and that is when the Conservatives had to cobble together a ludicrous Government. In 2015? Five. So she is talking through a hole in her head.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-17e.594.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-17", "file": "debates2017-07-17e.xml", "sha256": "c6a10d0c34e85e29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-17e.617.3", "colnum": "617", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Kelly Tolhurst", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kelly Tolhurst", "preceding_text": "It is the issue of Brexit: the laws that will come through and the intricacies of what will happen when we leave the European Union. Really, I think the Opposition should get over themselves a bit. As many of my hon. Friends have pointed out, 20 Opposition day debates have been put aside, which will give Labour 17 to take part in. I look forward to joining in those debates when they occur—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-17e.617.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-17", "file": "debates2017-07-17e.xml", "sha256": "c6a10d0c34e85e29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-17e.630.1", "colnum": "630", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Joanna Cherry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joanna Cherry", "preceding_text": "I do, and as somebody who is LGBT, I find the deal with the DUP particularly obnoxious, but it is not just my rights that I am bothered about; it is everyone’s human rights, including women’s reproductive rights and human rights generally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-17e.630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-17", "file": "debates2017-07-17e.xml", "sha256": "c6a10d0c34e85e29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-17e.633.0", "colnum": "633", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Lloyd Russell-Moyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lloyd Russell-Moyle", "preceding_text": "vity, but to see the local doctor in Peacehaven. That is a regular thing for my constituents. Why? Because, of course, doctors’ workloads have doubled, and the resources to our NHS have reduced. Equally, we do not have enough houses. Independent research shows that teachers’ pay has reduced by £3 an hour in real terms and that their workloads have increased since the Conservative party took power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-17e.633.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-17", "file": "debates2017-07-17e.xml", "sha256": "c6a10d0c34e85e29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-17e.633.2", "colnum": "633", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Lloyd Russell-Moyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lloyd Russell-Moyle", "preceding_text": "er voice, through me, has been taken away—and she will feel like that quite rightly, because it has been taken away. A lack of debate and Opposition time takes the voice away from constituents from all constituencies across this country. This has happened not with a vote in Parliament but just with an announcement in the papers that we will now have a two-year period rather than a one-year period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-17e.633.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-17", "file": "debates2017-07-17e.xml", "sha256": "c6a10d0c34e85e29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-17e.640.2", "colnum": "640", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (NOVEMBER AND CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "her interest that he and I share, but we cannot do that because he would probably filibuster a Bill so that I could not get it through. I am most surprised that he is a sponsor of the Bill introduced by the hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) . Perhaps that suggests a change in attitude and approach—a mellowing over the years. He might actually be constructively engaged in some of these issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-17e.640.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-17", "file": "debates2017-07-17e.xml", "sha256": "c6a10d0c34e85e29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-17e.643.0", "colnum": "643", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (NOVEMBER AND CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Susan Elan Jones", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Her Majesty’s Opposition?”", "preceding_speaker": "Susan Elan Jones", "preceding_text": "Is it not also an issue that our constituents who are watching all this expect us to come here for a certain number of days? The fact that Her Majesty’s Opposition are absolutely totally useless, and would really rather we were not here at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-17e.643.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-17", "file": "debates2017-07-17e.xml", "sha256": "c6a10d0c34e85e29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-17e.646.0", "colnum": "646", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (NOVEMBER AND CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Rupa Huq", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rupa Huq", "preceding_text": "monds) , the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Bill of my hon. Friend the Member for Westminster North (Ms Buck) , and the Hospital Parking Charges (Exemption for Carers) Bill of my hon. Friend the Member for Burnley (Julie Cooper) . None of them saw the light of day as they were filibustered out of existence by certain Members; I will not name names—although they are on the Government Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-17e.646.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-17", "file": "debates2017-07-17e.xml", "sha256": "c6a10d0c34e85e29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-17e.667.2", "colnum": "667", "heading": "HS2 UPDATE", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "As I said earlier, this project benefits the whole United Kingdom. It will reduce journey times to Scotland, and I am committed to looking at how we ensure those journey times come down on and beyond the HS2 network. I will work closely with my Scottish colleagues to see how best we can achieve that, to deliver what people in Scotland want, which is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-17e.667.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-17", "file": "debates2017-07-17e.xml", "sha256": "c6a10d0c34e85e29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-17e.681.0", "colnum": "681", "heading": "HS2 UPDATE", "cue_speaker": "Gareth Snell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gareth Snell", "preceding_text": "May I start by saying to the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-17e.681.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-17", "file": "debates2017-07-17e.xml", "sha256": "c6a10d0c34e85e29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-17e.681.1", "colnum": "681", "heading": "HS2 UPDATE", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "I met my hon. Friend the new Member for Stoke-on-Trent South (Jack Brereton) today to talk about the need to make sure that there is an HS2 service for Stoke-on-Trent, and I have given him that commitment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-17e.681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-17", "file": "debates2017-07-17e.xml", "sha256": "c6a10d0c34e85e29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-17e.685.0", "colnum": "685", "heading": "HS2 UPDATE", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Newton", "preceding_text": "on from the police, which we have put into the public domain—it is on the Home Office website. We will be repeating that exercise, so that we collect data more regularly and have a much better understanding of the scale of the threat. That meeting provided the basis for the action plan to tackle acid attacks that was announced by the Home Secretary on Sunday. I am pleased that the hon. Gentleman —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-17e.685.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-17", "file": "debates2017-07-17e.xml", "sha256": "c6a10d0c34e85e29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-17e.688.0", "colnum": "688", "heading": "HS2 UPDATE", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Newton", "preceding_text": "I have probably got a few seconds left, so I want to reassure the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-17e.688.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-18", "file": "debates2017-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "3dda6de861b4b627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-18b.703.0", "colnum": "703", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mel Stride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mel Stride", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman needs to recognise that national insurance and income tax function in different ways and have different roles in the tax system. We have one of the most progressive tax systems in the entire country. If we look at, for example, those earning above—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-18b.703.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-18", "file": "debates2017-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "3dda6de861b4b627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-18b.707.0", "colnum": "707", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Barclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Barclay", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman misstates the position. It is an independent responsibility of the Bank of England to address that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-18b.707.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-18", "file": "debates2017-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "3dda6de861b4b627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-18b.717.2", "colnum": "717", "heading": "FREE CHILDCARE", "cue_speaker": "Robert Goodwill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Goodwill", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the hon. Lady is making a fundamental error. The total number will come in three tranches: one in September, one in January and one after Easter, as children reach the eligible age. This will be an ongoing system, and therefore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-18b.717.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-18", "file": "debates2017-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "3dda6de861b4b627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-18b.724.1", "colnum": "724", "heading": "POINTS OF ORDER", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "onstitution of Select Committees. Although the Chairs have been elected, I am saddened that members have not been elected across the House—it is a pity if some have not got round to doing that. Frankly, however, there is not much that I can do other than say that I am always looking out for the hon. Gentleman. If he bobs up and down with a view to raising the matter, I will try to accommodate him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-18b.724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-18", "file": "debates2017-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "3dda6de861b4b627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-18b.731.0", "colnum": "731", "heading": "POINTS OF ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Thangam Debbonaire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Thangam Debbonaire", "preceding_text": "of alcohol, but that is not what the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines say. The NICE guidelines are clear and accurate: there is no safe level of consumption of alcohol. We allow it to be consumed legally and we provide information, treatment and recovery, but we do not criminalise people who are consuming alcohol. Why will she not consider the graph that I can show her—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-18b.731.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-18", "file": "debates2017-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "3dda6de861b4b627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-18b.731.1", "colnum": "731", "heading": "POINTS OF ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Newton", "preceding_text": "This debate today is about the drugs strategy. I have been very generous in answering questions. We understand that there is a relationship between drugs and alcohol, but I will not be drawn into a wider debate about the current legal framework around alcohol, because we are here today to talk about our drugs policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-18b.731.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-18", "file": "debates2017-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "3dda6de861b4b627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-18b.747.0", "colnum": "747", "heading": "POINTS OF ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Tanmanjit Singh Dhesi", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Tanmanjit Singh Dhesi", "preceding_text": "ent that I should deliver that message, because I belong to a “minority” community. None the less, being distinct or standing out from the crowd has its own distinct advantages. I, for one, Mr Speaker, am very much hoping that these brightly coloured turbans will act as a magnet as you repeatedly point towards the Member for Slough to make his invaluable contributions to proceedings in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-18b.747.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-18", "file": "debates2017-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "3dda6de861b4b627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-18b.777.0", "colnum": "777", "heading": "POINTS OF ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Ronnie Cowan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ronnie Cowan", "preceding_text": "May I add my congratulations to the hon. Members for Slough (Mr Dhesi), for Stoke-on-Trent South (Jack Brereton), for Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle (Emma Hardy)—which apparently is one constituency—and for Wolverhampton South West (Eleanor Smith) on their maiden speeches? I am sure they are already aware that the next time they speak they will not be listened to with such reverence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-18b.777.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-19", "file": "debates2017-07-19d.xml", "sha256": "21d0797e635cd477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.821.1", "colnum": "821", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Lesley Laird", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lesley Laird", "preceding_text": "I thank the Secretary of State for his answer, but it is very clear that the Government are in complete chaos on this issue, which is very much like the SNP Government, who claim that they will abandon the public sector pay cap—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.821.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-19", "file": "debates2017-07-19d.xml", "sha256": "21d0797e635cd477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.825.5", "colnum": "825", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "David Mundell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Mundell", "preceding_text": "I hope you, Mr Speaker, will forgive me for laughing when I hear the SNP extol the House of Lords, which on every other occasion it condemns. The reference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.825.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-19", "file": "debates2017-07-19d.xml", "sha256": "21d0797e635cd477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.827.0", "colnum": "827", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "David Mundell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Mundell", "preceding_text": "Like previous Northern Ireland support packages and city deals in Scotland and Wales, this funding is a targeted intervention to address a specific set of unique challenges. As with those previous interventions, this exceptional funding will be made outside the normal, ongoing Barnett funding system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.827.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-19", "file": "debates2017-07-19d.xml", "sha256": "21d0797e635cd477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.831.2", "colnum": "831", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "The best route out of poverty is through work, and what we now see is hundreds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.831.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-19", "file": "debates2017-07-19d.xml", "sha256": "21d0797e635cd477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.831.5", "colnum": "831", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": " for just one year, and during that time disposable income has fallen by 2%. The economic consequences of austerity are very clear, and so are the social consequences: life expectancy stalling for the first time in 100 years. Today, the Institute for Fiscal Studies forecasts that income inequality is going to get worse and that child poverty will rise to 5 million by 2022. Does the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.831.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-19", "file": "debates2017-07-19d.xml", "sha256": "21d0797e635cd477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.832.1", "colnum": "832", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "What we want is a country where there are not 4 million children living in poverty and where homelessness does not rise every year. I look along the Front Bench opposite and I see a Cabinet bickering and backbiting while the economy gets weaker and people are pushed further into debt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-19", "file": "debates2017-07-19d.xml", "sha256": "21d0797e635cd477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.832.1", "colnum": "832", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "What we want is a country where there are not 4 million children living in poverty and where homelessness does not rise every year. I look along the Front Bench opposite and I see a Cabinet bickering and backbiting while the economy gets weaker and people are pushed further into debt. [Interruption.] Well, they can try talking to each other. The economy is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.832.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-19", "file": "debates2017-07-19d.xml", "sha256": "21d0797e635cd477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.854.3", "colnum": "854", "heading": "IMMIGRATION ACT 2016: SECTION 67", "cue_speaker": "Tim Farron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Farron", "preceding_text": "how that local councils have voluntarily offered to accept 1,572 more children in addition to those they already support. Does the Minister know this? In light of this information, will the Government reopen Dubs and take their fair share? As summer approaches, more are taking the dangerous crossings across the Mediterranean to reach the safety of European shores. More desperate, refugee children—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.854.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-19", "file": "debates2017-07-19d.xml", "sha256": "21d0797e635cd477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.857.3", "colnum": "857", "heading": "IMMIGRATION ACT 2016: SECTION 67", "cue_speaker": "Joanna Cherry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joanna Cherry", "preceding_text": "ldren who have fled war and conflict in their home nations; have turned away from a humanitarian crisis that “would not be tolerable” to the British public if they were more aware of it; and that by failing to offer safe passage are “unquestionably” fuelling both people trafficking and smuggling. Those are not my words but the findings of an independent inquiry. What will the Minister do about it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.857.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-19", "file": "debates2017-07-19d.xml", "sha256": "21d0797e635cd477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.867.0", "colnum": "867", "heading": "PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "tional debt. Let us put that in context: it is almost twice as much as was disbursed into the financial sector following the financial crisis. Let us put it another way: spending in 2040 on the state pension would be £20 billion a year higher under Labour’s plans than under the plans we are setting out—that is almost twice the Home Office budget. Where on earth is this money coming from? Even the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.867.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-19", "file": "debates2017-07-19d.xml", "sha256": "21d0797e635cd477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.869.6", "colnum": "869", "heading": "PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "First, I should say that the longer we can delay my hon. Friend’s retirement, the better that will be all round. In terms of communicating with those affected, we are giving something like 20 years’ notice today, but as we legislate in due course, it will of course be necessary to communicate properly with those who are affected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.869.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-19", "file": "debates2017-07-19d.xml", "sha256": "21d0797e635cd477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.873.1", "colnum": "873", "heading": "PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "rcumstances, it is true, as can sometimes, perhaps, shadow Ministers, but that is not a matter for the Chair. Whether the Member seeking to intervene likes it or not, the situation is as I have described. Let me take this opportunity, in a positive spirit, to encourage all new Members—I am not sure the Whips would agree about this—to read the hon. Gentleman’s books on being a good parliamentarian.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-19", "file": "debates2017-07-19d.xml", "sha256": "21d0797e635cd477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.880.5", "colnum": "880", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "preceding_text": "As I said to the hon. Member for South Suffolk (James Cartlidge) , that was not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.880.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-19", "file": "debates2017-07-19d.xml", "sha256": "21d0797e635cd477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.880.7", "colnum": "880", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr Speaker. The right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Mr Duncan Smith) seems to have failed to understand our policy, which was absolutely clear: we would abolish tuition fees from the day we took office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.880.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-19", "file": "debates2017-07-19d.xml", "sha256": "21d0797e635cd477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.888.3", "colnum": "888", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Jo Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “What about the statutory instrument?”", "preceding_speaker": "Jo Johnson", "preceding_text": "As I said in my opening remarks, we have had lots of votes on student finance issues, and we won them all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.888.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-19", "file": "debates2017-07-19d.xml", "sha256": "21d0797e635cd477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.894.3", "colnum": "894", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "uld not do that. I had thought there was an expectation of a debate and a vote, and that the Opposition had done what was necessary to maximise the chance of such a vote. To be honest, I thought that the Government were open to such a debate and vote, until events overtook. That is history; we are where we are. As to whether there is to be a substantive vote now, I await the development of events.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.894.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-19", "file": "debates2017-07-19d.xml", "sha256": "21d0797e635cd477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.909.2", "colnum": "909", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "James Cartlidge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Cartlidge", "preceding_text": "ulian Knight) said, it is not free; it is just that somebody else pays, rather than the beneficiary. The whole of society pays. The money has to come from somewhere. The Labour party will supposedly pay for it by raising corporation tax. Never mind the fact that all the evidence shows that by cutting corporation tax, we are raising the revenue to the Exchequer. This will not happen without a cost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.909.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-19", "file": "debates2017-07-19d.xml", "sha256": "21d0797e635cd477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.913.0", "colnum": "913", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Hollinrake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Hollinrake", "preceding_text": "year allocated to this policy in the Labour manifesto is the best way to spend that public money at this time, with all the other demands we have, including as on our healthcare and our pre-18 education? Does he honestly feel that is the best use of that public money? I do not. We have to make ends meet in this country, and therefore must choose where to allocate our resources for the best effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.913.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-19", "file": "debates2017-07-19d.xml", "sha256": "21d0797e635cd477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.914.1", "colnum": "914", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Hollinrake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Hollinrake", "preceding_text": "That is an example of ideas in action, and it is tremendous news. I should have been following that more closely, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-19", "file": "debates2017-07-19d.xml", "sha256": "21d0797e635cd477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.915.1", "colnum": "915", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "James Frith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "James Frith", "preceding_text": "d to the music capital of the world—Manchester—to study. There, I formed an indie rock and roll band, in which I was the singer for 12 years. I joined the Labour party and married a Bury woman. The rest is history. I never did get that elusive record deal, though few people need to know me for long before learning that I did in fact play Glastonbury festival, long before it became the thing to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-19", "file": "debates2017-07-19d.xml", "sha256": "21d0797e635cd477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.927.2", "colnum": "927", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Helen Goodman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Goodman", "preceding_text": "utside the UN. Everybody knows that the UK played a key role in making the intellectual case for those sanctions, and that the UK undertook significant diplomatic efforts in the EU and at the G7. How will the Government ensure not just that UK-EU co-operation on sanctions continues after we leave the EU, but that we will maintain our ability to shape decisions on when the EU sanctions are imposed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.927.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-19", "file": "debates2017-07-19d.xml", "sha256": "21d0797e635cd477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.956.3", "colnum": "956", "heading": "PETITION - CLIMATE CHANGE OBJECTIVES AND OBLIGATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Margot James", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margot James", "preceding_text": "I do not think I would go as far as to condemn that, because I believe Tesco made every effort to inform people on a one-to-one basis. Some people were away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-19d.956.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-20", "file": "debates2017-07-20d.xml", "sha256": "0352e5d1c87a7d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-20d.960.3", "colnum": "960", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "Absolutely. Before we entered the European Union, we recognised in our own legislation that animals were sentient beings. I am an animal; we are all animals, and therefore I care—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-20d.960.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-20", "file": "debates2017-07-20d.xml", "sha256": "0352e5d1c87a7d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-20d.971.3", "colnum": "971", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman, I am sure, is aware that we are working well together in government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-20d.971.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-20", "file": "debates2017-07-20d.xml", "sha256": "0352e5d1c87a7d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-20d.998.1", "colnum": "998", "heading": "FOX-SKY MERGER", "cue_speaker": "Karen Bradley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Karen Bradley", "preceding_text": "I should wish you a happy summer, Mr Speaker, as it appears that that is the order of the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-20d.998.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-20", "file": "debates2017-07-20d.xml", "sha256": "0352e5d1c87a7d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-20d.1002.3", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "preceding_text": "t even support her Prime Minister by saying that she was not a lame duck Prime Minister: still the nasty party. This obviously is a Portillo moment: not putting in the phone lines, but a run on SIM cards. I would contrast that and seven years of a Government who are not working for the many with our vision for all stages of life spelled out in 124 pages of a manifesto that is on its third reprint.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-20d.1002.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-20", "file": "debates2017-07-20d.xml", "sha256": "0352e5d1c87a7d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-20d.1002.3", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "preceding_text": "ho are not working for the many with our vision for all stages of life spelled out in 124 pages of a manifesto that is on its third reprint. [Interruption.] I have five minutes. The electorate believed us, not the robotic tautological mantras. That is why we need an Opposition debate to clarify some myths. Let me list some. Who actually is responsible for the financial crash? Not the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-20d.1002.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-20", "file": "debates2017-07-20d.xml", "sha256": "0352e5d1c87a7d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-20d.1004.0", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "preceding_text": "use. I also welcome the hon. Member for Bristol South (Karin Smyth) to her position as the new shadow Deputy Leader of the House. I wish her every success and look forward to working with her. I want to add one other great lady to those on that lovely list, who I am delighted to join in celebrating. It is Jane Austen, who will feature on the new £10 note. She is one of our greatest living authors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-20d.1004.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-20", "file": "debates2017-07-20d.xml", "sha256": "0352e5d1c87a7d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-20d.1006.0", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "Thanks to the Prime Minister’s insistence that the salaries of those who earn over £150,000 working for the BBC ought to be declared, I learned today that a gentleman called Derek Thompson, who apparently plays Charlie in “Casualty”, earns up to £400,000 a year, and yet real nurses earn around £23,000 a year. There is a double—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-20d.1006.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-20", "file": "debates2017-07-20d.xml", "sha256": "0352e5d1c87a7d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-20d.1006.2", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "preceding_text": "ke major statements about higher education on the last day of term, with the intention of evading scrutiny. Will the Leader of the House prevail upon the universities Minister or another Minister to come to the House today and explain why, for example, the Government will make major changes to the teaching excellence framework, for which they are laying material today, and the Office for Students?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-20d.1006.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-07-20", "file": "debates2017-07-20d.xml", "sha256": "0352e5d1c87a7d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-20d.1007.1", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "preceding_text": "d backgrounds—up by more than 40% since 2010. The hon. Gentleman criticises the number of written statements brought forward at the end of term, so I just point out that in 2007 there were 30 written statements; in 2008, there were also 30; in 2009, there were 33; and today I believe there are 22. Of course, as he will appreciate, it is vital for many Departments that they bring forward important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-07-20d.1007.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-05", "file": "debates2017-09-05b.xml", "sha256": "5b9c5558e82ad48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-05b.31.1", "colnum": "31", "heading": "VIOLENCE IN RAKHINE STATE", "cue_speaker": "Mark Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Field", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that my hon. Friend chooses to use the opportunity to grandstand in the way that he does—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-05b.31.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-05", "file": "debates2017-09-05b.xml", "sha256": "5b9c5558e82ad48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-05b.42.0", "colnum": "42", "heading": "EU EXIT NEGOTIATIONS", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "I will now update the House on the two rounds of negotiations with the European Union which took place in July and August. While at times the negotiations have been tough, it is clear that we have made concrete progress on many important issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-05b.42.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-05", "file": "debates2017-09-05b.xml", "sha256": "5b9c5558e82ad48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-05b.42.0", "colnum": "42", "heading": "EU EXIT NEGOTIATIONS", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "to discussing our future partnership, and we want that to happen after the European Council in October if possible. As colleagues know, at the start of these negotiations both sides agreed that the aim was to make progress on four key areas: citizens’ rights, the financial settlement, Northern Ireland and Ireland, and broader separation issues. We have been doing just that, and I have always said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-05b.42.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-05", "file": "debates2017-09-05b.xml", "sha256": "5b9c5558e82ad48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-05b.52.3", "colnum": "52", "heading": "EU EXIT NEGOTIATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for his statement. I do not know whether he heard me, but I was cheering the contribution by my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Rushcliffe (Mr Clarke) , because I agree that we should have a transition period that includes our remaining a member of the single market and the customs union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-05b.52.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-05", "file": "debates2017-09-05b.xml", "sha256": "5b9c5558e82ad48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-05b.54.3", "colnum": "54", "heading": "EU EXIT NEGOTIATIONS", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "rmous metamorphosis in the past six months. When we began talking about this—us and the European 27—the Europeans had in mind using the entire two years to negotiate a withdrawal agreement, then a sort of infinite transition period in which we negotiated our departure. That is clearly something that was massively against our interest in negotiating terms. What was my hon. Friend’s second question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-05b.54.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-05", "file": "debates2017-09-05b.xml", "sha256": "5b9c5558e82ad48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-05b.61.6", "colnum": "61", "heading": "EU EXIT NEGOTIATIONS", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Turn around.”", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "Yes, my hon. Friend is exactly right. Sometimes, those involved have to remember that they are negotiators, not arbiters. The simple truth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-05b.61.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-05", "file": "debates2017-09-05b.xml", "sha256": "5b9c5558e82ad48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-05b.69.0", "colnum": "69", "heading": "GRENFELL TOWER AND BUILDING SAFETY", "cue_speaker": "Sajid Javid", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Sajid Javid", "preceding_text": " by local children in their GCSEs and A-levels. I am thinking particularly of a remarkable young woman named Ines Alves, just 16 years old. Her family lost their home in the fire, but she still received a string of top grades, including an A in chemistry despite Ines’ sitting the exam just hours after the burning tower. Ines is due to start her A-levels this month and I wish her all the very best.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-05b.69.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-05", "file": "debates2017-09-05b.xml", "sha256": "5b9c5558e82ad48e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-05b.98.4", "colnum": "98", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "As the House can see, a good many Bills will be presented today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-05b.98.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-06", "file": "debates2017-09-06c.xml", "sha256": "e882c80c8b3e41d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-06c.142.7", "colnum": "142", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Guto Bebb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Guto Bebb", "preceding_text": "ver, it has to be stated on record that although the Hendry review was supportive of a tidal lagoon in Swansea, no real financial issues were dealt with in that report. It is necessary that we make the right decision not just in terms of the concept of a tidal lagoon in Swansea, but for the energy price that the consumer will pay and for the taxpayer. We will make the right decision in due course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-06c.142.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-06", "file": "debates2017-09-06c.xml", "sha256": "e882c80c8b3e41d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-06c.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "Obviously, what is taking place at McDonald’s is a matter for McDonald’s to deal with, but the questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-06c.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-06", "file": "debates2017-09-06c.xml", "sha256": "e882c80c8b3e41d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-06c.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "Obviously, what is taking place at McDonald’s is a matter for McDonald’s to deal with, but the questions—[Interruption.] Let us focus on the issues that the hon. Gentleman raises, such as zero-hours contracts. In fact, the number of people on zero-hours contracts is very small—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-06c.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-06", "file": "debates2017-09-06c.xml", "sha256": "e882c80c8b3e41d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-06c.149.2", "colnum": "149", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "If only that were the case, because Ofgem’s plans will benefit only 2.6 million customers, but 17 million customers are short-changed by the big six energy companies. The Prime Minister could and should take action on this. But the Prime Minister is not the only one going back on her word—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-06c.149.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-06", "file": "debates2017-09-06c.xml", "sha256": "e882c80c8b3e41d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-06c.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "e will continue to balance the need to protect jobs and public sector workers with the need to ensure that we are also protecting and being fair to those who are paying for it, including public sector workers. We have seen the right hon. Gentleman, in this House and outside it, consistently standing up and asking for more money to be spent on this, that and the other. He can do that in opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-06c.150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-06", "file": "debates2017-09-06c.xml", "sha256": "e882c80c8b3e41d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-06c.152.0", "colnum": "152", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "In relation to the error made by the Home Office, every single one of those individuals was telephoned with an apology.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-06c.152.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-06", "file": "debates2017-09-06c.xml", "sha256": "e882c80c8b3e41d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-06c.184.1", "colnum": "184", "heading": "NATIONAL SHIPBUILDING STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "Michael Fallon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Fallon", "preceding_text": " As I have said, the Clyde already has 20 years’ worth of guaranteed work on the eight heavier anti-submarine frigates. When I was on the Clyde in July to cut steel on the first, HMS Glasgow, there was a unanimous welcome from the workforce for the commitment that the Government are following through in awarding that contract. Today, however, we are doing more than that, in both frigate factories.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-06c.184.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-07", "file": "debates2017-09-07b.xml", "sha256": "129dcd82995cf016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-07b.288.0", "colnum": "288", "heading": "EXITING THE EUROPEAN UNION", "cue_speaker": "Paul Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Williams", "preceding_text": "Britain already has one of the most competition-friendly economies in the world, according to the OECD, but some Conservative Members want to use Brexit to dismantle workers’ rights and erode environmental protections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-07b.288.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-07", "file": "debates2017-09-07b.xml", "sha256": "129dcd82995cf016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-07b.318.1", "colnum": "318", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "preceding_text": "Speaking as an ex-Secretary of State for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, it is interesting how litter is always one of the biggest concerns of everybody in our country. Litter is right up there, and so what happens to it is a vital issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-07b.318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-07", "file": "debates2017-09-07b.xml", "sha256": "129dcd82995cf016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-07b.322.0", "colnum": "322", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Pauline Latham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pauline Latham", "preceding_text": "Big Ben’s bongs are silenced. They are loved by the community and international visitors. May we please have a debate about why this has happened? Is it beyond the wit of man for ear defenders to be worn by the workers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-07b.322.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-07", "file": "debates2017-09-07b.xml", "sha256": "129dcd82995cf016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-07b.345.2", "colnum": "345", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "omestic law on exit day. It also ensures that rights in the EU treaties that are directly effective—that is, rights that are sufficiently clear, precise and unconditional that they can be relied on in court by an individual—continue to be available in UK law. I have no doubt that there is much about EU law that could be improved, and I know that this Parliament will, over time, look to improve it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-07b.345.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-07", "file": "debates2017-09-07b.xml", "sha256": "129dcd82995cf016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-07b.348.3", "colnum": "348", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “When?”", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that my old and dear right hon. and learned Friend and I are going to have a difference of opinion. We will put in the Library a letter on this specific issue, as we have already said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-07b.348.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-07", "file": "debates2017-09-07b.xml", "sha256": "129dcd82995cf016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-07b.354.1", "colnum": "354", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "I am just thinking through the logic of that. It seems to me to be logical, in truth. Will the right hon. Gentleman allow me a few moments to review the matter? It seems to me to be perfectly possible that I could give such an undertaking, but I will not just do it on the fly in case I have missed something.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-07b.354.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-07", "file": "debates2017-09-07b.xml", "sha256": "129dcd82995cf016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-07b.372.1", "colnum": "372", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Luke Graham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Luke Graham", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman talks about representing Scotland, but let us remember that 1 million Scots voted to leave. In fact, a third of SNP voters voted to leave.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-07b.372.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-07", "file": "debates2017-09-07b.xml", "sha256": "129dcd82995cf016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-07b.390.0", "colnum": "390", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sylvia Hermon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sylvia Hermon", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has suggested that those who voted for remain, as I did, should be happy with this Bill because it brings over all EU legislation. Yes and no. On the stroke of midnight on exit day, we lose the general principles of EU law such as proportionality, non-discrimination, and respect for human rights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-07b.390.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-07", "file": "debates2017-09-07b.xml", "sha256": "129dcd82995cf016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-07b.419.2", "colnum": "419", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Chuka Umunna", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chuka Umunna", "preceding_text": "I will not give way, I am afraid, because of the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-07b.419.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-11", "file": "debates2017-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "25f80b2806c71023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-11a.448.7", "colnum": "448", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Anne Milton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Milton", "preceding_text": "Nobody, neither the Treasury nor the Department for Education, is shoving money down the sofa—£200 million was given to the Department as part of the apprenticeship budget, and that was allocated in the 2015 spending review.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-11a.448.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-11", "file": "debates2017-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "25f80b2806c71023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-11a.455.4", "colnum": "455", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Maria Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Miller", "preceding_text": "This is a necessary Bill; 52% of the population voted to leave the EU, and each of us who have been voted here by our communities to represent them in this debate need to respect democracy, which is why we need to get on with the job of ensuring a smooth exit from the EU. This Bill is a necessary part of that overall process. For the Labour party to vote against the Bill at this early stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-11a.455.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-11", "file": "debates2017-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "25f80b2806c71023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-11a.465.0", "colnum": "465", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "on our side, but precisely because of that we can be generous. On the rights of citizens, I have just spent time with Italian Senators who are visiting the building, and with the Italian ambassador. We need to be open-hearted and generous towards European citizens who live here, and proclaim now that we are absolutely committed to preserving their rights and those of every EU citizen, on benefits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-11a.465.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-11", "file": "debates2017-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "25f80b2806c71023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-11a.481.6", "colnum": "481", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "sitting here waiting for a debate, only to find that there is statement after statement, which reduces the time we have for that debate. Thankfully, we are not doing that this time, and if there is a need for extra time, the Leader of the House would be well advised to grant it. I was here at business questions on Thursday, and the shadow Leader of the House did not complain about the timetabling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-11a.481.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-11", "file": "debates2017-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "25f80b2806c71023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-11a.482.0", "colnum": "482", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": " not demand visas for people to come to this country? I worry, as I am sure hon. Members will understand, about what we have unleashed in this country, about the increase in race hate, and about the nastiness that surrounds this debate. No party is the font of all ideas, but I worry hugely about how the Conservative party has moved to the right to pick up ground ceded by the UK Independence party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-11a.482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-11", "file": "debates2017-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "25f80b2806c71023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-11a.521.2", "colnum": "521", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Doughty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Doughty", "preceding_text": "his Bill is the latest chapter in a sorry few months for this tin-eared minority Government. We have seen—let us be frank about this—an utter shambles in the negotiations. That is the view of the public, 61% of whom think that the Government are mishandling the negotiations, and of business leaders, with FTSE leaders refusing to sign the letter that No. 10 was trying to hawk around them last week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-11a.521.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-11", "file": "debates2017-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "25f80b2806c71023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-11a.531.1", "colnum": "531", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Luke Graham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Luke Graham", "preceding_text": "That is not in the Bill. There is protection for the Belfast agreement under clause 7(6). We can go through that, but Scotland is a completely different situation, as the hon. Gentleman well knows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-11a.531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-11", "file": "debates2017-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "25f80b2806c71023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-11a.557.2", "colnum": "557", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Kerr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Kerr", "preceding_text": "te book on the day we leave the European Union. It is no more complicated than that. This is a grand moment for British pragmatism. Sincerely held concerns have been and are being raised about the Bill’s so-called Henry VIII powers. A number of right hon. and hon. Members on both sides of the House have made positive suggestions that deserve the careful consideration of the Government Front Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-11a.557.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-11", "file": "debates2017-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "25f80b2806c71023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-11a.564.4", "colnum": "564", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Chris Philp", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Philp", "preceding_text": "40 years he has been perfectly content for regulations and laws passed in Brussels by qualified majority voting, with no veto or definitive say by the UK Government, to be implemented in UK law by Orders in Council without so much as a sniff of a vote in this House. Where was his righteous indignation for the whole of the last 40 years? The hon. Member for Holborn and Kilburn, who is in her place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-11a.564.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-11", "file": "debates2017-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "25f80b2806c71023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-11a.585.3", "colnum": "585", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "David Lidington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lidington", "preceding_text": " to make retrospective provision, to increase taxation, to create criminal offences or to affect the scope and application of the Human Rights Act 1998. Despite the assurances incorporated in the wording of the Bill, very genuine, sincere concerns have been expressed on both sides of the House about whether there is sufficient parliamentary control over and scrutiny of how the powers will be used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-11a.585.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-11", "file": "debates2017-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "25f80b2806c71023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-11a.607.3", "colnum": "607", "heading": "PETITION - CHANGES TO THE NUMBER 23 BUS ROUTE, EREWASH", "cue_speaker": "Maggie Throup", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maggie Throup", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-11a.607.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-12", "file": "debates2017-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "96e32f6a030f9634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.629.2", "colnum": "629", "heading": "BUSINESS, ENERGY AND INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "Chi Onwurah", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chi Onwurah", "preceding_text": "With Brexit uncertainty mounting, inflation rising, growth faltering, business confidence at a six-year low, and the euro at a record high—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.629.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-12", "file": "debates2017-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "96e32f6a030f9634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.639.1", "colnum": "639", "heading": "HURRICANE IRMA: GOVERNMENT RESPONSE", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "e and thank the first responders of the overseas territories’ own Governments. They have shown leadership from the start and are now being reinforced by personnel from the UK. Many people—military and civilian—have shown fantastic professionalism and courage in their response to the disaster. I hope that I speak for the whole House in saying a resounding and heartfelt, “Thank you”, to all of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.639.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-12", "file": "debates2017-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "96e32f6a030f9634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.672.3", "colnum": "672", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mel Stride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mel Stride", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Lady will have heard my—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.672.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-12", "file": "debates2017-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "96e32f6a030f9634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.676.2", "colnum": "676", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "preceding_text": "and unprecedented, and they cover a range of areas, including finance. Quite simply, that process does not befit a parliamentary democracy. Parliamentarians— I use the word loosely—on the Government Benches should be concerned about their acquiescence last night. The hand-wringing, unprecedented ceding of power to the Executive was unbecoming, and it goes to the heart of the scrutiny on this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.676.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-12", "file": "debates2017-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "96e32f6a030f9634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.678.0", "colnum": "678", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I wonder whether you could help the hon. Gentleman, as he is five minutes into his speech and appears not to have noticed that we are debating the Finance Bill. I thought the debate on the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill, to which he has devoted all his remarks, took place yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.678.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-12", "file": "debates2017-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "96e32f6a030f9634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.678.1", "colnum": "678", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "Order. I could not quite hear the right hon. Gentleman’s point of order, but I am guessing what I thought he probably said. I must say that the content of the speech by the hon. Member for Bootle (Peter Dowd) is not a matter for me, but I am aware that we are discussing only the Finance Bill and we must stick to that. The Bill is, however, wide and varied. I have it here and I have looked at it —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.678.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-12", "file": "debates2017-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "96e32f6a030f9634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.679.5", "colnum": "679", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "preceding_text": "Far be it from me to give advice, but the hon. Lady should go to a dictionary to find out the difference between “a debt” and “a fee”. She clearly does not know what she is talking about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.679.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-12", "file": "debates2017-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "96e32f6a030f9634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.697.0", "colnum": "697", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "o be more successful. That is an admirable aspiration but it is, as my hon. Friend said, what has happened in practice. One of my concerns about the Labour party’s plans is that an increase in corporation tax rates would lead to the collection of less corporation tax revenue; and we would have less money, rather than more, to spend on our public services and our hard-working public sector workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.697.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-12", "file": "debates2017-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "96e32f6a030f9634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.698.0", "colnum": "698", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "To help my right hon. Friend, let me say that there is a good reason and a bad reason why productivity has been disappointing. The good reason is that we have generated lots of lower-value jobs—it is better to have a job than no job—and we now need to help those people to work smarter so that they can be paid better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.698.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-12", "file": "debates2017-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "96e32f6a030f9634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.701.3", "colnum": "701", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dan Carden", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Carden", "preceding_text": " grateful for the opportunity to make my maiden speech in what has already been a lively and important debate on the Finance Bill. Members will remember receiving lots of advice when they were waiting to make their maiden speeches. I found that most people were coming to me saying, “You must be light-hearted and you must be funny.” I am not quite sure why they were saying that to me in particular.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.701.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-12", "file": "debates2017-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "96e32f6a030f9634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.705.1", "colnum": "705", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "James Cleverly", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "James Cleverly", "preceding_text": " non-doms who—“take advantage” is the wrong term—make use of our services and the positive environment we create also pay their fair share, and in this Bill I am pleased to see the Government continuing on that route to ensure that the people who use our public services and who live under the umbrella of protection we provide also pay their fair share. I will now bring my comments to a conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.705.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-12", "file": "debates2017-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "96e32f6a030f9634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.744.1", "colnum": "744", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": " own Whips that we would not. They have got to keep it going until 10 o’clock, so their Members can be reimbursed by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority. With 25 more speakers to go, and the Whips doing their best to cut down contributions, I wonder, Mr Deputy Speaker, whether you could institute a time limit to save Government Members from the incompetence of their own Whips Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.744.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-12", "file": "debates2017-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "96e32f6a030f9634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.766.1", "colnum": "766", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (TODAY)", "cue_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "preceding_text": "The Government are determined to fulfil their constitutional rights and obligations towards the people of the United Kingdom. We are getting on with the task set for us by voters, honouring the result of both the EU referendum and the general election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-12", "file": "debates2017-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "96e32f6a030f9634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.770.1", "colnum": "770", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (TODAY)", "cue_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "preceding_text": "ampbell) , my hon. Friends the Members for Alyn and Deeside (Mark Tami) and for Newport East (Jessica Morden) and even the hon. Member for Glasgow North (Patrick Grady) are all very reasonable Members. I know that they would be pleased to sit down with the Government and work out a reasonable solution that would be in keeping with the constitutional position and the democratic will of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.770.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-12", "file": "debates2017-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "96e32f6a030f9634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.771.3", "colnum": "771", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (TODAY)", "cue_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "preceding_text": " the Committee when they had them ready—we were ready to go in July—and that is why the House should not give these powers away to the Government. I feel sorry for the Leader of the House. She has been sent out in a bright outfit like Ri Chun-hee, the North Korean television presenter, to tell us that everything is well when actually something really bad and dramatic is happening to our democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.771.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-12", "file": "debates2017-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "96e32f6a030f9634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.771.5", "colnum": "771", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (TODAY)", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady and the House will fully understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.771.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-12", "file": "debates2017-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "96e32f6a030f9634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.771.7", "colnum": "771", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (TODAY)", "cue_speaker": "Charles Walker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Walker", "preceding_text": "bit of nonsense. Most recently, Opposition Members will remember that I stood up and berated the Government for not giving Opposition days in a timely fashion to Her Majesty’s Opposition. I said that the Government were being ungenerous and that they should be generous. I am, therefore, no friend of the Government Front Bench. I trash them and I lash them—thwack, thwack, thwack—on a regular basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.771.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-12", "file": "debates2017-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "96e32f6a030f9634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.781.0", "colnum": "781", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (TODAY)", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “No!”", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "preceding_text": " years of the Blair-Brown Government. One example is when they tried to extend detention without charge to 90 days. I remember also the passage of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill. He and I and others described them then as constitutional outrages—it was a “power grab” and an “affront to democracy”. I may even on occasion have indulged in a small measure of hyperbole and rhetoric myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.781.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-12", "file": "debates2017-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "96e32f6a030f9634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.784.2", "colnum": "784", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (TODAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "o do. I listened to the shadow Leader of the House very carefully. She moaned about references to the Selection Committee rather than the Committee of Selection. I am afraid that reminded me—we have already mentioned Monty Python once in the debate today—of the argument about the People’s Front of Judea and the Judean People’s Front. I do not think that what the Committee is called is significant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.784.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-12", "file": "debates2017-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "96e32f6a030f9634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.786.1", "colnum": "786", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (TODAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "Not at all. As I said to the right hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr Carmichael) , the confidence and supply arrangement is quite wide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.786.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-12", "file": "debates2017-09-12a.xml", "sha256": "96e32f6a030f9634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (TODAY)", "cue_speaker": "Eddie Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Eddie Hughes", "preceding_text": "y much, Mr Speaker. My contribution will be very short, but hopefully mildly insightful, because I think I know why the hon. Member for Walsall South (Valerie Vaz) did not take any interventions during her speech. I am familiar with the hon. Lady’s constituency. We are constituency neighbours, and I frequently make incursions across the border, either for a curry or a pint, or to deliver leaflets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-12a.798.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-13", "file": "debates2017-09-13b.xml", "sha256": "8c06012f2983f404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-13b.826.7", "colnum": "826", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Chloe Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chloe Smith", "preceding_text": "key industries and people living a secure and prosperous life. I am pleased to note that this morning it was announced that the Northern Ireland unemployment rate for the May to July quarter of this year has decreased again. I hope that the hon. Lady would welcome that kind of growth. I also hope that she would turn her attention to what she could do to support the economy in her own constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-13b.826.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-13", "file": "debates2017-09-13b.xml", "sha256": "8c06012f2983f404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-13b.906.3", "colnum": "906", "heading": "HIGHER EDUCATION (ENGLAND) REGULATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "preceding_text": "First of all, let me say that my husband would have been Charles I; I probably would have been a Cromwell. On the important point about our policy on tuition fees, we were clear in our manifesto that we would abolish tuition fees. I think the general public absolutely were clear on our policy on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-13b.906.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-13", "file": "debates2017-09-13b.xml", "sha256": "8c06012f2983f404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-13b.908.3", "colnum": "908", "heading": "HIGHER EDUCATION (ENGLAND) REGULATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "preceding_text": "Only this morning, the director of the Conservative think-tank Bright Blue echoed a point that we have been making for months, writing: “What would make a real difference is increasing the salary threshold of £21,000 for repaying student loans.” That is one of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-13b.908.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-13", "file": "debates2017-09-13b.xml", "sha256": "8c06012f2983f404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-13b.937.0", "colnum": "937", "heading": "HIGHER EDUCATION (ENGLAND) REGULATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Rupa Huq", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rupa Huq", "preceding_text": "utiny have been sacrificed. As it is now, the sector is reeling from Brexit, with the effect on the number of EU students and staffers and access to the grants regime, and all the funding is going. The same process by which that was rammed through this House earlier this week has been followed here. It was smuggled in, too, in the 2015 autumn statement. All students should have been told properly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-13b.937.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-14", "file": "debates2017-09-14c.xml", "sha256": "966966cbf8d33cbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-14c.993.0", "colnum": "993", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "preceding_text": "ate on Second Reading of the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill following a request from Members, we will of course look carefully at this matter. Finally, it is a bit rich of the hon. Gentleman to say that the conference recess is held at the behest of the Liberal Democrats when he himself came to me to ask whether we could consider changing the dates to suit the Scottish National party conference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-14c.993.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-14", "file": "debates2017-09-14c.xml", "sha256": "966966cbf8d33cbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-14c.996.3", "colnum": "996", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-14c.996.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-14", "file": "debates2017-09-14c.xml", "sha256": "966966cbf8d33cbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-14c.999.0", "colnum": "999", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right to say that so many communities—schoolchildren and many others—rely on bus services. When I was at Tonbridge girls grammar I used to cycle to school, so I can thoroughly recommend cycling. I occasionally used to take the train, but as I always managed to get the wrong one and end up in London instead of Tonbridge, it was not always a success—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-14c.999.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-14", "file": "debates2017-09-14c.xml", "sha256": "966966cbf8d33cbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-14c.1005.2", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is conflating two separate issues. Let me be very clear with her on yesterday’s debate that she says, had the Opposition won, would have revoked the tuition fees rise. The 40-day annulment period is set out in the Statutory Instruments Act 1946, not in Standing Orders, so it is an entirely separate point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-14c.1005.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-14", "file": "debates2017-09-14c.xml", "sha256": "966966cbf8d33cbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-14c.1027.0", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "SCHOOLS: NATIONAL FUNDING FORMULA", "cue_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "preceding_text": "Once again on the last day before a recess we see the Secretary of State sneak out new policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-14c.1027.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-14", "file": "debates2017-09-14c.xml", "sha256": "966966cbf8d33cbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-14c.1028.0", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "SCHOOLS: NATIONAL FUNDING FORMULA", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "y asked a few questions. I think she misunderstood my point about ensuring that there is a minimum per pupil funding rate of £4,800 for secondary schools and £3,500 for primary schools. There are not many schools that are not at that minimum funding rate, but it is important for those that are below it that we address those issues through the consultation response. That is what we are doing today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-14c.1028.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-09-14", "file": "debates2017-09-14c.xml", "sha256": "966966cbf8d33cbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-14c.1043.2", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "SCHOOLS: NATIONAL FUNDING FORMULA", "cue_speaker": "Bob Stewart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Shame!”", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Stewart", "preceding_text": "assled by other kids in their local schools because of the job of their father. There is little that can be done about that, because they are children. My kids are robust enough to withstand it, but such behaviour is taken to a new level when, during the last general election, a teacher tells the class of my 13-year-old boy that nobody should talk to him because he is the son of a Conservative MP.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-09-14c.1043.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-09", "file": "debates2017-10-09c.xml", "sha256": "685a1201044e4065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.8.6", "colnum": "8", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "preceding_text": "In recent years the Department has introduced a number of measures to ensure that those who carry out assessments for either personal independence payments or ESA have had training so that they can recognise a mental health condition and flag up that condition or any concerns they may have. However, the work capability assessment itself is not working. It was introduced by the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.8.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-09", "file": "debates2017-10-09c.xml", "sha256": "685a1201044e4065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.28.0", "colnum": "28", "heading": "MONARCH AIRLINES", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "is country, Excel Airways—the Labour Government followed a very similar path to the one we have followed, with taxpayer-funded repatriation. They did the right thing then, and we are doing the right thing now. I am simply sorry that Labour Members have forgotten that they did the right thing in government, and cannot now say that our doing the right thing this time is indeed the right thing to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.28.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-09", "file": "debates2017-10-09c.xml", "sha256": "685a1201044e4065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.31.3", "colnum": "31", "heading": "MONARCH AIRLINES", "cue_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "preceding_text": "As the MP for Luton North, I represent many of those who have lost their jobs, and I have to say that, had the company been in public ownership—with proper transparency and accountability to Parliament—I suspect that this would not have happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.31.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-09", "file": "debates2017-10-09c.xml", "sha256": "685a1201044e4065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.41.0", "colnum": "41", "heading": "UK PLANS FOR LEAVING THE EU", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "d look like, before turning to how we get there. I have been clear that when we leave the European Union we will no longer be members of its single market or its customs union. The British people voted for control of their borders, their laws and their money, and that is what this Government are going to deliver. At the same time, we want to find a creative solution to a new economic relationship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.41.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-09", "file": "debates2017-10-09c.xml", "sha256": "685a1201044e4065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.44.0", "colnum": "44", "heading": "UK PLANS FOR LEAVING THE EU", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "ortant issue for many parts of Britain. On the issue of citizens’ rights, the Prime Minister says this is an area where progress has been made with the EU. I am sure that many colleagues in this House will testify to the level of concern and, indeed, desperation of many of our constituents who come to our surgeries across the country in fear that families and friendships will soon be ripped apart.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.44.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-09", "file": "debates2017-10-09c.xml", "sha256": "685a1201044e4065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.44.0", "colnum": "44", "heading": "UK PLANS FOR LEAVING THE EU", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": " the Prime Minister finally reflect the will of the House and give people and businesses the assurances they need? On Northern Ireland, we welcome the drafting of joint principles, but, 15 months on from the referendum, we should be beyond platitudes, and negotiating the practicalities. The speech in Florence was supposed to put “momentum” into the Brexit negotiations. It is staggering that after—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.44.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-09", "file": "debates2017-10-09c.xml", "sha256": "685a1201044e4065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.45.1", "colnum": "45", "heading": "UK PLANS FOR LEAVING THE EU", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr Speaker. It is staggering that, eight months after triggering article 50, the Government have made so little progress. The Secretary of State for International Trade said a deal with the EU should be the “easiest in human history” —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.45.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-09", "file": "debates2017-10-09c.xml", "sha256": "685a1201044e4065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.45.1", "colnum": "45", "heading": "UK PLANS FOR LEAVING THE EU", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": " bite for the jobs and living standards of the people of this country. These negotiations are the most important in Britain’s recent history—vital to our future and vital to our economy. Just at the moment when Britain needs a strong negotiating team, we have a Cabinet at each other’s throats. Half the Conservative party want the Foreign Secretary sacked, the other half want the Chancellor sacked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.45.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-09", "file": "debates2017-10-09c.xml", "sha256": "685a1201044e4065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.47.2", "colnum": "47", "heading": "UK PLANS FOR LEAVING THE EU", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "I thank the Prime Minister for a copy in advance of her statement, although I must say that for a statement to take 13 minutes to deliver with not one mention of the devolved Administrations shows the lack of respect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.47.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-09", "file": "debates2017-10-09c.xml", "sha256": "685a1201044e4065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.48.0", "colnum": "48", "heading": "UK PLANS FOR LEAVING THE EU", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "u, Mr Speaker. We respect the fact that the UK has voted to come out of Europe, but we were told during our referendum in 2014 that if we stayed in the UK, our future in Europe would be preserved. Scotland has voted to remain and, in particular, wants to stay in the single market and the customs union, so it is about time that we got some respect from the Government. The situation is now critical.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.48.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-09", "file": "debates2017-10-09c.xml", "sha256": "685a1201044e4065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "UK PLANS FOR LEAVING THE EU", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "tish and Welsh Governments on an ongoing basis over the summer. The right hon. Gentleman refers to citizens’ rights. I remind him that during the Scottish independence referendum in 2014, which he referred to, the First Minister told EU nationals that if the EU did not allow an independent Scotland to rejoin—it was clear that the EU would not do so—EU nationals would “lose the right to stay here.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-09", "file": "debates2017-10-09c.xml", "sha256": "685a1201044e4065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.51.5", "colnum": "51", "heading": "UK PLANS FOR LEAVING THE EU", "cue_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the Prime Minister on her excellent Florence speech. It was widely welcomed, not just by British business but by people across the country, and it marked a real attempt by her to form a consensus on Brexit between the 48% and the 52% that everyone is crying out for. Forgive my throat, Mr Speaker—women with bad throats will not be silenced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.51.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-09", "file": "debates2017-10-09c.xml", "sha256": "685a1201044e4065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.52.2", "colnum": "52", "heading": "UK PLANS FOR LEAVING THE EU", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for her most encouraging statement. Recently in Washington, I found widespread enthusiasm among our American friends at the prospect of signing a free trade deal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.52.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-09", "file": "debates2017-10-09c.xml", "sha256": "685a1201044e4065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.56.0", "colnum": "56", "heading": "UK PLANS FOR LEAVING THE EU", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Doughty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Doughty", "preceding_text": "The shambles and division on the Front Bench would be funny if there were not such serious consequences for our economy, for jobs, and for the future of this country and the world. The Prime Minister is simply not being honest about a whole series of consequences for this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.56.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-09", "file": "debates2017-10-09c.xml", "sha256": "685a1201044e4065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.61.5", "colnum": "61", "heading": "UK PLANS FOR LEAVING THE EU", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "Nice bid, as the Secretary of State says. Let me say to the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.61.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-09", "file": "debates2017-10-09c.xml", "sha256": "685a1201044e4065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.69.0", "colnum": "69", "heading": "UK PLANS FOR LEAVING THE EU", "cue_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "preceding_text": "At times such as this, it is important that Britain speaks with one voice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.69.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-09", "file": "debates2017-10-09c.xml", "sha256": "685a1201044e4065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.84.6", "colnum": "84", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY ON THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "preceding_text": "the Minister is right to say that all communities must abide by the law. Most of the travelling community does abide by the law, and we need to place it on record that the Gypsy, Romany and Traveller community are our fellow citizens. That group probably faces the biggest levels of prejudice and discrimination in Britain, and the House has a duty to do something about that for our fellow citizens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.84.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-09", "file": "debates2017-10-09c.xml", "sha256": "685a1201044e4065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.90.1", "colnum": "90", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY ON THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "preceding_text": "The Minister has been talking for large parts of my speech, so he does not know what I would do. I talked about the need for a change in the law—not a review of the law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.90.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-09", "file": "debates2017-10-09c.xml", "sha256": "685a1201044e4065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.95.3", "colnum": "95", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY ON THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "David Linden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Linden", "preceding_text": "I am disappointed that the hon. Gentleman is seeking to reopen this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.95.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-09", "file": "debates2017-10-09c.xml", "sha256": "685a1201044e4065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.131.0", "colnum": "131", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY ON THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Melanie Onn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Melanie Onn", "preceding_text": "move schools 11 times because of bullying. I found that particularly distressing, because in any other circumstances there would be outrage from us all. My hon. Friend the Member for Gedling (Vernon Coaker) said it was important to support people in how they choose to live, but that we must not allow those who break the law to get away with it—we must consider the effect they have on other people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-09c.131.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-10", "file": "debates2017-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "f07cde3fef53548d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-10c.169.2", "colnum": "169", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Claire Perry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Claire Perry", "preceding_text": " company does this as sensitively as possible. We also want to explore other opportunities. I am struck by the locations of some of the plants that may be affected, and I am also struck by the investment opportunities with, for example, the Siemens investment in offshore wind turbine production in Hull. There are opportunities for skilled engineering staff right the UK and right across the region.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-10c.169.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-10", "file": "debates2017-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "f07cde3fef53548d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-10c.233.6", "colnum": "233", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "atever the right hon. Member for Forest of Dean says—he and I have had many debates over many years—the truth of the matter is that the Government knew they were going to lose the vote and that is why they decided not to vote. That was absolutely clear, and it was what all the Whips were saying throughout the day. The latest trick that the Government are playing in this winner-takes-it-all system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-10c.233.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-10", "file": "debates2017-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "f07cde3fef53548d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-10c.235.2", "colnum": "235", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Frazer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “He applied for it.”", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Frazer", "preceding_text": " Report, there were 43 Conservative contributions, as against 13 from Labour. When I knock on doors, not one voter suggests to me that we should spend more time in this House on procedural matters about past debates. The right hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland has brought a three-hour debate before this House at a time when there are many more important issues facing our country, such as Brexit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-10c.235.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-11", "file": "debates2017-10-11d.xml", "sha256": "1802a2f6071884d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-11d.323.3", "colnum": "323", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": " getting advance payments has increased from 35% to just over 50%—the majority. So we are seeing the system being improved and performance improving. But let us just think about the Labour party’s record on this whole issue of welfare. Under the Labour party, 1.4 million people spent most of the last decade trapped on out-of-work benefits. Under the Labour party, the number of households where no—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-11d.323.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-11", "file": "debates2017-10-11d.xml", "sha256": "1802a2f6071884d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-11d.324.1", "colnum": "324", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "I have made it very clear that we continue to look at how we are dealing with this and ensuring that we get this system out in a way that is actually working for people. The performance is increasing, and it is working because more people are getting into work on universal credit than were doing so on jobseeker’s allowance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-11d.324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-11", "file": "debates2017-10-11d.xml", "sha256": "1802a2f6071884d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-11d.324.3", "colnum": "324", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "nment is: the deficit is down by more than two thirds; 3 million more people are in jobs; 1.8 million more children are in good or outstanding schools; more people are visiting A&E; more people are getting operations than ever before; there are record levels of funding into the NHS; and there are record levels of funding into our schools. What did we see about the Labour party from its conference?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-11d.324.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-11", "file": "debates2017-10-11d.xml", "sha256": "1802a2f6071884d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-11d.324.5", "colnum": "324", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More!”", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "’s policies; the Equality and Human Rights Commission said that Labour “needs to…establish that it is not a racist party”; and the Labour leader of Brighton Council threatened to ban Labour conferences because of freely expressed anti-Semitism. That was all before the shadow Chancellor admitted that a Labour Government would bring a run on the pound and ordinary working people would pay the price.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-11d.324.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-11", "file": "debates2017-10-11d.xml", "sha256": "1802a2f6071884d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-11d.325.4", "colnum": "325", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister cannot answer a simple question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-11d.325.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-11", "file": "debates2017-10-11d.xml", "sha256": "1802a2f6071884d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-11d.325.4", "colnum": "325", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister cannot answer a simple question. [Interruption.] I am quite happy to wait. The reason why the Prime Minister cannot answer a simple question is that she is hamstrung by the parliamentary majority and a divided party of right-wing Brexiteers. This morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-11d.325.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-11", "file": "debates2017-10-11d.xml", "sha256": "1802a2f6071884d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-11d.334.0", "colnum": "334", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman raises an important point. I am obviously not aware of the details of the particular services and of the transfer that he has referred to, but the overall point he makes is that people living in Wales are often seeing that they are getting a less good service from the Labour Government NHS in Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-11d.334.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-11", "file": "debates2017-10-11d.xml", "sha256": "1802a2f6071884d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-11d.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "preceding_text": "This is not relevant to the debate, but a significant number of those jobs are incredibly low paid, and people have not had pay rises for many years. What the hon. and learned Lady says might well be the case, but the reality is that it is not about the quantity; it is about the quality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-11d.349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-11", "file": "debates2017-10-11d.xml", "sha256": "1802a2f6071884d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-11d.352.4", "colnum": "352", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "preceding_text": "Because it goes to the heart of this Government’s attitude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-11d.352.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-11", "file": "debates2017-10-11d.xml", "sha256": "1802a2f6071884d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-11d.352.4", "colnum": "352", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "preceding_text": " send to workers such as those at BAE? It says, “You’ve lost your job—a well-skilled job at the forefront of our defence industry—and you may lose your tax-free redundancy sum or have it reduced.” The Prime Minister was handed a fake P45 last week. That was a joke. Many sacked workers get a real P45, and now, under these proposals, they may also get a big tax bill to accompany it. That is no joke—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-11d.352.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-11", "file": "debates2017-10-11d.xml", "sha256": "1802a2f6071884d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-11d.355.5", "colnum": "355", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "No. First, it cannot just be done at European Union level—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-11d.355.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-11", "file": "debates2017-10-11d.xml", "sha256": "1802a2f6071884d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-11d.355.5", "colnum": "355", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "No. First, it cannot just be done at European Union level—[Interruption.] No, we have to do it globally, because many of the companies involved are US companies. The base erosion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-11d.355.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-12", "file": "debates2017-10-12b.xml", "sha256": "ea782173dddac5fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-12b.427.0", "colnum": "427", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "I am very happy for the Minister to go around the world selling Britain, but will he come to see the real economy in, for instance, Huddersfield, where we have a strong manufacturing sector, or Leeds, where we have a financial sector? Not one person I meet in those sectors wants us to continue with this folly of Brexit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-12b.427.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-12", "file": "debates2017-10-12b.xml", "sha256": "ea782173dddac5fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-12b.431.5", "colnum": "431", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "I do not anticipate that that will happen. The hon. Gentleman clearly does not understand what the process is, or what a negotiation is. It is quite clear that our first offer is not the final thing that we expect to be accepted. For example, we have no agreement yet on what will happen with unused quotas or aggregate measures of support. Those issues will be dealt with during the negotiation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-12b.431.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-12", "file": "debates2017-10-12b.xml", "sha256": "ea782173dddac5fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-12b.451.5", "colnum": "451", "heading": "PRISONS POLICY/HMP LONG LARTIN", "cue_speaker": "Sam Gyimah", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sam Gyimah", "preceding_text": "Absolutely: our prison officers do a very difficult and challenging job, and when they are assaulted or threatened at work, we should follow the course of the law to its full extent. In order to do that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-12b.451.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-12", "file": "debates2017-10-12b.xml", "sha256": "ea782173dddac5fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-12b.488.0", "colnum": "488", "heading": "CLEAN GROWTH STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "Richard Benyon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Benyon", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Taunton Deane (Rebecca Pow) produced a series of essays for the Conservative Environment Network recently. I do not know whether the Minister got a chance to read one on the circular economy by—by me, actually.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-12b.488.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-12", "file": "debates2017-10-12b.xml", "sha256": "ea782173dddac5fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-12b.511.0", "colnum": "511", "heading": "CLEAN GROWTH STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "Brendan O'Hara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brendan O'Hara", "preceding_text": "and strict data protection is therefore absolutely essential to avoid any improper use of that information, whether that be online fraud or identity theft, and to keep it from falling into the hands of people or organisations with which we would rather not share it. Data protection may not be something that we think about every day—indeed, it may not even cross our minds from one year to the next—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-12b.511.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-16", "file": "debates2017-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ab505e686c8f674", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-16a.600.2", "colnum": "600", "heading": "IRAN", "cue_speaker": "Claire Perry", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Claire Perry", "preceding_text": "e auto industry has been an incredible success story. Thanks to the workers in the plants, we now have the highest productivity levels in Europe and sales of cars made in the UK are up 70% since 2009. It is a huge success story and we have generated many exports. All of us in this House should think really hard about the message we are sending to those looking to invest in this industry in the UK—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-16a.600.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-16", "file": "debates2017-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ab505e686c8f674", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-16a.605.5", "colnum": "605", "heading": "IRAN", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Foster", "preceding_text": "The Minister may be aware that, when I was a councillor in the midlands a decade ago, we faced the challenges affecting Jaguar Land Rover at that time and the potentially dire warnings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-16a.605.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-16", "file": "debates2017-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ab505e686c8f674", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-16a.606.3", "colnum": "606", "heading": "IRAN", "cue_speaker": "Claire Perry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Claire Perry", "preceding_text": "I am happy to agree with the hon. Gentleman that there has been an incredible level of performance by the people working in the plant. Indeed, Tony Woodley, a long-term member of the union from this plant who sits on the Automotive Council, just cannot speak highly enough about what has been achieved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-16a.606.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-16", "file": "debates2017-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ab505e686c8f674", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-16a.608.0", "colnum": "608", "heading": "IRAN", "cue_speaker": "Claire Perry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Claire Perry", "preceding_text": "Lady for speaking so passionately for her constituents, many of whom commute daily to work in the plant. She is more than welcome to come to any of the conversations we have with the auto industry about long-term investment here. We need to secure investment for the future because the whole automotive world is changing and pivoting away from diesel and petrol towards different forms of technology.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-16a.608.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-16", "file": "debates2017-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ab505e686c8f674", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-16a.610.4", "colnum": "610", "heading": "IRAN", "cue_speaker": "Claire Perry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Claire Perry", "preceding_text": "tatement about this change relates to sales of the model, which are not reaching its forecast potential, but that is something that, with the best will in the world, can always happen if a company gets the design or marketing wrong. The House has to work together to deliver the best possible deal for the country in the EU negotiations, and that is what the Prime Minister and the Cabinet are doing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-16a.610.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-16", "file": "debates2017-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ab505e686c8f674", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-16a.628.2", "colnum": "628", "heading": "NUCLEAR SAFEGUARDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Rebecca Long-Bailey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rebecca Long-Bailey", "preceding_text": "t this barely fit for purpose Bill will, at the very least, need substantial amendment even to make it work on its own terms. Indeed, we also need a wider consideration of how the UK’s advantages and protections under Euratom can successfully be replaced in a national context. We are clear, however, that, should all else fail, of course we need a nuclear safeguarding regime for the UK post Brexit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-16a.628.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-16", "file": "debates2017-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ab505e686c8f674", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-16a.629.2", "colnum": "629", "heading": "NUCLEAR SAFEGUARDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Ed Vaizey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ed Vaizey", "preceding_text": "in the single millions—is being halved at precisely the time when new responsibilities are being put through in statute. We now understand that the Government’s position on Brexit as a whole is to see a transition period. I cannot keep track of how long it will be, and who is in favour of it and who is not. I am in favour of the longest possible transition period—perhaps a couple of hundred years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-16a.629.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-16", "file": "debates2017-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ab505e686c8f674", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-16a.632.1", "colnum": "632", "heading": "NUCLEAR SAFEGUARDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Drew Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Drew Hendry", "preceding_text": "It is very important that the unanswered questions are dealt with in this insufficient Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-16a.632.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-16", "file": "debates2017-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ab505e686c8f674", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-16a.644.0", "colnum": "644", "heading": "NUCLEAR SAFEGUARDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "John Woodcock", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Why?”", "preceding_speaker": "John Woodcock", "preceding_text": "It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for North West Hampshire (Kit Malthouse) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-16a.644.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-16", "file": "debates2017-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ab505e686c8f674", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-16a.652.1", "colnum": "652", "heading": "NUCLEAR SAFEGUARDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Gibson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Gibson", "preceding_text": "That is what I said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-16a.652.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-16", "file": "debates2017-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ab505e686c8f674", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-16a.655.2", "colnum": "655", "heading": "NUCLEAR SAFEGUARDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hoare", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hoare", "preceding_text": "r for some time. I listened to her speech with great attention, but I have to say in all good humour that she did a very good caricature of the P. G. Wodehouse quote that it is not very hard to distinguish between a Scotsman or Scotswoman and a ray of sunshine. Her speech was the Don Quixote speech of this debate: there is nothing good in the Bill; we are all going to go to hell in a handcart and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-16a.655.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-16", "file": "debates2017-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ab505e686c8f674", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-16a.655.6", "colnum": "655", "heading": "NUCLEAR SAFEGUARDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hoare", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hoare", "preceding_text": " nothing wrong, we are not annoyed with it, and it has not offended us in any way, but lawyers on this side of the Channel and lawyers for the European Union have said that triggering article 50 means that we will de facto leave Euratom, which requires a further and separate discussion. I say with the utmost respect to colleagues on both sides on the House who have had a legal calling in the past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-16a.655.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-16", "file": "debates2017-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ab505e686c8f674", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-16a.659.3", "colnum": "659", "heading": "NUCLEAR SAFEGUARDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hoare", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hoare", "preceding_text": "No, this is not dismissing them either. Are Members honestly saying that when a question is asked and someone answers it, weight can only be given to that answer if it compounds the premise of the question that was raised?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-16a.659.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-16", "file": "debates2017-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "7ab505e686c8f674", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-16a.674.0", "colnum": "674", "heading": "NUCLEAR SAFEGUARDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “There are some Scottish National party Members here.”", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradley", "preceding_text": "It is, perhaps, less pleasurable than it should be to follow so many of my colleagues, because it means that no one on the Opposition Benches is bothering to speak, which is very disappointing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-16a.674.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-17", "file": "debates2017-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "9436859301d53d39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-17b.697.0", "colnum": "697", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "I do not believe that political point scoring of this kind or trivialising the reality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-17b.697.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-17", "file": "debates2017-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "9436859301d53d39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-17b.703.1", "colnum": "703", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for pointing out Russian sacrifice in the war. He is quite right to allude to it, although I might also point out that probably 30 million people died in Stalin’s purges and famines and various other things associated with communism which, as I say, were indulged by the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-17b.703.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-17", "file": "debates2017-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "9436859301d53d39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-17b.706.0", "colnum": "706", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "If I may humbly correct the hon. Lady there has been no loss of EU funding so far. As she will understand, EU funding will continue for some years—let me put it like that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-17b.706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-17", "file": "debates2017-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "9436859301d53d39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-17b.711.0", "colnum": "711", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "preceding_text": "At our last session of questions, the Foreign Secretary agreed with the hon. Member for Kettering (Mr Hollobone) that if the EU demanded a single penny in the Brexit divorce bill, then they could “go whistle”. A month later, the Foreign Secretary said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-17b.711.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-17", "file": "debates2017-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "9436859301d53d39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-17b.717.7", "colnum": "717", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful for my hon. Friend’s excellent question. If we study the output of Russia Today and consider the state of the press in Russia at present, we see that it is a scandal that Labour Members should be continuing to validate and legitimate that kind of propaganda by going on those programmes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-17b.717.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-17", "file": "debates2017-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "9436859301d53d39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-17b.718.3", "colnum": "718", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": " suggesting that he and I should visit the BBC Monitoring Service at Caversham Park before the crazy decision is implemented next year to sell off the site and break our link with the similar American operation there. Will he remonstrate with his officials, however, on the grounds that 45 minutes for a walk through on a Thursday is not long enough for him to see what is going on there? Given also—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-17b.718.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-17", "file": "debates2017-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "9436859301d53d39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-17b.746.0", "colnum": "746", "heading": "EU EXIT NEGOTIATIONS", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "ery seriously. It is an important matter for her and for her constituents and it is certainly unsatisfactory—a point that I have made frequently over the years—if Ministers do not respond promptly to Members’ inquiries. A Member should not have to wait two-and-a-half months for a ministerial reply. I am afraid that I cannot offer her a sure route for securing a meeting with the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-17b.746.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-17", "file": "debates2017-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "9436859301d53d39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-17b.756.1", "colnum": "756", "heading": "MIDDLE LEVEL BILL: REVIVAL", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Foster", "preceding_text": "ve the chance, once again, to discuss it on the Floor of the House. Some Members will recall that the Middle Level Bill received its Second Reading on 29 March 2017, following a debate including a range of contributions from hon. and right hon. Members, but it was lost at the Dissolution of Parliament ahead of the general election. I do not intend to repeat the whole of my speech from that debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-17b.756.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-18", "file": "debates2017-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "b9fa4bd65fa7d55d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.825.7", "colnum": "825", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": "portant for the hon. Lady to recognise that Britain is at the forefront of that, unlike the EU, which has yet to agree trade preferences and good trading opportunities with some of the world’s poorest countries. Britain will lead the world in free trade, but, importantly, we will also help the poorest countries to invest in skills, technical assistance and capacity building and create new markets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.825.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-18", "file": "debates2017-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "b9fa4bd65fa7d55d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.828.7", "colnum": "828", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Adam Afriyie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Afriyie", "preceding_text": "Given the health and vibrant link between Commonwealth countries that open up to trade and their subsequent rapid economic development, does my hon. Friend agree that we have not only an economic imperative, but a moral obligation to do whatever we can with foreign aid to focus our efforts on supporting free trade?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.828.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-18", "file": "debates2017-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "b9fa4bd65fa7d55d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.833.0", "colnum": "833", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Esther McVey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Esther McVey", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister reaffirm her Government’s commitment to the northern powerhouse? Will she set out the specific schemes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.833.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-18", "file": "debates2017-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "b9fa4bd65fa7d55d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.833.2", "colnum": "833", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Esther McVey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Esther McVey", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr Speaker. The importance of the north will be heard. Will the Prime Minister set out the schemes that she seeks to prioritise, and does she agree that the only norths that are in tune with the Leader of the Opposition’s political correctness and Marxism are Islington North and North Korea?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.833.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-18", "file": "debates2017-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "b9fa4bd65fa7d55d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.833.5", "colnum": "833", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "lavery Day. The slave trade was one of the most grotesque times in the history of this planet and we must all be resolved to drive out slavery in any form whatsoever. I hope that the Prime Minister will join me in expressing sympathy to, and solidarity and support for, the people of Somalia following the horrific terrorist atrocity in Mogadishu last weekend. I welcome today’s fall in unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.833.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-18", "file": "debates2017-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "b9fa4bd65fa7d55d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.834.1", "colnum": "834", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "ing—the costs they find themselves facing week in, week out. It is why the measures that I just listed to the right hon. Gentleman, including tax cuts and the national living wage, are important, and it is why it is important that we have frozen fuel duty. We have ensured that we take some of the lowest paid people out of paying income tax altogether. We are going to introduce an energy price cap—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.834.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-18", "file": "debates2017-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "b9fa4bd65fa7d55d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.834.3", "colnum": "834", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hooray!", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "Yes, it is absolutely right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.834.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-18", "file": "debates2017-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "b9fa4bd65fa7d55d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.835.2", "colnum": "835", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "ment of a blanket cap of 1% on public sector pay. For the 2018-19 year, we have changed that remit to ensure that there is flexibility in the system for that period. Perhaps I could just explain something else to the right hon. Gentleman, because I fear that for all his years in Parliament there is one thing that he has failed to recognise—Government has no money of its own. Government gets money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.835.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-18", "file": "debates2017-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "b9fa4bd65fa7d55d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.837.4", "colnum": "837", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "ble”? I agree with the Home Secretary. Brexit has contributed to a fall in the pound and a subsequent rise in inflation, squeezing household budgets. Folk are getting poorer in Britain today. It has been reported that Government analysis shows that Scotland and the north-east of England would lose out from breakfast—I mean Brexit—but the Government responded to an FOI by saying that such analysis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.837.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-18", "file": "debates2017-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "b9fa4bd65fa7d55d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.837.6", "colnum": "837", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "Members on the Government Benches are engaging in hilarity, but the reality is that the people of this country are going to pay an economic price for a hard Brexit. The Government analysis, which has remained secret, points out that people in Scotland and the north-east of England will suffer from a hard Brexit. What is the Government’s analysis of the impact and what will be the impact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.837.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-18", "file": "debates2017-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "b9fa4bd65fa7d55d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.837.7", "colnum": "837", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "Order. I must tell the hon. Member for Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Angus Brendan MacNeil) that I know what I am doing. I am trying to help the right hon. Member for Ross, Skye and Lochaber (Ian Blackford) , but he must help himself by asking a brief question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.837.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-18", "file": "debates2017-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "b9fa4bd65fa7d55d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.838.8", "colnum": "838", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "I welcome the fact that the hon. Lady says she and others on the Labour Benches will support the legislation that the Government have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.838.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-18", "file": "debates2017-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "b9fa4bd65fa7d55d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.841.2", "colnum": "841", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "It is no good the hon. Lady shaking her head. The figures show that the performance in getting payments to people on time has improved substantially—more people are getting advance payments. We want to ensure that all those who need advance payments can get them. The fundamental reason for moving to universal credit—a simpler, more straightforward system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.841.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-18", "file": "debates2017-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "b9fa4bd65fa7d55d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.841.2", "colnum": "841", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "res show that the performance in getting payments to people on time has improved substantially—more people are getting advance payments. We want to ensure that all those who need advance payments can get them. The fundamental reason for moving to universal credit—a simpler, more straightforward system—[Interruption.] The hon. Lady may not want to listen, but there is a reason for universal credit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.841.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-18", "file": "debates2017-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "b9fa4bd65fa7d55d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.844.5", "colnum": "844", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "Let me say to the hon. Gentleman that I think the constituents of Moray will be very pleased that they have a Conservative Member of Parliament who is looking after their interests in the House. Let me also say to him that the Scottish Conservative Members are doing more for the interests of Scotland in this Parliament than the Scottish nationalists have ever done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.844.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-18", "file": "debates2017-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "b9fa4bd65fa7d55d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.867.0", "colnum": "867", "heading": "UNIVERSAL CREDIT ROLL-OUT", "cue_speaker": "Clive Efford", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ah!”", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Efford", "preceding_text": "It is not the principle, but the practicality that is at issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.867.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-18", "file": "debates2017-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "b9fa4bd65fa7d55d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.867.9", "colnum": "867", "heading": "UNIVERSAL CREDIT ROLL-OUT", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Why?”", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "Part of the issue is that that is not comparing like with like. The right hon. Gentleman will understand that the selection of people who will be on universal credit will be of a different group than the housing benefit population as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.867.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-18", "file": "debates2017-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "b9fa4bd65fa7d55d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.867.9", "colnum": "867", "heading": "UNIVERSAL CREDIT ROLL-OUT", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "ng like with like. The right hon. Gentleman will understand that the selection of people who will be on universal credit will be of a different group than the housing benefit population as a whole. [Hon. Members: “Why?”] The reason is that in many cases, going on universal credit involves a change of circumstances, and that change of circumstances may in fact be a reason why people are in arrears.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.867.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-18", "file": "debates2017-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "b9fa4bd65fa7d55d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.869.6", "colnum": "869", "heading": "UNIVERSAL CREDIT ROLL-OUT", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “They do!”", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "Let us be clear: if people need support under this system, they do not have to wait for six weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.869.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-18", "file": "debates2017-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "b9fa4bd65fa7d55d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.898.1", "colnum": "898", "heading": "UNIVERSAL CREDIT ROLL-OUT", "cue_speaker": "Mhairi Black", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mhairi Black", "preceding_text": "e work. That is fair enough, but the Government cannot even incentivise their own Scottish Tory MPs to turn up and miss a football game in Barcelona—don’t dare talk about incentivising. I have heard the Government use that argument time and time again to justify their choosing to keep slashing money for the poor. The argument is used to justify the two-child policy and their sickening rape clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.898.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-18", "file": "debates2017-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "b9fa4bd65fa7d55d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.898.1", "colnum": "898", "heading": "UNIVERSAL CREDIT ROLL-OUT", "cue_speaker": "Mhairi Black", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mhairi Black", "preceding_text": "use that argument time and time again to justify their choosing to keep slashing money for the poor. The argument is used to justify the two-child policy and their sickening rape clause. [Interruption.] Conservative Members should listen for a wee second. I have heard it used to justify the sanctions regime while I have stood in this very Chamber and implored the Government to make it more humane—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.898.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-18", "file": "debates2017-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "b9fa4bd65fa7d55d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.900.2", "colnum": "900", "heading": "UNIVERSAL CREDIT ROLL-OUT", "cue_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "preceding_text": ". Like the hon. Member for Paisley and Renfrewshire South (Mhairi Black) , I just cannot stand by and listen to some of the comments from Government Members, who speak as if this is an incidental, unimportant and dispassionate matter. Some Conservative Members imply that there is no hardship or deprivation; they should walk a week in my shoes and come to Horden, to Easington and to the food banks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-18a.900.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-19", "file": "debates2017-10-19c.xml", "sha256": "533cb5e22daacdef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-19c.969.8", "colnum": "969", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "As I glanced at the Order Paper, as you must also have done, Mr Speaker, I noticed my hon. Friend’s change of name due to the happy event of her marriage, on which the whole House will want to congratulate her.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-19c.969.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-19", "file": "debates2017-10-19c.xml", "sha256": "533cb5e22daacdef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-19c.974.2", "colnum": "974", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "He mentioned Shipley but it is not sufficient simply to animadvert on Shipley. The question ought to relate to the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-19c.974.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-19", "file": "debates2017-10-19c.xml", "sha256": "533cb5e22daacdef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-19c.981.4", "colnum": "981", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Lady will know, the Secretary of State made clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-19c.981.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-19", "file": "debates2017-10-19c.xml", "sha256": "533cb5e22daacdef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-19c.984.5", "colnum": "984", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "y to find common cause, shall we? It is absolutely right that we look at regional investment inequalities, and it is absolutely right, too, that we do not regard all investment in the south of England as good, while ignoring the rest. The Government are not doing that; that is the point. The Government are rebalancing investment across the whole kingdom, for we recognise that. I could be tiresome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-19c.984.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-19", "file": "debates2017-10-19c.xml", "sha256": "533cb5e22daacdef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-19c.1007.0", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "GRENFELL TOWER", "cue_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "preceding_text": " the Women of the Year award ceremony this week? Our thanks and gratitude go to all those who contributed in the response to the appalling Grenfell Tower tragedy and those who rushed out to help after the Manchester bombing. I completely share her awe at what they have achieved. The hon. Lady raises a number of issues. I will try to address them all but if she will forgive me; she spoke very fast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-19c.1007.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-19", "file": "debates2017-10-19c.xml", "sha256": "533cb5e22daacdef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-19c.1007.0", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "GRENFELL TOWER", "cue_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “When?”", "preceding_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "preceding_text": "e paid directly to landlords, and that is now the case for many universal credit recipients. So I assure colleagues that the House is absolutely being listened to, and the concerns being raised are acted on. I can also assure colleagues that DWP Ministers will come back to the House, as they have several times, to update it on progress in addressing the concerns raised by Members across the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-19c.1007.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-19", "file": "debates2017-10-19c.xml", "sha256": "533cb5e22daacdef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-19c.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "GRENFELL TOWER", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "in what action they are going to take as a result of a vote in this House. May I suggest to the Leader of the House that she considers that proposal this week, and that she comes back next week and says that that is exactly what is going to happen? Will she tell us that within 12 weeks of a vote, a Minister—perhaps even the Leader of the House—will come back and explain what action has been taken?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-19c.1010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-19", "file": "debates2017-10-19c.xml", "sha256": "533cb5e22daacdef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-19c.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "GRENFELL TOWER", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": " a result of a vote in this House. May I suggest to the Leader of the House that she considers that proposal this week, and that she comes back next week and says that that is exactly what is going to happen? Will she tell us that within 12 weeks of a vote, a Minister—perhaps even the Leader of the House—will come back and explain what action has been taken? [Interruption.] I said within 12 weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-19c.1010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-19", "file": "debates2017-10-19c.xml", "sha256": "533cb5e22daacdef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-19c.1025.2", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "GRENFELL TOWER", "cue_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman raises a separate issue about support for women who are suffering from domestic violence, and I assure him that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-19c.1025.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-19", "file": "debates2017-10-19c.xml", "sha256": "533cb5e22daacdef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-19c.1034.2", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "TOBACCO CONTROL PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Michelle Donelan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Michelle Donelan", "preceding_text": "notist, all at the same time. She simply tried everything. All the hypnotist did was to get her onto menthol cigarettes and give her a fear of hypnotists, so that did not go quite to plan. That taught me that, to break the cycle, it needs to be killed at the root, and people need to be prevented from smoking in the first place. I must add that my Mum has now not smoked a cigarette for seven years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-19c.1034.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-19", "file": "debates2017-10-19c.xml", "sha256": "533cb5e22daacdef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-19c.1060.1", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "TOBACCO CONTROL PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Steve Brine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Brine", "preceding_text": "I will look at that point; as ever, my hon. Friend makes a pertinent point from the Back Benches—where I do not think he will be forever, I might add.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-19c.1060.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-20", "file": "debates2017-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "9cafaf69ff0b9c6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-20a.1112.8", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "ASSAULTS ON EMERGENCY WORKERS (OFFENCES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I feel as though we are already in Committee. The hon. Lady makes a good point. Once a barrister, always a barrister; I am not sure whether she is being paid by the word or by the intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-20a.1112.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-20", "file": "debates2017-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "9cafaf69ff0b9c6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-20a.1158.1", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "PARENTAL BEREAVEMENT (LEAVE AND PAY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Hollinrake", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Hollinrake", "preceding_text": "liament to help others in similar circumstances, and for their participation in today’s debate. We had a general debate on baby loss during Baby Loss Awareness Week last week, and I am pleased that we have time to debate this important and sensitive issue again today, so soon after such an important week in the calendar. I particularly thank my hon. Friend the Member for Colchester (Will Quince) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-20a.1158.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-23", "file": "debates2017-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "b424154f79f036a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-23a.41.0", "colnum": "41", "heading": "EUROPEAN COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Kinnock", "preceding_text": "er day. There we were told that if an extra two minutes are added to the customs proceedings, there will be an additional 17 miles of tailback—from Dover to Ashford. We were also told that, in that context, a no deal scenario would be a total catastrophe. Will the Prime Minister please explain what measures are being put in place to avoid total gridlock in Dover in the event of a no deal scenario?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-23a.41.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-23", "file": "debates2017-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "b424154f79f036a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-23a.42.3", "colnum": "42", "heading": "EUROPEAN COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister used her new mantra of a “deep and special partnership” three times in the statement, even though the lack of progress, the business uncertainty and the splits in her Government mean that in reality, the phrase “deep and special” is the new “strong and stable”—an empty slogan from an empty-vessel caretaker Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-23a.42.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-23", "file": "debates2017-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "b424154f79f036a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-23a.57.1", "colnum": "57", "heading": "EUROPEAN COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "f order. I will hear the hon. Lady out, but I am very uncertain—to put it mildly—that this is a responsibility for the Chair. It might be very important, but that is very different from it being a matter for the Chair. All I would say to the hon. Lady is that I will hear her out, as I always do, but please do not abuse the point of order procedure. That is not something to be done in this Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-23a.57.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-23", "file": "debates2017-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "b424154f79f036a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-23a.84.0", "colnum": "84", "heading": "AUTOMATED AND ELECTRIC VEHICLES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Alan Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hooray.”", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Brown", "preceding_text": "We often get a feeling of déjà vu in this place, and tonight is another of those times; I feel like we have been here and have heard some of these comments before. I warn Members that if any of them have actually paid attention to my speeches on electric vehicles, they will get another feeling of déjà vu.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-23a.84.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-23", "file": "debates2017-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "b424154f79f036a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-23a.84.0", "colnum": "84", "heading": "AUTOMATED AND ELECTRIC VEHICLES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Alan Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Brown", "preceding_text": "Anyway, the sense of déjà vu comes because the Bill was clearly part of the previous Vehicle Technology and Aviation Bill, which is testament to the folly of calling a general election. Not only was it a waste of money, we are now revisiting legislation that had effectively already been through its Committee stage. We are redoing work that has been done before, which is costing the taxpayer money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-23a.84.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-23", "file": "debates2017-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "b424154f79f036a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-23a.85.0", "colnum": "85", "heading": "AUTOMATED AND ELECTRIC VEHICLES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Alan Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Brown", "preceding_text": "ou, Mr Deputy Speaker. Just before I move on, this is proof of where this Government are at. What was the Vehicle Technology and Aviation Bill has been split in two. We have had the two-clause Air Travel Organisers’ Licensing Bill, and we now have this Bill. I am surprised that the Government have not split it in two to pretend that they have a bigger legislative programme over the next two years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-23a.85.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-24", "file": "debates2017-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c2923b532798944d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-24a.177.2", "colnum": "177", "heading": "POINTS OF ORDER", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "f the hon. Gentleman has grounds for supposing that there has been impropriety by an hon. or right hon. Member, falling short of possible criminality, which would obviously be considered elsewhere, I ask the hon. Gentleman to write to me, because I am sure he is interested in the issue, rather than in, for example, securing parliamentary attention—I know that would not motivate the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-24a.177.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-24", "file": "debates2017-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c2923b532798944d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-24a.198.3", "colnum": "198", "heading": "UNIVERSAL CREDIT ROLL-OUT", "cue_speaker": "Neil Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Neil Gray", "preceding_text": "The cuts in the tax thresholds do not help those on the lowest incomes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-24a.198.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-24", "file": "debates2017-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c2923b532798944d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-24a.198.6", "colnum": "198", "heading": "UNIVERSAL CREDIT ROLL-OUT", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "people. It is saying that Parliament voted to pause and fix universal credit, but the motion last week did no such thing. I mention that because it is important to the substance of today’s debate about the Government’s response. As the hon. Lady said, the House did ask the Government to pause, but what the House did not do was provide a single reason in that motion why the Government should pause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-24a.198.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-24", "file": "debates2017-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c2923b532798944d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-24a.200.3", "colnum": "200", "heading": "UNIVERSAL CREDIT ROLL-OUT", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "uple of minutes left. The shadow Secretary of State had a number of asks, although I noticed that between last week and this week the list had become considerably longer. That is what happens when the asks are not included in the motion. In her speech last week, the hon. Lady specifically asked for waiting days to be removed completely. Waiting days have always been a factor in the welfare system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-24a.200.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-24", "file": "debates2017-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c2923b532798944d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-24a.200.5", "colnum": "200", "heading": "UNIVERSAL CREDIT ROLL-OUT", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Loans.”", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "ng to give way. I have only a minute left. The Minister has accepted, as the Secretary of State did last week, that the system was not paying people fast enough initially, but also pointed out that the more recent figures showed that the Department had speeded up the payments, and that it has refreshed the guidance to ensure that people can receive advance payments, which I think is very sensible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-24a.200.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-24", "file": "debates2017-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c2923b532798944d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-24a.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "UNIVERSAL CREDIT ROLL-OUT", "cue_speaker": "Carolyn Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Carolyn Harris", "preceding_text": "I do not agree, and I can give examples from the summer when there was mayhem, even before this system came into operation. How can Conservative Members be so oblivious to the predicament they are putting people in?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-24a.202.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-24", "file": "debates2017-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c2923b532798944d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-24a.219.3", "colnum": "219", "heading": "UNIVERSAL CREDIT ROLL-OUT", "cue_speaker": "Hugh Gaffney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugh Gaffney", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way. I am going to continue for the sake of other Back Benchers who want to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-24a.219.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-24", "file": "debates2017-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c2923b532798944d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-24a.231.0", "colnum": "231", "heading": "UNIVERSAL CREDIT ROLL-OUT", "cue_speaker": "Wendy Morton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wendy Morton", "preceding_text": "he potential to change people’s lives. To stop a benefit that prepares people for work and helps them get on in work would be wrong. This nine-year programme is designed to enable a gradual move towards universal credit. It is worth remembering that coverage is currently at 8%. Over the next four months, the roll-out will increase coverage from 8% to 10%—just two percentage points by my reckoning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-24a.231.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-26", "file": "debates2017-10-26b.xml", "sha256": "368d0dac5364713f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-26b.446.2", "colnum": "446", "heading": "LEAVING THE EU: PARLIAMENTARY VOTE", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "Well, in the past, Sir, Select Committee Chairmen have come to this House to represent the Committee, not their own personal views. [Interruption.] I am diverging and wasting the House’s time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-26b.446.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-26", "file": "debates2017-10-26b.xml", "sha256": "368d0dac5364713f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-26b.457.0", "colnum": "457", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "preceding_text": "tle to explain why economists had failed to warn people about the global financial crisis, for focusing too heavily on training students for City jobs, and for not teaching alternative economic theories such as those of Keynes and, yes, even Marx. I am afraid that the Leader of the House is on her own. This was not a nice letter, because all those who received it found it menacing and threatening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-26b.457.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-26", "file": "debates2017-10-26b.xml", "sha256": "368d0dac5364713f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-26b.464.2", "colnum": "464", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend raises an important point on the inequalities across the nations of the United Kingdom in certain areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-26b.464.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-26", "file": "debates2017-10-26b.xml", "sha256": "368d0dac5364713f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-26b.468.1", "colnum": "468", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. We cannot interfere with the law. A general answer might be all right, but we cannot go into an individual case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-26b.468.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-26", "file": "debates2017-10-26b.xml", "sha256": "368d0dac5364713f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-26b.469.4", "colnum": "469", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "preceding_text": "I would say that as City Minister I always found Ross McEwan to be incredibly sympathetic to the issues facing small businesses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-26b.469.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-26", "file": "debates2017-10-26b.xml", "sha256": "368d0dac5364713f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-26b.514.0", "colnum": "514", "heading": "MODERN SLAVERY ACT 2015", "cue_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Vernon Coaker", "preceding_text": "I thank everyone who has taken the time to contribute to this massively important debate from across the country. I also welcome the Minister’s comments and the reforms she has announced—I think I have had a greater impact as co-chair of the all-party group than I had as policing Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-26b.514.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-26", "file": "debates2017-10-26b.xml", "sha256": "368d0dac5364713f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-26b.521.0", "colnum": "521", "heading": "MODERN SLAVERY ACT 2015", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "d proud. I congratulate the Scottish National party, which has the highest percentage of openly gay MPs. I remember David Cameron, when he was the Prime Minister, asking me, “When are you going to become Speaker of the House of Commons?” I said, “Well, Prime Minister…” and he said, “You’d be the first gay Speaker.” I replied, “I don’t think so, Prime Minister. I suspect there’s been a few others.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-26b.521.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-30", "file": "debates2017-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "3a303c34fcaaf4d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-30a.562.6", "colnum": "562", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Jim McMahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim McMahon", "preceding_text": "Far from being devolution to the street, this is more like a devolution cul-de-sac. Is it not the truth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-30a.562.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-30", "file": "debates2017-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "3a303c34fcaaf4d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-30a.571.6", "colnum": "571", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "iate that 126,000 households, including 60,000 pensioner households, get help from the current scheme. From April, they and anyone else struggling with their mortgage costs will be offered a loan, but a loan is no good for those already struggling with the cost of the loans they have. Under Labour, with our mortgage rescue scheme, help was there when it was needed for families facing repossession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-30a.571.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-10-30", "file": "debates2017-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "3a303c34fcaaf4d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-30a.633.4", "colnum": "633", "heading": "ARMED FORCES (FLEXIBLE WORKING) BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Do!”", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "ample of the dangers of the use of such terminology, I take a moment to refer to the lyrics of a “Glee Club” song composed by Liberal Democrat activists at their 2014 conference, sending up their party’s policy of sending nuclear submarines to sea either without warheads—we appear to be without Liberal Democrats, too—or only for part of the time. I will not sing it, the House will be glad to hear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-10-30a.633.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-01", "file": "debates2017-11-01c.xml", "sha256": "2d1348651d34d704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-01c.838.3", "colnum": "838", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY - [4TH ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Stewart McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart McDonald", "preceding_text": ", it leads to a real wage loss of £420. So how Ministers and Government Back Benchers can come to this House and participate in the inevitable crescendo of backslapping and chest-thumping, claiming to be the party that backs the armed forces—no doubt we have a couple of hours of that to go—is beyond me. I would be embarrassed to defend this Government’s record on armed forces pay. Having outlined—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-01c.838.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-01", "file": "debates2017-11-01c.xml", "sha256": "2d1348651d34d704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-01c.871.6", "colnum": "871", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY - [4TH ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. It is up to the shadow Minister to give way, or not. My understanding is that there was no giving way earlier, so if there is tit for tat, that is up to each individual; it is not for the Chair. What I do not want is this continuous barracking across the Chamber, with Members saying, “He is not giving way” and, “Will he give way?”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-01c.871.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-01", "file": "debates2017-11-01c.xml", "sha256": "2d1348651d34d704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-01c.871.7", "colnum": "871", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY - [4TH ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Wayne David", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wayne David", "preceding_text": "hon. Friend the Member for Clwyd South (Susan Elan Jones) —it is surely imperative that the House unites in support of our armed forces. This afternoon, many contributions have strongly supported lifting the pay cap. I very much hope that all of us will support the motion, and call for a fair pay rise for our armed forces. Especially at this time of the year, our armed forces deserve nothing less.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-01c.871.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-01", "file": "debates2017-11-01c.xml", "sha256": "2d1348651d34d704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-01c.878.0", "colnum": "878", "heading": "EXITING THE EU: SECTORAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "ts arising from those analyses be provided to the Committee on Exiting the European Union. The motion is about transparency, accountability and ensuring that Parliament can do its job of scrutinising the Government properly. It is a shame that the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union is not here, but, assuming that he is on negotiating duties, I will not make a cheap point about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-01c.878.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-01", "file": "debates2017-11-01c.xml", "sha256": "2d1348651d34d704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-01c.880.1", "colnum": "880", "heading": "EXITING THE EU: SECTORAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "The last debate got fractious just before 4 o’clock because interventions might or might not have been taken; I have taken pretty well all of them so far, but none of them has yet been about the motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-01c.880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-01", "file": "debates2017-11-01c.xml", "sha256": "2d1348651d34d704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-01c.883.2", "colnum": "883", "heading": "EXITING THE EU: SECTORAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "he Government do. To a very large extent it comes to me, but it would depend on which department it is”. That is interesting, given that the other Departments have not read the reports. He continued: “Some of the stuff is also held in other departments.” Who is the decision maker on the non-disclosure of these reports? Is it the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union? If not, who is it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-01c.883.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-01", "file": "debates2017-11-01c.xml", "sha256": "2d1348651d34d704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-01c.888.5", "colnum": "888", "heading": "EXITING THE EU: SECTORAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Robin Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Walker", "preceding_text": "The Government always pay careful attention to the views of this House. As I have already pointed out, we have done so in the past and we will respond appropriately. To return to the analysis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-01c.888.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-01", "file": "debates2017-11-01c.xml", "sha256": "2d1348651d34d704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-01c.907.8", "colnum": "907", "heading": "EXITING THE EU: SECTORAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Catherine West", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Catherine West", "preceding_text": "I have redoubled the number of meetings that I am having, and I am polishing up my Mandarin Chinese so that I can improve our standing with one of our big trading partners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-01c.907.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-01", "file": "debates2017-11-01c.xml", "sha256": "2d1348651d34d704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-01c.928.1", "colnum": "928", "heading": "EXITING THE EU: SECTORAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Paul Blomfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Blomfield", "preceding_text": "I will cover that point in my remarks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-01c.928.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-01", "file": "debates2017-11-01c.xml", "sha256": "2d1348651d34d704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-01c.929.2", "colnum": "929", "heading": "EXITING THE EU: SECTORAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Steven Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steven Baker", "preceding_text": "like to thank all right hon. and hon. Members who have taken part. I particularly welcome the tone and substance of what was said by the right hon. and learned Member for Holborn and St Pancras (Keir Starmer) in his opening remarks and by the Chairman of the Select Committee the right hon. Member for Leeds Central (Hilary Benn) . Members of the Government are, first and foremost, parliamentarians—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-01c.929.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-01", "file": "debates2017-11-01c.xml", "sha256": "2d1348651d34d704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-01c.930.4", "colnum": "930", "heading": "EXITING THE EU: SECTORAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Steven Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steven Baker", "preceding_text": "th (Chris Philp) said, Hansard is of course available very quickly these days and it is the case that the right hon. and learned Member for Holborn and St Pancras said, according to Hansard: “As I have said, we are open to hearing from the Government if they have alternative mechanisms or procedures to allow publication in an appropriate fashion. We are not wedded to the form we have put forward.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-01c.930.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-07", "file": "debates2017-11-07c.xml", "sha256": "05e875883ffdceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-07c.1364.3", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "YEMEN", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Burt", "preceding_text": "If no further weapons were supplied by the United Kingdom, the conflict would still go on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-07c.1364.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-07", "file": "debates2017-11-07c.xml", "sha256": "05e875883ffdceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-07c.1370.0", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "COUNTER-DAESH UPDATE", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "n Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Tehran today. I say to her that she has a choice—she always has a choice in these matters. She can choose to heap blame on to the British Foreign Office, which is trying to secure the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, but in so doing she deflects blame and accountability from those who are truly responsible for holding that mother in jail, and that is the Iranian regime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-07c.1370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-07", "file": "debates2017-11-07c.xml", "sha256": "05e875883ffdceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-07c.1370.1", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "COUNTER-DAESH UPDATE", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "Order. The Foreign Secretary is dealing with a very important matter of some delicacy. Nobody anywhere in this House ought to be shouting while he is doing so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-07c.1370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-07", "file": "debates2017-11-07c.xml", "sha256": "05e875883ffdceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-07c.1375.2", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "COUNTER-DAESH UPDATE", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to my hon. Friend, who speaks with huge authority about the region. I can certainly say that we are redoubling our efforts to secure the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. He is entirely right that the focus of the House should not be on any failings or the responsibilities of the UK Government for the incarceration of this mother—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-07c.1375.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-07", "file": "debates2017-11-07c.xml", "sha256": "05e875883ffdceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-07c.1398.0", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Hollinrake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Hollinrake", "preceding_text": " is the number of houses we are building in this country. That drives all the affordability issues, which are driving many people into homelessness. So we need to build more homes. Clearly, we are building more than were built during the nadir of the housing market crash—it was difficult to build homes in 2008. New homes are being delivered at about twice the rate they were in 2008, which is good—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-07c.1398.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-07", "file": "debates2017-11-07c.xml", "sha256": "05e875883ffdceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-07c.1400.0", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION", "cue_speaker": "Lyn Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lyn Brown", "preceding_text": "ing a library or a youth club. We are really storing up social problems for the future. I often say that I was privileged to grow up in a council flat in east London. I was moved there at the age of two and a half, during the slum clearances around the docks. That flat provided me with the security to learn and to do as well as I could. My little—well, younger—sister is a well-respected solicitor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-07c.1400.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-07", "file": "debates2017-11-07c.xml", "sha256": "05e875883ffdceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-07c.1412.2", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION", "cue_speaker": "Angela Crawley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Crawley", "preceding_text": "of our constituents. When people threatened with homelessness approach us in their time of need, they are in an extremely vulnerable position. They are scared and stressed, with insecurities in their lives that, I suspect, reach far beyond any that many Conservative Members could possibly imagine. I may be generalising, but the point is that to leave people with nowhere to go is downright immoral.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-07c.1412.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-07", "file": "debates2017-11-07c.xml", "sha256": "05e875883ffdceae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-07c.1417.4", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION", "cue_speaker": "Marcus Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marcus Jones", "preceding_text": "ake) mentioned another important issue: the ending of an assured shorthold tenancy, which is a common cause of people becoming homeless. To answer the question of my hon. Friend the Member for Harrow East, let me say that my Department is absolutely committed to looking at how we can incentivise landlords to provide longer tenancies. I hope that we will be coming forward with details on that soon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-07c.1417.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-13", "file": "debates2017-11-13b.xml", "sha256": "ea991bcef5637f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-13b.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "NAZANIN ZAGHARI-RATCLIFFE", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Say sorry!”", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "I am more than happy to say again what I said to the right hon. Lady last week: yes, of course, I apologise for the distress and the suffering that have been caused by the impression that I gave that the Government believed—that I believed—that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was in Iran in a professional capacity. She was there on holiday, and that is the view of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-13b.25.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-13", "file": "debates2017-11-13b.xml", "sha256": "ea991bcef5637f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-13b.28.4", "colnum": "28", "heading": "NAZANIN ZAGHARI-RATCLIFFE", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "I hope that the House will understand with crystal clarity that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was there on holiday. She was not there in any professional capacity. In so far as people got a different impression from what I was saying at the FAC, that was my mistake. I should have been clearer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-13b.28.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-13", "file": "debates2017-11-13b.xml", "sha256": "ea991bcef5637f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-13b.36.0", "colnum": "36", "heading": "EU EXIT NEGOTIATIONS", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "ouse that this will be over and above the undertaking we have already made to table a motion on the final deal as soon as possible after the deal is agreed, and that we still intend and expect such a vote on the final deal to happen before the European Parliament votes on it. There cannot be any doubt that Parliament will be intimately involved at every stage. Finally, on the financial settlement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-13b.36.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-13", "file": "debates2017-11-13b.xml", "sha256": "ea991bcef5637f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-13b.79.1", "colnum": "79", "heading": "MISCELLANEOUS", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "aoiseach may enjoy less power and influence over some of the players in this, too. However, this is another tool in the Secretary of State’s armoury, so I cannot understand why he will not deploy it. It is utterly inexplicable that the Prime Minister has been to Northern Ireland only once—and then for a scant 20 minutes—during her entire period in office. It is beholden on her now to get involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-13b.79.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-13", "file": "debates2017-11-13b.xml", "sha256": "ea991bcef5637f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-13b.82.1", "colnum": "82", "heading": "MISCELLANEOUS", "cue_speaker": "Owen Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Smith", "preceding_text": "None of those proposals has been taken remotely seriously by our interlocutors in Brussels. None of them answers the question of how we avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland. None of them is currently thought to be a serious runner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-13b.82.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-13", "file": "debates2017-11-13b.xml", "sha256": "ea991bcef5637f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-13b.92.5", "colnum": "92", "heading": "MISCELLANEOUS", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Dodds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Dodds", "preceding_text": "he prospects of an agreement. In the June general election, our party received the highest vote of any single party in Northern Ireland since 1985, so we do not fear another election. We do not fear another general election here either. We are probably the only party in the House that can confidently say, if there was a general election tomorrow, that it would have no difficulties with the result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-13b.92.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-14", "file": "debates2017-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "caa792527be4a20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.138.8", "colnum": "138", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Steve Brine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Brine", "preceding_text": "The meeting was in Milan, Mr Speaker, but we do not mention football in relation to Italy or Milan any more. I hear it is a touchy subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.138.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-14", "file": "debates2017-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "caa792527be4a20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.168.6", "colnum": "168", "heading": "HOSPITAL CAR PARKING CHARGES (ABOLITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mel Stride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mel Stride", "preceding_text": "What I actually asked was whether the right hon. Lady would join me in calling for the ICIJ to release that information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.168.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-14", "file": "debates2017-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "caa792527be4a20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.168.6", "colnum": "168", "heading": "HOSPITAL CAR PARKING CHARGES (ABOLITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mel Stride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mel Stride", "preceding_text": "What I actually asked was whether the right hon. Lady would join me in calling for the ICIJ to release that information. [Interruption.] That is a slightly different question, and I am happy to give way again if she will tell us, yes or no, whether she will do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.168.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-14", "file": "debates2017-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "caa792527be4a20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.170.5", "colnum": "170", "heading": "HOSPITAL CAR PARKING CHARGES (ABOLITION)", "cue_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "preceding_text": "he conservative—and Conservative—figures that the Government have published on tax avoidance show that HMRC recorded from 2010-2015 that £12.8 billion was lost to the Exchequer through tax avoidance. That is unacceptable. People have a view about what the previous Labour Government did. They think that it was much better than the Tories overall, but I am not going to go there. The question arises—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.170.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-14", "file": "debates2017-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "caa792527be4a20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.185.0", "colnum": "185", "heading": "HOSPITAL CAR PARKING CHARGES (ABOLITION)", "cue_speaker": "James Cartlidge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Cartlidge", "preceding_text": "yond the means even of those on relatively high incomes—let alone modest ones—particularly in London. Young professionals can be on £100,000 and still struggle to get on the ladder in significant parts of the capital. But it is not just about London. My constituency of South Suffolk and those in the counties around London know that the ripple of high prices in expensive areas comes out many miles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-14", "file": "debates2017-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "caa792527be4a20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.194.2", "colnum": "194", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Frank Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Field", "preceding_text": "I am supported by people whose constituents largely agree with my views, not theirs. How they deal with that is not my problem. I agree that it is a difficult problem, but that does not mean to say that one should have any particular solution to it. Generally speaking, the larger the majority, the more clearly Labour voters spoke about Brexit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.194.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-14", "file": "debates2017-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "caa792527be4a20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.200.2", "colnum": "200", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Frank Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Field", "preceding_text": "I have one last point to make. I thought that my proposed new clause merely implemented article 50, which we all voted for, to tell our constituents that we had—[Interruption.] Well, apart from one Member who voted against triggering article 50.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.200.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-14", "file": "debates2017-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "caa792527be4a20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.200.2", "colnum": "200", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Frank Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Field", "preceding_text": "I have one last point to make. I thought that my proposed new clause merely implemented article 50, which we all voted for, to tell our constituents that we had—[Interruption.] Well, apart from one Member who voted against triggering article 50. [Interruption.] Apart from two or three—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.200.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-14", "file": "debates2017-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "caa792527be4a20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.203.4", "colnum": "203", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Steven Baker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ooh!", "preceding_speaker": "Steven Baker", "preceding_text": "Not just now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.203.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-14", "file": "debates2017-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "caa792527be4a20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.215.3", "colnum": "215", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "Under the Major Government, we introduced a process whereby parts of the European Council meetings were held in public. The Council of Ministers do hold public sessions, and an attempt was made to reach decisions in public sessions. It probably still goes on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.215.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-14", "file": "debates2017-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "caa792527be4a20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.217.3", "colnum": "217", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Applause.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": " regret that I have not yet seen the light. He and I, like the hon. Member for Bolsover, remain consistent; we are probably each of us wrong. In the course of this, there are some very, very serious issues to be settled in this Bill. I ask the Government to reconsider silly amendments that were thrown out because they got a good article in The Daily Telegraph but might eventually actually do harm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.217.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-14", "file": "debates2017-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "caa792527be4a20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.218.0", "colnum": "218", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Gethins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Gethins", "preceding_text": "It is an absolute privilege to follow the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe (Mr Clarke) . I welcome the applause from those on the Labour Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-14", "file": "debates2017-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "caa792527be4a20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hywel Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hywel Williams", "preceding_text": "As I said, it is unclear to me what the situation is in Northern Ireland. I have heard the rumours, one way or another, that they are extremely close to a resolution other than on the Irish language—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-14", "file": "debates2017-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "caa792527be4a20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.247.5", "colnum": "247", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "My right hon. and learned Friend is a very able barrister, and he presents his case extremely well, but we really are into hypotheticals now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.247.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-14", "file": "debates2017-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "caa792527be4a20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.248.5", "colnum": "248", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "gainst this date must be really confident that they can change a date that has already been set by the European Union treaties. The whole point about the deal/no deal scenario is that—as I have already said to the right hon. Member for Knowsley—either we accept the deal, and the House votes on it, or there is no deal. That is the choice that is available to the House. The House cannot veto Brexit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.248.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-14", "file": "debates2017-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "caa792527be4a20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.248.5", "colnum": "248", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "my speech. Any Members who voted for the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill are obliged to support the amendment, because that is the date for which they implicitly voted when they voted for the Bill, and for a two-year period. Any Members who voted for article 50 but now do not wish to fix the date are open to the charge that they do not actually want us to leave the European Union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.248.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-14", "file": "debates2017-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "caa792527be4a20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.250.4", "colnum": "250", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Frank Field", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Field", "preceding_text": "As I think the right hon. Gentleman should, given what he was imputing. The new clause was politically inspired, of course, because I wanted to see a date in the Bill. If he is suggesting that someone else was directing the kind of new clause I should table, he might want to have a word with the Opposition Whips to find out how easy a job that is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.250.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-14", "file": "debates2017-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "caa792527be4a20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.275.4", "colnum": "275", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Paul Blomfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Blomfield", "preceding_text": "I have said no. I want to give others the opportunity to speak. I took every single intervention in the previous debate—except perhaps from one of my hon. Friends towards the end of my speech—so I want to make some progress. The Government have a choice to make today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.275.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-14", "file": "debates2017-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "caa792527be4a20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.275.8", "colnum": "275", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Paul Blomfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Blomfield", "preceding_text": "No, having taken every single intervention in the previous debate, most of which came from Government Members, I have explained why, in the interests of other Members, I will not take interventions on this occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.275.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-14", "file": "debates2017-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "caa792527be4a20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.306.3", "colnum": "306", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Bob Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Neill", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Solicitor General for that clarification. Perhaps he could confirm that he is happy to meet me and we can discuss that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.306.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-14", "file": "debates2017-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "caa792527be4a20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.306.3", "colnum": "306", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Bob Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Neill", "preceding_text": "r General for that clarification. Perhaps he could confirm that he is happy to meet me and we can discuss that. [Interruption.] He says that he is of course happy to do so. I am grateful to him for that very constructive response, and characteristically so. That will enable us to deal with things like negotiating texts, which we sometimes know of as the travaux préparatoires within the EU context.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.306.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-14", "file": "debates2017-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "caa792527be4a20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.316.6", "colnum": "316", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is very kind, but neither he nor the hon. Member for Ilford South (Mike Gapes) has been in here for the entirety of the debate. This issue has been addressed squarely. We are not going to pre-empt or prejudice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.316.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-14", "file": "debates2017-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "caa792527be4a20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.316.10", "colnum": "316", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "preceding_text": " Minister to answer the question. The Secretary of State has now arrived in the Chamber. Perhaps he will be able to help the Minister out. The simple question is whether, during the transition period, the European Court of Justice will still have jurisdiction in the way that it does at present. Can the Secretary of State give us clarity on this one point? This is a simple and fundamental question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-14b.316.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-15", "file": "debates2017-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "30eb7ec82c7dc602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-15c.351.8", "colnum": "351", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Chloe Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chloe Smith", "preceding_text": "I certainly can. Under this Conservative Government, unemployment is at its lowest level in four decades. Labour would put all that at risk. We want to continue seeing the creation of more than 1,000 jobs a day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-15c.351.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-15", "file": "debates2017-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "30eb7ec82c7dc602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-15c.355.0", "colnum": "355", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ah!”", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "ent will do what is necessary and we will stand ready to help people. I also join the right hon. Gentleman in offering condolences to the family and friends of Carl Sargeant, and I am sure that that goes for everybody across the House. He raised the issue of crime and policing. In fact, crime, which is traditionally measured by the independent crime survey, is down by well over a third since 2010.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-15c.355.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-15", "file": "debates2017-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "30eb7ec82c7dc602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-15c.355.1", "colnum": "355", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "I have been following some tweets from some of the Prime Minister’s friends on the Front Bench. One says: “Very disappointed and mystified at closure of Uxbridge Police Station.” For the want of any doubt, that came from the Foreign Secretary, who is also—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-15c.355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-15", "file": "debates2017-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "30eb7ec82c7dc602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-15c.357.5", "colnum": "357", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "NHS Providers says: “We are in the middle of the longest and deepest financial squeeze in…history.” I have a pretty good idea that they know what they are talking about. Let me give the Prime Minister another statistic. The number of people waiting more than four hours in A&E has gone up by 557% since 2010. Two weeks ago, the opposition to us—the Tories over there—were very noisy when I mentioned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-15c.357.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-15", "file": "debates2017-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "30eb7ec82c7dc602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-15c.358.1", "colnum": "358", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "and a pretty good idea of the effect of Government cuts to school budgets on their staff and on their students. Indeed, the Institute for Fiscal Studies says that school funding will have fallen by 5% in real terms by 2019 as a result of Government policies. With public services in crisis from police to the fire service, from the NHS to children’s schools, while a super-rich few dodge their taxes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-15c.358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-15", "file": "debates2017-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "30eb7ec82c7dc602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-15c.359.3", "colnum": "359", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "l be meeting representatives of NHS England and NHS Property Services later this month. Those two organisations are best placed to ensure that this project is progressed as quickly as possible, and I hope that some positive news will come out of that meeting. As my hon. Friend has raised the issue of access to local health services, I would like to take this opportunity to say how important it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-15c.359.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-15", "file": "debates2017-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "30eb7ec82c7dc602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-15c.363.2", "colnum": "363", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is right to say that I spoke on Monday about the issue of Russian interference in elections, which has taken place in a number of countries in Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-15c.363.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-15", "file": "debates2017-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "30eb7ec82c7dc602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-15c.368.10", "colnum": "368", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "k probably in some consternation—to the Minister during Northern Ireland questions. If he is dissatisfied with the answer because he thinks that there is a clear conflict, and he wishes to pursue the matter, he can do so either by written questions or, if he judges the matter to be pressing, by the other device to bring the matter to the attention of the House, with which he will be well familiar—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-15c.368.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-15", "file": "debates2017-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "30eb7ec82c7dc602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-15c.399.8", "colnum": "399", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": " law, retain it there to ensure continuity and then, over time, to take such steps as this Parliament wishes to take to replace it or change it—makes absolute sense. But as we discussed yesterday, the difficulty that arises is that the origins of EU law mean that it has come into the law of this country in ways that are totally different from our usual process of primary and secondary legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-15c.399.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-15", "file": "debates2017-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "30eb7ec82c7dc602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-15c.413.6", "colnum": "413", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Robert Buckland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Buckland", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has been a committed pro-European throughout his career. I enjoyed his YouTube videos during the campaign—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-15c.413.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-15", "file": "debates2017-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "30eb7ec82c7dc602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-15c.413.6", "colnum": "413", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Robert Buckland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Buckland", "preceding_text": "forget, however, that the important sunset provisions in clause 7 limit the use of such powers to two years after 29 March 2019. Clause 9 is now sunsetted to a very restrictive interpretation with regard to the duration of its powers. I hope that that, together with the important policy statements we have made, and are making again today, will give the hon. Gentleman the comfort he is looking for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-15c.413.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-15", "file": "debates2017-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "30eb7ec82c7dc602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-15c.422.0", "colnum": "422", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister confirm that one of the few things remain and leave agreed about in the campaign is that we would be leaving the customs union and the single market, and we would not be doing a Norway?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-15c.422.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-15", "file": "debates2017-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "30eb7ec82c7dc602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-15c.489.1", "colnum": "489", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "Well, we must leave it to Ministers to speak for themselves, but I have to say that the discussions that I and others had with the Secretary of State, who, as people have remarked in this debate, is of a very different cast of mind from some previous Secretaries of State, suggest to me that actually there will be an environmental protection Bill coming forward. I think that is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-15c.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-15", "file": "debates2017-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "30eb7ec82c7dc602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-15c.494.1", "colnum": "494", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "I did not intend to return to new clause 30, which I did not table, but my hon. Friend may well be right. I am sure the Government will have something to say about sentience in UK domestic law. I am under pressure from the Whips to end, and I certainly will end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-15c.494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-15", "file": "debates2017-11-15c.xml", "sha256": "30eb7ec82c7dc602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-15c.527.0", "colnum": "527", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Anna McMorrin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anna McMorrin", "preceding_text": "Will the Government continue to issue those fines, or will they bow to the pressure of lobbyists and trade deals? Where is the scrutiny? And where is the precautionary principle, which is also vital to safeguarding our food standards? Will chlorinated chicken from the US enter the UK market? The Bill must ensure at the very least that there will be equivalent provision for environmental standards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-15c.527.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-16", "file": "debates2017-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7586eaff0bc3107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-16a.579.1", "colnum": "579", "heading": "HORMONE PREGNANCY TESTS", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "Order. I am grateful to the hon. Lady, but I am afraid, although she is highlighting an immensely important matter, and one that she has highlighted before, she has not asked a question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-16a.579.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-16", "file": "debates2017-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7586eaff0bc3107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-16a.579.1", "colnum": "579", "heading": "HORMONE PREGNANCY TESTS", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "that if they have an urgent question, they can begin with a few observations—a sentence or two—in response to the Minister, and then questions must follow, but that is not what has happened. I have the highest respect for the hon. Gentleman’s knowledge of and commitment to this subject, but she cannot speak for two minutes and then indicate, “I’m about to get to my questions.” Sorry, I say to her—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-16a.579.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-16", "file": "debates2017-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7586eaff0bc3107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-16a.589.3", "colnum": "589", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "preceding_text": "e invisible papers are rapidly leading to an invisible Cabinet. Some may have missed it but there seems to be a new game in town: “‘I’m a Cabinet Minister get me out of here!” The week before last one left the Government and last week another did so, and another comes before a Select Committee and makes a mistake on Government policy, putting a young family at risk. This is a heartless Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-16a.589.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-16", "file": "debates2017-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7586eaff0bc3107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-16a.589.3", "colnum": "589", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "preceding_text": "er for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation to come to the House to make a statement and explain why the chief executive of the Student Loans Company has been sacked. Given that his Department is a major shareholder, with 85%, will the Leader of the House ensure that the Minister comes here, particularly as some students have overpaid their loan by £10,000 and the budget is £100 million?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-16a.589.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-16", "file": "debates2017-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7586eaff0bc3107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-16a.601.8", "colnum": "601", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "Order. I think the Leader of the House was referring to the right hon. Lady in the spirit of saying that she was the authentic voice of her people, just as the hon. Gentleman is the authentic voice of Gedling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-16a.601.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-16", "file": "debates2017-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7586eaff0bc3107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-16a.622.1", "colnum": "622", "heading": "UNIVERSAL CREDIT ROLL-OUT", "cue_speaker": "Peter Kyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Kyle", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether my right hon. Friend has noticed that The Times reports today that property companies are now doing pre-emptive evictions of tenants who are being moved to UC.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-16a.622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-16", "file": "debates2017-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7586eaff0bc3107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-16a.622.7", "colnum": "622", "heading": "UNIVERSAL CREDIT ROLL-OUT", "cue_speaker": "Frank Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Field", "preceding_text": " us that more than half of low-income and middle-income families have no savings at all to fall back on? Two thirds of us have less than a month’s savings to tide us over a crisis. Let us consider the very idea that these families—the most vulnerable people that we have the honour to represent in this House—can wait for six weeks. In the cold light of day, one wonders how any decent set of people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-16a.622.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-16", "file": "debates2017-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7586eaff0bc3107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-16a.626.4", "colnum": "626", "heading": "UNIVERSAL CREDIT ROLL-OUT", "cue_speaker": "Steve Reed", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Reed", "preceding_text": "ade a good case for getting up to visit Banff and Buchan, so I will be booking a trip there as soon as possible to taste the whisky and see the wildlife that he talked about. He is a wonderful advocate for the area. The hon. Gentleman also looked incredibly confident and relaxed as he gave his speech. I think back to how nervous I felt when I gave my maiden speech, but he made his like an old pro—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-16a.626.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-16", "file": "debates2017-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7586eaff0bc3107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-16a.629.2", "colnum": "629", "heading": "UNIVERSAL CREDIT ROLL-OUT", "cue_speaker": "Michael Tomlinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the Minister will respond to the hon. Gentleman’s point in due course. I chair the all-party group on youth employment, so I want to use any mechanism available to encourage young people—everyone, in fact—to get into work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-16a.629.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-16", "file": "debates2017-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7586eaff0bc3107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-16a.629.6", "colnum": "629", "heading": "UNIVERSAL CREDIT ROLL-OUT", "cue_speaker": "Michael Tomlinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Tomlinson", "preceding_text": " that he is testing and learning, and that we are constantly improving the system. I support any principle that encourages more people into work. In response to the intervention made by the hon. Member for Hove (Peter Kyle) , I threatened to speak about the Labour party’s record. The hon. Gentleman is just about to leave the Chamber, but it does not matter, as he can read this in Hansard tomorrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-16a.629.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-16", "file": "debates2017-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7586eaff0bc3107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-16a.647.3", "colnum": "647", "heading": "UNIVERSAL CREDIT ROLL-OUT", "cue_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady can shake her head, but it is true. It is insulting to people to say that they will never be able to cope on monthly payments. I challenge her to have that conversation with the many people who are looking for work, because they would be insulted by it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-16a.647.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-16", "file": "debates2017-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7586eaff0bc3107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-16a.647.3", "colnum": "647", "heading": "UNIVERSAL CREDIT ROLL-OUT", "cue_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady can shake her head, but it is true. It is insulting to people to say that they will never be able to cope on monthly payments. I challenge her to have that conversation with the many people who are looking for work, because they would be insulted by it. [Interruption.] It is unfortunate that she laughs at that because it is true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-16a.647.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-16", "file": "debates2017-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7586eaff0bc3107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-16a.647.5", "colnum": "647", "heading": "UNIVERSAL CREDIT ROLL-OUT", "cue_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady will recognise that there are lots of people who do manage to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-16a.647.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-16", "file": "debates2017-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7586eaff0bc3107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-16a.671.0", "colnum": "671", "heading": "DEFENCE AEROSPACE INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Smeeth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Smeeth", "preceding_text": "Perish the thought that the Red Arrows should fly anything other than British-built planes. Let us be clear: 2030 was not a date anyone recognised until recent weeks for the renewal of the Hawks. I say this as a young Member of this House, obviously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-16a.671.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-16", "file": "debates2017-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "b7586eaff0bc3107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-16a.671.3", "colnum": "671", "heading": "DEFENCE AEROSPACE INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "preceding_text": "We are both very young Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-16a.671.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-20", "file": "debates2017-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "e8ae9773193a9101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-20a.786.1", "colnum": "786", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ian Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Murray", "preceding_text": "ur own. It is likely that, outside the customs union, the UK would need to renegotiate many, if not all, of those agreements with those who would become third parties. It is not as easy as just rolling over those agreements, which is what the Government seem to want to do. I am conscious of time, Mr Deputy Speaker, so let me move on a little. I want to talk about Northern Ireland and the Republic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-20a.786.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-20", "file": "debates2017-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "14a62c7cb1e9195a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-20b.766.1", "colnum": "766", "heading": "DUTIES OF CUSTOMS", "cue_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "preceding_text": " to send Ministers to the Dispatch Box to explain the Government’s rationale. Now, the Government, in their faux generosity, will claim that they have set aside eight days to debate the withdrawal Bill and other days to discuss Brexit. However, in the withdrawal Bill, they are institutionalising an accretion of powers to the Executive that is quite unheard of in the modern history of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-20b.766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-20", "file": "debates2017-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "14a62c7cb1e9195a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-20b.772.1", "colnum": "772", "heading": "DUTIES OF CUSTOMS", "cue_speaker": "Kirsty Blackman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kirsty Blackman", "preceding_text": "I am not saying that anybody should fear international trade. International trade is a very good thing, particularly for productivity, for example, which the oil and gas industry has been quite good at bringing up. The more international trade a country has, the better its productivity growth, but Brexit is not going to result in more international trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-20b.772.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-20", "file": "debates2017-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "14a62c7cb1e9195a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-20b.786.1", "colnum": "786", "heading": "DUTIES OF CUSTOMS", "cue_speaker": "Ian Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Murray", "preceding_text": "ur own. It is likely that, outside the customs union, the UK would need to renegotiate many, if not all, of those agreements with those who would become third parties. It is not as easy as just rolling over those agreements, which is what the Government seem to want to do. I am conscious of time, Mr Deputy Speaker, so let me move on a little. I want to talk about Northern Ireland and the Republic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-20b.786.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-21", "file": "debates2017-11-21c.xml", "sha256": "21e9ba005064b1bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-21c.842.7", "colnum": "842", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Rory Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rory Stewart", "preceding_text": "We continue to raise very strongly with the Egyptian Government our concerns about these issues. The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to raise them. There are some very troubling issues in Egypt. We continue to study them and we raise them with our US and EU partners all the way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-21c.842.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-21", "file": "debates2017-11-21c.xml", "sha256": "21e9ba005064b1bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-21c.885.3", "colnum": "885", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "Bill. In those circumstances, it does not seem to be pushing the boundaries very much further, nor should it be seen as some treasonable article, for us to consider whether the general principles of EU law ought not to be capable of being invoked when they are probably the very thing that has, over the years, prevented the EU from turning into an even worse tyranny, as my hon. Friend would see it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-21c.885.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-21", "file": "debates2017-11-21c.xml", "sha256": "21e9ba005064b1bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-21c.980.0", "colnum": "980", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Robert Buckland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Buckland", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to my hon. Friend for making that observation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-21c.980.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-21", "file": "debates2017-11-21c.xml", "sha256": "21e9ba005064b1bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-21c.1014.3", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "PETITION - BAE SYSTEMS JOBS IN BROUGH", "cue_speaker": "Diana R. Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Diana R. Johnson", "preceding_text": "I rise to present a petition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-21c.1014.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-22", "file": "debates2017-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "d58413d2992d7f98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-22a.1032.7", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE AND THE CHANCELLOR OF THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "I am as confident as I can be that that is the case. If the hon. Gentleman can contain himself, we will all share in the secrets of the Chancellor’s Budget in about 35 minutes’ time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-22a.1032.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-22", "file": "debates2017-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "d58413d2992d7f98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-22a.1037.3", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady’s predecessor blocked EU-wide proposals for a public register of trusts; again, Conservative MPs voted down Labour amendments to deal with tax avoidance. When it comes to Brexit, this Government are a shambles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-22a.1037.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-22", "file": "debates2017-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "d58413d2992d7f98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-22a.1062.4", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "INCOME TAX (CHARGE)", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "promised £10 billion in 2015 and delivered £4.5 billion. So if he does not mind, we will wait for the small print on today’s announcement—but even what he said certainly falls well short of the £6 billion Labour would have delivered from our June manifesto. Over 1 million of our elderly are not receiving the care they need. Over £6 billion will have been cut from social care budgets by next March.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-22a.1062.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-22", "file": "debates2017-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "d58413d2992d7f98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-22a.1071.1", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "INCOME TAX (CHARGE)", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "d party speech and the practice is that it is not to be intervened on. The change in GDP that we will see in the OBR book is a cut to GDP of 2.7%—that is what this Government are presiding over. It is a threat to the wages, living standards and job prospects of people up and down the United Kingdom. This Government should be ashamed of themselves. When we look at the rhetoric of the Budget speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-22a.1071.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-22", "file": "debates2017-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "d58413d2992d7f98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-22a.1072.1", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "INCOME TAX (CHARGE)", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "ank of England admitted that the steep rises in house prices in the decade preceding the crisis, together with a fall in long-term interest rates, has led to “a sharp rise in intergenerational dispersion of wealth benefiting in particular older people who had already entered the market before prices began to rise.” The Government have avoided every opportunity to invest in young people. What hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-22a.1072.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-22", "file": "debates2017-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "d58413d2992d7f98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-22a.1085.0", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "INCOME TAX (CHARGE)", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "o assure the House absolutely that I was extremely confident then—as I am now—about the prospects of the British economy. There has been a lot of inward investment in the United Kingdom economy, and those inward investment people were wise. The UK is a great place for people who want to set up a factory, expand a business, develop a new business, take on commercial space and hire a good workforce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-22a.1085.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-22", "file": "debates2017-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "d58413d2992d7f98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-22a.1087.3", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "INCOME TAX (CHARGE)", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “There’s one!”", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "That is fine by me. I have no problem with that, but nor do I have any constituency interest in the matter. It is interesting that Scottish National party Members have not stayed to follow that debate through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-22a.1087.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-22", "file": "debates2017-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "d58413d2992d7f98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-22a.1091.0", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "INCOME TAX (CHARGE)", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor referred in his speech to the Labour party increasing our national debt by £500 billion. The easiest thing in the world is to spend more and borrow more, which is precisely the situation the Labour party left us in back in 2010, which is why we have had to have austerity Budgets over the past few years. Indeed, I recently went to a lunch and met a director of one of our major banks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-22a.1091.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-22", "file": "debates2017-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "d58413d2992d7f98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-22a.1094.1", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "INCOME TAX (CHARGE)", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": " to be a record number of jobs and of apprenticeships. If the Labour party had anything to cheer about, it would surely be that we are employing a record number of people in this country. I would have thought that it would be particularly pleased at the Chancellor’s announcement that poverty is reducing in this country and that child poverty has reduced by more than 1 million in the past 10 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-22a.1094.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-22", "file": "debates2017-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "d58413d2992d7f98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-22a.1097.3", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "INCOME TAX (CHARGE)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Evans", "preceding_text": "abolish stamp duty on houses worth less than £300,000 in order, he said, to help millennials on to the housing ladder. Then minutes afterwards, as has happened in all his speeches—last time it was about national insurance contributions—we get the real story. Hidden away on page 154 of the OBR report is the clear statement that the temporary holiday on stamp duty will increase house prices by 0.3%.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-22a.1097.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-23", "file": "debates2017-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "51770b5e75b55adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-23c.1170.3", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "WOMEN AND EQUALITIES", "cue_speaker": "Anne Milton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Milton", "preceding_text": "I point out to the hon. Lady that it is illegal and unlawful to discriminate in such a way, and employers are breaking the law in doing it. As constituency MPs, we can highlight to the women we meet or who come to our surgeries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-23c.1170.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-23", "file": "debates2017-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "51770b5e75b55adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-23c.1203.0", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "UNIVERSAL CREDIT", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "moving into work, a monthly approach is absolutely sensible, but we need flexibility in the first assessment period, so that people can get access to money earlier. That is exactly what we are delivering. The approach of the Opposition Front-Bench team is not one of constructive engagement. They are a roadblock to welfare reform. They have sought to stand in the way of delivering universal credit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-23c.1203.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-23", "file": "debates2017-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "51770b5e75b55adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-23c.1213.4", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS - INCOME TAX (CHARGE)", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ah!”", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "Order. Before we go any further in this debate, which has only just started, I should explain to the House that a great many people have indicated that they wish to speak this afternoon. Speeches will have to be time-limited and short. It is simply not fair for people to make very long interventions and possibly not stay for the whole debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-23c.1213.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-23", "file": "debates2017-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "51770b5e75b55adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-23c.1217.1", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS - INCOME TAX (CHARGE)", "cue_speaker": "John Martin McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Martin McDonnell", "preceding_text": "I know that the hon. Lady is well intentioned, but she has displayed ignorance of what large numbers of people are experiencing. May I suggest this to her—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-23c.1217.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-23", "file": "debates2017-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "51770b5e75b55adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-23c.1229.3", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS - INCOME TAX (CHARGE)", "cue_speaker": "Sajid Javid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sajid Javid", "preceding_text": "ture can accommodate future northern powerhouse and midlands engine rail improvements. This kind of devolution is how to deliver growth and opportunity right across the country. It is how to boost productivity and secure new jobs and increased security for hard-working people wherever they live. It underlines the fact that this is a Budget for the whole country: a Budget for the many, not the few.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-23c.1229.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-23", "file": "debates2017-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "51770b5e75b55adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-23c.1230.1", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS - INCOME TAX (CHARGE)", "cue_speaker": "Sajid Javid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sajid Javid", "preceding_text": "again, the shadow Chancellor refuses to say how much his spending plans would cost, how much he would have to borrow and how much debt he would pile on to the next generation. He says that he does not “need a number”, because that is “what iPads are for”. He even accused one reporter of wanting him to “pluck a figure” out of thin air. Well, no, we do not want him to pluck a finger out of thin air—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-23c.1230.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-27", "file": "debates2017-11-27b.xml", "sha256": "f33465980b803a23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-27b.11.6", "colnum": "11", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Gavin Williamson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gavin Williamson", "preceding_text": "The Government’s commitment to making sure that we have the very best for our armed forces has always been clear. The rising defence budget, which is going from £36 billion to £40 billion, is evidence of that commitment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-27b.11.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-27", "file": "debates2017-11-27b.xml", "sha256": "f33465980b803a23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-27b.24.1", "colnum": "24", "heading": "FORENSIC EVIDENCE: ALLEGED MANIPULATION", "cue_speaker": "Nick Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Hurd", "preceding_text": "ll her what the independent Forensic Science Regulator has expressed: “No reasonable set of quality standards could guarantee to prevent determined malpractice by skilled but corrupt personnel”. I would go further. I think that there is general understanding and agreement that there has in fact been increased stringency in the standards and quality requirements for forensic science within the CPS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-27b.24.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-27", "file": "debates2017-11-27b.xml", "sha256": "f33465980b803a23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-27b.70.3", "colnum": "70", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS - INCOME TAX (CHARGE)", "cue_speaker": "Peter Grant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Grant", "preceding_text": "ly no firm and concrete proposals, even for how they are going to square the circle of the border that runs across the island of Ireland, never mind how they are going to reconcile the irreconcilable and maintain full access to the single market when those who set it up made it perfectly clear that countries can be in or out, but cannot have full access without being members. Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-27b.70.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-27", "file": "debates2017-11-27b.xml", "sha256": "f33465980b803a23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-27b.80.1", "colnum": "80", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS - INCOME TAX (CHARGE)", "cue_speaker": "Peter Grant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Grant", "preceding_text": "g that Britain does not have a role to play in the world. What I said, and I will say it again, is that the role in the world the UK Government appear to have decided for Britain is not a role that the people of Scotland will be comfortable following. Nobody would deny that any country in the world has a role to play. If the Official Report shows that I said anything different, I will withdraw it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-27b.80.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-27", "file": "debates2017-11-27b.xml", "sha256": "f33465980b803a23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-27b.101.3", "colnum": "101", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS - INCOME TAX (CHARGE)", "cue_speaker": "Luke Graham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Luke Graham", "preceding_text": "to boost long-term economic activity in my constituency. Spirits are also very significant in my constituency. I have 20% of maturing Scotch whisky in my constituency, so hon. Members might want to come and visit. Last week’s freeze in duty not only reassured the industry domestically, but signalled internationally that the UK will support its home brands and is ready for more international trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-27b.101.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-28", "file": "debates2017-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "0f722959f83c2751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-28b.159.3", "colnum": "159", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anna Soubry", "preceding_text": "Yesterday, I attended a summit organised by East Midlands Councils to consider how we can improve investment and the infrastructure in the region. However, I learned that public expenditure in the east midlands on economic affairs, public transport and, notably, transport is the lowest of any region in the entire country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-28b.159.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-28", "file": "debates2017-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "0f722959f83c2751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-28b.172.5", "colnum": "172", "heading": "LEAVING THE EU: SECTORAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Hywel Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hywel Williams", "preceding_text": "What—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-28b.172.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-28", "file": "debates2017-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "0f722959f83c2751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-28b.176.0", "colnum": "176", "heading": "POINTS OF ORDER", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "No; it is possible. We shall see what happens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-28b.176.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-28", "file": "debates2017-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "0f722959f83c2751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-28b.206.2", "colnum": "206", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS - INCOME TAX (CHARGE)", "cue_speaker": "Rebecca Long-Bailey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rebecca Long-Bailey", "preceding_text": "first analysis the £406 million appears to be the sum of the amounts the Government have already spent on maths, computing and digital skills. The reality is that the Chancellor has overseen the steepest cuts to school funding in a generation, at £2.7 billion since 2015, according to the National Audit Office, and a cap on public sector pay that has seen the average teacher lose £5,000 since 2010.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-28b.206.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-28", "file": "debates2017-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "0f722959f83c2751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-28b.207.3", "colnum": "207", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS - INCOME TAX (CHARGE)", "cue_speaker": "Rebecca Long-Bailey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rebecca Long-Bailey", "preceding_text": "-cooked and, frankly, pitiful.” Furthermore, the proposed sector deals appear very narrow and the strategy as a whole will do nothing to help the millions who work in retail, hospitality, care and other large low-wage, low-productivity sectors. A large proportion of those people are women, but, as we know, the Government do not have the best record when it comes to supporting women in the economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-28b.207.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-28", "file": "debates2017-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "0f722959f83c2751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-28b.218.1", "colnum": "218", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS - INCOME TAX (CHARGE)", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "preceding_text": " sectoral deal seems to have been agreed without any consultation with the Government in Scotland. We have set out our programme for government in Scotland, which includes a commitment to create a Scottish national investment bank to deliver infrastructure development, finance for high-growth businesses and strategic investments in innovation. That mirrors much of what the UK Government have said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-28b.218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-28", "file": "debates2017-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "0f722959f83c2751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-28b.229.0", "colnum": "229", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS - INCOME TAX (CHARGE)", "cue_speaker": "Jim Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Cunningham", "preceding_text": "ey issue during the recent general election, and despite it being a sector in desperate need of investment, there was, shockingly, absolutely no mention of social care in the Budget. Local government services in Coventry continue to have funding slashed, and there is no additional money for the police or fire services, making provision of vital services more and more impossible. The NHS has again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-28b.229.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-28", "file": "debates2017-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "0f722959f83c2751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-28b.230.2", "colnum": "230", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS - INCOME TAX (CHARGE)", "cue_speaker": "George Freeman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "George Freeman", "preceding_text": "It is a privilege to rise on behalf of my constituents to welcome this Budget and the industrial strategy announced by the Business Secretary yesterday. In the past week, the Chancellor and the Business Secretary have sent a strong signal that this economy and this country are in the hands of safe grown-ups in the Treasury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-28b.230.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-28", "file": "debates2017-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "0f722959f83c2751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-28b.230.2", "colnum": "230", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS - INCOME TAX (CHARGE)", "cue_speaker": "George Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Freeman", "preceding_text": "siness Secretary yesterday. In the past week, the Chancellor and the Business Secretary have sent a strong signal that this economy and this country are in the hands of safe grown-ups in the Treasury—[Laughter.] I would not laugh yet. This country knows that what we need is a sensible, one nation Conservative Administration, not a Marxist shadow Chancellor committed to the overthrow of capitalism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-28b.230.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-28", "file": "debates2017-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "0f722959f83c2751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-28b.238.0", "colnum": "238", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS - INCOME TAX (CHARGE)", "cue_speaker": "James Frith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "James Frith", "preceding_text": "their work to deliver it in secrecy, wasting all the time they have had since the result. We needed a Brexit Budget; instead, the Government published a UK industrial strategy yesterday, but they still refuse to publish in full their assessment of the UK sectors facing Brexit. There is a promise to build infrastructure and to build 5G networks, but in some areas of Bury it is more Bee Gee than 3G.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-28b.238.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-28", "file": "debates2017-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "0f722959f83c2751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-28b.270.0", "colnum": "270", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS - INCOME TAX (CHARGE)", "cue_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "preceding_text": "y Government have spent as a proportion of GDP on economic infrastructure for 40 years. How can the Opposition talk about a lack of investment in infrastructure, given that this is the highest for 40 years? It is much higher than anything that happened under the previous Labour Government. This spending includes plans for the Oxford-Milton Keynes-Cambridge corridor and for the northern powerhouse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-28b.270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-28", "file": "debates2017-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "0f722959f83c2751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-28b.272.1", "colnum": "272", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS - INCOME TAX (CHARGE)", "cue_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "preceding_text": "Absolutely, which is why our focus is on getting the best possible deal in the Brexit negotiations. Maintaining a tight grip on Government finances is, as my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Rushcliffe (Mr Clarke) pointed out, vital for any Government, and Opposition Front Benchers would do well to look at that when they are considering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-28b.272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-28", "file": "debates2017-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "0f722959f83c2751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-28b.272.1", "colnum": "272", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS - INCOME TAX (CHARGE)", "cue_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "preceding_text": "is on getting the best possible deal in the Brexit negotiations. Maintaining a tight grip on Government finances is, as my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Rushcliffe (Mr Clarke) pointed out, vital for any Government, and Opposition Front Benchers would do well to look at that when they are considering—[Interruption.] I see that the shadow Chancellor is on his iPad looking up what the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-28b.272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-28", "file": "debates2017-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "0f722959f83c2751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-28b.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "LOWER THAMES CROSSING", "cue_speaker": "Adam Holloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Holloway", "preceding_text": "cerns and those of the Lower Thames Crossing Association. I and Mr Bob Lane from the association had an excellent meeting today with Tim Jones, the project director from Highways England, and we are very grateful to him for the intelligent and constructive way in which he is approaching this project. I hope that the Minister has a map of the crossing in front of him, but if not, I can provide one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-28b.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-29", "file": "debates2017-11-29c.xml", "sha256": "de743fad661cdd67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-29c.314.0", "colnum": "314", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "Yes, I am. I think that all Ministers should respect and obey the ministerial code, and I absolutely think that is a very important part of confidence in public life. I also echo the right hon. Lady’s thoughts about the terrible events in Sinai. She might find it difficult to wave the St George’s flag, but I will be doing so for the English rugby league team.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-29c.314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-29", "file": "debates2017-11-29c.xml", "sha256": "de743fad661cdd67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-29c.314.4", "colnum": "314", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": " doctors, more midwives. The health service is expanding. We have got 14,900 more doctors, 1,500 more medical school places each year and 10,000 more nurses on our wards, and we have announced an increase of more than 5,000 extra nurse training places every year. In addition, the Chancellor said in his Budget that we would commit to making sure that the nurses’ pay increase, the action for change—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-29c.314.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-29", "file": "debates2017-11-29c.xml", "sha256": "de743fad661cdd67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-29c.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "preceding_text": "quitting in record numbers; junior doctors are running A&E departments without supervision; our nurses are at breaking point—and all this is before the winter crisis that is coming. So let me finally ask him: what does it say about the Government’s priorities that last week’s Budget could only find £350 million to help the cash-strapped, stretched-to-the-limit NHS cope with the winter fuel crisis?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-29c.316.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-29", "file": "debates2017-11-29c.xml", "sha256": "de743fad661cdd67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-29c.319.5", "colnum": "319", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "She did not? Well, that was disorderly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-29c.319.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-29", "file": "debates2017-11-29c.xml", "sha256": "de743fad661cdd67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-29c.395.0", "colnum": "395", "heading": "STATE PENSION AGE: WOMEN", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Ross", "preceding_text": "I welcome this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-29c.395.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-29", "file": "debates2017-11-29c.xml", "sha256": "de743fad661cdd67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-29c.406.2", "colnum": "406", "heading": "STATE PENSION AGE: WOMEN", "cue_speaker": "Mhairi Black", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mhairi Black", "preceding_text": "No, I am moving on. It is a bit rich for the hon. Member for Aberdeen South (Ross Thomson) to talk about the attitude of SNP Members considering some of the guff that has been coming from the Conservatives, especially in the last couple of weeks. The point is that even when we come to the House with a non-political motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-29c.406.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-11-29", "file": "debates2017-11-29c.xml", "sha256": "de743fad661cdd67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-29c.434.0", "colnum": "434", "heading": "STATE PENSION AGE: WOMEN", "cue_speaker": "Peter Grant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Grant", "preceding_text": "ited Kingdom. Why then did it take nine months after the referendum, and a full-scale Select Committee inquiry and report, before the Government realised that their system for allowing EU nationals to stay here permanently was utterly unfit for purpose and, in the view of those 1.5 million people, clearly designed to deter them from applying? Are those the actions of a Government who care as much—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-11-29c.434.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-04", "file": "debates2017-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "293ca6236c26ae81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-04b.671.4", "colnum": "671", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sajid Javid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sajid Javid", "preceding_text": "I withdraw the word “disingenuous”, and let me say that the right hon. Gentleman is not being as clear as he could be if he wanted to be. When it comes to women’s refuges, we have dedicated £20 million, which will provide some 2,200 additional bed spaces. In future years, it will be right to see what the demand is and make sure we make appropriate resources available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-04b.671.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-04", "file": "debates2017-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "293ca6236c26ae81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-04b.689.5", "colnum": "689", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "nts of order springing directly out of Question Time. I say for the record that, on this occasion, I will take Members on trust and take those points of order now. However, if it becomes apparent to me that they are really just a way of trying to continue Question Time or if they are too long, when I have specifically said that they must be short, I will cut them off and the process of taking any—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-04b.689.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-04", "file": "debates2017-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "293ca6236c26ae81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-04b.710.0", "colnum": "710", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Frazer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Frazer", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is making a passionate speech, but does she accept that powers are not being ripped away, given that they are not there for the devolved Administrations at the moment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-04b.710.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-04", "file": "debates2017-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "293ca6236c26ae81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-04b.715.4", "colnum": "715", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "ur party, the SNP and many others now that they are on the losing side. The reality is that the change will be called a power grab. I did not hear the phrase used today, but it will be described as a power grab. Of course it is a power grab, and what a wonderful power grab it is, too. We are grabbing powers from Brussels and bringing them back to London. Not only that, but over the next few years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-04b.715.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-04", "file": "debates2017-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "293ca6236c26ae81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-04b.723.3", "colnum": "723", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "campaign last year, Scotland was promised all sorts of powers. The Environment Secretary told BBC Scotland that Scotland would get immigration powers with a leave vote. The former Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston promised Scotland powers over fishing and agriculture. But here we are, 17 months after the referendum. There are no new powers for Scotland. In fact, Brexit means Scotland losing powers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-04b.723.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-04", "file": "debates2017-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "293ca6236c26ae81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-04b.765.1", "colnum": "765", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Kerr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Kerr", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that what the hon. Lady is saying is just not true. The excellent report produced by the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee reproduces in full the agreement from October —just a couple of months ago—which spells out exactly how these common frameworks will be put together between the Governments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-04b.765.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-04", "file": "debates2017-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "293ca6236c26ae81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-04b.772.6", "colnum": "772", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Ross Thomson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ross Thomson", "preceding_text": "I would like to make some more progress before I take an intervention. SNP Members have manufactured the power grab argument in grievance, yet we have heard time and again from the First Minister, all the way along, that the position of the SNP is for full membership of the European Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-04b.772.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-05", "file": "debates2017-12-05c.xml", "sha256": "fd653253c8563db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-05c.895.1", "colnum": "895", "heading": "EU EXIT NEGOTIATIONS", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend, who has a long history of wisdom in this subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-05c.895.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-05", "file": "debates2017-12-05c.xml", "sha256": "fd653253c8563db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-05c.901.4", "colnum": "901", "heading": "EU EXIT NEGOTIATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Crabb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Crabb", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that this discussion demonstrates that no workable solution to the border conundrum will satisfy the purists, wherever they stand in the debate? Does he therefore agree with the point made by Bertie Ahern and William Hague in recent days that the way through this is to show a much greater appetite for using technology-based solutions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-05c.901.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-05", "file": "debates2017-12-05c.xml", "sha256": "fd653253c8563db9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-05c.947.0", "colnum": "947", "heading": "UNIVERSAL CREDIT PROJECT ASSESSMENT REVIEWS", "cue_speaker": "Frank Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Field", "preceding_text": "he debate we are having today. Many DWP staff do not share the Secretary of State’s confidence in this benefit. Feeding Birkenhead is putting considerable food through schools, which get it home where it is needed. On Saturday we will be filling thousands upon thousands of Christmas hampers, and among the volunteers will be 146 DWP staff. They know where this benefit is going and they are unhappy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-05c.947.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-06", "file": "debates2017-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "9de4a7872a8968ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-06b.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "No, no more, says the right hon. Member for Brexiter—[Laughter.] I am very sorry for my discourtesy to the right hon. Gentleman; he is the last person that I could call a Brexiteer. He is from Exeter, not Brexiter, and if there were such a place, he would not wish to live there. I realise that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-06b.1040.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-06", "file": "debates2017-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "9de4a7872a8968ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-06b.1076.1", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Gethins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Gethins", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Lady for her point, but I should make it clear that I said that some Conservative Members have perhaps not come to terms with the devolved Administrations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-06b.1076.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-06", "file": "debates2017-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "9de4a7872a8968ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-06b.1092.2", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Doughty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Doughty", "preceding_text": "r North Down (Lady Hermon) . I reiterate the comments that have just been made by the Father of the House. It would send the strongest signal if the Government accepted the new clause, coming back to the House to correct any technical deficiencies at a later stage. The Government are going to ask Members to vote against the principle of the Belfast agreement, which is an extraordinary thing to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-06b.1092.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-06", "file": "debates2017-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "9de4a7872a8968ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-06b.1093.3", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sylvia Hermon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sylvia Hermon", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Minister for giving way once again. I have to say to him ever so gently but firmly that that is a high-risk strategy. The message will be sent from the House that there is no support in the Government for the principles of the Good Friday agreement if that is not taken up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-06b.1093.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-06", "file": "debates2017-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "9de4a7872a8968ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-06b.1104.2", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Ian Paisley Jnr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Paisley Jnr", "preceding_text": "lations post Brexit, rather than us following EU regulations. I suggest that maybe the Irish should be the ones who compromise. The hon. Member for North East Fife (Stephen Gethins) said that he supports regulatory alignment, but he seems to support it only if it applies to the whole UK, and not if it applies solely to Northern Ireland. I think that matter should also be nailed. Finally, Mr Hoyle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-06b.1104.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-06", "file": "debates2017-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "9de4a7872a8968ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-06b.1104.2", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Ian Paisley Jnr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Paisley Jnr", "preceding_text": "r is what confuses me most. The economic spokesman, John McDonnell, has said that we must leave the single market in order to respect the referendum result. The deputy leader, Tom Watson, has said that we should stay in the single market and the customs union permanently. Jonathan Ashworth and Jenny Chapman, the Front-Bench spokesman here tonight, have said that we have to leave the single market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-06b.1104.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-06", "file": "debates2017-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "9de4a7872a8968ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-06b.1117.1", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Luke Graham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Luke Graham", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, I am completely out of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-06b.1117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-06", "file": "debates2017-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "9de4a7872a8968ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-06b.1125.0", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Chris Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Leslie", "preceding_text": "New clause 17 relates to clause 12 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-06b.1125.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-06", "file": "debates2017-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "9de4a7872a8968ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-06b.1147.3", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Tom Brake", "cue_text": "hon. Members: “Hooray!", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Brake", "preceding_text": " do not think he believed what he was saying when he tried to shift the blame to the EU for what happened to David Cameron’s negotiations. However, I made the point earlier that if the EU had been faced with the realistic prospect of the UK leaving, I think it would have been much more amenable to making more substantial concessions. Hon. Members may be pleased to hear that I am about to conclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-06b.1147.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-06", "file": "debates2017-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "9de4a7872a8968ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-06b.1150.5", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Ian Paisley Jnr", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “You.”", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Paisley Jnr", "preceding_text": " Member of Parliament for many years, and he will know that it is only very occasionally that the British people are asked their view by way of a referendum. Indeed, that has probably happened on only two occasions in his lifetime. On both of those occasions, the will of the British people was enacted by this place. Yes, of course there is debate. Who says that there should not be reasoned debate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-06b.1150.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-06", "file": "debates2017-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "9de4a7872a8968ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-06b.1150.5", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Ian Paisley Jnr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Paisley Jnr", "preceding_text": "ally that the British people are asked their view by way of a referendum. Indeed, that has probably happened on only two occasions in his lifetime. On both of those occasions, the will of the British people was enacted by this place. Yes, of course there is debate. Who says that there should not be reasoned debate? [Hon. Members: “You.”] I do not say that, and I have not said that. Don’t be silly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-06b.1150.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-06", "file": "debates2017-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "9de4a7872a8968ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-06b.1160.3", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Steven Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steven Baker", "preceding_text": "or conferred a power to sub-delegate, it would go to the affirmative procedure and this House would have the opportunity to vote on it. I turn to amendment 339 on sub-delegation. It is right that this House keeps strict control over all financial matters, but this Bill is about ensuring continuity. I remind the Committee that this power is available only if the public authority is taking on a new—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-06b.1160.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-07", "file": "debates2017-12-07b.xml", "sha256": "af2890ce615d3708", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-07b.1238.0", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "SOCIAL CARE", "cue_speaker": "Jackie Doyle-Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jackie Doyle-Price", "preceding_text": "ementia tax that she keeps mentioning, and that is exactly what we are going to tackle by having a cap on the overall cost. In doing so, it is very important to take the public with us and to have a fully informed public debate. It does not matter how far we think we have had such a debate in this place when legislating in the past, because it is quite clear that the public do not understand this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-07b.1238.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-07", "file": "debates2017-12-07b.xml", "sha256": "af2890ce615d3708", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-07b.1238.0", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "SOCIAL CARE", "cue_speaker": "Jackie Doyle-Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jackie Doyle-Price", "preceding_text": "e public do not understand this. [Interruption.] We are only going to get public consent for a long-term solution if we have a public debate that is handled with maturity, and so far we have not seen very much of that. The hon. Lady raised the issue of carers, and she suggested that carers’ voices are not being heard in this debate. [Interruption.] I say to her that they very much are being heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-07b.1238.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-07", "file": "debates2017-12-07b.xml", "sha256": "af2890ce615d3708", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-07b.1238.0", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "SOCIAL CARE", "cue_speaker": "Jackie Doyle-Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jackie Doyle-Price", "preceding_text": "he hon. Lady raised the issue of carers, and she suggested that carers’ voices are not being heard in this debate. [Interruption.] I say to her that they very much are being heard. [Interruption.] She can sit there and chunter, or she can listen to the answer to the question. It is entirely up to her, but it is rather a waste of my time in coming to this place if I am just going to be talked over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-07b.1238.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-07", "file": "debates2017-12-07b.xml", "sha256": "af2890ce615d3708", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-07b.1238.1", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "SOCIAL CARE", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. I say to the Government Whip that I think I can control the Chamber. I thank him for his help, but I have already told him once that he does not need to worry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-07b.1238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-07", "file": "debates2017-12-07b.xml", "sha256": "af2890ce615d3708", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-07b.1238.2", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "SOCIAL CARE", "cue_speaker": "Jackie Doyle-Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jackie Doyle-Price", "preceding_text": "re on a journey of getting people with learning disabilities out of long-term residential care and into work in the community, and that brings a separate set of challenges. That work will go on in parallel, but the work on the Green Paper will look at the common issues as well as at the specific area of care for the elderly. I hope that gives her some reassurance. We cannot look at this in a silo—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-07b.1238.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-07", "file": "debates2017-12-07b.xml", "sha256": "af2890ce615d3708", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-07b.1242.4", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "SOCIAL CARE", "cue_speaker": "Jackie Doyle-Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jackie Doyle-Price", "preceding_text": "e. It is therefore important to have that full public debate, and work together to bring forward proposals that will put our long-term care system on a sustainable footing. In the absence of that we will not achieve any resolution, and that is contributing to misery for people who do not currently have a limit on their overall care costs. That is what we are trying to address through this process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-07b.1242.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-07", "file": "debates2017-12-07b.xml", "sha256": "af2890ce615d3708", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-07b.1247.0", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "SOCIAL CARE", "cue_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "preceding_text": "le to question Ministers. Has the Leader of the House given you any indication of when Ministers should or will respond through oral, rather than written, statements to votes of the House? Can you give any guidance on how the House can now have a say on secondary legislation? The Government are riding roughshod over the democratic will of this House. How can we ensure that this House is respected?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-07b.1247.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-11", "file": "debates2017-12-11c.xml", "sha256": "91dcf3d8f10de192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-11c.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "BREXIT NEGOTIATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "rced by the European Court of Justice. Those proposals were not acceptable. When we leave the European Union, our laws will be made and enforced here in Britain, not in Luxembourg. So the EU has accepted that we will incorporate the withdrawal agreement into UK law, and citizens’ rights will then be enforced by our courts—where appropriate, paying due regard to relevant ECJ case law, just as they—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-11c.25.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-11", "file": "debates2017-12-11c.xml", "sha256": "91dcf3d8f10de192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-11c.28.0", "colnum": "28", "heading": "BREXIT NEGOTIATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "Prime Minister has just said that the UK will maintain full alignment with the rules of the internal market and the customs union. I have left the trickiest question till last. Can the Prime Minister explain what the Brexit Secretary actually meant when he said that he wanted to have trade relationships in the future that are CETA-plus-plus-plus? Can she explain what on earth he was talking about?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-11c.28.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-11", "file": "debates2017-12-11c.xml", "sha256": "91dcf3d8f10de192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-11c.31.0", "colnum": "31", "heading": "BREXIT NEGOTIATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "Let me first congratulate the Prime Minister on her triumph last Friday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-11c.31.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-11", "file": "debates2017-12-11c.xml", "sha256": "91dcf3d8f10de192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-11c.50.7", "colnum": "50", "heading": "BREXIT NEGOTIATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "What was in the decision that people took in the referendum—what they were asked to decide—was whether to stay in the European Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-11c.50.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-11", "file": "debates2017-12-11c.xml", "sha256": "91dcf3d8f10de192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-11c.75.2", "colnum": "75", "heading": "FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "preceding_text": "nities and urban centres alike. It is a message from public sector workers, private sector workers and those on zero-hours contracts; from the young and the old, as well as all those in between, all of whom have been let down by this Government. [Interruption.] They have been let down by them—private sector workers and public sector workers believe that, and that is why they are turning to Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-11c.75.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-11", "file": "debates2017-12-11c.xml", "sha256": "91dcf3d8f10de192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-11c.77.2", "colnum": "77", "heading": "FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman can ask as many questions as he likes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-11c.77.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-11", "file": "debates2017-12-11c.xml", "sha256": "91dcf3d8f10de192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-11c.79.6", "colnum": "79", "heading": "FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "preceding_text": "I am not quite sure whether the hon. Gentleman is actually listening to anything I say. I am not going to repeat what I have said. If we continue to have spurious interventions like that one, it prompts the question: what is the point?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-11c.79.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-11", "file": "debates2017-12-11c.xml", "sha256": "91dcf3d8f10de192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-11c.82.2", "colnum": "82", "heading": "FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Ruth George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth George", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that it is a bit ironic to be asked to take lessons in finances from a Government who have doubled the debt and doubled austerity at the same—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-11c.82.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-11", "file": "debates2017-12-11c.xml", "sha256": "91dcf3d8f10de192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-11c.82.6", "colnum": "82", "heading": "FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "preceding_text": "0 billion to the national debt, yet they have failed at every opportunity to invest. Instead, they have borrowed record amounts just to cover day-to-day spending. Labour Members are clear: it is high time the Government borrowed to invest in infrastructure, jobs and skills that will grow our economy sustainably. That is not controversial, no matter how much Conservative Members fulminate about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-11c.82.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-11", "file": "debates2017-12-11c.xml", "sha256": "91dcf3d8f10de192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-11c.101.1", "colnum": "101", "heading": "FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "preceding_text": " let this Government get away either with saying that they cannot do these calculations when others such as the IFS have, or with arguing that any inequality caused by policies in a Finance Bill will be offset by spending in another Bill. It simply does not make sense. If they cannot measure it, how can they decide it is being offset by something else? That is why it is time that we had this data.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-11c.101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-11", "file": "debates2017-12-11c.xml", "sha256": "91dcf3d8f10de192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-11c.109.1", "colnum": "109", "heading": "FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Luke Graham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Luke Graham", "preceding_text": "I could not agree more, and I will go further into those dividends shortly. The Government have delivered an additional £2 billion to Scotland in the Budget, which should be a reason to rejoice. However, they are being criticised by SNP Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-11c.109.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-11", "file": "debates2017-12-11c.xml", "sha256": "91dcf3d8f10de192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-11c.128.5", "colnum": "128", "heading": "FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Robert Courts", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hooray!”", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Courts", "preceding_text": "esumed the Chair because you will remember me recently mentioning ZANE: Zimbabwe a National Emergency, and Tom Benyon. Well, that charity has received £1.3 million in LIBOR funding, which is going towards 583 Commonwealth servicemen looked after by ZANE. In addition, RAF Brize Norton has been given £250,000 for renovations. There are so many things in the Budget, and I could go on; I wish I could.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-11c.128.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-12", "file": "debates2017-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "063532fc75abd015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-12b.235.2", "colnum": "235", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "hat the Secretary of State announced to the Environmental Audit Committee on 1 November was the beginnings of an idea. During that evidence session, the one new environmental body morphed into four potential environmental bodies, which have yet to morph into a consultation, which has yet to be published. At the moment, we are chasing chimeras—I do not know whether I have pronounced that correctly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-12b.235.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-12", "file": "debates2017-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "063532fc75abd015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-12b.254.0", "colnum": "254", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Chipping?”", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "House to answer urgent questions. Just imagine what would happen were a Minister to refuse to follow the advice of the committee. I simply make this point gently to my hon. Friend the Member for Wycombe (Mr Baker) —he is the Member for Chepping Wycombe as well as High Wycombe, as we both know, so the hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) was not quite so wrong earlier to refer to him in that way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-12b.254.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-13", "file": "debates2017-12-13b.xml", "sha256": "24f75a2166e794f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-13b.463.0", "colnum": "463", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Martin Docherty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Docherty", "preceding_text": "progressing to, many of the items that she is talking about cannot be agreed in the House? We leave ourselves open to the accusation made by Kathy Sheridan in The Irish Times this morning that the Government are “failing to establish in advance what questions should be asked. Of utterly disdaining an alternative, unifying vision while obsessing about trade, blue passports and colonial nostalgia.”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-13b.463.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-13", "file": "debates2017-12-13b.xml", "sha256": "24f75a2166e794f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-13b.469.2", "colnum": "469", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "lem is that every single Government in the history of the world have always used every power they have to the umpteenth degree. It is a temptation, and we should take temptation out of the Government’s hands if they are not prepared to take it out of their own hands. Let us bear in mind that the Bill will allow the Government to change the Parliament Acts and the Representation of the People Acts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-13b.469.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-13", "file": "debates2017-12-13b.xml", "sha256": "24f75a2166e794f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-13b.472.0", "colnum": "472", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman not concede that there was a meaningful vote on 23 June 2016, when people voted to leave the European Union? The problem with the amendment tabled by my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Beaconsfield (Mr Grieve) is that it could be, and no doubt is designed to be, used to try to overturn and frustrate that meaningful vote?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-13b.472.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-13", "file": "debates2017-12-13b.xml", "sha256": "24f75a2166e794f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-13b.481.2", "colnum": "481", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "ability to send the Government back to renegotiate. As a former Foreign Office lawyer who spent six years in that Department and worked on EU matters, in practice I think it unlikely that that would be meaningful in any way, shape or form. The point has been made in the debate that if that looked likely, we would be positively incentivising the EU to give us, and we would end up with, worse terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-13b.481.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-13", "file": "debates2017-12-13b.xml", "sha256": "24f75a2166e794f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-13b.481.2", "colnum": "481", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "ers, in practice I think it unlikely that that would be meaningful in any way, shape or form. The point has been made in the debate that if that looked likely, we would be positively incentivising the EU to give us, and we would end up with, worse terms. [Interruption.] It is not pure speculation; it is grounded on six years of working as a lawyer in the Foreign Office and conducting negotiations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-13b.481.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-13", "file": "debates2017-12-13b.xml", "sha256": "24f75a2166e794f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-13b.485.4", "colnum": "485", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "I would hope that the assurances we have made, along with the written ministerial statement, are adequate, but there is nothing stopping any hon. Member coming back and having another go. We have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-13b.485.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-13", "file": "debates2017-12-13b.xml", "sha256": "24f75a2166e794f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-13b.502.1", "colnum": "502", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ing the waters. As the Minister has already demonstrated very forcefully, this is not an effective amendment. If my right hon. and learned Friend wants to table a different amendment, as colleagues almost seem to be suggesting, that might be a way to resolve this. I beg my right hon. and hon. Friends on this point. There is a summit tomorrow. This is not the moment to try to defeat the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-13b.502.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-13", "file": "debates2017-12-13b.xml", "sha256": "24f75a2166e794f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-13b.509.3", "colnum": "509", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "eam of being slippery—they would not know how to be slippery. It is hard to think of a Government in the whole of history being slippery. In the whole schedule leading to the ratification and approval of the withdrawal agreement, there is a requirement for a vote in this House. There is also a requirement, now agreed with the European Union, that there will be a withdrawal and implementation Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-13b.509.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-13", "file": "debates2017-12-13b.xml", "sha256": "24f75a2166e794f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-13b.513.0", "colnum": "513", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "orth East Somerset (Mr Rees-Mogg) , all agree that the provisions are flawed. It is some time now that my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Beaconsfield (Mr Grieve) has been saying, “Come forward with your own amendment, O Government, so that this is in the right order and it has the protections that lawmakers would expect in the Bill.” I am sad to vote, as I am going to, for article 7—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-13b.513.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-14", "file": "debates2017-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "d6e48aaf6602eb84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-14a.601.8", "colnum": "601", "heading": "EXITING THE EUROPEAN UNION", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady voted against the Second Reading of the Bill, so she plainly does not want to make progress with it. She perhaps ought to put a dictionary on her Christmas list. An analysis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-14a.601.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-14", "file": "debates2017-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "d6e48aaf6602eb84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-14a.638.2", "colnum": "638", "heading": "PENSION EQUALITY FOR WOMEN", "cue_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "preceding_text": "We need to address where we are now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-14a.638.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-14", "file": "debates2017-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "d6e48aaf6602eb84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-14a.689.0", "colnum": "689", "heading": "PENSION EQUALITY FOR WOMEN", "cue_speaker": "Mike Penning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Penning", "preceding_text": "sible association with hormone pregnancy tests on pregnancies and to consider the regulatory failures of the Committee on Safety in Medicines. I think we all, as constituency MPs, would have hoped that this debate was unnecessary. We all hoped that the “inquiry”—I use the word advisedly—that the Government constituted in good faith would give confidence to the families and loved ones of thousands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-14a.689.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-14", "file": "debates2017-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "d6e48aaf6602eb84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-14a.724.1", "colnum": "724", "heading": "PENSION EQUALITY FOR WOMEN", "cue_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "preceding_text": "ng. There should be full public engagement and, as I have identified, that will continue right up until the decision of the CCGs in February. I conclude by simply saying that it is incumbent on all of us who represent our local communities to get engaged —the hon. Lady is doing this with her campaign group—with the people who are responsible for making decisions. That is the local NHS in her area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-14a.724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-18", "file": "debates2017-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e1443b066da95c80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-18b.747.0", "colnum": "747", "heading": "EUROPEAN COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "he UK and the EU will be paid if a final deal between the EU and the UK cannot be struck? Given the delays to the phase one deal, can the Prime Minister now see that cementing in statute a time and date on which Britain will leave the European Union could hinder negotiations? I am glad that the Prime Minister now seems determined to follow Labour’s call for a transition period to create stability—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-18b.747.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-18", "file": "debates2017-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e1443b066da95c80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-18b.764.4", "colnum": "764", "heading": "EUROPEAN COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "I am very clear about what we want to achieve in our negotiations. We will be working with our European friends and allies to ensure that the result of that negotiation is indeed a good deal for the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-18b.764.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-18", "file": "debates2017-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e1443b066da95c80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-18b.767.3", "colnum": "767", "heading": "EUROPEAN COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "Order. I did not think that the hon. Gentleman, who is a very experienced Member of the House, was that slow, but he knows perfectly well that the policy of the Opposition is not a matter for the Government of the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-18b.767.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-18", "file": "debates2017-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e1443b066da95c80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-18b.804.1", "colnum": "804", "heading": "HARASSMENT IN PUBLIC LIFE", "cue_speaker": "Amber Rudd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Amber Rudd", "preceding_text": "all it out. He asks what we can do and I urge him to look at the report. But it is not enough to just act on the report, which we will, or to consider additional legislation, which we may. We all have to make sure that we call it out often and firmly. Sometimes it is difficult when people come after us and we think that this is the role of a Member of Parliament. But no, it is not just about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-18b.804.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-18", "file": "debates2017-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e1443b066da95c80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-18b.816.3", "colnum": "816", "heading": "FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "preceding_text": "ce that they are gerrymandering Public Bill Committees to reflect their control-freakery. We have to ask ourselves how long the Government can treat the House with such disdain. It is the kind of disdain that saw the Government ensure that there was no amendment of the law resolution, which has deliberately restricted the scope of the Bill and effectively limited parliamentary scrutiny and debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-18b.816.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-18", "file": "debates2017-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e1443b066da95c80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-18b.817.7", "colnum": "817", "heading": "FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "preceding_text": "t. It was not introduced by the previous Chancellor after he had listened to the clear public outrage aimed at the reckless decisions made by some in the banking sector, who plunged the world into one of the greatest economic crises in modern times. As much as Government Members would like to blame the Labour Government for a world financial crisis, that is stretching credibility a little too far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-18b.817.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-18", "file": "debates2017-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e1443b066da95c80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-18b.828.1", "colnum": "828", "heading": "FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Kerr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Kerr", "preceding_text": "I do not think that I have mentioned the word “subsidy”. I am talking about corporate social responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-18b.828.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-18", "file": "debates2017-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e1443b066da95c80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-18b.831.5", "colnum": "831", "heading": "FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "James Cartlidge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Cartlidge", "preceding_text": " were we to apply now the test of the impact on the public revenue under Labour’s very own review as proposed in new clause 3, we could only come to one conclusion, which is that all the taxes we have put in place on the banking sector—not just the bank levy—have been raising significantly more revenue. The rising revenue has contributed to paying off the deficit and supporting UK public services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-18b.831.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-18", "file": "debates2017-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e1443b066da95c80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-18b.869.1", "colnum": "869", "heading": "FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": ", and if they are not done in a thought-out way, we could end up in a situation in which Annington Homes retracts the existing accommodation and people’s options become limited. Again, I think this is the right move forward but it is not being done in the right way. Anything that the Treasury can do to extract the Ministry of Defence from the Annington Homes contract would be universally welcomed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-18b.869.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-18", "file": "debates2017-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "e1443b066da95c80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-18b.873.0", "colnum": "873", "heading": "FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lloyd Russell-Moyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lloyd Russell-Moyle", "preceding_text": " them? The measures will increase house prices for first-time buyers. I know the Minister says that he has better data than the OBR, but I tend to believe the OBR, which was set up by the Conservative Government to provide independent analysis, over the books that are cooked in the Treasury—[Interruption.] Yes, the books that are cooked in the Treasury. What we need are clear supply-side measures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-18b.873.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-19", "file": "debates2017-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "401c3a73e49fc7c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-19b.892.6", "colnum": "892", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Steve Brine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Brine", "preceding_text": "world to give birth. Information on prevention and the implications of a group B streptococcus infection are available on the NHS Choices website. Just today, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists published a new patient information leaflet that, from the new year, will be given to all pregnant women for the first time. Because it is Christmas, I have a copy here for the hon. Lady.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-19b.892.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-20", "file": "debates2017-12-20c.xml", "sha256": "3f4ffb46bdd9268b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-20c.1052.8", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Laurence Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Laurence Robertson", "preceding_text": " answer, but given that the failing of the Executive and the Assembly to exist is detrimental to Northern Ireland, and given that it is only one party in Northern Ireland that is refusing to allow them to function, is it not time to look at the Belfast agreement to see whether we can evolve it so that, in future, the Assembly and the Executive will continue to serve the people of Northern Ireland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-20c.1052.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-20", "file": "debates2017-12-20c.xml", "sha256": "3f4ffb46bdd9268b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-20c.1053.7", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "y should note that, in fact, this Government have lifted hundreds of thousands of children out of absolute poverty. But it is important for all those who have heard her question to be aware of this: she talks of 2,500 children in Wandsworth waking up homeless on Christmas day; anybody hearing that will assume that what that means is that 2,500 children will be sleeping on our streets. It does not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-20c.1053.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-20", "file": "debates2017-12-20c.xml", "sha256": "3f4ffb46bdd9268b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-20c.1057.5", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "Gentleman talks about standing up for communities and standing up for people across Scotland. I have to say to him, that is a bit rich, coming from an SNP which, in government in Scotland, is going to increase taxes for 1.2 million Scots. The Conservative Government are reducing tax for 2.4 million Scots. There is only one clear message to people in Scotland: “Conservatives back you; SNP tax you.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-20c.1057.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-20", "file": "debates2017-12-20c.xml", "sha256": "3f4ffb46bdd9268b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-20c.1060.2", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "On Thursday last week, there was a very important local referendum in Christchurch. The result was that 84% of the people of Christchurch want to keep it as an independent sovereign borough and are against its abolition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-20c.1060.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-20", "file": "debates2017-12-20c.xml", "sha256": "3f4ffb46bdd9268b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-20c.1097.0", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Shame.”", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "est suspicion. The job of the House of Commons is to protect the powers of the House of Commons against an over-mighty Executive. Dare I say to those on the Government Front Bench that all Executives seek to be over-mighty? It is in their very nature, whether our side or Labour is in power. Those of us on the Government Back Benches should always remember that we will not be in government forever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-20c.1097.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-20", "file": "debates2017-12-20c.xml", "sha256": "3f4ffb46bdd9268b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-20c.1158.2", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Steven Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steven Baker", "preceding_text": "Of course I have read it—it is here in my hand. I have read it but I have not gone back and done his homework for him to check and mark his work. I make two points to my right hon. and learned Friend. First, as I said, it would be a constitutional innovation to begin putting statements of policy for negotiations in legislation. That is a good reason not to accept the new clause. The second point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-20c.1158.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-21", "file": "debates2017-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5bdc9111b1a36706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-21a.1271.2", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Karen Bradley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Karen Bradley", "preceding_text": "e was from my local city, Stoke-on-Trent. So it is a great pleasure to finally be allowed to talk about the city of culture, although I am sad that it is not Stoke-on-Trent. I would like to congratulate Coventry on its success in being named UK city of culture for 2021, and my commiserations go to the unsuccessful cities. Finally, I would like to wish you, Mr Speaker, and all Members of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-21a.1271.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-21", "file": "debates2017-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5bdc9111b1a36706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-21a.1285.2", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "ATTORNEY GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "preceding_text": "wer, so will confirm that there will be adequate time for a debate and a vote? Another week means another U-turn or two. On Tuesday, we found out that plans to end the revenue support grant and allow councils to keep 100% of business rates would be put on hold. Not everyone has Oxford Street in their constituency, so we hope the change will end the bizarre policy of councils buying shopping malls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-21a.1285.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-21", "file": "debates2017-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5bdc9111b1a36706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-21a.1341.2", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE IN UK POLITICS", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": " about this, and me. It looks like a normal account, but the profile picture is of a Russian skater. It is not her account at all. It used to tweet in Russian, but now tweets very aggressive anti-immigration stuff in the UK. “I” effing “hate Irish”, for instance, was one of the more expressive recent tweets, and @iamjohnsmith called on the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington to resign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-21a.1341.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2017-12-21", "file": "debates2017-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "5bdc9111b1a36706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-21a.1374.2", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "CHRISTMAS ADJOURNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "mportant point: whereas EU citizens in the UK can move back and go to any other EU country, as things stand, British citizens in the EU will only be able to reside in that particular country and will not have the rights of free movement elsewhere in the EU. That needs to be looked at. I wish to declare that I am the honorary president of Labour International—at least until Momentum gets rid of me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2017-12-21a.1374.2"}
