{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-07", "file": "debates2020-01-07b.xml", "sha256": "f66eb5c328242fdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-07b.276.2", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "I would like to think that a conversation will take place between the usual channels, and anything that I can do to help to ensure that we get Committees up and running, I will. I think that it is better for the House and it gives Members a real interest in getting their teeth into holding the Government to account and making sure that Select Committees are effective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-07b.276.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-07", "file": "debates2020-01-07b.xml", "sha256": "f66eb5c328242fdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-07b.287.1", "colnum": "287", "heading": "European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Barclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Barclay", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right to say that a very clear message was reflected in our mandate. To be fair to Opposition Members, I should say that I watched the shadow Brexit Secretary on “The Andrew Marr Show” and he did accept the need to move on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-07b.287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-07", "file": "debates2020-01-07b.xml", "sha256": "f66eb5c328242fdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-07b.293.1", "colnum": "293", "heading": "European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Blomfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Blomfield", "preceding_text": "h at that stage the Government opposed. We were raising the voice of business and of the trade unions, and we were pleased when the Government accepted that principle, although they saved face by renaming it an implementation period. When the end of the transition was originally set for December 2020, it was on the assumption that we would have left the EU on 29 March last year, leaving 21 months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-07b.293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-07", "file": "debates2020-01-07b.xml", "sha256": "f66eb5c328242fdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-07b.294.4", "colnum": "294", "heading": "European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Blomfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Blomfield", "preceding_text": ", only five months after negotiations have begun. I fully accept that we might be completely wrong in our concerns. The Government might be able to negotiate a best-in-class free trade agreement within 11 months. If that is the case and they are able to secure a deal, there will be no extension under the provisions of our new clause, so what are they worried about? If the Government are confident—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-07b.294.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-07", "file": "debates2020-01-07b.xml", "sha256": "f66eb5c328242fdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-07b.300.0", "colnum": "300", "heading": "European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Maclean", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “No! No!", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Maclean", "preceding_text": "businesses, citizens and voters now conclude that it is more damaging to be constantly in a cycle of extension and delay to Brexit, than to do what the Government are now doing by setting out a clear timeline to follow. Once this Bill has passed, we will have that certainty, and from my experience before I came to Parliament of running a small business for nearly 30 years —yes, I do look that old—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-07b.300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-07", "file": "debates2020-01-07b.xml", "sha256": "f66eb5c328242fdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-07b.301.2", "colnum": "301", "heading": "European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Wright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Wright", "preceding_text": " agree that part of the problem with what the Opposition propose is not just their lack of attention in coming to the Chamber, but their lack of attention to detail in what they propose? On new clause 4, they talk about the need to bring authority back to Parliament, but does she agree that what it actually says is that only a two-year extension could be proposed by the Government in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-07b.301.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-07", "file": "debates2020-01-07b.xml", "sha256": "f66eb5c328242fdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-07b.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Blomfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Blomfield", "preceding_text": "e the wrong impression about the granting of status, because he said that 2.5 million had been granted status—that is correct, but it is not the status they had applied for. The most recent statistics show that almost half of the applicants for settled status are being granted pre-settled status, which comes with substantially fewer rights, it is a temporary form of leave lasting up to five years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-07b.326.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-07", "file": "debates2020-01-07b.xml", "sha256": "f66eb5c328242fdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-07b.327.1", "colnum": "327", "heading": "European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Blomfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Blomfield", "preceding_text": "ur amendment 37 would ensure that if the Government intend to modify or abolish the IMA, that would be done only through primary legislation. We would ask the Government to look seriously at that proposal, as well as the other amendments tabled by other Opposition parties on the IMA. I am coming to a conclusion, so I am wondering whether the Minister wanted to intervene on the point I made to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-07b.327.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-09", "file": "debates2020-01-09c.xml", "sha256": "994edefa26076750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-09c.663.4", "colnum": "663", "heading": "European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": " sure the hon. Gentleman will not mention that 56% of the votes in the recent general election were for parties that wanted to keep Scotland inside the United Kingdom. I have made this point many times, so I will be very brief. How many more times do the people have to be listened to? We had the Cameron referendum promise, which granted a very clear in/out referendum. We had the referendum itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-09c.663.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-09", "file": "debates2020-01-09c.xml", "sha256": "994edefa26076750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-09c.668.0", "colnum": "668", "heading": "European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "gnificant, cult-like fringe on the edge of the Conservative party. Such is their tenacity and commitment to the cause that they have now gone mainstream. Just one generation ago they were the B-A-S-T-ards of John Major folklore. Now they run the country. Their commitment to the cause has been so absolutely determined that they were prepared to bring down their own Prime Ministers to get their way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-09c.668.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-09", "file": "debates2020-01-09c.xml", "sha256": "994edefa26076750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-09c.669.2", "colnum": "669", "heading": "European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a good and concise point. I want to return to some of these issues, and I hope that he will come back in, because I think that this is worth being aired, discussed and debated in this House. It is an important key issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-09c.669.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-09", "file": "debates2020-01-09c.xml", "sha256": "994edefa26076750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-09c.672.4", "colnum": "672", "heading": "European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Duguid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Duguid", "preceding_text": "mpunction about accepting that the SNP gained seats in Scotland during last month’s UK general election. We lost some seats, but it was ultimately a general election to form a Government in this place, not a general election in Scotland. Nicola Sturgeon is not the Prime Minister. On the percentage of the vote, I gently say that 55% of people in Scotland voted for Unionist parties, not for the SNP—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-09c.672.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-09", "file": "debates2020-01-09c.xml", "sha256": "994edefa26076750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-09c.687.2", "colnum": "687", "heading": "European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "preceding_text": "I am basing my fears on the fact that, for example, I was a Member of the European Parliament for 10 years and regularly saw how the British Government, or not necessarily the Government, but Conservative MEPs, were the ones who were watering down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-09c.687.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-09", "file": "debates2020-01-09c.xml", "sha256": "994edefa26076750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-09c.687.2", "colnum": "687", "heading": "European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "preceding_text": "I am basing my fears on the fact that, for example, I was a Member of the European Parliament for 10 years and regularly saw how the British Government, or not necessarily the Government, but Conservative MEPs, were the ones who were watering down. [Interruption.] I appreciate it was a Labour Government; I misspoke. I meant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-09c.687.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-09", "file": "debates2020-01-09c.xml", "sha256": "994edefa26076750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-09c.688.11", "colnum": "688", "heading": "European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "preceding_text": "re trade agreements too. The final point that I want to make is that clearly, under our rotten electoral system, the Government won the election with a majority of 80 seats. However, that does not reflect the public’s views on the deal, and, indeed, on the confirmatory referendum. I accept that under this electoral system they have a majority of 80, but that gives them particular responsibilities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-09c.688.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-09", "file": "debates2020-01-09c.xml", "sha256": "994edefa26076750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-09c.692.1", "colnum": "692", "heading": "European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gillian Keegan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Where?”", "preceding_speaker": "Gillian Keegan", "preceding_text": "move forward, we might want to diverge in some areas, particularly in emerging technologies. Yes, industry drives them, but industry will be talking to us here, probably encouraging us to align in areas where there is no reason to diverge, but in other areas there will be opportunities to diverge. I can think of some areas where we could enhance things in a way that the EU has not been able to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-09c.692.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-09", "file": "debates2020-01-09c.xml", "sha256": "994edefa26076750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-09c.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Toby Perkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Toby Perkins", "preceding_text": "hs the size of our nation throughout history. Leaving the European Union does not have to mean relinquishing or reducing that global role. It does not have to mean retreating into narrow nationalism, but many who support it want that future for our country. The Conservative party has ceased to be a broad church. Only rampant Europhobia is to be tolerated now. I have never seen a less broad church—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-09c.707.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-09", "file": "debates2020-01-09c.xml", "sha256": "994edefa26076750", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-09c.708.3", "colnum": "708", "heading": "European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Thangam Debbonaire", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hurrah!”", "preceding_speaker": "Thangam Debbonaire", "preceding_text": "reeing a trade deal or a few weeks away from sorting out the arrangements for moving medical devices or airline parts between the EU and the United Kingdom, it will make no difference: this Bill has bound the Government’s own hands. There will be no extension, and that is why we call it a cliff edge. We did not need to be here. This Opposition have accepted that Brexit is happening on 31 January .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-09c.708.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-13", "file": "debates2020-01-13b.xml", "sha256": "624375fba6824e00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-13b.775.4", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Britain in the World", "cue_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "preceding_text": "o substance behind it, and it is at odds with a Government who cannot even explain the strategy for Syria, Libya or Yemen, Iran, Israel or Palestine, let alone the ongoing crisis with Iran. There is more: “My Government…will champion global free trade and work alongside international partners to solve the most pressing global challenges.” Waffle, waffle, waffle—nothing new, no substance behind it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-13b.775.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-13", "file": "debates2020-01-13b.xml", "sha256": "624375fba6824e00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-13b.777.1", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Britain in the World", "cue_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "preceding_text": "he group of experts who are supposed to lead overseas support to the victims of sexual violence in war zones has been cut from 70 to 40. This is a damning indictment of a Government who have steadily deprioritised the importance of human rights since the departure of William Hague and who now treat them as an afterthought next to the vital importance of doing trade deals with human rights abusers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-13b.777.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-13", "file": "debates2020-01-13b.xml", "sha256": "624375fba6824e00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-13b.850.0", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Britain in the World", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Stephenson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Stephenson", "preceding_text": "ted across this House. She has already proven herself as a powerful advocate of Britain’s global role in promoting international development, and I think the people of Stafford will be incredibly well served by her. It is appropriate that my hon. Friend the new Member for Wakefield made his maiden speech in this debate, given his wide experience around the world—and we “Agadoo” warmly welcome him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-13b.850.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-14", "file": "debates2020-01-14b.xml", "sha256": "fdd4ab4433a21602", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-14b.950.0", "colnum": "950", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Conor McGinn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Conor McGinn", "preceding_text": "rs representing the whole community. The bid has invigorated a sense of civic duty and political leadership in St Helens. I hope that it will be as competitive as we believe it will be, and that the Government will look on it favourably. I do not come from St Helens, or from Newton-le-Willows. That may come as a shock to those who have been listening to my very thickly disguised Lancashire accent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-14b.950.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-14", "file": "debates2020-01-14c.xml", "sha256": "16379cd2169cb9db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-14c.892.2", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Flybe", "cue_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "preceding_text": "I entirely accept the importance of regional airports to jobs—Bristol airport is on my doorstep and I was a director of London Luton airport in my days as a councillor in Luton—but the fact that the Minister can come to the House to answer an urgent question about domestic flights without mentioning decarbonisation and climate change once just shows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-14c.892.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-14", "file": "debates2020-01-14c.xml", "sha256": "16379cd2169cb9db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-14c.898.0", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "liance into compliance and to live up to its responsibilities. The right hon. Lady made a whole range of comments about the Prime Minister, which I will address. First, it is Iran that is threatening the JCPOA, with its systematic non-compliance. The Prime Minister fully supports the JCPOA and bringing Iran back into full compliance; that is the clear position and he has said so on many occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-14c.898.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-14", "file": "debates2020-01-14c.xml", "sha256": "16379cd2169cb9db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-14c.927.5", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Education and Local Government", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "ute that she has laid for me, because we should think about rethinking the whole system. The Secretary of State was eloquent about the achievements at school level, and he was right. While I am on my feet, I pay tribute to the Minister for School Standards, my right hon. Friend the Member for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton (Nick Gibb) , who did a fabulous job of developing phonics-based education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-14c.927.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-14", "file": "debates2020-01-14c.xml", "sha256": "16379cd2169cb9db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-14c.940.1", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Education and Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "ll that, is very important. There are deficiencies in the PISA methodology, but the fact is that those are the methods we use. Generally, yes, our education system is improving, but a substantial proportion of children in this country are not getting the education or the opportunities. They are in particular constituencies, and we know which ones; we have all the bruises, cuts and everything else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-14c.940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-14", "file": "debates2020-01-14c.xml", "sha256": "16379cd2169cb9db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-14c.950.0", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Education and Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Conor McGinn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Conor McGinn", "preceding_text": "rs representing the whole community. The bid has invigorated a sense of civic duty and political leadership in St Helens. I hope that it will be as competitive as we believe it will be, and that the Government will look on it favourably. I do not come from St Helens, or from Newton-le-Willows. That may come as a shock to those who have been listening to my very thickly disguised Lancashire accent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-14c.950.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-15", "file": "debates2020-01-15c.xml", "sha256": "72ffe7fced05acae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-15c.1110.2", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andy McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy McDonald", "preceding_text": "ommitment to cutting carbon emissions, and also demonstrates that they have little plan to support industry and create jobs beyond handing out tax breaks. Instead of handing out taxpayer-funded tax breaks for a small number of wealthy passengers, the Government should be electrifying the core rail network, boosting investment in the railway and slashing fares to encourage people to take the train.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-15c.1110.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-15", "file": "debates2020-01-15c.xml", "sha256": "72ffe7fced05acae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-15c.1110.2", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andy McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy McDonald", "preceding_text": " a further 2.7% increase in rail fares, taking the rise to more than 40% since 2010. We can compare and contrast that with the Labour offer of a 33% reduction in rail fares. The Secretary of State can snigger all he likes, but in the past several weeks Germany followed our lead and introduced a 10% reduction. Germany is going in the right direction: it wants people out of their cars and on trains.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-15c.1110.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-15", "file": "debates2020-01-15d.xml", "sha256": "a498b6a4f0a26fdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-15d.1041.2", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "A Green Industrial Revolution", "cue_speaker": "Alan Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Brown", "preceding_text": "to Hinkley Point C, which has a 35-year concession at a strike rate of £92.50 per MWh, and yet, as the Secretary of State is aware—she spoke about the benefits of offshore wind—offshore wind now has a strike rate of £40 per MWh for just 15 years, so it is about three to four times cheaper than nuclear energy. Why are the Tory Government continuing to pursue new nuclear projects? It makes no sense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-15d.1041.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-15", "file": "debates2020-01-15d.xml", "sha256": "a498b6a4f0a26fdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-15d.1061.0", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "A Green Industrial Revolution", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "preceding_text": " of GDP growth alone, we need to shift to indicators that tell us an awful lot more about whether people have high levels of wellbeing, whether there is clean air and clean water, whether we have a safe atmosphere, and whether we are reducing the gaping inequalities that diminish us all. That is where the proposals for a green new deal come in. My colleague the hon. Member for Norwich North and I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-15d.1061.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-15", "file": "debates2020-01-15d.xml", "sha256": "a498b6a4f0a26fdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-15d.1102.1", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "A Green Industrial Revolution", "cue_speaker": "Olivia Blake", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Olivia Blake", "preceding_text": "upon entering the Commons. Jared O’Mara, the previous MP for Sheffield Hallam, highlighted important issues relating to the accessibility of this House. For that, he should be commended. While he had his faults, many of which he himself admits, I note that Members have recalled that his intervention in Westminster Hall on his own experience of autism was moving and brought the issue up the agenda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-15d.1102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-15", "file": "debates2020-01-15d.xml", "sha256": "a498b6a4f0a26fdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-15d.1110.2", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "A Green Industrial Revolution", "cue_speaker": "Andy McDonald", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Rubbish!”", "preceding_speaker": "Andy McDonald", "preceding_text": " the climate change crisis, they can continue to ignore that crisis. I know that Government Members will protest at that characterisation, but it is accurate. The Prime Minister refused to attend a debate on the climate crisis during the general election campaign precisely because he knows it is true that the Conservatives have not addressed and do not plan to seriously address the climate crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-15d.1110.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-28", "file": "debates2020-01-28c.xml", "sha256": "8843032a518a4bcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-28c.693.0", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Direct Payments to Farmers (Legislative Continuity) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Deidre Brock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Deidre Brock", "preceding_text": "ates on the maelstrom of Brexit consequences. I may, though, mention the purloined convergence cash from time to time, and demand that its return does not simply become a bit of public relations. It should be returned with humility, rather than a fanfare. We can hope, I suppose. I wonder whether Ministers have had the chance to consider the questions they were asked and failed to answer last week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-28c.693.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-28", "file": "debates2020-01-28c.xml", "sha256": "8843032a518a4bcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-28c.721.4", "colnum": "721", "heading": "UK Telecommunications", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "I thank the Chair of the Select Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-28c.721.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-29", "file": "debates2020-01-29c.xml", "sha256": "fc20261b82eba4c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-29c.785.1", "colnum": "785", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Diane Abbott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Diane Abbott", "preceding_text": "illion crimes were committed. There was a 7% rise in offences involving knives—all of us in this House know the fear and concern in our communities about knife crime. That level of knife crime is 46% higher than when comparable recording began. This Government have presided over the highest level of knife crime on record. Of course, all of that increase occurred under Tory or Tory-led Governments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-29c.785.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-29", "file": "debates2020-01-29c.xml", "sha256": "fc20261b82eba4c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-29c.795.3", "colnum": "795", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Joanna Cherry", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Aha!”", "preceding_speaker": "Joanna Cherry", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that, and I return to the statistic I quoted: police officers stood at 17,256 in Scotland at 30 September 2019, which is up by 1,022 on the total inherited by the SNP Government when Alex Salmond first brought the SNP to power in Scotland in 2007. That is a fact. Of course, there have been fluctuations in the meantime, but there is a significant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-29c.795.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-29", "file": "debates2020-01-29d.xml", "sha256": "1671a7206d1c047c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-29d.782.3", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Jamie Stone", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Jamie Stone", "preceding_text": " Democratic party and my own party. However, as I represent his constituency today, I want to put on record his fantastic 35 years of service to his constituents, regardless of their politics or their rank. For that reason, he was very, very dearly loved the length and breadth of his vast constituency. I am sure all Members will join me in sending our condolences to his widow Helen and his family.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-29d.782.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-29", "file": "debates2020-01-29d.xml", "sha256": "1671a7206d1c047c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-29d.785.1", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Policing and Crime", "cue_speaker": "Diane Abbott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Diane Abbott", "preceding_text": "illion crimes were committed. There was a 7% rise in offences involving knives—all of us in this House know the fear and concern in our communities about knife crime. That level of knife crime is 46% higher than when comparable recording began. This Government have presided over the highest level of knife crime on record. Of course, all of that increase occurred under Tory or Tory-led Governments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-29d.785.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-29", "file": "debates2020-01-29d.xml", "sha256": "1671a7206d1c047c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-29d.786.2", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Policing and Crime", "cue_speaker": "Diane Abbott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Diane Abbott", "preceding_text": "l Government Members that they will not tackle crime by criminalising lawful activity by campaigners such as CND, they will not tackle crime by imposing ever longer sentences whereby inexperienced, first-time offenders become hard cases or drug addicts in prison, and they will not tackle crime by cutting the police so much that they cannot catch the criminals in the first place. As everyone knows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-29d.786.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-29", "file": "debates2020-01-29d.xml", "sha256": "1671a7206d1c047c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-29d.795.3", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Policing and Crime", "cue_speaker": "Joanna Cherry", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Aha!”", "preceding_speaker": "Joanna Cherry", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that, and I return to the statistic I quoted: police officer numbers stood at 17,256 in Scotland at 30 September 2019, which is up by 1,022 on the total inherited by the SNP Government when Alex Salmond first brought the SNP to power in Scotland in 2007. That is a fact. Of course, there have been fluctuations in the meantime, but there is a significant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-29d.795.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-01-30", "file": "debates2020-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "6bb3e093e2b125a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-30a.988.3", "colnum": "988", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Flynn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “What’s his name?”", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Flynn", "preceding_text": " the most appropriate fashion possible, and that is with a few thank yous. The first thank you is to my close family and my close friends for the unwavering support they have given me over many years—in particular, my wife Lynn, who at this moment in time will be sitting watching on television with our six-and-a-half-week-old son. She sent me some very interesting messages just before I rose here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-01-30a.988.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-03", "file": "debates2020-02-03d.xml", "sha256": "ad43829265f555c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-03d.27.4", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Global Britain", "cue_speaker": "Paul Blomfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Blomfield", "preceding_text": "in an open and accountable way—and not by banning journalists from their political briefings, as they apparently did earlier this afternoon. The Government stripped Parliament’s role in providing accountability from the withdrawal agreement Act, so will the Foreign Secretary at least commit to publishing all negotiating texts and proposals and reporting to Parliament on each round of negotiations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-03d.27.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-03", "file": "debates2020-02-03d.xml", "sha256": "ad43829265f555c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-03d.27.4", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Global Britain", "cue_speaker": "Paul Blomfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Blomfield", "preceding_text": " he also set out exactly how the three devolved nations will be consulted at every stage of the process? The country is faced with two options—two opposite destinations: we can either form a new and close relationship with our biggest trading partners, or open the door and lower our standards by pursuing the damaging trade deal with Donald Trump that the Foreign Secretary welcomed in his comments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-03d.27.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-03", "file": "debates2020-02-03d.xml", "sha256": "ad43829265f555c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-03d.28.0", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Global Britain", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for his opening remarks about the importance of moving beyond the divisions of the referendum. However, I think I am right in saying that not one member of the shadow Cabinet is here to address these issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-03d.28.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-03", "file": "debates2020-02-03d.xml", "sha256": "ad43829265f555c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-03d.28.0", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Global Britain", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "o believe in democracy and he does not seem to believe in free trade, and at points during his remarks he did not seem to believe in the potential of this country. Let me now turn to the hon. Gentleman’s specific points about a free trade agreement with the United States. Let us be absolutely clear, as we have already been: the national health service is not on the table during those negotiations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-03d.28.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-03", "file": "debates2020-02-03d.xml", "sha256": "ad43829265f555c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-03d.28.0", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Global Britain", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "al of this country. Let me now turn to the hon. Gentleman’s specific points about a free trade agreement with the United States. Let us be absolutely clear, as we have already been: the national health service is not on the table during those negotiations. [Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman is pointing and asking about pharmaceutical companies. The pricing of UK medicine is not up for negotiation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-03d.28.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-03", "file": "debates2020-02-03d.xml", "sha256": "ad43829265f555c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-03d.30.2", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Global Britain", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Hosie", "preceding_text": "e no “supranational control in any area” of UK policy. The World Trade Organisation has an appellate body—a dispute resolution body—the European Free Trade Association has a court to deal with disputes, and even the much-vaunted CPTPP has an investor-state dispute resolution mechanism. Unless the English language has changed, every single one of those bodies and mechanisms has supernatural effect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-03d.30.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-03", "file": "debates2020-02-03d.xml", "sha256": "ad43829265f555c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-03d.40.2", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Global Britain", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman makes an interesting point. We will have the freedom to have a more autonomous approach to sanctions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-03d.40.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-03", "file": "debates2020-02-03d.xml", "sha256": "ad43829265f555c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-03d.59.0", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Streatham Incident", "cue_speaker": "Joanna Cherry", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Joanna Cherry", "preceding_text": " future sufficient funds and resources will be made available to deal with preventive and deradicalisation programmes in prison? Finally, it was reported earlier today that an anonymous No. 10 source told Sky News that the system for dealing with terrorism has significant problems because of “the shocking influence of lawyers on policy”. I imagine that the Lord Chancellor does not share that view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-03d.59.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-03", "file": "debates2020-02-03d.xml", "sha256": "ad43829265f555c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-03d.63.7", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Streatham Incident", "cue_speaker": "Robert Buckland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Buckland", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman would obviously advocate a counsel of perfection. I am dealing with serious violent and sexual offenders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-03d.63.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-03", "file": "debates2020-02-03d.xml", "sha256": "ad43829265f555c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-03d.81.1", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Agriculture Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ian Paisley Jnr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Paisley Jnr", "preceding_text": "I want to try to get my head around this: is the Opposition’s opposition to chlorinated chicken about chlorinating all foodstuffs? Every single lettuce grown in the United Kingdom is dipped in chlorine, so do they have a principled objection to using chlorine in foodstuffs, or is it just about Trump-bashing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-03d.81.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-03", "file": "debates2020-02-03d.xml", "sha256": "ad43829265f555c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-03d.92.2", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Agriculture Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Edwards", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Edwards", "preceding_text": "ars and served our country in many of its great offices of state. He was a friend, sparring partner and mentor to many on both sides of the political debate. A real personality, Ken is known for his love of jazz, football, bird watching and Hush Puppies—although I have since been informed that he actually wears Crockett & Jones and by perpetuating the Hush Puppies rumour I am spreading fake shoes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-03d.92.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-03", "file": "debates2020-02-03d.xml", "sha256": "ad43829265f555c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-03d.102.1", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Agriculture Bill", "cue_speaker": "Anthony Browne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Anthony Browne", "preceding_text": "—and great political versatility. She was diligent in attending local parish meetings and famous for dancing into the night at local events, and I certainly will not be able to follow in those dancing shoes. We do not agree on everything, but we do agree that it is a fabulous constituency. One resident told me that South Cambs has more Nobel prizes than France and that is a fact too good to check.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-03d.102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-04", "file": "debates2020-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "387ff0ae5a75974d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04a.276.2", "colnum": "276", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Aye!”", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "her way, regardless of the subject of our proceedings. I notice that that has engendered some slightly better behaviour—thank you. Under the terms of the Order of the House of 27 January , I must now put the Question necessary to bring to a conclusion the proceedings in the Legislative Grand Committee on the consent motion. The question is the consent motion. As many are of that opinion say “Aye”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04a.276.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-04", "file": "debates2020-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "387ff0ae5a75974d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04a.276.2", "colnum": "276", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “No!”", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "oceedings. I notice that that has engendered some slightly better behaviour—thank you. Under the terms of the Order of the House of 27 January , I must now put the Question necessary to bring to a conclusion the proceedings in the Legislative Grand Committee on the consent motion. The question is the consent motion. As many are of that opinion say “Aye”—[Hon. Members: “Aye!”]—of the contrary “No”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04a.276.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-04", "file": "debates2020-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "387ff0ae5a75974d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04a.276.2", "colnum": "276", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "ered some slightly better behaviour—thank you. Under the terms of the Order of the House of 27 January , I must now put the Question necessary to bring to a conclusion the proceedings in the Legislative Grand Committee on the consent motion. The question is the consent motion. As many are of that opinion say “Aye”—[Hon. Members: “Aye!”]—of the contrary “No”—[Hon. Members: “No!”]. The Ayes have it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04a.276.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-04", "file": "debates2020-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "387ff0ae5a75974d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04a.276.2", "colnum": "276", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": " matter. Members representing Scottish seats are well aware that they do not have the right to vote on this particular motion. They therefore do not have the right to shout “No” when I put the question. I can hear “Aye” from the Government Benches. The hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire (Pete Wishart) knows that I am more than capable of discerning a Scottish “No” from a non-Scottish “No”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04a.276.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-04", "file": "debates2020-02-04e.xml", "sha256": "d01be8ef72453244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04e.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Foreign and Commonwealth Office", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "We support it along with—the hon. Gentleman failed to mention this—the Saudis, the Egyptians, the Omanis and Qatar. They have all given statements saying that it is a first step on the road to negotiations that can resolve the conflict.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04e.164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-04", "file": "debates2020-02-04e.xml", "sha256": "d01be8ef72453244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04e.170.6", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Foreign and Commonwealth Office", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is putting the cart before the horse. He is right that both sides will need to agree a two-state solution based on coherent, credible states on both sides and with the security considerations without any lateral annexation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04e.170.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-04", "file": "debates2020-02-04e.xml", "sha256": "d01be8ef72453244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04e.178.3", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Universal Credit: Delayed Roll-Out", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "final delivery of universal credit seems to be even later than a Northern train. It is a demonstration of the incompetence of this Government that they have wrecked the benefits system in this way. When universal credit was rolled out in my constituency as one of the experiments—they never do experiments in their own constituencies—it caused a tenfold increase in food bank usage and huge hardship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04e.178.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-04", "file": "debates2020-02-04e.xml", "sha256": "d01be8ef72453244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04e.186.5", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Universal Credit: Delayed Roll-Out", "cue_speaker": "Will Quince", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Will Quince", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. I would suggest very strongly that he should visit his local jobcentre, because he would have a better understanding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04e.186.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-04", "file": "debates2020-02-04e.xml", "sha256": "d01be8ef72453244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04e.197.4", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Lobby and Media Briefings: Journalists' Access", "cue_speaker": "Chloe Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chloe Smith", "preceding_text": " of the same message, and that message is absolutely clear here today. It is that we run routine lobby procedures that are more than adequate for ensuring that, if they wish to, everybody with a press pass can ask any question of the Prime Minister’s official spokesperson. That is how that operates, and we are supplementing that with the additional briefings, which I have now mentioned many times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04e.197.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-04", "file": "debates2020-02-04e.xml", "sha256": "d01be8ef72453244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04e.224.2", "colnum": "224", "heading": "NHS Funding Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": ". For example, the children and young people’s Green Paper is an incredibly important programme, with a plan for every secondary school in the country to have a mental health lead among the teaching staff who would have some of the basic training that a GP would have to spot a mild mental health illness, anxiety or depression, or a severe one such as OCD or bipolar, and therefore know to refer it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04e.224.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-04", "file": "debates2020-02-04e.xml", "sha256": "d01be8ef72453244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04e.229.0", "colnum": "229", "heading": "NHS Funding Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "d the Department of Health and Social Care demand is extremely rigorous and thorough. That is why things get delayed. If we want to ensure that these 40 hospitals get built, the Government should consider a central team at the Department of Health and Social Care to put at the disposal of hospitals that we want to build extensions or new buildings, so that they can actually navigate those hurdles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04e.229.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-04", "file": "debates2020-02-04e.xml", "sha256": "d01be8ef72453244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04e.241.0", "colnum": "241", "heading": "NHS Funding Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "preceding_text": " Member for Wokingham (John Redwood) spoke about how Members of Parliament often feel distant, not from information about funding, but from outcomes. Will the Minister explain how the Government could improve that delivery mechanism, as that would allay some concerns across the Committee? New clause 10 is fairly ridiculous as it is a rehash of the argument that we had at the back end of last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04e.241.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-04", "file": "debates2020-02-04e.xml", "sha256": "d01be8ef72453244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04e.241.0", "colnum": "241", "heading": "NHS Funding Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "preceding_text": "ding, but from outcomes. Will the Minister explain how the Government could improve that delivery mechanism, as that would allay some concerns across the Committee? New clause 10 is fairly ridiculous as it is a rehash of the argument that we had at the back end of last year—[Interruption.] It has not been selected. You agree with me, Dame Rosie, so I do not need to talk about how ridiculous it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04e.241.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-04", "file": "debates2020-02-04e.xml", "sha256": "d01be8ef72453244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04e.267.1", "colnum": "267", "heading": "NHS Funding Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Lady. I must say to her and to the Committee that I was hoping that I would not see any promotional materials—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04e.267.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-04", "file": "debates2020-02-04e.xml", "sha256": "d01be8ef72453244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04e.276.2", "colnum": "276", "heading": "NHS Funding Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Aye!”", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "d Committee (England) consents to the NHS Funding Bill, not amended in the Legislative Grand Committee (England).— (Edward Argar.) Under the terms of the Order of the House of 27 January , I must now put the Question necessary to bring to a conclusion the proceedings in the Legislative Grand Committee on the consent motion. The question is the consent motion. As many are of that opinion say “Aye”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04e.276.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-04", "file": "debates2020-02-04e.xml", "sha256": "d01be8ef72453244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04e.276.2", "colnum": "276", "heading": "NHS Funding Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “No!”", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "nding Bill, not amended in the Legislative Grand Committee (England).— (Edward Argar.) Under the terms of the Order of the House of 27 January , I must now put the Question necessary to bring to a conclusion the proceedings in the Legislative Grand Committee on the consent motion. The question is the consent motion. As many are of that opinion say “Aye”—[Hon. Members: “Aye!”]—of the contrary “No”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04e.276.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-04", "file": "debates2020-02-04e.xml", "sha256": "d01be8ef72453244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04e.276.2", "colnum": "276", "heading": "NHS Funding Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "ve Grand Committee (England).— (Edward Argar.) Under the terms of the Order of the House of 27 January , I must now put the Question necessary to bring to a conclusion the proceedings in the Legislative Grand Committee on the consent motion. The question is the consent motion. As many are of that opinion say “Aye”—[Hon. Members: “Aye!”]—of the contrary “No”—[Hon. Members: “No!”]. The Ayes have it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04e.276.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-04", "file": "debates2020-02-04e.xml", "sha256": "d01be8ef72453244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04e.276.2", "colnum": "276", "heading": "NHS Funding Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": " matter. Members representing Scottish seats are well aware that they do not have the right to vote on this particular motion. They therefore do not have the right to shout “No” when I put the question. I can hear “Aye” from the Government Benches. The hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire (Pete Wishart) knows that I am more than capable of discerning a Scottish “No” from a non-Scottish “No”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04e.276.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-04", "file": "debates2020-02-04e.xml", "sha256": "d01be8ef72453244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04e.278.1", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Rating and Valuation", "cue_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "preceding_text": " it through the standard multiplier or the small business multiplier. Historically, these multipliers would rise in line with the preceding year’s RPI figure. On this basis, the multipliers were due to increase to reflect the September 2019 RPI figure, which was 2.4%. In Budget 2016, the Government announced that they would switch the multiplier uprating from RPI to CPI indexation from April 2020.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-04e.278.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-05", "file": "debates2020-02-05b.xml", "sha256": "6739242b33cc8c6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-05b.304.4", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "preceding_text": "The European Commission released documents showing that EU import formalities on goods imported from the EU, such as customs declarations, would end up taking place in Belfast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-05b.304.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-05", "file": "debates2020-02-05b.xml", "sha256": "6739242b33cc8c6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-05b.307.0", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister’s former Minister said: “My advice to”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-05b.307.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-05", "file": "debates2020-02-05b.xml", "sha256": "6739242b33cc8c6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-05b.327.0", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Jake Berry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jake Berry", "preceding_text": "d drive forward our Government’s agenda. What have we heard today from the Labour party and the Opposition spokesman? They have learned nothing from their December drubbing—nothing from the people of Redcar in the north-east, nothing from the people of Heywood and Middleton in Greater Manchester and nothing from the people of the Don Valley in Yorkshire. Each of those areas, which had been Labour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-05b.327.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-05", "file": "debates2020-02-05b.xml", "sha256": "6739242b33cc8c6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-05b.336.1", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Jake Berry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jake Berry", "preceding_text": "yone who works in local government. I often feel that being a councillor is a thankless task, and I want to ensure that they hear a clear message from this House today that, on a cross-party basis, we thank them and support them in their work. Of course, councils are not just run by locally elected politicians. They have fantastic officers who support the work of the council and local communities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-05b.336.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-11", "file": "debates2020-02-11d.xml", "sha256": "29a2de8c8c0194b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-11d.767.0", "colnum": "767", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Chris Philp", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Philp", "preceding_text": "mined that others will not suffer the terrible grief and anguish that she has. There can be few sacrifices for a parent more poignant than to go through this sort of experience, reliving terrible events, simply to help others avoid the same experience. As a parent myself, I thank her and pay tribute to her for the enormous sacrifice she has shown by campaigning in this way over so very many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-11d.767.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-11", "file": "debates2020-02-11e.xml", "sha256": "4723593ac9ad01d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-11e.712.1", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Transport Infrastructure", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": ". It means not just more capacity, but faster journey times—extraordinarily fast journey times. Passengers arriving at Birmingham Airport will be able to get to central London by train in 38 minutes, which compares favourably with the time it takes to get from Heathrow by taxi, a point I just draw to the attention of the House. But this is not just about getting from London to Birmingham and back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-11e.712.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-13", "file": "debates2020-02-13f.xml", "sha256": "98e279f0aa2dc346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-13f.1056.1", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "February Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Stuart Andrew", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Stuart Andrew", "preceding_text": "ade a huge difference, so I hope that Bristol will get on with that planning permission. He mentioned transport, which will be a recurring theme throughout my response, because all sorts of bids were made, including his eloquent proposal for a park and ride scheme. Of course, the Government are committed to the £100 billion infrastructure fund, which has probably already been spent this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-13f.1056.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-24", "file": "debates2020-02-24c.xml", "sha256": "b5b6fe5aaf187572", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-24c.153.2", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Social Security Benefits: Claimant Deaths", "cue_speaker": "Debbie Abrahams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Debbie Abrahams", "preceding_text": "t. Such a model, operated within the purview of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, should ensure that the role of all publicly-funded agencies involved in the provision of services or benefits to the individual is scrutinised, so that a learning document can be produced setting out how policy, and the service delivery pathway, can be improved at every stage.” In their formal response—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-24c.153.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-25", "file": "debates2020-02-25d.xml", "sha256": "95520707a37d8bf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-25d.162.2", "colnum": "162", "heading": "MINISTRY OF JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Frazer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Frazer", "preceding_text": "We were very happy to receive the right hon. Member’s review in 2017 on ethnic minority individuals in the criminal justice system and have acted on many of its recommendations. We recently published an update on progress across the Lammy recommendations, which demonstrates a range of work. I am very happy to meet him. I do not make that offer on behalf of the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-25d.162.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-25", "file": "debates2020-02-25d.xml", "sha256": "95520707a37d8bf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-25d.186.1", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Tax Avoidance and Evasion", "cue_speaker": "John Martin McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Martin McDonnell", "preceding_text": "They pay that much because they earn so much more than everybody else, but the other issue, and it relates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-25d.186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-25", "file": "debates2020-02-25d.xml", "sha256": "95520707a37d8bf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-25d.194.0", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Tax Avoidance and Evasion", "cue_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "preceding_text": "cularly through her chairmanship of the Public Accounts Committee, on a cross-party basis to bring transparency to these issues. A key driver behind measures the Government have taken in recent years has been a desire for more international transparency, which is at the forefront of many of the concerns the House has had in the past. Thanks to UK leadership, more than 100 jurisdictions, including—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-25d.194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-25", "file": "debates2020-02-25d.xml", "sha256": "95520707a37d8bf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-25d.219.1", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Tax Avoidance and Evasion", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Hollinrake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Hollinrake", "preceding_text": "It related to income tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-25d.219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-25", "file": "debates2020-02-25d.xml", "sha256": "95520707a37d8bf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-25d.234.0", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Tax Avoidance and Evasion", "cue_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “That is not an answer.”", "preceding_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "preceding_text": "accepts the proposition that the UK is one of the least secret jurisdictions in the world. I believe it is the eighth least secret, according to the report. Because its authors have some fudge factor, or financial multiplier, they have somehow able to deduce this extraordinary further conclusion. In fact, it is bogus. As was pointed out by a partner at Clifford Chance, the excellent Mr Dan Neidle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-25d.234.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-25", "file": "debates2020-02-25d.xml", "sha256": "95520707a37d8bf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-25d.251.5", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Social Care", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "preceding_text": "The honest truth is that that decision was made in the 2015-17 Parliament, and it was a decision the Government made at the time. I think that we need to take action to solve this problem, and that is what we are planning to do. The third part of the plan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-25d.251.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-25", "file": "debates2020-02-25d.xml", "sha256": "95520707a37d8bf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-25d.291.5", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Petition - Universal Credit Bonus Payments", "cue_speaker": "Martyn Day", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martyn Day", "preceding_text": "It is not for the first time that I rise to present a petition centred around the issue of universal credit. On this occasion, it relates to bonus payments for my constituents, who were appalled by the £300 Christmas bonuses awarded by Greggs being reduced in some cases to as little as £75.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-25d.291.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-25", "file": "debates2020-02-25d.xml", "sha256": "95520707a37d8bf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-25d.293.1", "colnum": "293", "heading": "East Leake Health Centre", "cue_speaker": "Alicia Kearns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alicia Kearns", "preceding_text": "I commend my hon. Friend and neighbour for securing this important debate for her constituents. The issue she raises applies to many rural constituencies such as mine; the numbers are important. In Melton, 30,000 people in my constituency are served by just one GP practice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-25d.293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-26", "file": "debates2020-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "67b6a30c7373ea22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.300.5", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Wales", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hart", "preceding_text": "constructive. He has at no stage made the observations the hon. Lady has made to me. We have made it absolutely clear that as soon as the damage is assessed we are ready to assist, notwithstanding the fact that this is a devolved responsibility, and it is absolutely right that we as a UK Government should respect the devolution settlement. I will just finish by saying that local authority leaders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.300.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-26", "file": "debates2020-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "67b6a30c7373ea22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.304.3", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Wales", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "I call the Secretary of State to reply to Question 7.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.304.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-26", "file": "debates2020-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "67b6a30c7373ea22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.304.3", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Wales", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Get on with it!”", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "I call the Secretary of State to reply to Question 7. [Interruption.]. Minister or Secretary of State?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.304.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-26", "file": "debates2020-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "67b6a30c7373ea22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.309.6", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "preceding_text": "I associate myself with the Prime Minister’s thanks to all those helping in the aftermath of Storm Dennis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.309.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-26", "file": "debates2020-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "67b6a30c7373ea22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.309.8", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “It is a statement.”", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "My thoughts are with those across the world who are suffering from the coronavirus. I praise medical and emergency staff all over the world for what they are doing to try to stop the spread of the disease. I hope that public health services in Britain will get the resources they need; there is an urgent question on this topic after Prime Minister’s Question Time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.309.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-26", "file": "debates2020-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "67b6a30c7373ea22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.312.0", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "ease of terrorists; we have restored the nurses’ bursary; we are beginning work on 40 new hospitals; and we are recruiting 20,000 more police officers. We can do that because we have a strong and dynamic economy, with employment at record highs, unemployment down to the lowest levels since the early ’70s, wages going up and home ownership up. What are the Opposition doing? They are still deciding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-26", "file": "debates2020-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "67b6a30c7373ea22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.313.1", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "Of course Scottish businesses matter, and the way to do well by them would not be to tax them with the highest tax rates in the UK; it would be to run a sound economy in Scotland and to have an educational system that does not leave Scottish children lagging behind through no fault of their own. This Government will get on and deliver a working immigration system for the whole of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-26", "file": "debates2020-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "67b6a30c7373ea22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.316.6", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "In addition to the 40 new hospitals that we are building—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.316.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-26", "file": "debates2020-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "67b6a30c7373ea22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.319.2", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Personal Statement", "cue_speaker": "Sajid Javid", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sajid Javid", "preceding_text": "aking truth to power. I believe that the arrangement proposed would significantly inhibit that, and it would not have been in the national interest. So while I was grateful for the continued trust of the Prime Minister in wanting to reappoint me, I am afraid that these were conditions that I could not accept in good conscience. I do not intend to dwell further on all the details and personalities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.319.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-26", "file": "debates2020-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "67b6a30c7373ea22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.319.2", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Personal Statement", "cue_speaker": "Sajid Javid", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sajid Javid", "preceding_text": " proposed would significantly inhibit that, and it would not have been in the national interest. So while I was grateful for the continued trust of the Prime Minister in wanting to reappoint me, I am afraid that these were conditions that I could not accept in good conscience. I do not intend to dwell further on all the details and personalities—[Interruption]—the Cummings and goings, if you will.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.319.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-26", "file": "debates2020-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "67b6a30c7373ea22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.351.3", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Environment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "preceding_text": "I will not take any further interventions, so that I can finish my remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.351.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-26", "file": "debates2020-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "67b6a30c7373ea22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.351.3", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Environment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "preceding_text": "I will not take any further interventions, so that I can finish my remarks. [Interruption.] I say that, but that would have been a good time for one. I come to the section of my speech about water, unless someone would like to intervene briefly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.351.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-26", "file": "debates2020-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "67b6a30c7373ea22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.371.1", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Environment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Saqib Bhatti", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Saqib Bhatti", "preceding_text": "al businesses and a vibrant community spirit. My constituency takes its name from the village of Meriden, known as Alspath in the Domesday Book. It originally made up part of Lady Godiva’s estate and, as many Members of this House will know, Lady Godiva rode through the streets of Coventry naked in protest against her husband’s tax rises. Mr Deputy Speaker, I have a lot in common with Lady Godiva—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-26", "file": "debates2020-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "67b6a30c7373ea22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.382.1", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Environment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jane Stevenson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Stevenson", "preceding_text": "of the places, Tettenhall, is in the ward in Wolverhampton South West that I serve as a city councillor. The other, Wednesfield, is a village in my constituency of Wolverhampton North East. I have learned quite quickly that politics is a game of numbers, so with sincere apologies to the fine people of Tettenhall—and one of them is my own mother—I shall now refer to it as the battle of Wednesfield.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-26", "file": "debates2020-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "67b6a30c7373ea22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.404.0", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Environment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "preceding_text": "tention because it is one of the most significant things established by the Bill. We will find out in the coming weeks, months and years how the OEP develops and interacts with this House, DEFRA Ministers and devolved Administrations, and how that all works. However, it strikes me that we have almost set up a sort of environmental National Audit Office. That is how the OEP could end up developing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.404.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-26", "file": "debates2020-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "67b6a30c7373ea22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.423.0", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Environment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rebecca Pow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rebecca Pow", "preceding_text": "enforceable in UK courts and will remain enforceable in UK courts. That has not changed. Any targets introduced through the Bill will not diminish our environmental protections but add to them. Indeed, the UK is already at the forefront of environmental protection and a leader in setting ambitious targets to prevent damage to our natural world. We were so influential in this policy area in the EU.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-26", "file": "debates2020-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "67b6a30c7373ea22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.426.0", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Environment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rebecca Pow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rebecca Pow", "preceding_text": "w to air quality, because, again, this was much mentioned. Clause 2 includes a requirement to set a new air quality target to reduce concentrations of fine particulate matter—the most damaging pollutant to human health. As a mother of a son who had asthma for many years while he was growing up, this issue is close to my heart. I have heard loud and clear all the comments that have been made today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.426.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-26", "file": "debates2020-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "67b6a30c7373ea22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.426.0", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Environment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rebecca Pow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rebecca Pow", "preceding_text": "ir quality target to reduce concentrations of fine particulate matter—the most damaging pollutant to human health. As a mother of a son who had asthma for many years while he was growing up, this issue is close to my heart. I have heard loud and clear all the comments that have been made today. [Interruption.] I am being disrupted by notes. I thought that the note said that someone was in the bar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.426.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-26", "file": "debates2020-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "67b6a30c7373ea22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.426.0", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Environment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rebecca Pow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rebecca Pow", "preceding_text": " pollutant to human health. As a mother of a son who had asthma for many years while he was growing up, this issue is close to my heart. I have heard loud and clear all the comments that have been made today. [Interruption.] I am being disrupted by notes. I thought that the note said that someone was in the bar. [Interruption.] I am being told that Bim is here, but I am not allowed to mention him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-26b.426.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-27", "file": "debates2020-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "c384d64e12794f2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-27a.462.3", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Cabinet Office", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "Again, I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-27a.462.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-27", "file": "debates2020-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "c384d64e12794f2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-27a.472.4", "colnum": "472", "heading": "European Union: Future Relationship", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "rently enjoyed? It does not matter if it is Canada-plus. It does not matter if it is Australia. It does not even matter if it is outer space-minus-minus-minus. The Government will have an inferior product at the end of the day when we finally get an agreement with the EU. Look at who we are up against: it is the clown-shoe UK up against the efficient, effective EU, with its negotiating experience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-27a.472.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-27", "file": "debates2020-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "c384d64e12794f2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-27a.503.0", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Rough Sleeping", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Jones", "preceding_text": "aps that is why the Housing Secretary chose to appoint someone as his Parliamentary Private Secretary, with specific responsibility for rough sleeping, who thinks that sleeping rough is a lifestyle choice and who claimed that “many people choose to be on the street”—[Official Report, 29 January 2020; Vol. 670, c. 858.] He also claimed that it is more comfortable than going on exercise in the Army—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-27a.503.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-27", "file": "debates2020-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "c384d64e12794f2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-27a.528.6", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hart", "preceding_text": "throughout south and west Wales. Not a single business from the west coast of Pembrokeshire to the Severn Bridge does not believe that the project is a good idea. The blockage appears to come from the First Minister’s Office, so if colleagues share our ambition for the project, let us hear from them. I will take any intervention from the Opposition confirming their enthusiasm for that improvement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-27a.528.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-02-27", "file": "debates2020-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "c384d64e12794f2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-27a.534.0", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Christina Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christina Rees", "preceding_text": "No, of course —that road is going ahead. It is only the UK Government who have prevented it from going ahead faster. I do not know where I am now; the hon. Members have completely lost me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-02-27a.534.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-02", "file": "debates2020-03-02d.xml", "sha256": "c94c07463bc1a250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-02d.618.5", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Ministerial Code", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The key—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-02d.618.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-02", "file": "debates2020-03-02d.xml", "sha256": "c94c07463bc1a250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-02d.647.0", "colnum": "647", "heading": "UK-US Trade Deal", "cue_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "preceding_text": "that to the people of Stoke-on-Trent and the ceramics factories that could benefit? Why does he not say that to the midlands car manufacturers who want easier testing procedures? Why does he not say that to the people of Scotland, which is one of the regions that would benefit most from a free trade deal with the United States? The hon. Gentleman asked me about the other deals that we are seeking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-02d.647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-02", "file": "debates2020-03-02d.xml", "sha256": "c94c07463bc1a250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-02d.647.0", "colnum": "647", "heading": "UK-US Trade Deal", "cue_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "preceding_text": " Finally, I want to make a point about British agriculture. As a former Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, I am a great believer in the fantastic products that we produce in this country. I believe that they should be available in more countries around the world. I want UK beef and lamb to be on US shelves. I want the tariffs on dairy products, which can be as high as 18%—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-02d.647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-02", "file": "debates2020-03-02d.xml", "sha256": "c94c07463bc1a250", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-02d.716.2", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Scottish Affairs Committee", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Grady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Grady", "preceding_text": "in 2005 the figures were Labour six, Conservatives three, SNP one and the Liberal Democrats one. Tonight we are being asked to approve two Labour Members, one Liberal Democrat Member, three SNP Members, again including the Chair, and five Conservative Members. That is five Conservative Members on a Committee for a party that only has six members in the country in which the Committee is interested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-02d.716.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-03", "file": "debates2020-03-03d.xml", "sha256": "6d65d92a45551451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-03d.739.8", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Paul Scully", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Scully", "preceding_text": "Fortunately, questions are not answered by robot yet, so I am still here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-03d.739.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-03", "file": "debates2020-03-03d.xml", "sha256": "6d65d92a45551451", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-03d.763.0", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Coronavirus", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "preceding_text": "ctive approach he has taken from the start, and I will seek to address all the questions that he has raised. His first point was about statutory sick pay. For those who need to self-isolate for medical reasons to protect others, that counts as being off sick. They do not need to go to a GP, because there is a seven-day allowance for self-declaration. I hope that that addresses that point directly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-03d.763.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-04", "file": "debates2020-03-04d.xml", "sha256": "844e1f76cfd54ad9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-04d.818.0", "colnum": "818", "heading": "International Development", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Adams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Adams", "preceding_text": "Indeed. This is a great opportunity for constituencies across all the nations of the UK. Leaving the EU provides an opportunity to explore the best ways to develop our trade and investment relationships across Africa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-04d.818.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-04", "file": "debates2020-03-04d.xml", "sha256": "844e1f76cfd54ad9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-04d.821.0", "colnum": "821", "heading": "International Development", "cue_speaker": "Anne-Marie Trevelyan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne-Marie Trevelyan", "preceding_text": "Excuse me, Mr Speaker. My cold is a demonstration, if I may say so, of joint working with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, as it is the Foreign Secretary’s cold, which he has shared, most unreasonably.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-04d.821.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-04", "file": "debates2020-03-04d.xml", "sha256": "844e1f76cfd54ad9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-04d.826.3", "colnum": "826", "heading": "International Development", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "This is not the normal situation, but it is very important that I welcome the Pakistani Governor of the Punjab, Mohammad Sarwar, who is a former colleague and Member of this House and is in the Gallery today. We welcome him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-04d.826.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-04", "file": "debates2020-03-04d.xml", "sha256": "844e1f76cfd54ad9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-04d.827.1", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "I am sure the whole House will join me in congratulating the Prime Minister and his partner on the news that they are expecting a baby.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-04d.827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-04", "file": "debates2020-03-04d.xml", "sha256": "844e1f76cfd54ad9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-04d.828.2", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is raising a very important point. We are, of course, very much aware of the issues faced by the self-employed and those on zero-hours contracts. I should stress that some of them will be entitled to statutory sick pay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-04d.828.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-04", "file": "debates2020-03-04d.xml", "sha256": "844e1f76cfd54ad9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-04d.832.7", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "I am happy to study the particular case that the hon. Gentleman raises. Universal credit is available from day one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-04d.832.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-04", "file": "debates2020-03-04d.xml", "sha256": "844e1f76cfd54ad9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-04d.832.7", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "I am happy to study the particular case that the hon. Gentleman raises. Universal credit is available from day one—[Interruption]—and I stick firmly to my belief that the best route out of poverty is not benefits but work, and what this Government have achieved is record low unemployment and record gains in employment across the country. Wages are now rising—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-04d.832.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-04", "file": "debates2020-03-04d.xml", "sha256": "844e1f76cfd54ad9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-04d.837.2", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Personal Statement", "cue_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "preceding_text": "e of 81 Conservatives to vote for a referendum on EU membership, leading to media speculation that I had told the Chancellor, George Osborne, to—if you will forgive me, Mr Speaker—“eff off”. Well, I can assure you that there is only one person to whom I might be tempted to provide such frank advice, and that would not include any former or current Chancellor, and certainly not any current Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-04d.837.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-04", "file": "debates2020-03-04d.xml", "sha256": "844e1f76cfd54ad9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-04d.837.2", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Personal Statement", "cue_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "preceding_text": "nt on that third B—babies—and I look forward to renewing my passion for giving every baby the best start in life. When the Prime Minister asked me to step aside, he also gave me his word that he would enable me to take forward the early years work, and I am delighted that the wheels are in motion. I heartily congratulate him and Carrie on their decision to do their own bit of early years research—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-04d.837.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-04", "file": "debates2020-03-04d.xml", "sha256": "844e1f76cfd54ad9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-04d.850.1", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Flooding", "cue_speaker": "George Eustice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Eustice", "preceding_text": "gilance as we monitor the situation and move into a recovery phase. I would like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to the work of the Environment Agency, local authorities and emergency services, including the fire brigade, which has been engaged extensively, the paramedics and the many voluntary groups that have played a role and, of course, local TV and radio, which have played their part—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-04d.850.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-04", "file": "debates2020-03-04d.xml", "sha256": "844e1f76cfd54ad9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-04d.867.1", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Flooding", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "Order. The clock will still be operating, but I am going to be a little bit more flexible with time during this maiden speech, since there is only one during this debate. Let us be considerate of Holly Mumby-Croft.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-04d.867.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-04", "file": "debates2020-03-04d.xml", "sha256": "844e1f76cfd54ad9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-04d.895.2", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Flooding", "cue_speaker": "Rebecca Pow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rebecca Pow", "preceding_text": "my hon. Friends the Members for Gloucester (Richard Graham) and for Tonbridge and Malling (Tom Tugendhat), who gave good examples of that. In addition, people are becoming more aware of their risk of flooding. Digital services, such as the online flood warnings and alerts provided by the Environment Agency, which I hope the shadow Secretary of State has had a look at, because they are rather good—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-04d.895.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-04", "file": "debates2020-03-04d.xml", "sha256": "844e1f76cfd54ad9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-04d.903.4", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Health Inequalities", "cue_speaker": "Jon Ashworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jon Ashworth", "preceding_text": "more than 100 years, life expectancy has essentially flattened overall since 2010, and has actually declined for women in the poorest areas of England. In last week’s Opposition day debate, the Health Secretary told Opposition Members that we must debate these issues based on the facts. In fairness, he said that there were life expectancy differences between, for example, Blackpool and Buckingham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-04d.903.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-05", "file": "debates2020-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "4d44d4d29986f7bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-05a.1058.0", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alison Thewliss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alison Thewliss", "preceding_text": "ot married. However, her duty was always to her family, and she pushed on everybody around her. She supported my mum when she had me, so that she could go to work and carry out her role. I pay tribute to Gran Thewliss, who passed away last September at the age of 99. I miss her very dearly and think of her quite a lot. We built tents together, baked cakes together, and picked out dresses together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-05a.1058.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-05", "file": "debates2020-03-05b.xml", "sha256": "8eea3260ac4429fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-05b.1058.0", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alison Thewliss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alison Thewliss", "preceding_text": "ot married. However, her duty was always to her family, and she pushed on everybody around her. She supported my mum when she had me, so that she could go to work and carry out her role. I pay tribute to Gran Thewliss, who passed away last September at the age of 99. I miss her very dearly and think of her quite a lot. We built tents together, baked cakes together, and picked out dresses together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-05b.1058.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-05", "file": "debates2020-03-05c.xml", "sha256": "cabc517d33da92b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-05c.978.0", "colnum": "978", "heading": "International Trade", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my right hon. Friend the Member for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale (David Mundell) , who sets an example—not least to the party over there, the SNP—in championing the interests of Scottish workers and Scottish business, regardless of politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-05c.978.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-05", "file": "debates2020-03-05c.xml", "sha256": "cabc517d33da92b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-05c.983.0", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": " care of people who self-isolate or who are suffering. I am not going to dwell on the right hon. Lady’s disagreements with her local council. MPs often disagree with their local councils. As hers is a Conservative council, I am sure that it is absolutely marvellous, but I understand why a socialist Member of Parliament does not take the same view. That is a fairly routine aspect of political life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-05c.983.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-05", "file": "debates2020-03-05c.xml", "sha256": "cabc517d33da92b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-05c.990.2", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Union flag.”", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "It is a deeply troubling matter that the Union Jack should be flying upside down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-05c.990.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-05", "file": "debates2020-03-05c.xml", "sha256": "cabc517d33da92b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-05c.990.2", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "It is the Union Jack, and it has been referred to as such for many centuries. There is a pedantic but erroneous view that it should be called the Union flag, and it is held by people who are more pedantic than they are wise. I am sorry that this has happened, and I am glad it has been brought to the attention of the House authorities. I imagine that, as we speak, somebody is going to correct this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-05c.990.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-09", "file": "debates2020-03-09c.xml", "sha256": "0b7026964932768c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-09c.73.0", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Birmingham Commonwealth Games Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Matt Western", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Matt Western", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is making some extremely important points. As a neighbouring MP in the west midlands, I welcome the games coming to our region. She talks about Edgbaston being a world-leading cricket venue. Leamington, of course, is the world-leading venue for lawn bowls—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-09c.73.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-09", "file": "debates2020-03-09c.xml", "sha256": "0b7026964932768c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-09c.85.3", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Commonwealth in 2020", "cue_speaker": "James Duddridge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Duddridge", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend. The conferences that the CPA runs are superb, and I thank him, the executive committee and Jon Davies, who works tirelessly on behalf of the Commonwealth and colleagues. I was well rewarded for my role as chair of CPA UK, as it gave me this rather nice tie as a leaving gift.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-09c.85.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-09", "file": "debates2020-03-09c.xml", "sha256": "0b7026964932768c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-09c.87.3", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Commonwealth in 2020", "cue_speaker": "James Duddridge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Duddridge", "preceding_text": "I used to fly the pride flag in my office when I was a Foreign Office Minister, and I think that was done at the discretion of the local ambassador and high commissioner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-09c.87.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-10", "file": "debates2020-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6351c916dd511acc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-10a.168.6", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chi Onwurah", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Oh!”", "preceding_speaker": "Chi Onwurah", "preceding_text": " Conservative Governments have entrenched the digital divide in the United Kingdom: 11 million adults lack one or more digital skills and 10% of households do not have internet access. At this rate, in 2028 there will be 7 million people without digital skills, which is tantamount to leaving one in 10 of our population permanently disenfranchised. Our part-time Prime Minister has changed his tune—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-10a.168.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-10", "file": "debates2020-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6351c916dd511acc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-10a.174.4", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hendrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hendrick", "preceding_text": "As the shadow Minister will be aware, the Government made an announcement on 28 January that they were going to give a very limited role to Huawei in the development of the infrastructure. They have also taken advice from GCHQ and the NCSC about the level of involvement that Huawei should have. Why does she disagree with that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-10a.174.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-10", "file": "debates2020-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6351c916dd511acc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-10a.175.3", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chi Onwurah", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chi Onwurah", "preceding_text": " you cannot leapfrog existing technology. The bad news is that it takes investment and strategic vision—qualities, I am afraid, that this Government appear to lack. Huawei is a test of both. Last week, in the Westminster Hall debate secured by the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green, I put 10 questions to the Minister, which he was unable to answer. I will not repeat them here, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-10a.175.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-10", "file": "debates2020-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6351c916dd511acc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-10a.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": " security. I worry—and this is the point I want to make—that we have no friends out there any more on this issue. The Canadians, the Americans, the Australians and the New Zealanders all disagree with us. I know there is sometimes a habit in this country of people quietly and smugly saying, “Well, we’re better than they are”, and I understand that. It may be the suggestion of the Security Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-10a.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-10", "file": "debates2020-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6351c916dd511acc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-10a.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": " more on this issue. The Canadians, the Americans, the Australians and the New Zealanders all disagree with us. I know there is sometimes a habit in this country of people quietly and smugly saying, “Well, we’re better than they are”, and I understand that. It may be the suggestion of the Security Council—[Interruption.] Well, you know what it is like. I learn a lot from my nationalist colleagues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-10a.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-10", "file": "debates2020-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "6351c916dd511acc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-10a.194.0", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Dowden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Dowden", "preceding_text": "We have made at least three new commitments today. First, we will bring back the telecoms security Bill by the summer, which will enable the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-10a.194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-11", "file": "debates2020-03-11b.xml", "sha256": "d564a1a93dae7829", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.267.3", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “It’s not!", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "I don’t think the Prime Minister answered my question. It is no surprise that life expectancy has gone down, when 86% of the cuts made by successive Tory Governments have landed disproportionately on the shoulders of women. We are one of the richest countries in the world, and it is mind-boggling that life expectancy should be falling in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.267.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-11", "file": "debates2020-03-11b.xml", "sha256": "d564a1a93dae7829", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.268.0", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "I want to correct a point that the right hon. Gentleman made earlier: as has been revealed in the last few days, mortality is at its lowest level in this country since 2001.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.268.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-11", "file": "debates2020-03-11b.xml", "sha256": "d564a1a93dae7829", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.268.5", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "Without funding, the Domestic Abuse Bill will simply be a piece of paper. There has to be funding to ensure that those who are victims of domestic violence get the support they need in the centres they need, which are underfunded by this Government. The Prime Minister has made repeated offensive remarks against single mothers and their children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.268.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-11", "file": "debates2020-03-11b.xml", "sha256": "d564a1a93dae7829", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.294.3", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "sts that measures to deal with coronavirus are possible only because of his party’s management of the economy. Look outside: in the real world, we are still living through the slowest economic recovery in a century. Our economy is fundamentally weak. ONS figures out today show the economy is not growing: growth was 0.0% in the three months to January—0.0% in the three months to the end of January.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.294.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-11", "file": "debates2020-03-11b.xml", "sha256": "d564a1a93dae7829", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.299.5", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Mel Stride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mel Stride", "preceding_text": "t the kind of discount rates we apply to green investment propositions to make sure that the Government are encouraged to invest upfront rather than further back in time. On levelling up, the Green Book needs to accommodate the fact that we need to get away from the natural returns we get in London and the south-east, and get investment out into the regions, particularly the south-west of England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.299.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-11", "file": "debates2020-03-11b.xml", "sha256": "d564a1a93dae7829", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.302.4", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "ent measures are needed to help the tourism and hospitality industry, above and beyond what has been offered today. Industry leaders are already warning of the consequences of the coronavirus, with a raft of booking cancellations and a significant drop in numbers. The SNP is advocating a package of measures, including a temporary drop in the VAT rate to 5% to help businesses to reduce their costs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.302.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-11", "file": "debates2020-03-11b.xml", "sha256": "d564a1a93dae7829", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.302.4", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": " what has been offered today. Industry leaders are already warning of the consequences of the coronavirus, with a raft of booking cancellations and a significant drop in numbers. The SNP is advocating a package of measures, including a temporary drop in the VAT rate to 5% to help businesses to reduce their costs—[Interruption.] I can hear the Prime Minister saying, “We’ve cut interest rates,” but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.302.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-11", "file": "debates2020-03-11b.xml", "sha256": "d564a1a93dae7829", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.302.4", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "mics. People in Scotland know that they cannot believe their words, they cannot believe their promises, and they cannot believe that they will ever change—not ever. If this really was the great investment Budget the Chancellor heralds, he should have started by paying up the moneys the Tories have been holding back from Scotland for years. I am grateful to a Scottish Parliament Information Centre—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.302.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-11", "file": "debates2020-03-11b.xml", "sha256": "d564a1a93dae7829", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.302.4", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "rliament Information Centre has confirmed that Scotland would be owed about £5.8 billion if the proper Barnett consequentials were applied to the DUP Brexit bung and the additional moneys since. That is the reality. That is added, of course, to the £175 million still owed to the Scottish Police Authority and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service—money that was stolen from our vital public services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.302.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-11", "file": "debates2020-03-11b.xml", "sha256": "d564a1a93dae7829", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.302.4", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": " is of course the removal of free TV licences for the over-75s. This will hit 240,000 households in Scotland and 3 million across the United Kingdom. Chancellor, this is your Government’s responsibility, not the BBC’s. It is time to pay up. Stop punishing pensioners, and keep the free TV licence for all those over 75. By far the biggest budgetary and economic decision that confronts these islands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.302.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-11", "file": "debates2020-03-11b.xml", "sha256": "d564a1a93dae7829", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.302.4", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": " narrow ideology of the Brexit fanboys, led by Dominic Cummings, now running the Treasury. As the trade negotiations unfold in the coming months, the numbers are worth reflecting on, because it is worth reflecting on the fact that the Westminster Government are actively choosing to make Scotland’s people poorer. It is not an accident; it is by design. On top of all that, the National Audit Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.302.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-11", "file": "debates2020-03-11b.xml", "sha256": "d564a1a93dae7829", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "I remind the Prime Minister that we have just had an election. He went into that election with the slogan “Say no to indyref2”; how did that work out? You lost more than half your MPs, Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-11", "file": "debates2020-03-11b.xml", "sha256": "d564a1a93dae7829", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.308.5", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "pendable in the 1970s. It was expendable under Ted Heath in the 1970s and it is expendable under this Prime Minister in 2020. The sad truth about the Prime Minister is that he will not even bat an eyelid as he sells out on his promise to Scottish fishing communities. He simply does not care. The same is true for our farmers and crofters. In the Agriculture Bill Committee last week, SNP amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.308.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-11", "file": "debates2020-03-11b.xml", "sha256": "d564a1a93dae7829", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.309.1", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hooray!”", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "t out a plan that matches Scotland’s green ambitions, matches the Government’s Paris climate agreement responsibilities, and sticks to future EU emissions standards. As Greta Thunberg has said, our house is on fire. The inaction of the Tories is the equivalent of ignoring not only the fire alarm but the flames that are swirling around our feet. As I move towards a conclusion, Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-11", "file": "debates2020-03-11b.xml", "sha256": "d564a1a93dae7829", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.357.2", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "I was teasing. It is also a great pleasure because one would not know from listening to the right hon. Gentleman’s remarks and criticism of our economic record that he was, of course, the outgoing Chief Secretary to the Treasury who had to write the note reminding us all that there was “no money”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.357.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-11", "file": "debates2020-03-11b.xml", "sha256": "d564a1a93dae7829", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.372.0", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Catherine West", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Catherine West", "preceding_text": "ency Budget, but about the long-term strategic view and how that might answer some of the questions raised by the fairness commission that the House heard in my introduction. On the covid-19 emergency, I wish to take a moment in my speech to put on record our commitment as a House: the fact that covid-19 originated in China does not mean that Chinese people are in any way to blame for the disease.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.372.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-11", "file": "debates2020-03-11b.xml", "sha256": "d564a1a93dae7829", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.396.3", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Coronavirus", "cue_speaker": "Dean Russell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dean Russell", "preceding_text": "I congratulate my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.396.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-11", "file": "debates2020-03-11b.xml", "sha256": "d564a1a93dae7829", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Electric Car Batteries: Disposal and Recycling", "cue_speaker": "Rebecca Pow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rebecca Pow", "preceding_text": "ember touched on second-life applications, and there is clearly a great deal of mileage there. This valuable project is, for example, specifically seeking to create a new and complete end-of-life supply chain network in the UK that includes second-life battery applications. There is an industry group, chaired by the Institution of Engineering and Technology, that is considering the safety aspects—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-11", "file": "debates2020-03-11b.xml", "sha256": "d564a1a93dae7829", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Electric Car Batteries: Disposal and Recycling", "cue_speaker": "Rebecca Pow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rebecca Pow", "preceding_text": "Officials from both the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and my Department are working closely with that group, so they are taking a great deal of interest in the work that the group is doing. In December 2018, the Government published the resources and waste strategy. It is another interesting document, Mr Deputy Speaker, which I know you will be getting out of the Library.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-11b.407.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-12", "file": "debates2020-03-12b.xml", "sha256": "81e5ebabd6169767", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-12b.431.0", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Transport", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": " as the highest praise for a brilliant and very successful Budget. I am not sure that it is the greatest criticism if the only point that can be made is that the Budget was moved on an income tax motion, rather than on a change to the law, because that has been done with previous Budgets. The former Chancellor, Philip Hammond, used the procedure on a number of occasions, so it is not that unusual—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-12b.431.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-12", "file": "debates2020-03-12b.xml", "sha256": "81e5ebabd6169767", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-12b.482.5", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Alok Sharma", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alok Sharma", "preceding_text": " backed nuclear fusion to develop and build the world’s first commercially viable fusion power plant by 2040. It backed low-emission vehicles, including with funds to support the roll-out of a fast charging network for electric vehicles, and it will fund a new heat network scheme and put £800 million behind two or more carbon capture and storage clusters, one by the mid-2020s and a second by 2030.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-12b.482.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-12", "file": "debates2020-03-12b.xml", "sha256": "81e5ebabd6169767", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-12b.522.0", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Olney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Olney", "preceding_text": "prehensive programme of retrofitting insulation to domestic homes and to install more efficient forms of domestic heating. Such a move would have a beneficial impact on domestic energy bills everywhere and, in particular, would alleviate fuel poverty in many homes. I want to reiterate the Liberal Democrats’ support for the Government in dealing with the coronavirus challenge in the months to come—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-12b.522.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-12", "file": "debates2020-03-12b.xml", "sha256": "81e5ebabd6169767", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-12b.534.0", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "preceding_text": "viewing private finance initiative projects across the public sector. We know that PFI has been a disaster for this country, and it was overwhelmingly initiated and carried out by the Labour party in the hospital sector. The idea that the NHS, in which virtually every PFI project was conceived and executed under a Labour Government, should be a topic of the Labour party’s criticism is astonishing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-12b.534.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-12", "file": "debates2020-03-12b.xml", "sha256": "81e5ebabd6169767", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-12b.534.0", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "preceding_text": "y the Labour party in the hospital sector. The idea that the NHS, in which virtually every PFI project was conceived and executed under a Labour Government, should be a topic of the Labour party’s criticism is astonishing. [Interruption.] I welcome you to the Chair, Mr Deputy Speaker. PFI costs this country £10 billion a year, and any steps we can take to remove that burden on current expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-12b.534.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-12", "file": "debates2020-03-12b.xml", "sha256": "81e5ebabd6169767", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-12b.534.0", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "preceding_text": "r whether, in her seven years in that area, she looked at the PFI project in Hereford, on which I had to run a process that saved £5 million for the taxpayer and greatly improved the delivery of hospital care to my constituents. The fact of the matter is that this Government and their predecessors have had to deal with the terrible crisis of 2008, even now, and I remind the House that the tragedy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-12b.534.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-13", "file": "debates2020-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "57920a1350d3edbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-13a.556.0", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Education (Guidance about Costs of School Uniforms) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Debbie Abrahams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Debbie Abrahams", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware of the Children’s Society research that has just been published? It shows that one in five families on lower incomes are struggling to pay for school uniforms. Given that the average cost is about £300 a year, that means they are cutting back on other things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-13a.556.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-13", "file": "debates2020-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "57920a1350d3edbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-13a.579.0", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Education (Guidance about Costs of School Uniforms) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Robert Courts", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Courts", "preceding_text": " jacket that is too long, where it looks like you are wearing your father’s clothes because your parents are trying to get the longest possible wear time out of them. That is understandable and I suppose that that will happen in any event. There is nothing much we can do about that. I suspect that the Government cannot legislate to stop that sort of thing. It is beyond the abilities of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-13a.579.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-13", "file": "debates2020-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "57920a1350d3edbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-13a.582.0", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Education (Guidance about Costs of School Uniforms) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hooray!”", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "preceding_text": "I start by wishing my hon. Friend the Member for Easington (Grahame Morris) a happy birthday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-13a.582.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-13", "file": "debates2020-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "57920a1350d3edbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-13a.582.0", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Education (Guidance about Costs of School Uniforms) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "preceding_text": "Member for Weaver Vale (Mike Amesbury) on introducing this important Bill and thank all hon. Members from across the House who have spoken in today’s debate. He is not just an hon. Friend, but an actual friend, and not just mine, because it seems that the hon. Member for Bury North (James Daly) and other Members have taken to him as well. I do not think that that is down to his good fashion sense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-13a.582.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-13", "file": "debates2020-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "57920a1350d3edbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-13a.582.0", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Education (Guidance about Costs of School Uniforms) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "preceding_text": "e new hon. Member for Blackpool South (Scott Benton) , who continues the legacy of the previous Member for his constituency with his passion for education and his personal experience, from which I am sure the House will benefit. I also acknowledge the expertise of the hon. Member for Wantage (David Johnston) shown in his contribution. The hon. Member for Witney (Robert Courts) made a pithy speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-13a.582.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-13", "file": "debates2020-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "57920a1350d3edbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-13a.582.0", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Education (Guidance about Costs of School Uniforms) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "preceding_text": "sent home and denied their education, but this Bill will change that. The hon. Member for Northampton South (Andrew Lewer) and others made important points about pragmatic considerations, and it is right that we consider them, but it is also right that I share that I also have a love for “The Simpsons” and that I am about to hit a milestone which means that I am old enough to remember the Bartman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-13a.582.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-13", "file": "debates2020-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "57920a1350d3edbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-13a.583.0", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Education (Guidance about Costs of School Uniforms) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick Gibb", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Gibb", "preceding_text": "e Member for Aylesbury (Rob Butler) cited pupils from William Harding School and St Edward’s Catholic Junior School in his constituency, who said that school uniforms stop children being judged on what they wear. He also went to a school that did not have a school uniform at the time and where the result was close to a “catwalk competition” that he claimed he never won, which frankly surprises me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-13a.583.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-13", "file": "debates2020-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "57920a1350d3edbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-13a.590.2", "colnum": "590", "heading": "British Library Board (Power to Borrow) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "preceding_text": "atters. I am very lucky; I grew up in a house with a father and grandparents who love books, and went to a school that was well equipped. I grew up in a village in Berkshire that had a brilliant library, staffed largely by volunteers. It was a wonderful environment in which to grow up. All the things that I am now interested in—history, economics, politics occasionally, Latin, Greek, the ancients—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-13a.590.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-13", "file": "debates2020-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "57920a1350d3edbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-13a.594.2", "colnum": "594", "heading": "British Library Board (Power to Borrow) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "preceding_text": "es or the English language; we are also a cultural leader. Showing that culture is so important to this country, and the British Library is a key part of that. Many Members might be thinking, “Why does the British Library really matter? Yes, the library is important, but it is not really core to my politics or the concerns of my constituents.” I will say two words for why it matters: levelling up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-13a.594.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-13", "file": "debates2020-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "57920a1350d3edbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-13a.596.1", "colnum": "596", "heading": "British Library Board (Power to Borrow) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "preceding_text": "ther in part or in full, the grant in aid would be reduced correspondingly, and the British Library would have to adjust to that reduction in revenue. Ultimately, it would have to make sure that the public purse—the taxpayer—did not lose out as a result of the Bill. It is very important that the House recognises that point. Some people, although I definitely do not agree with them, have mentioned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-13a.596.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-16", "file": "debates2020-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "0d45ac98224c689c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-16a.664.3", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Edward Argar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Argar", "preceding_text": "ay throw at us. But the issue he is raising is perhaps a little more short term than the length of time it will take us to build some of these hospitals. Let me turn to people—the 1.4 million-strong team who make up the most dedicated workforce in the world. What is the one thing most NHS staff would change if they could change one thing? What is the best present we could give our nation’s nurses?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-16a.664.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-16", "file": "debates2020-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "0d45ac98224c689c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-16a.695.0", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "preceding_text": "e that the best preparations are being made to keep them safe. For that reason I will not be able to attend the winding-up speeches later, Madam Deputy Speaker, for which I apologise. I need to be in regular contact with our public health directors and the local resilience forum to ensure that our public services have the support they need. Last week, we convened a taskforce of the Sheffield city—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-16a.695.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-17", "file": "debates2020-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "08ce78e806830da8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-17a.904.2", "colnum": "904", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "preceding_text": "ment remain committed to reintroducing this policy to ensure that people who are working like employees, but through their own limited company, pay broadly the same tax as those employed directly. Let me turn in the remaining time to a number of key measures within the Budget, which, for understandable reasons, have perhaps received less focus in the course of the debate in light of recent events.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-17a.904.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-17", "file": "debates2020-03-17c.xml", "sha256": "3732c0f99c56d240", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-17c.789.3", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Foreign and Commonwealth Office", "cue_speaker": "Wendy Morton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wendy Morton", "preceding_text": "And we absolutely are. We are working really hard; the hon. Gentleman just needs to wait a little longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-17c.789.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-17", "file": "debates2020-03-17c.xml", "sha256": "3732c0f99c56d240", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-17c.832.1", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "e House that a great many people wish to speak this afternoon. We have a lot of time for this important debate, and I am hoping to manage it without a formal time limit because that makes for better debates. We will manage it if everyone behaves with courtesy and speaks for between seven and eight minutes, which is quite a long time. At least, it is quite a long time for everyone who is listening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-17c.832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-17", "file": "debates2020-03-17c.xml", "sha256": "3732c0f99c56d240", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-17c.843.0", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "or some time, and which shows that the objective should be suppression of the virus, because the number of lives that would be lost by pursuing a mitigation or herd immunity strategy would be far too great. Again, it feels as if the Government still have to do more to shift to that new strategy in practice. For example, we are still only being advised to go to the pub—advised not to go to the pub.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-17c.843.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-17", "file": "debates2020-03-17c.xml", "sha256": "3732c0f99c56d240", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-17c.850.2", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Mark Logan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Logan", "preceding_text": "f debates on the Budget, especially as it regards levelling up. I congratulate the hon. Member for Liverpool, West Derby (Ian Byrne) on his maiden speech. Quite a few of us on the Government Benches stand up and, before opening our mouths, have great visions of sounding thoroughly Churchillian. But with as strong a Boltonian accent as mine, I will not be trying too hard to imitate Churchill today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-17c.850.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-17", "file": "debates2020-03-17c.xml", "sha256": "3732c0f99c56d240", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-17c.855.2", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Dines", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Dines", "preceding_text": "oad of prostitutes to address a relevant Select Committee. At the appointed time, he entered Central Lobby to meet his guests. He cast his eye over those present and went up to a promising group of women and asked, “Are you the prostitutes from Birmingham?” There followed, as he described, “an awful silence”. “No,” came back the response. They were, in fact, a west midlands Catholic women’s group.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-17c.855.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-17", "file": "debates2020-03-17c.xml", "sha256": "3732c0f99c56d240", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-17c.882.0", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Gullis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Gullis", "preceding_text": "hat we saw on display. He was excited and impressed, and I am sure, having had my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent South as his Parliamentary Private Secretary in his previous role, that he has heard about Stoke-on Trent more times than he cares to imagine. I know that the Treasury will be looking to ensure that this fine city, and obviously Kidsgrove and Talke, are delivered for as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-17c.882.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-17", "file": "debates2020-03-17c.xml", "sha256": "3732c0f99c56d240", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-17c.902.1", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "preceding_text": "satisfied president of the royal society for putting things on top of other things; we have a meaningless body of men gathered together for no good reason—that is the Cabinet. No wonder we have the lowest productivity levels of our G7 partners, and this is getting worse because the man in charge of getting things done is far too busy putting things off. Let me give the Chancellor a word of advice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-17c.902.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-17", "file": "debates2020-03-17c.xml", "sha256": "3732c0f99c56d240", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-17c.904.2", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "preceding_text": "ment remain committed to reintroducing this policy to ensure that people who are working like employees, but through their own limited company, pay broadly the same tax as those employed directly. Let me turn in the remaining time to a number of key measures within the Budget, which, for understandable reasons, have perhaps received less focus in the course of the debate in light of recent events.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-17c.904.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-17", "file": "debates2020-03-17c.xml", "sha256": "3732c0f99c56d240", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-17c.904.2", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "preceding_text": " particular, infrastructure links people to jobs, delivers products to markets and underpins supply chains and, indeed, supports domestic and international trade. Better roads, better rail and better internet connections enable businesses and individuals to work more quickly, cheaply and efficiently. While more quality infrastructure boosts social well-being, it means less time stuck on motorways—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-17c.904.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-17", "file": "debates2020-03-17c.xml", "sha256": "3732c0f99c56d240", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-17c.938.2", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Economic Update", "cue_speaker": "Alison Thewliss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alison Thewliss", "preceding_text": " be spared when it comes to that. Can he tell me precisely what the Barnett consequentials will be from today’s announcement? He says that the Scottish Government knew in advance. I do not make the point to be party political, but my understanding is that the Scottish Government were only notified by letter at 5.30 pm yesterday of the previous set of Barnett consequentials from last week’s Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-17c.938.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-17", "file": "debates2020-03-17c.xml", "sha256": "3732c0f99c56d240", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-17c.947.4", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Economic Update", "cue_speaker": "Alun Cairns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Cairns", "preceding_text": "I pay tribute to my right hon. Friend for the scale of the package that he has announced, and I recognise the significance of the Barnett consequentials that will come from it. Does he agree that simplicity and commonality are key features? It was only late yesterday that the Welsh Government matched the business rate package, which left—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-17c.947.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-17", "file": "debates2020-03-17c.xml", "sha256": "3732c0f99c56d240", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-17c.975.1", "colnum": "975", "heading": "St Patrick’s Day", "cue_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend and colleague has suggested something that perhaps the Minister of State could respond to in a positive fashion. I know that he will do so if he gets the opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-17c.975.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-18", "file": "debates2020-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "80bb1dff10864d89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-18a.1063.0", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Local Government Responsibilities: Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Ben Everitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Everitt", "preceding_text": "intercept. We are well past that now, so local government is used to reacting to changing financial circumstances and filling that gap with either locally raised revenue through taxation or locally raised revenue through commercial ventures. The hon. Member for Luton South (Rachel Hopkins) mentioned the powers used by local government in Luton relating to commercial activities around the airport —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-18a.1063.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-19", "file": "debates2020-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "13993efe1863dfba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-19a.1127.1", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Environment, Food and Rural Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "preceding_text": "Supermarket queues are undoubtedly adding to the spread of coronavirus, not least because of a lack of social distancing. Doing whatever it takes means that there needs to be a sense of urgency from Government Ministers that simply has not been on display thus far across Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-19a.1127.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-19", "file": "debates2020-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "13993efe1863dfba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-19a.1166.3", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Windrush Lessons Learned Review", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": "First, Wendy Williams describes in the review a set of measures that evolved under a number of Governments over many decades. Clearly, we all need to move on and look at—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-19a.1166.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-19", "file": "debates2020-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "13993efe1863dfba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-19a.1181.2", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his question and he is right to point out the role that the media plays in informing the public and holding the Government to account—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-19a.1181.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-19", "file": "debates2020-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "13993efe1863dfba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-19a.1185.5", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "s taking place, and the Opposition graciously allowed their Opposition day to be interrupted yesterday at an early time for a statement to be made, so I think our procedures are being adapted. As I look around the Chamber, I notice that social distancing is being pretty well practised, with broadly the only exception being my opposite number, the right hon. Member for Walsall South (Valerie Vaz) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-19a.1185.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-19", "file": "debates2020-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "13993efe1863dfba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-19a.1211.0", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Loan Charge 2019: Sir Amyas Morse Review", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Cadbury", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Cadbury", "preceding_text": "ange their mind on the loan charge, I hope. The new suggested cut-off date of 29 December 2010 is based on the law being clear, yet we know now that this was not the case. If the law was clear then why did we need the loan charge and another change in legislation in 2016? I would like very briefly to list some of the concerns that are in our report but that have not yet been raised in this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-19a.1211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-23", "file": "debates2020-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "168ba7f5197ac269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-23a.29.4", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "preceding_text": "But we can lead by example in this place—right here, right now. There are four people sitting within 6 feet of the Leader of the House; certainly within 2 metres.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-23a.29.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-23", "file": "debates2020-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "168ba7f5197ac269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-23a.53.2", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Coronavirus Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jon Ashworth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Pub!”", "preceding_speaker": "Jon Ashworth", "preceding_text": "e other 70,000 people in the stadium and that if we stop them going to the stadium to watch the match, they would all go to the pub to watch it and infect more people there. I am sure he has heard that example. I am very proud to represent Leicester City football club, and all the football fans—or a large proportion of them—go to the stadium before the match, and go to the stadium after the match—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-23a.53.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-23", "file": "debates2020-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "168ba7f5197ac269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-23a.53.2", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Coronavirus Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jon Ashworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jon Ashworth", "preceding_text": " pub to watch it and infect more people there. I am sure he has heard that example. I am very proud to represent Leicester City football club, and all the football fans—or a large proportion of them—go to the stadium before the match, and go to the stadium after the match—[Hon. Members: “Pub!”] I beg your pardon, they go to the pub. They go to the pub before the match, and they go after the match—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-23a.53.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-23", "file": "debates2020-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "168ba7f5197ac269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-23a.57.3", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Coronavirus Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jon Ashworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jon Ashworth", "preceding_text": "th hospitals cannot detain someone solely on the single recommendation of one of their employees. That could create a conflict of interest whereby a doctor comes under pressure to sign a detention authorisation because doing so will provide their employer with income from the NHS. No medical professional should be put under that kind of pressure, and our amendment would ensure that they cannot be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-23a.57.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-23", "file": "debates2020-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "168ba7f5197ac269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-23a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Coronavirus Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "ay and remain in the Lake District where we live. However you might be interested to learn that the owner of this holiday home, let through HomeAway, is refusing (at present) to cancel my booking, refund my payment of £957 or move my reservation to next year. He maintains that Skye is an ideal place to self-isolate…and as the home is available he is refusing to refund the total of my booking fee.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-23a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-23", "file": "debates2020-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "168ba7f5197ac269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-23a.121.0", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Coronavirus Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick Thomas-Symonds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Thomas-Symonds", "preceding_text": "traordinarily well under huge pressure, nor of Ministers or, indeed, of officials working under tremendous pressure, but in the past hour and a half, as the Opposition spokesperson, I have been presented with 60 pages covering 61 Government amendments, and there are also 27 Opposition amendments. It is clear that I will not be able to cover every single item in my remarks, but I will try to refer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-23a.121.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-23", "file": "debates2020-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "168ba7f5197ac269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-23a.141.3", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Coronavirus Bill", "cue_speaker": "Steven Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steven Baker", "preceding_text": "ale of the infringement of our liberties that has been implemented today through the Prime Minister’s announcement and this enormously complicated Bill, which we are enacting with only two hours to think about amendments. I could speak for the time I have available several times over just on the provisions relating to the retention of DNA, which we addressed in the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-23a.141.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-23", "file": "debates2020-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "168ba7f5197ac269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-23a.179.6", "colnum": "179", "heading": "A& E Departments: Staffing", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Applause.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "l the other parts of the A&E teams. Madam Deputy Speaker, I know you know that I do not like clapping in the Chamber, and I am sure you do not like it either, but I think there are very exceptional moments when this House would like to thank people who do a phenomenal job on behalf of all of us, so if you could close your ears for a moment, I am going to applaud the A&E staff up and down the land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-23a.179.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-24", "file": "debates2020-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "01684091fc0e7be5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-24b.207.2", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Self-employed Persons: Financial Support", "cue_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "preceding_text": "retail hospitality, leisure and nursery businesses in England, and grant funding for small enterprises, as well as support through Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs’ time to pay scheme. As of yesterday, businesses with cash-flow concerns are also able to access the coronavirus business interruption loan scheme, offering up to £5 million for SMEs through the British Business Bank. For larger firms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-24b.207.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-24", "file": "debates2020-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "01684091fc0e7be5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-24b.209.3", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Self-employed Persons: Financial Support", "cue_speaker": "John Martin McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Martin McDonnell", "preceding_text": "day, or whether they would be safe if they were. Let us use this opportunity to look at the exploitation by payroll companies and umbrella companies of people who in many instances are forcibly designated as self-employed. We do not want a row over this; we want to work with the Government. In fact, Anneliese and I are happy to come and work a shift in the Treasury, if that is what Ministers want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-24b.209.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-24", "file": "debates2020-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "01684091fc0e7be5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-24b.222.2", "colnum": "222", "heading": "British Citizens Abroad: FCO Help to Return Home", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "lly possible. We would first advise all travellers to take a look at the travel advice online, which is the best and most comprehensive source of information and is updated in real time. If people are in need of urgent assistance, they should call our embassies and high commissions. They will be automatically connected to our consular contact centres, the global centres based in Malaga and Ottawa—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-24b.222.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-24", "file": "debates2020-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "01684091fc0e7be5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-24b.225.0", "colnum": "225", "heading": "British Citizens Abroad: FCO Help to Return Home", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "standing, on the basis of advice from the Department for Transport, no further cruise ships are hitting the water, so we are dealing with the stock of existing ships. We have successfully returned 684 people, including 669 British nationals, from the Braemar cruise ship, which was in the Caribbean, struggling to find a port of entry. We did that via Cuba. That is a good example of reaching out to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-24b.225.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-24", "file": "debates2020-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "01684091fc0e7be5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-24b.288.2", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Contingencies Fund Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "preceding_text": "heard descriptions of pharmacists and food retailers hiking up prices. The banks are doing exactly the same thing with interest rates. That cannot be allowed to continue. I thought the right hon. Member for Kingston and Surbiton (Sir Edward Davey) was going to suggest nationalising the banks as a way forward. He was at one stage channelling his inner Marxist for the benefit of some in the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-24b.288.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-24", "file": "debates2020-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "01684091fc0e7be5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-24b.315.3", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Parliamentary Works Sponsor Body", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "e works—it was now proposed to demolish all of Richmond House, at a cost of many hundreds of millions of pounds. I have been working with SAVE, the architectural heritage body. We have come up with well-costed proposals, designed by architects, to create much more cheaply, if it was deemed necessary to have one, a temporary Chamber in the courtyard of Richmond House that was exactly the same size—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-24b.315.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-24", "file": "debates2020-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "01684091fc0e7be5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-24b.317.0", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Parliamentary Works Sponsor Body", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Grady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Grady", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Member for Gainsborough (Sir Edward Leigh) wants to sit in the House of Lords, I am sure that will have been heard by those on the Treasury Bench. We know that one day, that ambition of his will be fulfilled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-24b.317.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-25", "file": "debates2020-03-25b.xml", "sha256": "04511cc45d746677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-25b.334.0", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "pite of what he says. We are doing everything that we can to protect our fantastic NHS. As a society and country, we are doing a quite extraordinary thing: for the first time in our history, to get through this crisis, we, as a country, are putting our arms around every single worker and every single employee in this country. It is a quite unprecedented step and he will be hearing more about that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-25b.334.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-25", "file": "debates2020-03-25b.xml", "sha256": "04511cc45d746677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-25b.334.0", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "experience changed, and changed for the better. On that, he and I completely agree. We will get this country through this crisis with these exceptional steps, and I can tell him that we will do absolutely everything that it takes. We will do whatever it takes to get our country through this together. We will beat this virus together, but the most important advice that I can give him as he retires—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-25b.334.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-25", "file": "debates2020-03-25b.xml", "sha256": "04511cc45d746677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-25b.335.2", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "ifficulties with those who are not on PAYE schemes, as I think the whole House understands. We are bringing forward a package to ensure that everybody gets the support they need. That is the way to get this country through this. But, if I may say so, the better we tackle the epidemic now—the more vigorously we are able to suppress the disease now—the faster we will come through it, and that means—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-25b.335.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-25", "file": "debates2020-03-25b.xml", "sha256": "04511cc45d746677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-25b.341.3", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "We are not asking for the entire UK economy to be closed down. We obviously want people to be safe, but clearly things have to go on. My question was about the DWP resources, which the Prime Minister did not answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-25b.341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-25", "file": "debates2020-03-25b.xml", "sha256": "04511cc45d746677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-25b.341.3", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "We are not asking for the entire UK economy to be closed down. We obviously want people to be safe, but clearly things have to go on. My question was about the DWP resources, which the Prime Minister did not answer. [Interruption.] Well, it was not an answer that was satisfactory to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-25b.341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-25", "file": "debates2020-03-25b.xml", "sha256": "04511cc45d746677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-25b.347.0", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "Yes, not every country in the world necessarily welcomes a grey tailfin, as it were—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-25b.347.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-25", "file": "debates2020-03-25b.xml", "sha256": "04511cc45d746677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-25b.351.1", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "ribution over many years, and then lead his party with distinction, is one that should be remembered. Principles in politics are fundamental to how we do what we do, and how we achieve it. I pay a most sincere tribute to the right hon. Gentleman, and I note what he said to the Prime Minister earlier: this is not retirement; he is merely moving to a different part of the Front Bench in a few weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-25b.351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-25", "file": "debates2020-03-25b.xml", "sha256": "04511cc45d746677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-25b.414.3", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Financial and Social Emergency Support Package", "cue_speaker": "John Martin McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Martin McDonnell", "preceding_text": "ired NHS staff, who, despite all the risks, have returned to the profession. People and businesses were initially reassured by the Chancellor’s financial package, but we have to be honest with ourselves: in recent days, gaps have emerged. People are worried and alarm bells are ringing across our constituencies. We in this House are trying to behave responsibly—we are socially distancing ourselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-25b.414.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-25", "file": "debates2020-03-25b.xml", "sha256": "04511cc45d746677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-25b.431.6", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Financial and Social Emergency Support Package", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "I suspect the answer will be that the Prime Minister is not ready to tell the House. I suspect that—I could be wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-25b.431.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-03-25", "file": "debates2020-03-25b.xml", "sha256": "04511cc45d746677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-25b.436.3", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Applause.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Before the House adjourns, can I wish every Member and your families well and once again reiterate that the staff in this House have done a fantastic job?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-03-25b.436.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-04-21", "file": "debates2020-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "61bcfb30fa21440d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-04-21a.18.0", "colnum": "18", "heading": "C. Supplementary provisions", "cue_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "preceding_text": "oment is that we can attend the Delegated Legislation Committee and ask for permission to address that Committee, although we cannot ever be part of the voting process. I want to check, procedurally, how we can do that and whether we can continue to do that. I underline the point—I say this with all humbleness, Mr Speaker—that I am not technically minded. I learned how to text about two years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-04-21a.18.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-04-22", "file": "debates2020-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "fc445c9d6e42040b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-04-22a.35.1", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Wales", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "preceding_text": "I echo what my hon. Friend the Member for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney (Gerald Jones) said about those working in the health service and those who have suffered from the virus. We know that when Ministers from Wales and the other devolved nations of the UK—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-04-22a.35.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-04-22", "file": "debates2020-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "fc445c9d6e42040b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-04-22a.86.0", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Conduct of remote divisions", "cue_speaker": "Chris Elmore", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Elmore", "preceding_text": "icial Opposition, after representations from the Chair and through the Speaker, that these changes are temporary and that we will be able to review them as part of the changes to voting. In many ways, with the greatest of respect to the hon. Gentleman, we have that commitment. Of course I agree with him that we are all created equal, but of course, Whips are slightly more equal—speaking as a Whip.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-04-22a.86.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-05-06", "file": "debates2020-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "77b7195a9097f26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-06a.579.0", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "mentarians. As regards the statement on Sunday, I think the Prime Minister’s answer at Prime Minister’s questions was the right one. Although the week starts on a Sunday, the business week starts on a Monday, therefore the announcement is being made in preparation for the business week on a Monday. It is therefore the right time to do it, but I can confirm that there will be a statement on Monday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-06a.579.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-05-11", "file": "debates2020-05-11b.xml", "sha256": "fd03b13dd6867b63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-11b.24.1", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Covid-19: Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "le you do not normally meet. The reason is that face-coverings can help us to protect each other and reduce the spread of the disease, particularly if you have coronavirus-like symptoms. But I must stress that this does not mean wearing medical face masks—2R or FFP3—which must be reserved for people who need them. We have all lived, so far, with onerous restrictions on outdoor spaces and exercise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-11b.24.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-05-11", "file": "debates2020-05-11b.xml", "sha256": "fd03b13dd6867b63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-11b.24.1", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Covid-19: Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "include allowing cultural and sporting events behind closed doors for broadcast, which I think would provide a much-needed boost to national morale. Nothing can substitute for human contact, so the Government have asked the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies when and how we can safely allow people to expand their household group to include one other household on a strictly reciprocal basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-11b.24.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-05-11", "file": "debates2020-05-11b.xml", "sha256": "fd03b13dd6867b63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-11b.73.1", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Covid-19", "cue_speaker": "Heather Wheeler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Heather Wheeler", "preceding_text": "icine and are not lonely; our wonderful individuals, such as Stephen Greaves and Andrew Astle; the teachers at Granville and Pingle Schools, who, as volunteers, have been making face visors with 3-D printers; and the Wood children of Melbourne, who made up and sold quizzes—all of whom have been raising funds for the local medical charities. But against the good news of that great community spirit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-11b.73.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-05-12", "file": "debates2020-05-12d.xml", "sha256": "3212fd22904cad79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-12d.111.1", "colnum": "111", "heading": "International Trade", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State really needs to think about the other Members who need to get in, so if she could shorten her answers, it would be helpful to all the Members who are waiting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-12d.111.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-05-12", "file": "debates2020-05-12d.xml", "sha256": "3212fd22904cad79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-12d.213.4", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Hybrid Proceedings (Extension of Temporary Orders)", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "No, I am not allowed to give way under the current arrangements. Debates are inevitably stilted and time is restricted by the understandable limits of the technology—although the people operating the technology have done a truly fantastic job in getting us to where we are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-12d.213.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-05-13", "file": "debates2020-05-13b.xml", "sha256": "441bebea8f64fc8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-13b.326.0", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Agriculture Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "We now go to Angus and Dave Doogan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-13b.326.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-05-13", "file": "debates2020-05-13b.xml", "sha256": "441bebea8f64fc8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-13b.326.0", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Agriculture Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "We now go to Angus and Dave Doogan—[Interruption.] I beg your pardon. I am grateful to Members in the Chamber for correcting my mistake. We go to North Devon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-13b.326.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-05-20", "file": "debates2020-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "e44c7eada12bfc5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-20a.566.1", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "ould start in care homes. This is the answer he gave yesterday: “I think the short answer is that we’ve had the announcement, but what we haven’t had is delivery, and we are not really clear when that will arrive.” This is the chief executive of Care England in his evidence. Even the Government’s Command Paper, published last week and introduced by the Prime Minister to this House, says within it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-20a.566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-05-20", "file": "debates2020-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "e44c7eada12bfc5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-20a.566.2", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "I am afraid the right hon. and learned Gentleman is simply in ignorance of the facts. The reality is that already 125,000 care home staff have been tested, 118,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-20a.566.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-05-20", "file": "debates2020-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "e44c7eada12bfc5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-20a.567.0", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "Again, the question was when would routine testing start, and the chief executive of Care England, who knows what he is talking about, gave evidence yesterday that it has not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-20a.567.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-05-20", "file": "debates2020-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "e44c7eada12bfc5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-20a.567.0", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "Again, the question was when would routine testing start, and the chief executive of Care England, who knows what he is talking about, gave evidence yesterday that it has not. [Interruption.] If the Prime Minister is disputing the evidence to the Select Committee, that is his own business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-20a.567.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-05-20", "file": "debates2020-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "e44c7eada12bfc5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-20a.567.1", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. Secretary of State for Health, please. I do not mind you advising the Prime Minister, but you do not need to advise the Opposition during this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-20a.567.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-05-20", "file": "debates2020-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "e44c7eada12bfc5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-20a.585.1", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "iend the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has written to the BBC asking for an explanation of that “Panorama” programme, which seemed to have Communists in the background giving advice on how the programme was structured. I did not realise there were any Communists left in this country, but the BBC managed to dredge them up. He is absolutely right to ask for a for a debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-20a.585.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-05-20", "file": "debates2020-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "e44c7eada12bfc5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-20a.588.0", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman’s background is anything to go by, the sun is very bright in Gateshead—almost blindingly so. On the last point, the motion for Select Committees runs until 30 June and is then renewable at your discretion, Mr Speaker; that is therefore a matter for you, and it would be wrong of me to trespass on your prerogatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-20a.588.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-05-20", "file": "debates2020-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "e44c7eada12bfc5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-20a.635.0", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Trade Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "Order. I thank the hon. Gentleman for his speech, but we have to move on now to Paul Girvan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-20a.635.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-05-20", "file": "debates2020-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "e44c7eada12bfc5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-20a.671.1", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Liaison (Membership)", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "k that my hon. Friend should be in the Cabinet, and that the reason he has not been in this or any other Cabinet is that he has stood up for Parliament. We can go back to him being a Maastricht rebel, House of Lords reform or him trying to do something with the civil service, and, of course, he was one of the very first MPs to support Vote Leave. I absolutely think he is the right man for the job—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-20a.671.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-05-20", "file": "debates2020-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "e44c7eada12bfc5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-20a.671.1", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Liaison (Membership)", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "hat the reason he has not been in this or any other Cabinet is that he has stood up for Parliament. We can go back to him being a Maastricht rebel, House of Lords reform or him trying to do something with the civil service, and, of course, he was one of the very first MPs to support Vote Leave. I absolutely think he is the right man for the job—[Interruption.] They scoff on the Opposition Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-20a.671.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-05-20", "file": "debates2020-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "e44c7eada12bfc5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-20a.671.1", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Liaison (Membership)", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "all the problems of a Leader of the House; he sits in the Government and has to support the Government line, even when it is nonsense—that is obviously very rare, Chief Whip, but on occasion. My hon. Friend the Member for Harwich and North Essex, as Chair of the Liaison Committee, will be able to put Parliament first. As he develops the role, I hope that he will start to support the Back Benchers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-20a.671.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-05-20", "file": "debates2020-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "e44c7eada12bfc5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-20a.673.1", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Liaison (Membership)", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "ightforward. We are widening democracy, widening scrutiny and allowing the whole House to come to a decision on who should chair the Liaison Committee. We are taking away that decision, admittedly, from a smaller group to give it to a larger group, which is the proper thing to be doing. Nobody, not one person who has spoken today, has suggested that my hon. Friend is anything other than impartial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-20a.673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-05-20", "file": "debates2020-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "e44c7eada12bfc5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-20a.673.1", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Liaison (Membership)", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "oken today, has suggested that my hon. Friend is anything other than impartial—[Interruption.] I hear various chunterings from the Opposition Benches. The principle of the House deciding is the most ancient principle of the House of Commons. That is the right way for us to do it. We decide by our vote. That is the art of democracy and this is the right procedure to be using to ensure that happens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-05-20a.673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-02", "file": "debates2020-06-02d.xml", "sha256": "cc6fcee7a48299ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-02d.694.2", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Speaker’s Statement", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “When?”", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "We have called for a fully independent investigation in relation to police treatment of the protesters. We will introduce our mechanism for so-called Magnitsky legislation shortly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-02d.694.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-02", "file": "debates2020-06-02d.xml", "sha256": "cc6fcee7a48299ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-02d.701.1", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Speaker’s Statement", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "I will do my level best to get this before the House before the summer recess. I hope that the hon. Gentleman, who is most understanding, will recognise that one or two other things have displaced our focus—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-02d.701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-02", "file": "debates2020-06-02d.xml", "sha256": "cc6fcee7a48299ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-02d.711.0", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Covid-19 Response", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "preceding_text": "Yes, I will. The manufacturing of pottery and chinaware in Stoke-on-Trent has long been one of the finest things in this country. My hon. Friend is an inesteemable representative, along with her two colleagues, for Stoke-on-Trent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-02d.711.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-02", "file": "debates2020-06-02d.xml", "sha256": "cc6fcee7a48299ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-02d.720.4", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Covid-19 Response", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "preceding_text": "If it’s sunny in Manchester, it really must be hot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-02d.720.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-02", "file": "debates2020-06-02d.xml", "sha256": "cc6fcee7a48299ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-02d.728.5", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Proceedings during the Pandemic", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Oh!”", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "The temporary measures that are to be used will mean that voting takes a little bit longer than using the ordinary Division Lobbies. That is true, but it will depend to some extent on how many Divisions right hon. and hon. Members demand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-02d.728.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-02", "file": "debates2020-06-02d.xml", "sha256": "cc6fcee7a48299ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-02d.731.0", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Proceedings during the Pandemic", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stringer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stringer", "preceding_text": "I agree with the Leader of the House about the nature of debate and response and making a decision at the end of that debate, but what argues against that is the practice of pairing, where the decision is taken before the debate. Many hon. Members want their constituents to know where they stand on issues. Why do we not put the pairing records on the record?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-02d.731.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-02", "file": "debates2020-06-02d.xml", "sha256": "cc6fcee7a48299ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-02d.734.3", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Proceedings during the Pandemic", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "ee the hon. Gentleman in his place, and I absolutely appreciate that it is harder for some Members to get here than for others. I am very glad to see the Westminster leader of the SNP in his place, because his constituency is particularly far away from Westminster. I think he had a 16-hour journey to get here, and I think it shows a proper commitment to our parliamentary democracy that he is here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-02d.734.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-02", "file": "debates2020-06-02d.xml", "sha256": "cc6fcee7a48299ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-02d.735.4", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Proceedings during the Pandemic", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "The problem is that we are not doing our full job. We are doing an important part of our job in dealing with constituents’ inquiries, but we are not doing the important job of legislating—of getting through the business that the Government committed to deliver in the general election. The right hon. Member for Walsall South (Valerie Vaz) says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-02d.735.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-02", "file": "debates2020-06-02d.xml", "sha256": "cc6fcee7a48299ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-02d.737.5", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Proceedings during the Pandemic", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "Indeed I have—I took my sister Annunziata there many years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-02d.737.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-02", "file": "debates2020-06-02d.xml", "sha256": "cc6fcee7a48299ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-02d.744.1", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Proceedings during the Pandemic", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "e than a kilometre would be needed through the building. Can Members imagine how the public must look upon this? We will be queuing right out of this place and we will be taking a considerable period of time. The Leader of the House raised the issue of how many times we might be voting, but there are times when we have multiple votes. We will be losing hours a day if we are to determine our right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-02d.744.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-02", "file": "debates2020-06-02d.xml", "sha256": "cc6fcee7a48299ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-02d.744.5", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Proceedings during the Pandemic", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "Well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-02d.744.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-02", "file": "debates2020-06-02d.xml", "sha256": "cc6fcee7a48299ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-02d.745.1", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Proceedings during the Pandemic", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "ll. General secretary Mark Serwotka said that it was “strange why the government is in a rush to change course when a second covid spike is such a strong possibility”. The Electoral Reform Society branded moves for MPs to vote in Parliament “beyond a farce”. The Leader of the House argued that democracy would once again flourish, having been curtailed under the hybrid system. That is simply wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-02d.745.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-02", "file": "debates2020-06-02d.xml", "sha256": "cc6fcee7a48299ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-02d.745.2", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Proceedings during the Pandemic", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "parent, as the hon. Member for Blackley and Broughton (Graham Stringer) suggested earlier, but let us not demean ourselves by saying that pairing is a second-best arrangement. Pairing is a fair way of ensuring that people who are ill and unable to attend the House can have their votes counted. Under a pairing system, one person’s vote on one side is cancelled out by someone else on the other side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-02d.745.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-02", "file": "debates2020-06-02d.xml", "sha256": "cc6fcee7a48299ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-02d.746.0", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Proceedings during the Pandemic", "cue_speaker": "Chris Elmore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Elmore", "preceding_text": "ucing a system that is no longer equal, and that is deeply unfair. I want to use my remaining minute and a half to bust some of the myths mentioned by my right hon. Friend the Member for Staffordshire Moorlands (Karen Bradley) . I pay tribute to her as the Chair of the Select Committee, of which I am proudly the minority ranking member—I think that is how some people think of it—as the vice-Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-02d.746.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-02", "file": "debates2020-06-02d.xml", "sha256": "cc6fcee7a48299ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-02d.808.0", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "who said that he was going to support the Bill by voting for the reasoned amendment, that that is not how reasoned amendments work. Reasoned amendments are only orderly and selectable if they are fatal to the passage of the Bill, so anybody who votes for the amendment is voting against the whole Bill and cannot cover the nakedness of what they are doing by saying that they are supporting the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-02d.808.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-02", "file": "debates2020-06-02d.xml", "sha256": "cc6fcee7a48299ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-02d.815.0", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies Bill (Money)", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "t—vote both ways. As far as the motion tomorrow is concerned, I have not seen that motion yet, but you have raised several points as to why people would want to at least make known their anger, one way or another, as to what may or may not happen in that motion. I hope that Members will get an opportunity to at least express their views, however that motion is brought forward. I hope that is okay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-02d.815.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-03", "file": "debates2020-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "be8d680a62e71a92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-03a.837.1", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": " a test, track and trace operation that will be world-beating, and yes, it will be in place by 1 June .”—[Official Report, 20 May 2020; Vol. 676, c. 568.] But it is not, and a critical element—the ability of local authorities to respond to local spikes—is missing. As one council leader put it to us, “We are weeks away from having this fully up and running. We simply were not given enough warning.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-03a.837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-03", "file": "debates2020-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "be8d680a62e71a92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-03a.840.2", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "ster did not answer the question of what representations he has made to his friend Donald Trump. It is imperative that the UK is vocal on human rights, freedom to gather and protest, freedom of speech and upholding press freedom in other parts of the world. It would be nothing short of hypocrisy if we were to turn a blind eye to events unfolding in the US. However, actions speak louder than words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-03a.840.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-03", "file": "debates2020-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "be8d680a62e71a92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-03a.868.0", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Covid-19: UK Border Health Measures", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": "January and continued throughout February and into March as well. During the contain phase, the Government had at the borders an enhanced monitoring policy and an approach to identify symptomatic travellers from high-risk areas in the early stages and, importantly, safely triage them through the system. That was applied to those returning from Wuhan on 22 January , and that approach was broadened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-03a.868.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-03", "file": "debates2020-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "be8d680a62e71a92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-03a.868.0", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Covid-19: UK Border Health Measures", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": "he borders an enhanced monitoring policy and an approach to identify symptomatic travellers from high-risk areas in the early stages and, importantly, safely triage them through the system. That was applied to those returning from Wuhan on 22 January , and that approach was broadened—[Interruption.] If the hon. Gentleman would let me finish, please, and listen to the facts I am providing him with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-03a.868.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-03", "file": "debates2020-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "be8d680a62e71a92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-03a.877.5", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Covid-19: UK Border Health Measures", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": "First of all, I find the right hon. Gentleman’s tone somewhat objectionable. I have been incredibly supportive of the aviation industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-03a.877.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-03", "file": "debates2020-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "be8d680a62e71a92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-03a.881.5", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Covid-19: UK Border Health Measures", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": "osition in the statement earlier on. It is important to say that when it comes to measures at the borders, I have outlined the dates on which enhanced measures were taken, but also, I have not referred to the millions of British nationals who were stranded abroad, and had we closed our borders in the way in which the hon. Lady is referring to, they would not have been able to come back to the UK —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-03a.881.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-03", "file": "debates2020-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "be8d680a62e71a92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-03a.901.1", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "preceding_text": "I agree with the hon. Gentleman’s intervention. I once used the word predatory in relation to companies and it was rather controversial, but I think the consensus may have changed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-03a.901.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-03", "file": "debates2020-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "be8d680a62e71a92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-03a.903.1", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "preceding_text": " raise with the Secretary of State the issue of the “month 13 problem” of insolvency. This is a bit further off, but it is still an issue. Even if the Government fix their loan schemes and provide the sectoral support required, the more debt there is weighing down companies, the greater the danger of insolvency down the line—this debt overhang is also bad for our economy when it comes to recovery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-03a.903.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-03", "file": "debates2020-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "be8d680a62e71a92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-03a.904.1", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "preceding_text": "I agree with the hon. Gentleman. We need innovative thinking in this area. We are going to have to do things—I think that the Chancellor has said this—that we would not have done in normal times, but we cannot send businesses back out into an economy that is recovering, with this massive debt overhang.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-03a.904.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-03", "file": "debates2020-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "be8d680a62e71a92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-03a.908.2", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Hammond", "preceding_text": "the conservators who run the common. The trouble is that it does not apply to them. May I therefore make a particular plea to the Minister to say in his winding-up speech either that the Bill will include all charities rather than just those set up under CIOs, or that all bodies set up by an Act of Parliament are included, such as the Wimbledon and Putney conservators—Wimbledon and Putney Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-03a.908.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-03", "file": "debates2020-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "be8d680a62e71a92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-03a.910.1", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Drew Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Drew Hendry", "preceding_text": "d messages from people representing constituencies and parties around the House—they have all had the same messages. This matter—the principle of different rules applying—has not gone away or failed to register. We might take the comment of the hon. Member for Wimbledon and say that the protection of one at the expense of all others applies here. Observance of the rules is critical to the success—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-03a.910.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-03", "file": "debates2020-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "be8d680a62e71a92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-03a.936.1", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Fuller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Fuller", "preceding_text": "e for the Government to consider. I also mentioned in an intervention the powers of the small business commissioner. The Secretary of State was right to say, “Hold on a minute; that’s something that we will come back to,” particularly as we are going through this in one day. It is probably not something that we would want to put through so fast. Similarly the calls by the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-03a.936.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-04", "file": "debates2020-06-04b.xml", "sha256": "19e5433d5501d8d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-04b.1042.0", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "blocked it. Let us hope we have a bit more success later today, but we are obviously willing to discuss who should be in those categories to try to facilitate people who are unable to come. The Government’s position is that those who need to go back to work should go back to work, and it is obvious that people in Parliament need to come back to work for the business of this House to work properly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-04b.1042.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-04", "file": "debates2020-06-04b.xml", "sha256": "19e5433d5501d8d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-04b.1042.0", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "work should go back to work, and it is obvious that people in Parliament need to come back to work for the business of this House to work properly. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Chesterfield (Mr Perkins) chunters away inaudibly. I am sure if he tries to catch Mr Deputy Speaker’s eye, he may get a question in, which is the proper way of running this process. People can send in an application—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-04b.1042.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-04", "file": "debates2020-06-04c.xml", "sha256": "db7c31c9941c7bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-04c.983.7", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Digital, Culture, Media and Sport", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Dowden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Dowden", "preceding_text": "I can reassure my right hon. and learned Friend that almost as we speak, and on pretty much a daily basis, I am taking the decisions necessary to ensure we bring forward the response to the White Paper and then the Bill itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-04c.983.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-04", "file": "debates2020-06-04c.xml", "sha256": "db7c31c9941c7bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-04c.1008.0", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Public Health England Review: Covid-19 Disparities", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "I must push back on some of what the hon. Lady said. It is wrong to conflate all black people with recent immigrants and assume, which is what she just said, that we all have to pay a surcharge. That is wrong. I am a black woman who is out to work. My employer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-04c.1008.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-04", "file": "debates2020-06-04c.xml", "sha256": "db7c31c9941c7bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-04c.1008.0", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Public Health England Review: Covid-19 Disparities", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "s what she just said, that we all have to pay a surcharge. That is wrong. I am a black woman who is out to work. My employer—[Interruption.] This House has done everything it can to make sure that I am following the guidelines and that all of us are. It is absolutely wrong to try to conflate lots of different issues and merge them into one, just so that it can get traction in the press. I go back—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-04c.1008.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-04", "file": "debates2020-06-04c.xml", "sha256": "db7c31c9941c7bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-04c.1027.0", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Abortion Regulations: Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Carla Lockhart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Carla Lockhart", "preceding_text": "ortion laws in the whole of Europe. Will the Minister recognise the severe offence that the regulations cause to people with disabilities and also that the clear will of the devolved institutions is that the regulations are not wanted in Northern Ireland? What is the Minister’s message today to Heidi Crowter, who says that she feels she should not exist in this society if the regulations go ahead?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-04c.1027.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-04", "file": "debates2020-06-04c.xml", "sha256": "db7c31c9941c7bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-04c.1028.0", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Abortion Regulations: Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "preceding_text": "cult issue for many and that there are strongly held views on all sides of this debate, but one reason the House stood up for the human rights of all women in the United Kingdom was that just because it was difficult did not mean their rights should be denied, and devolution does not absolve us of our responsibility to uphold the human rights of every UK citizen. I respect the Minister’s argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-04c.1028.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-04", "file": "debates2020-06-04c.xml", "sha256": "db7c31c9941c7bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-04c.1042.0", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "blocked it. Let us hope we have a bit more success later today, but we are obviously willing to discuss who should be in those categories to try to facilitate people who are unable to come. The Government’s position is that those who need to go back to work should go back to work, and it is obvious that people in Parliament need to come back to work for the business of this House to work properly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-04c.1042.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-04", "file": "debates2020-06-04c.xml", "sha256": "db7c31c9941c7bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-04c.1042.0", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "work should go back to work, and it is obvious that people in Parliament need to come back to work for the business of this House to work properly. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Chesterfield (Mr Perkins) chunters away inaudibly. I am sure if he tries to catch Mr Deputy Speaker’s eye, he may get a question in, which is the proper way of running this process. People can send in an application—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-04c.1042.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-04", "file": "debates2020-06-04c.xml", "sha256": "db7c31c9941c7bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-04c.1044.0", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "ho, for medical reasons, cannot come and to allow for proxy voting? I would point out that I indicated to the House on 20 May that we would be making facilities available for those who could not come to the House to appear remotely, and I mentioned on Tuesday that I was not ruling out proxy voting, so the Government has always been willing to listen to what hon. and right hon. Members have to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-04c.1044.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-08", "file": "debates2020-06-08c.xml", "sha256": "0047136533b5d04b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-08c.47.0", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Public Order", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": "I would make a number of points to the hon. Lady. I have been very clear in my remarks about the level of injustice that is felt across the country, and that has been illustrated in what we have seen over the weekend and the very peaceful protests that have taken place, but I am really saddened that she has effectively said that this Government do not understand racial inequality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-08c.47.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-08", "file": "debates2020-06-08c.xml", "sha256": "0047136533b5d04b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-08c.51.3", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Public Order", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "Order. We do not need examples. The question has been asked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-08c.51.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-08", "file": "debates2020-06-08c.xml", "sha256": "0047136533b5d04b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-08c.66.3", "colnum": "66", "heading": "House Business during the Pandemic", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "If we are batting back and forth Disraelian quotations, he also said: “A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity”, but I would hate to apply that to the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-08c.66.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-08", "file": "debates2020-06-08c.xml", "sha256": "0047136533b5d04b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-08c.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "House Business during the Pandemic", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": " are talking about how the House of Commons is operating under the covid-19 requirements. That is the topic of the debate. What we are looking at is the essential work that can only be done by meeting physically. If we look at the progress we were able to make just last week on our legislative programme, and at what a contrast that was with the limited steps possible under the hybrid proceedings —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-08c.67.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-08", "file": "debates2020-06-08c.xml", "sha256": "0047136533b5d04b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-08c.67.3", "colnum": "67", "heading": "House Business during the Pandemic", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "That is very gracious, but customarily, if Members sit on the Benches chuntering, they might give the impression that they wish to contribute more formally, so that our friends in Hansard may hear their wise words. May I suggest that the hon. Gentleman think through his intervention, and I shall be delighted, nay, honoured to hear from him later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-08c.67.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-08", "file": "debates2020-06-08c.xml", "sha256": "0047136533b5d04b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-08c.71.2", "colnum": "71", "heading": "House Business during the Pandemic", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "hould like to be very clear on people who are shielding. They will be able to appear remotely in interrogative proceedings, and they will have proxy votes if they want them, or if they prefer, they will be able to pair; it will be a choice for them to make. This is really important, and for the hon. Lady to suggest I am trying to do anything else indicates the level of confusion about this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-08c.71.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-08", "file": "debates2020-06-08c.xml", "sha256": "0047136533b5d04b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-08c.135.0", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Electoral Reform", "cue_speaker": "Chloe Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chloe Smith", "preceding_text": "le—but it is linked to tonight’s subject matter. It is important, because every voter needs to know that their vote carries equal weight, no matter where it is cast in the UK. I start at this point, because it came up in the debate last week on Second Reading. There is simply a difference of view here. She would say that, for example, an STV system or a PR system would be better than a fixed-term—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-08c.135.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-09", "file": "debates2020-06-09c.xml", "sha256": "0f7b8b5f6a6fb6e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-09c.148.0", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Justice", "cue_speaker": "Alex Chalk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Chalk", "preceding_text": "This Government are absolutely determined to stand up for victims. We will be having a revised victims code and a revised victims law. That is built on a proud record of standing up for victims.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-09c.148.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-09", "file": "debates2020-06-09c.xml", "sha256": "0f7b8b5f6a6fb6e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-09c.153.5", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Justice", "cue_speaker": "Robert Buckland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Buckland", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is making totally unfair comments from a sedentary position. We have started, particularly with regard to immigration, to increase the amount of money that is rightfully being paid. We are looking at trying to make sure that the money is targeted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-09c.153.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-09", "file": "debates2020-06-09c.xml", "sha256": "0f7b8b5f6a6fb6e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-09c.153.5", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Justice", "cue_speaker": "Robert Buckland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Buckland", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is making totally unfair comments from a sedentary position. We have started, particularly with regard to immigration, to increase the amount of money that is rightfully being paid. We are looking at trying to make sure that the money is targeted—[Interruption.] If the hon. Gentleman would listen, perhaps he might learn something.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-09c.153.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-09", "file": "debates2020-06-09c.xml", "sha256": "0f7b8b5f6a6fb6e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-09c.173.1", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Future Relationship with the EU", "cue_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "preceding_text": "I think that behind the political bluster there is good faith, because not only are we starting out from similar positions, as my hon. Friend points out, but a good deal is in our mutual interests. That is why I have always remained optimistic about the outcome of this process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-09c.173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-10", "file": "debates2020-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "7e6c59ed36f5ee94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-10c.276.5", "colnum": "276", "heading": "International Development", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Percy", "preceding_text": "Happy 50th birthday, Mr Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-10c.276.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-10", "file": "debates2020-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "7e6c59ed36f5ee94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-10c.280.6", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "ld wish to join me in sending our heartfelt sympathies and thoughts to the families and friends of the 72 people who lost their lives and to the survivors. Across Government, we remain committed to ensuring that such a tragedy can never happen again. Members from across the House will want to join me in offering our very best wishes to His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh on his 99th birthday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-10c.280.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-10", "file": "debates2020-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "7e6c59ed36f5ee94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-10c.282.2", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister, I know, understands the frustration of those most at risk when they see a report like that and they know action is needed. Action is needed now, not in a few weeks or months, so can I ask for the Prime Minister’s complete—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-10c.282.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-10", "file": "debates2020-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "7e6c59ed36f5ee94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-10c.283.2", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "As I told the House before, I have been in contact with the right hon. and learned Gentleman by a modern device called the telephone, on which we have tried to agree a way forward, which he then seemed to deviate from later on. Last week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-10c.283.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-10", "file": "debates2020-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "7e6c59ed36f5ee94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-10c.284.0", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "tion between him and me, one-to-one or in any other circumstance on the telephone; he knows it, so please drop that. Secondly—he mentions other countries—plenty of other comparable countries are getting their children back to school. Wales is an example; across Europe there are other examples. We are the outlier on this. And it is no good the Prime Minister flailing around, trying to blame others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-10c.284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-10", "file": "debates2020-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "7e6c59ed36f5ee94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-10c.285.0", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "m sure that is right, but we are aware of the particular difficulties faced by vulnerable families. That is why we are announcing a further £63 million of local welfare assistance to be used by local authorities at their discretion to help the most vulnerable families. This Government have put their arms around the people of this country throughout this crisis and done their absolute best to help—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-10c.285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-10", "file": "debates2020-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "7e6c59ed36f5ee94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-10c.312.3", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Horizon: Sub-Postmaster Convictions", "cue_speaker": "Paul Scully", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Scully", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend. One of the problems with this case is that it has happened over 20 years, which means that a lot of people have moved on or moved around, and it has been difficult to follow those who have gone through the system in all this time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-10c.312.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-10", "file": "debates2020-06-10c.xml", "sha256": "7e6c59ed36f5ee94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-10c.359.2", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Business of the House (Private Members’ Bills)", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "We are definitely not going to have that debate, because it is not part of this. That is for the Procedure Committee, and I might well support some of those changes. The hon. Member is actually wrong. In the last Parliament, some of the ballot Bills became law, but a number of presentation Bills also became law. I got an Act of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-10c.359.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-11", "file": "debates2020-06-11b.xml", "sha256": "1189e101789c3c0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-11b.392.1", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Cabinet Office", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "Well, I think it is fit for purpose—not just that but it is an effective way of ensuring that we can work together in order to contain the virus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-11b.392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-11", "file": "debates2020-06-11b.xml", "sha256": "1189e101789c3c0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-11b.405.2", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Planning Process: Probity", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. Unfortunately, we need to get the question right. The Urgent Question is certainly not about Manchester, and certainly not about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-11b.405.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-11", "file": "debates2020-06-11b.xml", "sha256": "1189e101789c3c0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-11b.414.0", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "p. The hon. Gentleman started by saying that he was not satisfied. I so look forward to the day when an SNP Member stands up and says he is satisfied about anything of any kind whatever. He conjured up this fascinating image of my being dragged kicking and screaming. I have to confess that since my earliest infant years I have not been one of the greatest kickers or screamers in any circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-11b.414.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-11", "file": "debates2020-06-11b.xml", "sha256": "1189e101789c3c0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-11b.419.0", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Bell Ribeiro-Addy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Bell Ribeiro-Addy", "preceding_text": "As other Members are talking about important anniversaries and dates, I would like to remind the House that today is the 33rd anniversary of black Members being elected to this House. I, for one, am proud to be part of the most diverse Parliament we have ever seen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-11b.419.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-11", "file": "debates2020-06-11b.xml", "sha256": "1189e101789c3c0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-11b.420.1", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Bob Stewart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Mr Speaker!”", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Stewart", "preceding_text": "Mr Deputy Speaker, I am the chair of the all-party group on Belize—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-11b.420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-11", "file": "debates2020-06-11b.xml", "sha256": "1189e101789c3c0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-11b.420.1", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Bob Stewart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Mr Speaker!”", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Stewart", "preceding_text": "Mr Deputy Speaker, I am the chair of the all-party group on Belize—[Hon. Members: “Mr Speaker!”] Goodness me! That’s it: I am finished—I’m dead. I am so apologetic. It is not your birthday as well, is it, Mr Deputy Speaker?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-11b.420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-11", "file": "debates2020-06-11b.xml", "sha256": "1189e101789c3c0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-11b.429.0", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Probation Services", "cue_speaker": "Robert Buckland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Buckland", "preceding_text": " the course was set last year, when the announcement was made by my predecessor and I, as the Minister of State, very much supported that decision. This is a necessary adjustment in the way in which we are going to deliver the new service. I am not going to dwell for too long on the rhetoric; I will deal with the substance of what the right hon. Gentleman asked, and he asked a number of questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-11b.429.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-15", "file": "debates2020-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "cce8882cdc6c5d3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-15a.609.8", "colnum": "609", "heading": "SCottISH AFFAIRS CoMMIttEE", "cue_speaker": "Owen Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Thompson", "preceding_text": "That is most certainly one way that my hon. Friend could put it. It will be a shock to her that I agree. I emphasise that this is absolutely nothing about the individual Member being nominated for the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-15a.609.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-16", "file": "debates2020-06-16d.xml", "sha256": "11bbaf8f06060561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-16d.649.1", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Economic Outlook and Furlough Scheme Changes", "cue_speaker": "Richard Graham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Graham", "preceding_text": "Getting skills is the key to employment opportunities for the young. Both the Prime Minister and the Chancellor have made encouraging noises about recognising the importance of apprenticeships. I propose that the Government shoulder the entire costs of the first year of all new apprenticeships awarded this autumn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-16d.649.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-16", "file": "debates2020-06-16d.xml", "sha256": "11bbaf8f06060561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-16d.675.6", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Global Britain", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is the captain of the ship of state as we navigate the perilous waters of Brexit, of covid and of civil unrest, and his priority is to rearrange the deckchairs of Whitehall. If this really is a merger, presumably—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-16d.675.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-16", "file": "debates2020-06-16d.xml", "sha256": "11bbaf8f06060561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-16d.676.0", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Global Britain", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman spoke of the post of Colonial Secretary; I do not know quite what planet he is on. We are going forward with a single new Whitehall Department for international affairs, which I believe will add greatly to this country’s global throw-weight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-16d.676.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-16", "file": "debates2020-06-16d.xml", "sha256": "11bbaf8f06060561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-16d.690.2", "colnum": "690", "heading": "UK-EU Negotiations", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “What?”", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "British businesses responded warmly to the announcement we made on Friday as a pragmatic and flexible approach. The only alternative to the approach we outlined would be to extend the transition period. I know that is the position of the Labour party in London and in Wales, but we do not know what the position of the Labour party in London and in Leeds is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-16d.690.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-16", "file": "debates2020-06-16d.xml", "sha256": "11bbaf8f06060561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-16d.724.0", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Free School Meals: Summer Holidays", "cue_speaker": "Naseem Shah", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Naseem Shah", "preceding_text": "On days like this, I despair of this Government and their complete lack of understanding, care and emotion towards the very real issues in our country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-16d.724.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-16", "file": "debates2020-06-16d.xml", "sha256": "11bbaf8f06060561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-16d.724.0", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Free School Meals: Summer Holidays", "cue_speaker": "Naseem Shah", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Naseem Shah", "preceding_text": "mendations. The Government should not need the entire country to scream in their face to act on a lockdown for us to be protected from covid-19. When it comes to saving millions, they are happy to do so for Tory donors. The figure quoted in the press as the saving made by approving a Tory donor’s Westferry development is £30 million to £40 million, yet we cannot find £120 million for our children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-16d.724.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-16", "file": "debates2020-06-16d.xml", "sha256": "11bbaf8f06060561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-16d.737.0", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Free School Meals: Summer Holidays", "cue_speaker": "Alison McGovern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alison McGovern", "preceding_text": "I rise on the fourth anniversary of the death of my friend Jo Cox. We remember her every day. I want to thank England’s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-16d.737.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-16", "file": "debates2020-06-16d.xml", "sha256": "11bbaf8f06060561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-16d.743.0", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Free School Meals: Summer Holidays", "cue_speaker": "Carolyn Harris", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Carolyn Harris", "preceding_text": ", following Wales’s lead—but I question why they did not make the obvious and compassionate decision in the first place, as that would have saved many families a lot of anxiety in recent weeks. Many families were concerned that during the school holidays they would be sending their children to bed with empty bellies. Welsh Labour led the way, and I am proud to be the deputy leader of Welsh Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-16d.743.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-16", "file": "debates2020-06-16d.xml", "sha256": "11bbaf8f06060561", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-16d.767.2", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Public Passenger Transport", "cue_speaker": "Matt Rodda", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matt Rodda", "preceding_text": "both Labour and Conservative-controlled local authorities. Council-owned companies in my own town of Reading and in Nottingham have experienced strong growth in bus use for many years—something that, outside London, is almost unique in England. Municipal buses offer low fares, frequent services and modern vehicles that are popular in those communities, and I invite the Minister to come to Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-16d.767.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-17", "file": "debates2020-06-17e.xml", "sha256": "f89bf28424f40b9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-17e.796.3", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "ad a direct quote from a Government report, from a Government commission, produced last week, which says that it has gone up by 600,000. The Social Mobility Commission has a clear answer to my question: “This anticipated rise is not driven by forces beyond our control”. I gave the Prime Minister the number: 600,000. He did not reply. The report goes on to say, and this is a real cause for concern—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-17e.796.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-17", "file": "debates2020-06-17e.xml", "sha256": "f89bf28424f40b9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-17e.796.3", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "e Social Mobility Commission has a clear answer to my question: “This anticipated rise is not driven by forces beyond our control”. I gave the Prime Minister the number: 600,000. He did not reply. The report goes on to say, and this is a real cause for concern—[Interruption.] The Prime Minister is chuntering. He might want to listen. This is a real cause for concern because the commission goes on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-17e.796.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-17", "file": "debates2020-06-17e.xml", "sha256": "f89bf28424f40b9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-17e.797.3", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "This is turning into Opposition questions. If the Prime Minister wants to swap places, I am very happy. I could do it now. The only bit of an answer he gave to the question I asked was about £3.2 billion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-17e.797.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-17", "file": "debates2020-06-17e.xml", "sha256": "f89bf28424f40b9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-17e.797.3", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "This is turning into Opposition questions. If the Prime Minister wants to swap places, I am very happy. I could do it now. The only bit of an answer he gave to the question I asked was about £3.2 billion—[Interruption.] It is a lot of money. The Conservative-led Local Government Association has said that councils will have a shortfall of £10 billion this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-17e.797.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-17", "file": "debates2020-06-17e.xml", "sha256": "f89bf28424f40b9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-17e.828.0", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (Accession)", "cue_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "preceding_text": " For example, we have set no timetable on a United States trade deal, so it is simply not true to say that we have a target of closing all of them in the next six months. We will do deals that are good for Britain, and we will be prepared to walk away if we do not get what the UK wants. For example, the national health service is not on the table and the price we pay for drugs is not on the table.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-17e.828.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-18", "file": "debates2020-06-18c.xml", "sha256": "fa7daf4155ce689a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-18c.941.2", "colnum": "941", "heading": "International Trade", "cue_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "preceding_text": "I am working very hard to get rid of the small ruminant rule in the United States, which prevents the export of our fantastic Welsh lamb to the market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-18c.941.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-18", "file": "debates2020-06-18c.xml", "sha256": "fa7daf4155ce689a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-18c.941.4", "colnum": "941", "heading": "International Trade", "cue_speaker": "Greg Hands", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Hands", "preceding_text": "taking a question from a particular firm, Thomas Dudley, in the area about the roll-over of the CARIFORUM agreement with the Commonwealth Caribbean countries and the Dominican Republic. It was very concerned to hear that the Labour party is opposed to the Trade Bill, which would see the roll-over of that EU agreement and make an operable UK agreement. They were shocked at the seeming disregard by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-18c.941.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-18", "file": "debates2020-06-18c.xml", "sha256": "fa7daf4155ce689a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-18c.960.3", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "preceding_text": "I thank the Leader of the House for giving us the business for next week. Let me start by sending my condolences to Dame Vera Lynn’s family and friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-18c.960.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-18", "file": "debates2020-06-18c.xml", "sha256": "fa7daf4155ce689a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-18c.962.0", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "at there is contentment on the Opposition Benches. In that spirit, may I add to the celebratory comments about the Opposition Chief Whip’s birthday and his service to Parliament, for which I think he has a genuine commitment and love? I think that has been good news for how this place has operated in some, although not necessarily in all, ways, because he is also a very effective party politician.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-18c.962.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-18", "file": "debates2020-06-18c.xml", "sha256": "fa7daf4155ce689a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-18c.962.0", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "It has to be said that some people can never be satisfied. The right hon. Lady called for a uniform for the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; I can tell her that as Lord President of the Council, I am entitled to a uniform but, as I understand it, the uniform has not been worn by any Lord President since the coronation of George V. I therefore do not intend to resurrect that ancient tradition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-18c.962.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-18", "file": "debates2020-06-18c.xml", "sha256": "fa7daf4155ce689a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-18c.993.1", "colnum": "993", "heading": "International Development", "cue_speaker": "James Duddridge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Duddridge", "preceding_text": "ised the issue of trust funds. We have very few trust funds at the African Development Bank, but we are supporting initiatives on sustainable energy, climate risk finance and women’s economic empowerment and very much welcome a discussion around how we can use trust funds more effectively through that fund. Having lived in Abidjan as a 20 year-old, I am keen to get back there and talk to him more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-18c.993.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-23", "file": "debates2020-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "8c7c70a72a2c5fec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-23b.1153.0", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Health and Social Care", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "preceding_text": "I have not got those data exactly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-23b.1153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-23", "file": "debates2020-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "8c7c70a72a2c5fec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-23b.1173.0", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Covid-19 Update", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Air bridges.”", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": " be in a much better position now to control them. I will of course publish the measures on social distancing and how the decision was reached on social distancing, and as I said we will place that in the Libraries of both Houses. Mr Speaker, the right hon. Gentleman had one more question, which I am afraid I cannot remember. What was it—about public health? I cannot remember. I will write to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-23b.1173.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-23", "file": "debates2020-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "8c7c70a72a2c5fec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-23b.1176.5", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Covid-19 Update", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "I will of course study the Bill to which the hon. Gentleman alludes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-23b.1176.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-23", "file": "debates2020-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "8c7c70a72a2c5fec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-23b.1178.5", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Covid-19 Update", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "Oh, I am grateful to my right hon. Friend. I am personally coping fine, thank you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-23b.1178.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-23", "file": "debates2020-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "8c7c70a72a2c5fec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-23b.1190.2", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Covid-19 Update", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "It is, of course, up to the Welsh Government to spend money properly, but the hon. Lady should be in no doubt that this Government continue to commit sums to help all the devolved Administrations. As I think our friends from the SNP will know, the UK Exchequer has already contributed £3.7 billion extra in Barnett consequentials for Scotland alone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-23b.1190.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-23", "file": "debates2020-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "8c7c70a72a2c5fec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-23b.1199.3", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "Windrush Compensation Scheme", "cue_speaker": "Brendan Clarke-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brendan Clarke-Smith", "preceding_text": "The UK has always welcomed those from other nations, and we can rightly be proud of our open and inclusive society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-23b.1199.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-23", "file": "debates2020-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "8c7c70a72a2c5fec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-23b.1218.1", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Desecration of War Memorials", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Member for that point of order, and for giving me forward notice of it. I have been a Member of Parliament for 28 and a bit years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-23b.1218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-23", "file": "debates2020-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "8c7c70a72a2c5fec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-23b.1234.0", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Medicines and Medical Devices Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "preceding_text": "ific question that I, some of my colleagues and others in Northern Ireland are wondering about? In relation to the protections provided through this Bill, can she advise on what impact the Northern Ireland protocol will have on the medicines transferring between mainland UK and Northern Ireland? We want to ensure a seamless, transparent, easy system, and it will be important that this is the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-23b.1234.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-23", "file": "debates2020-06-23b.xml", "sha256": "8c7c70a72a2c5fec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-23b.1236.0", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Medicines and Medical Devices Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "I call Tim Farron.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-23b.1236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-24", "file": "debates2020-06-24e.xml", "sha256": "3f6a35acfdb61c9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-24e.1304.3", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "Germany. It had its app working on 15 June and it has had 12 million downloads—I checked that overnight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-24e.1304.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-24", "file": "debates2020-06-24e.xml", "sha256": "3f6a35acfdb61c9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-24e.1324.1", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Westferry Printworks Development", "cue_speaker": "Steve Reed", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Reed", "preceding_text": "The issue in question is not that the Secretary of State called the planning decision in; it is what he did after he had called it in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-24e.1324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-24", "file": "debates2020-06-24e.xml", "sha256": "3f6a35acfdb61c9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-24e.1329.3", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Westferry Printworks Development", "cue_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "preceding_text": "this decision would never have been made by the Secretary of State if Tower Hamlets Council had met its statutory obligations and taken the decision. With respect to the councillor the hon. Gentleman mentions, who I do not know but with whom I have no issue, he was standing up for the concerns of his local residents. I return to the point that I made earlier that in my job it is essential to make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-24e.1329.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-24", "file": "debates2020-06-24e.xml", "sha256": "3f6a35acfdb61c9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-24e.1333.6", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Westferry Printworks Development", "cue_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "preceding_text": "lly outrageous. Who the applicant was is immaterial to my decision, as it always is, and always should be. I knew nothing of the donation that was made and would never have allowed it to influence my decision, even if I had known about it. However, I am not blind to the fact that things could and should have been done differently. On reflection, I should have handled the communication differently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-24e.1333.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-24", "file": "debates2020-06-24e.xml", "sha256": "3f6a35acfdb61c9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-24e.1342.1", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "Westferry Printworks Development", "cue_speaker": "Mark Eastwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Eastwood", "preceding_text": "ful and thankful for all they have done. I also pay tribute to my predecessor, Paula Sherriff, who worked hard for her constituents and campaigned tirelessly on issues, including women’s right. I understand that Paula is now facing her own heroic battle, and I send her my best wishes at this difficult time. On the topic of housing and planning, I have often been called a nimby, among other things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-24e.1342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-24", "file": "debates2020-06-24e.xml", "sha256": "3f6a35acfdb61c9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-24e.1343.0", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Westferry Printworks Development", "cue_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "preceding_text": "urther questions now. We are also led to believe that this is all about the Mayor of London and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, when the fact is that the only resignation we have seen on this matter so far has been that of the leader of the Conservative group in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, who says that the police should be called in to investigate the judgments applied in this case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-24e.1343.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-24", "file": "debates2020-06-24e.xml", "sha256": "3f6a35acfdb61c9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-24e.1349.2", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "Westferry Printworks Development", "cue_speaker": "Mary Foy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Foy", "preceding_text": "£12,000. I welcome the fact that we are having this debate, because, as they say and as we have heard, sunlight is the best disinfectant. Accountability should be at the heart of this place, but, sadly, it is often lacking. With that in mind, it was a shame that the Secretary of State refused to submit himself to parliamentary scrutiny the other week. Whether a Government have a majority of eight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-24e.1349.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-24", "file": "debates2020-06-24e.xml", "sha256": "3f6a35acfdb61c9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-24e.1363.1", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "Westferry Printworks Development", "cue_speaker": "Mike Amesbury", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Amesbury", "preceding_text": " built? He was asked four, five or six times, but when we check Hansard to see if there was an answer, we find there was no answer at all—he said there were no targets for social housing, none at all. Under Labour, an average of just under 28,000 social houses to rent were built per year; last year, under this Government, the number was 6,600, although I might be being a little bit generous there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-24e.1363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-24", "file": "debates2020-06-24e.xml", "sha256": "3f6a35acfdb61c9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-24e.1378.4", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Testing of NHS and Social Care Staff", "cue_speaker": "Helen Whately", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Whately", "preceding_text": ". The Opposition’s position is not entirely clear, given that the hon. Gentleman started out saying “Weekly testing when necessary”, but said in his speech that it was weekly testing, whatever. On the other hand, we have been clear and the hon. Gentleman can look at the letter from NHS England and NHS Improvement to NHS trusts for further information. I should move to the conclusion of my remarks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-24e.1378.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-24", "file": "debates2020-06-24e.xml", "sha256": "3f6a35acfdb61c9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-24e.1382.1", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "Testing of NHS and Social Care Staff", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": " for Gordon (Richard Thomson) . It is the first time I have heard him speak from the Front Bench and it was a very thoughtful contribution. I hope we hear more from him. I thank the shadow Health Secretary for having this debate and, indeed, for mentioning my article in The Daily Telegraph. If I ever was on the Prime Minister’s Christmas card list, that mention will be sure to get me taken off it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-24e.1382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-24", "file": "debates2020-06-24e.xml", "sha256": "3f6a35acfdb61c9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-24e.1425.5", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Protection of UK Food Standards", "cue_speaker": "John Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Lamont", "preceding_text": " reduced as a consequence of any trade deals. It is very interesting that the hon. Lady has not disputed my points or provided any evidence to support the case that one country’s trade deal with another country has imposed its production standards on that trading partner. Nor indeed has she been able to dispute the point that the World Trade Organisation rules ban such clauses in trade agreements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-24e.1425.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-24", "file": "debates2020-06-24e.xml", "sha256": "3f6a35acfdb61c9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-24e.1425.5", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Protection of UK Food Standards", "cue_speaker": "John Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Lamont", "preceding_text": "ute the point that the World Trade Organisation rules ban such clauses in trade agreements. [Interruption.] We should be under no illusions that those on the SNP Benches, and indeed elsewhere, who were arguing for the amendments to be imposed were, at best, naive about the consequences of their actions or, at worst, reckless with the future of not just our food exporters, but every other business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-24e.1425.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-24", "file": "debates2020-06-24e.xml", "sha256": "3f6a35acfdb61c9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-24e.1428.1", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Protection of UK Food Standards", "cue_speaker": "Victoria Prentis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Victoria Prentis", "preceding_text": "I fear that I need to make some progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-24e.1428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-25", "file": "debates2020-06-25b.xml", "sha256": "ab6e1d56e1bf7aba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-25b.1463.5", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "Universal Credit: Court of Appeal Judgment", "cue_speaker": "Will Quince", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Will Quince", "preceding_text": "I gently suggest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-25b.1463.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-25", "file": "debates2020-06-25b.xml", "sha256": "ab6e1d56e1bf7aba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-25b.1466.0", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "Universal Credit: Court of Appeal Judgment", "cue_speaker": "Will Quince", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Will Quince", "preceding_text": "The assessment period is fundamental to the design.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-25b.1466.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-25", "file": "debates2020-06-25b.xml", "sha256": "ab6e1d56e1bf7aba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-25b.1480.1", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "On Saturday, I was drawn to my local cricket club. I strode to the middle, stopped at the end of my run, the wicket looked superb, and, for a few moments, I imagined the crack of ball on willow, the ripple of applause from the boundary and the occasional shouts of “Howzat!” But I was imagining it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-25b.1480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-25", "file": "debates2020-06-25b.xml", "sha256": "ab6e1d56e1bf7aba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-25b.1480.2", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "I think very few right hon. and hon. Members miss cricket as much as I do. All my tickets to watch various test matches over the course of the year and my visits to Taunton have had to be cancelled and, worse still, there was a chance that Somerset might win the county championship for the first time in its history—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-25b.1480.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-25", "file": "debates2020-06-25b.xml", "sha256": "ab6e1d56e1bf7aba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-25b.1483.0", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman raises a point we are all aware of. The crisis did lead to some diagnostic treatments being rescheduled, in order to protect vulnerable patients. I am very glad that he successfully completed his course of treatment, which I think is welcomed across the House. Everyone wishes him well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-25b.1483.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-25", "file": "debates2020-06-25b.xml", "sha256": "ab6e1d56e1bf7aba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-25b.1484.2", "colnum": "1484", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Lady, who is clearly not excluded, because we have just heard from her very clearly and heard her thoughts in a very straightforward way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-25b.1484.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-25", "file": "debates2020-06-25b.xml", "sha256": "ab6e1d56e1bf7aba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-25b.1492.0", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Drew Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Drew Hendry", "preceding_text": "e least to release: the low paid; those with no contract; and, as I have said, younger people. I have to declare an interest here as a father who still has two teenagers in the house, and, of course, as a newly-surprised grandparent of my new grandson Cameron Hendry. I want to ensure that all young people have a future to look forward to that is not going to be hampered by decades of retrenchment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-25b.1492.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-25", "file": "debates2020-06-25b.xml", "sha256": "ab6e1d56e1bf7aba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-25b.1544.1", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "Covid-19: Support for UK Industries", "cue_speaker": "Navendu Mishra", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Navendu Mishra", "preceding_text": "I will, briefly, with the permission of the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-25b.1544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-29", "file": "debates2020-06-29c.xml", "sha256": "5628f9bc16ce3240", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-29c.60.3", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Business and Planning Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "preceding_text": "s are being made about it. The Bill rightly talks about what can be done in the construction sector. The way to help the construction sector is not just to tweak the operational hours, although that is important, but also to deliver on some of the promises the Government have made. Again, I think this view can be shared across the House; I do not often quote the Conservative manifesto approvingly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-29c.60.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-29", "file": "debates2020-06-29c.xml", "sha256": "5628f9bc16ce3240", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-29c.60.3", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Business and Planning Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "preceding_text": "al housing spending that has been promised. All these things are important, and they are also part of job creation. I think the idea that we need a green recovery is shared throughout the House, as least at the level of principle. Some people—assiduous readers—will have read over the weekend the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster’s rather long speech, which mentioned Franklin Roosevelt 17 times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-29c.60.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-29", "file": "debates2020-06-29c.xml", "sha256": "5628f9bc16ce3240", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-29c.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Business and Planning Bill", "cue_speaker": "Katherine Fletcher", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Katherine Fletcher", "preceding_text": "onderful people of South Ribble who, throughout this horrible once-in-a-century pandemic, have kept their heads, asked sensible questions and looked out for each other in myriad ways, small and large. Their humour and perseverance truly are the best of British, and I am chuffed to bits to serve them in this House. I must also pay tribute to that fantastic Lancastrian, my predecessor Seema Kennedy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-29c.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-29", "file": "debates2020-06-29c.xml", "sha256": "5628f9bc16ce3240", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-29c.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Business and Planning Bill", "cue_speaker": "Katherine Fletcher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Katherine Fletcher", "preceding_text": "s, temples or mosaics. In doing pragmatic deals with local leaders, Queen Cartimandua protected her peoples, focused on trade, avoided oppression and avoided being killed by the Romans—in many ways, a woman who would approve of recent Bills in this House. For example, in her later years, when she tired of her king, she divorced him and took up with a handsome man in uniform, the head of her guard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-29c.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-29", "file": "debates2020-06-29c.xml", "sha256": "5628f9bc16ce3240", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-29c.66.1", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Business and Planning Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Howell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Howell", "preceding_text": "e becoming involved in local politics in the first place. I, of course, thank my campaign team—this is all of them: Keith, Catherine, Oliver, Giles and, of course, my wife Lillian. There was a little bit of a target around me—some target seats. Their support in the campaign was invaluable, and I certainly would not be here without them. Some notable politicians have held Sedgefield over the years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-29c.66.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-29", "file": "debates2020-06-29c.xml", "sha256": "5628f9bc16ce3240", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-29c.105.0", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Business and Planning Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Pincher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Pincher", "preceding_text": "t allow them to manage their public spaces in response to covid-19. For those reasons, and in the spirit of the constructive comments made by the hon. Member for Weaver Vale (Mike Amesbury) , I will accept this minor technical amendment, amendment 3, to the definition of relevant highway in clause 9. I am grateful to him for bringing it to our attention, and I invite him to move it formally later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-29c.105.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-30", "file": "debates2020-06-30d.xml", "sha256": "ccbe2d84ea82c456", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-30d.137.0", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Foreign and Commonwealth Office", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "ption.] Yes, but she has not seen the legislation, so I think the right thing to do is to wait to see it, but as we have made clear, if it is as we expect then it would be not just a challenge, as she said, to the joint declaration; it would be a violation of the joint declaration. It would undermine the autonomy of the people of Hong Kong and the freedoms. I welcome her support. It is incredibly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-30d.137.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-30", "file": "debates2020-06-30d.xml", "sha256": "ccbe2d84ea82c456", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-30d.137.0", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Foreign and Commonwealth Office", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": ", if it is as we expect then it would be not just a challenge, as she said, to the joint declaration; it would be a violation of the joint declaration. It would undermine the autonomy of the people of Hong Kong and the freedoms. I welcome her support. It is incredibly— [Interruption.] She says that it is weak; she has not read the legislation—she cannot have done because it has not been published.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-30d.137.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-06-30", "file": "debates2020-06-30d.xml", "sha256": "ccbe2d84ea82c456", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-30d.164.0", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Civil Service Appointments", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right: it is important that someone in that role commands the confidence of the Prime Minister and is capable of working effectively with him. I should say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-06-30d.164.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-01", "file": "debates2020-07-01d.xml", "sha256": "a1464bc695e3fb7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-01d.318.3", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister must understand why this is of such concern. There is a nationwide lifting of restrictions this weekend, without an app, and without clear data for local authorities or the world-beating system we were promised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-01d.318.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-01", "file": "debates2020-07-01d.xml", "sha256": "a1464bc695e3fb7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-01d.318.3", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister must understand why this is of such concern. There is a nationwide lifting of restrictions this weekend, without an app, and without clear data for local authorities or the world-beating system we were promised. [Interruption.] I do support it, but I am not blind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-01d.318.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-01", "file": "debates2020-07-01d.xml", "sha256": "a1464bc695e3fb7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-01d.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Hong Kong National Security Legislation", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Gentleman is a bit confused. The EU does not have an autonomous human rights sanctions regime, but the United Kingdom will do by the summer recess with our first designations. We are engaged in a conversation with our European partners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-01d.339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-01", "file": "debates2020-07-01d.xml", "sha256": "a1464bc695e3fb7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-01d.340.5", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Hong Kong National Security Legislation", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "We have seen it with Huawei and we will look at it in other areas. However, the reality is that it is also a source of this country’s strength, so I do not accept for a second the hon. Gentleman’s suggestion that Britain being an open and outward-looking country, and welcoming investment, is somehow the reason for what has happened in Hong Kong. He should not let China off the hook. It is China’s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-01d.340.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-01", "file": "debates2020-07-01d.xml", "sha256": "a1464bc695e3fb7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-01d.352.1", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Prime Minister (Nomination) and Cabinet (Appointment)", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": " situation, where a Prime Minister of this country can be decided by a few thousand members of the Conservative party. It would end the practice of the House’s having a Prime Minister foisted upon it without so much as a by-your-leave, where the Conservative Association of, say, Tunbridge Wells has more of a say than a directly elected Member of Parliament in determining who the Prime Minister is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-01d.352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-01", "file": "debates2020-07-01d.xml", "sha256": "a1464bc695e3fb7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-01d.354.0", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Prime Minister (Nomination) and Cabinet (Appointment)", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": " with his usual skill, introduces a Scottish National party policy that sounds attractive but is completely and utterly useless. It is tradition to find something on which we agree with the previous speaker, and I agreed with him totally when he was gracious enough to say how much the House welcomed the recovery of the Prime Minister after his serious illness. Before dealing with the issue itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-01d.354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-01", "file": "debates2020-07-01d.xml", "sha256": "a1464bc695e3fb7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-01d.354.2", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Prime Minister (Nomination) and Cabinet (Appointment)", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "would be a delay between the Prime Minister being incapacitated and a new one being appointed. Where I find more interest is subject of the appointment of Cabinet Ministers. As I understand it, under the hon. Gentleman’s Bill, the approval of the House would be required before a Member could become a Cabinet Minister. I suppose if one goes back a few years to, say, 1707 when this House introduced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-01d.354.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-02", "file": "debates2020-07-02c.xml", "sha256": "bd48085de623da98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-02c.519.2", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is quite incapable of keeping quiet, even for a moment. His agitation and his degree of excitement may be slightly theatrical on this occasion. On the ISC, as always, that will be set up in due course. It would be wrong to be “Russian” these things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-02c.519.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-02", "file": "debates2020-07-02c.xml", "sha256": "bd48085de623da98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-02c.519.2", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is quite incapable of keeping quiet, even for a moment. His agitation and his degree of excitement may be slightly theatrical on this occasion. On the ISC, as always, that will be set up in due course. It would be wrong to be “Russian” these things—[Laughter]—as I am sure the right hon. Member for Walsall South (Valerie Vaz) appreciates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-02c.519.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-02", "file": "debates2020-07-02c.xml", "sha256": "bd48085de623da98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-02c.523.0", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Why?”", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is right that, in the current circumstances, there have not been as many Backbench Business debates as there would otherwise have been. Westminster Hall, where a number of the debates would normally be held, is not an operation, for good reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-02c.523.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-02", "file": "debates2020-07-02c.xml", "sha256": "bd48085de623da98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-02c.528.4", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "Yes. My hon. Friend makes a very good point. There is a wonderful Flanders and Swann song about the old railway stations that were closed by Beeching, and it includes, of course, Midsomer Norton in my own constituency. I am delighted to hear that my hon. Friend’s constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-02c.528.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-02", "file": "debates2020-07-02c.xml", "sha256": "bd48085de623da98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-02c.530.0", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "I never realised that our separatist friends would model themselves on an Ealing comedy. It seems to have become “Passport to Pimlico”. There are no internal borders in the United Kingdom; it is one country, I am glad to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-02c.530.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-02", "file": "debates2020-07-02c.xml", "sha256": "bd48085de623da98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-02c.530.2", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Member for Rhondda will remember, in the film “Passport to Pimlico” Pimlico was thought to have belonged to the Duke of Burgundy or some such, and therefore had become an independent state within the United Kingdom. Our separatist friend wants to do the same by insisting on passports to Scotland, and Mrs Sturgeon wishes to build a wall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-02c.530.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-02", "file": "debates2020-07-02c.xml", "sha256": "bd48085de623da98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-02c.564.0", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "preceding_text": "d, democratic reasons, we understand, but it does create a natural tension. As relief costs rise, of course, that is sometimes a very good thing—for example, with R&D expenditure credits, which we know support high value for money investment—but sometimes it might not be such a good thing. I will just pick up on the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Thirsk and Malton (Kevin Hollinrake) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-02c.564.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-02", "file": "debates2020-07-02c.xml", "sha256": "bd48085de623da98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-02c.585.0", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alison Thewliss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alison Thewliss", "preceding_text": " providing free school meals for children in England only after being shamed into a U-turn Marcus Rashford, and we have seen a Prime Minister more concerned about a £900 million paint job on a plane than supporting families. That gives a real indication of this Government’s priorities. The Scottish Government have taken child poverty incredibly seriously. They have set in statute their commitment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-02c.585.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-02", "file": "debates2020-07-02c.xml", "sha256": "bd48085de623da98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-02c.586.1", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alison Thewliss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alison Thewliss", "preceding_text": "If Government Members want to tell me why spending £900,000 on a plane is more important than feeding children—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-02c.586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-06", "file": "debates2020-07-06e.xml", "sha256": "855259b0de743e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-06e.668.0", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend, and pay tribute to the work that he and the Foreign Affairs Committee have done. I thought he mentioned three foreign policy triumphs, but I felt a bit short-changed because he missed one out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-06e.668.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-06", "file": "debates2020-07-06e.xml", "sha256": "855259b0de743e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-06e.680.3", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-06e.680.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-06", "file": "debates2020-07-06e.xml", "sha256": "855259b0de743e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-06e.730.3", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Domestic Abuse Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Garnier", "preceding_text": "dibly hard. In this House, we all know that it is an extraordinary privilege to be a Member of Parliament and to represent our constituents, but it is also an extraordinary privilege to be able to work with quite remarkable, extraordinary long-term parliamentarians. Working with the right hon. and learned Member for Camberwell and Peckham has been an experience the like of which I have rarely had.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-06e.730.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-06", "file": "debates2020-07-06e.xml", "sha256": "855259b0de743e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-06e.794.1", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Domestic Abuse Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "As the most brilliant lawyer in the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-06e.794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-07", "file": "debates2020-07-07c.xml", "sha256": "6b6660b5e11dfb42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-07c.840.3", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Coronavirus", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "preceding_text": "That is true. The actions we have put in place mean that we can open hospitality such as pubs, and doing that safely means that we have been able to open more hospitality than we would otherwise have done. I, too, went for a haircut and a pint on Saturday morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-07c.840.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-07", "file": "debates2020-07-07c.xml", "sha256": "6b6660b5e11dfb42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-07c.849.0", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Arts, Culture and Heritage: Support Package", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Dinenage", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Dinenage", "preceding_text": "That was a disappointingly churlish if not unexpected response to what is the largest single financial investment in our culture sector and the biggest package of support for heritage, arts and culture—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-07c.849.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-08", "file": "debates2020-07-08b.xml", "sha256": "746e4c25a7177b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-08b.955.7", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Wales", "cue_speaker": "Peter Gibson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Gibson", "preceding_text": "The people of Darlington have a great fondness for Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-08b.955.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-08", "file": "debates2020-07-08b.xml", "sha256": "746e4c25a7177b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-08b.999.6", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Economic Update", "cue_speaker": "John Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Spellar", "preceding_text": "In his reply to the right hon. Member for Wokingham (John Redwood) , the Chancellor said that leaving the EU gave us the opportunity to reform our procurement regulations, so will he say exactly when he will take that opportunity and send out revised guidelines to tell Whitehall and town halls to prioritise British-based companies and British jobs?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-08b.999.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-08", "file": "debates2020-07-08b.xml", "sha256": "746e4c25a7177b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-08b.1005.4", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Economic Update", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "No, not thank you. You are going to stay on those tenterhooks. You will be on them for a long time if you do that again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-08b.1005.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-08", "file": "debates2020-07-08b.xml", "sha256": "746e4c25a7177b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-08b.1021.3", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "preceding_text": "When it comes to speaking up for his constituents, I do not think the hon. Gentleman has ever held back, whether or not he is being cheeky in doing so. He raises a very important point about the investment in flood prevention. That is why the Chancellor set out a number of measures as part of the infrastructure package, and I will come on to say more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-08b.1021.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-08", "file": "debates2020-07-08b.xml", "sha256": "746e4c25a7177b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-08b.1024.7", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "preceding_text": " was covered extensively in the earlier debate. First, the furlough is already in place for an extremely long period, until October. That is eight months, and we are only halfway through it. Secondly, other measures are being put in place, including measures to incentivise employers to bring those on furlough back. It is not right that people should stay on furlough for an extended period of time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-08b.1024.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-08", "file": "debates2020-07-08b.xml", "sha256": "746e4c25a7177b18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-08b.1024.7", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "preceding_text": "t in place, including measures to incentivise employers to bring those on furlough back. It is not right that people should stay on furlough for an extended period of time—[Interruption.] Nor have the Opposition set out exactly which sectors they want it extended for, or how that would apply in areas such as the supply chain. We would simply get an indefinite period in which that scheme would be —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-08b.1024.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-09", "file": "debates2020-07-09c.xml", "sha256": "aa738716d6154bc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-09c.1101.8", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Digital, Culture, Media and Sport", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Dinenage", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Dinenage", "preceding_text": "With your permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to start by sending the very best wishes of the House to the former DCMS Minister, our hon. Friend the Member for Chatham and Aylesford (Tracey Crouch) , who starts her treatment for breast cancer today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-09c.1101.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-09", "file": "debates2020-07-09c.xml", "sha256": "aa738716d6154bc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-09c.1137.2", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "lming. However, this House made its decision. It made its decision in a legitimate vote. We have exclusive cognisance of our affairs. We made the right decision. We are back to work. We are legislating effectively. The Government are being held to account. It was absolutely the right thing to do, and the hon. Gentleman, when he feels that he is well enough to come back, will be enormously welcome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-09c.1137.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-09", "file": "debates2020-07-09c.xml", "sha256": "aa738716d6154bc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-09c.1138.4", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "I cannot understand why the Adonis of Cleethorpes could possibly need to visit a beauty salon. Indeed, the people of Cleethorpes are renowned for their beauty across the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-09c.1138.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-09", "file": "debates2020-07-09c.xml", "sha256": "aa738716d6154bc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-09c.1191.2", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Official Development Assistance", "cue_speaker": "Rushanara Ali", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rushanara Ali", "preceding_text": "ur investment of 0.7% of GNI to eradicate poverty has built good will around the world. We are an international leader because of the work that we have been able to do together, and that is what is at stake and at risk with the focus on downgrading DFID, on blurring the boundaries, on the militarisation of DFID spending—which is what is coming—and on down- grading the focus on poverty alleviation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-09c.1191.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-09", "file": "debates2020-07-09c.xml", "sha256": "aa738716d6154bc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-09c.1220.0", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Housing, Communities and Local Government: Departmental Spending", "cue_speaker": "Kate Hollern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kate Hollern", "preceding_text": "d with problems. Parents and children were left abandoned when the Government failed, and councils stepped in, giving children the food they needed. It is shameful that the Government extended the scheme only after a premier league footballer campaigned on the issue. Maybe what we need, rather than proper debate, are glossy headlines to make the Government move. Test and track is an absolute joke—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-09c.1220.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-09", "file": "debates2020-07-09c.xml", "sha256": "aa738716d6154bc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-09c.1225.0", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "Housing, Communities and Local Government: Departmental Spending", "cue_speaker": "Clive Betts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Betts", "preceding_text": "ments, although I still think there are issues to be worked through. My hon. Friend the Member for Hackney South and Shoreditch (Meg Hillier) , the Chair of the PAC, raised a point about clarity. We still need that clarity from the Government. I would still like it on the record, too, that the £3.7 billion will not be reduced by the commitment to cover 75% of income losses. That needs to be clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-09c.1225.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-13", "file": "debates2020-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "b16738dab8f53115", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-13a.1243.4", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Home Department", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": "do every single day and as my hon. Friend the Policing Minister does every single day—he will hear that they welcome the investment in not only new officers but training. The money that has been put in to invest in new officers also covers a wide range of training. That is training that has gone into the national College of Policing. That is training and investment in the professional development—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-13a.1243.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-14", "file": "debates2020-07-14c.xml", "sha256": "d91562d271f5f0c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-14c.1396.0", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "Coronavirus Update", "cue_speaker": "Jon Ashworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jon Ashworth", "preceding_text": "his mixed messaging is the last thing they need. On the other parts of the country that have been identified as being of concern, will the Secretary of State instruct the Health and Safety Executive to inspect all factories, meat packing plants, distribution centres and large employment sites as a matter of urgency? On testing, local authorities still need specific data that can facilitate action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-14c.1396.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-14", "file": "debates2020-07-14c.xml", "sha256": "d91562d271f5f0c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-14c.1413.6", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "I am just grateful that I could be so effective in creating this meeting so quickly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-14c.1413.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-14", "file": "debates2020-07-14c.xml", "sha256": "d91562d271f5f0c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-14c.1427.0", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Linden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Linden", "preceding_text": "mmons for the devolved nations. Surely every Union flag-waving, “Rule Britannia” singing Member in the Scottish Conservatives should be able to see that Scotland’s voice being diminished in Westminster is bad for the harmony and integrity of their precious, precious Union. What we see in the Bill is a blatant power grab of seats from the devolved nations, with them being given directly to England—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-14c.1427.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-14", "file": "debates2020-07-14c.xml", "sha256": "d91562d271f5f0c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-14c.1432.4", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Clarkson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Clarkson", "preceding_text": "erything that my party has ever done; I think that using an electoral quota is a much fairer way of doing it. As I say, it strikes me as frankly bizarre that when we are concerned about the overpopulation of the other place, we should be trying to pack this place out. The hon. Gentleman played an extremely constructive role on the Bill Committee, with some very sensible proposals —he is one of us!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-14c.1432.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-14", "file": "debates2020-07-14c.xml", "sha256": "d91562d271f5f0c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-14c.1434.2", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gareth Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gareth Johnson", "preceding_text": "I was actually enjoying the speech from the right hon. Member for Warley (John Spellar) , and I agreed with some of his points, but it is worth pointing out that the purpose of the original decision by David Cameron and Nick Clegg to reduce the number of constituencies was to reduce the cost of politics at the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-14c.1434.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-14", "file": "debates2020-07-14c.xml", "sha256": "d91562d271f5f0c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-14c.1438.0", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Bowie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Bowie", "preceding_text": "t will be implemented. There must be equal representation of all people in this place, wherever in the United Kingdom they live. Every vote should count the same. How can we have confidence that that will be the case? How do we know that Liberal Democrat shenanigans and parliamentary arithmetic will not get in the way of implementing the commission’s recommendations, as they have done in the past?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-14c.1438.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-14", "file": "debates2020-07-14c.xml", "sha256": "d91562d271f5f0c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-14c.1448.1", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Virginia Crosbie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Virginia Crosbie", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for his interruption—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-14c.1448.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-14", "file": "debates2020-07-14c.xml", "sha256": "d91562d271f5f0c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-14c.1460.0", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Gullis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Gullis", "preceding_text": "e for us to update the boundaries. In Stoke-on-Trent, I represent—I say this cheekily—a larger constituency than my hon. Friends the Members for Stoke-on-Trent Central (Jo Gideon) and for Stoke-on-Trent South (Jack Brereton). Do I get paid more for doing more work than them? They would argue that they work harder and I would not necessarily disagree on some areas. They are very good at chuntering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-14c.1460.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-14", "file": "debates2020-07-14c.xml", "sha256": "d91562d271f5f0c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-14c.1483.8", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chloe Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chloe Smith", "preceding_text": "May I close this unusual contribution to the end of a Bill’s proceedings by also noting how wonderful the constituencies are of our Whips, those of my hon. Friend the Member for Macclesfield (David Rutley) and—this may take us to the end of the alphabet, although I am subject to challenge—the hon. Member for Wolverhampton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-14c.1483.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-15", "file": "debates2020-07-15b.xml", "sha256": "afe6ec5331089df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1519.0", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "not seen the approach that we saw under the previous Mayor, for instance, when there was a significant reduction in knife crime and a significant reduction in murder by dint of having proportionate policing that included the use of stop-and-search to stop young kids carrying knives. We need to have zero tolerance of kids going out on the street armed with a bladed weapon. That is absolutely vital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1519.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-15", "file": "debates2020-07-15b.xml", "sha256": "afe6ec5331089df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1523.3", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "Covid-19: Future UK-EU Relationship", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": " and this Government must adapt and do what is right by their citizens. Our priority must be dealing with this health emergency and the consequent economic challenge; it is definitively not business as normal. That is why my Government in Edinburgh, under the stewardship of Nicola Sturgeon, has prioritised dealing with the crisis above all else. We are demanding that the UK Government do the same—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1523.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-15", "file": "debates2020-07-15b.xml", "sha256": "afe6ec5331089df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1527.1", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "Covid-19: Future UK-EU Relationship", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "nt, and for a future that we never voted for. It is worth reminding folk in Scotland of the promises that were made in 2014 during the independence campaign. If we stayed in the UK, we would be staying in Europe. Well, we stayed in the UK, and we have been taken out against our will. All the way through this process, the Scottish Government have sought to achieve a compromise to best protect jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-15", "file": "debates2020-07-15b.xml", "sha256": "afe6ec5331089df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1527.1", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "Covid-19: Future UK-EU Relationship", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "e UK in 2014 now recognise the UK they voted to remain in no longer exists. It is little wonder that poll after poll shows a majority for independence. So many see our future as an independent country in Europe—an outward-looking Scotland, working constructively with others—and see this as a choice of a progressive future with independence, or one of staying with an increasingly inward-looking UK.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-15", "file": "debates2020-07-15b.xml", "sha256": "afe6ec5331089df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1527.1", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "Covid-19: Future UK-EU Relationship", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "ard-looking Scotland, working constructively with others—and see this as a choice of a progressive future with independence, or one of staying with an increasingly inward-looking UK. [Interruption.] The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, the hon. Member for Banff and Buchan (David Duguid) keeps chuntering away from a sedentary position. If he wants to say something, I will allow him to get in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-15", "file": "debates2020-07-15b.xml", "sha256": "afe6ec5331089df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1529.0", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "Covid-19: Future UK-EU Relationship", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "rom Belfast. This Tory Government’s contempt for devolution has always been known. They fought against devolution in 1997, and they lost. Of course, the covid crisis has seen the Scottish Government give effective leadership to the people who live in Scotland. The success of that leadership is reflected in the high standing of our First Minister not just with the public in Scotland, but elsewhere—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1529.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-15", "file": "debates2020-07-15b.xml", "sha256": "afe6ec5331089df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1529.2", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "Covid-19: Future UK-EU Relationship", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "Where are they, indeed. Members should not worry, because the SNP will provide an effective Opposition. I am respectfully asking my friends in the Labour party who are present to stand with us. We went through the Lobby together to establish devolution, and devolution is now under attack from this Tory Government. There is a question to be asked of the Labour party: will they stand with us?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1529.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-15", "file": "debates2020-07-15b.xml", "sha256": "afe6ec5331089df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1530.1", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "Covid-19: Future UK-EU Relationship", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "I know the hon. Member represents an English seat and perhaps he does not pay much attention, but if he looks at every one of the results of elections to the Scottish Parliament since 2007 and to Westminster since 2015, as well as the European results, he will see that the people of Scotland have put their trust in the SNP to defend them from the kind of attacks that we have from the Tory Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-15", "file": "debates2020-07-15b.xml", "sha256": "afe6ec5331089df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1530.5", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "Covid-19: Future UK-EU Relationship", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "lained that “the past three months have exemplified how Scotland could govern itself better as an independent, small country”. Even a casual observer could draw that conclusion, based on how the Scottish Government led by Nicola Sturgeon have dealt with the covid-19 crisis compared with this UK Government. Indeed, Nicola Sturgeon scores more highly with English voters than the Prime Minister does—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1530.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-15", "file": "debates2020-07-15b.xml", "sha256": "afe6ec5331089df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1532.2", "colnum": "1532", "heading": "Covid-19: Future UK-EU Relationship", "cue_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "preceding_text": "rticular topic, and not on, say, rewards for health and care staff, not on investment in Scottish infrastructure, and not on food standards or Scottish farmers, which my hon. Friend the Member for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (John Lamont) debated recently? Why are we having this debate in a week when key negotiations are ramping up and David Frost is going into bat for Scotland’s interests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1532.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-15", "file": "debates2020-07-15b.xml", "sha256": "afe6ec5331089df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1536.1", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "Covid-19: Future UK-EU Relationship", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "re today. I am anxious that people who are new to the House and have not really seen the Chamber operating properly should not be led astray by those who should know better. Throughout Prime Minister’s questions today, people called the Prime Minister “you”. In the Chamber, “you” means the Chair. One addresses other Members as “the hon. Gentleman”, “the hon. Lady” or something else, but not “you”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1536.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-15", "file": "debates2020-07-15b.xml", "sha256": "afe6ec5331089df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1540.0", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "Covid-19: Future UK-EU Relationship", "cue_speaker": "John Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Lamont", "preceding_text": " Scotland’s economy. It is not about assisting the economic recovery after the coronavirus pandemic. It is all about creating further uncertainty and constitutional chaos to assist in the nationalist dream of breaking up the United Kingdom. That is the SNP’s top priority. That is its only priority. That, in fact, is the only reason that many SNP Members got involved in politics in the first place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1540.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-15", "file": "debates2020-07-15b.xml", "sha256": "afe6ec5331089df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1551.3", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "Covid-19: Future UK-EU Relationship", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Ross", "preceding_text": "It is not. I was very clear, but I will try to be clearer for SNP Members if they need me to be. Can any SNP Member explain just one—not 10 or hundreds—power that the 129 MSPs and the Scottish Government currently have that during this “power grab” the UK Government will somehow take away?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1551.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-15", "file": "debates2020-07-15b.xml", "sha256": "afe6ec5331089df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1552.1", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "Covid-19: Future UK-EU Relationship", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Ross", "preceding_text": "e have heard during this debate. I tried to intervene on the right hon. Member for Ross, Skye and Lochaber when he highlighted poll ratings that suggest that Nicola Sturgeon’s leadership has been positive during this pandemic. I was going to ask him: was it leadership when Nicola Sturgeon chose not to inform the Scottish people of the first case of covid-19 being identified at the Nike conference?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-15", "file": "debates2020-07-15b.xml", "sha256": "afe6ec5331089df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1553.0", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "Covid-19: Future UK-EU Relationship", "cue_speaker": "Christine Jardine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christine Jardine", "preceding_text": "While the hon. Gentleman and I do not share the same view of the European Union—and I would not wish to leave at this moment—does he share my confusion at hearing an SNP Member say that this was the worst possible time for the economic dislocation of leaving the European Union, without recognising the economic dislocation that would be caused to Scotland by leaving the United Kingdom?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1553.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-15", "file": "debates2020-07-15b.xml", "sha256": "afe6ec5331089df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1555.9", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "Covid-19: Future UK-EU Relationship", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Ross", "preceding_text": "I think Blackford bingo has a bit more of a ring to it. Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman can think of something that rhymes with Ross for the next debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1555.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-15", "file": "debates2020-07-15b.xml", "sha256": "afe6ec5331089df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1560.1", "colnum": "1560", "heading": "Covid-19: Future UK-EU Relationship", "cue_speaker": "Chris Clarkson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More!”", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Clarkson", "preceding_text": ". I see not. When it comes to Brexit, the Labour party has had more positions than the “Kama Sutra” and seems in no position to end the walk of shame that started on 13 December . This country has waited far too long for politicians to get themselves into gear. It wanted an outward-looking global Britain, with control over our money, borders and laws. In closing, I would like to turn to something—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1560.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-15", "file": "debates2020-07-15b.xml", "sha256": "afe6ec5331089df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1582.2", "colnum": "1582", "heading": "Covid-19: Future UK-EU Relationship", "cue_speaker": "Alexander Stafford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alexander Stafford", "preceding_text": "ls and goods globally to whomever and wherever we please. It is necessary to point out that all four nations of the United Kingdom will benefit from the Brexit boom. Our friends in the SNP offer little for the people of Scotland beyond shameless and insidious separatist rhetoric. They neglect to mention that the UK single market is worth over three times more to Scotland than the EU single market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1582.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-15", "file": "debates2020-07-15b.xml", "sha256": "afe6ec5331089df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1603.0", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "Covid-19: Future UK-EU Relationship", "cue_speaker": "Shaun Bailey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shaun Bailey", "preceding_text": "d hon. Friends, many of whom represent similar seats, were here, and we were having those arguments. The official Opposition were silent, and it is an utter disgrace. I commend the Scottish National party because it has done the job of an Opposition party. SNP Members have probed; they have debated; they have turned up. I would say to the hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire (Pete Wishart) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1603.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-15", "file": "debates2020-07-15b.xml", "sha256": "afe6ec5331089df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1606.2", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "Covid-19: Future UK-EU Relationship", "cue_speaker": "Mark Fletcher", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “They are hiding.”", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Fletcher", "preceding_text": "g, I do at least give them credit for turning up. As I cast my eyes over the Opposition Benches, it is an unusual experience to see only the same number of Members on those Benches as there are in my fan club; they usually way outnumber me on that front. The Labour party has once again abandoned the pitch. Its Members have straddled for so long, trying to keep their true feelings on Brexit hidden.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1606.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-15", "file": "debates2020-07-15b.xml", "sha256": "afe6ec5331089df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1614.0", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "Covid-19: Future UK-EU Relationship", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Gullis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Gullis", "preceding_text": "s (Keir Starmer) , the architect of Labour’s disastrous Brexit policy, said to Labour members in Dudley in March that he wants to campaign to go back in. Then he told the media in May that he wants to stay out of the EU, yet he cannot walk through the Division Lobbies with us this evening to reject an extension. Time and again, Labour is failing the people of Stoke-on-Trent and the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1614.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-15", "file": "debates2020-07-15b.xml", "sha256": "afe6ec5331089df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1615.1", "colnum": "1615", "heading": "Covid-19: Future UK-EU Relationship", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "What can one say? It has been an absolutely fascinating debate. We have learned so much about where we are with the Government’s chaotic and tortuous Brexit. I think we have also learned a little more about what Conservative Members feel and believe about Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1615.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-15", "file": "debates2020-07-15b.xml", "sha256": "afe6ec5331089df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1615.1", "colnum": "1615", "heading": "Covid-19: Future UK-EU Relationship", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "ing to happen in the next year. We have a Scottish parliamentary election in less than 10 months. If Conservative Members think that support for independence is bad for them, wait until they hear how well the Scottish National party is doing in opinion polls. Do they know where we are? We are at 55% support. Do the Conservatives want to know where they stand for the next election? They are at 20%.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1615.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-15", "file": "debates2020-07-15b.xml", "sha256": "afe6ec5331089df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1617.1", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "Covid-19: Future UK-EU Relationship", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "in the bag? What we will do is reflect on what the Scottish people want, which is to be an independent nation within the European Union. I am here to sum up today’s proceedings, so let us see if I can make a little bit of a job just about that. There have been some fantastic contributions. Looking around, even the Tories, with their disparaging remarks about Scotland, have been pretty interesting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-15", "file": "debates2020-07-15b.xml", "sha256": "afe6ec5331089df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1617.1", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "Covid-19: Future UK-EU Relationship", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More!”", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "main in the EU. What my hon. Friends did here today was to stand up for their community, represent their views, and make sure that they were properly represented and that their voice was heard. They did a fantastic job of that today. Then, of course, there were the Conservative speeches. I am not going to say any more about them, because that was just great. But there is something I have observed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-15", "file": "debates2020-07-15b.xml", "sha256": "afe6ec5331089df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1618.5", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "Covid-19: Future UK-EU Relationship", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "Well, they never really have. They are no longer a force in Scottish politics—they been well beaten into third place. But we do not really bother about the Labour party in Scotland, just as we are increasingly not bothering about the Conservative party, who we are now beginning to trounce once again. Then there are the Liberals, none of whom have turned up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1618.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-15", "file": "debates2020-07-15b.xml", "sha256": "afe6ec5331089df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1619.0", "colnum": "1619", "heading": "Covid-19: Future UK-EU Relationship", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "ingle out, by the hon. Member for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (John Lamont) . It was absolutely and utterly appalling. He tried to suggest that a constitutional political party that has done nothing other than promote our cause civically and democratically is somehow anti-English and racist. That was an appalling slur, for which he should apologise. He is not here, but I tell him something—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1619.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-15", "file": "debates2020-07-15b.xml", "sha256": "afe6ec5331089df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1620.4", "colnum": "1620", "heading": "Covid-19: Future UK-EU Relationship", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "I beg to differ—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1620.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-15", "file": "debates2020-07-15b.xml", "sha256": "afe6ec5331089df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1620.5", "colnum": "1620", "heading": "Covid-19: Future UK-EU Relationship", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "I know they are, but there should be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1620.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-15", "file": "debates2020-07-15b.xml", "sha256": "afe6ec5331089df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1620.6", "colnum": "1620", "heading": "Covid-19: Future UK-EU Relationship", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. My right hon. Friend is absolutely right and spot on to be absolutely furious about what is planned for Scotland. Let me tell Government Members something. They are all bawling and screaming. Put the cameras on them—we want Scotland to see them screaming at us. We want to see them screaming at us—that builds support for us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-15b.1620.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-16", "file": "debates2020-07-16c.xml", "sha256": "2a82e3dc99a46d94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-16c.1674.0", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "British Overseas Troops: Civil Liability Claims", "cue_speaker": "Johnny Mercer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Johnny Mercer", "preceding_text": "I am answering the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-16c.1674.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-16", "file": "debates2020-07-16c.xml", "sha256": "2a82e3dc99a46d94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-16c.1681.2", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": " sitting. Tuesday 1 September —Second Reading of the Fisheries Bill [Lords]. Wednesday 2 September —Second reading of the Private International Law (Implementation of Agreements) Bill [Lords]. Thursday 3 September —Consideration in Committee and remaining stages of the Non-Domestic Rating (Public Lavatories) Bill. Friday 4 September —The House will not be sitting. For the convenience of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-16c.1681.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-16", "file": "debates2020-07-16c.xml", "sha256": "2a82e3dc99a46d94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-16c.1705.0", "colnum": "1705", "heading": "UK Internal Market: White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Alok Sharma", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alok Sharma", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman talks about understanding Scotland; the one thing that is clear from the statements he has just made is that he certainly does not understand business in Scotland and he certainly does not understand the people of Scotland on this issue. The UK internal market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-16c.1705.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-16", "file": "debates2020-07-16c.xml", "sha256": "2a82e3dc99a46d94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-16c.1705.0", "colnum": "1705", "heading": "UK Internal Market: White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Alok Sharma", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alok Sharma", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman talks about understanding Scotland; the one thing that is clear from the statements he has just made is that he certainly does not understand business in Scotland and he certainly does not understand the people of Scotland on this issue. The UK internal market—[Interruption.] The UK internal market is about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-16c.1705.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-16", "file": "debates2020-07-16c.xml", "sha256": "2a82e3dc99a46d94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-16c.1736.1", "colnum": "1736", "heading": "Restoration and Renewal", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": " an outline business case. There can be no blank cheque for this work, which is why it so important that the outline business case will be fully costed. This will be the first time that we have had a proposition that we can assess in value-for-money terms, which is the second essential requirement before Members are asked to make their decision. Rather than hurrying along in an over-hasty fashion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-16c.1736.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-16", "file": "debates2020-07-16c.xml", "sha256": "2a82e3dc99a46d94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-16c.1749.2", "colnum": "1749", "heading": "Restoration and Renewal", "cue_speaker": "Mark Tami", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Aw!”", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Tami", "preceding_text": "As a number of right hon. and hon. Members have said, I am a member of the Sponsor Body—indeed, I think I have served on every committee that has considered this matter. This matter was also the subject of my one Front-Bench speaking engagement in 19 years, although hopefully that will not be repeated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-16c.1749.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-16", "file": "debates2020-07-16c.xml", "sha256": "2a82e3dc99a46d94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-16c.1757.1", "colnum": "1757", "heading": "Restoration and Renewal", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "sh the staircases, which some people think are intrinsic to Richmond House. Personally, I think that they are the ugliest bit of the building. The truth is, as my right hon. Friend the Member for Alyn and Deeside (Mark Tami) said earlier, it would be perfectly possible if people like the right hon. Gentleman had not been complaining that we had to have a Chamber that was identical to this Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-16c.1757.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-16", "file": "debates2020-07-16c.xml", "sha256": "2a82e3dc99a46d94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-16c.1784.2", "colnum": "1784", "heading": "Covid-19 Update", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "osition got theirs. As I was asked this morning, I would have thought there would have been better preparation to ensure that the Opposition and my good self, received a copy. If you can bear that in mind, because it was given the urgency that was needed, so a little bit more attention to detail to making sure the speech is shared would be helpful. Let us come to the Secretary of State for Health—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-16c.1784.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-20", "file": "debates2020-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "6cc51cfb6b6136c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-20c.1889.5", "colnum": "1889", "heading": "Trade Bill", "cue_speaker": "Greg Hands", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Hands", "preceding_text": "er in Tony Blair’s Government, and it has been really instructive to see the journey that he has been on over some time. I saw him take the seat in the extreme corner of the Chamber earlier and thought, “Not only has he taken on the views of the right hon. Member for Islington North (Jeremy Corbyn) , but he has now even taken his previous seat.” The hon. Gentleman voted for CRAG in 2010, as did I.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-20c.1889.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-20", "file": "debates2020-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "6cc51cfb6b6136c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-20c.1891.0", "colnum": "1891", "heading": "Trade Bill", "cue_speaker": "Greg Hands", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Hands", "preceding_text": "e other place reported on that issue in 2019, and stated: “This would impinge inappropriately on the Government’s prerogative power and limit the Government’s flexibility in the negotiations.” I agree, and as the House will know, there are already rigorous checks and balances on the Government’s power to negotiate and ratify new agreements through the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-20c.1891.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-20", "file": "debates2020-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "6cc51cfb6b6136c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-20c.1895.5", "colnum": "1895", "heading": "Trade Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “San Andreas.”", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "preceding_text": "sbury (Emily Thornberry) reminded us on Second Reading, international trade agreements have a massive impact on our ability to tackle the climate and environment emergency. Meanwhile, food production and animal welfare standards are matters of enormous concern to farmers and consumers alike. Thirdly, on democratic, the complete absence of scrutiny runs like the Sant Andreas fault through the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-20c.1895.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-20", "file": "debates2020-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "6cc51cfb6b6136c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-20c.1910.1", "colnum": "1910", "heading": "Trade Bill", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "preceding_text": "I am happy to accept that as a fact, but does the hon. Gentleman accept that the unwillingness of this Government to put their objectives into the Bill is causing massive concern? Thousands of people are writing to the Minister to say that they are deeply, deeply concerned, so why not put them in the Bill? Unless they are there, we are not going to take them seriously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-20c.1910.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-21", "file": "debates2020-07-21e.xml", "sha256": "6169bff6eaa211cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-21e.2089.0", "colnum": "2089", "heading": "Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "We did add some time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-21e.2089.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-21", "file": "debates2020-07-21e.xml", "sha256": "6169bff6eaa211cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-21e.2093.0", "colnum": "2093", "heading": "Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Philp", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Philp", "preceding_text": "ence from somewhere like Syria it is very hard, if not impossible. The third reason he gave was where sensitive material needs to be relied on: disclosing that material to get to the balance of probability would potentially endanger sources—confidential sources—and it is clearly easier to get to the reasonable suspicion standard without disclosing the material. Those are the three reasons he gave.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-21e.2093.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-21", "file": "debates2020-07-21e.xml", "sha256": "6169bff6eaa211cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-21e.2093.0", "colnum": "2093", "heading": "Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Philp", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Philp", "preceding_text": "ntervention that I sense the hon. and learned Member for Edinburgh South West is brewing, I accept that it is true historically—looking back—that there has not been an occasion on which the security services wanted to give a TPIM but could not do so because of the burden of proof. There is no such historical example, and I freely concede the point. I suspect that was the topic of the intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-21e.2093.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-21", "file": "debates2020-07-21e.xml", "sha256": "6169bff6eaa211cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-21e.2112.2", "colnum": "2112", "heading": "Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "preceding_text": "ers us protection. We as MPs in Northern Ireland have felt the brunt of terrorism more than most. We know about it personally—I know about it. I often think of those whom I know who have given their lives. I think of my cousin Kenneth Smyth and his friend Daniel McCormick who were both murdered on 10 December 1971. I think of the four UDR men murdered at Ballydugan: young John Birch, Steven Smart—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-21e.2112.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-22", "file": "debates2020-07-22c.xml", "sha256": "0aeb4f8554d7426b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-22c.2142.4", "colnum": "2142", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "l national infrastructure and our intellectual property. I think that he will find if he goes to any international body or gathering around the world that it is the UK that leads the world in caution about Russian interference. I do not wish to contradict him, but he sat on his hands and said nothing. The previous Leader of the Opposition parroted the line of the Kremlin that the UK should supply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-22c.2142.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-22", "file": "debates2020-07-22c.xml", "sha256": "0aeb4f8554d7426b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-22c.2142.5", "colnum": "2142", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "ar in condemning what happened in Salisbury, not least because I was involved in bringing proceedings against Russia on behalf of the Litvinenko family—that is why I was so strong about it. I spent five years as Director of Public Prosecutions, working on live operations with the security and intelligence services, so I am not going to take lectures from the Prime Minister about national security.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-22c.2142.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-22", "file": "debates2020-07-22c.xml", "sha256": "0aeb4f8554d7426b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-22c.2186.3", "colnum": "2186", "heading": "Counter-Daesh Update", "cue_speaker": "Ben Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Wallace", "preceding_text": "colleague and, indeed, at the time I think we were in the same Government. We should be proud that we spent £3 billion of aid in reconstruction and investment in that region and in protecting people from the effects of poverty. That is the other half of that reconstruction that he was worried about, and I think that that is incredibly important. On the other part of his question, which related to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-22c.2186.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-22", "file": "debates2020-07-22c.xml", "sha256": "0aeb4f8554d7426b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-22c.2201.0", "colnum": "2201", "heading": "Summer Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Jeff Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeff Smith", "preceding_text": "practical help that we can give to people who are genuinely struggling in the current situation. Secondly, I want to mention a sector that does not get mentioned a lot in this place. Like the hon. Member for Filton and Bradley Stoke (Jack Lopresti) , I want to talk about specific sectoral support, but not for aviation in my case. As far as I know, I am the only former professional DJ in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-22c.2201.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2020-07-22", "file": "debates2020-07-22c.xml", "sha256": "0aeb4f8554d7426b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-22c.2206.1", "colnum": "2206", "heading": "Summer Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members:", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Foy", "preceding_text": "njoyment listening to some of my favourite artists performing online gigs, such as KT Tunstall, James and a special concert of Irish musicians in support of the Irish stuck in Australia on temporary visas during this pandemic. On top of that, Durham music service has been teaching songs and how to play instruments to children across the county. I have even signed up to its online ukulele sessions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-22c.2206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-22", "file": "debates2020-07-22c.xml", "sha256": "0aeb4f8554d7426b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-22c.2248.0", "colnum": "2248", "heading": "Summer Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "David Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Johnston", "preceding_text": "’s commitment on that. We also have problems with our roads. Beyond the usual potholes that everyone has in their constituency, we have particular problems with the A34 and the A420. In normal times, there is crash after crash and near-miss after near-miss, as well as huge problems of littering. Coming to an Adjournment debate near you, with permission, Mr Deputy Speaker, are the A34 and the A420.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-22c.2248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-07-22", "file": "debates2020-07-22c.xml", "sha256": "0aeb4f8554d7426b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-22c.2249.0", "colnum": "2249", "heading": "Summer Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Gullis", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Gullis", "preceding_text": "is time, again and again, for the community of Kidsgrove and Talke. He has delivered once again during the pandemic. If ever a man deserved a knighthood, it must be him. I hope that that was heard by those with the opportunity. Ceramics are where I want to go to next, because I cannot for the life of me believe that at Chequers the Prime Minister does not have Stoke-on-Trent tableware to eat from—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-07-22c.2249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-01", "file": "debates2020-09-01b.xml", "sha256": "954af98d01708ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-01b.39.3", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Covid-19", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "preceding_text": "That campaign is under way. We are constantly looking to strengthen it. Of course Facebook and other social media providers have an important role to play. I had that meeting with Nick Clegg, who in fact broke off his holiday in order to take the meeting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-01b.39.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-01", "file": "debates2020-09-01b.xml", "sha256": "954af98d01708ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-01b.80.4", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Fisheries Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Deidre Brock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Deidre Brock", "preceding_text": "re are major concerns on this and the Bill does not provide any sort of genuine framework. It is full of unknowns. It is built on the shifting sands of a Trade Bill where we have no idea what the outcome will be. Should we just shrug our shoulders and crack on? The fact that this Government have had more than four years to come up with this Bill and this is what they have arrived at is a disgrace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-01b.80.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-01", "file": "debates2020-09-01b.xml", "sha256": "954af98d01708ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-01b.92.0", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Fisheries Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Ross", "preceding_text": "e it says: “The Fisheries Bill presents a once in a generation opportunity for the UK fishing industry to learn from the mistakes of the past.” Why is the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation wrong but the SNP is right? Why are SNP Members going to troop through the Lobby tonight, against the advice of representative bodies and against the wishes of fishermen in Moray, in Banff and Buchan and in Angus?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-01b.92.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-02", "file": "debates2020-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "ebabed180ec4a869", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-02a.210.0", "colnum": "210", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Steven Baker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Never!”", "preceding_speaker": "Steven Baker", "preceding_text": "riend begins to go down the road that I foresee. What I want to say to the House is this: imagine a major governing party in the United Kingdom captured by a charismatic and radical leader, buttressed by ruthless and ideological advisers accomplished in the political answer. Imagine that party with the leader and those advisers hell bent on dramatic change to our institutions of the British state—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-02a.210.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-02", "file": "debates2020-09-02b.xml", "sha256": "f83a2172e3e57c9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-02b.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "right hon. and learned Gentleman knows perfectly well, Ofqual made it absolutely clear time and again that in its view the system that was in place was robust. Ofqual is, as he knows, an independent organisation and credit had to be given to its views. All summer long, he has been going around undermining confidence and spreading doubts, in particular about the return to school in safe conditions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-02b.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-02", "file": "debates2020-09-02b.xml", "sha256": "f83a2172e3e57c9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-02b.155.2", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister is just tin-eared and making it up as he goes along. I am surprised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-02b.155.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-02", "file": "debates2020-09-02b.xml", "sha256": "f83a2172e3e57c9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-02b.155.2", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "n MPs have run out of patience. The vice-chair of the 1922 Committee, the hon. Member for Broxbourne (Sir Charles Walker) , has said that the Government are “saying one thing on Monday, changing its mind on Tuesday, something different presented on Wednesday.” That sounds familiar doesn’t it? Another of his MPs, who wisely wants to remain anonymous, is perhaps in the Chamber today. He or she said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-02b.155.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-02", "file": "debates2020-09-02b.xml", "sha256": "f83a2172e3e57c9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-02b.157.2", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "I have said it so many times. School is safe. My own children have been in school throughout. There is no issue on this. The Prime Minister is seeking to divide, instead—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-02b.157.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-02", "file": "debates2020-09-02b.xml", "sha256": "f83a2172e3e57c9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-02b.157.3", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "ll feel their pain and their grief. But it turns out that this particular group he refers to are currently in litigation against the Government, and I will certainly meet them once that litigation is concluded. I say to him that it would be a better thing if, rather than trying to score points in that way, he joined together with this Government and said not only that school is safe to go back to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-02b.157.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-02", "file": "debates2020-09-02b.xml", "sha256": "f83a2172e3e57c9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-02b.165.3", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "l Daily Mail front-page later confirmed that I was not the source in revealing the Prime Minister’s location—a location, I might add, I was not even aware of. However, by this point, the damage was done. This matter has not only been the worst kind of political smear; the false allegation has equally resulted in security implications for myself and my family, given its serious and personal nature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-02b.165.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-02", "file": "debates2020-09-02b.xml", "sha256": "f83a2172e3e57c9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-02b.189.0", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "Can I, I think, thank the hon. Lady for her question? It was full of assertions and various snippets from media speculation in the newspapers. Let me try to give her some substantive answers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-02b.189.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-02", "file": "debates2020-09-02b.xml", "sha256": "f83a2172e3e57c9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-02b.208.2", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Recall of MPs (Change of Party Affiliation)", "cue_speaker": "Anthony Mangnall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anthony Mangnall", "preceding_text": " in the 1770s, when political life and party structures were so radically different, must surely be updated and modernised in the 2020s. For example, the role of political parties in election campaigns has steadily progressed and evolved over the generations. We may all believe that we are elected due to our own brilliance, but I would urge caution that Members let this thought run away with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-02b.208.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-02", "file": "debates2020-09-02b.xml", "sha256": "f83a2172e3e57c9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-02b.239.0", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Private International Law (Implementation of Agreements) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Alex Chalk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Chalk", "preceding_text": "on, on behalf of all the member states, would go out to negotiate these agreements, and having reached an agreement with another country, it would fall to the UK Government in effect to implement it. How would that take place? It would take place either under the doctrine of direct effect, which lawyers in this Chamber will remember stems from the case of Van Gend en Loos, which essentially means—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-02b.239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-03", "file": "debates2020-09-03b.xml", "sha256": "d29fed855636ffce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-03b.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "International Trade", "cue_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "preceding_text": "These standards, such as the ban on chlorinated chicken and hormone-injected beef, are already in UK law as part of the EU withdrawal Act. I have been explicit: it is not a matter for trade policy; it is a matter for our domestic law what standards we have in this country, and we are not trading it away, so it should not be part of any trade Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-03b.276.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-03", "file": "debates2020-09-03b.xml", "sha256": "d29fed855636ffce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-03b.319.0", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "All sensible Governments listen to wise Back Benchers, who represent their constituents assiduously. My hon. Friend makes that right point: we need—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-03b.319.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-03", "file": "debates2020-09-03b.xml", "sha256": "d29fed855636ffce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-03b.320.0", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "The wisdom of the British people knows no bounds and therefore we should always welcome ideas from our constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-03b.320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-03", "file": "debates2020-09-03b.xml", "sha256": "d29fed855636ffce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-03b.326.3", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "preceding_text": "I was very disappointed with the Leader of the House’s little musical stunt with his mobile phone earlier on; a clear case, I thought, of Britannia waives the rules.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-03b.326.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-07", "file": "debates2020-09-07c.xml", "sha256": "8aaab1e3fafd468e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-07c.355.5", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Education", "cue_speaker": "Gavin Williamson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gavin Williamson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is probably aware that we distributed more than 200,000 laptops, as well as more than 40,000 internet router connections, for children from the most disadvantaged communities. They went to local authorities and multi-academy trusts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-07c.355.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-07", "file": "debates2020-09-07c.xml", "sha256": "8aaab1e3fafd468e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-07c.389.0", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Birmingham Attacks and Extinction Rebellion Protests", "cue_speaker": "Kit Malthouse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kit Malthouse", "preceding_text": "wo issues does not necessarily conflate them. It is a single departmental statement because I have had to deal with both issues. We could have had two statements, but it might not have been an efficient use of your time, Madam Deputy Speaker, or indeed the Chamber’s. There has been no attempt to conflate the two. I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman has positioned the SNP outside mainstream opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-07c.389.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-08", "file": "debates2020-09-08d.xml", "sha256": "09441991137dd39b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-08d.516.4", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Northern Ireland Protocol: UK Legal Obligations", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "We are now heading to Bob Blackman, who is about to land his question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-08d.516.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-08", "file": "debates2020-09-08d.xml", "sha256": "09441991137dd39b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-08d.519.0", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Covid-19 Update", "cue_speaker": "Jon Ashworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jon Ashworth", "preceding_text": "l never get on top of infections in areas characterised by low pay, child poverty and overcrowded housing. Does that not help to explain the poor record of contact tracing in these areas? In Bolton, contacts were reached in only 57% of non-complex cases; in Oldham, only 50%; in Blackburn, only 47%; in Bradford, only 43%. Nationally, only 69.4% of contacts are now reached and asked to self-isolate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-08d.519.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-08", "file": "debates2020-09-08d.xml", "sha256": "09441991137dd39b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-08d.532.2", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Covid-19 Update", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "preceding_text": "Well, of course I am improving the public health responses by bringing together different organisations. I am not sure that the hon. Lady is doing anything other than—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-08d.532.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-08", "file": "debates2020-09-08d.xml", "sha256": "09441991137dd39b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-08d.548.1", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Extradition (Provisional Arrest) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "he US, but they would prevent, in a very small way, further facilitation of further miscarriages of justice. It would be a tiny improvement in a system that requires an entirely radical rewrite, so I am only moving them as probing amendments today. The simple truth is—I make this point very firmly to my right hon. and very old Friend the Minister for Security, who is sitting on the Treasury Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-08d.548.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-09", "file": "debates2020-09-09f.xml", "sha256": "0f49e48a4ad75d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-09f.605.3", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Scotland", "cue_speaker": "Chris Elmore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Elmore", "preceding_text": "First, I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh South (Ian Murray) and Mariam on the birth of their baby daughter, Zola. The House will be pleased to hear that she has very robust lungs and her father’s cheeks—that is how it has been put to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-09f.605.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-09", "file": "debates2020-09-09f.xml", "sha256": "0f49e48a4ad75d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-09f.612.1", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "m is and here is my plan”, people might be reassured. But, as ever, he pretends the problem is not there. The infection rate is rising. This is the very point at which we need a functioning testing regime. Far from the “world-beating” system we were promised, the Government cannot even get the basics right. The Government are lurching from crisis to crisis. They still lack even basic incompetence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-09f.612.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-09", "file": "debates2020-09-09f.xml", "sha256": "0f49e48a4ad75d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-09f.612.1", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "ht be reassured. But, as ever, he pretends the problem is not there. The infection rate is rising. This is the very point at which we need a functioning testing regime. Far from the “world-beating” system we were promised, the Government cannot even get the basics right. The Government are lurching from crisis to crisis. They still lack even basic incompetence—[Interruption.] They lack competence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-09f.612.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-09", "file": "debates2020-09-09f.xml", "sha256": "0f49e48a4ad75d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-09f.614.0", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "The answer is that yes, indeed, we will press on with the Bill, because I believe that the right hon. Gentleman’s attacks on it are totally illogical. It actually represents a substantial transfer of powers and of sovereignty to Scotland, to Wales, to Northern—it is a massive devolutionary act. What it also does is—I believe this is common ground across the Dispatch Box—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-09f.614.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-09", "file": "debates2020-09-09f.xml", "sha256": "0f49e48a4ad75d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-09f.614.0", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "und across the Dispatch Box—[Interruption.] It also ensures the integrity of the UK internal market. He speaks of a transfer of powers to the UK Government. On the contrary, what he would do is transfer powers back to Brussels not just over competition and state aid but, of course, over fisheries too. That is the policy of the Scottish nationalist party, and it would be a disaster for our country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-09f.614.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-09", "file": "debates2020-09-09f.xml", "sha256": "0f49e48a4ad75d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-09f.662.1", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Protection of Jobs and Businesses", "cue_speaker": "Mark Eastwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Eastwood", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that point. As it happens, I am coming on to my background in furniture. My background is in furniture manufacturing. Furniture and bedding have been at the forefront of Dewsbury’s manufacturing resurgence, employing hundreds of people across the constituency. Around 60% of the UK population sleep on something made in Dewsbury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-09f.662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-09", "file": "debates2020-09-09f.xml", "sha256": "0f49e48a4ad75d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-09f.667.6", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Protection of Jobs and Businesses", "cue_speaker": "Anthony Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Anthony Browne", "preceding_text": "ed by 1.4%, twice as much as the UK. In Ireland, the employment rate dropped by 6.1%, nine times faster than in the UK. In France—there seems to be a liking for France on the Labour Benches—there was a 2.6% drop in employment from Q2 to Q1, four times the rate here. We do not have that much to learn from the French employment market ,and I really do not think we should start doing so now. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-09f.667.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-09", "file": "debates2020-09-09f.xml", "sha256": "0f49e48a4ad75d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-09f.692.3", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Awarding of Qualifications: Role of Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Kate Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kate Green", "preceding_text": "No, I will not. [Interruption.] I will not give way to the right hon. Gentleman. It was repeated incompetence right at the heart of this Government that led to this year’s exams scandal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-09f.692.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-09", "file": "debates2020-09-09f.xml", "sha256": "0f49e48a4ad75d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-09f.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Awarding of Qualifications: Role of Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Gavin Williamson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gavin Williamson", "preceding_text": "I had expected the hon. Lady to intervene just a moment ago, and the hon. Member for Reading East (Matt Rodda) sneaked into her slot, so I will make some progress. I can see that she is bubbling away with interventions, possibly even provided by the Whips Office, ready to go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-09f.696.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-09", "file": "debates2020-09-09f.xml", "sha256": "0f49e48a4ad75d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-09f.725.0", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Awarding of Qualifications: Role of Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Tom Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Hunt", "preceding_text": "as someone who became a Member of Parliament because I care about children with special educational needs and as somebody who had special educational needs myself. I think the Leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition should take some responsibility for the fact that we were not able to get more kids back to school before the summer holidays. I think he should accept that responsibility. Looking forward—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-09f.725.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-10", "file": "debates2020-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "1e4ea104dae1c26d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-10a.791.2", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Covid-19 Update", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "preceding_text": "orts venues could test audience members on the day and let in those with a negative result, workplaces could be opened up to all those who test negative that morning, and anyone isolating because they are a contact or quarantining after travelling abroad could be tested and released. We are piloting that approach right now and verifying the new technology, and then it can be rolled out nationwide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-10a.791.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-16", "file": "debates2020-09-16b.xml", "sha256": "62733d7da23e3ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-16b.311.3", "colnum": "311", "heading": "The Prime Minister was asked—", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "Gentleman one statistic: just in the last week, the average distance that people have had to go for a test has come down from 6 or 7 miles to 5 miles. We are continuing to improve this system the whole time, and I remind the House and those who want to run it down that we are conducting more tests than any other European country, testing more people per thousand population than any other European—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-16b.311.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-16", "file": "debates2020-09-16b.xml", "sha256": "62733d7da23e3ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-16b.312.1", "colnum": "312", "heading": "The Prime Minister was asked—", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "Yes, and that is why we are not only recruiting another 20,000 police officers, I think about 5,000 of whom have already been recruited, but also—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-16b.312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-16", "file": "debates2020-09-16b.xml", "sha256": "62733d7da23e3ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-16b.325.2", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Sentencing White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Robert Buckland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Buckland", "preceding_text": "re. He will be glad, and he will remember from his time in office, that my predecessor, my right hon. Friend the Member for Surrey Heath (Michael Gove) , pursued problem-solving courts when he was Lord Chancellor. We already have a considerable amount of learning from that process, and I want to build on that. Although I cannot prejudge every jot and tittle of the effect of problem-solving courts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-16b.325.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-16", "file": "debates2020-09-16b.xml", "sha256": "62733d7da23e3ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-16b.370.0", "colnum": "370", "heading": "United Kingdom Internal Market Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Bowie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Bowie", "preceding_text": "g for any local authority in the country. The people of Aberdeenshire will be listening to him, and I am sure they will explain to him their dissatisfaction with that comment. I urge the hon. Gentleman to try explaining that to constituents next door in West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, the people of Durris and Drumoak—a community divided due to Park bridge being closed, possibly never to reopen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-16b.370.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-16", "file": "debates2020-09-16b.xml", "sha256": "62733d7da23e3ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-16b.394.0", "colnum": "394", "heading": "United Kingdom Internal Market Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Atherton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Atherton", "preceding_text": "Twenty-seven per cent. of final goods produced in Wales are exported to the rest of the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-16b.394.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-16", "file": "debates2020-09-16b.xml", "sha256": "62733d7da23e3ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-16b.394.3", "colnum": "394", "heading": "United Kingdom Internal Market Bill", "cue_speaker": "Fay Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fay Jones", "preceding_text": "t doing more at a reserved level, not less at a devolved level. It will give the UK Government the power to invest in Wales’s economic development, something that successive Governments in Cardiff Bay have refused to do. Broadband is a good example of that; according to the House of Commons Library, Brecon and Radnorshire lags at 648th in the league table of 650 constituencies for broadband speed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-16b.394.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-16", "file": "debates2020-09-16b.xml", "sha256": "62733d7da23e3ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-16b.400.7", "colnum": "400", "heading": "United Kingdom Internal Market Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dehenna Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dehenna Davison", "preceding_text": "I will not be giving way again; there are other Members who want to speak. I now turn to my friends in Scotland. We all remember how we witnessed the people of Scotland exert their right of political freedom to choose to stay as part of our Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-16b.400.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-16", "file": "debates2020-09-16b.xml", "sha256": "62733d7da23e3ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-16b.404.3", "colnum": "404", "heading": "United Kingdom Internal Market Bill", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "n. Before devolution, there was a Scotland Office. It exercised responsibility, authority and powers over all the areas that are now controlled by the Scottish Parliament. The reason devolution came across was to directly express democratic control over those responsibilities. The Government now want to go back to the dark days of the 1980s, under the regime of Michael Forsyth and Malcolm Rifkind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-16b.404.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-16", "file": "debates2020-09-16b.xml", "sha256": "62733d7da23e3ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-16b.441.2", "colnum": "441", "heading": "United Kingdom Internal Market Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "er. I must inform colleagues that, unfortunately, the pass readers in the Aye Lobby are not working. This means that colleagues who wish to vote Aye will need to do so by walking through the Chamber and stating their name at the Dispatch Box. I ask colleagues who want to vote Aye to join the queue to enter the Chamber. The No Lobby is unaffected and colleagues can continue to use the pass readers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-16b.441.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-17", "file": "debates2020-09-17b.xml", "sha256": "7d15ec7b86f530ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-17b.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Covid-19 Update", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "preceding_text": "Those are the challenges that we are working so hard to address. The message to the hon. Lady’s constituent and others is that there are thousands of tests available in her part of London, and it is incredibly important that those with symptoms come forward and those without symptoms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-17b.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-17", "file": "debates2020-09-17b.xml", "sha256": "7d15ec7b86f530ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-17b.545.2", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme", "cue_speaker": "Anthony Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anthony Browne", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Member for North Ayrshire and Arran (Patricia Gibson) on securing this debate and my right hon. Friend the Chancellor on coming up with a policy so good that it gets a warm welcome from across the political spectrum. It is a delight to hear Labour and SNP Members praising Conservative party economic policy—a real triumph—but all good things come to an end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-17b.545.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-17", "file": "debates2020-09-17b.xml", "sha256": "7d15ec7b86f530ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-17b.602.0", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Axial Spondyloarthritis", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "I commend the hon. Member for Gedling (Tom Randall) on his courage in bringing such a personal and difficult matter before the House. Many people will not appreciate that that is a difficult thing to do, and I am sure that he will have made a difference to many by what he has done today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-17b.602.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-21", "file": "debates2020-09-21d.xml", "sha256": "40651f3eccd630c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-21d.636.5", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Covid-19 Update", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "o to pubs, they will simply congregate in rooms, which is even worse. If the Secretary of State does not listen to me, will he at least listen to Professor Mark Woolhouse, a professor of infectious diseases? He wrote in The Sunday Telegraph: “It is profoundly disappointing that six months into this pandemic, having rejected every alternative proposed, we keep coming back to lockdown”. He suggests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-21d.636.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-21", "file": "debates2020-09-21d.xml", "sha256": "40651f3eccd630c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-21d.660.1", "colnum": "660", "heading": "United Kingdom Internal Market Bill", "cue_speaker": "Robin Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Walker", "preceding_text": "I have given way to the SNP already. The hon. and learned Lady will have her chance to speak very shortly. I hope that I have dealt with all the important issues raised in this group of amendments. In conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-21d.660.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-21", "file": "debates2020-09-21d.xml", "sha256": "40651f3eccd630c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-21d.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "United Kingdom Internal Market Bill", "cue_speaker": "Joanna Cherry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joanna Cherry", "preceding_text": " members of the legal profession, will see that as another example of the Government’s total disregard for devolution and for Scotland’s separate and distinct institutions. That is yet another reason why for Scotland the only way out of the mess that the Conservative and Unionist party has created over Europe is independence. I am glad that so many more people in Scotland are realising that daily.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-21d.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-21", "file": "debates2020-09-21d.xml", "sha256": "40651f3eccd630c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-21d.730.1", "colnum": "730", "heading": "United Kingdom Internal Market Bill", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is ascribing the things he most disagrees with to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-21d.730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-22", "file": "debates2020-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "3036884eeb970a04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-22a.782.2", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Justice", "cue_speaker": "Robert Buckland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Buckland", "preceding_text": "I really find it extraordinary that the right hon. Gentleman brings the code of conduct into these matters. Like him, I am acting as a Member of Parliament. I am acting as a Minister in the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-22a.782.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-22", "file": "debates2020-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "3036884eeb970a04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-22a.840.3", "colnum": "840", "heading": "United Kingdom Internal Market Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bill Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Cash", "preceding_text": "airn, Badenoch and Strathspey (Drew Hendry) is aware of what went on a couple of years ago in the European Scrutiny Committee and during the European Standing Committee stage on the ports regulation. It is very relevant to this state aid clause. I believe that every port in Europe is publicly owned, whereas every port in the UK, including those in Scotland and Northern Ireland, is owned privately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-22a.840.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-22", "file": "debates2020-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "3036884eeb970a04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-22a.886.0", "colnum": "886", "heading": "United Kingdom Internal Market Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Daly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Daly", "preceding_text": "s a strange thing indeed—I am elected in Bury but I consider myself part of the same country as the Scottish National party Members. I may have a naive point of view, but I believe that we all live in the same country, with defined, different nationalities—I understand that. However, I consider myself British, and although SNP colleagues may well not do this, I consider them to be British as well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-22a.886.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-22", "file": "debates2020-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "3036884eeb970a04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-22a.887.1", "colnum": "887", "heading": "United Kingdom Internal Market Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Daly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Daly", "preceding_text": "he Bill is meritorious and positive and that it seeks to achieve an outcome that increases prosperity for everyone within the United Kingdom. This is the first opportunity that I have had to speak in this debate, but I was somewhat surprised that on the first day of debate, SNP Members were arguing that money should not be invested in Scotland because it comes from the United Kingdom Treasury, so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-22a.887.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-23", "file": "debates2020-09-23c.xml", "sha256": "4c572bee8d4aabf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-23c.934.0", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "itted that testing currently “has huge problems”? Dido Harding said, “plainly we don’t have enough testing capacity”. The Health Secretary said that fixing testing would take weeks. Pretending that there isn’t a problem is part of the problem, Prime Minister. Let us test what the Prime Minister’s explanation is—it is unclear. Is the explanation for the problems that we do not have enough capacity?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-23c.934.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-23", "file": "debates2020-09-23c.xml", "sha256": "4c572bee8d4aabf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-23c.934.1", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "t is the work of Dido Harding and her team. What we want to hear—what I, frankly, want to hear—is more of the spirit of togetherness that we had yesterday. This is an opportunity to support NHS Test and Trace. This is an opportunity to get behind that scheme—to encourage people to believe in it and its efficacy. Instead, the right hon. and learned Gentleman constantly knocks it from the sidelines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-23c.934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-23", "file": "debates2020-09-23c.xml", "sha256": "4c572bee8d4aabf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-23c.937.0", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "I notice that both the leader of the Scottish nationalist party and the Leader of the Opposition now support an indefinite extension of the furlough scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-23c.937.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-23", "file": "debates2020-09-23c.xml", "sha256": "4c572bee8d4aabf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-23c.938.2", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady simply cannot be unaware that the campaign to get the world’s leaders to sign up to a leaders’ declaration on biodiversity has been led over the past few weeks by this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-23c.938.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-23", "file": "debates2020-09-23c.xml", "sha256": "4c572bee8d4aabf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-23c.989.0", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Overseas Operations (Service Personnel And Veterans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ben Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Wallace", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman is going to tell us about the Advocate General for Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-23c.989.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-23", "file": "debates2020-09-23c.xml", "sha256": "4c572bee8d4aabf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-23c.992.1", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Overseas Operations (Service Personnel And Veterans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ben Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Wallace", "preceding_text": "I will crack on. The House has heard the point from the Liberal Democrat spokesman. I venture that I will side with the former Attorney General for Northern Ireland on his views regarding whether this provision does or does not prevent torture. I think his judge of the law is pretty succinct, although I have not always agreed with his views.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-23c.992.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-23", "file": "debates2020-09-23c.xml", "sha256": "4c572bee8d4aabf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-23c.994.6", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Overseas Operations (Service Personnel And Veterans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": ",000 troops to Iraq over six years. The Government cite—the Secretary of State did so today—1,000 civil claims, all against the MOD, not individual service personnel, as evidence for the Bill to end vexatious legal claims. One third of those cases—330—have had the MOD pay compensation. Clearly, they were not vexatious as the MOD rightly insists on only settling cases in which it accepts liability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-23c.994.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-23", "file": "debates2020-09-23c.xml", "sha256": "4c572bee8d4aabf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-23c.998.0", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Overseas Operations (Service Personnel And Veterans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ben Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Wallace", "preceding_text": "What is appalling is the straw man being put up time and again by a Labour party half-funded by these ambulance-chasing lawyers. That is going to damage our reputation. No apology for the money they took from a number of them—no apology whatever. What we should recognise is that many of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-23c.998.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-23", "file": "debates2020-09-23c.xml", "sha256": "4c572bee8d4aabf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-23c.1008.2", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Overseas Operations (Service Personnel And Veterans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Joanna Cherry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joanna Cherry", "preceding_text": "That seems to be what he is suggesting. But let us focus on what we are talking about here. We are talking about torture—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-23c.1008.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-23", "file": "debates2020-09-23c.xml", "sha256": "4c572bee8d4aabf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-23c.1014.1", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Overseas Operations (Service Personnel And Veterans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Carol Monaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Carol Monaghan", "preceding_text": "It is a pleasure, as always, to follow the hon. and gallant Member for Beckenham (Bob Stewart) , whose hair is looking glorious this afternoon as well. I declare an interest because, as most Members will know, my husband is a veteran.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-23c.1014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-23", "file": "debates2020-09-23c.xml", "sha256": "4c572bee8d4aabf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-23c.1017.3", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Overseas Operations (Service Personnel And Veterans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Sunderland", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: “Nobody has said it.”", "preceding_speaker": "James Sunderland", "preceding_text": "ould have us think, the Bill does not provide blanket immunity for soldiers to commit war crimes. Indeed, the suggestion in some of what I have read that the best trained and best led armed forces in the world are somehow predisposed to inflicting torture or sex crimes on operations is ridiculous. It is deeply offensive to those who serve, and the people who peddle this nonsense just need to stop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-23c.1017.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-23", "file": "debates2020-09-23c.xml", "sha256": "4c572bee8d4aabf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-23c.1018.0", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Overseas Operations (Service Personnel And Veterans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Martin Docherty", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Not yet!”", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Docherty", "preceding_text": "a very different country from the hon. Member for Bracknell (James Sunderland) . I declare an interest, as it seems that everyone else is, in that my brother is a member of the armed forces, as is my nephew. Unlike the hon. Member for Wolverhampton South West (Stuart Anderson) , a fellow member of the Defence Committee, they are not generals, members of senior command or part of the officer corps.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-23c.1018.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-23", "file": "debates2020-09-23c.xml", "sha256": "4c572bee8d4aabf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-23c.1035.4", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Overseas Operations (Service Personnel And Veterans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "Take 2! Mr Shannon, you must come here more often and you will find out how this place works.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-23c.1035.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-23", "file": "debates2020-09-23c.xml", "sha256": "4c572bee8d4aabf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-23c.1046.1", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Overseas Operations (Service Personnel And Veterans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lloyd Russell-Moyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lloyd Russell-Moyle", "preceding_text": "That is why I used the example of blindness: the point of knowledge would be the first time that sight is lost, but total sight loss could take much longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-23c.1046.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-23", "file": "debates2020-09-23c.xml", "sha256": "4c572bee8d4aabf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-23c.1050.6", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Overseas Operations (Service Personnel And Veterans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Johnny Mercer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Johnny Mercer", "preceding_text": "It is not a point of order. It is yet another effort to waste time in a very important debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-23c.1050.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-23", "file": "debates2020-09-23c.xml", "sha256": "4c572bee8d4aabf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-23c.1051.1", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Overseas Operations (Service Personnel And Veterans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Johnny Mercer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Johnny Mercer", "preceding_text": "Absolutely not; I am not giving way. It is very clear to me that this is the first Government to come to this House and not to say, “What a difficult problem this is, but we will hand all our soldiers off to the human rights lawyers.” This is the first Government who are actually going to do something to protect our servicemen and women. I am proud of that and I make no apology for it at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-23c.1051.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-24", "file": "debates2020-09-24d.xml", "sha256": "1c74c44478541072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-24d.1142.0", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "tatement after statement. They have brought things to the House. The Prime Minister has been here. The Chancellor will be here very shortly. The Health Secretary has been here. The Foreign Secretary will be here shortly. The House has been kept up to date. Baroness Hale has now, of course, retired from the Supreme Court, and is as entitled to her opinions as any other Member of the House of Lords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-24d.1142.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-25", "file": "debates2020-09-25a.xml", "sha256": "f620f21b6f7790c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-25a.1257.2", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "Forensic Science Regulator and Biometrics Strategy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rupa Huq", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rupa Huq", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Minister and to you, Mr Speaker, for pointing out what used to go on in the labs of Chorley—not the stuff that happened in Germany, obviously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-25a.1257.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-29", "file": "debates2020-09-29d.xml", "sha256": "de8c76ae48be0f7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-29d.213.0", "colnum": "213", "heading": "United Kingdom Internal Market Bill", "cue_speaker": "Drew Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Drew Hendry", "preceding_text": "om on standards, with the UK Government imposing their will. As we heard, clauses 2 to 9 contain sweeping powers on animal welfare, food safety, environmental protections —every single aspect of Scottish life: the water we drink, the food on our table, the buildings we construct, and even our NHS. We know that chlorinated chicken is on the table and that it will be bloating our tables as a result—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-29d.213.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-29", "file": "debates2020-09-29d.xml", "sha256": "de8c76ae48be0f7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-29d.283.1", "colnum": "283", "heading": "United Kingdom Internal Market Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alok Sharma", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alok Sharma", "preceding_text": "e UK Internal Market effectively operates as it does now.” I could go on. Make UK has noted that it is particularly important to manufacturers that they can trade simply and effectively across all parts of the United Kingdom. The business community is clear: we must continue to safeguard the sanctity of the seamless UK internal market. The Bill also respects and upholds the devolution settlements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-29d.283.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-09-29", "file": "debates2020-09-29d.xml", "sha256": "de8c76ae48be0f7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-29d.291.1", "colnum": "291", "heading": "United Kingdom Internal Market Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "g stock), roads or other transport facilities… health, educational, cultural or sports facilities”. The Secretary of State can sit and tell us that it does not override devolution. Well, the facts are in the Bill. What the Government have done is overridden devolution and, quite frankly, I can tell you, Madam Deputy Speaker, we in Scotland will be having absolutely none of it. So tonight, just as—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-09-29d.291.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-01", "file": "debates2020-10-01c.xml", "sha256": "16250f89777d3a2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-01c.505.2", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Covid-19 Update and Hospitality Curfew", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "preceding_text": "Absolutely. My hon. Friend is an incredible voice for Peterborough. We discussed the local lockdown having its effect in Leicester, and the Prime Minister mentioned Luton yesterday; the work of the people of Peterborough is another example that we could cite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-01c.505.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-01", "file": "debates2020-10-01c.xml", "sha256": "16250f89777d3a2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-01c.519.0", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "preceding_text": "e time, but Mark managed to get us through that. Also, we agreed the report digitally, and it went through in record time. Mark has not only left online “Erskine May”; he has patiently taught the next generation of Clerks. Mark, we will miss you. Thank you for your work. The House is very grateful, and we hope to see you when you get back—and when we all get back, maybe at a do in Speaker’s House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-01c.519.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-01", "file": "debates2020-10-01c.xml", "sha256": "16250f89777d3a2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-01c.540.0", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "This is an example, is it not, of what goes wrong when the hard left are in charge?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-01c.540.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-01", "file": "debates2020-10-01c.xml", "sha256": "16250f89777d3a2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-01c.573.0", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Social Security (Up-rating of Benefits) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Stephens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Stephens", "preceding_text": "It is good to see that social distancing is being applied at all times. It was remiss of me not to welcome the Pensions Minister back to his place. I did send him a private message, and thoughts of him and his wife and family are very much with us all in this House. I do welcome him back. These are five non-controversial amendments, which I hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-01c.573.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-05", "file": "debates2020-10-05b.xml", "sha256": "787b61704be75f0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-05b.603.3", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Housing, Communities and Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Kelly Tolhurst", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kelly Tolhurst", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. We agree that turning disused commercial and retail units into new homes can provide more housing, and create more vibrant town and city centres. A number of national permitted development rights allow for shops, offices and high streets to change to residential use, which will have the impact of creating environments where people want to live, work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-05b.603.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-05", "file": "debates2020-10-05b.xml", "sha256": "787b61704be75f0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-05b.671.1", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "S agents to take part in criminality. As we have heard, last December the investigatory powers tribunal ruled in favour of MI5 in a case which challenged such authorisations. However, that ruling was by just a 3-2 majority, thus illustrating the point well known to the Intelligence and Security Committee that the switch of a single vote can dramatically change even a carefully pre-planned outcome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-05b.671.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-05", "file": "debates2020-10-05b.xml", "sha256": "787b61704be75f0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-05b.679.1", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gavin Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gavin Robinson", "preceding_text": "shared and I will not delve beyond that which is public. I just want to finish the quote about the case that occurred in 2005: “After four months living in isolation, he”— Denis Donaldson— was shot dead in an attack claimed by another…IRA group”. That has to encapsulate for Members the severity —the seriousness—of the danger that arises for those who engage on our behalf and who serve our country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-05b.679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-05", "file": "debates2020-10-05b.xml", "sha256": "787b61704be75f0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-05b.694.1", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Apsana Begum", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Apsana Begum", "preceding_text": "I take the point, but I believe that under the HRA a prosecution cannot currently be brought, so that is not a safeguard that is actually in statute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-05b.694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-06", "file": "debates2020-10-06b.xml", "sha256": "15d13bff62b33a3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-06b.748.0", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Areas with Additional Public Health Restrictions: Economic Support", "cue_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "preceding_text": "exactly the same trend and are dealing with it in in many of the same ways as we are in the United Kingdom. The hon. Lady says that support has not been offered to those suffering from economic harm, but that ignores, for example, the announcement that I made in the Chamber some weeks ago about the £1,500 of support for businesses for every three weeks of closure as the result of a local lockdown—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-06b.748.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-06", "file": "debates2020-10-06b.xml", "sha256": "15d13bff62b33a3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-06b.751.2", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Areas with Additional Public Health Restrictions: Economic Support", "cue_speaker": "Rupa Huq", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rupa Huq", "preceding_text": "London, which is now on a watch list, is not only our financial centre but our cultural capital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-06b.751.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-06", "file": "debates2020-10-06b.xml", "sha256": "15d13bff62b33a3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-06b.827.1", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Private International Law (Implementation of Agreements) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Alex Chalk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Chalk", "preceding_text": "egious affront to our constitution when they were used, because they were used a second time in 2007. They created a power to give effect to bilateral agreements with the United States on reciprocal enforcement of family maintenance orders. Just to complete that point, not only were those powers used; the right hon. Gentleman, for whom I have enormous respect, created new ones of his own. In 2005—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-06b.827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-06", "file": "debates2020-10-06b.xml", "sha256": "15d13bff62b33a3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-06b.850.3", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Public Health", "cue_speaker": "Helen Whately", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Whately", "preceding_text": "I am sorry but I was closing my speech, not taking an intervention. That was the end of my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-06b.850.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-07", "file": "debates2020-10-07b.xml", "sha256": "a5951c0172b98d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-07b.897.1", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "Yes. But if the Prime Minister cannot see and hear local communities when they say that the infection rate has gone up tenfold under restrictions, and he does not realise that is a problem, then that is part of the problem. There is a further cause of anger—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-07b.897.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-07", "file": "debates2020-10-07b.xml", "sha256": "a5951c0172b98d20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-07b.977.3", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Public Health", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "Yes, I do. We can see from the footnote to the regulations that we are debating that the two sets of regulations that they refer to have been amended 18 times. I have to confess that I find them difficult to follow. A resident of any of the areas in question cannot just go to the Government website and pop their postcode in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-07b.977.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-08", "file": "debates2020-10-08d.xml", "sha256": "53bbc9c2314ef638", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-08d.1005.2", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "International Trade", "cue_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "preceding_text": "I have said, of course in any trade deal that we strike we will take into account our high standards, to ensure that our farmers are not undermined, but if the right hon. Lady is suggesting a blanket ban on any foodstuffs that do not comply exactly with British farm regulations, she is talking about preventing developing countries from sending their foodstuffs to the United Kingdom. Is she saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-08d.1005.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-08", "file": "debates2020-10-08d.xml", "sha256": "53bbc9c2314ef638", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-08d.1007.0", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "International Trade", "cue_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-08d.1007.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-08", "file": "debates2020-10-08d.xml", "sha256": "53bbc9c2314ef638", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-08d.1018.2", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "International Trade", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-08d.1018.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-08", "file": "debates2020-10-08d.xml", "sha256": "53bbc9c2314ef638", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-08d.1020.3", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "International Trade", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right, and last week I announced a new trade hub in Edinburgh, which will help businesses in Scotland to grow internationally and recover from the impact of coronavirus. The hub will promote opportunities for Scottish companies, and FTAs will provide access to our global network, which is provided in 115-plus markets. There is the support of UK Export Finance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-08d.1020.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-08", "file": "debates2020-10-08d.xml", "sha256": "53bbc9c2314ef638", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-08d.1023.3", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "preceding_text": "ll our fans can return. Staff have already taken a reduction in wages. Now the Government are holding those businesses with their hands tied behind their backs. They cannot raise income from fans returning, which helps fans’ health and wellbeing. I do not know whether any Cabinet members go to football matches, but there were some fantastic results last weekend. Fans would have wanted to see them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-08d.1023.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-08", "file": "debates2020-10-08d.xml", "sha256": "53bbc9c2314ef638", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-08d.1066.0", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Planning and House Building", "cue_speaker": "Siobhain McDonagh", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Go on!”", "preceding_speaker": "Siobhain McDonagh", "preceding_text": "t of more specialist accommodation for the elderly, improving the options available for older people, while releasing some of the current housing stock? No. 9: why are so many properties across our capital owned internationally, rather than by Londoners and people in this country? Let us take ideas from some other countries. I am really sorry; I am not going to get to No. 10, Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-08d.1066.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-12", "file": "debates2020-10-12d.xml", "sha256": "76bd2c6634525d4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-12d.80.1", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Agriculture Bill", "cue_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "preceding_text": "Where the Leader of the Opposition leads, the Government follow. I am grateful for that. That visit to Wiltshire was not in vain, I see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-12d.80.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-12", "file": "debates2020-10-12d.xml", "sha256": "76bd2c6634525d4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-12d.80.1", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Agriculture Bill", "cue_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "preceding_text": "Where the Leader of the Opposition leads, the Government follow. I am grateful for that. That visit to Wiltshire was not in vain, I see—[Interruption.] What kind of country do we want to be?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-12d.80.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-12", "file": "debates2020-10-12d.xml", "sha256": "76bd2c6634525d4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-12d.80.1", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Agriculture Bill", "cue_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "preceding_text": "Where the Leader of the Opposition leads, the Government follow. I am grateful for that. That visit to Wiltshire was not in vain, I see—[Interruption.] What kind of country do we want to be? [Interruption.] I do not think that a country whose MPs shout at each other in a debate like this is a country that is good—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-12d.80.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-12", "file": "debates2020-10-12d.xml", "sha256": "76bd2c6634525d4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-12d.80.1", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Agriculture Bill", "cue_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "preceding_text": ".] I have not heard that from this side and I encourage those on the Conservative side to recognise that as well. There are people watching this debate in farming communities up and down the country. They are tuning into BBC Parliament and parliamentlive.tv for the first ever time, and they should see parliamentarians performing at our best in this debate. I want Britain to be a nation of quality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-12d.80.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-12", "file": "debates2020-10-12d.xml", "sha256": "76bd2c6634525d4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-12d.97.0", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Agriculture Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dave Doogan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dave Doogan", "preceding_text": " is listening for the voice of Scotland, I can assure her that she will find it over here on the SNP Benches, not over there on the Tory Benches. Scottish Tory MPs do not even speak for Scottish Tory voters, 95% of whom backed calls for food standards to be maintained, according to Which? People are asking why the Tory Government and the majority of their Back Benchers do not listen to the people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-12d.97.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-12", "file": "debates2020-10-12d.xml", "sha256": "76bd2c6634525d4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-12d.113.0", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Agriculture Bill", "cue_speaker": "Victoria Prentis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Victoria Prentis", "preceding_text": "d who spoke thoughtfully about the cost of production and the work that she had done to take the Secretary of State for International Trade to her constituency to speak to her farmers. My hon. Friend the Member for Totnes (Anthony Mangnall) is right: the fear-mongering must stop tonight. We are not going to be importing chlorine-washed chicken or hormone-treated beef. That is the law of this land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-12d.113.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-13", "file": "debates2020-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "f18e5b021a312eb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-13b.157.0", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "I suspect the hon. Lady will know that the UK has a long practice, under successive Governments, of not commenting on voting in UN elections that are conducted by secret ballot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-13b.157.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-13", "file": "debates2020-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "f18e5b021a312eb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-13b.172.0", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Public Health Restrictions: Government Economic Support", "cue_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Lady looks at international comparators, she will see that the Government’s package of support—more than £200 billion—is generous. I point her to the job support scheme, for example. A number of colleagues across the House question whether the 67% is sufficient, but the point is that it is dynamic in conjunction with the additional funding that has been put into welfare.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-13b.172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-13", "file": "debates2020-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "f18e5b021a312eb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-13b.172.0", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Public Health Restrictions: Government Economic Support", "cue_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "preceding_text": "s across the House question whether the 67% is sufficient, but the point is that it is dynamic in conjunction with the additional funding that has been put into welfare. [Interruption.] If the hon. Lady lets me answer the question, she will hear that I am talking about the support for people in businesses that have closed, which is an issue that all colleagues across the House take very seriously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-13b.172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-13", "file": "debates2020-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "f18e5b021a312eb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-13b.180.1", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Public Health Restrictions: Government Economic Support", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": ", which is obviously of huge benefit. I would reinforce the point of the former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, my right hon. Friend the Member for Preseli Pembrokeshire (Stephen Crabb) . I accept that the UC extra money was temporary during the pandemic, but the Government’s own strategy document suggests that the pandemic will not be over by next April. I do not expect an answer today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-13b.180.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-13", "file": "debates2020-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "f18e5b021a312eb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-13b.203.1", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Public Health: Coronavirus Regulations", "cue_speaker": "Jon Ashworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jon Ashworth", "preceding_text": "I think I made that point, but, yes, I most certainly would. If I had proposed that amendment, I hope the hon. Gentleman would have joined us in the Division Lobby, although I know that since leaving the Government he has been very lax about going through the Lobby with the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-13b.203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-13", "file": "debates2020-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "f18e5b021a312eb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-13b.203.1", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Public Health: Coronavirus Regulations", "cue_speaker": "Jon Ashworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jon Ashworth", "preceding_text": "I think I made that point, but, yes, I most certainly would. If I had proposed that amendment, I hope the hon. Gentleman would have joined us in the Division Lobby, although I know that since leaving the Government he has been very lax about going through the Lobby with the Opposition—[Interruption.] I drank my water too quickly as the hon Gentleman’s intervention was shorter than I anticipated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-13b.203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-13", "file": "debates2020-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "f18e5b021a312eb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-13b.244.0", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Public Health: Coronavirus Regulations", "cue_speaker": "Munira Wilson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Yes, he has!", "preceding_speaker": "Munira Wilson", "preceding_text": "Okay, but he has not denied it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-13b.244.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-13", "file": "debates2020-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "f18e5b021a312eb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-13b.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Fisheries Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Deidre Brock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Deidre Brock", "preceding_text": "All from the devolved authorities would like to see that, and the hon. Lady will recall that at the recent roundtable discussion between the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations and the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation the Minister said that a consultation will be taking place on the distribution of quotas between the devolved authorities. We are certainly looking forward to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-13b.276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-13", "file": "debates2020-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "f18e5b021a312eb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-13b.288.0", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Fisheries Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Ross", "preceding_text": "des ago, and what we can do to revitalise those areas when this industry gets back up and running because of the legislation that this UK Government and this Parliament are looking at, debating and taking through now. Positive as I am about the Bill, I have to pause for a moment and stop that positivity to discuss the contribution from the hon. Member for Edinburgh North and Leith (Deidre Brock) .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-13b.288.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-13", "file": "debates2020-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "f18e5b021a312eb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-13b.306.0", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Fisheries Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Amess", "preceding_text": " conservation zones and marine protected areas, which are crucial to the biodiversity of our fish. Without removing the laws allowing such big boats into these particularly fragile areas, we will undoubtedly continue to see a decline in our fish stocks and long-term pollution of our environment. A recent Greenpeace investigation reports that in 2019, 25 super-trawlers, none of which were UK-owned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-13b.306.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-14", "file": "debates2020-10-14c.xml", "sha256": "2be6fe256dd175ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-14c.383.1", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Covid-19 Economic Support Package", "cue_speaker": "Anneliese Dodds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anneliese Dodds", "preceding_text": "day because the Government have not been doing what it takes to support areas under additional local restrictions. Currently, those are in the north of England and parts of the midlands, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and Members representing those areas know that that is the case. So I appeal to them to put their constituents’ jobs and livelihoods first, and support this Opposition motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-14c.383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-14", "file": "debates2020-10-14c.xml", "sha256": "2be6fe256dd175ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-14c.384.5", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Covid-19 Economic Support Package", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "ng spent weeks indulging themselves with political attacks on this Government’s efforts to protect jobs, Labour have now flipped and support a blunt national lockdown. They will not say how much damage that will do to jobs or livelihoods, they will not say how they plan to support businesses through it, and they do not seem to care about the long-term stability of the public finances. If they did—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-14c.384.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-14", "file": "debates2020-10-14c.xml", "sha256": "2be6fe256dd175ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-14c.390.3", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Covid-19 Economic Support Package", "cue_speaker": "David Linden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Linden", "preceding_text": "p that has repeatedly been excluded from the Chancellor’s financial packages has been the arts and culture sector. We saw this week the closure of all Cineworld theatres across the UK, including the one in my constituency in Parkhead. I again call on him to provide sector-specific support for the arts and culture sector, which we know will continue to suffer during the second wave of the pandemic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-14c.390.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-20", "file": "debates2020-10-20c.xml", "sha256": "14d15f9d0147e1af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-20c.933.3", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Black History Month", "cue_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "preceding_text": "recently. I do not know whether I am meant to announce this in the Chamber, but why not? [Interruption.] Yes, I should be careful. She remarked to me recently that when she was trying to identify the black individual in an illustrated book with people of different colours—dark, mixed race, white, Asian: it was a complete mosaic—my son did not know what she was talking about. He could not conceive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-20c.933.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-20", "file": "debates2020-10-20c.xml", "sha256": "14d15f9d0147e1af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-20c.959.0", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Black History Month", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Jones", "preceding_text": "ed dignified and committed. He was a household name in the UK and in America, but neither he nor his family got money from his success, because the rights to his most famous composition were sold for a small fee. The other great musical genius is Stormzy. I was a fan before he was famous, and I even quoted him in my maiden speech in 2017. I still have yet to meet him, and that is very unfortunate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-20c.959.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-20", "file": "debates2020-10-20c.xml", "sha256": "14d15f9d0147e1af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-20c.1006.1", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Black History Month", "cue_speaker": "Anne McLaughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McLaughlin", "preceding_text": "Spoken like a true engineer. His highest achievement, however, was that he played for the Scotland football team on three occasions, captaining the side in his first match. Most importantly, Scotland won each game.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-20c.1006.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-21", "file": "debates2020-10-21e.xml", "sha256": "e40e2616e30cd794", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-21e.1055.1", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "The Prime Minister was asked—", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": " so much support and so much help has been given to the population to get through this crisis, and we will continue to do that. It is the height of absurdity that the right hon. and learned Gentleman stands up and attacks the economic consequences of the measures we are obliged to take across some parts of the country when he wants to turn the lights out with a full national lockdown, taking kids—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-21e.1055.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-21", "file": "debates2020-10-21e.xml", "sha256": "e40e2616e30cd794", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-21e.1091.2", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Additional Covid-19 Restrictions: Fair Economic Support", "cue_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "preceding_text": "We have a long-standing and established methodology in terms of support across the United Kingdom through the Barnett process that allows the broad shoulders of the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-21e.1091.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-21", "file": "debates2020-10-21e.xml", "sha256": "e40e2616e30cd794", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-21e.1100.0", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Additional Covid-19 Restrictions: Fair Economic Support", "cue_speaker": "Chris Clarkson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Clarkson", "preceding_text": " media afterwards. I implore Opposition Members to park the opportunism. I know the hon. Member for Stretford and Urmston (Kate Green) thinks this is a good crisis that the Labour party should exploit, and I know she speaks for a lot of her Front Bench colleagues when she says that. We just need to see it in the support-U-turn-oppose approach that has characterised their hindsight-heavy behaviour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-21e.1100.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-21", "file": "debates2020-10-21e.xml", "sha256": "e40e2616e30cd794", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-21e.1132.3", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Free School Meals", "cue_speaker": "Kate Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kate Green", "preceding_text": "l do not have to. The Secretary of State can stand up now and do the right thing. He can listen to Labour, to campaigners and to families across the country, withdraw his amendment and support our motion. Sadly, I do not think he will do so. Yet months ago, Marcus Rashford asked the question that started this debate and that saw the Government extend free school meals over the summer. Today I ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-21e.1132.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-22", "file": "debates2020-10-22c.xml", "sha256": "c3cdd27c9a3f4020", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-22c.1233.1", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "keeping this House sitting primarily in a physical sense, certainly for legislation: so that there can be proper scrutiny. It may be that some people like silence from the hon. Gentleman—most of us enjoy his questions—but that is not how to scrutinise Her Majesty’s Government. As regards the funding for Scotland, UK taxpayers have contributed £7.2 billion to help Scotland, protecting 779,500 jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-22c.1233.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-22", "file": "debates2020-10-22c.xml", "sha256": "c3cdd27c9a3f4020", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-22c.1287.1", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Covid-19: Disparate Impact", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "I thank the excellent Minister for coming to the House to make this statement. I think she said that people over 70 were 80 times more likely to be affected by covid. If that is the case, what measures are the Government taking to protect people who are 70 or older?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-22c.1287.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-10-22", "file": "debates2020-10-22c.xml", "sha256": "c3cdd27c9a3f4020", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-22c.1307.2", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "Covid-19", "cue_speaker": "Jon Ashworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jon Ashworth", "preceding_text": "Marr Show” on Sunday, he said that “any test and trace system of whatever kind has less utility” when the virus is accelerating. If the Secretary of State thinks that there is a good set of statistics, perhaps he should send it to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, who took a different line on Sunday. Let me come to a conclusion, because I know that many people want to speak in this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-10-22c.1307.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-02", "file": "debates2020-11-02c.xml", "sha256": "e8a5ee17dcb30673", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-02c.82.1", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Covid-19", "cue_speaker": "Jon Ashworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jon Ashworth", "preceding_text": "untry. As I said, we need reassurance that people will get support for isolation. In this lockdown, we will have a spending review, and the test of that spending review is how it will support our national health service and social care sector for the rest of this covid period. We entered this crisis after years of underfunding in the national health service, with capital budgets repeatedly raided—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-02c.82.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-02", "file": "debates2020-11-02c.xml", "sha256": "e8a5ee17dcb30673", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-02c.84.1", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Covid-19", "cue_speaker": "Jon Ashworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jon Ashworth", "preceding_text": "The national health service has been systematically underfunded for years under this Tory Government. The NHS went into this crisis without adequate levels of PPE for frontline staff, with nurses using curtains and plastic bags to protect themselves on the wards in the face of this horrific virus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-02c.84.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-02", "file": "debates2020-11-02c.xml", "sha256": "e8a5ee17dcb30673", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-02c.94.1", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Covid-19", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Doughty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Doughty", "preceding_text": "No, I will not—the Minister made her comments very clear publicly. Of course, others were simply patronising.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-02c.94.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-02", "file": "debates2020-11-02c.xml", "sha256": "e8a5ee17dcb30673", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-02c.102.0", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Covid-19", "cue_speaker": "William Wragg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Building?”", "preceding_speaker": "William Wragg", "preceding_text": "I understand that I am quickly building a reputation in this House for being somewhat grumpy and contrarian—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-02c.102.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-02", "file": "debates2020-11-02c.xml", "sha256": "e8a5ee17dcb30673", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-02c.110.0", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Covid-19", "cue_speaker": "Ian Paisley Jnr", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Paisley Jnr", "preceding_text": "Today, my mother celebrated her 89th birthday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-02c.110.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-02", "file": "debates2020-11-02c.xml", "sha256": "e8a5ee17dcb30673", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-02c.126.1", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Covid-19", "cue_speaker": "Rosena Allin-Khan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosena Allin-Khan", "preceding_text": " Government so that the Government could take their advice, and they have advised the Government that a two-week circuit breaker would have been beneficial, both to the economy and in respect of saving lives, had it been implemented weeks ago. I am pleased that the hon. Gentleman has the ability to tweet out information about a book; I will continue to read my books on epidemiology with great joy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-02c.126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-02", "file": "debates2020-11-02c.xml", "sha256": "e8a5ee17dcb30673", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-02c.127.0", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Covid-19", "cue_speaker": "Rosena Allin-Khan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosena Allin-Khan", "preceding_text": "I have engaged with such serious subjects when undertaking all four of my science degrees. Speculation that self-isolation could be reduced from 14 to seven days does nothing to clarify how people can keep their families safe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-02c.127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-02", "file": "debates2020-11-02c.xml", "sha256": "e8a5ee17dcb30673", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-02c.128.5", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Covid-19", "cue_speaker": "Rosena Allin-Khan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosena Allin-Khan", "preceding_text": "I am very familiar with the detail, which the Minister uses every single time we have a debate, but I will take that as a hard no and continue with my speech. For the mental health of people across the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-02c.128.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-03", "file": "debates2020-11-03d.xml", "sha256": "b984b295261c5cfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-03d.163.0", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Lockdown: Economic Support", "cue_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "preceding_text": "nal lockdown would not have been appropriate, because at the time, the path of the virus was very slow in certain areas, such as the south-west, so the economic damage would have been disproportionate. I might have expected to hear the hon. Lady’s argument from some Members of the House, but it is surprising that the economic spokesperson for the Opposition was willing to see that economic damage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-03d.163.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-03", "file": "debates2020-11-03d.xml", "sha256": "b984b295261c5cfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-03d.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Lockdown: Economic Support", "cue_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "preceding_text": "ly be the case, recognising the volatility of the situation with covid. It would be good for her to recognise that that is unprecedented and different. Again, on the call yesterday, I signalled to the First Minister that this week we would update with a further uplift—following our unprecedented action—to give more clarity on the Barnett guarantee and the consequentials flowing from that. Thirdly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-03d.165.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-03", "file": "debates2020-11-03d.xml", "sha256": "b984b295261c5cfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-03d.197.1", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Personal Statement", "cue_speaker": "Rosena Allin-Khan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosena Allin-Khan", "preceding_text": "ules. The Committee further requested that I meet the Chair and other members to agree steps on how to ensure no lapse from the highest possible standards required and that this should be periodically reviewed. I really look forward to working with the Chair and other members to this end. Finally, I thank the members of the Standards Committee and the Commissioner for Standards for all their work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-03d.197.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-03", "file": "debates2020-11-03d.xml", "sha256": "b984b295261c5cfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-03d.251.1", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stewart McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart McDonald", "preceding_text": "emselves here this afternoon. I am afraid to say to hon. Members, particularly those who were with us on Second Reading, that very little has changed from what I said then. In fact, almost nothing has changed from what I said then and that is a great shame. It is the case, then as now, that senior legal, military and political opinion was united in consensus against the Bill. That has not changed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-03d.251.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-04", "file": "debates2020-11-04e.xml", "sha256": "db2c5edd3521cc8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-04e.393.2", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Agriculture Bill", "cue_speaker": "Deidre Brock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Deidre Brock", "preceding_text": "n ministerial life but, likewise, a little reassurance that is worth having. I recognise, however, that it will fall in the face of the Government’s amendment in lieu. I am afraid that the Government’s amendments fall far short of offering us any reassurances or any meaningful way forward, and that the future for high-quality food production and consumer confidence in the end product is in danger.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-04e.393.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-10", "file": "debates2020-11-10d.xml", "sha256": "2fa5b4015c11a619", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-10d.773.4", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "ho all recognised that they had a political affiliation but that their solemn responsibility required them to rise above the fray. We should defend this as something precious about our constitution. The gravity of the responsibility placed upon their shoulders means I have no doubt that future Lord Chancellors, one of whom could one day come from the Liberal Democrats or the Scottish nationalists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-10d.773.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-10", "file": "debates2020-11-10d.xml", "sha256": "2fa5b4015c11a619", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-10d.773.4", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": " of appointing candidates who might not act impartially would be very low. Indeed, that is reflected by reappointments to the commissions. To take but one recent example, a commissioner of the Boundary Commission for Scotland was appointed by a Liberal Democrat during the coalition and subsequently reappointed under a Conservative Government. Quite simply, the system works as it is. In conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-10d.773.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-10", "file": "debates2020-11-10d.xml", "sha256": "2fa5b4015c11a619", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-10d.778.0", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": " databases. They might also add people who had a residence but were not eligible to vote. The Government are not prepared to undo all the benefits of our individual registration system by introducing the errors and inaccuracies that automatic registration would make more likely. After all, inaccurate registers facilitate voter fraud and undermine faith in the integrity of our democratic processes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-10d.778.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-10", "file": "debates2020-11-10d.xml", "sha256": "2fa5b4015c11a619", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-10d.778.0", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "atic processes. [Interruption.] The one point at which those on the somnolent Opposition Benches wake up is when I say that inaccurate registers facilitate voter fraud. They clearly want inaccurate and phantom voters. The only thing that seems to excite them is phantom voters. That is why I urge the House to disagree with the Lords amendment. However, Mr Speaker, sometimes this House is agreeable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-10d.778.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-10", "file": "debates2020-11-10d.xml", "sha256": "2fa5b4015c11a619", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-10d.781.3", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Cat Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cat Smith", "preceding_text": "I hope that the right hon. Lady will be able to expand on that in her contribution; she is next on the call list to speak. However, I do not quite understand the point that she is trying to make, because there is always going to be a balance between—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-10d.781.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-10", "file": "debates2020-11-10d.xml", "sha256": "2fa5b4015c11a619", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-10d.783.0", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Linden", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "David Linden", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady talks about manifesto commitments. It was not that long ago that there was a manifesto commitment to have 600 seats in the House of Commons. What changed for the Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-10d.783.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-10", "file": "debates2020-11-10d.xml", "sha256": "2fa5b4015c11a619", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-10d.788.0", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alec Shelbrooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alec Shelbrooke", "preceding_text": " in the same situation. My constituency of Elmet and Rothwell has 79,316 electors. The neighbouring constituency of Leeds East has 65,693. The neighbouring constituency to that of Leeds Central has 82,211. It simply cannot be right to have such variation within less than 10 miles as the crow flies. My hon. Friend the Member for Pudsey (Stuart Andrew) is in his place and cannot speak in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-10d.788.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-10", "file": "debates2020-11-10d.xml", "sha256": "2fa5b4015c11a619", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-10d.801.2", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Bowie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Bowie", "preceding_text": "from about 61,500 to 72,000. Although that places it slap bang in the middle of the range the Bill proposes, it shows the difference between where we are now and where we were 20 years ago and how out of date the current boundary proposals are. The situation in my constituency is nowhere near that of Linlithgow and East Falkirk, which now has 86,000 electors, whereas Glasgow East has about 54,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-10d.801.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-10", "file": "debates2020-11-10d.xml", "sha256": "2fa5b4015c11a619", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-10d.845.0", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Committee on Standards", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "see why the opposition to this particular individual has arisen and why the question over impartiality is quite fundamental. I became immediately concerned on learning from House of Commons Commission papers that this candidate was a member of an unspecified political party. It was not material to me—I said this both in the Commission and to my private office—which political party she belonged to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-10d.845.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-10", "file": "debates2020-11-10d.xml", "sha256": "2fa5b4015c11a619", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-10d.845.4", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Committee on Standards", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "The Commission looked at a broad paper setting out the way the recruitment would take place; it did not look at the details and the questions that the Committee would ask in terms of political affiliation. The issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-10d.845.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-11", "file": "debates2020-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "69bdbb27ce54e2de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-11a.890.9", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Scotland", "cue_speaker": "Allan Dorans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Allan Dorans", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-11a.890.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-11", "file": "debates2020-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "69bdbb27ce54e2de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-11a.923.2", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Yes.”", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "I am very concerned to hear what the hon. Lady has to say, and I suspect from my own experience as a constituency Member of Parliament that a great many Members around the House are having the same experience as the hon. Lady.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-11a.923.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-11", "file": "debates2020-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "69bdbb27ce54e2de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-11a.973.0", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Remembrance, UK Armed Forces and Society", "cue_speaker": "Johnny Mercer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Johnny Mercer", "preceding_text": "approaching that moment. The Bill I brought forward last week had important commitments to that generation for the first time from a Government from this Dispatch Box, but there is more to do. The Prime Minister is crystal clear in his commitment on this issue and I am confident he will follow through. Unfortunately, my hon. Friend the Member for Beckenham and I have been friends for far too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-11a.973.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-11", "file": "debates2020-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "69bdbb27ce54e2de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-11a.992.2", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Covid-19", "cue_speaker": "Neale Hanvey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hurrah!”", "preceding_speaker": "Neale Hanvey", "preceding_text": "ous handout from this Government, but it is not a handout; it is our money. It is our money that they are giving back to us. Scotland’s economy, when benchmarked against similar-sized independent nations that, quite frankly, would love to have Scotland’s economic advantages and natural resources, illustrates vividly the dreadful impact of Westminster’s continued economic mismanagement. In closing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-11a.992.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-12", "file": "debates2020-11-12b.xml", "sha256": "f93a6eddaefd9c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-12b.1042.2", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Cabinet Office", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "Yes, of course; it is the case that Border Force will be in a stronger position to be able to detect a criminal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-12b.1042.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-12", "file": "debates2020-11-12b.xml", "sha256": "f93a6eddaefd9c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-12b.1074.4", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "Although I always view myself as a friend of the motorist, there are, it has to be said, limits, and pavement parking can be a serious inconvenience for pedestrians, particularly those with mobility or visual impairments or—something that has had a great effect on me in recent years—with perambulators or pushchairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-12b.1074.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-12", "file": "debates2020-11-12b.xml", "sha256": "f93a6eddaefd9c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-12b.1081.1", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "Sir John, you were on personal terms with a lot of those people, weren’t you?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-12b.1081.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-16", "file": "debates2020-11-16c.xml", "sha256": "47643720302cc9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-16c.34.4", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Participation in Debates", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "egislative agenda on which we were elected just under a year ago is proceeded with, and that is our democratic right, because we have a mandate to do it. On the one hand, proper scrutiny, and on the other, a legislative programme. Those require us to be here to do that properly. We need to stand with or, in socialist terms, show solidarity with other key workers who are continuing to go into work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-16c.34.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-16", "file": "debates2020-11-16c.xml", "sha256": "47643720302cc9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-16c.38.3", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Participation in Debates", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": " each other, lobby each other and raise their complaints. I think we need to be physically present to do that. The hon. Gentleman makes an enormous contribution, normally on a daily basis, to this House, when he sits in his usual place and lobs in little grenades of wit and wisdom that keep Ministers on their toes and Opposition spokesmen paying attention, so the sooner he is back here the better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-16c.38.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-17", "file": "debates2020-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "0912cef543400120", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-17a.183.1", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Continuity Trade Agreements: Parliamentary Scrutiny", "cue_speaker": "Greg Hands", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Hands", "preceding_text": "on the remaining agreements? We have around 700 dedicated officials in the trade policy group who are working on the agreements, and the Secretary of State, the Under-Secretary of State for International Trade, my hon. Friend the Member for North East Hampshire (Mr Jayawardena) , and I are also working carefully on them. Are we riding roughshod? No, we are not. CRaG would still be fully operating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-17a.183.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-17", "file": "debates2020-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "0912cef543400120", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-17a.248.0", "colnum": "248", "heading": "National Security and Investment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bob Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Stewart", "preceding_text": " harm the UK either directly or indirectly. The Bill gives the Secretary of State the power to screen investments that might just pose a national security risk, and that is what we are talking about today. Obviously the Bill very much reflects the views of the ISC, of which most Members, apart from the Chairman, are present. [Interruption.] I didn’t use the word “you”, did I, Madam Deputy Speaker?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-17a.248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-17", "file": "debates2020-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "0912cef543400120", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-17a.274.0", "colnum": "274", "heading": "National Security and Investment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chi Onwurah", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chi Onwurah", "preceding_text": "ry. It is essential that we get the specific provisions of the Bill right, in order not to deter foreign direct investment while also balancing the need to protect our national security. First, there is the definition of national security, which was raised by many, particularly the hon. Member for Isle of Wight (Bob Seely) . The right hon. Member for South Holland and The Depths (Sir John Hayes) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-17a.274.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-18", "file": "debates2020-11-18b.xml", "sha256": "74265952fa63cf10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-18b.351.5", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Towns Fund", "cue_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "preceding_text": "I know that the hon. Gentleman is an experienced Member of the House, but I do not think he understands what accounting officer’s advice is and how it corresponds with advice from the permanent secretary before the Public Accounts Committee. The permanent secretary is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-18b.351.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-18", "file": "debates2020-11-18b.xml", "sha256": "74265952fa63cf10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-18b.360.1", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Towns Fund", "cue_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "preceding_text": "No. The hon. Gentleman has a bit of a habit of saying things in the House of Commons that are not exactly accurate. Sixty communities were not chosen from the low priority category; 17 such communities were chosen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-18b.360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-19", "file": "debates2020-11-19c.xml", "sha256": "c1bad3afab96be74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-19c.446.3", "colnum": "446", "heading": "International Trade", "cue_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "preceding_text": "cause the Labour party did not support the original deal with Japan. If it was down to Labour, we would not even have this deal in the first place. We have been very clear about the additional benefits that we have secured: better provisions on digital and data, better provisions on business mobility, a better position on intellectual property, better protection of British geographical indicators—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-19c.446.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-19", "file": "debates2020-11-19c.xml", "sha256": "c1bad3afab96be74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-19c.454.5", "colnum": "454", "heading": "International Trade", "cue_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elizabeth Truss", "preceding_text": "The answer to the hon. Gentleman is that we are seeking to roll over the Ghana deal, as we are other deals, but with Japan, we have gone through the process of producing a scoping assessments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-19c.454.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-19", "file": "debates2020-11-19c.xml", "sha256": "c1bad3afab96be74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-19c.474.0", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "ee months, and often it runs to six months. Had these normal procedures been followed, we would not have been getting any additional equipment until October. So are right hon. and hon. Members who are complaining about procurement saying that the Nightingale hospitals should not have been opened until October? It is a ridiculous proposition. Speed was of the essence and speed is what was provided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-19c.474.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-19", "file": "debates2020-11-19c.xml", "sha256": "c1bad3afab96be74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-19c.492.2", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Integrated Review", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "ost successful Departments of Government, in order to politicise instead of focusing it on sustainable development goals. In our submission to the integrated defence review, we have put forward sensible suggestions on how to meet the modern-day threat picture, but not to the detriment of our historic regiments in Scotland. I ask the Prime Minister today: will he rule out scrapping the Black Watch—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-19c.492.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-19", "file": "debates2020-11-19c.xml", "sha256": "c1bad3afab96be74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-19c.492.2", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Integrated Review", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "politicise instead of focusing it on sustainable development goals. In our submission to the integrated defence review, we have put forward sensible suggestions on how to meet the modern-day threat picture, but not to the detriment of our historic regiments in Scotland. I ask the Prime Minister today: will he rule out scrapping the Black Watch—[Interruption]—and cuts to international aid spending?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-19c.492.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-23", "file": "debates2020-11-23e.xml", "sha256": "cb265806cf1c40c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-23e.581.10", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Education", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Let us head to the Secretary of State for Education, Robert Halfon—not the Secretary of State, the Chair of the Select Committee on Education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-23e.581.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-23", "file": "debates2020-11-23e.xml", "sha256": "cb265806cf1c40c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-23e.625.1", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Covid-19: Winter Plan", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "You always say that before you call me, Madam Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-23e.625.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-23", "file": "debates2020-11-23e.xml", "sha256": "cb265806cf1c40c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-23e.625.3", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Covid-19: Winter Plan", "cue_speaker": "Richard Graham", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Graham", "preceding_text": "ister tell us when the limits for spectators at spectator sports and business events will be set, as this will affect many self-employed contractors? Most importantly, what does my right hon. Friend think the chances are of getting the over-80s and the most vulnerable vaccinated before Christmas so that that great festival can be a lot more stressful for everyone—a lot less stressful for everyone?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-23e.625.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-24", "file": "debates2020-11-24c.xml", "sha256": "e7635b173bc4df62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-24c.673.2", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "First, I warmly join the hon. Lady in paying tribute to and welcoming the historic election of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. Frankly, the stuff that the hon. Lady said about emboldening critics of the US elections could not be further from the truth. What we have said consistently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-24c.673.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-24", "file": "debates2020-11-24c.xml", "sha256": "e7635b173bc4df62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-24c.684.2", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office", "cue_speaker": "Wendy Morton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wendy Morton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady may attempt to draw me into the debate on aid, but she knows that I am not going to speculate on that. She emphasises the importance of girls’ education. The UK is a world leader in our education expertise and our development spend. As I said, since 2015—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-24c.684.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-24", "file": "debates2020-11-24c.xml", "sha256": "e7635b173bc4df62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-24c.732.0", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Private International Law (Implementation of Agreements) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Alex Chalk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Chalk", "preceding_text": "tructive” amendments had been made by the Government. We did so because we recognise that the issues we are addressing here, when it comes to the constitutional balance in our country, are ones that merit proper and careful consideration. But the imperative for this was in fact laid bare in the points made by the hon. Member for City of Chester (Christian Matheson) , who is no longer in his place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-24c.732.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-24", "file": "debates2020-11-24c.xml", "sha256": "e7635b173bc4df62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-24c.736.5", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Exiting the European Union", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "preceding_text": "disregard not only for business but for devolution and power sharing. I think we have made our point about our real—[Interruption.] The Minister is now taking further instructions from the Whips, and I have no doubt that her winding-up speech will be even shorter than her opening remarks. She might want to maintain a bit more social distancing while she is doing this, because that is nowhere near—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-24c.736.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-24", "file": "debates2020-11-24c.xml", "sha256": "e7635b173bc4df62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-24c.739.5", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Exiting the European Union", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "preceding_text": "p and down the country? They need time to do these things ahead of the Christmas period too. Businesses have real concerns that the Government will blame them for any disruption and make them the fall guys. I wondered whether the new No. 10 internal arrangements might have changed its attitude towards business, but after today’s performance I am not sure that businesses will have that reassurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-24c.739.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-24", "file": "debates2020-11-24c.xml", "sha256": "e7635b173bc4df62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-24c.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Exiting the European Union", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "preceding_text": "respond—she may have had a chance to brief herself a little more during my speech while considering her closing remarks. As she will have understood, the statutory instrument, far from being a cursory, quick bit of legislation, has massive implications for businesses and others who, I am afraid, have been left wanting, given what we have heard today. As this debate has shown once again, there are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-24c.747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-24", "file": "debates2020-11-24c.xml", "sha256": "e7635b173bc4df62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-24c.765.0", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Virtual Participation in Debate", "cue_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “No!”", "preceding_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "preceding_text": "ot the laziest MP in the world but were actually looking after their new-born. That was the most terrible thing and it was clarified only as a result of the debates in this House, which is why this is such an important venue. This is the most important venue: people look to the Chamber to hear about what is going on. Unfortunately, sometimes we talk rubbish, and I am the biggest person to do that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-24c.765.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-24", "file": "debates2020-11-24c.xml", "sha256": "e7635b173bc4df62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-24c.765.2", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Virtual Participation in Debate", "cue_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "preceding_text": "sildon and Billericay had the courtesy to email me before the start of this debate. He told me about the difficulty; I shall not repeat it, but it is safe to say that he is not able to be here today. That great intervention from the Chair of the Procedure Committee gives me an opportunity to raise the incredible work done by her and members of her Committee, who are scattered all around the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-24c.765.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-24", "file": "debates2020-11-24c.xml", "sha256": "e7635b173bc4df62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-24c.767.2", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Virtual Participation in Debate", "cue_speaker": "Fleur Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fleur Anderson", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend share my bafflement that, as soon as there was a health need, the Prime Minister was allowed to participate remotely, yet he was not immediately clinically vulnerable? Other Members, however, are not allowed to speak. Does she share my view that all constituents are equal in electing us and should be equally represented?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-24c.767.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-24", "file": "debates2020-11-24c.xml", "sha256": "e7635b173bc4df62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-24c.789.0", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Virtual Participation in Debate", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": " email from a Philip Toler, who says: “Why do you constantly stand up in Parliament?” [Interruption.] Oh, hang on, I seem to have united the House with that. He goes on: “Why do you not express your appreciation of the hard-working Prime Minister and all his Ministers? They are only trying their best. The Government was voted in by 95% of the population and you should therefore show some respect.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-24c.789.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-25", "file": "debates2020-11-25c.xml", "sha256": "ac0960b521c2d906", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-25c.857.1", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Spending Review 2020 and OBR Forecast", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "Those in the public sector who earn less than £24,000, which is the UK national median wage, will receive a fixed increase of at least £250. That is 2.1 million people—38% of the workforce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-25c.857.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-25", "file": "debates2020-11-25c.xml", "sha256": "ac0960b521c2d906", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-25c.883.0", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Independent Expert Panel", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Grady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Grady", "preceding_text": "d implementation of the ICGS process. Like others, I pay tribute to the former Leader of the House, the right hon. Member for South Northamptonshire (Andrea Leadsom) . I also pay tribute to my hon. Friend —he really ought to be my right hon. Friend— the Member for Perth and North Perthshire (Pete Wishart) . There is an extremely well qualified and distinguished line-up of individuals for approval.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-25c.883.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-25", "file": "debates2020-11-25c.xml", "sha256": "ac0960b521c2d906", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-25c.885.3", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Independent Expert Panel", "cue_speaker": "John Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Spellar", "preceding_text": "Indeed. We could have people who have gone into those roles, often later in life, with a range of life experience, as opposed to people who have gone from elite school to elite university, then to chambers and into the courts, where they have done well, doing their public duty as judges. They may observe a bit of life, but that is very different from living it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-25c.885.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-25", "file": "debates2020-11-25c.xml", "sha256": "ac0960b521c2d906", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-25c.910.0", "colnum": "910", "heading": "UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Craig Williams", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Craig Williams", "preceding_text": "As a member of the Select Committee on International Trade, I will try to keep my comments brief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-25c.910.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-25", "file": "debates2020-11-25c.xml", "sha256": "ac0960b521c2d906", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-25c.914.2", "colnum": "914", "heading": "UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Lloyd Russell-Moyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lloyd Russell-Moyle", "preceding_text": "Also, in many areas there are standstill clauses that embed the current system we have in Britain and do not allow change. For example, there is a standstill clause on the Post Office; that means if a future Government wanted to change their mind on the disastrous privatisation by this Government of the Post Office that put money into their crony friends who bought the shares which then zoomed up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-25c.914.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-26", "file": "debates2020-11-26d.xml", "sha256": "acf7a5f52559accb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-26d.1004.2", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Covid-19 Update", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "From a sedentary position, I think the Prime Minister said that he was delighted to see me here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-26d.1004.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-26", "file": "debates2020-11-26d.xml", "sha256": "acf7a5f52559accb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-26d.1004.2", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Covid-19 Update", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "From a sedentary position, I think the Prime Minister said that he was delighted to see me here. [Interruption.] Indeed, he is delighted to see me here—on the Back Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-26d.1004.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-26", "file": "debates2020-11-26d.xml", "sha256": "acf7a5f52559accb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-26d.1022.0", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Official Development Assistance", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "dy referred to a range of different issues. She referred to the UK’s work on disease and girls’ education. We entirely agree. These are total priorities, and that is why I set out the priorities—I appreciate that her response was written before she listened to what I said—so that I could give her and the House the reassurance that actually those are two areas that we will safeguard and prioritise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-26d.1022.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-26", "file": "debates2020-11-26d.xml", "sha256": "acf7a5f52559accb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-26d.1022.0", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Official Development Assistance", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": " the health challenges, and they know that we will be a stalwart, leading member of the international community as a force for good in the world, notwithstanding the pressure that we and many others will now face. The hon. Lady asked about the legislation. We will bring that forward in due course. Obviously we want to make sure that it is as well prepared and carefully thought through as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-26d.1022.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-26", "file": "debates2020-11-26d.xml", "sha256": "acf7a5f52559accb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-26d.1022.0", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Official Development Assistance", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "ld, notwithstanding the pressure that we and many others will now face. The hon. Lady asked about the legislation. We will bring that forward in due course. Obviously we want to make sure that it is as well prepared and carefully thought through as possible. [Interruption.] She says that we do not have to. On the one hand, she has said that we are breaking the law and changing our mind on the law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-26d.1022.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-26", "file": "debates2020-11-26d.xml", "sha256": "acf7a5f52559accb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-26d.1023.1", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Official Development Assistance", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says that it is temporary. That is not what the legislation says: he should go and look at it very carefully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-26d.1023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-26", "file": "debates2020-11-26d.xml", "sha256": "acf7a5f52559accb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-26d.1023.1", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Official Development Assistance", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "uire us to change it. We would almost certainly face legal challenge if we do not very carefully follow it. On the hon. Lady’s question about the 0.7%, it will still apply this year. The hon. Lady criticises the Government for the choices that we have had to make in the face of a global pandemic and a financial emergency. It is not clear to me what choices Labour would make or that she would make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-26d.1023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-26", "file": "debates2020-11-26d.xml", "sha256": "acf7a5f52559accb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-26d.1023.3", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Official Development Assistance", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Was the hon. Lady suggesting that we divert money from test and trace at this pivotal moment in the pandemic to meet 0.7%? Is she suggesting that any of the extra investment in schools, hospitals and policing announced yesterday should be cut in order to meet 0.7%?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-26d.1023.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-26", "file": "debates2020-11-26d.xml", "sha256": "acf7a5f52559accb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-26d.1023.3", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Official Development Assistance", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "has previously said that ODA should be cut because of the impact on the economy. She said it in the context of the GNI review that we conducted. Because she is shaking her head, I will quote her verbatim, to be accurate: “we recognise that there has got to be cuts made…we’ve had a drop in GNI…those cuts shouldn’t come from DFID” but should come from “other government departments’” spending on ODA.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-26d.1023.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-26", "file": "debates2020-11-26d.xml", "sha256": "acf7a5f52559accb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-26d.1023.3", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Official Development Assistance", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "s got to be cuts made…we’ve had a drop in GNI…those cuts shouldn’t come from DFID” but should come from “other government departments’” spending on ODA. [Interruption.] The hon. Lady says, “Yes, yes, yes”—so does she advocate cutting the amount of ODA that the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs spend on climate change?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-26d.1023.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-26", "file": "debates2020-11-26d.xml", "sha256": "acf7a5f52559accb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-26d.1023.3", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Official Development Assistance", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "ng on ODA. [Interruption.] The hon. Lady says, “Yes, yes, yes”—so does she advocate cutting the amount of ODA that the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs spend on climate change? [Interruption.] Again, we come back to the basic point that, given the financial pressures that we face, difficult decisions need to be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-26d.1023.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-26", "file": "debates2020-11-26d.xml", "sha256": "acf7a5f52559accb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-26d.1024.0", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Official Development Assistance", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "was born—who first set the target of 0.7%. In the 46 years since—the whole of my lifetime—no Labour Government have ever hit 0.7%; not in a single year. The hon. Lady talked in hyperbolic language about the damage that we will do with a shift to 0.5% and a £10 billion ODA budget. May I remind her that in the 13 years of the last Labour Government, not only did they never once hit 0.7% in any year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-26d.1024.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-26", "file": "debates2020-11-26d.xml", "sha256": "acf7a5f52559accb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-26d.1026.0", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Official Development Assistance", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "rnment Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in East Kilbride because we know the great work that it does and because we are stronger on the international stage when we are united? The hon. Gentleman said that this decision was not what was promised in 2014 or at the last election. I hesitate to remind him that that was before the pandemic and the coronavirus, and before we were faced with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-26d.1026.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-26", "file": "debates2020-11-26d.xml", "sha256": "acf7a5f52559accb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-26d.1035.4", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Official Development Assistance", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady has advocated cutting ODA in the past. She now shakes her head.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-26d.1035.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-26", "file": "debates2020-11-26d.xml", "sha256": "acf7a5f52559accb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-26d.1037.4", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Official Development Assistance", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "Amid all the hyperbole, I understand the point that the hon. Gentleman is making, but the truth is that the full scale of the economic situation was not clear—[Interruption.] It was not clear, because we were coming through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-26d.1037.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-30", "file": "debates2020-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "6497f03bbd03a5e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-30b.31.4", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Scheduled Mass Deportation: Jamaica", "cue_speaker": "Chris Philp", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Philp", "preceding_text": "t comes to removing people who are not British citizens—who are citizens of another country—but who put our constituents at risk, it is right that we move to deport as we currently do. The debate about whether some age threshold is appropriate is one that this House had in 2007, when the House rightly decided that anyone who is convicted of an offence and sentenced to more than a year is in scope.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-30b.31.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-11-30", "file": "debates2020-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "6497f03bbd03a5e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-30b.88.0", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Telecommunications (Security) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "preceding_text": "nance of major telecoms companies, driving out or buying out the competition, has led to companies such as Huawei positioning themselves as perhaps too big to fail or, in the context of the telecoms market, too big not to buy from, or too big not to supply to. In my view, that is down to political and commercial failure, and I am glad that the Government are putting wrong—putting right that wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-11-30b.88.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-01", "file": "debates2020-12-01c.xml", "sha256": "f801da72b75b8cae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-01c.166.2", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Public Health", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "We are rolling out lateral flow testing across the country and it is open to people to get a lateral flow test, but in general the testing system is available at the moment for people who have symptoms. I urge people who are worried that they may need to be in the company of those who are elderly or vulnerable to seek to get a rapid-turnaround test.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-01c.166.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-01", "file": "debates2020-12-01c.xml", "sha256": "f801da72b75b8cae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-01c.169.3", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Public Health", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "and he has been fuelling a promise that within two weeks or so local areas have a real prospect of dropping to a tier below the one they are in. We need to level: in my view, that is highly unlikely, and we might as well face that now. It is obvious that the new tier 1 may slow but will not prevent a rise in infections, and it is far from certain that the new tier 2 can hold the rate of infection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-01c.169.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-01", "file": "debates2020-12-01c.xml", "sha256": "f801da72b75b8cae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-01c.171.2", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Public Health", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "Chancellor vowed to do whatever it takes to support households and businesses, but there have now been six economic plans in nine months, and the level of support is still insufficient. For these reasons, and let me spell them out—[Interruption.] The Prime Minister mumbles, but let me spell them out. First, the scheme does not fairly reflect the difficulties faced by businesses across the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-01c.171.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-01", "file": "debates2020-12-01c.xml", "sha256": "f801da72b75b8cae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-01c.171.2", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Public Health", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "en it enters tier 3 tomorrow, has received the same one-off support as the Isle of Wight, which went into restrictions far later and will emerge tomorrow into tier 1. That is unfair, and everybody knows it is unfair, and everybody in this House is being told by their constituents and by their businesses that it is unfair, so to pretend it is not just is not real, Prime Minister. The second aspect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-01c.171.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-01", "file": "debates2020-12-01c.xml", "sha256": "f801da72b75b8cae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-01c.174.3", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Public Health", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "Well, there might be a different interpretation of the events just passed, might there not, which is that a lot of us are very concerned that the Prime Minister does not give the full story to the House and to the nation. The truth is that we are almost certainly going to see another lockdown in January—a full lockdown across the whole of the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-01c.174.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-01", "file": "debates2020-12-01c.xml", "sha256": "f801da72b75b8cae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-01c.175.0", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Public Health", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Grady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Grady", "preceding_text": " That is the difference that devolution makes. For NHS workers and families in receipt of these payments, that is not a disaster; that is a Scottish Government working for and delivering for their best interests and the interests of our society as a whole. If it means that we are using our share of money that the UK Treasury has borrowed on Scotland’s behalf, well, that is the point of devolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-01c.175.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-01", "file": "debates2020-12-01c.xml", "sha256": "f801da72b75b8cae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-01c.221.0", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Public Health", "cue_speaker": "William Wragg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "William Wragg", "preceding_text": " with them whatsoever. There has been an outbreak of armchair epidemiologists, for sure, in the past eight months or so. There is no conspiracy. In my brief experience of it, the British state has never been competent enough to mount or organise such a conspiracy. Indeed, if it were so, in the present climate plans for that would have leaked already, so we would have been well aware of that issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-01c.221.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-02", "file": "debates2020-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "c57537d1dfe8dd42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-02a.309.5", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "I would take the hon. Lady’s point more seriously if she and her party could be bothered to vote for measures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-02a.309.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-02", "file": "debates2020-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "c57537d1dfe8dd42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-02a.347.4", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Coronavirus Vaccine", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "Advent always starts with the prospect of good news, so this is a really good Advent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-02a.347.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-02", "file": "debates2020-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "c57537d1dfe8dd42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-02a.348.4", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Coronavirus Vaccine", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Next year.”", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "preceding_text": "ether the AstraZeneca Oxford vaccine, of which we have 100 million doses on order, is approved by the MHRA. I am afraid that I cannot answer the hon. Lady’s question on the timetable, or indeed the hon. Gentleman’s, because it is dependent on the approval of AstraZeneca and the manufacturing process of the Pfizer vaccine. On the hon. Lady’s second question, I have completely forgotten what it was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-02a.348.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-03", "file": "debates2020-12-03b.xml", "sha256": "23ee76dbc06c1078", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-03b.435.1", "colnum": "435", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gavin Williamson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Gavin Williamson", "preceding_text": " Our very own Dr Jamie Frost, maths lead at Tiffin School in Kingston-upon-Thames, has been shortlisted for this after his tuition website went viral during lockdown, helping millions of pupils in the United Kingdom and around the world to continue their studies at home. He has already won the covid hero award, and I am sure that the whole House joins me in wishing him luck with the overall prize.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-03b.435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-03", "file": "debates2020-12-03d.xml", "sha256": "d1556939e4819351", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-03d.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Transport", "cue_speaker": "Gavin Newlands", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gavin Newlands", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that response. I should say, for the record, that my household has come down from a two-car household to one car, and we are hoping to switch to an electric car in the new year as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-03d.418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-03", "file": "debates2020-12-03d.xml", "sha256": "d1556939e4819351", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-03d.435.1", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Exams and Accountability 2021", "cue_speaker": "Gavin Williamson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Gavin Williamson", "preceding_text": " Our very own Dr Jamie Frost, maths lead at Tiffin School in Kingston-upon-Thames, has been shortlisted for this after his tuition website went viral during lockdown, helping millions of pupils in the United Kingdom and around the world to continue their studies at home. He has already won the covid hero award, and I am sure that the whole House joins me in wishing him luck with the overall prize.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-03d.435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-03", "file": "debates2020-12-03d.xml", "sha256": "d1556939e4819351", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-03d.440.2", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Exams and Accountability 2021", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Let us head up to Birmingham to see Jack Dromey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-03d.440.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-03", "file": "debates2020-12-03d.xml", "sha256": "d1556939e4819351", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-03d.453.0", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "orridor. He will be able to come in, and he will not have to be vaccinated. I have six children who are waiting with bated breath, and who are filling out lists. The lists, Mr Speaker! You would not believe how long they are. Schleich is very popular with my infant daughter, and every possible item of Schleich seems to be on this list for Father Christmas, so I hope he can carry it all in his bag.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-03d.453.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-03", "file": "debates2020-12-03d.xml", "sha256": "d1556939e4819351", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-03d.454.1", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "It will be published. Bills are published before we vote on them. Patience! It is coming, as is Christmas, of course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-03d.454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-03", "file": "debates2020-12-03d.xml", "sha256": "d1556939e4819351", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-03d.473.0", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Courts and Tribunals: Recovery", "cue_speaker": "Robert Buckland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Buckland", "preceding_text": "r, which was the extra funding of up to £51 million for criminal legal aid lawyers via an improvement to the graduated fee scheme as part of the first stage of criminal legal aid review. We are going to embark on stage two very soon, and I will keep him fully apprised of that. He will, I am sure, note with interest that that will result in more investment in criminal legal aid in the year to come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-03d.473.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-03", "file": "debates2020-12-03d.xml", "sha256": "d1556939e4819351", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-03d.524.0", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Digital Infrastructure, Connectivity and Accessibility", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "preceding_text": "ng up for the debate today. I got a speed test of 227 megabits per second download and 39 megabits per second upload. So the Minister can surely see: we have spoken for years about a digital divide, but that divide is now a chasm. For Orkney and Shetland, the idea that internet speeds and access to the internet should be more than 200 times greater in SW1 than in KW15, 16 and 17, and ZE1, 2 and 3—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-03d.524.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-07", "file": "debates2020-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "4aab9e60b377e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-07c.552.3", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "John Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Spellar", "preceding_text": "rs to be brought forward to help our industry through the economic crisis, especially in our regions and nations. The Navy carrier group needs the fleet solid support ships, and the Department has the specifications from the previous bidding round. It is a project that is really shovel or welding-ready, so when is the Secretary of State going to get off his backside and start ordering these ships?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-07c.552.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-07", "file": "debates2020-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "4aab9e60b377e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-07c.554.2", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Stewart McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart McDonald", "preceding_text": "to me whatever is in his folder; let’s try answering the question. Of the spending announced for Scotland, at what point—he has only a few days of the year left—will the Government finally meet the promise they made six years ago of 12,500 personnel stationed permanently in Scotland? It is currently below 10,000. In all the projects he listed, he did not mention the promise of the frigate factory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-07c.554.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-07", "file": "debates2020-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "4aab9e60b377e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-07c.563.2", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Ben Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Wallace", "preceding_text": "It means an end to an era in which successive Governments, both Labour and Conservative, over-promised and underfunded. What is absolutely key is that the Prime Minister determines that this Government and this defence policy meet the threat and do not fund into everything else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-07c.563.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-07", "file": "debates2020-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "4aab9e60b377e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-07c.568.1", "colnum": "568", "heading": "UK-EU Future Relationship Negotiations and Transition Period", "cue_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "preceding_text": " any of those things to help us secure a good deal for this country. That is fair enough if Labour does not have a position on Brexit, but it might like to get one in the next few days. All of us in this House must show support and resolve to get the deal that the hon. Lady articulates, and that we all want for citizens and businesses, not just within the UK but throughout the remainder of the EU.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-07c.568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-07", "file": "debates2020-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "4aab9e60b377e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-07c.571.0", "colnum": "571", "heading": "UK-EU Future Relationship Negotiations and Transition Period", "cue_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will hear no argument from me to say that no deal is going to be better than getting a deal, but everyone is working to get a deal; that is our objective. That is why Lord Frost, as I speak, is there with his team trying to secure that. I would say to the right hon. Gentleman that delaying a decision and extending the negotiations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-07c.571.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-07", "file": "debates2020-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "4aab9e60b377e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-07c.582.5", "colnum": "582", "heading": "UK-EU Future Relationship Negotiations and Transition Period", "cue_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Gentleman has done his homework and done his best to help his constituent. I do not know whether he has used the toolkit that was sent to his casework team on, I think, 26 November —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-07c.582.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-07", "file": "debates2020-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "4aab9e60b377e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-07c.589.0", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Hong Kong: Sentencing of Pro-democracy Activists", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the right hon.—or, rather, the hon.—Member for Stirling (Alyn Smith) on bringing forward this question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-07c.589.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-07", "file": "debates2020-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "4aab9e60b377e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-07c.594.5", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Hong Kong: Sentencing of Pro-democracy Activists", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Adams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Adams", "preceding_text": "ing, and have built, that international coalition with 38 other countries, and that is why the statement has been made at the UN. My hon. Friend refers to sanctions. I know that right hon. and hon. Members here today are very keen to know which sanctions this Government are considering under our regulations, but I am afraid that I am going to have to repeat that it is not appropriate to speculate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-07c.594.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-07", "file": "debates2020-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "4aab9e60b377e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-07c.594.5", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Hong Kong: Sentencing of Pro-democracy Activists", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Adams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Adams", "preceding_text": " our regulations, but I am afraid that I am going to have to repeat that it is not appropriate to speculate. [Interruption.] I am grateful to the hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) for almost repeating my line. But this is an absolutely serious point: whoever is designated under the sanctions regime, it is not right to speculate on it, as to do so would reduce the impact of these designations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-07c.594.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-07", "file": "debates2020-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "4aab9e60b377e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-07c.595.5", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Hong Kong: Sentencing of Pro-democracy Activists", "cue_speaker": "Alec Shelbrooke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alec Shelbrooke", "preceding_text": "China passed domestic law unilaterally to break the joint declaration. Does my hon. Friend agree with me that the unilateral passing of domestic laws can never be an excuse to break international laws and agreements?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-07c.595.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-07", "file": "debates2020-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "4aab9e60b377e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-07c.602.1", "colnum": "602", "heading": "United Kingdom Internal Market Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Scully", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Scully", "preceding_text": "If the Welsh Assembly decides that way, that will be regrettable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-07c.602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-07", "file": "debates2020-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "4aab9e60b377e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-07c.612.3", "colnum": "612", "heading": "United Kingdom Internal Market Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "preceding_text": "does not happen naturally, it will be provoked by those who wish to have the punch-up. The Government will find themselves accused, rightly, of undermining the devolution settlement, and it would be a disaster for those who believe in the United Kingdom—and I think that includes the Government. The most generous interpretation is that the Government have been cavalier and have blundered into this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-07c.612.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-07", "file": "debates2020-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "4aab9e60b377e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-07c.614.3", "colnum": "614", "heading": "United Kingdom Internal Market Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman and I have known each other a long time, and if one looks at the record of Labour Members on the devolution settlement, and at everything that has happened over the past 20 years, I think we have absolutely shown fidelity to that devolution settlement in what we have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-07c.614.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-07", "file": "debates2020-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "4aab9e60b377e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-07c.617.0", "colnum": "617", "heading": "United Kingdom Internal Market Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Bowie", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Withdraw.”", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Bowie", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may disagree with the right of the UK Government to intervene financially on all the areas that have been specified, but he cannot say that this amounts to us taking away a power from the Scottish Parliament, because that is fundamentally untrue, and he is in fact misleading the House when he does so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-07c.617.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-07", "file": "debates2020-12-07c.xml", "sha256": "4aab9e60b377e88d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-07c.619.4", "colnum": "619", "heading": "United Kingdom Internal Market Bill", "cue_speaker": "Drew Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Drew Hendry", "preceding_text": "This is the man who said: “The UK Government is back in Scotland. Get used to it.” We have seen the Tories for an awful long time. In Scotland, we have not voted Tory since 1959, I think.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-07c.619.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-08", "file": "debates2020-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "3cd96f6602f6336d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-08b.698.2", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Justice", "cue_speaker": "Chris Philp", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Philp", "preceding_text": " fact at a 10-year low. As I have said already, we are fully committed to making sure that the justice system recovers from the pandemic. That is why we have more Crown court jury trial rooms open now than we did before the pandemic, we are consulting on having extended operating hours to allow more cases to be heard, we have put £110 million of extra money in, we have recruited 1,600 extra staff—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-08b.698.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-08", "file": "debates2020-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "3cd96f6602f6336d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-08b.723.2", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out", "cue_speaker": "Tom Hunt", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Hunt", "preceding_text": "ink it has happened by accident that we are the first country in the world to have approved this vaccine. We saw very emotive images today, and I make no apology for being proud of that. This is a proud day to be British. I would like to thank the NHS and all our wonderful scientists for being part of that, and the regulatory authority. I was glad last year to hear—last year? A couple of days ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-08b.723.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-08", "file": "debates2020-12-08b.xml", "sha256": "3cd96f6602f6336d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-08b.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Ways and Means)", "cue_speaker": "Alison Thewliss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alison Thewliss", "preceding_text": "ustoms. Members of the House are expected to scrutinise the new tax regime in a fast-tracked timetable with no time for debate or consultation with businesses. There are a host of details in the VAT resolutions. I went through them this morning. I copied them and pasted them, and took them from the VAT regulations that currently exist. That runs to some 20 pages of detail on those VAT resolutions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-08b.774.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-09", "file": "debates2020-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "ef653215e0b680c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-09b.838.4", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is a big expert in this field and a great campaigner for transport. He is right about the massive impact that these programmes can have on jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-09b.838.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-09", "file": "debates2020-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "ef653215e0b680c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-09b.858.6", "colnum": "858", "heading": "EU Withdrawal Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "and ready to help businesses to adjust. The fate and the future of businesses in the north-east are very dear to me, having lived and worked in Newcastle in the past. It is striking how many of those who work for businesses in the north-east voted Conservative just 12 months ago, which is why Conservative MPs in Blyth Valley, in Bishop Auckland, in Redcar and across the north-east are standing up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-09b.858.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-09", "file": "debates2020-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "ef653215e0b680c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-09b.858.6", "colnum": "858", "heading": "EU Withdrawal Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "h-east voted Conservative just 12 months ago, which is why Conservative MPs in Blyth Valley, in Bishop Auckland, in Redcar and across the north-east are standing up—[Interruption.] I will mention more constituencies that the Conservatives won if the hon. Lady likes: North West Durham, with Consett, is now a Conservative constituency; Sedgefield, with Spennymoor, is now a Conservative constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-09b.858.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-09", "file": "debates2020-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "ef653215e0b680c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-09b.859.3", "colnum": "859", "heading": "EU Withdrawal Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "The Simpsons character I most remembered was Groundskeeper Willie, because he is an Aberdonian.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-09b.859.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-09", "file": "debates2020-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "ef653215e0b680c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-09b.862.1", "colnum": "862", "heading": "EU Withdrawal Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "e UK officials. The UK officials will be in the lead there, but we want to provide the EU with assurance. On the matter of where goods are sourced from, I cannot think of any better place for goods in Northern Ireland supermarkets to be sourced from than Northern Ireland itself. Wonderful though produce in the Republic of Ireland is, I do not think it is the case that there is any better producer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-09b.862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-09", "file": "debates2020-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "ef653215e0b680c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-09b.867.2", "colnum": "867", "heading": "EU Withdrawal Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "If Scotland were an independent nation state, it would face trade barriers at Berwick and Cairnryan. By leaving the European Union, Scotland would be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-09b.867.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-09", "file": "debates2020-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "ef653215e0b680c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-09b.867.2", "colnum": "867", "heading": "EU Withdrawal Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "ion state, it would face trade barriers at Berwick and Cairnryan. By leaving the European Union, Scotland would be—[Interruption.] I am just pointing out the inevitable consequences of the course on which the hon. Lady has set her heart, which would make sure that if Scotland became independent, it would face tariff and regulatory barriers to access its biggest market, which is the rest of the UK.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-09b.867.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-09", "file": "debates2020-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "ef653215e0b680c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-09b.868.8", "colnum": "868", "heading": "EU Withdrawal Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "Given that there is very little trade that I am aware of in conflict diamonds from Northern Ireland to Great Britain—if anything, it is an even smaller trade than, for example, endangered species products such as tiger skins—I suspect that the bureaucratic burden will be so small as to be almost naked—sorry, I mean invisible to the naked eye.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-09b.868.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-09", "file": "debates2020-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "ef653215e0b680c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-09b.908.4", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Taxation (Post-transition Period) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alison Thewliss", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alison Thewliss", "preceding_text": "tape that the Brexiteers claimed they were going to remove will now be wrapped around Northern Ireland. I received very little by way of reassurance from the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in his statement and his responses to Members earlier today. Too much is uncertain, and a lot of it is mince. The derogation in chilled meat, sausages, mince and unfrozen prepared meals is one such aspect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-09b.908.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-10", "file": "debates2020-12-10b.xml", "sha256": "8db96738dfcbd52a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-10b.981.1", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Digital, Culture, Media and Sport", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Dowden", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Dowden", "preceding_text": "Just outside—very close to his constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-10b.981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-10", "file": "debates2020-12-10b.xml", "sha256": "8db96738dfcbd52a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-10b.997.4", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Future Relationship with the EU", "cue_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "preceding_text": " he will appreciate, but I am sure the Department of Health and Social Care can. I can, however, reassure him on those matters. A huge amount of work has done, in a multi-layered approach, asking suppliers of medicines, medical products and other medical devices to help us replenish those stocks, while making sure that they themselves are trader-ready, so that their businesses are not interrupted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-10b.997.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-10", "file": "debates2020-12-10b.xml", "sha256": "8db96738dfcbd52a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-10b.1008.0", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "I call Andrea Leadsom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-10b.1008.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-10", "file": "debates2020-12-10b.xml", "sha256": "8db96738dfcbd52a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-10b.1016.3", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman could be briefer even than that in future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-10b.1016.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-10", "file": "debates2020-12-10b.xml", "sha256": "8db96738dfcbd52a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-10b.1098.0", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "The Future of the High Street", "cue_speaker": "Kelly Tolhurst", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kelly Tolhurst", "preceding_text": " Trade Organisation rules. HMRC has estimated that refunds cost around £0.5 billion, for around 1.2 million non-EU visitors, which puts the issue into context, in that only one in 10 non-EU visitors is using the VAT RES system. We will survive this pandemic, and our high streets will survive with the determination and dedication of all the men and women who are working in our businesses and shops.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-10b.1098.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-14", "file": "debates2020-12-14b.xml", "sha256": "71cfe2cfea2db7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-14b.43.0", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Covid-19 Update", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend makes the case strongly not only for him but for the Treasurer of Her Majesty’s Household, my hon. Friend the Member for Pudsey (Stuart Andrew) , who as a Whip cannot speak. However, believe me, behind the scenes he makes the case for Pudsey more strongly than anyone in this House makes the case for anywhere—almost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-14b.43.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-14", "file": "debates2020-12-14b.xml", "sha256": "71cfe2cfea2db7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-14b.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Covid-19 Update", "cue_speaker": "Bob Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Neill", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State has to recognise that the decision in relation to London will have a crippling effect upon the hospitality industry in the capital, not least because this is the time of year when they might most hope to make good the losses that they have already suffered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-14b.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-14", "file": "debates2020-12-14b.xml", "sha256": "71cfe2cfea2db7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-14b.51.0", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Energy White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Alok Sharma", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Go on!”", "preceding_speaker": "Alok Sharma", "preceding_text": " target…Business stands ready to deliver the investment and innovation needed to turn ambition into reality”. The chief executive of RenewableUK said: “Today’s white paper provides greater clarity to the companies investing across the UK to deliver our net zero emissions target.” The acting chief executive of Citizens’ Advice said: “There’s a lot to welcome in today’s announcement.” I could go on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-14b.51.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-14", "file": "debates2020-12-14b.xml", "sha256": "71cfe2cfea2db7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-14b.87.0", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Covid-19", "cue_speaker": "Craig Mackinlay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Craig Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "desperate to get out of this mess, we are losing sight of what works and what does not work. I find it hard to believe that we will all be going Christmas shopping. I am sure the density in our supermarkets will be that much higher over the next 10 to 12 days, as we scramble around for the cranberry sauce and the turkey. That is allowed. The nail bars and the hairdressers, thankfully, are allowed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-14b.87.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-15", "file": "debates2020-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "22ee53f6a0d7269a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-15a.156.5", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Online Harms Consultation", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Dowden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Dowden", "preceding_text": "Sadly that will not be addressed by this legislation, Mr Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-15a.156.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-15", "file": "debates2020-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "22ee53f6a0d7269a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-15a.158.2", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Online Harms Consultation", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Dowden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Dowden", "preceding_text": "I welcome the hon. Gentleman’s overall support. On when this will be coming, the legislation will be brought before the House in 2021. He asked about economic crime, and other Members also raised that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-15a.158.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-15", "file": "debates2020-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "22ee53f6a0d7269a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-15a.173.1", "colnum": "173", "heading": "United Kingdom Internal Market Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bill Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Cash", "preceding_text": "The question of state aids very much lies at the heart of much of these debates. Does the hon. Lady accept that the EU state aid rules are a racket? I know very well the areas around Sheffield, Yorkshire and the midlands, where the coal and steel communities were destroyed, effectively, by the application and the discrimination that was made against—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-15a.173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-15", "file": "debates2020-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "22ee53f6a0d7269a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-15a.173.2", "colnum": "173", "heading": "United Kingdom Internal Market Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "preceding_text": "n. The Government have been shaking it all about with the legislative games they have been playing in respect of the Bill, and I am not sure that has been good for anybody. I really hope that we can now see the end to some of these shenanigans. On the amendments, I will not rehearse the arguments: we have heard them put eloquently by their lordships and Members of this House on previous occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-15a.173.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-16", "file": "debates2020-12-16b.xml", "sha256": "cc2962affa0ed2fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-16b.342.1", "colnum": "342", "heading": "United Kingdom Internal Market Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bill Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Cash", "preceding_text": ", and we have ended up with this extremely contorted, extremely confusing and ambiguous series of statements. However, at the heart of it, there is one point that I want to put to the Minister. Does he recall the famous Schleswig-Holstein question? Only three people comprehended what was going on, or they had originally, but unfortunately one had forgotten, one had died and the other had gone mad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-16b.342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-16", "file": "debates2020-12-16b.xml", "sha256": "cc2962affa0ed2fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-16b.347.1", "colnum": "347", "heading": "United Kingdom Internal Market Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Brown", "preceding_text": "s Union bridge or Union tunnel that we do not want and do not need, because we can invest better in transport infrastructure ourselves. There is no doubt that the greatest improvements in Scotland’s infrastructure have come since the introduction of the Scottish Parliament, making decisions for the people of Scotland on behalf of the people of Scotland and representing the people who elected them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-16b.347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-16", "file": "debates2020-12-16b.xml", "sha256": "cc2962affa0ed2fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-16b.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "United Kingdom Internal Market Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman must resume his seat, and he knows that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-16b.350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-16", "file": "debates2020-12-16b.xml", "sha256": "cc2962affa0ed2fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-16b.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "United Kingdom Internal Market Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman must resume his seat, and he knows that. [Interruption.] This is just showing off. He should resume his seat, otherwise I will name him and order him to leave.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-16b.350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-16", "file": "debates2020-12-16b.xml", "sha256": "cc2962affa0ed2fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-16b.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "United Kingdom Internal Market Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman must resume his seat, and he knows that. [Interruption.] This is just showing off. He should resume his seat, otherwise I will name him and order him to leave. [Interruption.] Does he want to be named? Is that what is happening?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-16b.350.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-16", "file": "debates2020-12-16b.xml", "sha256": "cc2962affa0ed2fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-16b.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "United Kingdom Internal Market Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman must resume his seat, and he knows that. [Interruption.] This is just showing off. He should resume his seat, otherwise I will name him and order him to leave. [Interruption.] Does he want to be named? Is that what is happening? [Interruption.] If that is what is happening, we can do it. [Interruption.] Okay—I will name him. I know what he is doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-16b.350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-16", "file": "debates2020-12-16b.xml", "sha256": "cc2962affa0ed2fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-16b.351.1", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "reed with Mr Speaker that Helen Jones should be appointed to the former Member of the House of Commons position, and that Sir Robert Owen should be reappointed to the former holder of high judicial office position. Helen Jones, who will be familiar to many Members, was the popular Member for Warrington North from 1997 to 2019. She chaired the Petitions Committee with distinction from 2015 to 2019.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-16b.351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-16", "file": "debates2020-12-16b.xml", "sha256": "cc2962affa0ed2fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-16b.361.4", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Border Carbon Adjustment Tariffs and Decarbonisation", "cue_speaker": "Barry Gardiner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Gardiner", "preceding_text": "So will the Minister speak with the Chancellor about how we can reduce the subsidies to fossil fuels in this country—domestically—so that some of the innovative ideas that the hon. Member for Broadland (Jerome Mayhew) has put forward this evening might be taken forward with credibility?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-16b.361.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-17", "file": "debates2020-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "d575ecabd9a53984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-17b.404.2", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "May I begin by wishing the hon. Gentleman a very happy Christmas? I have a feeling that he is the only Member of this House who is disappointed that I have announced the recess dates, and would prefer that we were sitting on Christmas Day itself, which would be the best way he could celebrate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-17b.404.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-17", "file": "debates2020-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "d575ecabd9a53984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-17b.410.0", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Covid-19 Update", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “By local authorities.”", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "preceding_text": "tements I have made this year when the hon. Member for Leicester South (Jonathan Ashworth) has not mentioned track and trace. I will tell you why, Madam Deputy Speaker: the latest statistics show that where communications were available, 96.6% of people were reached and told to self-isolate. That is because of the huge improvements in contact tracing and testing that have been delivered this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-17b.410.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-17", "file": "debates2020-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "d575ecabd9a53984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-17b.410.0", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Covid-19 Update", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Hancock", "preceding_text": "ations were available, 96.6% of people were reached and told to self-isolate. That is because of the huge improvements in contact tracing and testing that have been delivered this year—[Hon. Members: “By local authorities.”] Including, of course, by local authority partners, but also by the brilliant national NHS Test and Trace system, which we should all congratulate. Getting those contact rates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-17b.410.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-17", "file": "debates2020-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "d575ecabd9a53984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-17b.452.0", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Christmas Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Paul Holmes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Holmes", "preceding_text": "y, the CrackleRock Brewing Company and the Botley Brewery need more support. The £1,000 was welcome, but they need further support, especially those that had previously invested to make sure that their businesses could continue. Perhaps the Deputy Chief Whip might like to speak to the Treasury in future so that we can see whether we can continue small brewery business rate relief as we go forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-17b.452.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-17", "file": "debates2020-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "d575ecabd9a53984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-17b.467.1", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Christmas Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "preceding_text": "long with everybody else. I also want to say thanks to my staff, particularly Wendy, my manageress in the office; Naomi—who is the lady who is very much under pressure? The PPS—who writes the speeches for me, and as we all know, she is pretty busy; and Yvonne, Betty, Ashley, Christina and Billy. I thank all my staff for all they do. I think perhaps I can have one more minute, Madam Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-17b.467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-17", "file": "debates2020-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "d575ecabd9a53984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-17b.472.2", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Christmas Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Amess", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Amess", "preceding_text": "locks are also going to be inspected and remedial work recommended where necessary. Unfortunately, for obvious reasons, we could not physically hold our annual centenarians’ tea party. We did it virtually, and that was a wonderful experience, but I hope we will be able to reinstate it next year, and we are going to do our best to once again get into the Guinness World Records. Now, on city status—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-17b.472.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-17", "file": "debates2020-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "d575ecabd9a53984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-17b.486.2", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Christmas Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Chris Stephens", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Stephens", "preceding_text": "e. In particular, the new immigration rules should have been brought to this Chamber for debate and discussion, as should the pilot that the Government have put in place for asylum seeker interviews. The Home Office has decided, without any reference to this Chamber, to allow Serco to carry out those interviews. It would not be a speech from me without touching on one or two constitutional issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-17b.486.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-17", "file": "debates2020-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "d575ecabd9a53984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-17b.488.1", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Christmas Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "preceding_text": "dible story the hon. Member for Ipswich (Tom Hunt) gave us. It is right that we need to focus on special educational needs. I, too, make a plea to the deputy Chief Whip. It is an important area and the hon. Member is proof that you can succeed, no matter what you have, if you have a good education. I am sure his education was under a Labour Government, which made a massive investment in education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-17b.488.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-30", "file": "debates2020-12-30b.xml", "sha256": "c893f91f3093817e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-30b.515.1", "colnum": "515", "heading": "European Union (Future Relationship) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "re UK will share in the programme of investment in our fishing industry. To get ourselves ready across the whole UK for the colossal uplift in fish that we will obtain, and even before the end of the transition period, the hon. Gentleman should know that we will fish about 130,000 tonnes more fish in the UK a year than we do at present. Currently, that is an opportunity that we must work to seize.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-30b.515.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-30", "file": "debates2020-12-30b.xml", "sha256": "c893f91f3093817e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-30b.518.3", "colnum": "518", "heading": "European Union (Future Relationship) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "of the Scottish National national/nationalist party—with a small “n”—is to hand control of the very waters we have just reclaimed straight back to the EU. That is its policy. It plans to ensnare Scotland’s fishing fleet in the dragnets of the common fisheries policy all over again. In the meantime, guess what SNP Members will do today, Mr Speaker. They are going to vote today for a no-deal Brexit!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-30b.518.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-30", "file": "debates2020-12-30b.xml", "sha256": "c893f91f3093817e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-30b.520.2", "colnum": "520", "heading": "European Union (Future Relationship) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "y education for every girl in the world, and I thank my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary for what he is doing on that. We will continue to lead the drive towards global net zero as we host COP26 in Glasgow next year. I hope and believe—and I think, actually, the tone this morning has given me encouragement in this belief; the mood in the House this morning seems on the whole to be positive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-30b.520.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-30", "file": "debates2020-12-30b.xml", "sha256": "c893f91f3093817e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-30b.522.7", "colnum": "522", "heading": "European Union (Future Relationship) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows very well that it is a different vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-30b.522.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-30", "file": "debates2020-12-30b.xml", "sha256": "c893f91f3093817e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-30b.525.0", "colnum": "525", "heading": "European Union (Future Relationship) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": " because a deal is far better than no deal. That is the right thing to do. But to pretend that the deal is not what it is is not being honest, and nor is it a base from which we can go forward. To pretend that there are no non-tariff barriers when there are is just not true. The Prime Minister will not just get up and say, “I got it wrong. I didn’t tell the truth when I was addressing the public.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-30b.525.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-30", "file": "debates2020-12-30b.xml", "sha256": "c893f91f3093817e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-30b.531.0", "colnum": "531", "heading": "European Union (Future Relationship) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "e the tape will now be coloured red, white and blue. [Interruption.] I hear the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster say, “It’s how they tell them.” He should tell that to the fishing businesses that all of a sudden will have to fill in customs declarations. He should tell them why, at his behest and based on his narrow ideology, that is the answer. The deal means more delay, paperwork and checks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-30b.531.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-30", "file": "debates2020-12-30b.xml", "sha256": "c893f91f3093817e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-30b.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "European Union (Future Relationship) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "so committed to exploring every opportunity to keep Erasmus in place for our people. Even the very name Erasmus signals our long-established European links. That long tradition of connection comes right into the modern day with our own Winnie Ewing, Madame Écosse herself. Winnie, a former mother of the European Parliament, was Chair of the EU Education Committee that brought in the Erasmus scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-30b.533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-30", "file": "debates2020-12-30b.xml", "sha256": "c893f91f3093817e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-30b.580.0", "colnum": "580", "heading": "European Union (Future Relationship) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Owen. Love to you and your family from all your friends here at Westminster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-30b.580.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2020-12-30", "file": "debates2020-12-30b.xml", "sha256": "c893f91f3093817e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-30b.642.1", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Valerie Vaz", "preceding_text": "itish ambassador seen Nazanin and Anousheh? Certainly Anousheh also needs diplomatic protection, like Nazanin has. Today was an unacceptable way to pass the most important piece of legislation that this Parliament is going to pass. Yes, we facilitated it, but that does not mean we agree with it. The EU has not said that this is the responsible thing to do. The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2020-12-30b.642.1"}
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