{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-09", "file": "debates2023-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "722b834c3990e6da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-09b.267.4", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Levelling Up, Housing and Communities", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Ansell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Ansell", "preceding_text": "be the smart choice for developers, while empty buildings such as the former Debenhams in Eastbourne town centre, which would carry 20% VAT for renovation, are overlooked and year on year move towards dilapidation. Has any assessment been made of the number of new homes that could be delivered should different VAT regimes be levelled up? And, as there has been a great deal of negative campaigning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-09b.267.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-09", "file": "debates2023-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "722b834c3990e6da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-09b.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Levelling Up, Housing and Communities", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Frazer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Frazer", "preceding_text": "l of experience on this issue in his area, as well as having raised it nationally. I was very pleased to discuss it with him and the relevant Minister in the Department of Health and Social Care today. It is important that all the necessary infrastructure for a housing development is built, whether in relation to education or GP surgeries. The infrastructure levy will facilitate that even further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-09b.268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-09", "file": "debates2023-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "722b834c3990e6da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-09b.290.0", "colnum": "290", "heading": "NHS Winter Pressures", "cue_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "preceding_text": "the talks giving an interview outside the Department to comment on what had and had not been said in those talks. We want to work constructively with the trade unions on that. The hon. Member says that we are only announcing measures today, but again, he seems to have written those comments before he got a copy of the statement. The integrated care boards took operational effect in July last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-09b.290.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-09", "file": "debates2023-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "722b834c3990e6da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-09b.295.2", "colnum": "295", "heading": "NHS Winter Pressures", "cue_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "preceding_text": " it is the delay in domiciliary care that is driving the blockage on the wards, which in turn applies there. Secondly, it is recognising that there are workforce pressures, which is why NHS England has been working on the workforce plan that has been set up. Thirdly, we have already set out our elective recovery plan. Over the summer, the longest waits—those of over two years—were largely cleared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-09b.295.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-09", "file": "debates2023-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "722b834c3990e6da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-09b.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Non-domestic Energy Support", "cue_speaker": "James Cartlidge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Cartlidge", "preceding_text": "do not routinely subsidise UK businesses. It is not for the Government to habitually pay the bills of businesses any more than it is for the Government to tell businesses how to turn a profit, and it cannot be that the taxpayer props up failing or unproductive firms. Instead, we must protect the forces of free enterprise and entrepreneurialism that have led to our economic success for generations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-09b.316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-09", "file": "debates2023-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "722b834c3990e6da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-09b.318.1", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Non-domestic Energy Support", "cue_speaker": "Abena Oppong-Asare", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Abena Oppong-Asare", "preceding_text": "ister spoke about support for energy-intensive industries. Can he confirm what businesses are in scope and how this will be implemented? Can I point out that Wade Ceramics in Stoke-on-Trent closed while the Government dithered and delayed over energy support? What does he have to say to those 140 workers? Our steel producers paid twice as much per megawatt-hour than German producers did last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-09b.318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-09", "file": "debates2023-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "722b834c3990e6da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-09b.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Non-domestic Energy Support", "cue_speaker": "James Cartlidge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Cartlidge", "preceding_text": "y important in his constituency. I am glad that he welcomes the 12-month duration, which I agree is important: it is what businesses were calling for, and it gives them extra certainty. I am afraid that I do not have the exact “www” off the top of my head, but hopefully it is live on gov.uk; I look nervously at my officials. There will certainly be a list on gov.uk at some point today. Is it live?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-09b.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-09", "file": "debates2023-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "722b834c3990e6da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-09b.341.0", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Procurement Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Quin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Quin", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member refers to Team Resolute, and I am delighted that it won the tender. The majority of that work will be undertaken in British yards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-09b.341.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-09", "file": "debates2023-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "722b834c3990e6da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-09b.347.0", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Procurement Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Quin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Quin", "preceding_text": "rement, we are always keen to set out the pipeline and provide every assistance we can to the domestic steel industry. However, as he knows, there are also international obligations, of which we are mindful and I know he will also be mindful, in respect of how we conduct our public procurement. I am not certain whether what he suggests would be consistent with the Government procurement agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-09b.347.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-10", "file": "debates2023-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "f959bc96adcae9ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-10b.408.6", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Justice", "cue_speaker": "Mike Freer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Freer", "preceding_text": "I have spoken to staff, who said that yes, there are teething problems—that has been admitted—but they are fully committed. They understand that the common platform is a good programme and will work. We are listening to the staff to make sure it works.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-10b.408.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-10", "file": "debates2023-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "f959bc96adcae9ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-10b.432.1", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Industrial Action", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "any Government is to keep the public safe, and unlike other countries, we are not proposing to ban strikes, but we do need to know that unions will be held to account. Opposition Members who object to minimum safety levels will need to explain to their constituents why, if they had a heart attack, stroke, or life-threatening illness on a strike day, there were no minimum safety standards in place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-10b.432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-10", "file": "debates2023-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "f959bc96adcae9ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-10b.437.3", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Industrial Action", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "I appreciate that the hon. Gentleman is an enthusiastic supporter of everything that the unions do, and they are an enthusiastic supporter of the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-10b.437.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-10", "file": "debates2023-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "f959bc96adcae9ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-10b.474.1", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Stamp Duty Land Tax (Reduction) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "er we should change the domestic rating system, we always faced the problem of the people who were going to be worse off, who were always the losers and who were going to complain. I accept that, were this to be implemented in the way I am canvassing, it would create some losers who would be unpleasantly surprised. That leads me to my belief that SDLT and stamp duty should be abolished altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-10b.474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-10", "file": "debates2023-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "f959bc96adcae9ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-10b.524.0", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Sport in Schools and Communities", "cue_speaker": "James Daly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Daly", "preceding_text": "roup there are 90 cricket teams. For under-17s and under-18s there are only six. Something significant is happening and I still do not know what. We can all say, “Oh, the kids have got lots of other things to do,” but they are not doing any other physical activity. In the old cliché, the old man that I am might say, “They are sitting in their bedrooms watching social media,” but something happens—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-10b.524.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-10", "file": "debates2023-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "f959bc96adcae9ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-10b.524.0", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Sport in Schools and Communities", "cue_speaker": "James Daly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Daly", "preceding_text": "d point to numerous other examples, as I am sure other colleagues could, of clubs, especially in working-class areas, that are vanishing before our eyes. When we go to middle-class areas and see 100 or 150 young kids playing cricket on a Friday night, we kid ourselves that cricket is thriving. I nearly want to cry when I go and watch Radcliffe cricket club, which is in the Bury South constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-10b.524.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-11", "file": "debates2023-01-11e.xml", "sha256": "55a123c80f6a17ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.552.9", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "As a result of the new reformed NHS dentistry contract, there are now more NHS dentists across the UK, with more funding, making sure that people can get the treatment they need. Let me answer the hon. Lady directly. I am registered with an NHS GP. I have used independent healthcare in the past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.552.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-11", "file": "debates2023-01-11e.xml", "sha256": "55a123c80f6a17ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.553.4", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "nse to the greatest crisis in the history of the NHS is to threaten to sack our nurses. His Transport Secretary says it is not the solution. His Education Secretary hopes it will not apply in schools. His own assessments say it could increase the number of strikes. The simple truth is you cannot legislate your way out of 13 years of failure. Between 2010 and 2019, before anyone had heard of covid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.553.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-11", "file": "debates2023-01-11e.xml", "sha256": "55a123c80f6a17ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.553.4", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "he solution. His Education Secretary hopes it will not apply in schools. His own assessments say it could increase the number of strikes. The simple truth is you cannot legislate your way out of 13 years of failure. Between 2010 and 2019, before anyone had heard of covid—[Interruption.]—the number of people stuck on the NHS waiting list doubled. Why do patients always wait longer under the Tories?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.553.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-11", "file": "debates2023-01-11e.xml", "sha256": "55a123c80f6a17ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.553.6", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More!”", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "is is a simple proposition. No one denies the unions’ freedom to strike, but it is important to balance that with people’s right to access to life-saving healthcare at the same time. This should not be controversial. The International Labour Organisation supports minimum service levels. They are present in France, in Italy, in Spain. Normally he is in favour of more European alignment—why not now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.553.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-11", "file": "debates2023-01-11e.xml", "sha256": "55a123c80f6a17ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.555.0", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “It’s you!”", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "t happened to cancer referrals during covid? They went down by almost two thirds. That was because of a pandemic. By the way, if we had listened to him, we would still be in lockdown and there would be even more waiting lists. Actually, right now there are record levels of cancer treatment as we catch up with those missed things. The right hon. and learned Gentleman talks about what is terrifying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.555.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-11", "file": "debates2023-01-11e.xml", "sha256": "55a123c80f6a17ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.556.4", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "I do not think we need to talk about our predecessors, but I remember—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.556.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-11", "file": "debates2023-01-11e.xml", "sha256": "55a123c80f6a17ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.557.1", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Liz Saville-Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liz Saville-Roberts", "preceding_text": "caused every day by their 13 years of butchering health budgets. Meanwhile, Labour’s Health Secretary in Wales follows the Tory playbook, blaming patients themselves for standards of health. The reality is this: health services in Wales suffer from a combination of mismanagement by Labour and a Westminster funding system that perpetuates poverty. The Prime Minister used to talk about levelling up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.557.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-11", "file": "debates2023-01-11e.xml", "sha256": "55a123c80f6a17ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.574.0", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Fair Taxation of Schools and Education Standards Committee", "cue_speaker": "Gillian Keegan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gillian Keegan", "preceding_text": " could be over-optimistic, or even economically illiterate. The Government recognise that a good education is the closest thing we have to a silver bullet when it comes to making people’s lives better, which is why we are putting an extra £2 billion into our schools next year and the year after. This will be the highest real-terms spending on schools in history, totalling £58.8 billion by 2024-25.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.574.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-11", "file": "debates2023-01-11e.xml", "sha256": "55a123c80f6a17ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.575.4", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Fair Taxation of Schools and Education Standards Committee", "cue_speaker": "Gillian Keegan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gillian Keegan", "preceding_text": "eading and from 28th to 18th in maths. We will continue that trajectory as we build on the ambitions of the schools White Paper, which will help every child fulfil their potential by ensuring they receive the right support in the right place at the right time. This will be achieved by delivering excellent teaching for every child, high standards of curriculum, good attendance and better behaviour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.575.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-11", "file": "debates2023-01-11e.xml", "sha256": "55a123c80f6a17ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.578.1", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Fair Taxation of Schools and Education Standards Committee", "cue_speaker": "Gillian Keegan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gillian Keegan", "preceding_text": "that I used—160,000 pupils times £6,970—are our figures, so £1.1 billion is our calculation. The Baines Cutler report was commissioned by the independent schools sector. Of course, everybody in the sector, as in many other sectors, commissions research, but I hope that the hon. Lady is not suggesting that, because the report was commissioned, it did not have to be validated—of course, it would be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.578.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-11", "file": "debates2023-01-11e.xml", "sha256": "55a123c80f6a17ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.604.4", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Fair Taxation of Schools and Education Standards Committee", "cue_speaker": "Toby Perkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Toby Perkins", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.604.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-11", "file": "debates2023-01-11e.xml", "sha256": "55a123c80f6a17ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.621.1", "colnum": "621", "heading": "NHS: Long-term Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "preceding_text": "e way as patients because of 13 years of Conservative mismanagement. The only part of the Government’s amendment that I agree with is the part that praises NHS staff. Why is the Secretary of State’s Prime Minister bringing in his “sack the nurses” Bill next week? How many nurses will he sack? How many paramedics or junior doctors will he sack? The only people who need the sack are this Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-11", "file": "debates2023-01-11e.xml", "sha256": "55a123c80f6a17ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.621.3", "colnum": "621", "heading": "NHS: Long-term Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has got some brass neck. I have already given him figures showing that per capita funding increased by 5% under the last Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.621.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-11", "file": "debates2023-01-11e.xml", "sha256": "55a123c80f6a17ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.623.4", "colnum": "623", "heading": "NHS: Long-term Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "preceding_text": "Secretary of State’s plan?”—[Official Report, 9 January 2023; Vol. 725, c. 297.] What indeed is the Secretary of State’s plan? He has been in power for 13 years. His Government have presided over this record and still, after 13 years, they have no plan. Conservative Members asked what my plan was and I outlined it: a fully costed, fully funded plan to deliver the biggest expansion of NHS staffing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.623.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-11", "file": "debates2023-01-11e.xml", "sha256": "55a123c80f6a17ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.625.3", "colnum": "625", "heading": "NHS: Long-term Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "preceding_text": "tter quality of care for not just older people but working-age disabled people. There are so many people in hospital who would not need to be there if we could provide quality care in their homes, which is why our commitment to double the number of district nurses qualifying every year is central to our policy. We will also give every child a healthy start to life, with 5,000 more health visitors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.625.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-11", "file": "debates2023-01-11e.xml", "sha256": "55a123c80f6a17ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.628.3", "colnum": "628", "heading": "NHS: Long-term Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "preceding_text": "I support transparency, so I will take away the issue of trailblazers that she raises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.628.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-11", "file": "debates2023-01-11e.xml", "sha256": "55a123c80f6a17ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.632.0", "colnum": "632", "heading": "NHS: Long-term Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "preceding_text": "The data shows very clearly the profound impact of the pandemic, and the data shows that the impact is not constrained to England. It is acute in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.632.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-11", "file": "debates2023-01-11e.xml", "sha256": "55a123c80f6a17ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.641.1", "colnum": "641", "heading": "NHS: Long-term Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Alun Cairns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Cairns", "preceding_text": "Government. That demonstrates the complexity of the situation. The Welsh Government say that they cannot act until they have more money, but they need to remember that they are getting £120 for every £100 that is made available in England, and they have tax-varying powers. Are they saying that they want to tax the English more in order to spend more in Wales? They can vary taxes however they want—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.641.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-11", "file": "debates2023-01-11e.xml", "sha256": "55a123c80f6a17ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.651.0", "colnum": "651", "heading": "NHS: Long-term Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Anna Firth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anna Firth", "preceding_text": "t one might think, sitting here and listening to Opposition Members—is plainly not true. We have heard the PM’s plan to tackle the backlogs and waiting lists. If they think that is not much of a plan, they should consider what the Nuffield Trust said last week about Labour’s plans. It said that they would “cost a fortune and stem from a failure of understanding and an out-of-date view”. Last week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.651.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-11", "file": "debates2023-01-11e.xml", "sha256": "55a123c80f6a17ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.669.0", "colnum": "669", "heading": "NHS: Long-term Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "preceding_text": "I am sure Conservative Members would rather forget. That legislation so large it could be seen from outer space, but no one understood what it was for. Years of time and effort were squandered on a disastrous internal NHS reorganisation that failed either to integrate care or to deliver the improvements in patient care that the Conservatives claimed. There was the Conservatives’ cap on care costs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.669.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-11", "file": "debates2023-01-11e.xml", "sha256": "55a123c80f6a17ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.669.0", "colnum": "669", "heading": "NHS: Long-term Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "preceding_text": " one understood what it was for. Years of time and effort were squandered on a disastrous internal NHS reorganisation that failed either to integrate care or to deliver the improvements in patient care that the Conservatives claimed. There was the Conservatives’ cap on care costs—[Interruption]—and their solemn promise that no one would have to sell their home to pay for their care. Remember that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.669.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-11", "file": "debates2023-01-11e.xml", "sha256": "55a123c80f6a17ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.669.0", "colnum": "669", "heading": "NHS: Long-term Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "preceding_text": "t care that the Conservatives claimed. There was the Conservatives’ cap on care costs—[Interruption]—and their solemn promise that no one would have to sell their home to pay for their care. Remember that? [Interruption.] It was first promised in 2012, postponed in 2015 and 2017, and re-promised by the right hon. Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip (Boris Johnson) on the steps of Downing Street.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.669.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-11", "file": "debates2023-01-11e.xml", "sha256": "55a123c80f6a17ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.670.1", "colnum": "670", "heading": "NHS: Long-term Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. The promise was buried once and for all by the Chancellor in his autumn statement last year—a Chancellor, I remind the House, who said that his biggest regret as Health Secretary was failing to put in place a long-term plan for social care. In contrast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.670.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-11", "file": "debates2023-01-11e.xml", "sha256": "55a123c80f6a17ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.670.1", "colnum": "670", "heading": "NHS: Long-term Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "preceding_text": "lun Cairns) will be interested to hear this. In contrast, Labour has a 10-year plan for investment and reform in our NHS and social care. It includes the biggest ever expansion of the NHS workforce, funded by scrapping non-dom tax status; ensuring that patients can see the doctor they want in the manner they want, whether that is face to face, over the phone or online; a new deal for care workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-11e.670.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-12", "file": "debates2023-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "f5bc8792b3879c7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-12b.769.1", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Iran", "cue_speaker": "Leo Docherty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Leo Docherty", "preceding_text": "everyone in this House would celebrate and thank the Navy for. My hon. Friend also made a strong call for IRGC proscription, which is noted. The hon. Member for Bristol East (Kerry McCarthy) spoke of the bravery of protesters and made some very thoughtful remarks about what leverage we have. She is no longer in her place, but she did ask a relevant question about our leverage. It is the case that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-12b.769.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-12", "file": "debates2023-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "f5bc8792b3879c7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-12b.801.1", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Landfill Tax Fraud", "cue_speaker": "James Cartlidge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Cartlidge", "preceding_text": "l tax compliance aims to collect the right amount of tax and support the Government’s aim to create a better environment. Most of its work to tackle tax fraud makes use of civil powers, as I said earlier, but it also uses criminal powers selectively. HMRC has learned lessons from previous operational activity and is developing a number of criminal investigations into those involved in waste crime—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-12b.801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-12", "file": "debates2023-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "f5bc8792b3879c7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-12b.809.1", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Retained EU Law: Trading Standards", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "els of consumer protection. The UK has a proud record and a proud history of excellent trading standards work, which sits independently of our membership of the EU. However, now that the UK has left the EU, it is only right that this Government look at all areas of policy to see where we can innovate and modernise, as well as to capitalise on the regulatory freedoms that we have for the long term.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-12b.809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-12", "file": "debates2023-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "f5bc8792b3879c7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-12b.809.1", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Retained EU Law: Trading Standards", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "the UK has left the EU, it is only right that this Government look at all areas of policy to see where we can innovate and modernise, as well as to capitalise on the regulatory freedoms that we have for the long term. [Interruption.] SNP Members may chunter from a sedentary position and seek to intervene in an Adjournment debate, but I will carry on setting out the reality after we have heard the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-12b.809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-12", "file": "debates2023-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "f5bc8792b3879c7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-12b.810.3", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Retained EU Law: Trading Standards", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": ". Friend the Member for Watford (Dean Russell) , who did a particularly fine job on the Bill’s Second Reading, the Government will, as a priority, ensure that necessary legislation is in place to uphold the UK’s international obligations. Where retained EU law is required to maintain those obligations, we will set that out through the dash- board, so that the public can scrutinise it. To conclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-12b.810.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-16", "file": "debates2023-01-16f.xml", "sha256": "620d4a36a0c116d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-16f.54.7", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "I always think that people think very carefully about this issue, and they are right to do so. We are operating within the context of a crisis in global growth. The International Monetary Fund states that a third of the world will be in recession this year, caused by Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-16f.54.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-16", "file": "debates2023-01-16f.xml", "sha256": "620d4a36a0c116d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-16f.54.7", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": " always think that people think very carefully about this issue, and they are right to do so. We are operating within the context of a crisis in global growth. The International Monetary Fund states that a third of the world will be in recession this year, caused by Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine—[Interruption.] I am surprised to hear Labour Members yawning and moaning. Putin invaded Ukraine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-16f.54.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-16", "file": "debates2023-01-16f.xml", "sha256": "620d4a36a0c116d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-16f.55.3", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "ntial transport to get to work or to family commitments now every day have the extra stress of worrying about making alternative, sometimes costly, arrangements because of the forever strikes. There are those who, at the most terrifying time of their lives—perhaps with a poorly loved one—do not know whether an ambulance will arrive, because the unions have refused to provide a national safety net.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-16f.55.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-16", "file": "debates2023-01-16f.xml", "sha256": "620d4a36a0c116d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-16f.58.3", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "I hope the House will appreciate that there are a lot of people who want to contribute. I want to give people the opportunity to do that in their own speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-16f.58.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-16", "file": "debates2023-01-16f.xml", "sha256": "620d4a36a0c116d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-16f.58.3", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Consolidation”", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "ople who want to contribute. I want to give people the opportunity to do that in their own speeches. [Interruption.] If Members do not mind, I will turn to the detail of the Bill. The Bill establishes a legal framework to implement minimum safety and service levels during periods of strike action. It will achieve that by amending existing legislation, the Trade Union and Labour Relations Concili —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-16f.58.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-16", "file": "debates2023-01-16f.xml", "sha256": "620d4a36a0c116d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-16f.59.0", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Graham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Graham", "preceding_text": "he interests of all our constituents, which are in the minimum service level agreements that my right hon. Friend is proposing. Ultimately, what people in our constituencies need to know, whether or not we know them, is that in those six sectors a minimum service will be provided regardless of the right of people in the sector to hold back their labour on a pay negotiation or for any other reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-16f.59.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-16", "file": "debates2023-01-16f.xml", "sha256": "620d4a36a0c116d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-16f.59.0", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Graham", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Speech!”", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Graham", "preceding_text": "el agreements that my right hon. Friend is proposing. Ultimately, what people in our constituencies need to know, whether or not we know them, is that in those six sectors a minimum service will be provided regardless of the right of people in the sector to hold back their labour on a pay negotiation or for any other reason. [Interruption.] That is a reasonable proposition, and we should be heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-16f.59.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-16", "file": "debates2023-01-16f.xml", "sha256": "620d4a36a0c116d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-16f.61.9", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the normal parliamentary rules apply, so I would never stand here and seek to do such a thing. In the interests of transparency, I will mention the £11,100 that the hon. Member has received from the CLP union in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-16f.61.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-16", "file": "debates2023-01-16f.xml", "sha256": "620d4a36a0c116d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-16f.63.0", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Vicky Ford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vicky Ford", "preceding_text": "We are living in a time when democracy and freedom are under threat across the world. The right to strike is an important one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-16f.63.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-16", "file": "debates2023-01-16f.xml", "sha256": "620d4a36a0c116d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-16f.65.5", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "preceding_text": " of nurses Bill, and it is not just about nurses but about the many key workers who we clapped and who kept our services going in the face of the pandemic. We will vote against this legislation tonight, and the next Labour Government will repeal it. We are in the middle of an economic crisis of the Government’s making. Working people are facing the largest fall in living standards in a generation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-16f.65.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-16", "file": "debates2023-01-16f.xml", "sha256": "620d4a36a0c116d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-16f.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "preceding_text": "I absolutely agree with my friend. We may not be in the same party, but we are in the same trade union. These brave, hard-working men and women struck local life-and-limb deals on a trust-by-trust basis ahead of all the strikes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-16f.67.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-16", "file": "debates2023-01-16f.xml", "sha256": "620d4a36a0c116d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-16f.87.0", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Loder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Loder", "preceding_text": "iness owners to continue their business. Hard-working union members who feel pressured to strike, who believe that eight days of strikes in quick succession is too much, or who do not agree with having six days to respond to a ballot referendum instead of the standard 14, want the situation tempered and want their needs and rights to be recognised, rather than the ideological ones of trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-16f.87.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-16", "file": "debates2023-01-16f.xml", "sha256": "620d4a36a0c116d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-16f.88.4", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Loder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Loder", "preceding_text": "tionship between the unions and individual Opposition Members is worth hundreds of thousands of pounds. The unions are showering the Opposition with hundreds of thousands—millions—of pounds as if it were confetti from the sky. It is absolutely outrageous. We have the privilege of being able to refer to the Register of Members’ Financial Interests when they speak in this House—that is all it takes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-16f.88.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-16", "file": "debates2023-01-16f.xml", "sha256": "620d4a36a0c116d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-16f.92.0", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Edwards", "preceding_text": "taly, Germany, France, or indeed the United States, Australia and Canada, which in some areas have an outright ban on strikes in blue-light services. Normally, Opposition Members idolise Europe’s approach to employment rights, but on the issue of minimum services they are keeping very quiet. Why? It is because their paymasters in the unions do not want to let them do otherwise. I understand, I do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-16f.92.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-16", "file": "debates2023-01-16f.xml", "sha256": "620d4a36a0c116d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-16f.125.0", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "preceding_text": "Geraint Davies, GMB, Swansea West constituency Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-16f.125.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-17", "file": "debates2023-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "6a0d72697cbb66e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.179.1", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Police Conduct and David Carrick", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Before I call the Home Secretary to make her statement, I remind Members of the sub judice rule.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-17", "file": "debates2023-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "6a0d72697cbb66e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.199.1", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Scotland Act 1998: Section 35 Power", "cue_speaker": "Alister Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alister Jack", "preceding_text": "cognition regimes in the UK, and allowing more fraudulent or bad- faith applications. The Government are today publishing a full statement of reasons alongside the order, which will set out in full the adverse effects that they are concerned about. Let me now address the claims put forward by those who would seek to politicise this decision and claim that it is some kind of constitutional outrage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.199.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-17", "file": "debates2023-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "6a0d72697cbb66e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.202.3", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Scotland Act 1998: Section 35 Power", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Ross", "preceding_text": "w the UK Government had sought to engage constructively with the Scottish Government during the passage of the Bill prior to its being voted on in the Scottish Parliament, yet Nicola Sturgeon has tried to turn this into a political battle between the Scottish and UK Governments when, as I understand it, all that the Scottish Secretary and this Government are trying to do is protect women’s rights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.202.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-17", "file": "debates2023-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "6a0d72697cbb66e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.204.4", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Scotland Act 1998: Section 35 Power", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Wright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Wright", "preceding_text": "Is not the central point here that devolution is not the same as independence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.204.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-17", "file": "debates2023-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "6a0d72697cbb66e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.207.6", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Scotland Act 1998: Section 35 Power", "cue_speaker": "Karin Smyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Karin Smyth", "preceding_text": "olution, of which I am a strong supporter. The state of relationships between the Tories and the SNP is deleterious and it is damaging all our rights. The SNP went to court to argue that sex was a legal construct, not a biological one. Therefore, the SNP has landed us in this position and it is trading on people’s rights—it is outrageous. The SNP is disregarding sex-based rights, which is exactly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.207.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-17", "file": "debates2023-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "6a0d72697cbb66e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.207.6", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Scotland Act 1998: Section 35 Power", "cue_speaker": "Karin Smyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Karin Smyth", "preceding_text": "g all our rights. The SNP went to court to argue that sex was a legal construct, not a biological one. Therefore, the SNP has landed us in this position and it is trading on people’s rights—it is outrageous. The SNP is disregarding sex-based rights, which is exactly—[Interruption.] It is not acceptable for people who are standing up to talk about women’s sex-based rights to be constantly badgered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.207.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-17", "file": "debates2023-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "6a0d72697cbb66e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.208.7", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Scotland Act 1998: Section 35 Power", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Maclean", "preceding_text": "legal opposite sex, travel to this country and then become part of our society. There is a clear read-across to the Equality Act in our country. Having served in the Home Office and seen the desperate need for women and girls to be protected from grooming gangs, predators and sex offenders, I know that having protections for them to access those single-sex based services, which we thankfully have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.208.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-17", "file": "debates2023-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "6a0d72697cbb66e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.211.5", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Scotland Act 1998: Section 35 Power", "cue_speaker": "Paul Bristow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Bristow", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that, if this House passed legislation that impinged on what should be a devolved competence, there would be howls of protest from the SNP Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.211.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-17", "file": "debates2023-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "6a0d72697cbb66e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.226.0", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "In an ideal world, yes, it would be easier. The statement of reasons is now live, and it should have been emailed to certain Members to ensure that they can see it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.226.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-17", "file": "debates2023-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "6a0d72697cbb66e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.228.2", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill: Section 35 Power", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Flynn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Flynn", "preceding_text": "g to move, That this House has considered the Government’s decision to use section 35 of the Scotland Act with regard to the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill. Here we have it, eventually: the statement of reasons, which I am expected to read while also speaking. I have to admit that there is a real temptation for me to stand here and read every single word of it into the record right now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.228.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-17", "file": "debates2023-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "6a0d72697cbb66e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.228.2", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill: Section 35 Power", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Flynn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Flynn", "preceding_text": "Act with regard to the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill. Here we have it, eventually: the statement of reasons, which I am expected to read while also speaking. I have to admit that there is a real temptation for me to stand here and read every single word of it into the record right now. [Interruption.] They want me to! They probably should not goad me to; I will. On a more serious note—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.228.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-17", "file": "debates2023-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "6a0d72697cbb66e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.228.5", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill: Section 35 Power", "cue_speaker": "Hannah Bardell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hannah Bardell", "preceding_text": "ision. My hon. Friend the Member for Central Ayrshire (Dr Whitford) spoke earlier about the World Health Organisation and the other European and Commonwealth nations that already have such legislation, and how Scotland would be brought into line with them. The statement talks about “removing a number of measures which the UK government regards as important safeguards”, which are the very measures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.228.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-17", "file": "debates2023-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "6a0d72697cbb66e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.238.3", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill: Section 35 Power", "cue_speaker": "Ian Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Murray", "preceding_text": "rst category of adverse effects, talks about different regimes across the United Kingdom. That, to me, suggests that the Government do not want this to be devolved. There are other devolved issues, such as abortion, that would have cross-border implications. But I would also gently say in response to the hon. Lady that Donald Dewar designed section 35 for the very question that she has just asked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.238.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-17", "file": "debates2023-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "6a0d72697cbb66e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.240.10", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill: Section 35 Power", "cue_speaker": "Ian Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Murray", "preceding_text": "Let me finish my point. The Government have come forward with 13 pages that they think show that the Bill adversely affects UK-wide legislation. I think the statement of reasons is thin, although I have not had a chance to read it all the way through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.240.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-17", "file": "debates2023-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "6a0d72697cbb66e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.240.10", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill: Section 35 Power", "cue_speaker": "Ian Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Murray", "preceding_text": " [Interruption.] It might be rubbish, but people have concerns that we have to alleviate. We have to bring people with us. What the SNP has forgotten about this entire process—Labour is very experienced at this because we do it all the time—is that when a Government are passing major equalities legislation they have to bring people with them. If that means they have to get people around the table—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.240.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-17", "file": "debates2023-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "6a0d72697cbb66e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.240.10", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill: Section 35 Power", "cue_speaker": "Ian Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Murray", "preceding_text": "h us. What the SNP has forgotten about this entire process—Labour is very experienced at this because we do it all the time—is that when a Government are passing major equalities legislation they have to bring people with them. If that means they have to get people around the table—[Interruption.] Should you not have to bring people with you? If people raise concerns, you should just dismiss them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.240.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-17", "file": "debates2023-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "6a0d72697cbb66e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.242.3", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill: Section 35 Power", "cue_speaker": "Ian Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Murray", "preceding_text": "iews on this, but two of his Front-Bench MSPs voted for the legislation. People are entitled to have slightly different views on what is an incredibly important subject. He has managed to do only one thing in the past week, which was not to get both Governments together to try to resolve this, but to write to me to ask my position on the Bill. I would rather that the two Governments came together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.242.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-17", "file": "debates2023-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "6a0d72697cbb66e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.244.1", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill: Section 35 Power", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Ross", "preceding_text": "ice. We had a situation in the Scottish Parliament where, the night before crucial amendments were debated, the Cabinet Secretary wrote to Conservative, Labour and SNP MSPs about their amendments and the legal advice surrounding them, but told them that that legal advice could not be shared. Yet here we have the UK Government sharing their statement of reasons with Parliament, and I think that is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.244.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-17", "file": "debates2023-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "6a0d72697cbb66e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.245.3", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill: Section 35 Power", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Ross", "preceding_text": "I will give way in a moment. I gave my MSPs a free vote, and I think it was right that they were given that opportunity. In fairness, one of our former colleagues in this place, Michelle Thomson, who is now an SNP MSP, spoke about the “dark arts” of the Whips within her party who were trying to stop debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-17c.245.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-30", "file": "debates2023-01-30b.xml", "sha256": "cd35eb23a19ad1b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-30b.48.0", "colnum": "48", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “You can’t blame us for this!”", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "s a degree of commercial confidentiality, but I would be delighted to share that work. Finally, the hon. Lady asked if we will maintain our commitment to abolish the feudal system of leasehold. We absolutely will. We will bring forward legislation shortly. But I gently say that the urgency with which she makes the case for change was not an urgency exhibited by the last Labour Government. In 1995—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-30b.48.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-30", "file": "debates2023-01-30c.xml", "sha256": "25587a770a194f39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-30c.5.7", "colnum": "5", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "James Heappey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Heappey", "preceding_text": "I am not sure that the United States has said anything about the official development assistance budget recently, but if you will indulge me, Mr Speaker, that is a wider point of news—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-30c.5.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-30", "file": "debates2023-01-30c.xml", "sha256": "25587a770a194f39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-30c.13.2", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Murrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Murrison", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is referring to the quinquennial review, which has published its interim findings and will publish its definitive report in the spring. She is right to highlight some of the findings of that report in its interim form, and of course we will take into account all of those—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-30c.13.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-30", "file": "debates2023-01-30c.xml", "sha256": "25587a770a194f39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-30c.28.0", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Urgent and Emergency Care Recovery Plan", "cue_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "preceding_text": " NHS, with hospitals so obviously short of staff, is the universities Minister writing to medical schools to tell them not to train any more doctors? This is ludicrous. Labour will double the number of medical school places and create 10,000 new nursing and midwifery clinical placements, all paid for by abolishing the non-dom tax status. I know that the Prime Minister might not like that last bit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-30c.28.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-30", "file": "debates2023-01-30c.xml", "sha256": "25587a770a194f39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-30c.29.0", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Urgent and Emergency Care Recovery Plan", "cue_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "preceding_text": "d with contradictions the Opposition’s approach is. He says in interviews that he supports the pay review body process—that is the official position, or at least it was—but then he says, “No, we should be negotiating individually with the trade unions and disregarding the pay review process.” There is no consistency on that at all. The shadow Secretary of State talks about operational performance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-30c.29.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-30", "file": "debates2023-01-30c.xml", "sha256": "25587a770a194f39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-30c.29.0", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Urgent and Emergency Care Recovery Plan", "cue_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "preceding_text": "ing fewer than 2,000 in that cohort. The shadow Secretary of State talks about the workforce. Obviously, he did not bother to read or listen to what was said in the statement. We are on track to deliver our manifesto commitment of more than 50,000 nurses. We have more than 30,000 so far. We have 10,500 more nurses in the NHS this year compared with last year. The grown-up position is to recognise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-30c.29.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-30", "file": "debates2023-01-30c.xml", "sha256": "25587a770a194f39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-30c.29.0", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Urgent and Emergency Care Recovery Plan", "cue_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "preceding_text": "e globe. The shadow Secretary of State says that the statement did not cover the plan for GPs. Well, again, I was clear that this was one of three plans. We had the elective plan in the summer, which hit its first milestone. We have the second component today on urgent and emergency care, and we will set out in the coming weeks our approach to primary care. That is the approach that we are taking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-30c.29.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-30", "file": "debates2023-01-30c.xml", "sha256": "25587a770a194f39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-30c.29.0", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Urgent and Emergency Care Recovery Plan", "cue_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "preceding_text": " I was clear that this was one of three plans. We had the elective plan in the summer, which hit its first milestone. We have the second component today on urgent and emergency care, and we will set out in the coming weeks our approach to primary care. That is the approach that we are taking. [Interruption.] The shadow Secretary of State keeps chuntering. We did not have the pandemic 13 years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-30c.29.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-30", "file": "debates2023-01-30c.xml", "sha256": "25587a770a194f39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-30c.48.0", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Building Safety", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “You can’t blame us for this!”", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "s a degree of commercial confidentiality, but I would be delighted to share that work. Finally, the hon. Lady asked if we will maintain our commitment to abolish the feudal system of leasehold. We absolutely will. We will bring forward legislation shortly. But I gently say that the urgency with which she makes the case for change was not an urgency exhibited by the last Labour Government. In 1995—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-30c.48.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-31", "file": "debates2023-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "24c3c3137332ce96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-31b.206.0", "colnum": "206", "heading": "IMF Economic Outlook", "cue_speaker": "James Cartlidge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Cartlidge", "preceding_text": "h— “upwards to 4.1%...that’s one of the highest growth rates in Europe, in that region, for that year”— 2022. The shadow Chancellor did make a passing reference to the pandemic, but it is usually Labour’s habit to airbrush out of history completely the fact that we as a Government have overseen two of the greatest challenges in the country’s history: a pandemic followed by the invasion of Ukraine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-31b.206.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-01-31", "file": "debates2023-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "24c3c3137332ce96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-31b.266.2", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Crime and Neighbourhood Policing", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Jones", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Member for that intervention. When he talked about crime, he was actually talking about knife crime. Knife crime was up across the whole country in the last year, because during covid the whole country had a drop in knife crime. In London, over the last four years, knife crime is down—unlike in the rest of the country, where it is up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-01-31b.266.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-02-01", "file": "debates2023-02-01c.xml", "sha256": "966984a4cc3dead4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-01c.364.0", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Environmental Improvement Plan 2023", "cue_speaker": "Alex Sobel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Sobel", "preceding_text": "he resources of regulators that are there to protect the environment by a third. Her three months as Environment Secretary have not been any better. First, she broke her own statutory deadline for publishing environmental targets. Then she told Parliament that meeting polluting water bosses is not a priority, before announcing measures that inflict more sewage dumping and toxic air on our country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-01c.364.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-02-01", "file": "debates2023-02-01c.xml", "sha256": "966984a4cc3dead4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-01c.365.0", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Environmental Improvement Plan 2023", "cue_speaker": "Therese Coffey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Therese Coffey", "preceding_text": "response, but out of respect for the House I will say that it is important to make sure that these long-term environmental plans are in place. We brought in legislation saying that we would refresh them every five years, and that is exactly what we have done. If we are talking about track records, of course the Labour Government never did anything about sewage. They did not know anything about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-01c.365.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-02-06", "file": "debates2023-02-06d.xml", "sha256": "35354e85c3e359fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-06d.667.3", "colnum": "667", "heading": "NHS Strikes", "cue_speaker": "Will Quince", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Will Quince", "preceding_text": "he details of today’s and tomorrow’s industrial action, but we will certainly be able to publish that information in due course. I can tell the right hon. Gentleman, as I mentioned in my opening response to the urgent question, that over 88,000 appointments have been rescheduled so far and over 58,000 shifts have been missed. Of course I deeply regret that and wish that there was no strike action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-06d.667.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-02-06", "file": "debates2023-02-06d.xml", "sha256": "35354e85c3e359fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-06d.668.0", "colnum": "668", "heading": "NHS Strikes", "cue_speaker": "Will Quince", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Will Quince", "preceding_text": "y with what the hon. Gentleman said about NHS staff and how we all owe them a debt of gratitude for the service they have given, not just to us but to all our families. Again, he may have missed it when I asked that if any Opposition Member was going to raise the same question, they might also stand up and say exactly where each block of £700 million would come from, out of my £150 billion budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-06d.668.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-02-06", "file": "debates2023-02-06d.xml", "sha256": "35354e85c3e359fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-06d.670.1", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Prepayment Meters: Ofgem Decision", "cue_speaker": "Alexander Stafford", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “ Ofgem.”", "preceding_speaker": "Alexander Stafford", "preceding_text": "An Englishman’s home is his castle, so it is disgusting that British Gas is forcing its way into people’s homes. What is especially galling is that, five years ago, Ofcom sent a missive to British Gas warning it not to do this, and British Gas is clearly ignoring Ofcom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-06d.670.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-02-06", "file": "debates2023-02-06d.xml", "sha256": "35354e85c3e359fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-06d.682.3", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Social Security and Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Karen Buck", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Karen Buck", "preceding_text": "I am slightly baffled by that. Although we have heard confirmation of the uprating this year, the point is that it comes on the back of years and years of that annual uprating simply not happening. The failure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-06d.682.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-02-06", "file": "debates2023-02-06d.xml", "sha256": "35354e85c3e359fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-06d.689.1", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Social Security and Pensions", "cue_speaker": "David Linden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Linden", "preceding_text": "Given the ability of the Government to crash the economy in the mini-Budget by the now elusive right hon. Member for South West Norfolk (Elizabeth Truss)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-06d.689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-02-06", "file": "debates2023-02-06d.xml", "sha256": "35354e85c3e359fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-06d.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Social Security and Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Paul Maynard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More!”", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Maynard", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention. He used the phrase “local welfare assistance scheme” which, sadly, could provoke me to speak for even longer than the hon. Member for Glasgow East (David Linden) , because it is my specialist topic, but I ought not to go there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-06d.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-02-06", "file": "debates2023-02-06d.xml", "sha256": "35354e85c3e359fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-06d.719.0", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Social Security and Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Guy Opperman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Guy Opperman", "preceding_text": "my the Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, my hon. Friend the Member for Sevenoaks (Laura Trott) , and my thanks to Mr Len Goodman, who is not often cited in this House as a supporter of all matters to do with this Government, for his outstanding work in making the case for pension credit, which has, of course, seen a 177% increase in the take-up of claims —that is a fantastic success—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-06d.719.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-02-07", "file": "debates2023-02-07c.xml", "sha256": "7171f518260c16f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-07c.750.7", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Treasury", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "It’s for Barry’s benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-07c.750.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-02-07", "file": "debates2023-02-07c.xml", "sha256": "7171f518260c16f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-07c.759.1", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Treasury", "cue_speaker": "James Cartlidge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Cartlidge", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend and county colleague is always championing his local businesses in the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-07c.759.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-02-07", "file": "debates2023-02-07c.xml", "sha256": "7171f518260c16f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-07c.874.0", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "I could not disagree more with the right hon. Member for South Holland and The Deepings (Sir John Hayes) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-07c.874.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-02-07", "file": "debates2023-02-07c.xml", "sha256": "7171f518260c16f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-07c.875.5", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "ight be taken against them simply go down the road of caution and reduce, limit and inhibit the student experience. Surely we want our young people to be brought up listening to and developing challenging ideas, and being inventive and creative. Surely that is what education should be about, not the straitjacket of being told what to think, what to say and what to know. It has to be that approach—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-07c.875.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-02-08", "file": "debates2023-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "1fadb83c95c8a931", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-08a.986.0", "colnum": "986", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": " the representatives who he would like to come to the Department to discuss the concerns he has specifically raised. I also extend that invitation to my right hon. Friend the Member for South Holland and The Deepings and my hon. Friend the Member for Waveney. My right hon. Friend the Member for South Holland and The Deepings made a point about internal drainage boards and the challenges they face—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-08a.986.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-02-08", "file": "debates2023-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "6ba79d9edde07f20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-08b.922.2", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Prevent: Independent Review", "cue_speaker": "Zarah Sultana", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Zarah Sultana", "preceding_text": "When the Government appointed William Shawcross to lead the review of Prevent, more than 450 Muslim organisations and leading human rights organisations such as Amnesty International boycotted it. Shawcross’s anti-Muslim attitude is well known. He said, for example, that “Europe and Islam is one of the…most terrifying problems of our future.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-08b.922.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-02-08", "file": "debates2023-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "6ba79d9edde07f20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-08b.930.3", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Police Grant Report", "cue_speaker": "Chris Philp", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Philp", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman suggests that the newly recruited officers are replacing those lost when the coalition Government were fixing the appalling financial mess left behind by the previous Labour Government. By the time we are done with this recruitment programme, we will have approximately 3,000 more officers than there were—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-08b.930.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-02-08", "file": "debates2023-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "6ba79d9edde07f20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-08b.936.0", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Police Grant Report", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Jones", "preceding_text": "cally, are the communities that have the most victims of crime and are most likely to suffer from antisocial behaviour, theft and burglaries. They are the communities that will get the least under this Government’s unequal distribution. Levelling up? Don’t make me laugh. The Minister lauds his increase in funding, when two thirds of it is increasing local taxes. To add to his convoluted hypocrisy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-08b.936.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-02-08", "file": "debates2023-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "6ba79d9edde07f20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-08b.986.0", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": " the representatives who he would like to come to the Department to discuss the concerns he has specifically raised. I also extend that invitation to my right hon. Friend the Member for South Holland and The Deepings and my hon. Friend the Member for Waveney. My right hon. Friend the Member for South Holland and The Deepings made a point about internal drainage boards and the challenges they face—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-08b.986.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-02-09", "file": "debates2023-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "7b7709d33069eb68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-09b.1082.1", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Independent Review of Net Zero", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Bowie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Bowie", "preceding_text": "e the benefits. In last April’s British energy security strategy, we raised the ambition to deliver up to 50 GW of offshore wind by 2030, including 5 GW of floating offshore wind. We have already invested millions in offshore wind, securing many jobs and up to £320 million of Government support for fixed-bottom and floating wind ports and infrastructure. To accelerate a reduction in energy demand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-09b.1082.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-02-21", "file": "debates2023-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "54ec4145a749b5be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-21c.122.2", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Justice", "cue_speaker": "Katherine Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Katherine Fletcher", "preceding_text": "HMP Garth and HMP Wymott are successful prisons that do great work rehabilitating prisoners, but the Ministry of Justice has plans to put a third prison on the site, almost doubling the number of prisoners there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-21c.122.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-02-21", "file": "debates2023-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "54ec4145a749b5be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-21c.140.4", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Voter Identification", "cue_speaker": "Lee Rowley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lee Rowley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman continues to perpetuate the myth that this is some form of suppression. He is absolutely incorrect. Putting aside party political views, we have a responsibility in this place to make sure that we are temperate with our language, particularly when it relates to something as important as the ballot box.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-21c.140.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-02-21", "file": "debates2023-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "54ec4145a749b5be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-21c.186.2", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Social Security (Additional Payments) (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mims Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mims Davies", "preceding_text": "g the household support fund throughout the next financial year. The details have been confirmed today. The extension allows local authorities in England to continue to provide discretionary support with the cost of essentials, particularly energy and food. The devolved Administrations will receive consequential funding, as usual, to spend at their discretion and with their expert local knowledge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-21c.186.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-02-22", "file": "debates2023-02-22b.xml", "sha256": "969cbd8fefc45f5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-22b.218.5", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman wants to put the EU first; I want to put Northern Ireland first. On these questions, he said he would respect the result of the referendum, and then he promised to back a second one. All the while he was constantly voting to frustrate Brexit. I know what the British people know: on this question, he cannot be trusted to stick up for Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-22b.218.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-02-22", "file": "debates2023-02-22b.xml", "sha256": "969cbd8fefc45f5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-22b.222.3", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "aken for granted. As ITV showed yesterday, St Helier Hospital in south London is literally crumbling, but there is still no plan to save it, and Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire has sewage leaking into its wards and a roof that could collapse at any moment. Does the Prime Minister agree that no patients, doctors or nurses should have to put up with those conditions? Can he tell the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-22b.222.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-02-22", "file": "debates2023-02-22b.xml", "sha256": "969cbd8fefc45f5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-22b.227.2", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": " sit down. [Interruption.] Do not worry. First, that is not a point of order. People can mention issues in other constituencies, such as those involving hospitals, because they usually cover a much greater geographical area than one constituency; they would not have to inform the Member. I do hope that the hon. Lady has informed the Member she named that she was about to raise this point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-22b.227.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-02-23", "file": "debates2023-02-23c.xml", "sha256": "62a1bcf63717c99e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-23c.294.2", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Environment, Food and Rural Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mark Spencer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Spencer", "preceding_text": " we are making progress. If the hon. Gentleman had only read the Conservative party manifesto at the last election, he would have known that and would not be as gloomy. I encourage him to continue monitoring the Conservative party manifesto. I am happy to confirm, as I did for the hon. Member for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath (Neale Hanvey) , that £2.4 billion is ringfenced for the support of farmers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-23c.294.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-02-23", "file": "debates2023-02-23c.xml", "sha256": "62a1bcf63717c99e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-23c.310.2", "colnum": "310", "heading": "UK Food Shortages", "cue_speaker": "Therese Coffey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Therese Coffey", "preceding_text": "e that the number of hens fell by about 4 million last year, but there are still between 36 million and 38 million laying hens in this country. It is important that we continue to have that discussion. The retailers have had a pretty reliable supply chain, but what has happened in southern Spain and Morocco is unusual, which is why we need a resilient farming industry and a resilient supply chain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-23c.310.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-02-23", "file": "debates2023-02-23c.xml", "sha256": "62a1bcf63717c99e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-23c.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "UK Food Shortages", "cue_speaker": "Therese Coffey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Therese Coffey", "preceding_text": "sidering the factors that can help both our farming sector and the environment. We took that approach when designing the environmental land management schemes, and we are now on a careful journey as we move people away from a very rigid element of what was the basic payment scheme under the common agricultural policy, when more than half the subsidy went to just 10% of the farmers in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-02-23c.311.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-02", "file": "debates2023-03-02b.xml", "sha256": "7a32a9c8ff455ecc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-02b.909.0", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "preceding_text": "First, let me take this opportunity to place on the record, as I have been unable to do so this week, the fact that my thoughts and prayers are with all those affected by the appalling train accident in Greece. I know that all Members would want to join me in that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-02b.909.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-06", "file": "debates2023-03-06d.xml", "sha256": "cb764428b20fac09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-06d.29.5", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Civil Service Impartiality", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "fternoon. Is it not a fact that this is a shabby little manoeuvre from the shabbiest Government that I have seen in 40 years—[Interruption.] Rather than this being spontaneous, let me just say that I was walking over here with a respected Back Bencher from the Government side who said, “I’m not going over. They’ve been trying to get everyone here this morning. The Whips have set a five-line Whip.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-06d.29.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-06", "file": "debates2023-03-06d.xml", "sha256": "cb764428b20fac09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-06d.29.5", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Civil Service Impartiality", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": " let me just say that I was walking over here with a respected Back Bencher from the Government side who said, “I’m not going over. They’ve been trying to get everyone here this morning. The Whips have set a five-line Whip.” [Interruption.] They don’t like it, Mr Speaker. The suggestion that the civil service is up in arms is nonsense. This comes from the Prime Minister and this shabby Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-06d.29.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-06", "file": "debates2023-03-06d.xml", "sha256": "cb764428b20fac09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-06d.99.2", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Social Security (Additional Payments) (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mims Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mims Davies", "preceding_text": "ould extend the qualifying period for universal credit over two months rather than one. I understand the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Amber Valley. Keeping the eligibility dates as close as possible to payment reduces administrative challenges such as out-of-date contact or bank details, and including two assessment periods extends the amount of time between eligibility and payment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-06d.99.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-06", "file": "debates2023-03-06d.xml", "sha256": "cb764428b20fac09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-06d.99.5", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Social Security (Additional Payments) (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Amy Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Amy Callaghan", "preceding_text": "On sanctions, I appreciate the Minister giving way, and I thought she might enjoy a second just to reflect on some of the guff that she has been spouting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-06d.99.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-07", "file": "debates2023-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "be318271e7832fda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-07b.140.2", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Health and Social Care", "cue_speaker": "Maria Caulfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Caulfield", "preceding_text": "It is a shame that, on International Women’s Day, the shadow Minister cannot welcome the progress we are making on the menopause. Labour could have done this. We are the first Government to reduce the cost of HRT for women.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-07b.140.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-07", "file": "debates2023-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "be318271e7832fda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-07b.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Illegal Migration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Suella Braverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Suella Braverman", "preceding_text": "ar, 17,000 referrals took on average 543 days to consider. Modern slavery laws are being abused to block removals. That is why we granted more than 50% of asylum requests from citizens of a safe European country and NATO ally, Albania. That is why this Bill disqualifies illegal entrants from using modern slavery rules to prevent removal. I will not address the Bill’s full legal complexities today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-07b.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-07", "file": "debates2023-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "be318271e7832fda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-07b.153.0", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Illegal Migration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "r has put forward plans for a cross-border police unit, for fast-track decisions and returns to clear the backlog and end hotel use, and for a new agreement with France and other countries. Instead, today’s statement is groundhog day. The Home Secretary has said: “Anyone who arrives illegally will be deemed inadmissible and either returned to the country they arrived from or a safe third country.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-07b.153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-07", "file": "debates2023-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "be318271e7832fda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-07b.206.0", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jon Trickett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jon Trickett", "preceding_text": " century. Why is the list that has been provided to this House in this amendment proposing those particular areas of action? How can minor disruption to services now be regarded as a criminal offence? This will provoke a breakdown in trust between the police force, the state itself and people taking action. I represent a mining community. I went there just over 27 years ago, and during the strike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-07b.206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-07", "file": "debates2023-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "be318271e7832fda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-07b.215.1", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hannah Bardell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hannah Bardell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is making an excellent speech. Does she share my frustration at the number of men who have stood up in this Chamber and pontificated when they will never have to make that choice? They are telling women that they should put up with being harassed when they are just seeking healthcare.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-07b.215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-07", "file": "debates2023-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "be318271e7832fda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-07b.247.0", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Public Order Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Philp", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Philp", "preceding_text": "Attorney General, but my understanding is that the legislation, as amended by the Lords and if amended by my hon. Friend the Member for Northampton South’s amendment, would in both cases be compliant with the European convention on human rights. Indeed, it is our opinion that the entire Bill is consistent with the European convention on human rights. I think I have probably spoken for long enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-07b.247.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-08", "file": "debates2023-03-08b.xml", "sha256": "7ff4c3d0d7b90c66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-08b.295.3", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "If the Prime Minister was serious about stopping the boats, he would steal our plan on stopping the boats, smash the gangs, sort out the returns and clean up the utter mess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-08b.295.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-09", "file": "debates2023-03-09b.xml", "sha256": "87aca7300ff20b65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-09b.399.2", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Culture, Media and Sport", "cue_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "Back in 1982, at the Oscars, Colin Welland said, “The British are coming!” Do you know what? The British have come. I understand that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-09b.399.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-13", "file": "debates2023-03-13b.xml", "sha256": "88499a206f1eb27e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-13b.546.0", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Integrated Review Refresh", "cue_speaker": "James Cleverly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Cleverly", "preceding_text": " decided internationally, because it demands an international response. On the nuclear deterrent, the hon. Gentleman has very much drawn the wrong lessons. He says that NATO having nuclear weapons did not prevent Russia attacking Ukraine. Ukraine is not a member of NATO and Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons arsenal. It was Russia’s failure to abide by the commitments made in the Minsk agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-13b.546.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-13", "file": "debates2023-03-13b.xml", "sha256": "88499a206f1eb27e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-13b.553.3", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Integrated Review Refresh", "cue_speaker": "James Cleverly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Cleverly", "preceding_text": "In absolute terms and in percentage terms, the UK is still one of the largest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-13b.553.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-13", "file": "debates2023-03-13b.xml", "sha256": "88499a206f1eb27e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-13b.556.2", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Integrated Review Refresh", "cue_speaker": "James Cleverly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Cleverly", "preceding_text": "There is a phrase, “Always leave them wanting more.” Is that not what they say?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-13b.556.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-13", "file": "debates2023-03-13b.xml", "sha256": "88499a206f1eb27e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-13b.575.5", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Illegal Migration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "I think in this particular case it is a matter for the individual person making the speech. I will say at the outset, though, that we are clearly dealing with a very emotive subject and I ask everybody to use temperate language rather than inflaming the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-13b.575.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-13", "file": "debates2023-03-13b.xml", "sha256": "88499a206f1eb27e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-13b.577.4", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Illegal Migration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Graham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Graham", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to the Home Secretary. I find it odd that so many Opposition Members are trying their best to trip her up on a policy that is incredibly important to every community in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-13b.577.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-13", "file": "debates2023-03-13b.xml", "sha256": "88499a206f1eb27e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-13b.577.4", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Illegal Migration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Graham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Graham", "preceding_text": "happy, cohesive, multiracial and multi-ethnic society with a primary school that has more than 50 different nationalities. I know, because I speak to them, that most ethnic minority communities are very sensitive to getting the balance right. If we get it wrong, they will feel the backlash more than anyone else. It will not be felt by SNP MPs who do not have asylum seekers in their constituencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-13b.577.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-13", "file": "debates2023-03-13b.xml", "sha256": "88499a206f1eb27e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-13b.577.7", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Illegal Migration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Graham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Graham", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. No one in this House wishes to cause any offence. If I have done so, of course I apologise. We have two hotels full of asylum seekers in my constituency, and I would be very interested to know how many hotels full of asylum seekers there are in the constituencies of SNP Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-13b.577.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-13", "file": "debates2023-03-13b.xml", "sha256": "88499a206f1eb27e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-13b.577.8", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Illegal Migration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "Order. I have a couple of points before we resume. Interventions are now eating into the time allotted to Back Benchers, so some simply will not get in. Points of order are doing the exact same, so I caution Members, if they are to raise points of order, to make sure they are for the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-13b.577.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-13", "file": "debates2023-03-13b.xml", "sha256": "88499a206f1eb27e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-13b.586.6", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Illegal Migration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "Indeed, I am very happy to. I hope the hon. Member will support our proposal for a cross-border police unit to go after the criminal gangs and bring up those convictions, which have totally collapsed on the Conservatives’ watch. I hope too that he will support our proposals for a fast track for Albania and other safe countries, which Ministers are not doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-13b.586.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-13", "file": "debates2023-03-13b.xml", "sha256": "88499a206f1eb27e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-13b.599.1", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Illegal Migration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alison Thewliss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alison Thewliss", "preceding_text": "I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend’s sentiments. We should all be very worried about the rise of these groups and how they are being fed by the rhetoric of leaders and MPs across the way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-13b.599.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-14", "file": "debates2023-03-14d.xml", "sha256": "1b2df47237c6a0cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-14d.683.0", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "The Falklands are British and that is the end of the story. Santiago Cafiero is undoubtedly engaging in a bit of electioneering during a general election, and we should just—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-14d.683.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-14", "file": "debates2023-03-14d.xml", "sha256": "1b2df47237c6a0cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-14d.710.0", "colnum": "710", "heading": "HS2: Revised Timetable and Budget", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I am 61. [Hon. Members: “Misleading the House!”] I am not misleading the House. I cannot see, from what we have heard today, that there is any chance of any of these trains chugging into central London in my lifetime—and I am not intending to shuffle off this mortal coil very soon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-14d.710.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-14", "file": "debates2023-03-14d.xml", "sha256": "1b2df47237c6a0cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-14d.720.4", "colnum": "720", "heading": "BBC: Government Role in Impartiality", "cue_speaker": "Julia Lopez", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julia Lopez", "preceding_text": "Richard Sharp was appointed in a transparent way. There are obviously concerns about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-14d.720.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-15", "file": "debates2023-03-15c.xml", "sha256": "1bce46b345879ce0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-15c.824.1", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More!”", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "It is just the usual political opportunism from the leader of the Labour party. I do not know if he noticed, but first the shadow Attorney General and then the shadow Home Secretary actually criticised the language used in the tweet. But what a surprise: he saw the chance to jump on a political bandwagon and changed his mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-15c.824.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-15", "file": "debates2023-03-15c.xml", "sha256": "1bce46b345879ce0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-15c.825.4", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "siding with people smugglers over the British people. That is the substance of what has happened. Instead, what have we done? We have concluded a new migration deal with France; we have managed to sign a new defence partnership with our allies, the United States and Australia; we have protected British start-ups; and we have boosted defence spending. That is what delivering for Britain looks like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-15c.825.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-15", "file": "debates2023-03-15c.xml", "sha256": "1bce46b345879ce0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-15c.833.2", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Ways and Means - Financial Statement and Budget ReportWays and Means", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": " Next, I have listened to representations from my hon. Friends the Members for East Devon (Simon Jupp), for North Cornwall (Scott Mann), for Colne Valley (Jason McCartney) and for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich (Dr Poulter) about the risk to community facilities, especially swimming pools, caused by high costs. When times are tough, such facilities matter even more. [Interruption.] Today, I am—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-15c.833.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-15", "file": "debates2023-03-15c.xml", "sha256": "1bce46b345879ce0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-15c.834.1", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Ways and Means - Financial Statement and Budget ReportWays and Means", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": " to deliver our nuclear ambitions. First, following representations from our energetic Energy Security Secretary, I am announcing the launch of Great British Nuclear, which will bring down costs and provide opportunities across the nuclear supply chain to help provide one quarter of our electricity by 2050. [Interruption.] It is so good to hear that the Labour party is in favour of nuclear energy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-15c.834.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-29", "file": "debates2023-03-29c.xml", "sha256": "c45da06e8d80e300", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-29c.1002.0", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Scotland", "cue_speaker": "Alister Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alister Jack", "preceding_text": "My assessment is that the Union is strong, as is support for the Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-29c.1002.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-29", "file": "debates2023-03-29c.xml", "sha256": "c45da06e8d80e300", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-29c.1005.5", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Scotland", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Shh!”", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "That concludes Scottish questions. Before we commence Prime Minister’s questions, I would like to point out, as ever, that live subtitles and a British Sign Language interpretation of proceedings are available to watch on parliamentlive.tv.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-29c.1005.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-29", "file": "debates2023-03-29c.xml", "sha256": "c45da06e8d80e300", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-29c.1008.0", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Raab", "preceding_text": "First of all, the conviction rate measured by the Crown Prosecution Service—the leader of the Labour party used to be in charge of the CPS, so he might want to point this out—has gone up. It is now at 69%. We are doing much more to support victims of rape when they come forward.[Official Report, 30 March 2023 , Vol. 730, c. 10MC.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-29c.1008.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-30", "file": "debates2023-03-30c.xml", "sha256": "a1b69454689c23b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-30c.1187.0", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Powering Up Britain", "cue_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "preceding_text": "he Government pursue their “every last drop” strategy on oil and gas. Let me tell the House what that means: it means funnelling £11.4 billion to the oil and gas companies making record profits, and ignoring what 700 leading scientists told the Government yesterday, which is that new exploration will not cut bills, will not deliver energy security and will severely undermine UK climate leadership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-30c.1187.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-30", "file": "debates2023-03-30c.xml", "sha256": "a1b69454689c23b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-30c.1187.0", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Powering Up Britain", "cue_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "preceding_text": "he hon. Member for South Suffolk (James Cartlidge) should listen to the scientists. We know what a proper plan looks like: in 2030, zero carbon power; insulating 19 million cold, draughty homes in a decade; GB Energy to invest in all forms of low-carbon generation; and a national wealth fund investing in everything from clean steel to ports and electric vehicles to win the global race for Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-30c.1187.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-30", "file": "debates2023-03-30c.xml", "sha256": "a1b69454689c23b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-30c.1190.0", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Powering Up Britain", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "an operationalise that to decarbonise the UK and provide a service to Europe, and we will do so. It will lead to the reindustrialisation of the north-west, north-east, Wales and Scotland. The opportunities are immense, and colleagues have been fighting hard. On the NDC, we have set that ambitious world-leading 2030 target, and we are committed to delivering our commitments, including the 2030 NDC.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-30c.1190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-30", "file": "debates2023-03-30c.xml", "sha256": "a1b69454689c23b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-30c.1192.0", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Powering Up Britain", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "all the leadership he has given in this area. He is absolutely right to highlight the investment competition, but as I think The Economist mentioned last week, the US approach, with its direct subsidy regime, is not as effective—not as cost-effective—as the UK regime. I am confident in our system, and we are rolling this forward. We have attracted £50 billion of green investment from 2021 to 2022.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-30c.1192.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-30", "file": "debates2023-03-30c.xml", "sha256": "a1b69454689c23b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-30c.1193.2", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Powering Up Britain", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "s in the Budget. What today is all about is giving the detail of how we are going to unlock that. She raises the question of carbon capture and storage. There is not a way for us to get to net zero without using carbon capture and storage. I remember that it was said by the Labour Government in 2003, if I recall correctly, that it was urgent. Here we are, 20 years later, but I am delighted to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-30c.1193.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-30", "file": "debates2023-03-30c.xml", "sha256": "a1b69454689c23b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-30c.1194.3", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Powering Up Britain", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman talked about getting the tone right; perhaps I responded in the appropriate tone to the way that the right hon. Member for Doncaster North (Edward Miliband) addressed me. When I consider that he was a Minister in the Government who so spectacularly failed, it is all the more likely that I might be a little spikey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-30c.1194.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-30", "file": "debates2023-03-30c.xml", "sha256": "a1b69454689c23b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-30c.1195.1", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Powering Up Britain", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "I am afraid the hon. Lady may want to correct the record because she misled the House. The courts did not say our policies were insufficient; they said they wished to have more detail on them. We are responding to that technical point today, providing further detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-30c.1195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-30", "file": "debates2023-03-30c.xml", "sha256": "a1b69454689c23b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-30c.1201.2", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Powering Up Britain", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "sed to carbon capture and storage, which offers enormous opportunities for all sorts of industrial parts of the United Kingdom—another failure. On solar, I am delighted to announce the launch of a solar taskforce precisely to accelerate the take-up. I cannot believe the gall of the Opposition party, which left Government with just 11% of our electricity from renewables, when it is around half now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-30c.1201.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-03-30", "file": "debates2023-03-30c.xml", "sha256": "a1b69454689c23b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-30c.1236.0", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Belfast/Good Friday Agreement: 25th Anniversary", "cue_speaker": "Tonia Antoniazzi", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tonia Antoniazzi", "preceding_text": "is seen as a place over the sea that we do not learn about or care about, but we should and we have to. The Belfast/Good Friday agreement provides so much that the rest of us can learn from, in how we got from the troubles to that historic day in 1998. Northern Ireland has so much to offer—what an absolutely brilliant place it is. It has the friendliest people I have met, present company excepted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-03-30c.1236.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-19", "file": "debates2023-04-19d.xml", "sha256": "97081d5c0201823a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-19d.318.0", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to have the best part of an hour and a half to talk about the electricity generator levy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-19d.318.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-19", "file": "debates2023-04-19d.xml", "sha256": "97081d5c0201823a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-19d.335.3", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Cartlidge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Cartlidge", "preceding_text": "presentatives of the Scotch Whisky Association, whom I greatly respect, and they have said to me that if we freeze the tax we get the revenue. Unfortunately, however, the Government have what I believe is the very important and successful policy of using an independent body, the Office for Budget Responsibility, which makes forecasts independently for Governments on the effects of fiscal measures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-19d.335.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-20", "file": "debates2023-04-20c.xml", "sha256": "fdee9aa40fe3a024", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-20c.376.3", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Thangam Debbonaire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Thangam Debbonaire", "preceding_text": "own NHS waiting times and get patients seen and treated faster. The Government have stolen enough of our policies, so could they please, please pinch our policy on this? We would double the number of medical training places, increase nursing and midwifery clinical placements, and recruit more health visitors, and we would pay for that by ending the non-dom tax loophole so that wealthy individuals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-20c.376.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-20", "file": "debates2023-04-20c.xml", "sha256": "fdee9aa40fe3a024", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-20c.387.2", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Matt Western", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matt Western", "preceding_text": "My constituents are not only fed up with potholes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-20c.387.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-20", "file": "debates2023-04-20c.xml", "sha256": "fdee9aa40fe3a024", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-20c.412.0", "colnum": "412", "heading": "International Trade and Geopolitics", "cue_speaker": "Richard Fuller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Fuller", "preceding_text": "ve, I know that is something they would welcome as well. Madam Deputy Speaker, here is my point: it is an afternoon, we have plenty of time, it is an incredibly interesting and broad debate, and it will not have escaped your attention that the Government Benches are not crowded with participants. Therefore, I beg the indulgence of Opposition Members to make a number of points on a series of areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-20c.412.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-20", "file": "debates2023-04-20c.xml", "sha256": "fdee9aa40fe3a024", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-20c.429.6", "colnum": "429", "heading": "International Trade and Geopolitics", "cue_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "preceding_text": "hile leveraging billions more in private capital to drive growth—and not just in green energy. We want to grow our nuclear energy capacity, too, through the development of small modular reactors, while investing in our key growth industries—from advanced manufacturing to life sciences and artificial intelligence—forging a British economy that is fit to face the challenges of a fast-changing world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-20c.429.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-20", "file": "debates2023-04-20c.xml", "sha256": "fdee9aa40fe3a024", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-20c.429.6", "colnum": "429", "heading": "International Trade and Geopolitics", "cue_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "preceding_text": "cus. An event in October will focus on global investment into the UK. We are focusing our resources and ensuring that we are reaching out. The hon. Member for Bath spoke about CPTPP and Taiwan. It is not for us to talk about the accession of other countries, but is it not fantastic that we are at the table to ensure that our voices are heard? There was also conversation about Liverpool and Mexico—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-20c.429.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-20", "file": "debates2023-04-20c.xml", "sha256": "fdee9aa40fe3a024", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-20c.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Human Rights Protections: Palestinians", "cue_speaker": "Steve McCabe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve McCabe", "preceding_text": ". Human rights are virtually non-existent for the long-suffering people of Gaza under the violent and bloodthirsty rule of the Hamas terrorist group. Palestine is under occupation, as my hon. Friend the Member for Hammersmith (Andy Slaughter) suggested—occupation by Hamas. We will not do the Palestinian people any favours by turning a blind eye to the record of Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-20c.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-24", "file": "debates2023-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "74537d303a5e90fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-24b.491.0", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Work and Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Mims Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mims Davies", "preceding_text": "May I remind the hon. Gentleman of Labour’s 10p tax rate, and the fact that we have doubled tax-free allowances?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-24b.491.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-24", "file": "debates2023-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "74537d303a5e90fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-24b.491.0", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Work and Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Mims Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mims Davies", "preceding_text": "May I remind the hon. Gentleman of Labour’s 10p tax rate, and the fact that we have doubled tax-free allowances? [Interruption.] Food banks are important. They are independent charitable organisations where people in local communities can support each other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-24b.491.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-24", "file": "debates2023-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "74537d303a5e90fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-24b.491.0", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Work and Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Mims Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mims Davies", "preceding_text": "May I remind the hon. Gentleman of Labour’s 10p tax rate, and the fact that we have doubled tax-free allowances? [Interruption.] Food banks are important. They are independent charitable organisations where people in local communities can support each other. [Interruption.] This is a great example of the generosity of spirit in our communities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-24b.491.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-24", "file": "debates2023-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "74537d303a5e90fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-24b.509.0", "colnum": "509", "heading": "List of Ministers’ Interests and Ministerial Code", "cue_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is a powerful advocate for the approach he has outlined. On his point about examples of declarations of interest that might be made to a permanent secretary that may not be relevant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-24b.509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-24", "file": "debates2023-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "74537d303a5e90fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-24b.510.1", "colnum": "510", "heading": "List of Ministers’ Interests and Ministerial Code", "cue_speaker": "Tan Dhesi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tan Dhesi", "preceding_text": "essionalism and accountability, but after yet more sleaze and scandal was exposed by investigative journalists, and just minutes before Prime Minister’s questions, the register of interests was miraculously updated to include shares in Koru Kids which is owned by the Prime Minister’s wife, who would end up benefiting significantly from her husband’s policy changes. So, does the Minister not agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-24b.510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-24", "file": "debates2023-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "74537d303a5e90fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-24b.511.0", "colnum": "511", "heading": "List of Ministers’ Interests and Ministerial Code", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Gibson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Gibson", "preceding_text": "or not wearing a seatbelt and for breaching covid rules, and he is currently being investigated over allegations about his registering of interests. Now, in an unprecedented move, it has been reported that the investigation has been widened because of allegations that it was discussed in public. Can the Minister explain why this Prime Minister, sadly much like his predecessor but one, seems to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-24b.511.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-25", "file": "debates2023-04-25c.xml", "sha256": "439b1985311b7820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.568.0", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Health and Social Care", "cue_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "preceding_text": "ractical example of how we have transformed the early detection of lung cancer. He raised the public health grant, and I am happy to update the House that we are delivering 2.8% funding growth in the public health grant to help local authorities. It is also about areas such as obesity and access to employment, which can have a big impact on mental health. The Chancellor announced specific funding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.568.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-25", "file": "debates2023-04-25c.xml", "sha256": "439b1985311b7820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.568.0", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Health and Social Care", "cue_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "preceding_text": "s. It is also about areas such as obesity and access to employment, which can have a big impact on mental health. The Chancellor announced specific funding—[Interruption.] The shadow Minister chunters away about children; I am conscious that one does not want too long an answer, but let me give the example of mental health. In the Budget we announced extra funding for a whole load of digital apps—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.568.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-25", "file": "debates2023-04-25c.xml", "sha256": "439b1985311b7820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.574.2", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Health and Social Care", "cue_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "preceding_text": " opportunity to remind the House of the significant increase in funding we are making to mental health. In the long-term plan, the former Prime Minister, my right hon. Friend the Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May) , made a major strategic choice to invest more in mental health—an extra £2.3 billion per year. The hon. Lady is right to highlight the need for more capacity for mental health in-patients—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.574.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-25", "file": "debates2023-04-25c.xml", "sha256": "439b1985311b7820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.575.0", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Health and Social Care", "cue_speaker": "Maria Caulfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Caulfield", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for her work in this place. Our priority is always to ensure that children and adults with a learning disability and autistic people receive high-quality care. More than 2,000 people—children and adults—are still waiting to be discharged from in-patient facilities but that is a reduction of 30% and we are making progress. I am meeting individual integrated care boards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.575.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-25", "file": "debates2023-04-25c.xml", "sha256": "439b1985311b7820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.582.5", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Health and Social Care", "cue_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "preceding_text": "gh our negotiation with the NHS Staff Council, our willingness to engage and to reach a settlement. Indeed, the general secretary of the RCN recommended the deal from the AfC unions to her members. Unison—the union of which the hon. Gentleman is a member—voted for the deal by a margin of 74%. We stand ready to have engagement with the junior doctors, but 35% is not reasonable. He himself has said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.582.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-25", "file": "debates2023-04-25c.xml", "sha256": "439b1985311b7820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.596.1", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Water Quality: Sewage Discharge", "cue_speaker": "Jim McMahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim McMahon", "preceding_text": "I will make some progress and take some interventions later—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-25", "file": "debates2023-04-25c.xml", "sha256": "439b1985311b7820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.596.4", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Water Quality: Sewage Discharge", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. May I say to the hon. Lady and the right hon. Gentleman that, yes, the hon. Member has to give way, but you cannot permanently be stood there until somebody—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.596.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-25", "file": "debates2023-04-25c.xml", "sha256": "439b1985311b7820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.596.7", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Water Quality: Sewage Discharge", "cue_speaker": "Jim McMahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim McMahon", "preceding_text": "I welcome that intervention. I would also welcome an explanation to the hon. Lady’s constituents as to why there have been 200 sewage incidents in her own backyard. That is why her constituents send her here—to ensure that their interests are put right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.596.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-25", "file": "debates2023-04-25c.xml", "sha256": "439b1985311b7820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.597.0", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Water Quality: Sewage Discharge", "cue_speaker": "Jim McMahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim McMahon", "preceding_text": "I will make some progress. This is an environmental hazard, a health hazard and an economic hazard. The full scale of the billions of pounds that the Tory sewage scandal is costing our businesses and local economies is still not fully known. Why? Because the Government will not undertake an economic assessment of the impact of sewage dumping. What do they have to hide?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.597.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-25", "file": "debates2023-04-25c.xml", "sha256": "439b1985311b7820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.597.0", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Water Quality: Sewage Discharge", "cue_speaker": "Jim McMahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim McMahon", "preceding_text": "nterruption.] Members will like this bit—hang on. While the Secretary of State has been on taxpayer-funded jollies to Brazil, Canada, Egypt, France, Japan, Panama and the US, as shadow Environment Secretary, I have travelled to every corner of the country to hear first-hand about the impact of the Tory sewage scandal. While she has been in duty free, I have been here on duty—that’s the difference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.597.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-25", "file": "debates2023-04-25c.xml", "sha256": "439b1985311b7820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.599.0", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Water Quality: Sewage Discharge", "cue_speaker": "Jim McMahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim McMahon", "preceding_text": "es; they are the Government’s own figures. If the Environment Secretary has not read her own assessment of ending the Tory sewage scandal, it will be in the Library at the end of the debate; Members can read it for themselves. This is her day job, right? She is meant to understand the data her Department produces and form a plan behind that. I am sorry that my expectations were obviously too high.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.599.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-25", "file": "debates2023-04-25c.xml", "sha256": "439b1985311b7820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.600.0", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Water Quality: Sewage Discharge", "cue_speaker": "Jim McMahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim McMahon", "preceding_text": "I am not one to offer advice to those on the Government Benches, but I will just say this to eager Back Benchers bobbing for their Whips: they might want to check their constituency’s data before getting up to defend the Government’s record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.600.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-25", "file": "debates2023-04-25c.xml", "sha256": "439b1985311b7820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.600.6", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Water Quality: Sewage Discharge", "cue_speaker": "Jim McMahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim McMahon", "preceding_text": " face it is far too great a mountain to climb. Economic regulation of the water industry in both England and in Wales has always been controlled by the Tories here for the last 13 years, treating England and Wales as an open sewer. That lever could have been pulled to improve water performance, holding water companies to account and resourcing the work needed to combat sewage pollution in England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.600.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-25", "file": "debates2023-04-25c.xml", "sha256": "439b1985311b7820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.602.1", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Water Quality: Sewage Discharge", "cue_speaker": "Jim McMahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim McMahon", "preceding_text": "ties in with following the money and tracking back to the impact. The storm overflow data, which water companies themselves provide to the Government, tells us that not a single one of the dumping incidents from last year was a result of exceptional circumstances. They were not down to rainfall or storms—the water companies and the Government say so. It is about a lack of treatment and investment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.602.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-25", "file": "debates2023-04-25c.xml", "sha256": "439b1985311b7820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.604.6", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Water Quality: Sewage Discharge", "cue_speaker": "Jim McMahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim McMahon", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman can answer this question for his constituents: over the last 13 years, why has an average of £1.8 billion every year been taken in shareholder dividends and not invested in water infrastructure? That is a record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.604.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-25", "file": "debates2023-04-25c.xml", "sha256": "439b1985311b7820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.642.0", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Water Quality: Sewage Discharge", "cue_speaker": "Lee Anderson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lee Anderson", "preceding_text": "ays? It is absolute nonsense. No one has ever done that. My friends, my family—we all use our waterways. We use our seas, beaches and rivers. It is just not true. It is a complete lie and Opposition Members should hang their heads in shame. It is important that we put the facts out, rather than score cheap political points. I am not into this divisive dog-whistle politics. It is absolute nonsense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.642.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-25", "file": "debates2023-04-25c.xml", "sha256": "439b1985311b7820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.642.0", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Water Quality: Sewage Discharge", "cue_speaker": "Lee Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lee Anderson", "preceding_text": "d hang their heads in shame. It is important that we put the facts out, rather than score cheap political points. I am not into this divisive dog-whistle politics. It is absolute nonsense—[Laughter.] Even they are laughing. What are storm overflows? They are a relief valve, so that when we have a heavy downpour of rain, sewage does not back up and go on to the streets or back into people’s houses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.642.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-25", "file": "debates2023-04-25c.xml", "sha256": "439b1985311b7820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.642.0", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Water Quality: Sewage Discharge", "cue_speaker": "Lee Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lee Anderson", "preceding_text": " to use those overflows. It is not ideal and not always acceptable. The Environment Act, which we introduced, changes that and we are acting on it. We are doing more than the Labour party ever did in its 13 years. Like all its silly ideas, the Labour party no real plan. It is just dog-whistle politics, as I said before. In this great city, the Thames tideway tunnel is currently under construction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.642.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-25", "file": "debates2023-04-25c.xml", "sha256": "439b1985311b7820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.644.1", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Water Quality: Sewage Discharge", "cue_speaker": "Bob Seely", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Seely", "preceding_text": "abour. Why? There must have been mass dumping, but we do not know about it. Why? Because they hid the problem by not monitoring. What gets me most of all is that the utility firms that those class warriors profess to hate had a sweetheart deal with them to allow them to self-monitor. What a corrupting relationship between new Labour and the big utility firms. Why were they allowed to self-monitor?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.644.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-25", "file": "debates2023-04-25c.xml", "sha256": "439b1985311b7820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.649.1", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Water Quality: Sewage Discharge", "cue_speaker": "Alex Sobel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Sobel", "preceding_text": "at it is, Madam Deputy Speaker—so unfortunately I cannot take any more interventions. Secondly, households are paying the price of the impact that this is having on the NHS, the economy and the environment. I am disappointed but not surprised at the conduct of Tory Members who, once again, stood up one after the other and merely read out the cobbled-together lines of the panicked Government Whips—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.649.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-25", "file": "debates2023-04-25c.xml", "sha256": "439b1985311b7820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.660.6", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Cost of Living Increases", "cue_speaker": "Tulip Siddiq", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tulip Siddiq", "preceding_text": "tion that is coming up. The Conservatives can manipulate the stats all they want, but they cannot run away from the fact that we are falling behind our peers. That is not something I am proud of, and they should not be either. Since 2020, the cost of a typical food shop is up by £700 a year. Clothing and footwear are up by £140. Household goods and services are up by £360. Transport is up by £800.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.660.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-25", "file": "debates2023-04-25c.xml", "sha256": "439b1985311b7820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.662.2", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Cost of Living Increases", "cue_speaker": "Tulip Siddiq", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tulip Siddiq", "preceding_text": "The Conservatives can manipulate the stats as much as they want, but they cannot run away from the fact that we are falling behind our peers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.662.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-25", "file": "debates2023-04-25c.xml", "sha256": "439b1985311b7820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.663.1", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Cost of Living Increases", "cue_speaker": "Tulip Siddiq", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tulip Siddiq", "preceding_text": "h 24 tax rises. It is the highest tax burden in 70 years. Earlier this month, we saw council tax bills rise above £2,000—some Members might think that is funny; it is not funny for my constituents—for the first time, as the Chancellor effectively forced councils to put up rates by reducing their funding. That saw families who were already struggling hit with an additional average tax hike of 5.1%—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-25", "file": "debates2023-04-25c.xml", "sha256": "439b1985311b7820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.665.2", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Cost of Living Increases", "cue_speaker": "Tulip Siddiq", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tulip Siddiq", "preceding_text": "oung families a start in life; and between the Conservatives, the party of high taxation and Government handouts to the wealthiest 1%, and Labour, the party committed to putting working people and businesses first, freezing council tax and cutting business rates to ease the cost of living. Only the Labour party has a serious plan for growth to improve living standards and wages for working people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.665.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-25", "file": "debates2023-04-25c.xml", "sha256": "439b1985311b7820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.672.1", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Cost of Living Increases", "cue_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "preceding_text": "o intervene to ask her about the Leader of the Opposition. Bearing in mind that he had legislation to protect his own pension—with no lifetime allowance, can protect his family as much as he likes—will he resile from that? Will he scrap that little statutory instrument, so that he can be in the same boat as the rest of us? Or is it one rule for him and a different rule for the rest of the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.672.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-25", "file": "debates2023-04-25c.xml", "sha256": "439b1985311b7820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.679.1", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Cost of Living Increases", "cue_speaker": "Alex Davies-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Davies-Jones", "preceding_text": "The central issue that we are debating is very simple; there is a very simple question to address: after 13 years of Conservative rule in Westminster, do our constituents feel better off than before?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-25", "file": "debates2023-04-25c.xml", "sha256": "439b1985311b7820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.681.0", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Cost of Living Increases", "cue_speaker": "Emma Hardy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More!”", "preceding_speaker": "Emma Hardy", "preceding_text": "flation since the 1960s, low mortgage rates, the national minimum wage, 14,000 more police in England and Wales, a cut in crime of 32%, child benefit up by 26%, 36,000 more teachers and 274,000 more support staff. That is what the last Labour Government achieved. This Conservative Government can judge the Labour party on our record, and on 4 May , the public will judge the Conservatives on theirs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.681.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-25", "file": "debates2023-04-25c.xml", "sha256": "439b1985311b7820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.690.1", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Cost of Living Increases", "cue_speaker": "Paul Bristow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Bristow", "preceding_text": "xisted for 50 years in the heart of my city, supporting people and signposting them to the right services; I thank Yasmin Ilahi and Mr Mohammad Choudhary for all the work that they have done. I thank Zillur Hussain, who gave thousands of meals to vulnerable people during the covid pandemic and who I took to Downing Street yesterday to say thank you very much. I thank people like Mr Rony Choudhury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.690.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-25", "file": "debates2023-04-25c.xml", "sha256": "439b1985311b7820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.690.1", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Cost of Living Increases", "cue_speaker": "Paul Bristow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Bristow", "preceding_text": "rtant. Opposition Members might not like it, but I am recognising people in my constituency: people like Rony Choudhury, the owner of the Bombay Brasserie, who did exactly the same thing. Perhaps Opposition Members do not think that those people’s contribution is worth while. I thank people like Ed Walker, who runs the charity Hope into Action, which helps prison leavers into stable accommodation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.690.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-25", "file": "debates2023-04-25c.xml", "sha256": "439b1985311b7820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.697.2", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Cost of Living Increases", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Griffith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Griffith", "preceding_text": "h of the economic illiteracy from Opposition Front-Bench spokesmen; and enough of these ChatGPT-does-socialism-type speeches that we have heard this afternoon. We should never forget Labour’s record on the economy: working people and your children pay the price. Labour has ditched its rule not to borrow to fund day-to-day spending, so we know its plan to stick billions on the nation’s credit card.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.697.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-25", "file": "debates2023-04-25c.xml", "sha256": "439b1985311b7820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.697.2", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Cost of Living Increases", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Griffith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ah!”", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Griffith", "preceding_text": "rect. No Labour Government have ever left office with unemployment lower than when they came to power. Under the last Labour Government, unemployment rose from 2.1 million in 1997 to 2.5 million by the time they left office in 2010—more people denied the security and the chance in life of a good job. Finally, let us never forget, when Labour left office in 2010, how the then Chief Secretary wrote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-25c.697.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-26", "file": "debates2023-04-26d.xml", "sha256": "58ca3f701af2a73a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-26d.725.6", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": " number of people in poverty lower, and the lowest numbers on record for those in low pay.[Official Report, 27 April 2023 , Vol. 731, c. 8MC.] The right hon. and learned Gentleman talks about this non-dom thing. I think he has already spent the money that he claims he would raise on five different things, because it is the same old Labour party: they are always running out of other people’s money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-26d.725.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-26", "file": "debates2023-04-26d.xml", "sha256": "58ca3f701af2a73a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-26d.726.4", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "Let us look at what has happened just this week to see where Labour Members have put themselves. On Monday, in the other place, they decided to side with extremist protesters. Just yesterday, they sided with polluters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-26d.726.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-26", "file": "debates2023-04-26d.xml", "sha256": "58ca3f701af2a73a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-26d.735.1", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Police Uplift Programme", "cue_speaker": "Chris Philp", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Philp", "preceding_text": "he last Labour Government, and I have still not received an apology from the shadow Home Secretary for having served in a Government who presided over crime levels twice what they are now. The crime survey of England and Wales, approved by the Office for National Statistics, also shows burglary down 56% since the last Labour Government left office, robbery down 57% and criminal damage down by 65%—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-26d.735.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-26", "file": "debates2023-04-26d.xml", "sha256": "58ca3f701af2a73a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-26d.782.4", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Illegal Migration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "preceding_text": "I will make some progress because this is a short debate and it is important that we enable people to make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-26d.782.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-26", "file": "debates2023-04-26d.xml", "sha256": "58ca3f701af2a73a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-26d.804.3", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Illegal Migration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alison Thewliss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alison Thewliss", "preceding_text": "The British Dental Association, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, and Unison’s experts disagree with the right hon. Member. These are professionals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-26d.804.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-26", "file": "debates2023-04-26d.xml", "sha256": "58ca3f701af2a73a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-26d.805.3", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Illegal Migration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alison Thewliss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alison Thewliss", "preceding_text": "Office would only honour its side of the bargain. The Minister is looking at me askance, but the Home Office is choosing where people go. The Home Office is booking hotels. The Home Office is not working with local government in Scotland to do this properly, and I can tell him that it is not working properly with local elected Members. I am aware of plans to put an asylum hotel in my constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-26d.805.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-26", "file": "debates2023-04-26d.xml", "sha256": "58ca3f701af2a73a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-26d.838.1", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Illegal Migration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "preceding_text": "thorities that grounds the desire of this House to be generous with the reality on the ground in our communities and councils. Within six months, we will bring forward the report that will result from that consultation, and as soon as possible over the course of next year, we will set up or expand the existing safe and legal routes so that the UK can be an even greater force for good in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-26d.838.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-26", "file": "debates2023-04-26d.xml", "sha256": "58ca3f701af2a73a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-26d.892.2", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Asylum Seeker Accommodation: South Dorset", "cue_speaker": "Richard Drax", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Drax", "preceding_text": "le of the problem nationally, I fear that the barge could be in place for years. The website also explained why Portland port was chosen: “The site will create new jobs and will bring investment into the area.” What jobs, Minister? What new investment? The likelihood is that it will bring trouble. I have received no information whatsoever from the Home Office, other than, “You’re getting a barge.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-26d.892.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-27", "file": "debates2023-04-27b.xml", "sha256": "5a58e8f266c50d3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-27b.1022.0", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Sharon Hodgson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “2006!”.", "preceding_speaker": "Sharon Hodgson", "preceding_text": "I am listening intently to what the Minister is saying. When I go back to speak to my local dentists, what do I tell them about the “when”? He is saying all the things that we would like to do and the Government would like to do. We want to see all that happen, but when will this contract that has needed changing since 2010—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-27b.1022.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-27", "file": "debates2023-04-27d.xml", "sha256": "b0c63bb3a5b4d665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-27d.918.6", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Church Commissioners", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Selous", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Selous", "preceding_text": "I can reassure my hon. Friend that the Church is doing a great deal in that area. We are supporting the Big Help Out to promote volunteering, along with many charities and businesses, as well as the Big Lunch to break down barriers and combat loneliness. We also have Sing for the King and Ring for the King to promote choral singing and bell ringing, linked to the coronation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-27d.918.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-27", "file": "debates2023-04-27d.xml", "sha256": "b0c63bb3a5b4d665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-27d.919.2", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Voter ID", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Maclean", "preceding_text": "oduced legislation to implement that commitment and we are now in the process of delivering on our promise. Voter identification is central to protecting our electoral system from the potential for voting fraud. Its implementation at the local elections next week brings the rest of the UK in line with Northern Ireland, where people have had to bring photographic ID to vote in elections since 2003.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-27d.919.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-27", "file": "debates2023-04-27d.xml", "sha256": "b0c63bb3a5b4d665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-27d.920.0", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Voter ID", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Maclean", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for his forensic scrutiny, as we would expect from the Chair of the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee. I will make a couple of basic points, but it may be appropriate for me to follow up in writing, because he is referring to some conversations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-27d.920.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-27", "file": "debates2023-04-27d.xml", "sha256": "b0c63bb3a5b4d665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-27d.925.0", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Voter ID", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Maclean", "preceding_text": "I firmly rebut that. I have made multiple comments answering the questions that Members have put to me. I also firmly rebut the accusations from Opposition Members suggesting that something is going on here other than protecting our electoral system in this great democracy, in which we are all proud to serve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-27d.925.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-27", "file": "debates2023-04-27d.xml", "sha256": "b0c63bb3a5b4d665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-27d.963.4", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Alicia Kearns", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Alicia Kearns", "preceding_text": "We in Rutland and Melton were recently successful with our £23 million levelling-up bid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-27d.963.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-04-27", "file": "debates2023-04-27d.xml", "sha256": "b0c63bb3a5b4d665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-27d.979.0", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Sudan Update", "cue_speaker": "James Cleverly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Cleverly", "preceding_text": "als out. However, no one can guarantee what will happen when the ceasefire comes to an end. With regard to the wider push of refugees because of this conflict, I remind the SNP spokesperson and the House that Sudan is not the only live conflict in the world. I know it is at the forefront of many people’s minds, and it is therefore completely legitimate that he asks questions specifically about it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-04-27d.979.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-03", "file": "debates2023-05-03c.xml", "sha256": "d9f6310994979947", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-03c.103.6", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Science, Innovation and Technology", "cue_speaker": "Chi Onwurah", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chi Onwurah", "preceding_text": ", and Britain has paid the price in lost jobs and scientific research. Their plan B short-changes British scientists and they are fudging the figures in other ways. Will the Secretary of State confirm that, whereas Horizon funding was counted as international science spend, she is planning to count the same money as British science spend to meet her commitment to double the British science budget?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-03c.103.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-03", "file": "debates2023-05-03c.xml", "sha256": "d9f6310994979947", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-03c.115.5", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Butler", "preceding_text": "he Tory Mayor’s final year. More than 23,000 new City Hall-funded council homes have been started since 2018, with more than 10,000 in the last year alone. Latest figures show that London started more than double the number of council homes last year than the whole of the rest of England, and Sadiq, the Labour Mayor of London, has delivered more than 10 times the number of the previous Tory Mayor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-03c.115.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-09", "file": "debates2023-05-09b.xml", "sha256": "fd6b8d5bdd689f1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-09b.190.4", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Treasury", "cue_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "preceding_text": "Is it not wonderful that we have so many women setting up their own businesses and taking that step into entrepreneurship?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-09b.190.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-09", "file": "debates2023-05-09b.xml", "sha256": "fd6b8d5bdd689f1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-09b.191.7", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Treasury", "cue_speaker": "John Glen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Glen", "preceding_text": "Absolutely. It is right that we continue support for the cost of living challenges. I have mentioned the energy price guarantee; we are also sticking to that plan to avoid unnecessary inflationary pressure. [Interruption.] On average this year, as a result of Government decisions made from—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-09b.191.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-09", "file": "debates2023-05-09b.xml", "sha256": "fd6b8d5bdd689f1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-09b.199.2", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Treasury", "cue_speaker": "John Glen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Glen", "preceding_text": "I congratulate those successful across the country in last week’s elections, but what business leaders want and what the country wants is steady policy making, delivering growth in the economy, dealing with the biggest scourge on the economy, which is inflation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-09b.199.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-09", "file": "debates2023-05-09b.xml", "sha256": "fd6b8d5bdd689f1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-09b.203.2", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Coronation: Policing of Protests", "cue_speaker": "Chris Philp", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Philp", "preceding_text": "ed plots to disrupt it. The focus of the police was, rightly, on ensuring that the momentous occasion passed safely and without major disruption. That was successful. All plots to disrupt the coronation were foiled by a combination of intelligence work and proactive vigilant policing on the ground. I would like to thank the police and congratulate them on that success. At the same time, extensive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-09b.203.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-09", "file": "debates2023-05-09b.xml", "sha256": "fd6b8d5bdd689f1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-09b.248.2", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Energy Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Debbie Abrahams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Debbie Abrahams", "preceding_text": "have seen their gas bills double, their electricity is up nearly two thirds, and some of them have said to me, “Why are we going through this, and when can we have our houses made more efficient so we’re not having to spend so much on this?” Why could that not be funded by a windfall tax on energy producers, given that, for example, BP said last week that it is making £60 million a day in profits?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-09b.248.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-09", "file": "debates2023-05-09b.xml", "sha256": "fd6b8d5bdd689f1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-09b.253.0", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Energy Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "preceding_text": " Net Zero was candid about this earlier this year—just three wind farms have been built in the whole of England. Since 2015, we have had five Prime Ministers and just three onshore wind farms. I make that to be three fifths of the wind farm per Prime Minister—that is my great maths. That is quite the record. Members across the House will have different views on wind farms, but the cost of the ban—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-09b.253.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-09", "file": "debates2023-05-09b.xml", "sha256": "fd6b8d5bdd689f1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-09b.255.4", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Energy Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "preceding_text": "he Bill does not attempt to make that shift; it is business as usual on fossil fuels. On coal, the Secretary of State rather dismissed the intervention of the hon. Member for Bath (Wera Hobhouse) . Yes, there has been a good record on coal in the last decade. [Interruption.] He says “Thank you”, and he wants to chunter away, but opening a new coalmine drives a coach and horses through that record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-09b.255.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-10", "file": "debates2023-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "d58d18f672e4a15b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-10a.328.0", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Carolyn Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Carolyn Harris", "preceding_text": "Secretary of State understands the issues facing menopausal women. With no legislation currently in Stormont, there are no plans for a women’s health strategy and nor is there any proactive work taking place to address the issues, so will he agree to meet representatives of the Menopause Support Group Northern Ireland, hear their concerns and support their campaign for improved menopause services?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-10a.328.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-11", "file": "debates2023-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "ee63ccf7ab74a4a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-11a.419.7", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Cabinet Office", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Dowden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Dowden", "preceding_text": "Of course the maritime security of the United Kingdom is the utmost priority for this Government. We ensure that Royal Naval vessels are available to patrol waters at all times. I would gently say to the hon. Lady that that kind of defence strength would simply not be available—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-11a.419.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-11", "file": "debates2023-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "ee63ccf7ab74a4a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-11a.441.5", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "ts of law need to be repealed and which need to be reformed. There is not enough parliamentary time, given that we have only one full Session, to carry out all the reforms we would like to carry out. If we are to do that, we need to truncate the process to make it about repeal and reform, not about preservation. The Bill, which was meant to be about reform, has turned into a preservation exercise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-11a.441.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-11", "file": "debates2023-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "ee63ccf7ab74a4a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-11a.442.3", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": " to be responsible and look at what we can make sure is deliverable. This is the best way to get my right hon. Friend the Member for Rayleigh and Wickford (Mr Francois) what he wants. It may be different from what was put on the Floor of the House, but if he wants what I want, which is ending EU interpretative effects by the end of this year, ending the supremacy of EU law by the end of this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-11a.442.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-11", "file": "debates2023-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "ee63ccf7ab74a4a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-11a.444.0", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "Again, these questions worry me, because they show that the process we are changing is not fully understood by the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-11a.444.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-11", "file": "debates2023-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "ee63ccf7ab74a4a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-11a.444.3", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Karin Smyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Karin Smyth", "preceding_text": "has been brought forward is a disgrace; it is not worthy of our Parliament or, indeed, of our country. In the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee, we are currently looking at international treaties. It is clear that our system for reviewing and monitoring international treaties per se is not up to scratch, and I hope that the Secretary of State will engage with that process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-11a.444.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-11", "file": "debates2023-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "ee63ccf7ab74a4a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-11a.445.3", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "I am trying really hard not to laugh at what the hon. Lady has said. She is in a party that cannot even decide who paid for a caravan and is falling into a complete shambles. How will it in any way be able to do the sort of technical work we are doing? I am working with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-11a.445.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-11", "file": "debates2023-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "ee63ccf7ab74a4a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-11a.486.2", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Rail Services", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "Mr Deputy Speaker, that is a very helpful point for you to have made on behalf of Mr Speaker. As you know, I completely agree with that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-11a.486.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-11", "file": "debates2023-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "ee63ccf7ab74a4a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-11a.490.0", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Rail Services", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": " just over £1 million to the Labour party or Labour office holders over the last five years. The general secretary of ASLEF is chair of Labour Unions, the group of unions affiliated to the Labour party, and sits on Labour’s national executive, and the hon. Lady said that she would be working hand in glove with ASLEF. She should suggest to ASLEF that it uses this opportunity to do rest day working—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-11a.490.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-15", "file": "debates2023-05-15b.xml", "sha256": "f5d75e2b747535dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-15b.558.5", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Grady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Grady", "preceding_text": "I am not entirely sure that that is the advert for the broad shoulders and strength of the Union that the Secretary of State would like to think it is. Can he confirm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-15b.558.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-15", "file": "debates2023-05-15b.xml", "sha256": "f5d75e2b747535dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-15b.576.1", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Ben Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Wallace", "preceding_text": "My understanding is that the smallest part—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-15b.576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-15", "file": "debates2023-05-15b.xml", "sha256": "f5d75e2b747535dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-15b.581.3", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Alex Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Cunningham", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Today’s Financial Times contains a major exposé on the questionable business dealings of the Tees Mayor, which, among other things, have seen vast public-owned assets transferred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-15b.581.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-15", "file": "debates2023-05-15b.xml", "sha256": "f5d75e2b747535dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-15b.644.0", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Victims and Prisoners Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "preceding_text": "l, that is clearly a problem. There was no support for the witnesses to travel and give evidence. There was no support for us when we were trying to get video evidence involved to manage the costs. There was a horrific situation last year when, yet again in a retrial situation, the victim’s family and the witnesses were in the same hotel as the perpetrators’ families—clearly, a high-risk scenario.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-15b.644.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-16", "file": "debates2023-05-16c.xml", "sha256": "ad5fe53b401fa253", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.685.0", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Justice", "cue_speaker": "Catherine West", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Catherine West", "preceding_text": "I warmly welcome the Secretary of State’s answer to the question from the hon. Member for West Bromwich East (Nicola Richards) , but how can he introduce fresh challenges for the Department when the backlog is so severe? A visit to Wandsworth prison at Easter with a cross-party group of MPs showed that 75% of prisoners were still waiting for a basic sentence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.685.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-16", "file": "debates2023-05-16c.xml", "sha256": "ad5fe53b401fa253", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.687.0", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Justice", "cue_speaker": "Mike Freer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Freer", "preceding_text": "I refer the hon. Lady to my colleague the victims Minister, my right hon. Friend the Member for Charnwood (Edward Argar) , because I believe he has already met the right hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside (Mark Tami) to see how the issues raised by Jade’s law can be implemented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.687.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-16", "file": "debates2023-05-16c.xml", "sha256": "ad5fe53b401fa253", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.702.4", "colnum": "702", "heading": "National Crime Agency Investigation: Javad Marandi", "cue_speaker": "Alison Thewliss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alison Thewliss", "preceding_text": "Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. Mr Marandi appears—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.702.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-16", "file": "debates2023-05-16c.xml", "sha256": "ad5fe53b401fa253", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.704.0", "colnum": "704", "heading": "National Crime Agency Investigation: Javad Marandi", "cue_speaker": "Chris Philp", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Philp", "preceding_text": "ll is still being considered in the House of Lords, and we may see it down here in the course of ping-pong, so there will be plenty of further opportunities to discuss that. I would add that people are entitled to be considered innocent until proven guilty. That is quite a long-standing principle of law in this country, but all political parties, on both sides, need to be vigilant about donations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.704.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-16", "file": "debates2023-05-16c.xml", "sha256": "ad5fe53b401fa253", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.716.3", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Cost of Living", "cue_speaker": "Mhairi Black", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mhairi Black", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member had shown a bit of patience, he would have heard what I am about to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.716.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-16", "file": "debates2023-05-16c.xml", "sha256": "ad5fe53b401fa253", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.717.2", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Cost of Living", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Ross", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is speaking about energy policy. Does she agree with the SNP-Green Government’s policy on a presumption against new oil and gas fields in Scotland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.717.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-16", "file": "debates2023-05-16c.xml", "sha256": "ad5fe53b401fa253", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.717.3", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Cost of Living", "cue_speaker": "Mhairi Black", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mhairi Black", "preceding_text": "As someone has said behind me, for a start, I would say that I am totally against nuclear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.717.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-16", "file": "debates2023-05-16c.xml", "sha256": "ad5fe53b401fa253", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.718.1", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Cost of Living", "cue_speaker": "Mhairi Black", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mhairi Black", "preceding_text": "I would respond to that by saying: give us the powers to be able to function.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-16", "file": "debates2023-05-16c.xml", "sha256": "ad5fe53b401fa253", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.718.1", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Cost of Living", "cue_speaker": "Mhairi Black", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mhairi Black", "preceding_text": "I would respond to that by saying: give us the powers to be able to function. [Interruption.] If the hon. Gentleman just listens, he will hear that child poverty rates in the UK, as I said, are at their lowest in Scotland, where the Scottish Government are making a concerted effort to build a wellbeing economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-16", "file": "debates2023-05-16c.xml", "sha256": "ad5fe53b401fa253", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.718.1", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Cost of Living", "cue_speaker": "Mhairi Black", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mhairi Black", "preceding_text": " debate, but I will leave him to google things on his phone for now. The Scottish Government will always do what they can, but the truth is that one child growing up in poverty left to deal with the scars of poverty, which do not heal for a long time for a lot of people, is one too many. The Scottish Government have done and will continue to do all they can, but so long as 70% of financial powers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-16", "file": "debates2023-05-16c.xml", "sha256": "ad5fe53b401fa253", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.723.0", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Cost of Living", "cue_speaker": "Ian Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Murray", "preceding_text": "is is a crisis that has been bubbling away for a long time. Growth in our economy has stagnated for more than a decade. In fact, had the economy continued to grow at the rate it did under the last Labour Government, we would have about £40 billion more to spend our public services and tackling the cost of living, without raising a single tax. That is the elephant in the room for the Conservatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.723.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-16", "file": "debates2023-05-16c.xml", "sha256": "ad5fe53b401fa253", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.727.2", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Cost of Living", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Ross", "preceding_text": "There are a lot of Conservative MPs from Wales, and I am sure that they are busy in other parts of the House. [Interruption.] Well, there are certainly more Tory MPs from Wales than Plaid MPs. When the SNP—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.727.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-16", "file": "debates2023-05-16c.xml", "sha256": "ad5fe53b401fa253", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.729.1", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Cost of Living", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Ross", "preceding_text": "Let me be clear. The sole Labour MP from Scotland is in the Chamber. There are six Scottish Conservative MPs and, in huge parts of Scotland, the Scottish Conservatives are the greatest challengers to the SNP. We proved it in 2017, we proved it in 2019 and we will prove it again in 2024. I was also making the point about the biggest issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.729.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-16", "file": "debates2023-05-16c.xml", "sha256": "ad5fe53b401fa253", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.729.1", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Cost of Living", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Ross", "preceding_text": " it in 2019 and we will prove it again in 2024. I was also making the point about the biggest issue—[Interruption.] Well, Labour Members are speaking a lot. I am very interested in how they will vote today. I am not sure whether they will support the Government amendment or the SNP motion. Or will they do what they normally do: sit on the fence and not take a position? We will find out quite soon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.729.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-16", "file": "debates2023-05-16c.xml", "sha256": "ad5fe53b401fa253", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.730.2", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Cost of Living", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Ross", "preceding_text": "4 means that people in Scotland will have paid £1 billion more in taxation than their counterparts in the rest of the United Kingdom—£1 billion more in tax because the SNP has made Scotland the highest taxed part of the United Kingdom. The SNP often likes to claim that the majority of working Scots pay less income tax than those south of the border. That has now been proven to be completely false.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.730.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-16", "file": "debates2023-05-16c.xml", "sha256": "ad5fe53b401fa253", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.786.0", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Public Order Act 2023", "cue_speaker": "Chris Philp", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Philp", "preceding_text": "not think I can answer her question. From the facts I have seen publicly reported, it would appear that subsequently, upon investigation, there was not a reasonable basis to detain the lady concerned. Obviously, at the time it occurred, it is likely that the officer had some reasonable basis, but upon further investigation they discovered there was nothing further to be done. Clearly, in policing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.786.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-16", "file": "debates2023-05-16c.xml", "sha256": "ad5fe53b401fa253", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.786.3", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Public Order Act 2023", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "I am pleased to hear that. But I do revere Edmund Burke. It was Burke who said: “Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.” So when the Government act in anything but a feeble way, they are acting justly and rightly in defence of law-abiding, decent patriotic people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.786.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-16", "file": "debates2023-05-16c.xml", "sha256": "ad5fe53b401fa253", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Public Order Act 2023", "cue_speaker": "Tom Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Hunt", "preceding_text": "I shall not be giving way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-16", "file": "debates2023-05-16c.xml", "sha256": "ad5fe53b401fa253", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.792.3", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Public Order Act 2023", "cue_speaker": "Tom Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Hunt", "preceding_text": "I will not be giving way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.792.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-16", "file": "debates2023-05-16c.xml", "sha256": "ad5fe53b401fa253", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Public Order Act 2023", "cue_speaker": "James Daly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Daly", "preceding_text": "I think it is ludicrous that the police apologised. Apologised for what? As the Minister said, the police set out a statement on the circumstances of what they said had occurred on the day. It was perfectly lawful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.798.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-16", "file": "debates2023-05-16c.xml", "sha256": "ad5fe53b401fa253", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.810.1", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Public Order Act 2023", "cue_speaker": "Thomas Tugendhat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Thomas Tugendhat", "preceding_text": "s failure in letting down all the British people across these islands, because it is not just in Scotland that the failure is felt. As a Unionist, I can say passionately that I feel that failure across the whole of the United Kingdom. It is absolutely unacceptable to be silent when we see Scottish people being so ill served by such a failed Administration. Let me come back to the Public Order Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-16", "file": "debates2023-05-16c.xml", "sha256": "ad5fe53b401fa253", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.816.3", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Houses in Multiple Occupation: Approval", "cue_speaker": "Darren Henry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Darren Henry", "preceding_text": "borough, Trowell and Bramcote. This must be addressed, and we must look at planning regulation to ensure that the individual identities of these places are not compromised. Small towns are being impacted by these decisions. HMOs are changing the nature of our communities. It would be unfair to say that all HMOs are having a negative impact and I would like to reiterate that our student population—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-16c.816.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-17", "file": "debates2023-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "58470afa3377f651", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-17a.842.0", "colnum": "842", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "preceding_text": "is is what keeps us at the forefront as we try to adapt and use a new technology. I wish to put it on the record that there are regular reviews of the EU-UK trade and co-operation agreement, but, as the hon. Gentleman will know, that responsibility sits with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and is not something that I can respond to on its behalf. However, I can provide assurances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-17a.842.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-17", "file": "debates2023-05-17d.xml", "sha256": "fd87ab4606fd134c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-17d.830.1", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Scotland", "cue_speaker": "David Duguid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Duguid", "preceding_text": "land that we are not against conservation and sustainability in principle. Does he agree that the haste with which the Scottish Government are trying to implement their highly protected marine areas policy is yet another case of the Green tail wagging the SNP dog, and that that could have an extremely damaging consequence for coastal communities across Scotland, including mine in Banff and Buchan?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-17d.830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-17", "file": "debates2023-05-17d.xml", "sha256": "fd87ab4606fd134c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-17d.833.1", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "preceding_text": "They do not want to hear the question because they know the answer is that they have failed the British people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-17d.833.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-17", "file": "debates2023-05-17d.xml", "sha256": "fd87ab4606fd134c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-17d.842.0", "colnum": "842", "heading": "UK Car Industry", "cue_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "preceding_text": "is is what keeps us at the forefront as we try to adapt and use a new technology. I wish to put it on the record that there are regular reviews of the EU-UK trade and co-operation agreement, but, as the hon. Gentleman will know, that responsibility sits with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and is not something that I can respond to on its behalf. However, I can provide assurances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-17d.842.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-17", "file": "debates2023-05-17d.xml", "sha256": "fd87ab4606fd134c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-17d.856.0", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Buses: Funding", "cue_speaker": "Richard Holden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Holden", "preceding_text": "It was delightful to hear the shadow Secretary of State’s prepared attack lines, because I do not think she actually listened to the statement. We are exceeding the bus back better commitment by £500 million. I note that the hon. Lady did not mention the fact that Sheffield city region is getting £3.15 million today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-17d.856.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-17", "file": "debates2023-05-17d.xml", "sha256": "fd87ab4606fd134c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-17d.856.0", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Buses: Funding", "cue_speaker": "Richard Holden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Holden", "preceding_text": "is happening in her own area of South Yorkshire, which has received £570 million. Greater Manchester is receiving over £1 billion over five years. That was never delivered by Labour in government, but delivered by this Conservative party right across the country. There are sustainable transport schemes and city region sustainable transport settlements—all delivered with money from this Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-17d.856.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-17", "file": "debates2023-05-17d.xml", "sha256": "fd87ab4606fd134c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-17d.858.1", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Buses: Funding", "cue_speaker": "Gavin Newlands", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gavin Newlands", "preceding_text": "In principle, I welcome today’s announcement on fares by the Government. Anything that helps to make bus travel more attractive and drives modal shift is to be welcomed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-17d.858.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-17", "file": "debates2023-05-17d.xml", "sha256": "fd87ab4606fd134c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-17d.858.2", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Buses: Funding", "cue_speaker": "Richard Holden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Holden", "preceding_text": "om taxpayers, which is exactly what we need to be doing in this situation. It is interesting that the hon. Gentleman concentrated on talking about the ZEBRA scheme, which is not really the topic of today’s statement. It is interesting that he did not mention anything else because the Scottish national party is obviously not matching our £2 bus fare right across Scotland, which is quite a surprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-17d.858.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-17", "file": "debates2023-05-17d.xml", "sha256": "fd87ab4606fd134c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-17d.859.5", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Buses: Funding", "cue_speaker": "Richard Holden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Holden", "preceding_text": "I would like to thank the hon. Lady for her question, and we will be able to go into this in greater detail later. As she knows, hers was the first ever Adjournment debate I did, and I am looking forward to doing one with her again tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-17d.859.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-17", "file": "debates2023-05-17d.xml", "sha256": "fd87ab4606fd134c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-17d.863.0", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Buses: Funding", "cue_speaker": "Richard Holden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Holden", "preceding_text": "he noticed the response I gave to the hon. Member for Blaydon (Liz Twist) , but earlier today I spoke to Councillor Gannon, who runs the North East Combined Authority’s transport scheme, and he welcomed what we are doing. On top of that there is more money to come, and the £2 bus scheme announced today. But it is not all about that; this is about protecting local services. I am sure that when she—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-17d.863.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-18", "file": "debates2023-05-18b.xml", "sha256": "ea32a4cb141e3d3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-18b.947.5", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Business and Trade", "cue_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "preceding_text": "I have read the hon. Member’s report, because he sent it to me. I have lost many hours of my life, but I have read it and I enjoyed it. It would be remiss of me not to thank my hon. Friend the Member for Henley (John Howell) , the Conservative leader of the UK parliamentary delegation to the Council of Europe, for all his work. There is lots of really good stuff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-18b.947.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-18", "file": "debates2023-05-18b.xml", "sha256": "ea32a4cb141e3d3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-18b.950.0", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Business and Trade", "cue_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "preceding_text": "There will always be data, forecasts, and the evaluation and re-evaluation of those data and forecasts. It is important for the House to know about all the good news that was missing from the right hon. Gentleman’s question. According to a PwC report, the UK will continue to be the fastest growing G7 economy until 2050. That is indeed good news.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-18b.950.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-22", "file": "debates2023-05-22c.xml", "sha256": "4590786c1028e744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-22c.4.4", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Home Department", "cue_speaker": "Suella Braverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Suella Braverman", "preceding_text": "is because it distracts from the fact that they voted against tougher sentences for paedophiles and murderers. They want us to ignore the fact that Labour MPs would rather campaign to stop the deportation of foreign criminals than back our Rwanda scheme. They would rather the country does not notice their total abandonment of the British people. This Government are focusing on delivering a record—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-22c.4.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-22", "file": "debates2023-05-22c.xml", "sha256": "4590786c1028e744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-22c.14.2", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Home Department", "cue_speaker": "Suella Braverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Suella Braverman", "preceding_text": "I just do not agree with the hon. Lady’s characterisation. I am incredibly proud—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-22c.14.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-22", "file": "debates2023-05-22c.xml", "sha256": "4590786c1028e744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-22c.97.0", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Burgon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Burgon", "preceding_text": " officials near picket lines are not persuading trade union members not to go to work, but obliged by this legislation to persuade trade union members to break democratically agreed upon strike action? If we think about it, it is very sinister. It is an unprecedented encroachment on the role of trade unions in our democratic society. It is a fundamental attack on one of our core democratic rights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-22c.97.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-23", "file": "debates2023-05-23c.xml", "sha256": "55da3b4850fba1ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-23c.257.1", "colnum": "257", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Robert Halfon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Halfon", "preceding_text": "ssues with his school that he raised. The hon. Member for Easington (Grahame Morris) talked about problems with a fairly new school. Again, the Schools Minister will have heard him, and I am sure there can be a meeting or some correspondence to discuss that important issue. I can also confirm that the constituency of the hon. Member for Blaydon (Liz Twist) will be getting £1.8 million. Turning to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-23c.257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-23", "file": "debates2023-05-23d.xml", "sha256": "bd850f5683b3d696", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-23d.132.5", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Energy Security and Net Zero", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Bowie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Bowie", "preceding_text": "When it comes to bluster, SNP Members are certainly subject matter experts. On support for Scottish billpayers, as I said, over the past winter this Government were paying half of everybody’s energy bills in this United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-23d.132.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-23", "file": "debates2023-05-23d.xml", "sha256": "bd850f5683b3d696", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-23d.140.0", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Energy Security and Net Zero", "cue_speaker": "David Duguid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Duguid", "preceding_text": "Unlike the SNP, who continue to talk down the fantastic Acorn project, which by the way has never actually stopped—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-23d.140.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-23", "file": "debates2023-05-23d.xml", "sha256": "bd850f5683b3d696", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-23d.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Ministerial Code: Investigation of Potential Breach", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Wright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Wright", "preceding_text": "ches of the ministerial code and determine whether there was a breach, leaving sanctions properly for the Prime Minister to determine. That has several advantages. It gives the benefit of a decision being taken at arm’s length from Government and, if I may say so to my right hon. Friend, it also means we will have fewer occasions such as this and he will have to answer fewer such urgent questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-23d.152.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-05-25", "file": "debates2023-05-25b.xml", "sha256": "35cbb3df213d7551", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-25b.464.5", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Bridgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Bridgen", "preceding_text": "ion.] The House might recall that we were told that the experimental treatments “will stay in your arm, not pass around your body”—completely incorrect. We were told, “These vaccines will stop you contracting and transmitting the virus”—completely wrong. Safe and effective is not ageing well. All that disinformation was spread by the BBC itself, which is now holding itself as the arbiter of truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-05-25b.464.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-06-05", "file": "debates2023-06-05b.xml", "sha256": "3df1c7673e597a59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-05b.528.0", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Levelling Up, Housing and Communities", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "I am tempted to reply that if I ask the question, “How many SNP MPs does it take to change a lightbulb?” the answer is, inevitably, “Well, we have to wait for the motorhome to arrive.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-05b.528.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-06-05", "file": "debates2023-06-05b.xml", "sha256": "3df1c7673e597a59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-05b.572.0", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Illegal Migration", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "Let us remember that this is not a continuation of a debate; it is a point of order to the Chair, and it is not a matter for the Chair. The way in which facts are presented here in the Chamber is entirely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-05b.572.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-06-05", "file": "debates2023-06-05b.xml", "sha256": "3df1c7673e597a59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-05b.572.0", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Illegal Migration", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "; it is a point of order to the Chair, and it is not a matter for the Chair. The way in which facts are presented here in the Chamber is entirely—[Interruption.] Who is shouting at me? The way in which facts are presented in the Chamber is entirely a matter for the Minister, or any other Member who is presenting the facts. If the Home Secretary wishes to say anything further to the point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-05b.572.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-06-05", "file": "debates2023-06-05b.xml", "sha256": "3df1c7673e597a59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-05b.650.1", "colnum": "650", "heading": "New Housing Supply", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Maclean", "preceding_text": "challenging contributions. The points that have been raised today have underscored the importance of this Government’s mission to drive up housing supply and to deliver on our manifesto commitment of delivering a million additional homes by the end of this Parliament. They have emphasised the urgency of our work to build more homes of all tenures in the places where they are so desperately needed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-05b.650.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-06-06", "file": "debates2023-06-06c.xml", "sha256": "6dd012cf8472920e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-06c.681.3", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Health and Social Care", "cue_speaker": "Neil O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Neil O'Brien", "preceding_text": "I have already mentioned that we have nearly 2,000 more doctors in primary care than we did in 2019, as well as the early delivery of the 26,000 extra clinicians we have brought into primary care.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-06c.681.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-06-06", "file": "debates2023-06-06c.xml", "sha256": "6dd012cf8472920e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-06c.697.1", "colnum": "697", "heading": "British Nationality (Regularisation of Past Practice) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alison Thewliss", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alison Thewliss", "preceding_text": "I, too, do not seek to detain the House for long on this Bill. It is a rare day indeed when I agree with something that the Immigration Minister is bringing forward—let us get that point down and hope we never return to it again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-06c.697.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-06-13", "file": "debates2023-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "46e4ce3edbe5bdf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-13b.165.4", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Mortgage Market", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Olney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Olney", "preceding_text": "The Government’s economic mismanagement has caused low growth, soaring food bills and record mortgage costs. Millions of hard-working people are being penalised for getting a foot on the housing ladder, in places such as Mid Bedfordshire, the area with the third highest share of mortgage holders in the country. The Minister mentioned the support from the mortgage interest scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-13b.165.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2023-06-14", "file": "debates2023-06-14b.xml", "sha256": "24c18e5c8b4d0132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-14b.289.4", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members:", "cue_text": "More, more!", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "aid, I and the Government followed due process and convention. Prime Ministers of both parties have always upheld the convention of non-interference on political honours. My predecessors may not have agreed with Labour’s choices of Tom Watson or Shami Chakrabarti, but the same precedent stood then as it does now. I would expect a knight like the right hon. and learned Gentleman to understand that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-14b.289.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-06-14", "file": "debates2023-06-14b.xml", "sha256": "24c18e5c8b4d0132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-14b.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Cost of Living Committee", "cue_speaker": "Ian Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Murray", "preceding_text": "ed no deal. The hon. Member for Central Ayrshire spoke, rightly, about the history of this place when we debated the Brexit process, but when the House had the opportunity to back a customs union that would give us frictionless trade with the European Union, SNP Members decided that was not for them and the vote was lost by six. That is on the record as well as my own words, which I stand by 100%.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-14b.326.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-06-15", "file": "debates2023-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "c13c366ab59b6f32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-15a.473.4", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "igel! What’s going on with Brexit?” We had a good chat for well over an hour. She will be sorely missed. I have already sent my condolences to her son, but I now extend them publicly to the rest of her family. I hope that the lights of the west end, Broadway, and theatres all over the world will be dimmed in tribute to her, indeed in deep contrast to the way she dazzled when she took to the stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-15a.473.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-06-15", "file": "debates2023-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "c13c366ab59b6f32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-15a.544.0", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Neuroblastoma Treatment", "cue_speaker": "Will Quince", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Will Quince", "preceding_text": " three is: yes, yes and yes. Finally, I ask you to indulge me on something, Madam Deputy Speaker. Without embarrassing the Whip on duty—Whips rarely get a mention—let me say that I understand my good friend, my hon. Friend the Member for North Cornwall (Scott Mann) , is marrying his partner Nicola this weekend. I wish him all the very best for a wonderful day and them a very happy future together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-15a.544.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-06-19", "file": "debates2023-06-19b.xml", "sha256": "ebc433abc59d2349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-19b.603.0", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Privilege: Conduct of Right Hon. Boris Johnson", "cue_speaker": "Lia Nici", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lia Nici", "preceding_text": "I have to speak in the House today because I cannot see where the evidence is that Boris Johnson misled Parliament knowingly, intentionally or recklessly. [Interruption.] I am from Grimsby, and I have to say it as I see it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-19b.603.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-06-19", "file": "debates2023-06-19b.xml", "sha256": "ebc433abc59d2349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-19b.604.0", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Privilege: Conduct of Right Hon. Boris Johnson", "cue_speaker": "Lia Nici", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Have you read the report?”", "preceding_speaker": "Lia Nici", "preceding_text": "I have to say it as I see it, because that is what my constituents would want me to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-19b.604.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-06-19", "file": "debates2023-06-19b.xml", "sha256": "ebc433abc59d2349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-19b.604.0", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Privilege: Conduct of Right Hon. Boris Johnson", "cue_speaker": "Lia Nici", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lia Nici", "preceding_text": "I have to say it as I see it, because that is what my constituents would want me to do. [Hon. Members: “Have you read the report?”] Yes, I have read it, and I think that is an appalling question to ask a Member in this House. The reality is that Boris Johnson did not knowingly or intentionally mislead the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-19b.604.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-06-19", "file": "debates2023-06-19b.xml", "sha256": "ebc433abc59d2349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-19b.624.1", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Privilege: Conduct of Right Hon. Boris Johnson", "cue_speaker": "Bill Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Cash", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend is a very good friend of mine—he really is—as indeed of some Members on the other side of the House. I would simply like to say this. I am not in control of whether there is going to be an amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-19b.624.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-06-19", "file": "debates2023-06-19b.xml", "sha256": "ebc433abc59d2349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-19b.633.0", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Privilege: Conduct of Right Hon. Boris Johnson", "cue_speaker": "Bob Seely", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Seely", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is making a good speech. Boris had a complicated relationship with the truth—I am not denying that. The right hon. Gentleman has been in this House for a very long time, and it is great that he is saying that truth and integrity are very important. New Labour had a reputation for injecting lies into the British political process as never before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-19b.633.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-06-19", "file": "debates2023-06-19b.xml", "sha256": "ebc433abc59d2349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-19b.635.0", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Privilege: Conduct of Right Hon. Boris Johnson", "cue_speaker": "Bob Seely", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Seely", "preceding_text": "ting down our schools, the £400 billion and so on. To come on to the next scandal, our schools were shut. That is a disaster that has stalled educational improvement, and 100,000 kids—ghost kids—have disappeared off the rolls. What has happened to those kids—drifting into abuse, mental health crises, drugs, crime, solitude and loneliness? We do not know. It is one of the great scandals of the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-19b.635.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-06-21", "file": "debates2023-06-21c.xml", "sha256": "704019230f668792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-21c.788.2", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "That would make the situation worse. He wants to ban new supplies of energy from the North sea. That would make the situation worse. And he wants to give in to unions’ unaffordable pay demands. That would make the situation worse. He does not have many policies, but the few that he does have all have the same thing in common: they are dangerous, inflationary and working people would pay the price.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-21c.788.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-06-21", "file": "debates2023-06-21c.xml", "sha256": "704019230f668792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-21c.876.0", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Animal Welfare (Kept Animals)", "cue_speaker": "Duncan Baker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Duncan Baker", "preceding_text": "imals. We have to pay a real tribute to my right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith) for the enormous amount of work he did during the pandemic on the pet theft taskforce. It was a great problem in North Norfolk, where people were having their beautiful pedigree dogs taken and stolen. Not many people know this, but I am the glow-worm champion for the UK.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-21c.876.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-06-21", "file": "debates2023-06-21c.xml", "sha256": "704019230f668792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-21c.892.0", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Animal Welfare (Kept Animals)", "cue_speaker": "Robbie Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robbie Moore", "preceding_text": "s. We implemented a revised welfare at slaughter regime to introduce CCTV in all slaughterhouses. We banned traditional battery cages for laying hens and permitted beak trimming only via infrared technology. We have also banned third-party puppy and kitten sales through Lucy’s law, the Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2019. I could go on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-21c.892.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-06-27", "file": "debates2023-06-27c.xml", "sha256": "8414cba12c70d549", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-27c.207.2", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Griffith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Griffith", "preceding_text": "m grateful that we have belatedly found some international comparisons. The hon. Gentleman will therefore understand that we are seeing exactly the same rises—sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less—across most of the developed western economies. That is why this Conservative Government are taking action. We have helped people through these difficult times by giving the average household—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-27c.207.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-06-28", "file": "debates2023-06-28d.xml", "sha256": "af9e072fbebc35dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-28d.263.3", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Scotland", "cue_speaker": "Ian Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Murray", "preceding_text": "Let me join the Secretary of State in his earlier tributes to Winnie Ewing and Craig Brown, both of whom passed away last week, and both of whom will be sadly missed. I hold Craig Brown personally responsible for moments of completely unbridled joy and total heartbreak. Let me also wish the Secretary of State a happy birthday—a significant birthday—for next week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-28d.263.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-06-28", "file": "debates2023-06-28d.xml", "sha256": "af9e072fbebc35dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-28d.268.2", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Speaker’s Statement", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "to all public proceedings, but delivered the hybrid capability which enabled Parliament to function during lockdown and, of course, made history with President Zelensky being beamed into this Chamber. He has more recently brought live subtitling and British Sign Language to our proceedings. I am sure I speak on behalf of the whole House in thanking John and wishing him all the best for the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-28d.268.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-06-28", "file": "debates2023-06-28d.xml", "sha256": "af9e072fbebc35dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-28d.280.0", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "That completes Prime Minister’s questions. We come now to the urgent question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-28d.280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-06-28", "file": "debates2023-06-28d.xml", "sha256": "af9e072fbebc35dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-28d.284.4", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Water Industry: Financial Resilience", "cue_speaker": "Robert Buckland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Buckland", "preceding_text": "Swindon residents will be concerned about the future of Thames Water, so I ask my hon. Friend please to keep me and colleagues updated on any issues relating to that. Underlying this issue, Labour’s model will clearly never work—we must understand that only the private sector will be able to invest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-28d.284.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-06-29", "file": "debates2023-06-29b.xml", "sha256": "edd6d5e902cf9990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-29b.426.2", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "preceding_text": "that Scotland recently announced? They are a fantastic tribute to Scotland’s incredible creative businesses and producers, and I congratulate them on that. I very much enjoyed the hon. Gentleman’s discussing rail travel in Scotland with no regard to the Scottish nationalist Government’s record on ScotRail. While we are on the topic of transport, I was briefly cheered this week that ferry services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-29b.426.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-06-29", "file": "debates2023-06-29b.xml", "sha256": "edd6d5e902cf9990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-29b.440.1", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Fishing Industry", "cue_speaker": "David Duguid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Duguid", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the hon. Gentleman mentions Mr Park, whom I know extremely well. I am familiar with that Daily Record article, which is from, I think, last Monday. It was the first in a series of “Why Brexit is bad” articles. If I am not mistaken—and I stand to be corrected—that quote from Mr Park is not necessarily all that up to date. I talk to Mr Park on a—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-29b.440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-06-29", "file": "debates2023-06-29b.xml", "sha256": "edd6d5e902cf9990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-29b.443.2", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Fishing Industry", "cue_speaker": "David Duguid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Duguid", "preceding_text": "Yes—it was a manifesto commitment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-06-29b.443.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-03", "file": "debates2023-07-03b.xml", "sha256": "a708aa4d11e894bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-03b.545.2", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Home Department", "cue_speaker": "Chris Philp", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Philp", "preceding_text": "I must say, in the gentlest terms, that my constituency neighbour has a bit of cheek to talk about reducing crime, given that according to the crime survey, crime levels under the last Labour Government were around double what they are today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-03b.545.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-03", "file": "debates2023-07-03b.xml", "sha256": "a708aa4d11e894bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-03b.586.3", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "mbing. More recently, he chaired the UK2070 Commission on regional inequalities. My colleagues and I greatly valued his work on homelessness with the Kerslake commission, and I think we all agree that his energy, knowledge and wisdom will be greatly missed. I know that right hon. and hon. Members across the House will wish to join me in sending our deepest condolences to his family in their grief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-03b.586.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-04", "file": "debates2023-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "b0a3e5e110ac8f7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-04b.677.5", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Energy Security and Net Zero", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. We are the world leader in floating offshore wind and we are determined to stay there in order to realise the industrial benefits, which he rightly champions, and the opportunities in Wales. The floating wind demonstration programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-04b.677.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-04", "file": "debates2023-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "b0a3e5e110ac8f7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-04b.733.5", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Department for Work and Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Guy Opperman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Guy Opperman", "preceding_text": "under three female Secretaries of State before the present Secretary of State. I think I am now on my seventh Secretary of State. These matters are monumentally above my pay grade, and, as I am sure the right hon. Gentleman knows, having done my job and many other jobs in the Government, they will be decided by the Chancellor and the Prime Minister at some stage over the course of the coming year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-04b.733.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-04", "file": "debates2023-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "b0a3e5e110ac8f7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-04b.767.4", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Winnie Ewing", "cue_speaker": "Ronnie Cowan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Not modern studies?”", "preceding_speaker": "Ronnie Cowan", "preceding_text": "There are two links to me there. Colin Campbell was my history teacher when I was at school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-04b.767.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-04", "file": "debates2023-07-04b.xml", "sha256": "b0a3e5e110ac8f7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-04b.767.5", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Winnie Ewing", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “The irony!”", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "That is a wonderful story, and knowing the woman as I did, I can say to my hon. Friend that nothing would have given Winnie more pride than knowing he had done that. I remember that 2015 election with some pride in my own interaction with Winnie at that time. Winnie had sent me a video address that I could use in my own election campaign, and it was not short—it was 30 minutes long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-04b.767.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-05", "file": "debates2023-07-05b.xml", "sha256": "a3965819773f895c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-05b.818.2", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Department for Energy Security and Net Zero", "cue_speaker": "Emma Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emma Hardy", "preceding_text": "vering commitments and action from Government. Instead, the outside world sees a slow and piecemeal bidding process that results in the UK’s largest industrial cluster being excluded from the first round. The decision that was made in March was already delayed by nine months because of the political chaos in Government. These companies are already putting in millions of pounds-worth of investment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-05b.818.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-05", "file": "debates2023-07-05b.xml", "sha256": "a3965819773f895c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-05b.822.2", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Department for Energy Security and Net Zero", "cue_speaker": "Wera Hobhouse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wera Hobhouse", "preceding_text": "een slow, and solar is particularly off track. We need to deploy 4.3 GW of solar per year to meet our target of 70 GW by 2035, but last year only 0.7 GW of solar was deployed. On estimates days, we discuss Government spending, and the UK is clearly not spending enough on net zero. As Lord Goldsmith detailed in his resignation letter, the problem is that the Prime Minister is “simply uninterested”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-05b.822.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-05", "file": "debates2023-07-05b.xml", "sha256": "a3965819773f895c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-05b.904.1", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Financial Markets and Monetary Policy", "cue_speaker": "Robert Syms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Syms", "preceding_text": "t anything, any budget or taxation, the Treasury is very careful in approving things. This could be a big budget item each year for the next several years, so I do not know why we are taking a relatively benign attitude of saying to the Bank, “Just sell it and we’ll pay the bills.” I should say that I was a Lord Commissioner for a while and I signed some of the documents that indemnified the Bank.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-05b.904.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-06", "file": "debates2023-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "bf0d06ab6da1b4ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-06a.912.5", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Environment, Food and Rural Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Therese Coffey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Therese Coffey", "preceding_text": "chose to leave Government. I pay tribute to him for a lot of what he has done in terms of international nature. The Minister for Food, Farming and Fisheries, my right hon. Friend the Member for Sherwood (Mark Spencer) , set out to the House on 25 May the approach that we are taking and why. We are getting on with the legislation on keeping primates as pets, and we are preparing single-issue Bills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-06a.912.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-06", "file": "debates2023-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "bf0d06ab6da1b4ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-06a.912.5", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Environment, Food and Rural Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Therese Coffey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Therese Coffey", "preceding_text": "Spencer) , set out to the House on 25 May the approach that we are taking and why. We are getting on with the legislation on keeping primates as pets, and we are preparing single-issue Bills. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Cambridge (Daniel Zeichner) , who is chuntering from a sedentary position, clearly does not know a lot about government. I understand that, because he has never been in it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-06a.912.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-06", "file": "debates2023-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "bf0d06ab6da1b4ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-06a.954.2", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "preceding_text": "egacy and Reconciliation) Bill, followed by, if necessary, consideration of Lords message. Wednesday 19 July —If necessary, consideration of Lords message on the Illegal Migration Bill, followed by debate on the Committee on Standards report on all-party parliamentary groups, followed by, if necessary, consideration of Lords message. Thursday 20 July —The Sir David Amess summer Adjournment debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-06a.954.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-06", "file": "debates2023-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "bf0d06ab6da1b4ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-06a.1012.3", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Commonwealth Parliamentary Association", "cue_speaker": "Karen Bradley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Karen Bradley", "preceding_text": "g way. He reminds me that we heard about Jon Davies’s incredible diplomatic skills at yesterday’s AGM. We also heard from our hon. Friend the Member for Blackpool North and Cleveleys (Paul Maynard) that Jon Davies is able to remove bird poo from Members of Parliament in the most discreet way imaginable. I think we should put on the record that that is a great skill, and one that CPA UK has valued.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-06a.1012.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-10", "file": "debates2023-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "3b2ded258107e08d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-10a.52.1", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Privileges Committee Special Report", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “We all have!”", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "tary time—much less attending 30 meetings, under enormous stress and with the outside social media pressures coming in at them from all angles. As someone who stood against the leader of my party, I can tell hon. Members that I have had some experience of how that works out. I have also had experience of how what one does in here can translate out there into threatening behaviour and difficulties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-10a.52.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-10", "file": "debates2023-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "3b2ded258107e08d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-10a.117.1", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Northern Ireland Budget (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sammy Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sammy Wilson", "preceding_text": "re is one in the area of education and in the area of health as well. I know I am going to incur the ire of some of my own colleagues, and maybe some other hon. Members, by saying this, but in Belfast we have four major hospitals. Four major hospitals for a city of—what? Some 300,000 people? Are there really not better ways of spending that money to ensure proper health provision? Yet we spend it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-10a.117.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-11", "file": "debates2023-07-11e.xml", "sha256": "125938f789f275eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-11e.179.0", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Financial Services Reforms", "cue_speaker": "Tulip Siddiq", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tulip Siddiq", "preceding_text": "in in the national interest. Through our active partnership with the City, reforms to the British Business Bank and a modern industrial strategy, we will grow the economy and help Britain to become the best place to start and grow a business. This tired Tory Government are out of time. It is time for them to step aside so that we can have a Government who will favour the national British interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-11e.179.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-11", "file": "debates2023-07-11e.xml", "sha256": "125938f789f275eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-11e.210.1", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Illegal Migration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "preceding_text": "to be brought into being within two months of the publication of the report provided for in clause 59. It inevitably takes time to work with partners such as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on developing a credible scheme, and to implement it. It is important that we give the Home Office the necessary time. However, I have been very clear that we will move as quickly as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-11e.210.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-12", "file": "debates2023-07-12c.xml", "sha256": "a8009bafbd43b4b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-12c.408.1", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Automotive Industry", "cue_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "preceding_text": "I would be happy to respond to the hon. Lady. That is not actually what I said. I said that I wanted to respond to the speeches and therefore I would not take interventions at that time. I will of course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-12c.408.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-13", "file": "debates2023-07-13b.xml", "sha256": "6aa93d4a04074a3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-13b.496.6", "colnum": "496", "heading": "NATO Summit", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "The reality is this: for long years, the right hon. and learned Gentleman sat there next to someone who did not support NATO and wanted to scrap Trident and abolish our armed forces. That is what the record is, but I am pleased that the right hon. and learned Gentleman joins the Government in supporting efforts for Ukraine. It is important that that remains a united position across this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-13b.496.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-17", "file": "debates2023-07-17d.xml", "sha256": "009e0f0fcb93c0a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-17d.620.0", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Education", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. I am not sure the Secretary of State is understanding me, either. When I say these are topicals, I mean that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-17d.620.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-17", "file": "debates2023-07-17d.xml", "sha256": "009e0f0fcb93c0a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-17d.639.2", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Illegal Migration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "ight-wing creature. He said this Bill is entirely necessary and that we have to get on with it. I also wonder whether my right hon. Friend has looked at today’s remarks by Lord Heseltine. Lord Clarke and Lord Heseltine seem to have come up with a sensible option. We should go ahead with this Bill. We have to have much better European co-operation and, really, we have to build a wall around Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-17d.639.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-17", "file": "debates2023-07-17d.xml", "sha256": "009e0f0fcb93c0a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-17d.649.4", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Illegal Migration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Kinnock", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Quite right!”", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Kinnock", "preceding_text": "As always, Madam Deputy Speaker, you are very gracious. The late, great Denis Healey famously advised that when you are in a hole, you should stop digging.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-17d.649.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-18", "file": "debates2023-07-18c.xml", "sha256": "4f2ab1dc65f61ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-18c.779.3", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership", "cue_speaker": "Richard Thomson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Thomson", "preceding_text": "It feels unnecessary to repeat this, but this Government seem willing to sign up to any trade deals. My party is in favour of good ones, and we are against poor ones, and that is why we oppose this deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-18c.779.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-18", "file": "debates2023-07-18c.xml", "sha256": "4f2ab1dc65f61ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-18c.780.3", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership", "cue_speaker": "Darren Jones", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Darren Jones", "preceding_text": "heir cars into the EU. However, under CPTPP, those same companies ought to be buying parts from Vietnam to export their cars to Mexico. That is quite confusing. Will the Department publish guidance for business that highlights the regulatory conflicts between trade with the European Union under the trade and co-operation agreement and trade with members of the CPTPTPP? Sorry—you know what I meant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-18c.780.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-18", "file": "debates2023-07-18c.xml", "sha256": "4f2ab1dc65f61ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-18c.781.5", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Huddleston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Huddleston", "preceding_text": "Again, I am so disappointed to hear Opposition Members never missing an opportunity to talk Britain down. CPTPP will benefit every nation and region of the UK, to the tune of billions and billions of pounds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-18c.781.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-18", "file": "debates2023-07-18c.xml", "sha256": "4f2ab1dc65f61ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-18c.790.0", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Defence Command Paper Refresh", "cue_speaker": "Ben Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Wallace", "preceding_text": "t. Many of the things in it we are now doing. I give credit to him, obviously, for his report, but some of its observations have also been mine—observations about SROs, about 75% and 50%, about a spiral development cost; observations that the House has heard from this Dispatch Box about gold-plating and the over-speccing that has too often driven prices through the roof, and is a cumbersome thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-18c.790.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-18", "file": "debates2023-07-18c.xml", "sha256": "4f2ab1dc65f61ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-18c.797.3", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Defence Command Paper Refresh", "cue_speaker": "Ben Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Wallace", "preceding_text": "I am just looking up page 89, which says that, to counter these threats, “we will step up our efforts to deliver an Integrated Air and Missile Defence approach.” We are doing that across NATO, integrated with NATO, and working with the Germans and the French. We are already starting that. We have signed up to the process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-18c.797.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-18", "file": "debates2023-07-18c.xml", "sha256": "4f2ab1dc65f61ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-18c.797.3", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Defence Command Paper Refresh", "cue_speaker": "Ben Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Wallace", "preceding_text": "g out and buying very short range if we are not deploying from our bases in Tidworth. So, first, we have already started doing the overall survey of what needs to be done. Secondly, we have started investing in our next generation of GBAD—ground-based air defence—our medium-range air defence capability. And we have recognised that we are short of our long-range air defence capability by investing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-18c.797.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-18", "file": "debates2023-07-18c.xml", "sha256": "4f2ab1dc65f61ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-18c.799.1", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Defence Command Paper Refresh", "cue_speaker": "Ben Wallace", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Wallace", "preceding_text": "It absolutely is. The House has heard me say that I have taken the profit from those companies; I have nationalised more things than any previous Defence Secretary, so perhaps I am putting up a job interview for the opposite side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-18c.799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-18", "file": "debates2023-07-18c.xml", "sha256": "4f2ab1dc65f61ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-18c.828.2", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "preceding_text": "Fifty-one years ago, my cousin Kenneth Smyth was murdered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-18c.828.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-18", "file": "debates2023-07-18c.xml", "sha256": "4f2ab1dc65f61ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-18c.833.3", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Heaton-Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Heaton-Harris", "preceding_text": "I think my hon. Friend will remember that I gave him a direct answer and he wanted something that was a bit longer. I have just given him something that is a bit longer that identified why there is article 2 compliance, and we believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-18c.833.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-18", "file": "debates2023-07-18c.xml", "sha256": "4f2ab1dc65f61ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-18c.850.0", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "preceding_text": "I am pleased to speak in this debate and to put forward the desires of the people of Strangford in this place, and also my own family.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-18c.850.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-18", "file": "debates2023-07-18c.xml", "sha256": "4f2ab1dc65f61ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-18c.850.0", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "preceding_text": "amily. [Interruption.] Sometimes when you are at the end your emotions get you, and they have got me today. Fifty years ago, my cousin was murdered. He was the light of our family, a good man with a good heart who loved his family and his community. My aunt was robbed of the opportunity to see him have the joy of his own children and grandchildren, and I was robbed of my childhood hero and friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-18c.850.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-18", "file": "debates2023-07-18c.xml", "sha256": "4f2ab1dc65f61ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-18c.872.0", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Environmental Protection", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "ose discharges as far as is practically possible so that they would occur only in periods of the most exceptional rainfall. In fairness, I gave the shadow Secretary of State, the hon. Member for Oldham West and Royton (Jim McMahon) , an opportunity to tell the House how much money Labour would spend on this issue above and beyond the billions of pounds that the Government are clearly committed to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-18c.872.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-18", "file": "debates2023-07-18c.xml", "sha256": "4f2ab1dc65f61ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-18c.872.2", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Environmental Protection", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "f Christian Calgie, its senior political correspondent, the story stated: “The Labour Party was left humiliated by the Government in the House of Commons this afternoon …Labour MPs ended up refusing to vote in favour of reducing sewage discharge. It’s claimed a senior Labour MP was overheard saying ‘We’ve been made to look like’” twits. I did not want to introduce a partisan element to the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-18c.872.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-18", "file": "debates2023-07-18c.xml", "sha256": "4f2ab1dc65f61ef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-18c.873.1", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Environmental Protection", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “They’re coming in now.”", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "riend for that helpful observation. The passion on the Labour Back Benches has almost doubled in the last 15 minutes. The Whips have obviously been around the Tea Room and said, “It’s looking a bit thin at the back there, boys and girls. You’d better get in there quickly.” So now—I want to be accurate—I count seven Labour MPs in the Chamber. Am I short-changing anybody? No. As for the abstention —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-18c.873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-19", "file": "debates2023-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "3fe9e47b02631185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-19b.895.1", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Science, Innovation and Technology", "cue_speaker": "Chloe Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chloe Smith", "preceding_text": "xactly right, and it is right for two reasons. The first is that billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money are at stake and we need to be responsible stewards of that money. That is why we are focused on getting the right deal. The second point is that my Department exists to forward and further the frontier of science in this country and to make sure that we stay a science and technology superpower.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-19b.895.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-19", "file": "debates2023-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "3fe9e47b02631185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-19b.899.5", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "we put in place, all the funding, all the extra ambulances, the extra discharges—are starting to make a difference, but all are held up by one very simple fact: industrial action in the NHS. Again, I will give him a second chance: if he really wants to get people the healthcare they want, will he agree with me that those doctors should accept the recommendations of the independent pay review body?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-19b.899.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-19", "file": "debates2023-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "3fe9e47b02631185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-19b.900.3", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More!”", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "recommendations, but that involves taking difficult and responsible decisions to deliver those pay rises without fuelling borrowing, inflation, taxes and debt. But, yet again, on this crucial issue, while his MPs are back on the picket lines, he simply refuses to take a position. It is the same old story. He should stop taking inspiration from his friends outside and unglue himself from the fence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-19b.900.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-19", "file": "debates2023-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "3fe9e47b02631185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-19b.901.0", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "ut the right hon. and learned Gentleman makes a very strong case for doing maths all the way to 61. When it comes to the substance of the plan, it is important that we address this. I am aware—I will say this—that he did set out some proposals to train more staff. The problem is that that is all he did. Our plan is much more comprehensive and much more impactful. Not only will we train more staff—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-19b.901.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-19", "file": "debates2023-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "3fe9e47b02631185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-19b.902.4", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Flynn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Flynn", "preceding_text": "Voters in Scotland are used to child poverty under the Tories—they almost expect it—but they do not expect child poverty support from the Labour party. If we look very closely right now, there is a shiver running along the Labour Front Bench looking for a spine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-19b.902.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-19", "file": "debates2023-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "3fe9e47b02631185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-19b.969.1", "colnum": "969", "heading": "All-party Parliamentary Groups", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “No.”", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "Has the hon. Gentleman been in for the whole of the debate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-19b.969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-19", "file": "debates2023-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "3fe9e47b02631185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-19b.977.1", "colnum": "977", "heading": "All-party Parliamentary Groups", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “No!”", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": " being able to hear from the BBC and liaise with it on controversial and non-controversial issues, I thought that it was important to stand in. I am, I think, the chair or co-chair of 12 groups. I am the person the hon. Member for Rhondda referred to as being an officer of more than 80 groups. I could quite cheerfully take him and the House through each of the groups and why I am a member of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-19b.977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-20", "file": "debates2023-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "e678340b1a73d00e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-20a.1101.3", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Anna Firth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Anna Firth", "preceding_text": "in this Chamber to commemorate Sir David?”. I am delighted to tell the House that that plaque has now been designed. It is nearly ready. I know we are not allowed to use props, and I will not, but I want to tell the House that if anyone wants to come and see the plaque, it is extremely beautiful. I have a copy on the Bench here. The motto says, “His light remains”, which I think is incredibly apt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-20a.1101.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-20", "file": "debates2023-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "0d8ee7084711a6ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-20c.999.0", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Culture, Media and Sport", "cue_speaker": "Stuart Andrew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stuart Andrew", "preceding_text": "I join the hon. Lady in wishing the men and women’s England cricket teams all the very best, and thanking them for what they have done so far, as well as the Lionesses. I am very fortunate that I will be off to Australia on Monday to wave the flag in support of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-20c.999.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-20", "file": "debates2023-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "0d8ee7084711a6ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-20c.1022.3", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Joanna Cherry", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Joanna Cherry", "preceding_text": "d following up. That system seems to have broken down, and hon. Members’ staff spend an age trying to chase down those in ministerial private offices. Mr Speaker, I am sure both you and the Leader of the House will be surprised to hear that my office was recently told that the Home Office switchboard had no record of the right hon. Member for Newark (Robert Jenrick) , the Minister for Immigration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-20c.1022.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-20", "file": "debates2023-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "0d8ee7084711a6ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-20c.1023.1", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "preceding_text": "tiated successfully a significant uplift in our quota shares following our exit from the EU, as she well knows, valued at about £101 million in new fishing opportunities for the UK fleet in this year alone. The UK seafood fund is investing £100 million into the long-term future of the UK fisheries sector, helping to drive innovation, support job creation and boost seafood exports into new markets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-20c.1023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-20", "file": "debates2023-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "0d8ee7084711a6ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-20c.1031.2", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Tata Group Gigafactory Investment", "cue_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "preceding_text": "n the advanced manufacturing sector and what they want to achieve. As we are getting close to our summer holiday, the £28 billion of un-costed promises that the Opposition are making are a bit like lines in the sand. We can look down at them, but the tide of reality will come in. The Opposition’s proposals mean nothing to industry or to job creation. They are created within the Westminster bubble.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-20c.1031.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-20", "file": "debates2023-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "0d8ee7084711a6ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-20c.1052.0", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Sir David Amess Summer Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Bob Blackman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Blackman", "preceding_text": "iness Committee for initiating this debate; I have served on the Committee for some 12 years, and I enjoy working with its Chairman, the hon. Member for Gateshead (Ian Mearns) . Finally, I pay tribute to my great friend—who will always be remembered in this place, not least for his input to these debates, but also for his bright and lovely service to this House and to this country—Sir David Amess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-20c.1052.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-20", "file": "debates2023-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "0d8ee7084711a6ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-20c.1101.3", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Sir David Amess Summer Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Anna Firth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Anna Firth", "preceding_text": "in this Chamber to commemorate Sir David?”. I am delighted to tell the House that that plaque has now been designed. It is nearly ready. I know we are not allowed to use props, and I will not, but I want to tell the House that if anyone wants to come and see the plaque, it is extremely beautiful. I have a copy on the Bench here. The motto says, “His light remains”, which I think is incredibly apt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-20c.1101.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-20", "file": "debates2023-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "0d8ee7084711a6ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-20c.1112.1", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Sir David Amess Summer Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Marion Fellows", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Yay!”", "preceding_speaker": "Marion Fellows", "preceding_text": "ng many of them during the recess. To add a wee note, I had scarcely sat down after business questions when I received an email from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities—the Leader of the House’s pointy sword has truly a fabulous reach, as I have been trying to get something done on redundancy modification orders since 2016 and I have got the offer of a meeting with a Minister!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-20c.1112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-20", "file": "debates2023-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "0d8ee7084711a6ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-20c.1112.1", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Sir David Amess Summer Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Marion Fellows", "cue_text": "[Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Marion Fellows", "preceding_text": "isations who have helped me raise issues on behalf of constituents and others. Bless them for everything they do. I also want to thank all the House staff. I am especially grateful to them: they look after me and go way above their job roles. So many times in the last few years I have been so grateful to them for everything they do. I also want to thank my own team. They have a lot to put up with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-20c.1112.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-20", "file": "debates2023-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "0d8ee7084711a6ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-20c.1114.1", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Sir David Amess Summer Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Jessica Morden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jessica Morden", "preceding_text": "every recognition. This debate is also a chance to reflect on the Government’s record this term. I will just say a few things—there is certainly a lot of material to go on. This is the Government of economic mismanagement, a Government of low growth and high taxes who have failed our industries and our constituents. From the Tory mortgage bombshell that is hitting so many of our constituents hard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-20c.1114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-20", "file": "debates2023-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "0d8ee7084711a6ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-20c.1119.1", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Sir David Amess Summer Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Jo Churchill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jo Churchill", "preceding_text": "r Moray, whom I congratulate on his refereeing skills. He gave a shout-out to Steve Clarke and wished his team well. I noted his comments about Viaplay. I am sure that the Under-Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, our right hon. Friend the Member for Pudsey (Stuart Andrew) , is keen to engage with him. Of course, that will be easier if the SNP Government give him the money for the A9.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-20c.1119.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-07-20", "file": "debates2023-07-20c.xml", "sha256": "0d8ee7084711a6ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-20c.1121.2", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Sir David Amess Summer Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Ian Mearns", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Mearns", "preceding_text": "I think I am subject to another Government cut here, Mr Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-07-20c.1121.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-04", "file": "debates2023-09-04c.xml", "sha256": "f67da10f0b527542", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-04c.9.7", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Work and Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Green", "preceding_text": "The Minister will know that one challenge with PIP is how to accurately assess fluctuating conditions. More than half a million people in the UK are living with Crohn’s disease or colitis, but fewer than 3% are in receipt of PIP. Past applicants have said that while fatigue is the most disabling symptom, they feel that that is the least represented symptom in their assessments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-04c.9.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-04", "file": "debates2023-09-04c.xml", "sha256": "f67da10f0b527542", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-04c.20.7", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Work and Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Tom Pursglove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Pursglove", "preceding_text": "e in question before commenting on it, so perhaps the hon. Member could kindly share those details with me. One of the things we are focused on is getting to a place where people with conditions or disabilities that are unlikely to improve or are only likely to deteriorate are not having to go through repeat assessments. That is the objective we are working towards through the White Paper reforms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-04c.20.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-04", "file": "debates2023-09-04c.xml", "sha256": "f67da10f0b527542", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-04c.47.4", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Countess of Chester Hospital Inquiry", "cue_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "preceding_text": "not want to create an environment where people are unwilling to go to those more difficult trusts because they fear the risk that they carry. It is important that we get the right support for managers, particularly around some of the more difficult trusts to manage, alongside having the accountability. Getting that detail right requires us to work closely with NHS England and the wider NHS family.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-04c.47.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-04", "file": "debates2023-09-04c.xml", "sha256": "f67da10f0b527542", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-04c.58.2", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete in Education Settings", "cue_speaker": "Gillian Keegan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gillian Keegan", "preceding_text": "It is simply not correct to say that the size of the school rebuilding programme has been cut in recent years; it is currently at the same scale as was announced in 2020, which is roughly in line with the scale of rebuilding projects being delivered per year since the start of the previous programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-04c.58.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-05", "file": "debates2023-09-05c.xml", "sha256": "fb933ba72d1bbe37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-05c.276.6", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Energy Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Bowie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Bowie", "preceding_text": "y, and we remain committed to the targets we have set out. On the community energy fund, there is already an equivalent Scottish community energy fund up and running and delivering for communities across Scotland. That is a competency of the Scottish Government at Holyrood. I would be delighted to direct any questions that he or his constituent have on that to the Scottish Government in Edinburgh.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-05c.276.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-06", "file": "debates2023-09-06c.xml", "sha256": "190e3e0470511bef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-06c.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "d, it is something that successive Governments have dealt with, dating back to 1994. As new advice has come forward, the Government have rightly, decisively and swiftly acted in the face of that advice. The right hon. and learned Gentleman talked about school budgets and what I had done, but let me just walk him through the facts of what that spending review actually did, because he brought it up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-06c.418.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-06", "file": "debates2023-09-06c.xml", "sha256": "190e3e0470511bef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-06c.419.2", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "y builders: saying that everyone else is wrong and everyone else is to blame, and protesting that they have done an effing good job even as the ceiling falls in. The difference is that in this case, the cowboys are running the country. Is the Prime Minister not ashamed that, after 13 years of Tory Government, children are cowering under steel supports stopping their classroom roof from falling in?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-06c.419.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-06", "file": "debates2023-09-06c.xml", "sha256": "190e3e0470511bef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-06c.419.4", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "This is exactly the kind of political opportunism that we have come to expect from Captain Hindsight here. Before today, he has never once raised this issue with me across the Dispatch Box. It was not even worthy of a single—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-06c.419.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-06", "file": "debates2023-09-06c.xml", "sha256": "190e3e0470511bef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-06c.419.7", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister claims to be a man of detail, but there have been 100 parliamentary questions from the Opposition on this issue, and an Opposition day motion. Let us continue: Holy Family Catholic School in Bradford was on the Labour building list in 2010. The Government scrapped that, and now children there too are in a crumbling school—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-06c.419.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-06", "file": "debates2023-09-06c.xml", "sha256": "190e3e0470511bef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-06c.420.2", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More!”", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "s? Down. What has happened to inflation? Down. What has happened to small boat crossings? Down. And what has happened to economic growth? It has gone up. The right hon. and learned Gentleman tried time and again to talk down the British economy, but thankfully, people were not listening. His entire economic narrative has been demolished, and the Conservatives are getting on delivering for Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-06c.420.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-06", "file": "debates2023-09-06c.xml", "sha256": "190e3e0470511bef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-06c.428.2", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Chris Law", "cue_text": "“Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Law", "preceding_text": "84 million on supporting hard-working families against the brutal bedroom tax and over £6.2 million on covering the two-child benefit cap. Astonishingly, we have learned over the summer that the Leader of the Opposition is an enthusiastic supporter of these Tory cruel welfare policies, with U-turn after U-turn from the Labour party. Given that the Tories and Labour are two cheeks of the same arse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-06c.428.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-06", "file": "debates2023-09-06c.xml", "sha256": "190e3e0470511bef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-06c.436.2", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Heaton-Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Heaton-Harris", "preceding_text": "Very few have shown support for this legislation, but I have met many, as has my Lords Minister, Lord Caine. In fact, part of the process of changing the Bill has come from those conversations. I understand that lots of families do not want this Bill, but the question then is: if not this Bill, then what?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-06c.436.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-06", "file": "debates2023-09-06c.xml", "sha256": "190e3e0470511bef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-06c.454.2", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Safety of School Buildings", "cue_speaker": "Bridget Phillipson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bridget Phillipson", "preceding_text": "s but for years on end. That was our record in government. A Labour Secretary of State, faced today with a sudden crisis such as this, would have got those lists of the affected schools out quickly, would have been straight back to London, would have been communicating every day to parents and above all to children, would be taking steps not just to mitigate the immediate challenges around safety—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-06c.454.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-06", "file": "debates2023-09-06c.xml", "sha256": "190e3e0470511bef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-06c.460.5", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Safety of School Buildings", "cue_speaker": "Gillian Keegan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gillian Keegan", "preceding_text": "en in our schools, deserve nothing less. As I set out in the House on Monday, the Government will not shy away from that responsibility, no matter how much the Labour party descends into the political gutter. I understand that parents, schools and this House are concerned about the issue of RAAC; we are acting responsibly and moving decisively to address it, and minimising disruption to education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-06c.460.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-06", "file": "debates2023-09-06c.xml", "sha256": "190e3e0470511bef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-06c.474.1", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Safety of School Buildings", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "No, but the point is that this debate arises because the Secretary of State made a brave and courageous decision to act on the advice she was given. The Opposition has nothing whatever to say about that. She did the right thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-06c.474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-06", "file": "debates2023-09-06c.xml", "sha256": "190e3e0470511bef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-06c.499.1", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Safety of School Buildings", "cue_speaker": "Catherine McKinnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Catherine McKinnell", "preceding_text": " themselves in the absence of any support from the Government. Other schools are emerging that are not on the list but have been identified as having RAAC. There is concern, and it explains why the Secretary of State has been so reluctant to release the list. There seems to be a lot of chaos in Government, not only in the lead-up to this situation but in handling it at this stage. I have no doubt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-06c.499.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-07", "file": "debates2023-09-07d.xml", "sha256": "6bb69845a9e53f11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-07d.521.4", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Cabinet Office", "cue_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "preceding_text": "I can assure the hon. Gentleman that they have. I can see he is new to the brief and he has some reading to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-07d.521.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-07", "file": "debates2023-09-07d.xml", "sha256": "6bb69845a9e53f11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-07d.541.0", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "preceding_text": "ave been very busy indeed, and I thank all Members of this House for their attention to that. I also reject her characterisation of this Government. She focuses on correcting the record, and I take what she says seriously and genuinely. All credit to her, she admits when she has got things wrong. She admitted that she was wrong to support the right hon. Member for Islington North (Jeremy Corbyn) .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-07d.541.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2023-09-07", "file": "debates2023-09-07d.xml", "sha256": "6bb69845a9e53f11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-07d.544.1", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members:", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Marco Longhi", "preceding_text": "home to tens of thousands of individual personal memories. Soon after its sale, the Crooked House was subject to an arson attack, followed by unlawful demolition, notwithstanding the local council’s instruction that that should not be done. This is an ongoing trend across the country. May we please have a debate in Government time to see what this place can do to better protect such heritage pubs?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-07d.544.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-07", "file": "debates2023-09-07d.xml", "sha256": "6bb69845a9e53f11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-07d.621.1", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Hormone Pregnancy Tests", "cue_speaker": "Yasmin Qureshi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yasmin Qureshi", "preceding_text": "tions she will take based on what the Cumberlege review said. [Interruption.] The Minister is muttering, but in the past it has sometimes taken us months and months to get a meeting with Ministers. I am glad that she has reassured us, and I hope that we will get a meeting in the next couple of weeks and that her and her officials will present a concrete plan for how to get redress for the victims.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-07d.621.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-11", "file": "debates2023-09-11c.xml", "sha256": "9ae4efd3b9b5715c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-11c.671.0", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Security Update", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Dowden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Dowden", "preceding_text": "Proper scrutiny is provided by the Intelligence and Security Committee. I certainly take the reports produced by the ISC very seriously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-11c.671.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-11", "file": "debates2023-09-11c.xml", "sha256": "9ae4efd3b9b5715c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-11c.688.2", "colnum": "688", "heading": "G20 Summit", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "Surely one of the things that should keep the Prime Minister awake at night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-11c.688.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-11", "file": "debates2023-09-11c.xml", "sha256": "9ae4efd3b9b5715c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-11c.699.3", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Ukraine", "cue_speaker": "James Heappey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Heappey", "preceding_text": "stan or Iraq will remember as a tactic for improvised explosive devices there. It is quite something that that has been the tactic for clearing a minefield, but it has preserved combat power and therefore has been necessary. The other part is that there will obviously need to be a demining effort for the country at large after the war, and that is a concern for all of Ukraine’s donors and friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-11c.699.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-12", "file": "debates2023-09-12c.xml", "sha256": "a79c83b550f4c01b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-12c.753.1", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Justice", "cue_speaker": "Mike Freer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Freer", "preceding_text": "Our courts are not in chaos.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-12c.753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-12", "file": "debates2023-09-12c.xml", "sha256": "a79c83b550f4c01b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-12c.770.0", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Offshore Wind Contracts", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "und. He was a member of the previous Labour Government who left this country with 6.7% of its electricity coming from renewables. In the first quarter of this year, 48% of our electricity was from renewables. It was this Government, with our contracts for difference system, who transformed the economics of offshore wind. We have 77 GW of offshore wind in the pipeline—more than enough. We have 7.5—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-12c.770.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-12", "file": "debates2023-09-12c.xml", "sha256": "a79c83b550f4c01b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-12c.771.2", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Offshore Wind Contracts", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman and his party never fail to trash this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-12c.771.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-12", "file": "debates2023-09-12c.xml", "sha256": "a79c83b550f4c01b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-12c.771.2", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Offshore Wind Contracts", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman and his party never fail to trash this country—[Interruption.] He can heckle all he wishes. I will be meeting industry representatives this afternoon and, as I have said, we will be announcing in two months’ time the price ceiling for the next round—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-12c.771.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-12", "file": "debates2023-09-12c.xml", "sha256": "a79c83b550f4c01b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-12c.772.3", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Offshore Wind Contracts", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "ticular technologies. We do that based on our analysis of supply chain costs, and we also commission external analysis. The most important data of all comes from individual auction rounds, and it is on that basis that we set the price parameters. The industry warned us, as it does every year, that it wants us to pay more. We always have to make a judgment call between making sure that we minimise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-12c.772.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-12", "file": "debates2023-09-12c.xml", "sha256": "a79c83b550f4c01b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-12c.776.2", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Offshore Wind Contracts", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Lady for pulling back the veil on Labour’s real policy, which is that it hates private capital, it hates private investment and it would destroy the phenomenal success of this country in generating that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-12c.776.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-12", "file": "debates2023-09-12c.xml", "sha256": "a79c83b550f4c01b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-12c.777.0", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Offshore Wind Contracts", "cue_speaker": "Hywel Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hywel Williams", "preceding_text": "I saw in the newspapers yesterday that astronomers have discovered a water-covered planet in a far away galaxy. I have to disappoint these excited scientists that, from his answers today, the Minister appears to have got there before them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-12c.777.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-13", "file": "debates2023-09-13b.xml", "sha256": "6a90415f4e92585d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-13b.899.9", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "I start by paying tribute to the Clerk of the House, Sir John Benger, and thank him for his many years of distinguished service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-13b.899.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-13", "file": "debates2023-09-13b.xml", "sha256": "6a90415f4e92585d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-13b.901.0", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "past six years and, because we are boosting prison pay, we are also improving retention. At the same time, we are investing £100 million to improve prison security with new measures such as X-ray body scanners. If he wanted to have a truly honest debate about this, perhaps he would acknowledge that prison escapes were almost 10 times higher under the Labour Government than under the Conservatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-13b.901.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-13", "file": "debates2023-09-13b.xml", "sha256": "6a90415f4e92585d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-13b.919.2", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Combined Sewer Overflows", "cue_speaker": "Therese Coffey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Therese Coffey", "preceding_text": "I look forward to the election in Huddersfield—the hon. Gentleman should look at some of his own speeches. I do not know on what basis he has made that assertion, quoting the chief executive of Yorkshire Water, but that is not the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-13b.919.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-13", "file": "debates2023-09-13b.xml", "sha256": "6a90415f4e92585d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-13b.921.3", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Combined Sewer Overflows", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "That stands on the record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-13b.921.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-13", "file": "debates2023-09-13b.xml", "sha256": "6a90415f4e92585d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-13b.947.3", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Hollinrake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Hollinrake", "preceding_text": "North West Hampshire (Kit Malthouse) have made that point today counterbalances some of the arguments on the other side for extending the threshold further. The hon. Member for Glasgow Central (Alison Thewliss) spoke about my previous comments. I think I have been pretty consistent in everything I have said in the House, unless she can point to anything different I have said from the Back Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-13b.947.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-14", "file": "debates2023-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "09ee2630ebe58188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-14a.988.4", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Business and Trade", "cue_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "preceding_text": "we are building resilience and ensuring that our supply chains are stable. I am also working with a number of industry representatives to put in place an import supply chain strategy as well. We know that there are kinks in supply chains and that there are issues of economic coercion around the world. We want to ensure that we have stable supply chains to protect our advanced manufacturing sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-14a.988.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-14", "file": "debates2023-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "09ee2630ebe58188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-14a.1000.2", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Business and Trade", "cue_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "preceding_text": "I thank the Secretary of State very much for the encouraging positivity of her answers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-14a.1000.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-14", "file": "debates2023-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "09ee2630ebe58188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-14a.1010.0", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Voter Identification Scheme", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Maclean", "preceding_text": " into government? What exactly has the Labour party done to raise confidence among Labour voters? Or is this just a case of Labour Members standing on the sidelines making shrill, scaremongering claims? Time and again, Labour has made such claims ahead of the sensible and proportionate pilot schemes that we have rolled out, but none of the things that Labour Members have warned about has happened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-14a.1010.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-14", "file": "debates2023-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "09ee2630ebe58188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-14a.1010.0", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Voter Identification Scheme", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Maclean", "preceding_text": "dow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, the right hon. Member for Ashton-under-Lyne (Angela Rayner) , warned of shortages of electoral staff, lack of venues and funding uncertainty ahead of the local elections in May 2021. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, warned that elderly people and ethnic minorities would not visit polling stations. None of those things has happened. The Electoral Commission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-14a.1010.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-14", "file": "debates2023-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "09ee2630ebe58188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-14a.1015.0", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Voter Identification Scheme", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Maclean", "preceding_text": "ardly surprising from the nationalists across there. She thinks this is voter suppression; her party is so keen to break up the United Kingdom and rejoin the European Union, but this is standard practice across the European Union in all manner of elections. The fact that the hon. Lady cannot take seriously the threats to our democracy shows the lack of seriousness that the Scottish National party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-14a.1015.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-14", "file": "debates2023-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "09ee2630ebe58188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-14a.1037.1", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Football and Dementia", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": " me last week, this came too late for Frank, but we can help others. Up until the sad passing of Frank, the couple had been a team for a long time, having become childhood friends in Falkirk in 1958 aged eight and 10. She told me that their first kiss as sweethearts came over a game of postman’s knock —a game only too familiar to those of us of a certain age, if I may say so, Madam Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-14a.1037.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-14", "file": "debates2023-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "09ee2630ebe58188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-14a.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Football and Dementia", "cue_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "preceding_text": "ching the game, it was much more physical. There were substitutions, but I think only one was allowed. The game has evolved and changed and it is right that it has. There will inevitably be a shift in the way football is played, but such evolution is inherent to the sport. I hope SNP Members do not mind me mentioning the recent England-Scotland match on Tuesday night; I do not mean to be divisive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-14a.1043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-18", "file": "debates2023-09-18b.xml", "sha256": "720c91cebd33c5d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-18b.1108.0", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "High Speed 2", "cue_speaker": "Richard Holden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Holden", "preceding_text": "ouise Haigh) goes around the country, promising hundreds of billions of pounds of unfunded spending on rail alone. We cannot trust a word they say on transport spending, immigration or housing. All have unravelled over the last week, as the Labour party says one thing and does another: on immigration, an open door for Europe’s illegal immigration; on housing, backing the blockers not the builders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-18b.1108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-18", "file": "debates2023-09-18b.xml", "sha256": "720c91cebd33c5d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-18b.1108.2", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "High Speed 2", "cue_speaker": "Richard Holden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Holden", "preceding_text": "he Preston western distributor road. Some £500 million has been invested to protect bus services across the country, while we have delivered on our commitment for 4,000 zero-emission buses. Last week, I announced new funding for HGV truck stops; meanwhile, Labour has expanded ULEZ in London and banned road building in Wales, as well as putting a 20-mile-an-hour speed limit right across that place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-18b.1108.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-18", "file": "debates2023-09-18b.xml", "sha256": "720c91cebd33c5d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-18b.1125.3", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Tata Steel: Port Talbot", "cue_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "preceding_text": " who worked with me incredibly well as chair of the all-party parliamentary group for steel and metal related industries, answers his own question when he speaks about hydrogen. He knows very well the age of the blast furnaces in his constituency and the fact that we needed a transition that enabled certainty to continue. There is no option other than electric to scale up within the time required.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-18b.1125.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-18", "file": "debates2023-09-18b.xml", "sha256": "720c91cebd33c5d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-18b.1136.3", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Post Office Compensation", "cue_speaker": "Kirsty Blackman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kirsty Blackman", "preceding_text": "I echo the words of the hon. Member for Croydon Central (Sarah Jones) and the Minister about the campaigners who have fought so hard for justice. I thank the Minister for advance sight of the statement and for his conversations with my hon. Friend the Member for Motherwell and Wishaw (Marion Fellows) in advance of his announcement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-18b.1136.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-19", "file": "debates2023-09-19c.xml", "sha256": "5b630b71635196e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-19c.1215.3", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Energy Security and Net Zero", "cue_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "preceding_text": "I am afraid the Secretary of State is quite wrong about that, because Ireland adjusted the price and had 3 GW of offshore wind. Let us talk about the way that this Government are jeopardising our energy security. They have delivered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-19c.1215.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-19", "file": "debates2023-09-19c.xml", "sha256": "5b630b71635196e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-19c.1237.2", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "School Building Closures", "cue_speaker": "Gillian Keegan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gillian Keegan", "preceding_text": " said, there are 180 single classrooms, 68 double classrooms, plus a mixture of toilet provision. On the portacabins, I would just like to say that I have been to a number of these schools and met the children. At the first school I visited, the children were all petitioning me to stay in the portacabins, because they actually preferred them to the classroom. The portacabins are very high quality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-19c.1237.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-19", "file": "debates2023-09-19c.xml", "sha256": "5b630b71635196e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-19c.1255.0", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Resettlement of Afghans", "cue_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "preceding_text": "t is not something to smile about. This is not the opportunity for a giggle on the Front Bench; this is an opportunity for us to be taken seriously as a nation, because we promised people who arrived in the United Kingdom, people fleeing the Taliban in Afghanistan and those still in Pakistan that we would provide safety. He has done some of that with his eviction policy, but more needs to be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-19c.1255.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-19", "file": "debates2023-09-19c.xml", "sha256": "5b630b71635196e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-19c.1278.1", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Birmingham City Council", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "I do not know how it is possible to sustain an argument that we are taking funding from deprived areas when one looks at the levelling-up partnerships we have in Hull, Sandwell, Blackpool, Blyth, Worksop—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-19c.1278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-19", "file": "debates2023-09-19c.xml", "sha256": "5b630b71635196e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-19c.1293.0", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Conference Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "I am sure I speak on behalf of the whole House in passing our condolences on to you, Siobhain, and your family. Your dedication in caring for Margaret was unsurpassed—we all know that—and your bravery and energy in the campaigning you have done since, at a time of such grief, is truly inspiring. We are all thinking of you, and thank you for making such a brave speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-19c.1293.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-19", "file": "debates2023-09-19c.xml", "sha256": "5b630b71635196e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-19c.1306.0", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "Conference Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Aaron Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Aaron Bell", "preceding_text": "e centuries. Our location on the north-south route made us an important stopping place for horse-drawn coaches going from London to Chester and Liverpool. We were also a centre for clockmaking, mining, early porcelain and agriculture. By the 1800s—I am skipping forward a bit because the House probably does not want to hear about every century in great detail—we were a bustling and prosperous town.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-19c.1306.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-09-19", "file": "debates2023-09-19c.xml", "sha256": "5b630b71635196e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-19c.1324.1", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Conference Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Marcus Jones", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Get on with it!”", "preceding_speaker": "Marcus Jones", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to be responding today on behalf of the Government. As you will know, Madam Deputy Speaker, it is not usually the convention for Whips to speak at this Dispatch Box. As you also know, I spend a lot of time as Deputy Chief Whip running in and out of this Chamber telling Ministers to be more pithy, to sit down and to get the votes out of the way and done, so I will endeavour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-09-19c.1324.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-10-16", "file": "debates2023-10-16b.xml", "sha256": "520ea80c10c777b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-10-16b.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Prison Capacity", "cue_speaker": "Shabana Mahmood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shabana Mahmood", "preceding_text": "court and be found guilty by a jury but instead of being locked up behind bars, where they belong, the inaction of this chaotic Conservative Government means that they can walk free. Can the Secretary of State tell the House today that not one individual convicted of a serious sexual offence is out on the streets as a result of a lack of prison places? As the Secretary of State said, to govern is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-10-16b.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-10-16", "file": "debates2023-10-16b.xml", "sha256": "520ea80c10c777b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-10-16b.63.2", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Prison Capacity", "cue_speaker": "Alex Chalk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Chalk", "preceding_text": "erson, who had been imprisoned for attacking a 17-year-old girl twice and abducting her, and who had sex with a 15-year-old, then lied about it and “vandalised” her life, according to her mother, was called “devious, callous and manipulative” by the judge. The hon. Lady signed a letter asking that he should not be deported. We will take no lessons from the Labour party in being tough on criminals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-10-16b.63.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-10-23", "file": "debates2023-10-23d.xml", "sha256": "864a7b9d61f33f1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-10-23d.587.3", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Education", "cue_speaker": "Gillian Keegan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gillian Keegan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady talks about responsibility and accountability. When Labour were warned about RAAC—reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete—in 1997, 1999, 2002 and 2007, they did nothing. When Labour spent money on school rebuilding, they ignored school conditions altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-10-23d.587.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-10-23", "file": "debates2023-10-23d.xml", "sha256": "864a7b9d61f33f1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-10-23d.635.3", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Renters (Reform) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "I am very fond of my hon. Friend, but that is just not true. We have seen an increase in the number of homes in the private rented sector recently, not a reduction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-10-23d.635.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-10-24", "file": "debates2023-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "4eec2a72409f60d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-10-24b.739.0", "colnum": "739", "heading": "War in Ukraine", "cue_speaker": "James Heappey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Heappey", "preceding_text": "With the exception of the northern Kharkiv oblast, which was recovered at some pace last autumn, I am not sure that the frontline has moved anywhere near enough to start to talk about a civilian de-mining effort in the defensive belts that have been laid over the last year or so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-10-24b.739.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-10-24", "file": "debates2023-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "4eec2a72409f60d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-10-24b.753.2", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Illegal Migration", "cue_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "preceding_text": "First the hon. Lady wanted us to clear the backlog; now she does not want us to do that because of the consequences of clearing it. Perhaps it would be better if she just supported us in trying to stop illegal migrants coming to the country in the first place. On her specific points, it is not correct that the Home Office gives seven days’ notice; it gives 28.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-10-24b.753.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-07", "file": "debates2023-11-07d.xml", "sha256": "5160fb6539bfae75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-07d.22.3", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "le do not feel safe in their communities. The facts are clear: it is this Government that is on the side of law and order. This King’s Speech introduces legislation to better support victims, as well as new measures to combat the scourge of antisocial behaviour, all building on a proud record of tackling crime—20,000 more police officers on the streets, more police on the streets than ever before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-07d.22.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-09", "file": "debates2023-11-09b.xml", "sha256": "991926f4ea7ac3e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-09b.346.0", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Making Britain a Clean Energy Superpower", "cue_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "preceding_text": "who has huge experience and secures respect on both sides of the House. It was interesting that she reflected on the political sketch by the right hon. Member for Doncaster North (Edward Miliband) , who politicised the energy debate just as he politicised the NHS back when he was running for leader. We were hoping for a grown-up conversation, but unfortunately he turned it into a political sketch—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-09b.346.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-13", "file": "debates2023-11-13c.xml", "sha256": "e5476f21ad91a211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-13c.384.1", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Building an NHS Fit for the Future", "cue_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "preceding_text": "at matter finally. It is long past time that mental health was treated with the same seriousness as physical health. Labour will not only reform the Mental Health Act in our first King’s Speech, but recruit thousands more mental health professionals, provide hubs in every community, and set up mental health support in every school, so that young people can get the help they need when they need it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-13c.384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-13", "file": "debates2023-11-13c.xml", "sha256": "e5476f21ad91a211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-13c.387.3", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Building an NHS Fit for the Future", "cue_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "preceding_text": "ot as a complaint, but as an invitation. It is clear that the Government do not have a plan to cut NHS waiting lists, but we do: £1.1 billion will be paid straight into the pockets of hard-pressed NHS staff to deliver 2 million more appointments a year at evenings and weekends, paid for by abolishing the non-dom tax status, because patients need treatment more than the wealthiest need a tax break—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-13c.387.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-13", "file": "debates2023-11-13c.xml", "sha256": "e5476f21ad91a211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-13c.389.1", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Building an NHS Fit for the Future", "cue_speaker": "Steve Tuckwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Tuckwell", "preceding_text": "r through building on the work this Government have already done to protect businesses against the pressures of the cost of living. This includes a tax cut for 38,000 British pubs earlier this year through the Brexit pubs guarantee, and to ensure that our fantastic local pubs—like my local, the Middlesex Arms in South Ruislip—remain at the centre of the communities they have helped for many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-13c.389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-13", "file": "debates2023-11-13c.xml", "sha256": "e5476f21ad91a211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-13c.471.0", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Building an NHS Fit for the Future", "cue_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "preceding_text": " the benefits of work go beyond a payslip to the dignity and self-respect that good work bring. We will tear down the barriers to success, tackle the root causes of worklessness and get Britain working again. Our long-term plan for the NHS will invest an extra £1.1 billion a year, paid for by abolishing the non-dom tax status to provide 2 million more appointments a year and clear the NHS backlog—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-13c.471.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-14", "file": "debates2023-11-14c.xml", "sha256": "8984163017504281", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-14c.491.6", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Treasury", "cue_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for his question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-14c.491.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-14", "file": "debates2023-11-14c.xml", "sha256": "8984163017504281", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-14c.499.8", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Treasury", "cue_speaker": "Alan Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Brown", "preceding_text": "Can I ask the Minister why he said he wants particularly to support investment and growth in Sussex?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-14c.499.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-14", "file": "debates2023-11-14c.xml", "sha256": "8984163017504281", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-14c.506.6", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Treasury", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "s throughout Scotland to deal with cost of living pressures. If he really thinks that people in Scotland believe that this was a “made in Westminster” problem, when we have experienced an invasion of Ukraine and a global pandemic, I simply say to him in return that after 16 years of SNP rule, GDP per head in Scotland is lower, productivity is falling, employment is lower, and inactivity is higher—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-14c.506.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-14", "file": "debates2023-11-14c.xml", "sha256": "8984163017504281", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-14c.508.1", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": "I thank the Minister for advance sight of his statement. I would have liked to have started by welcoming the new Foreign Secretary to his place, but I cannot do so because he is not here. Despite my respect for the Minister, he is not the Foreign Secretary. We do not know when or how this House will hear from the Foreign Secretary because he is not a Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-14c.508.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-14", "file": "debates2023-11-14c.xml", "sha256": "8984163017504281", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-14c.510.1", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "That wasn’t much reassurance, was it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-14c.510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-14", "file": "debates2023-11-14c.xml", "sha256": "8984163017504281", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-14c.523.6", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Mitchell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member will know that the President of Israel, President Herzog, has made it clear that his country will abide by international humanitarian law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-14c.523.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-14", "file": "debates2023-11-14c.xml", "sha256": "8984163017504281", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-14c.525.5", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories", "cue_speaker": "Roger Gale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Gale", "preceding_text": "I apologise—I am new here and do not yet know everybody.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-14c.525.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-14", "file": "debates2023-11-14c.xml", "sha256": "8984163017504281", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-14c.540.1", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Economic Growth", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "er about the potential of SMR. That is why we set up a competition, and with the previous Energy Secretary I stipulated that it should finish by the end of this calendar year so that we can proceed as quickly as possible on SMR, because it could be an important part of our net zero future. The shadow Chancellor’s central argument is that we can get growth only by borrowing £28 billion a year more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-14c.540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-14", "file": "debates2023-11-14c.xml", "sha256": "8984163017504281", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-14c.545.1", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Economic Growth", "cue_speaker": "Drew Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Drew Hendry", "preceding_text": "Tory Members keep peddling this line, but what they know, and what everybody else knows, is that they started from a lower base because they tanked the economy in the first place. They have to live up to that responsibility. They claim higher growth from a lower point of entry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-14c.545.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-14", "file": "debates2023-11-14c.xml", "sha256": "8984163017504281", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-14c.549.1", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Economic Growth", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Strathern", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Strathern", "preceding_text": "se creativity yesterday in filling one of those spots. It has given me an unexpected opportunity to repay that bipartisanship, and to extend a warm welcome back to the former Prime Minister as he returns to frontline politics. As a fellow Aston Villa fan, though, I really hope that his time as Foreign Secretary will not deprive him of an opportunity to enjoy our beloved team at the London stadium.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-14c.549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-14", "file": "debates2023-11-14c.xml", "sha256": "8984163017504281", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-14c.549.1", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Economic Growth", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Strathern", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Strathern", "preceding_text": " beautiful 48 towns and villages of Mid Bedfordshire. Taking full advantage of the convention that maiden speeches are made without interruption, I fully intend to make use of this opportunity to talk at great length, in great detail, about each and every one of those 48 towns and villages and what makes them special. I know that Members will welcome that: I can feel the enthusiasm in the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-14c.549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-14", "file": "debates2023-11-14c.xml", "sha256": "8984163017504281", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-14c.562.0", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Economic Growth", "cue_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "preceding_text": "we have a society in which the bank of mum and dad determines outcomes, not talent. In the last decade alone, housing and stocks and shares have earned far more than any hard work or effort that our constituents could undertake, because of sluggish productivity and the Government’s failure to invest in our communities. Our kids cannot get apprenticeships; they are struggling to stay in university.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-14c.562.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-15", "file": "debates2023-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "2acc5b0ece89c855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-15b.629.1", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Speaker’s Statement", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "I can now announce the arrangements for the election of the Chair of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee. I declared the Chair vacant yesterday. Nominations will close at noon on Tuesday 28 November . Nomination forms will be available from the Vote Office, Table Office and Public Bill Office. Only Members from the Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-15b.629.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-15", "file": "debates2023-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "2acc5b0ece89c855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-15b.629.1", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Speaker’s Statement", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "ements for the election of the Chair of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee. I declared the Chair vacant yesterday. Nominations will close at noon on Tuesday 28 November . Nomination forms will be available from the Vote Office, Table Office and Public Bill Office. Only Members from the Conservative party—[Interruption.] Are Members going to listen? Some people might want to put their names in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-15b.629.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-15", "file": "debates2023-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "2acc5b0ece89c855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-15b.639.3", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "ill go through the normal process with the independent adviser. The Government’s position on China is clear: China represents an epoch-defining challenge. That is why we have taken strong and robust steps to protect ourselves against the risk that it poses. We will take no lessons from the Labour party on protecting our national security. It has taken almost £700,000 from an alleged Chinese agent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-15b.639.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-15", "file": "debates2023-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "2acc5b0ece89c855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-15b.640.3", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "ent times to say that Hamas are a terrorist organisation this week, which is shameful, but he was a Labour MP—indeed, the right hon. and learned Gentleman served with him. He told the country that the right hon. Member for Islington North would make “a great Prime Minister”. At that point, the right hon. Member for Islington North described Hamas as friends. Does he want to apologise for that now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-15b.640.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-15", "file": "debates2023-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "2acc5b0ece89c855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-15b.649.1", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Illegal Immigration", "cue_speaker": "James Cleverly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Cleverly", "preceding_text": "day have been responded to, will be consistent with international law and will ensure that Parliament is able to scrutinise it. The Prime Minister has said that, if our domestic legal framework frustrates our plans, he is prepared to change our laws, but we are not going to put forward proposals simply to manufacture an unnecessary row for political gain. We have a plan to deliver the Rwanda deal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-15b.649.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-15", "file": "debates2023-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "2acc5b0ece89c855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-15b.668.5", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Illegal Immigration", "cue_speaker": "James Cleverly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Cleverly", "preceding_text": "I do not agree. I do not agree with those numbers because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-15b.668.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-15", "file": "debates2023-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "2acc5b0ece89c855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-15b.669.6", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Illegal Immigration", "cue_speaker": "James Cleverly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Cleverly", "preceding_text": "So what would the hon. Gentleman do? Would he say that every person in the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-15b.669.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-15", "file": "debates2023-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "2acc5b0ece89c855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-15b.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Violence Reduction, Policing and Criminal Justice", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "It will be obvious to the whole House that a great many Members wish to catch my eye this afternoon, so after the next speech I will have to reduce the time limit to five minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-15b.707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-15", "file": "debates2023-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "2acc5b0ece89c855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-15b.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Violence Reduction, Policing and Criminal Justice", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "It will be obvious to the whole House that a great many Members wish to catch my eye this afternoon, so after the next speech I will have to reduce the time limit to five minutes. [Interruption.] There is no point in people complaining. You come to me and tell me which of these people you want not to speak. We are talking about fairness here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-15b.707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-15", "file": "debates2023-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "2acc5b0ece89c855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-15b.709.1", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Violence Reduction, Policing and Criminal Justice", "cue_speaker": "Michael Shanks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Shanks", "preceding_text": " lost just a few months ago. The seat also holds electoral history for another reason, which I thank the House of Commons Library for double checking: until my by-election result, the only time that Labour took a seat in a Scottish by-election was in 1964, in Rutherglen. Then, the seat was taken from the Tories. This time around, it was the deposit that was taken from the Tories, and not returned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-15b.709.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-15", "file": "debates2023-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "2acc5b0ece89c855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-15b.709.1", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Violence Reduction, Policing and Criminal Justice", "cue_speaker": "Michael Shanks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Shanks", "preceding_text": "ving been elected, I was amazed to discover my former pupils took to TikTok to speak positively about me, which I have to say, working with teenagers, is not necessarily guaranteed. But I would also say on reflection, Mr Speaker, that since I arrived in this place I am discovering that the behaviour I sometimes used to complain about in the classroom might have been more impressive than I thought.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-15b.709.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-15", "file": "debates2023-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "2acc5b0ece89c855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-15b.717.0", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Violence Reduction, Policing and Criminal Justice", "cue_speaker": "Paul Holmes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Holmes", "preceding_text": ", but they have not done so. When the responsibilities are handed out to the new Ministers in the Department, I ask the Minister responsible for policing to look at that again and meet me to discuss how we increase that funding. I fundamentally believe that this is a good King’s Speech, and that the Government have a proud record to defend on tackling crime for our constituents. As I said earlier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-15b.717.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-15", "file": "debates2023-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "2acc5b0ece89c855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-15b.729.0", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Violence Reduction, Policing and Criminal Justice", "cue_speaker": "Zarah Sultana", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Zarah Sultana", "preceding_text": "appalling killing of Israeli civilians. I have condemned that already and do so again today. I repeat the calls for the release of all hostages, but, as the UN Secretary General said, none of those crimes excuses what we have seen since. Unlike those crimes, Israel’s assault on Gaza has been done with the Government’s unequivocal support and complicity, and almost certainly with British-made arms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-15b.729.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-15", "file": "debates2023-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "2acc5b0ece89c855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-15b.749.0", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Violence Reduction, Policing and Criminal Justice", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "Order. Deepest condolences from the House, but this is clearly not a matter for the Chair. We will let the comments that you have made stand. Thank you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-15b.749.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-15", "file": "debates2023-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "2acc5b0ece89c855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-15b.749.0", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Violence Reduction, Policing and Criminal Justice", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "Order. Deepest condolences from the House, but this is clearly not a matter for the Chair. We will let the comments that you have made stand. Thank you—[Interruption.] No, please, resume your seat. This is not a matter for the Chair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-15b.749.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-15", "file": "debates2023-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "2acc5b0ece89c855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-15b.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Violence Reduction, Policing and Criminal Justice", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": "ut the cost of imprisonment and that every prisoner costs £47,000, and about the importance of the Government adopting a Labour position on shorter sentences. I was grateful to hear the Secretary of State moving in a Labour direction and disagreeing on this occasion with his colleague, the right hon. Member for South Holland and The Deepings (Sir John Hayes) who is not in his place at the moment —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-15b.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-15", "file": "debates2023-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "2acc5b0ece89c855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-15b.750.1", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Violence Reduction, Policing and Criminal Justice", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": "I will turn to those issues shortly. Everyone in this House wants the fighting to end. The central debate is about the steps to bring that about, and there is a discussion across this place among Members, all of whom want peace and all of whom want to see the loss of life come to an end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-15b.750.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-15", "file": "debates2023-11-15b.xml", "sha256": "2acc5b0ece89c855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-15b.752.0", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Violence Reduction, Policing and Criminal Justice", "cue_speaker": "Chris Philp", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Oh!”", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Philp", "preceding_text": "e’s condolences to the hon. Member for Oxford West and Abingdon (Layla Moran) for the tragedy that her family have suffered today. It is a huge pleasure to close the final debate on the first King’s Speech. I join others in congratulating the hon. Member for Rutherglen and Hamilton West (Michael Shanks) on his excellent maiden speech. Anyone who takes a seat off the SNP has my fervent good wishes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-15b.752.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-16", "file": "debates2023-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4fd414570c77baf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-16a.773.6", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Culture, Media and Sport", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "He’ll be asking for Radio Caroline next.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-16a.773.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-16", "file": "debates2023-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4fd414570c77baf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-16a.777.0", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Culture, Media and Sport", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Frazer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Frazer", "preceding_text": "May I first welcome the new Secretary of State to her place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-16a.777.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-16", "file": "debates2023-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4fd414570c77baf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-16a.787.0", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Restoration and Renewal Client Board", "cue_speaker": "Charles Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Walker", "preceding_text": "Of course I will meet my hon. Friend and Kath Moore, but before that my hon. Friend and I shall sit down to work up a list of other people for Kath Moore to meet so that she can have a really constructive engagement as Women into Construction’s representative across the House. I would also like to invite her to come to the Administration Committee to talk about the work of her organisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-16a.787.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-16", "file": "debates2023-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4fd414570c77baf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-16a.794.2", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Ian Mearns", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “No!”", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Mearns", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful, Mr Speaker. I have had the privilege of being in that role since June 2015, although I have a funny feeling this will be my last term in it, for a whole range of different reasons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-16a.794.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-16", "file": "debates2023-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4fd414570c77baf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-16a.797.3", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "preceding_text": "and Office and later in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He was vice-chairman of the party under Peter Brooke in 1983, and I am told that the most enjoyable time he spent in Parliament was when he headed the Commons Treasury Select Committee, which included an investigation into the downfall of Barings bank. He achieved a great deal for this country, and we remember him and his service fondly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-16a.797.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-16", "file": "debates2023-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4fd414570c77baf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-16a.824.1", "colnum": "824", "heading": "COP28", "cue_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "preceding_text": "The Minister will also know that the Government had to be taken to court, because it is one thing declaring targets and ambitions, but unless they have the strategy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-16a.824.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-16", "file": "debates2023-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4fd414570c77baf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-16a.824.1", "colnum": "824", "heading": "COP28", "cue_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "preceding_text": " need everybody everywhere to play their part. I do not think we would want to try to suggest that we were insignificant in the big global picture because we represent only 1% of the total population. I will move on specifically to the COP agenda and what we hope to see. Will the UK be calling for the phase-out of unabated fossil fuels, and does the Minister agree with the global stocktake report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-16a.824.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-20", "file": "debates2023-11-20c.xml", "sha256": "0483fec142a5a34b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-20c.7.4", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. I think the Minister must have got the gist by now and be able to answer with something.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-20c.7.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-20", "file": "debates2023-11-20c.xml", "sha256": "0483fec142a5a34b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-20c.70.0", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "d it simply should not be in the Bill. An amendment has been provided, and if it is not accepted tonight, it should be accepted in the other place. It fascinates me, after the Labour party has had a go at the Government for sittings ending early, that there is only one Back-Bench speaker from the Labour party, the hon. Member for Easington (Grahame Morris) , on a Bill running to hundreds of pages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-20c.70.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-20", "file": "debates2023-11-20c.xml", "sha256": "0483fec142a5a34b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-20c.70.0", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacob Rees-Mogg", "preceding_text": "Benches, but it is the job of the Opposition to hold the Government to account. It is not for Government Back Benchers to hold the Government to account; it is for the Opposition to do so. On a Bill of this importance, only one Opposition Back-Bench speaker—a very admirable and a very diligent one, it has to be said—has wanted to come and diligently go through it, which is what we should be doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-20c.70.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-22", "file": "debates2023-11-22d.xml", "sha256": "fc795b1317980310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-22d.312.7", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Robert Goodwill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Goodwill", "preceding_text": "of Northern Ireland are disadvantaged by the lack of a functioning Executive. I would add to that list the deployment of the apprenticeship levy and the reform of the renewable heat incentive. Does the Secretary of State agree with me that civil servants in Northern Ireland face an almost impossible job in trying to steer the ship of state without co-ordinates set by the politicians elected there?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-22d.312.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-22", "file": "debates2023-11-22d.xml", "sha256": "fc795b1317980310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-22d.316.0", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "This is on the Prime Minister’s watch; it is his responsibility. Thirteen years in, and all he has to offer is trying to blame the Opposition for his failures over and over again. Mikey’s mum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-22d.316.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-22", "file": "debates2023-11-22d.xml", "sha256": "fc795b1317980310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-22d.325.2", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "ong term. In today’s autumn statement for growth our choice is not big government, high spending and high tax, because we know that that leads to less growth, not more. Instead, we reduce debt, cut taxes and reward work. We deliver world-class education, we build domestic sustainable energy, and we back British business with 110 growth measures. Do not worry; I am not going to go through them all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-22d.325.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-22", "file": "debates2023-11-22d.xml", "sha256": "fc795b1317980310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-22d.325.2", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Is that it?”", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "hat all school leavers reach minimum standards in maths and English. While the Labour party wants to reduce the number of apprentices, we want to increase it. Following engagement with Make UK and others, I am announcing a further £50 million of funding over the next two years to pilot ways to increase the number of apprentices in engineering and other key growth sectors where there are shortages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-22d.325.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-22", "file": "debates2023-11-22d.xml", "sha256": "fc795b1317980310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-22d.337.1", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "is Conservative Government. The fact is that taxes will be higher at the next election than they were at the last. This is the legacy of the Conservatives, and that is their record. The Chancellor and the Prime Minister have spent the last two weeks marching their MPs up a hill only to march them down again on inheritance tax. Let us not forget that when they realised that they had money to spend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-22d.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-22", "file": "debates2023-11-22d.xml", "sha256": "fc795b1317980310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-22d.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": " UK. Over the last 13 years of this low-growth Conservative Government, the UK languishes in the bottom third of OECD countries when it comes to growth. There are 27 OECD economies that have grown faster than us in the 13 years since 2010: the US, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Slovenia and 22 others. In fact, over the next two years, no fewer than 177 economies are forecast by the IMF to grow faster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-22d.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-22", "file": "debates2023-11-22d.xml", "sha256": "fc795b1317980310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-22d.344.2", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Drew Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Drew Hendry", "preceding_text": "s always told it is too poor until the Government need to raise money from our exports and natural resources? Then, miraculously, riches are found! We asked the Chancellor to invest in net zero. He made some announcements, but when we work down all his green investment plans and what he calls “green energy” we will find most of the money going into nuclear, the white elephant of the energy sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-22d.344.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-22", "file": "debates2023-11-22d.xml", "sha256": "fc795b1317980310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-22d.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "The shadow Chancellor cannot hear these things too many times. She loves copying and pasting our policies, and there is another that she could merrily get copying and pasting. Here is the reason why my hon. Friend is absolutely right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-22d.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-22", "file": "debates2023-11-22d.xml", "sha256": "fc795b1317980310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-22d.363.1", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Rates of tobacco products duty", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "That is a perfectly reasonable point of order and I am grateful to the hon. Lady for raising it. I was listening carefully to the hon. Gentleman’s speech and had begun to think to myself, “That’s strange. The hon. Gentleman is addressing a point that was not in the Chancellor’s statement.” However, I have not stopped him, because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-22d.363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-22", "file": "debates2023-11-22d.xml", "sha256": "fc795b1317980310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-22d.420.1", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Rates of tobacco products duty", "cue_speaker": "Tulip Siddiq", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Tulip Siddiq", "preceding_text": "elling them that their lives will suddenly improve, despite the Government’s continuing to make them worse off. So the question is this: do people feel better off today than they did 13 years ago? I think our constituents know the answer. Before I sum up the powerful contributions to the debate that we have heard from the Labour Benches, it would be remiss of me not to welcome the hon. Member for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-22d.420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-22", "file": "debates2023-11-22d.xml", "sha256": "fc795b1317980310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-22d.422.3", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Rates of tobacco products duty", "cue_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "preceding_text": "Don’t miss him; he’s still here. Make no mistake, Madam Deputy Speaker: this is an autumn statement for growth—one that supports entrepreneurs, cuts business tax, rewards work and brings prosperity to every corner of our wonderful country, and one that the OBR says will permanently increase the size of our economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-22d.422.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-22", "file": "debates2023-11-22d.xml", "sha256": "fc795b1317980310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-22d.422.5", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Rates of tobacco products duty", "cue_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "preceding_text": "n if it is incorrect. She said that the next election would be a fight on the economy, a fight on fiscal responsibility, a fight on making working people better off and a fight on who would be the party to show that it backed British business. This autumn statement firmly shows that this Government and this party are the only choice for the British people and the British economy on these measures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-22d.422.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-23", "file": "debates2023-11-23d.xml", "sha256": "eba3f71c56d563fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-23d.472.0", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Autumn Statement Resolutions - Rates of tobacco products duty", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Hollinrake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Hollinrake", "preceding_text": "ople she mentions. That minimum wage is now double what it was in 2010. We are doing many, many things, including raising the personal tax threshold. Along with her colleagues, including the Front Benchers, she has to reflect on what the Labour Front-Bench team are going to do about the tax thresholds—this is the impact she is talking about. Are they going to increase those thresholds? Please say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-23d.472.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-28", "file": "debates2023-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "f10a855368b8183c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-28b.733.3", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Cleverly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Cleverly", "preceding_text": "It is because we will have to bring it through as an amendment, but I can assure the hon. Lady that we are committed to making this work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-28b.733.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-28", "file": "debates2023-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "f10a855368b8183c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-28b.733.3", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Cleverly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Cleverly", "preceding_text": "It is because we will have to bring it through as an amendment, but I can assure the hon. Lady that we are committed to making this work. [Interruption.] It is a Government amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-28b.733.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-28", "file": "debates2023-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "f10a855368b8183c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-28b.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes an important point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-28b.739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-28", "file": "debates2023-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "f10a855368b8183c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-28b.742.1", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady is absolutely right; we have had discussions about that point previously. I think this might be an opportune moment to pay tribute to those police officers who have lost their lives defending communities, being braver than ever and going after the criminals out there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-28b.742.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-28", "file": "debates2023-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "f10a855368b8183c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-28b.791.6", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Laura Farris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Laura Farris", "preceding_text": "Violent crime is down from where it was in 2010 by 52%, and domestic burglaries are down by 57%. If we compare—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-28b.791.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-28", "file": "debates2023-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "f10a855368b8183c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-28b.791.8", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Laura Farris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Laura Farris", "preceding_text": "Domestic abuse, a sensitive category of crime, has fallen between 2019, before the pandemic, to today by 16%.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-28b.791.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-28", "file": "debates2023-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "f10a855368b8183c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-28b.810.1", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Tattoo Artists, Body Piercers and Cosmetic Clinics: Licensing", "cue_speaker": "Steve Brine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Brine", "preceding_text": " get to this, but in my view education can never be a bad thing. There is nothing wrong with tattooing and piercings. It is not my personal choice—I do not know about the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) —but if people are going to do it, I think they should go with their eyes, or any other part of themselves, wide open; and that is why the hon. Gentleman’s point on education is well made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-28b.810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-29", "file": "debates2023-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "64aa45f1f8cb93f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-29b.823.6", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Scotland", "cue_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "preceding_text": "Last week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-29b.823.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-29", "file": "debates2023-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "64aa45f1f8cb93f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-29b.827.3", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "igration; it has gone up. Following that experience, he turned his hand to bringing taxes down. And, would you believe it, the tax burden is now going to be higher than ever. It is ironic that he has suddenly taken such a keen interest in Greek culture when he has clearly become the man with the reverse Midas touch: everything he touches turns to—perhaps the Home Secretary can help me out—rubbish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-29b.827.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2023-11-29", "file": "debates2023-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "64aa45f1f8cb93f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-29b.828.0", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members:", "cue_text": "More!", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "est in Greek culture when he has clearly become the man with the reverse Midas touch: everything he touches turns to—perhaps the Home Secretary can help me out—rubbish. [Interruption.] We might have to check the tape again, Mr Speaker. Will the Prime Minister do the country a favour and warn us what he is planning next, so that we can prepare ourselves for the disaster that will inevitably follow?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-29b.827.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2023-11-29", "file": "debates2023-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "64aa45f1f8cb93f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-29b.828.2", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members:", "cue_text": "More!", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "At the beginning of the year, we said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-29b.828.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-29", "file": "debates2023-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "64aa45f1f8cb93f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-29b.828.5", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. Can I just say to the shadow Foreign Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-29b.828.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-29", "file": "debates2023-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "64aa45f1f8cb93f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-29b.838.2", "colnum": "838", "heading": "COP28", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "I call Dr Thérèse Coffey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-29b.838.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-29", "file": "debates2023-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "64aa45f1f8cb93f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-29b.846.7", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Amanda Solloway", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Amanda Solloway", "preceding_text": " remarks. My understanding was that I was to give a short response. If there is anything I have not responded to, I am happy to respond in writing. My right hon. Friend the Member for Suffolk Coastal (Dr Coffey) made the important point that there have been previous debates on this issue, and I suggest that if the hon. Lady had turned up to those debates, she would have been able to have a fuller—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-29b.846.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-29", "file": "debates2023-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "64aa45f1f8cb93f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-29b.873.1", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Data Protection and Digital Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Whittingdale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Whittingdale", "preceding_text": "al certainty for controllers. Turning to the Information Commissioner’s Office codes of practice, we have listened to concerns about the perceived impact of the approval powers on the independence of regulators, so we are amending the Bill to remove the veto power on the contents of ICO statutory codes of practice. It was previously proposed that the power should be held by the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-29b.873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-29", "file": "debates2023-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "64aa45f1f8cb93f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-29b.881.5", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Data Protection and Digital Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "established. As the Bill stands, that is little more than wishful thinking. Unfortunately, the story is the same on tackling cookies. We have a bunch of half-baked measures that simply do not deliver as the public will expect them to and the Government would like them to. We all support reducing cookie fatigue; I am sure that every hon. Member happily clicks “Accept all” whenever cookies comes up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-29b.881.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-29", "file": "debates2023-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "64aa45f1f8cb93f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-29b.881.5", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Data Protection and Digital Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "ate individuals. Let me deal with some of the Labour party’s amendments. First, I take subject access requests. The Government have repeatedly been in the wrong place on those, I am afraid, ever since the introduction of the first iteration of the DPDI Bill under Nadine Dorries, when they tried to charge people for access to their own data. Fortunately, that has now gone the way of Nadine Dorries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-29b.881.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-29", "file": "debates2023-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "64aa45f1f8cb93f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-29b.881.5", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Data Protection and Digital Information Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": " the Minister offered a supposed explanation of what “democratic engagement” means, but it was basically literally anything that anybody could do in a political party or as an elected representative. I do not think that he clarified it; if anything, he just extended it. I will refer briefly to amendment 45, tabled by the hon. Member for Aberconwy (Robin Millar) , who was in his place a moment ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-29b.881.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-30", "file": "debates2023-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "8b41f015b29bdf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-30a.1075.2", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Martin Vickers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Vickers", "preceding_text": "Yesterday, the BBC announced that it was reducing the time allocation for the “Newsnight” programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-30a.1075.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-11-30", "file": "debates2023-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "8b41f015b29bdf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-30a.1101.2", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions (Reduction in Rates) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Huddleston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Huddleston", "preceding_text": "k that comment, Madam Deputy Speaker. There were some presumed facts that require challenge, as we saw earlier in the week. At one point, the shadow Chancellor claimed that the forecasts were going to be £40 billion smaller. The shadow spokes- people know full well, because it is stated by the OBR, that economic growth by the end of the forecast period is higher than it was in the spring forecast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-11-30a.1101.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-04", "file": "debates2023-12-04d.xml", "sha256": "834b86f04b80f81d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-04d.28.1", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Gaza: Humanitarian Situation", "cue_speaker": "Rehman Chishti", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rehman Chishti", "preceding_text": " be shaped by it”. I raise that with the Minister with regard to the loss of life that we have seen across the board. We have to do everything we can to preserve human lives. I supported humanitarian pauses to do that at a very early stage, but the time has come for the UK to take a lead at the UN as a member of the Security Council. Lead at the Security Council; call for a ceasefire with regards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-04d.28.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-04", "file": "debates2023-12-04d.xml", "sha256": "834b86f04b80f81d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-04d.96.1", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Victims and Prisoners Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Argar", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “South Shields.”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Argar", "preceding_text": "e current restriction in the Bill whereby the advocate could share personal data only with the consent of the data subject. By removing that, the advocate now has greater freedom and can rely on a wider range of legal bases to process personal data, as outlined in data protection legislation. I want to acknowledge the important issue raised by the Manchester Arena families and the hon. Member for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-04d.96.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-05", "file": "debates2023-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "48067400bc39f1b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-05b.191.2", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Health and Social Care", "cue_speaker": "Helen Whately", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Whately", "preceding_text": "Labour really have not got a leg to stand on when it comes to social care reform. They did not do anything the last time they were in government, and they still do not have a plan for social care. In government, we are reforming social care careers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-05b.191.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-05", "file": "debates2023-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "48067400bc39f1b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-05b.202.2", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Health and Social Care", "cue_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "preceding_text": "make our system simpler, we have announced Pharmacy First, which will make it quicker and easier for millions of people to access healthcare on the high street. To make our system fairer, we have agreed a deal with pharmaceutical companies that will save the NHS £14 billion in medicine costs and give patients access to more life-saving treatment. The NHS is one of the reasons I came into politics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-05b.202.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-05", "file": "debates2023-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "48067400bc39f1b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-05b.226.3", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Town Centre Safety", "cue_speaker": "Alex Norris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Norris", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman wishes to express confidence and ease, but I am afraid he is not doing a very good job of it. There is a better way: where the Government have failed, the Opposition have a plan to wrest back control of our streets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-05b.226.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-05", "file": "debates2023-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "48067400bc39f1b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-05b.227.2", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Town Centre Safety", "cue_speaker": "Alex Norris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Norris", "preceding_text": "but we should not have to. The Government can take the first step to addressing the situation by accepting our motion, but I fear that they may well not be minded to do so. I fear that we will hear the same messages we always hear: an attempt to convince the British public that they have never had it so good on policing—record this or record that—or that in some way our proposals will happen soon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-05b.227.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-05", "file": "debates2023-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "48067400bc39f1b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-05b.244.0", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Town Centre Safety", "cue_speaker": "Jerome Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jerome Mayhew", "preceding_text": "s plan, which is to announce 13,000 extra police and PCSOs to be used in town centres. I mention in passing that the comfortable majority of that number is PCSOs, not police officers. That appears to be dressing up a £360 million investment and ignoring the £3.6 billion investment that the Government have already put into the police, generating 20,000 extra police officers in the past three years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-05b.244.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-05", "file": "debates2023-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "48067400bc39f1b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-05b.254.0", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Town Centre Safety", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Gullis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Gullis", "preceding_text": "alise that those still existed—to download the videotape. Now that the cameras are monitored 24 hours a day from the Stoke-on-Trent control room, people can feel safe, because a Conservative Member of Parliament—the first ever Conservative Member of Parliament in Stoke-on-Trent North, Kidsgrove and Talke—has made sure, along with Conservative councillors, that we are delivering for our local area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-05b.254.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-05", "file": "debates2023-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "48067400bc39f1b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-05b.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Town Centre Safety", "cue_speaker": "Jess Phillips", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jess Phillips", "preceding_text": "icer who sits for 24 hours in a house because there is no emergency response any more. There is no protection for people when they are suffering suicide ideations, so a copper sits with them for hours. By the way, in my area there are 800 fewer police officers than there were in 2010. So much for “the best since records ever began!” If population is taken into account, the situation is even worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-05b.259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-05", "file": "debates2023-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "48067400bc39f1b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-05b.271.0", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Town Centre Safety", "cue_speaker": "Chris Philp", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Philp", "preceding_text": "ome of the more serious crime types individually, here are the falls we have seen since 2010: criminal damage is down by 73%, domestic burglary is down by 47%, theft from the person is down by 44%, vehicle theft is down by 39%, violence is down by 52% and total theft is down by 47%. Those are the facts, those are the figures and they are published by the independent Office for National Statistics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-05b.271.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-05", "file": "debates2023-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "48067400bc39f1b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-05b.287.3", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Water Companies: Executive Bonuses", "cue_speaker": "Rebecca Pow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rebecca Pow", "preceding_text": "t have credible plans to reduce discharges—we cannot just switch off storm overflows overnight, as some suggest—and their mixed bag of proposals would actually add hundreds pounds to customers’ bills. That addresses the point made by the hon. Member for Feltham and Heston (Seema Malhotra) . Labour’s proposals would involve the digging up of enough pipes to go two and a half times around the globe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-05b.287.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-06", "file": "debates2023-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "799df3099b9dc541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-06b.323.3", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Wales", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Jones", "preceding_text": "We are all thinking of the lovely Glenys Kinnock and her family, especially my hon. Friend the Member for Aberavon (Stephen Kinnock) , at this sad time. The number of emergency food parcels distributed by the Trussell—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-06b.323.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-06", "file": "debates2023-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "799df3099b9dc541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-06b.332.5", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "Order. We really must hear the Prime Minister, and we have a lot of questions to get through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-06b.332.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-06", "file": "debates2023-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "799df3099b9dc541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-06b.357.4", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Hillsborough: Bishop James Jones Report", "cue_speaker": "Alex Chalk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Chalk", "preceding_text": "This has, of course, been considered very carefully across Government Departments, and there are countervailing interests, which I am very happy to discuss with the hon. Member. There are issues of concern, and if we look at how the Bill was initially drafted by Andy Burnham, there was a very low bar—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-06b.357.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-06", "file": "debates2023-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "799df3099b9dc541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-06b.389.4", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Sentencing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alex Chalk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Chalk", "preceding_text": "hat my hon. Friend has provided. Having sat down, wrapped a wet towel round my head and looked at the stats, here is the position. Somebody who completes a custodial sentence and comes out is, for that 12 months thereafter, more than 50% likely to commit an offence, but for somebody who completes a suspended sentence order and comes out, the figure is around half that for the 12 months thereafter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-06b.389.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-06", "file": "debates2023-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "799df3099b9dc541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-06b.399.1", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Sentencing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bob Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Neill", "preceding_text": "othing soft about the Lord Chancellor’s experience. Dare I say to some of my right hon. and hon. Friends and other Members that the Lord Chancellor has locked up more dangerous criminals, or had a hand in doing so, than anybody else in the House? He need take no lessons from anybody about being tough on criminals. He has done it every working day of his life and has the greater credibility for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-06b.399.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-06", "file": "debates2023-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "799df3099b9dc541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-06b.438.4", "colnum": "438", "heading": "UK-Rwanda Partnership", "cue_speaker": "Alison Thewliss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alison Thewliss", "preceding_text": "h Rwanda and the UK that our rule of law partnership meets the highest standards of international law, and it places obligations on both the UK and Rwanda to act lawfully. Without lawful behaviour by the UK, Rwanda would not be able to continue with the Migration and Economic Development Partnership.” So if this deal does break international law and our treaty obligations, the deal fails to exist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-06b.438.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-06", "file": "debates2023-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "799df3099b9dc541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-06b.438.4", "colnum": "438", "heading": "UK-Rwanda Partnership", "cue_speaker": "Alison Thewliss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alison Thewliss", "preceding_text": "all those other conventions and disapply them when it suits. International law does not work that way. This is an assault on human rights. We should not let this stand from this House, because human rights are universal and they are for everybody, not who the Home Secretary thinks they should apply to. This Bill is a dangerous distraction; it is part of a march towards fascism. Every single piece—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-06b.438.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-07", "file": "debates2023-12-07b.xml", "sha256": "255d06ecc407cd23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-07b.466.1", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Environment, Food and Rural Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "preceding_text": "Of course we will work with colleagues in the fishing industry to discuss the impacts of the Home Office announcement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-07b.466.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-07", "file": "debates2023-12-07b.xml", "sha256": "255d06ecc407cd23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-07b.471.3", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Environment, Food and Rural Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "preceding_text": "Let us look behind the rhetoric. Given that the Leader of the Opposition keeps telling us that he wants the Labour Government in Wales to be his blueprint, it is probably worth our taking a look at Labour’s record in this respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-07b.471.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-07", "file": "debates2023-12-07b.xml", "sha256": "255d06ecc407cd23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-07b.472.7", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Environment, Food and Rural Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Chancellor has set out a whole range of methods to support consumers with the cost of living—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-07b.472.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-07", "file": "debates2023-12-07b.xml", "sha256": "255d06ecc407cd23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-07b.472.7", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Environment, Food and Rural Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Chancellor has set out a whole range of methods to support consumers with the cost of living—[Interruption.] Just as the hon. Lady raises her hands on that, it is also worth remembering that, under the Barnett consequentials, Scotland receives more per head than those consumers in England. So those in Scotland are better able to meet those cost-of-living pressures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-07b.472.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-07", "file": "debates2023-12-07b.xml", "sha256": "255d06ecc407cd23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-07b.578.1", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Beneficial Ownership Registers: Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies", "cue_speaker": "Richard Thomson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Thomson", "preceding_text": "K and its network of overseas territories and Crown dependencies are responsible for some 35% of global tax losses suffered by countries around the world. The impact that clamping down on this problem could have, not just on the public good for the UK but in many other countries around the world, is highly significant. We are often invited to believe that the biggest threat to our quality of life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-07b.578.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-07", "file": "debates2023-12-07b.xml", "sha256": "255d06ecc407cd23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-07b.578.1", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Beneficial Ownership Registers: Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies", "cue_speaker": "Richard Thomson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Thomson", "preceding_text": "eas territories and Crown dependencies are responsible for some 35% of global tax losses suffered by countries around the world. The impact that clamping down on this problem could have, not just on the public good for the UK but in many other countries around the world, is highly significant. We are often invited to believe that the biggest threat to our quality of life—[Interruption.] Excuse me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-07b.578.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-07", "file": "debates2023-12-07b.xml", "sha256": "255d06ecc407cd23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-07b.583.1", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Beneficial Ownership Registers: Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies", "cue_speaker": "David Rutley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Rutley", "preceding_text": " our expectation that the territories and dependencies would implement registers by the end of this year, and included a draft Order in Council. We then provided technical assistance and support, and we saw OTs make significant progress. For instance, BVI was able to pass appropriate primary legislation in 2022 and the Cayman Islands in 2023, and the CDs have also taken a set of preparatory steps—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-07b.583.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-11", "file": "debates2023-12-11c.xml", "sha256": "a5c7eff1c7d7d2e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-11c.667.1", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that. Just as the Secretary of State earlier brought enthusiasm to the Dispatch Box on cladding and some issues we faced there, I hope that, in Committee, we can explore that and the effect on people who have been affected more and more by flooding. The Secretary of State may not have the support of his Prime Minister, or his Back Benchers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-11c.667.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-11", "file": "debates2023-12-11c.xml", "sha256": "a5c7eff1c7d7d2e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-11c.667.1", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "preceding_text": " scaled down their ambition with the scaled-back Bill before us. Leaseholders deserve to know the real reason why they are being fobbed off with such limited steps. Unfortunately, the answer, as ever, lies in the chaos of this Government. The Secretary of State has talked a good game, but he might be the only functional cog in a dysfunctional Government—there is a compliment in there; I am trying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-11c.667.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-12", "file": "debates2023-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "ff854f82723962f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-12b.756.1", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": " seems to agree with it. We are clear that what we should be doing is using the hundreds of millions of pounds that the Government are wasting in cheques written to Rwanda for nothing—for a scheme that will send, at best, only a few hundred people—to strengthen our border security, go after the criminal gangs, and make sure that we clear the asylum backlog and save the taxpayer billions of pounds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-12b.756.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-12", "file": "debates2023-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "ff854f82723962f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-12b.757.3", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": " down by 50% compared with the last Labour Government. The next Labour Government, if we are elected, would set up a new major returns unit with, 1,000 additional staff to increase returns. Rather than the total number of returns collapsing and the Government failing to return people who have no right to be here, our party would introduce a new returns unit to make sure we have proper enforcement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-12b.757.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-12", "file": "debates2023-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "ff854f82723962f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-12b.765.1", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": " all of this about Europe, rather than about our having a proper border security plan, a proper plan to clear the backlog and a proper plan to fix the asylum chaos that the Tories have created. Instead of wasting taxpayers’ money, instead of these performative rituals and instead of all the deeming, boggling and scheming, we should be trying to build cross-party consensus on what needs to be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-12b.765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-12", "file": "debates2023-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "ff854f82723962f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-12b.775.7", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Joanna Cherry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joanna Cherry", "preceding_text": "It is refreshing to know that my article 10 rights have not been withdrawn yet. The point is this. The hon. Gentleman may be right, as a matter of domestic law of England that the sovereignty of the English Parliament allows England to change its domestic law internally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-12b.775.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-12", "file": "debates2023-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "ff854f82723962f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-12b.776.4", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bill Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Cash", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way. I am going to quote directly from Lord Hoffman himself in relation to an ECHR case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-12b.776.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-12", "file": "debates2023-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "ff854f82723962f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-12b.808.1", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Clive Efford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Efford", "preceding_text": "I hear it all the time from the Conservatives that Labour does not have a policy. It would be nice if one of the policies implemented by this Government over the past few years actually worked. That would have been a revelation. I commend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-12b.808.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-12", "file": "debates2023-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "ff854f82723962f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-12b.808.1", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Clive Efford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Efford", "preceding_text": "ent they have made with Albania, which is the sort of route we should be taking. Ministers have stood at the Dispatch Box today and said, “We have brought the small boat crossings down by a third.” That is largely due to the agreement with Albania, which is an indisputable fact. By being practical in dealing with things at source, we could resolve this problem. Investing in dealing with the gangs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-12b.808.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-12", "file": "debates2023-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "ff854f82723962f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-12b.823.0", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Fletcher", "preceding_text": " might introduce a public spaces protection order, but would probably not enforce it. This is what is happening. You cannot sell your house, or if you can, you have to sell it at a discount. Your little child falls over in the street and you have to go to A&E, and there is a 12-hour waiting list. The reason the waiting lists are so long is that people do not speak English in these places any more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-12b.823.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-12", "file": "debates2023-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "ff854f82723962f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-12b.823.0", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Fletcher", "preceding_text": " is what is happening. You cannot sell your house, or if you can, you have to sell it at a discount. Your little child falls over in the street and you have to go to A&E, and there is a 12-hour waiting list. The reason the waiting lists are so long is that people do not speak English in these places any more. [Interruption.] This is what is happening! In the schools, the classes are all oversized—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-12b.823.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-12", "file": "debates2023-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "ff854f82723962f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-12b.823.0", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Fletcher", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hurray!”", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Fletcher", "preceding_text": "iked it as it was.” If we are going to have immigration, which I do not completely believe is a bad thing, it needs to be controlled, and that is what I was sent down here to do. I am only here because of Brexit. The people of Doncaster have had enough. They wanted control of their borders, and I say to Ministers that unless we get control of our borders, I will not be coming back down here again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-12b.823.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-12", "file": "debates2023-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "ff854f82723962f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-12b.830.0", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jerome Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jerome Mayhew", "preceding_text": "claims handlers to speed up the process of assessment, bringing down the backlog from 90,000 to below 20,000 now. The Rwanda Bill is important, but it is just one tool of many. Let us be clear about what the real dispute is in this Chamber today. It is not about the intentions of those on the Government Benches, as we are united in wanting an effective policy for Rwanda. Where the real dispute is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-12b.830.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-12", "file": "debates2023-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "ff854f82723962f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-12b.833.1", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Foster", "preceding_text": "It is somewhat comical to get a lecture on unity and financial probity from the Scottish National party, to say the least—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-12b.833.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-12", "file": "debates2023-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "ff854f82723962f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-12b.850.1", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Tomlinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "The answer is: no, no and no.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-12b.850.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-13", "file": "debates2023-12-13c.xml", "sha256": "0cdbbbf69140ab62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-13c.882.7", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Women and Equalities", "cue_speaker": "Ian Levy", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Levy", "preceding_text": "This Conservative Government have done more for the people of Blyth Valley than any other Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-13c.882.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-13", "file": "debates2023-12-13c.xml", "sha256": "0cdbbbf69140ab62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-13c.882.7", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Women and Equalities", "cue_speaker": "Ian Levy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Levy", "preceding_text": "This Conservative Government have done more for the people of Blyth Valley than any other Government—[Laughter.] And they have brought much needed investment in employment opportunities for my constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-13c.882.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-13", "file": "debates2023-12-13c.xml", "sha256": "0cdbbbf69140ab62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-13c.887.6", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister can spin it all he likes, but the whole country can see that, yet again, the Tory party is in meltdown and everyone else is paying the price. He has kicked the can down the road, but in the last week his MPs have said of him that he is “not capable enough”, he is “inexperienced”, he is “arrogant”, and he is “a really bad politician”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-13c.887.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-13", "file": "debates2023-12-13c.xml", "sha256": "0cdbbbf69140ab62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-13c.887.6", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "arty is in meltdown and everyone else is paying the price. He has kicked the can down the road, but in the last week his MPs have said of him that he is “not capable enough”, he is “inexperienced”, he is “arrogant”, and he is “a really bad politician”—[Interruption.] Government Members are shouting, but this is what they said. Come on: who was it who said he is “a really bad politician”? Hands up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-13c.887.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-13", "file": "debates2023-12-13c.xml", "sha256": "0cdbbbf69140ab62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-13c.887.6", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "m that he is “not capable enough”, he is “inexperienced”, he is “arrogant”, and he is “a really bad politician”—[Interruption.] Government Members are shouting, but this is what they said. Come on: who was it who said he is “a really bad politician”? Hands up. [Interruption.] They are shouting. Well, what about “inexperienced”—who was that? Or—there have to be some hands for this—“he’s got to go”?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-13c.887.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-13", "file": "debates2023-12-13c.xml", "sha256": "0cdbbbf69140ab62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-13c.887.6", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "olitician”—[Interruption.] Government Members are shouting, but this is what they said. Come on: who was it who said he is “a really bad politician”? Hands up. [Interruption.] They are shouting. Well, what about “inexperienced”—who was that? Or—there have to be some hands for this—“he’s got to go”? [Interruption.] They are shy. Apparently, the Prime Minister is holding a Christmas party next week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-13c.887.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-13", "file": "debates2023-12-13c.xml", "sha256": "0cdbbbf69140ab62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-13c.888.0", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. It is Christmas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-13c.888.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-13", "file": "debates2023-12-13c.xml", "sha256": "0cdbbbf69140ab62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-13c.888.2", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. and learned Gentleman for all the comments, but he should hear what they have to say about him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-13c.888.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-13", "file": "debates2023-12-13c.xml", "sha256": "0cdbbbf69140ab62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-13c.889.2", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. and learned Gentleman really cared about building homes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-13c.889.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-13", "file": "debates2023-12-13c.xml", "sha256": "0cdbbbf69140ab62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-13c.892.3", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Holly Mumby-Croft", "cue_text": "“Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Holly Mumby-Croft", "preceding_text": "I make no apology for once again raising the issue of steel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-13c.892.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-13", "file": "debates2023-12-13c.xml", "sha256": "0cdbbbf69140ab62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-13c.931.0", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Robert Syms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Syms", "preceding_text": "If we have crashed the economy and we do not have a long-term plan, why are you voting with us today?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-13c.931.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-13", "file": "debates2023-12-13c.xml", "sha256": "0cdbbbf69140ab62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-13c.933.4", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Harriett Baldwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriett Baldwin", "preceding_text": "I can also attest to the fact that the hon. Lady is the second Labour Back Bencher in the Chamber. That brings the total to the two who are visible to me at this time on the Opposition Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-13c.933.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-13", "file": "debates2023-12-13c.xml", "sha256": "0cdbbbf69140ab62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-13c.951.3", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tulip Siddiq", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tulip Siddiq", "preceding_text": "We are not actually voting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-13c.951.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-14", "file": "debates2023-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "097600f432c1b4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-14a.989.0", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Transport", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "I of course share the hon. Gentleman’s concern about the deaths of anyone on the roads, but particularly of young people. I do not recognise the characterisation he has set out. Our road safety record remains one of the best in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-14a.989.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-14", "file": "debates2023-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "097600f432c1b4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-14a.989.8", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Transport", "cue_speaker": "Anthony Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anthony Browne", "preceding_text": "After four years in Parliament, this is my maiden voyage at the Dispatch Box.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-14a.989.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-14", "file": "debates2023-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "097600f432c1b4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-14a.995.1", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Transport", "cue_speaker": "Mike Kane", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Kane", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr Speaker. I smile because I am welcoming the Minister to his place perhaps half a dozen Ministers since I first stood at the Dispatch Box—but the best of luck to him in the time ahead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-14a.995.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-14", "file": "debates2023-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "097600f432c1b4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-14a.1005.3", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Transport", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "Will the ministerial team stop briefing against hydrogen combustion engines? The fact is that hydrogen is on its way, in trucks and JCBs. Cummins in my constituency is prepared for three years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-14a.1005.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-14", "file": "debates2023-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "097600f432c1b4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-14a.1007.1", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Venezuela: Threat to Guyana", "cue_speaker": "Ian Liddell-Grainger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Liddell-Grainger", "preceding_text": "(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office if he will make a statement on the urgent threat posed to Guyana by Venezuela and the Government’s response to it. Mr Speaker, you of all people know the importance of the Commonwealth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-14a.1007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-14", "file": "debates2023-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "097600f432c1b4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-14a.1013.4", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "preceding_text": "lities Minister. Given the Women and Equalities Committee’s damning report on the Government’s disability strategy just last week, can the Leader of the House confirm that someone will be appointed to this position before Christmas? It has now been a full month since we have had a statement from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, despite major global conflicts. That is unacceptable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-14a.1013.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-14", "file": "debates2023-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "097600f432c1b4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-14a.1017.0", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Penny Mordaunt", "preceding_text": "d-up on SNP morality: 12 hours of police questioning, 11 grand in roaming charges, 10 years without school inspections, nine sham embassies, eight years of poor child mental health, seven years without ferries, six years shirking welfare, five hundred million overspent on Edinburgh’s tram, four million to install a heat pump, three high-profile arrests, two overseas jollies, and a dodgy Jaguar EV.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-14a.1017.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-14", "file": "debates2023-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "097600f432c1b4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-14a.1018.3", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Ian Mearns", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Mearns", "preceding_text": "I thank the Leader of the House for announcing the Backbench Business for the first week after the Christmas recess and for the extensive list of recess dates, which we will fill up our diaries with. I mentioned that last week, so it is welcome to get the dates in the bag. I am afraid to say that I am of such an age that I have been a school governor for 40 years continuously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-14a.1018.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-14", "file": "debates2023-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "097600f432c1b4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-14a.1028.1", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jamie Stone", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jamie Stone", "preceding_text": "What an act to follow!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-14a.1028.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-14", "file": "debates2023-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "097600f432c1b4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-14a.1037.0", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "COP28", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "I pay tribute to my right hon. Friend for his efforts at COP26 in Glasgow, including the significant measure on phasing down coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-14a.1037.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-14", "file": "debates2023-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "097600f432c1b4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-14a.1037.0", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "COP28", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": " to ever higher standards and a falling level of oil and gas? New licences simply allow us to manage the decline of a basin that is expected to fall at 7% a year and to halve in a decade, and will see us growing our independence from imports, even with those new licences. That is why we are issuing them. On the issue of subsidies, our tax regime is set at 75% —among the highest in the whole world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-14a.1037.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-14", "file": "debates2023-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "097600f432c1b4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-14a.1038.1", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "COP28", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "sensus. My right hon. Friend mentioned the presence of MPs. My first COP was in 2005 in Montreal, and I remember feeling then that the elected parliamentarians, who make the political weather, were not properly accounted for. When I look back to that historic Climate Change Act 2008, I am proud of the fact that my then party leader, the noble Lord Cameron, was the first party leader to support it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-14a.1038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-14", "file": "debates2023-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "097600f432c1b4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-14a.1043.3", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "COP28", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "rojects while at COP, including £887.8 million of new and additional financing, with other announcements focused on driving forward climate action on forests, finance and net zero transitions. This Government are walking the walk while ensuring and making no apology for the fact that we seek to maintain the national consensus and carry people up and down the country with us as we continue to lead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-14a.1043.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-14", "file": "debates2023-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "097600f432c1b4ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-14a.1054.0", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Citizens’ Rights", "cue_speaker": "Jamie Stone", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jamie Stone", "preceding_text": "puty Speaker, in the spirit of the festive season, I might be allowed a slightly rambling question, having been inspired by the Minister’s mention of border crossings and travel. In my student days, I went backpacking and interrailing around Europe. I discovered that a kilt would get you a free drink in some very surprising places. Indeed, I overdid it once in Munich, but we will not go into that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-14a.1054.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-18", "file": "debates2023-12-18d.xml", "sha256": "04f35812e7051536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-18d.1105.7", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Work and Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Mel Stride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mel Stride", "preceding_text": "I had the great pleasure of visiting my hon. Friend’s jobcentre in April. Since then, it has been closed temporarily, I believe, and moved to Gloucester. I am sure there is no connection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-18d.1105.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-19", "file": "debates2023-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "1780abfd1e3e490d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-19b.1221.3", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Treasury", "cue_speaker": "Tulip Siddiq", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Tulip Siddiq", "preceding_text": "he Member for Leeds West (Rachel Reeves) . She is delivering the eulogy at Alistair Darling’s funeral today. I want to say a few words about Alistair Darling—I am sure you will agree, Mr Speaker—a dedicated public servant, who was respected across both Houses. He led the country’s economic response to the global financial crisis with integrity, honesty and sound judgment, and we will all miss him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-19b.1221.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-19", "file": "debates2023-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "1780abfd1e3e490d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-19b.1234.1", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Treasury", "cue_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "preceding_text": "ion investment in Sunderland, which comes hot on the heels of Tata’s £4 billion investment in batteries. EDF Masdar has announced an £11 billion investment in offshore wind in Dogger Bank. In his autumn statement, the Chancellor announced a tripling of tidal energy contracts for difference. We had 11 hydrogen projects announced last week. There are six companies bidding for small modular reactors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-19b.1234.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-19", "file": "debates2023-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "1780abfd1e3e490d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-19b.1273.2", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Long-term Plan for Housing", "cue_speaker": "Lee Rowley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lee Rowley", "preceding_text": "I have the greatest of respect for the hon. Gentleman, but we need to have a serious conversation about this. Planning consents are down because planning applications are down, and that is due to the global economic challenges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-19b.1273.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-19", "file": "debates2023-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "1780abfd1e3e490d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-19b.1279.7", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "Order. [Interruption.] This is not a seesaw—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-19b.1279.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-19", "file": "debates2023-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "1780abfd1e3e490d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-19b.1279.9", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "aspects. First of all, it is understandable that the hon. Member for Rother Valley is angry about his family being brought into it. I am quite sure that the right hon. Member for Wentworth and Dearne, on the Opposition Front Bench, will wish to withdraw that part of his remarks and allow the House to concentrate on the fact that he does enter privately the hon. Gentleman’s constituency frequently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-19b.1279.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-19", "file": "debates2023-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "1780abfd1e3e490d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-19b.1279.9", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "ench, will wish to withdraw that part of his remarks and allow the House to concentrate on the fact that he does enter privately the hon. Gentleman’s constituency frequently. [Interruption.] Will the hon. Member for Rother Valley please be quiet and allow me to answer the question that he raised? Now, will the right hon. Gentleman remove from his remarks the mention of the hon. Gentleman’s family?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-19b.1279.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-19", "file": "debates2023-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "1780abfd1e3e490d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-19b.1279.9", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "entleman’s family? [Interruption.] I think we are getting a little confused here, largely because there is noise and when people shout I cannot hear what other people are saying. I think there has been some confusion, so let us just sort it out. The right hon. Gentleman did not say anything about your family, Mr Stafford. He said something about his own family and where they live. It is up to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-19b.1279.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2023-12-19", "file": "debates2023-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "1780abfd1e3e490d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-19b.1292.1", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Post Office (Horizon System) Compensation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Scully", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Scully", "preceding_text": "ard, people cannot wait. People are dying, people are taking their own life, people have been forced out of their villages. Indeed, the constituent of one hon. Member was forced out of the country for fear of the shame of something they had not done in the first place. With hindsight, if I were back at the start of the process I would like to run the compensation all in one go from the Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2023-12-19b.1292.1"}