{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-08", "file": "debates2024-01-08d.xml", "sha256": "a9a3aebf1b837147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-08d.40.2", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Israel and Palestine", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Mitchell", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Lady for her comments. Currently, around 150 trucks a day are getting in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-08d.40.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-08", "file": "debates2024-01-08d.xml", "sha256": "a9a3aebf1b837147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-08d.51.3", "colnum": "51", "heading": "NHS Winter Update", "cue_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "preceding_text": " about capacity and we want to help the NHS look after people in a timely and efficient manner. I will also just correct him again on the doctors in training point. I am surprised he has come on to that at this point, but had he spoken to his friends in the BMA, he would have understood that that is the phrase that the BMA is using. It has passed a motion to stop using the phrase “junior doctors”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-08d.51.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-08", "file": "debates2024-01-08d.xml", "sha256": "a9a3aebf1b837147", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-08d.86.2", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Horizon: Compensation and Convictions", "cue_speaker": "Marion Fellows", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marion Fellows", "preceding_text": "ability for everyone in Post Office Ltd and Fujitsu who prosecuted and persecuted sub-postmasters over the years. I pledge that SNP Members will continue to put pressure on Governments of any colour to keep the momentum going to ensure that real justice is served, even if that involves more pressure on the former CEO and on the people who received honours because of their work for Post Office Ltd.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-08d.86.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-09", "file": "debates2024-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "7fbffdb4dc3052d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-09b.140.0", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Justice", "cue_speaker": "Bob Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Neill", "preceding_text": "I will not go on about how I might have got people into Wormwood Scrubs in the past in one way or another—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-09b.140.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-09", "file": "debates2024-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "7fbffdb4dc3052d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-09b.147.4", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Justice", "cue_speaker": "Mike Freer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Freer", "preceding_text": "In addition to the measures that we have already taken—unlimited sitting days, recruitment of judges, investment in courts to ensure they are resilient, and extending Nightingale courts—I can reassure the hon. Gentleman that we are building 58 new court rooms to ensure we have capacity. I have not seen the figures on the backlog, but the latest figures for the number of disposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-09b.147.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-09", "file": "debates2024-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "7fbffdb4dc3052d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-09b.171.2", "colnum": "171", "heading": "NHS Dentistry", "cue_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "preceding_text": "I am going to make a little progress, but I promise to give way later. The whole House understands that the pandemic placed a long-lasting and heavy burden on NHS dentistry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-09b.171.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-09", "file": "debates2024-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "7fbffdb4dc3052d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-09b.173.2", "colnum": "173", "heading": "NHS Dentistry", "cue_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "preceding_text": "now that we are all concerned about the health of children; some 6.4 million children were seen by an NHS dentist in the 12 months up to 30 June 2023 , an increase of 14%, which means, in real terms, an increase of 800,000 on the previous year. I accept, of course, that there is more to do, and we will be setting that out in our dental recovery plan shortly, but this is not just about big numbers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-09b.173.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-09", "file": "debates2024-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "7fbffdb4dc3052d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-09b.173.6", "colnum": "173", "heading": "NHS Dentistry", "cue_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "preceding_text": "I am going to make some progress. I am very pleased that, subject to a public consultation which will be published shortly, we have secured funding to expand water fluoridation schemes across the north-east of England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-09b.173.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-09", "file": "debates2024-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "7fbffdb4dc3052d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-09b.187.2", "colnum": "187", "heading": "NHS Dentistry", "cue_speaker": "Anthony Mangnall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anthony Mangnall", "preceding_text": "ces right across the country. I welcome the report and comments by the Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee, my hon. Friend the Member for Winchester (Steve Brine) . All of that boils down to what we think the priorities of NHS dentistry should be. Simply put, having spoken to many dentists in my constituency, the priorities boil down to three areas: prevention, education and pain relief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-09b.187.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-09", "file": "debates2024-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "7fbffdb4dc3052d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-09b.262.0", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Rwanda Plan Cost and Asylum System", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Kinnock", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Kinnock", "preceding_text": "e heard of again? Last summer, the hon. Member for South Thanet (Craig Mackinlay) described that trend as an amnesty by the back door. Is he right? The Minister must come clean on these points. We need a serious plan. We need the end of these headline-grabbing antics. We need common sense, hard graft and international co-operation, as has been set out in Labour’s five-point plan for the past year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-09b.262.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-10", "file": "debates2024-01-10c.xml", "sha256": "6b59caf81b09e71b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-10c.290.1", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More!", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "y does he not own up to the fact that when it came to the Nationality and Borders Act 2022, he blocked, delayed and voted against the powers in that Act? That Act has allowed us to arrest hundreds and hundreds of people connected with that illegal trade, who have been sentenced to hundreds of years in prison. He opposed that because he chooses the criminal gangs over the British people every time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-10c.290.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-10", "file": "debates2024-01-10c.xml", "sha256": "6b59caf81b09e71b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-10c.349.0", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Huddleston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Huddleston", "preceding_text": "rporated partnerships. The hon. Member keeps harping on about taxes rising. I strongly advise him to look at his December payslip and compare it to the one he will get shortly. Maybe he will have the decency to come to me and tell me whether his tax is lower or higher. Each fiscal event needs to be taken separately. At the last one, the autumn statement, we cut taxes—national insurance is down 2p.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-10c.349.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-16", "file": "debates2024-01-16e.xml", "sha256": "3fb3b920317e76d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-16e.761.0", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jane Stevenson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Stevenson", "preceding_text": "Would my hon. Friend agree that a focus on foreign aid and a united effort—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-16e.761.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-16", "file": "debates2024-01-16e.xml", "sha256": "3fb3b920317e76d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-16e.806.0", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Cost of Living: Pensioners", "cue_speaker": "Paul Maynard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Maynard", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Member for North East Fife (Wendy Chamberlain) on securing the debate. I am always happy to meet her, as she knows. I think I have been given eight minutes to respond. Is that correct, Madam Deputy Speaker?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-16e.806.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-17", "file": "debates2024-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "fad93daef71741c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-17c.815.6", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "I call Martin Docherty-Hughes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-17c.815.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-17", "file": "debates2024-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "fad93daef71741c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-17c.816.0", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Chris Heaton-Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Heaton-Harris", "preceding_text": "Like the hon. Member, I too am quite surprised that he is that popular.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-17c.816.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-17", "file": "debates2024-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "fad93daef71741c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-17c.817.3", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Chris Heaton-Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Heaton-Harris", "preceding_text": "Mr Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-17c.817.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-17", "file": "debates2024-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "fad93daef71741c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-17c.819.2", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "re we are, talking about what we are doing, and I am happy to go over it. What are we doing? We have increased the number of illegal immigration enforcement raids by 70%, leading to thousands of arrests, using powers that the right hon. and learned Gentleman sought to block in this House. We have closed down thousands of bank accounts of illegal workers—again, using powers that he sought to block—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-17c.819.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-17", "file": "debates2024-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "fad93daef71741c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-17c.820.1", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "grip this problem. The right hon. and learned Gentleman spends a lot of his time in this House talking about his time as a lawyer, and I would urge him to listen to lawyers, because Lord Wolfson has said that our Bill severely limits the grounds for removal. Four eminent King’s counsels have said that it is undoubtedly the most robust piece of immigration legislation this Parliament has seen, and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-17c.820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-17", "file": "debates2024-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "fad93daef71741c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-17c.820.3", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "that this is undoubtedly the most robust legislation this Parliament has seen, and a former Supreme Court justice has been clear that the Bill would work. But I know that the right hon. and learned Gentleman has always been more interested in what leftie lawyers have to say. I even have in my hands the textbook that he authored for them—it is called “European Human Rights Law” by Keir Starmer, so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-17c.820.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-17", "file": "debates2024-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "fad93daef71741c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-17c.820.6", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "It is rich to hear from the right hon. and learned Gentleman about belief in something. It will be news to him that it is actually the case that you can believe in something and stick to that position on this side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-17c.820.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-17", "file": "debates2024-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "fad93daef71741c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-17c.821.0", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": " personally using the European Court of Human Rights to try to stop them being banned. You do not have to take my word for it; the extremists’ own press release said, and I quote, “the Hizb ut-Tahrir legal team, led by Keir Starmer”. I know that he does not like talking about them because they have been a client, but when I see a group chanting “jihad” on our streets, I ban them; he invoices them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-17c.821.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-17", "file": "debates2024-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "fad93daef71741c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-17c.844.2", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "preceding_text": "to impose binding injunctions. There is a separate question, not unrelated, as to how those injunctions are made. I would like to believe that most of us agree that doing them late at night with an unnamed judge, without giving reasons, raises serious rule-of-law questions. Perhaps the hon. Lady disagrees with that, but the purpose of the amendment is to enable us to return to a previous position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-17c.844.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-17", "file": "debates2024-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "fad93daef71741c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-17c.850.4", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "preceding_text": "t social media may also find it useful to use their phones in the Chamber to double-check those international obligations, and indeed the original text of the European convention on human rights, which states explicitly: “The High Contracting Parties undertake to abide by the final judgment of the Court in any case to which they are parties.” From the start, it was intended that there was a check—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-17c.850.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-17", "file": "debates2024-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "fad93daef71741c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-17c.876.0", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "preceding_text": "o our courts, but if the Government are setting the laws it makes sense to many of us who value freedom and liberty that there is a third party that you can adhere to. Frankly, it is a sign that I am getting old that I look at the Conservative party now and I wonder where those libertarians are, those people who recognise, rightly, the concern that a Government might be overbearing and repressive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-17c.876.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-17", "file": "debates2024-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "fad93daef71741c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-17c.882.0", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Suella Braverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Suella Braverman", "preceding_text": "ly drafted, it will lead us directly to a rerun of the scenario that we saw on 14 June 2022 , when the Home Office and the then Administration had identified a cohort of illegal migrants and filled a plane ready to take off to Rwanda, but at the 11th hour, pursuant to an opaque process, a decision was made by a still unidentified judge in a foreign court that had the effect of blocking the flight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-17c.882.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-17", "file": "debates2024-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "fad93daef71741c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-17c.922.2", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bob Seely", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “There is still time!”", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Seely", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has made an excellent point. He is, of course, an eminent lawyer, and I, frankly am not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-17c.922.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-17", "file": "debates2024-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "fad93daef71741c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-17c.928.2", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Tomlinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "fforts between our Government and the Government of Rwanda, the obligations that we have agreed are fully set out. Clause 1 ensures that it is crystal clear that it is Parliament that has considered and concluded that Rwanda is a safe country. I know his concern about this sort of clause, but he will know that it is not unique and that it is not dissimilar to clause 1 of the Illegal Migration Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-17c.928.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-17", "file": "debates2024-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "fad93daef71741c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-17c.963.1", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Speaker’s Statement: Sir Tony Lloyd", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "It is with great sorrow that I inform the House of the death of Sir Tony Lloyd. He was a valued colleague, who spent his life in public service. He will be remembered on all sides of the House with respect and affection. I am sure the House will join me in sending our sympathy to his family in their loss.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-17c.963.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-17", "file": "debates2024-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "fad93daef71741c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-17c.976.0", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jess Phillips", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jess Phillips", "preceding_text": "eek. She has two children born of the repeated rapes that she has suffered as a victim of human trafficking and the Home Office was trying to deport her again. The judge scolded the Home Office lawyers for daring to bring the case in front of them and because I was sat in the courtroom, the Home Office lawyers were not so keen to give their evidence in front of me, so they did not really give any—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-17c.976.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-18", "file": "debates2024-01-18d.xml", "sha256": "65d1231815fd3025", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-18d.1001.0", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Cabinet Office", "cue_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "preceding_text": "ugh this yet again. The hon. Gentleman has had answers on this twice in the past year, but I am going to tell him a third time: the simple fact of the matter is that everyone who applied for a contract went through the same process. Very hardworking and professional civil servants made those judgments in uniquely difficult circumstances. Frankly, I am sick of hearing slurs against their good name.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-18d.1001.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-18", "file": "debates2024-01-18d.xml", "sha256": "65d1231815fd3025", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-18d.1115.2", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "High Speed 2 Compensation", "cue_speaker": "Mike Kane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Kane", "preceding_text": " (Sir Gavin Williamson) and the hon. Members for Chesham and Amersham (Sarah Green), for North West Leicestershire (Andrew Bridgen), for Crewe and Nantwich (Dr Mullan), for Buckingham (Greg Smith) and for Lichfield (Michael Fabricant) for contributing to the debate. The stories we have heard, and those that have been reported over the years, show the very real consequences of this Tory HS2 fiasco—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-18d.1115.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-19", "file": "debates2024-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "6a739e7d82aadd14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-19b.1157.1", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Building Societies Act 1986 (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tulip Siddiq", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tulip Siddiq", "preceding_text": "y from building societies to support more working people to become homeowners. The hon. Member for Mid Norfolk (George Freeman) talked about how every £10 billion of new lending capacity, secured through the changes in the Bill, will potentially support an additional 20,000 first-time buyers. I agreed wholeheartedly with everything he said; dare I say, some of his comments sounded quite socialist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-19b.1157.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-22", "file": "debates2024-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "b9508b91e773106d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-22a.8.2", "colnum": "8", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hoare", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hoare", "preceding_text": "I do not agree with that, and nor will I take any lessons on political opportunism from the SNP. I am tempted to say that I would WhatsApp my answer to the hon. Lady, but she would probably delete it before she read it. A lot will depend on whether the identification has the relevant hologram. I also point out to the hon. Lady that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-22a.8.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-22", "file": "debates2024-01-22d.xml", "sha256": "353afd9eeef80f75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-22d.46.0", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "preceding_text": "reality. Let me remind the House of the series of unfortunate events that has befallen the Bill since its publication. On day one—launch day—the Energy Secretary went on TV with the big reveal, telling the public the Bill would not cut bills. Next we discovered from confidential minutes of the North Sea Transition Authority that it thought the Bill was unnecessary and compromised its independence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-22d.46.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-22", "file": "debates2024-01-22d.xml", "sha256": "353afd9eeef80f75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-22d.47.0", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "preceding_text": "extraction Bill but the Conservative MP extraction Bill that she is putting forward today. The former net zero tsar said: “I can no longer condone nor continue to support a government that is committed to a course of action that I know is wrong and will cause future harm.” We should take all these voices—Lord Browne, the former Prime Minister, the former net zero tsar and the former COP President—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-22d.47.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-22", "file": "debates2024-01-22d.xml", "sha256": "353afd9eeef80f75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-22d.57.4", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dave Doogan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dave Doogan", "preceding_text": "e, and elsewhere in the north-east of Scotland? Why are the revenues from the historical exploitation of oil and gas not going into accelerating renewable opportunities and making sure that we deliver jobs for the future? As I said in response to the intervention by the hon. Member for Moray (Douglas Ross) , the Scottish Government have invested £500 million into the green transition for Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-22d.57.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-22", "file": "debates2024-01-22d.xml", "sha256": "353afd9eeef80f75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-22d.88.0", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Drax", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Drax", "preceding_text": ". The UK has made some impressive advances in wind and solar, and a new generation of nuclear is on its way, although I have to say that we and the Opposition have been talking about nuclear investment for years, yet so little has been done. Wind and solar are excellent ways of generating power. I have not yet heard anyone here today say that when the wind does not blow and the sun does not shine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-22d.88.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-23", "file": "debates2024-01-23f.xml", "sha256": "9708f486a4024803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-23f.135.4", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Health and Social Care", "cue_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "preceding_text": "r example. We appreciate that there can be local differences, but the importance that we put on maintaining that flow through hospitals is critical to ensuring that the waiting lists and waiting times that the hon. Lady describes are reduced. However, I gently remind the Labour party that it has been running the NHS in Wales for some time now, and it is a great shame that the good people of Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-23f.135.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-23", "file": "debates2024-01-23f.xml", "sha256": "9708f486a4024803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-23f.169.0", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Tributes to Sir Tony Lloyd", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "planet on to our children, and he wrote about education and the need to invest in young people. Tony might not be able to lead the fight for that better world he hoped for, but those of us he leaves behind will, and we will have him in mind as we continue to fight for the causes he was passionate about, the values he lived, and the people he served throughout his entire life. May he rest in peace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-23f.169.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-23", "file": "debates2024-01-23f.xml", "sha256": "9708f486a4024803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-23f.170.0", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Tributes to Sir Tony Lloyd", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": " “change can happen, and…we must fight for the change that we want to see”.—[Official Report, 7 December 2023 ; Vol. 742, c. 184WH.] From the beginning of his career right to the end, Tony Lloyd lived those words. He was a great family man, a great man of Manchester and a great man of the House of Commons. He will be missed, but he and the change he fought for and achieved will never be forgotten.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-23f.170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-23", "file": "debates2024-01-23f.xml", "sha256": "9708f486a4024803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-23f.178.0", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Tributes to Sir Tony Lloyd", "cue_speaker": "Anthony Mangnall", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Anthony Mangnall", "preceding_text": "e apocryphal stories, but he looked at me and said, “How about this one? I had some constituents come to see me: a mother, a father and a son. They were standing in Central Lobby as the Division bell went, and the Doorkeepers and the police were all shuffling about. The father said to the mother, ‘What’s that? What does that mean?’ Out of nowhere, the boy said, ‘It means one of them has escaped.’”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-23f.178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-23", "file": "debates2024-01-23f.xml", "sha256": "9708f486a4024803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-23f.179.0", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Tributes to Sir Tony Lloyd", "cue_speaker": "Afzal Khan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Afzal Khan", "preceding_text": "My thoughts are with Tony’s family in the Gallery, and also his staff, past and present. Many of them will be mourning a man who made a great impact in their lives. I knew Tony for well over 25 years as a colleague and a friend. Of course, we shared the two reds idea. I have to say that one of the reds is clearly coming up nicely—and I hope the football team also gets better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-23f.179.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-23", "file": "debates2024-01-23f.xml", "sha256": "9708f486a4024803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-23f.187.2", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Tributes to Sir Tony Lloyd", "cue_speaker": "Karin Smyth", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Karin Smyth", "preceding_text": "sometimes wont to do, but will not do now—when asking his advice about how best to be a good MP, and how best to use Parliament. Should MPs stay on the Back Benches, should they take a position on the Front Bench, should they join Select Committees, should they try to introduce private Members’ Bills? He stopped, raised his hand, took a sip of his pint and asked me, “Can you do joined-up writing?”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-23f.187.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-23", "file": "debates2024-01-23f.xml", "sha256": "9708f486a4024803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-23f.189.0", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Tributes to Sir Tony Lloyd", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Butler", "preceding_text": "h Tony was at the bottom of the stairs by the Opposition office and I remember he asked me how I was and how my health was. And I thought, “Oh my goodness, he is going through what he is going through.” I remember sending him a message that me and the hon. Member for Neath (Christina Rees) —who cannot be here today but would really want to be—were feeling quite lost and we did not know what to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-23f.189.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-23", "file": "debates2024-01-23f.xml", "sha256": "9708f486a4024803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-23f.209.3", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Miscellaneous", "cue_speaker": "Damian Hinds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Hinds", "preceding_text": "Not at the moment. There then follows the most colossal conflation—a massive non sequitur—about a register of children not in school because they are home educated. Obviously, absence and “not in school” sound pretty similar, but if the hon. Lady really thinks that the issue around absence is all about children being home educated en masse, she has failed to grasp the issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-23f.209.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-23", "file": "debates2024-01-23f.xml", "sha256": "9708f486a4024803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-23f.211.2", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Miscellaneous", "cue_speaker": "Damian Hinds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Hinds", "preceding_text": "things our schoolteachers do, they can only benefit the children who are there to benefit from them. I am pleased that we have started to see some progress in this area. There were 380,000 fewer pupils persistently absent or not attending in 2022-23 than the previous year. I am not quite sure how the hon. Member for Houghton and Sunderland South does the extrapolation to her figure of one in four—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-23f.211.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-23", "file": "debates2024-01-23f.xml", "sha256": "9708f486a4024803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-23f.212.1", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Miscellaneous", "cue_speaker": "Damian Hinds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Hinds", "preceding_text": "reas. I also say to the hon. Member for Houghton and Sunderland South that we should look at targeting secondary schools as well as primary schools, because persistent absence can of course be particularly concentrated in the secondary age group. There are now considerably more children in receipt of free school meals than the last time a Labour Government were in office. This is despite the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-23f.212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-23", "file": "debates2024-01-23f.xml", "sha256": "9708f486a4024803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-23f.212.1", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Miscellaneous", "cue_speaker": "Damian Hinds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Hinds", "preceding_text": " up the rankings, having previously come down the rankings before 2010. The hon. Lady says that in the end it is the score, not the rankings, that matter, and she is of course right. I am surprised she does not know this, however: she said education has not been badly affected by covid in every country, but I have to tell her that covid has given a real knock to education across most of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-23f.212.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-23", "file": "debates2024-01-23f.xml", "sha256": "9708f486a4024803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-23f.265.1", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Protecting Steel in the UK", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "It came down to this: the Government had to find a solution that was acceptable to Tata and that would save the maximum number of jobs. The Government are not paying £500 million to throw 3,000 people out of work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-23f.265.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-24", "file": "debates2024-01-24b.xml", "sha256": "e0a9a542beb760e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-24b.289.6", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "across the House and across the country. I am glad that his family were here yesterday to hear the many tributes to and memories of Tony. He will be greatly missed. The Prime Minister has had quite a week—from endlessly fighting with his own MPs to collapsing in laughter when he was asked by a member of the public about NHS waiting lists—so I was glad to hear that he managed to take some time off—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-24b.289.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-24", "file": "debates2024-01-24b.xml", "sha256": "e0a9a542beb760e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-24b.291.6", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "There is only one party that crashed the economy, and they are sitting right there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-24b.291.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-24", "file": "debates2024-01-24b.xml", "sha256": "e0a9a542beb760e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-24b.292.1", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "Making steelworkers redundant and failing to provide childcare is not a plan, Prime Minister; it is a farce. He may soon discover that with childcare there is an IT problem, nurseries do not have the spaces, they have not got the staff, there is a black hole in their budgets and there are eight weeks to go. That is not a plan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-24b.292.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-24", "file": "debates2024-01-24b.xml", "sha256": "e0a9a542beb760e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-24b.332.0", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Farry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Farry", "preceding_text": "and we end up with direct rule, that direct rule must have an Irish dimension to it. That Irish dimension will be consultative and build on existing structures within the agreement. We have to recognise that direct rule, in a divided and diverse Northern Ireland, will be controversial. We have to recognise that in our governance and put in place mechanisms that balance it out. That is the reality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-24b.332.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-26", "file": "debates2024-01-26d.xml", "sha256": "e824b69c8002a1bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-26d.583.0", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Trident", "cue_speaker": "James Cartlidge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Cartlidge", "preceding_text": "ing significant benefits to the local economy. Directly and indirectly, the nuclear deterrent is responsible for thousands of jobs in Scotland. In preparation for the delivery of Dreadnought, we are carrying out a £1.4 billion upgrade of our nuclear facilities at HMNB Clyde. We are committed to replacing our current nuclear warheads and are working with the US to refresh the Trident II D5 missile.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-26d.583.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-29", "file": "debates2024-01-29d.xml", "sha256": "84f24273c9c9d0d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-29d.670.4", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Anthony Mangnall", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Anthony Mangnall", "preceding_text": "e Act process and allows us in this House to consider it. If the hon. Member for Walthamstow (Stella Creasy) wants to debate this point in a general debate on CPTPP, I would look forward to doing it all over again. Of course, the whole purpose of the process is to give us the chance to take full consideration of the agricultural community’s view. I have gone on for far too long, Mr Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-29d.670.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-01-31", "file": "debates2024-01-31d.xml", "sha256": "5031235ab0ceebef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-31d.858.1", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "The Government have forfeited the right to lecture others about the economy. Somebody coming off a fixed-rate mortgage will be paying an average of £240 more each and every month—a constant reminder that working people are paying the price for the damage the Government have done to the economy. This week, I met an employee at Iceland in Warrington—Phil.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-01-31d.858.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-01", "file": "debates2024-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "bbb207d53775a346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-01a.965.5", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Environment, Food and Rural Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "preceding_text": "We are committed to maintaining high animal welfare and food standards. Since leaving the EU, we have put in place strong controls on imports, and we are using Brexit freedoms to strengthen animal welfare standards even further by banning the export of live animals for slaughter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-01a.965.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2024-02-01", "file": "debates2024-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "bbb207d53775a346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-01a.1003.0", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members:", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Nickie Aiken", "preceding_text": "internationally respected test under the programme for international student assessment, run by the OECD. That is up from 25th under the last Labour Government. Given that this is National Storytelling Week and 7 March is World Book Day, would my right hon. Friend consider a debate in Government time highlighting the importance of reading for pleasure, and celebrating British and Irish literature?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-01a.1002.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2024-02-01", "file": "debates2024-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "bbb207d53775a346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-01a.1020.2", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members:", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "We now come to motion 1, on the draft Windsor Framework (Constitutional Status of Northern Ireland) Regulations. If the House gives leave, this can be debated with motion 2, on the draft Windsor Framework (UK Internal Market and Unfettered Access) Regulations. Is there an objection?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-01a.1020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-01", "file": "debates2024-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "bbb207d53775a346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-01a.1042.1", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Chris Heaton-Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Heaton-Harris", "preceding_text": "irst, I thank the right hon. Member for Leeds Central (Hilary Benn) for the way that he has approached everything we have done. He asked a few questions, which I shall try to answer. He talked about these measures and how we will be protecting the European single market with this package. What these measures also do, which is unbelievably important, is protect our internal market at the same time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-01a.1042.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-01", "file": "debates2024-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "bbb207d53775a346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-01a.1062.1", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "United Kingdom Internal Market", "cue_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "preceding_text": "rds down from my constituency office in the freezing cold deserve a pay raise. The children with special needs deserve the security of knowing that their day centre will remain open and not close due to insufficient funding. All those people deserve those things, whether or not this deal is struck, but we also deserve the truth of who we are in the light of the legislation. Are we a casual member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-01a.1062.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-05", "file": "debates2024-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "bd4fc78393abd8bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-05a.24.0", "colnum": "24", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "uthority. Technically, it is me who should be standing here, other than for the first couple of rounds, where the Prime Minister was dealing with something new and it was therefore very appropriate for him to be at the Dispatch Box. The wider point that I would gently make to the right hon. Gentleman, though, is that the Prime Minister is in Northern Ireland today, doing incredibly important work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-05a.24.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-05", "file": "debates2024-02-05c.xml", "sha256": "33a56dea8f6a6f4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-05c.6.3", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Work and Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Mel Stride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mel Stride", "preceding_text": "I am not going to get involved in the crossfire between the Scottish National party and the Labour party, other than to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-05c.6.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-05", "file": "debates2024-02-05c.xml", "sha256": "33a56dea8f6a6f4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-05c.24.0", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Situation in the Red Sea", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "uthority. Technically, it is me who should be standing here, other than for the first couple of rounds, where the Prime Minister was dealing with something new and it was therefore very appropriate for him to be at the Dispatch Box. The wider point that I would gently make to the right hon. Gentleman, though, is that the Prime Minister is in Northern Ireland today, doing incredibly important work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-05c.24.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-05", "file": "debates2024-02-05c.xml", "sha256": "33a56dea8f6a6f4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-05c.34.5", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Situation in the Red Sea", "cue_speaker": "Kenny MacAskill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenny MacAskill", "preceding_text": "udi Arabia, has said that it is linked. He has gone on to add that these strikes will fail and will not resolve the situation. So rather than lurching towards world war three, and rather than an escalation of the conflict, widening it beyond countries and this limited territory, is it not time to ensure that Israel is called to heel, that its genocide ceases and that we get an immediate ceasefire?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-05c.34.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-05", "file": "debates2024-02-05c.xml", "sha256": "33a56dea8f6a6f4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-05c.50.3", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Disability Action Plan", "cue_speaker": "Mims Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mims Davies", "preceding_text": "I do not appreciate the characterisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-05c.50.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-05", "file": "debates2024-02-05c.xml", "sha256": "33a56dea8f6a6f4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-05c.98.0", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Tri-service Safety Officers: Devon and Cornwall", "cue_speaker": "Chris Philp", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Philp", "preceding_text": " to get the fire service to do more to assist the ambulance service in providing responses. I have been discussing that with my colleagues at the Department of Health and Social Care. However, as he eloquently described and explained, tri-service safety officers could work well in other rural or sparsely populated areas. Cumbria, which now has a police, fire and crime commissioner, springs to mind", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-05c.98.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-06", "file": "debates2024-02-06d.xml", "sha256": "1c66c29664b80d11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-06d.107.2", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Treasury", "cue_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "preceding_text": "I would say two things in response to the hon. Lady. First, the best thing we can do is to help people with the cost of living, not increase their taxes, as the SNP in Scotland proposes, and to maintain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-06d.107.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-06", "file": "debates2024-02-06d.xml", "sha256": "1c66c29664b80d11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-06d.108.8", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Treasury", "cue_speaker": "Laura Trott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Laura Trott", "preceding_text": "I reiterate: we have 400,000 fewer children in poverty now than in 2010. In addition, the national insurance contributions cut that we have introduced has been shown to cut child poverty dramatically. Crucially, the leading indicator of whether a child is in poverty is whether their parents are in work, and that is what we have delivered over this Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-06d.108.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-06", "file": "debates2024-02-06d.xml", "sha256": "1c66c29664b80d11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-06d.188.0", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Miscellaneous", "cue_speaker": "Anna Firth", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Anna Firth", "preceding_text": "ng the right hon. Member for Doncaster North (Edward Miliband) and the Mayor of Greater Manchester, both of whom were entitled to £20,000, and they still hold elected office today. When we questioned those severance payments, given the mess that Labour had left us in, a Labour party spokesman responded by saying that it was a pathetic attempt to create a smokescreen around serious economic issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-06d.188.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-06", "file": "debates2024-02-06d.xml", "sha256": "1c66c29664b80d11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-06d.207.2", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Miscellaneous", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Slaughter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Slaughter", "preceding_text": "s for the first month, when he was out of office, he was being paid through severance, for the next two months he was being paid both his severance and his salary. He was quite literally getting double the money for that period of time. The right hon. Gentleman has not responded to me to say that he has paid that all to the local Labour party or some other deserving charitable body in the interim—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-06d.207.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-07", "file": "debates2024-02-07c.xml", "sha256": "6fdec49e032ca917", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-07c.241.3", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "Of all the weeks to say that, when Brianna’s mother is in this Chamber—shame! Parading as a man of integrity when he has got absolutely no responsibility, it is absolute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-07c.241.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-07", "file": "debates2024-02-07c.xml", "sha256": "6fdec49e032ca917", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-07c.242.0", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "There are some areas in the country where people literally cannot have an NHS dentist, and the Prime Minister says that that is down to covid. People are literally pulling out their own teeth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-07c.242.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-07", "file": "debates2024-02-07c.xml", "sha256": "6fdec49e032ca917", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-07c.259.4", "colnum": "259", "heading": "NHS Dentistry: Recovery and Reform", "cue_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "preceding_text": "ise that constituent to contact 111 and, if necessary, go to accident and emergency—[Interruption.] Labour Members are shaking their heads, but what she has just described is a serious situation. That constituent needs medical attention, and the NHS is there, ready and willing to help. That is the advice that she should be giving her constituents, and I hope that she takes it as seriously as I do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-07c.259.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-07", "file": "debates2024-02-07c.xml", "sha256": "6fdec49e032ca917", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-07c.274.0", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": " indeed to require him to say anything different. I will say, however, that the hon. Lady touches on a very sensitive subject, and I understand that the mother of the tragically murdered teenager Brianna Ghey was present this afternoon. I reiterate, as I believe the Prime Minister did from what I heard at the end of Prime Minister’s questions, the enormous sympathy that everyone in this House has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-07c.274.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-08", "file": "debates2024-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "6cc0027ab1b5b935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-08b.358.7", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Transport", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "It absolutely is not. The hon. Lady referred to Avanti West Coast, I gave her the answer to the question on Avanti and then she just repeated something that simply was not the case. According to the service quality regime under which Avanti West Coast operates, it has not received any payments, because it has not been hitting the quality targets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-08b.358.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-08", "file": "debates2024-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "6cc0027ab1b5b935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-08b.384.0", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Protest Measures", "cue_speaker": "Thomas Tugendhat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Thomas Tugendhat", "preceding_text": "way—but sadly, some extremists have chosen this as the moment to spread hatred and fear and to stoke nationalism or division. I realise that that is something that the hon. Lady and I take different positions on, as after all, she represents a nationalist wing in our country. It is a great shame that she is choosing this moment to spread that hatred. I do wish that the Scottish nationalists would—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-08b.384.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-19", "file": "debates2024-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "80d3829cf642024c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-19a.462.2", "colnum": "462", "heading": "UK Economy", "cue_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "preceding_text": "I am coming to that. The right hon. Lady started by talking about the Chancellor; as Economic Secretary, I am perfectly entitled to answer on behalf of the Department and I will do so today. The main thrust of her remarks was on growth; let me deal with that in detail. The first point to recognise is the international context that we all find ourselves in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-19a.462.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-19", "file": "debates2024-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "80d3829cf642024c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-19a.462.2", "colnum": "462", "heading": "UK Economy", "cue_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "preceding_text": " this is the sixth month in a row when wages have been higher than inflation, which, as I have said, we have more than halved. On the Chief Secretary, what she was explaining is that we were and are meeting our fiscal rule, which is that debt will be falling in the fifth year of the forecast excluding the Bank of England. That is what she explained, and that is what I am reiterating for the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-19a.462.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-19", "file": "debates2024-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "80d3829cf642024c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-19a.464.3", "colnum": "464", "heading": "UK Economy", "cue_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "preceding_text": "It is definitely above my pay grade to call elections. In relation to GDP per capita statistics, which are important—the point of them is to try to get a sense of what is happening to individuals or to individual households and families—I would say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-19a.464.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-19", "file": "debates2024-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "80d3829cf642024c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-19a.464.3", "colnum": "464", "heading": "UK Economy", "cue_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "preceding_text": "It is definitely above my pay grade to call elections. In relation to GDP per capita statistics, which are important—the point of them is to try to get a sense of what is happening to individuals or to individual households and families—I would say—[Interruption.] Let me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-19a.464.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-19", "file": "debates2024-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "80d3829cf642024c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-19a.466.7", "colnum": "466", "heading": "UK Economy", "cue_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "preceding_text": "First, our record on decarbonisation beats anywhere else in the G7, so we do not take lessons from the United States or any other country in that regard. In relation to the green investment plan by 2030, the hon. Lady should direct her ire at those on the Labour Front Bench for not being clear as to what their plan is. The Leader of the Opposition says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-19a.466.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-19", "file": "debates2024-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "80d3829cf642024c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-19a.484.2", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Post Office Governance and Horizon Compensation Schemes", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend says, the Post Office leadership oversaw wrongful convictions. That is one of the reasons why we have had multiple changes, and this is just the latest to ensure that we get the right leadership in place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-19a.484.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-19", "file": "debates2024-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "80d3829cf642024c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-19a.485.0", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Post Office Governance and Horizon Compensation Schemes", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "t I asked Sky News not to run the story. Of course I did not leak it—because if I had, that would have created legal risk if Mr Staunton had found out on the news before I had had a chance to speak to him. We have no idea how Sky News found out the information—several thousand people work in the Department for Business and Trade, and many more work at the Post Office and UK Government Investments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-19a.485.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-19", "file": "debates2024-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "80d3829cf642024c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-19a.495.4", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Death of Alexei Navalny", "cue_speaker": "Neale Hanvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Neale Hanvey", "preceding_text": "l prisoners is not a sign of strength; it is a sign of weakness, and Mr Navalny’s murder should be rightly condemned. However, right now in the UK the journalist Julian Assange is in Belmarsh prison for blowing the whistle on atrocities in Iraq. Does the Minister agree that it is important for the UK Government to measure themselves against the same standards if they are going to criticise others?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-19a.495.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-19", "file": "debates2024-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "80d3829cf642024c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-19a.498.6", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Death of Alexei Navalny", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Bridgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Bridgen", "preceding_text": "I express my condolences to the friends and family of Alexei Navalny, but can the Minister explain why we can have a statement on the untimely death of one foreign national but we cannot have a statement on the ongoing excess deaths of 100,000 of our own citizens, many of whom have died suddenly?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-19a.498.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-19", "file": "debates2024-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "80d3829cf642024c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-19a.554.0", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Thomas Tugendhat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Thomas Tugendhat", "preceding_text": "y Committee, not only shepherded some extremely important amendments into the Bill, but was kind enough to say that it was the first time in 14 years that he had ever had an amendment accepted by the Government. I am delighted to say that it was to this Bill. It was because we are so committed to working with all parts of both Houses and with the ISC that we got so much through in the other place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-19a.554.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-19", "file": "debates2024-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "80d3829cf642024c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-19a.570.1", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Infrastructure Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "preceding_text": "at will reduce bureaucracy and make it easier, removing the hurdles to small and medium-sized enterprises. That is why when we did our consultation it was very warmly welcomed, because people could see it would reduce the costs of entering procurement and reduce the barriers to those businesses getting a share of that public money. I have to say it was welcomed on both sides of the House, by both—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-19a.570.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-19", "file": "debates2024-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "80d3829cf642024c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-19a.570.3", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Infrastructure Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "preceding_text": "I am still answering the previous intervention so the hon. Gentleman will have to wait.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-19a.570.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-19", "file": "debates2024-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "80d3829cf642024c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-19a.570.3", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Infrastructure Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "preceding_text": "I am still answering the previous intervention so the hon. Gentleman will have to wait. [Interruption.] I have got all night; I have had my supper and I can talk about this. The hon. Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun would like us to rehearse everything we went through in the Procurement Act; if he wants to go back and look at it, he will discover that the Act makes it possible for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-19a.570.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-20", "file": "debates2024-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "11bc2ac5e648f6a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-20a.588.2", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Justice", "cue_speaker": "Alex Chalk", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Do you have it on now?”", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Chalk", "preceding_text": "ounterparts to discuss how Russia can be held financially and legally to account, and I was fitted with a GPS tag to experience for myself how effective modern technology is in holding offenders and Justice Secretaries to account—a constant physical reminder that debts to society must be repaid, court orders must be observed, and transgressors face the very real risk of the clang of a prison gate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-20a.588.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-20", "file": "debates2024-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "11bc2ac5e648f6a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-20a.589.0", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Justice", "cue_speaker": "Alex Chalk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Chalk", "preceding_text": "I have visited Cookham Wood. I cannot remember the precise date, but the really important statistic to note is that in the period up to the end of September last year, we recruited an additional 1,400 prison officers. The numbers are going up, and the attrition rate is going down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-20a.589.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-20", "file": "debates2024-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "11bc2ac5e648f6a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-20a.596.0", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Immigration Rules and Border Security", "cue_speaker": "Tom Pursglove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Pursglove", "preceding_text": "lked about the Opposition’s stance on the security of our border, because she quite happily voted against the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 when we legislated to introduce electronic travel authorisations, which are critical to the future of our border security and allow greater automation for passengers. They improve the passenger experience at the border while being robust on border security.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-20a.596.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-20", "file": "debates2024-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "11bc2ac5e648f6a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-20a.631.1", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Lucas", "preceding_text": "The best way to make use of those skills is by making sure that we put resources behind those workers so that they can make the transition, which so many of them want to do, into renewables. Right now, those workers are actually having to pay to make that transition themselves. They have to pay for the training.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-20a.631.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-20", "file": "debates2024-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "11bc2ac5e648f6a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-20a.661.0", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Ross", "preceding_text": ", Test (Dr Whitehead) on the Labour Front Bench. If he thinks that “misinformed scaremongering” from Offshore Energies UK and from Aberdeen chamber of commerce does not deserve to be raised in this Chamber, he is gravely wrong. I think it is an indication of Labour’s position. It has already turned its back on the oil and gas industry in Scotland, and by the sound of things it will only get worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-20a.661.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-21", "file": "debates2024-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "b5f9e5e90714feb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.696.8", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Science, Innovation and Technology", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "Some 4.8 million people live in rural 5G notspots; rural areas are seven times more likely to have broadband speeds worse than those at base camp at Everest; one in five poorer homes have no internet to the home at all; and cardiac arrest phones and medical monitors still rely on analogue telephony.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.696.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-21", "file": "debates2024-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "b5f9e5e90714feb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.701.4", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "ice was at no point told to delay compensation payments by either an official or a Minister from any Government Department, and that at no point was it suggested that a delay would be of benefit to the Treasury”.—[Official Report, 19 February 2024 ; Vol. 745, c. 476.] That was on Monday. A note released by the former Post Office chair this morning appears to directly contradict that. I appreciate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.701.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-21", "file": "debates2024-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "b5f9e5e90714feb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.702.5", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "ned. Some died without ever getting the justice that they deserved. Fears of delay, or of cover up, are causing them anguish. Yesterday, Chris Head, once accused by the Post Office of owing more than £80,000, said this: “There is a lack of transparency…We need to see the correspondence between [the] Post Office, the department and UKGI because all of this time everything gets shrouded in secrecy”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.702.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-21", "file": "debates2024-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "b5f9e5e90714feb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.716.2", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "I hope it will be quite a short point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.716.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-21", "file": "debates2024-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "b5f9e5e90714feb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.719.1", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Reform)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "te rule Bills over the last year—for instance, last year she introduced the Schools (Gender and Parental Rights) Bill, which fell at the first hurdle because it did not get a Second Reading, with 40 people voting No and 34 voting Aye—we have the same right to oppose her Bill today if we think that it is not appropriate, relevant or necessary. She referred to the fact that she considers this to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-21", "file": "debates2024-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "b5f9e5e90714feb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.723.2", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Ceasefire in Gaza", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "e, once the SNP spokesperson has moved their motion. At the end of the debate, the House will have an opportunity to take a decision on the official Opposition amendment. If that is agreed to, there will be a final Question on the main motion, as amended. If the official Opposition amendment is not agreed to, I will call the Minister to move the Government amendment formally. That will engage the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.723.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-21", "file": "debates2024-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "b5f9e5e90714feb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.723.2", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Ceasefire in Gaza", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": " Order. I am going to finish. That will engage the provisions of Standing Order No. 31 , so the next vote will be on the original words in the SNP motion. If that is not agreed to, the House will have the opportunity to vote on the Government amendment. Proceeding in this way will allow a vote to take place, potentially, on the proposals from each of the three main parties. I can inform the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.723.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-21", "file": "debates2024-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "b5f9e5e90714feb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.723.2", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Ceasefire in Gaza", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": " will have the opportunity to vote on the Government amendment. Proceeding in this way will allow a vote to take place, potentially, on the proposals from each of the three main parties. I can inform the House—[Interruption.] Just let me finish. I can inform the House that there is a precedent for an official Opposition spokesperson being called second in the debate and moving an amendment before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.723.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-21", "file": "debates2024-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "b5f9e5e90714feb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.723.2", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Ceasefire in Gaza", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": " the House that the Clerk of the House will be placing in the Library a letter to me about today’s proceedings. I have asked for that letter to be made available in the Vote Office as soon as possible. Finally, I should tell the House that in my opinion the operation of Standing Order No. 31 , which governs the way amendments to Opposition day motions are dealt with, reflects an outdated approach—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.723.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-21", "file": "debates2024-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "b5f9e5e90714feb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.724.1", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Ceasefire in Gaza", "cue_speaker": "Owen Thompson", "cue_text": "Applause.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Thompson", "preceding_text": "to have the ability to put forward our business. We have already had a significant delay to the moving of this motion, which has significant interest, to the extent that we have dropped our second motion. Now, we appear to be doing things completely in a way that they have never been done before. May I ask for your advice: what is the point of an Opposition day if it is going to be done like this?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.724.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-21", "file": "debates2024-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "b5f9e5e90714feb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.728.2", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Ceasefire in Gaza", "cue_speaker": "Brendan O'Hara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brendan O'Hara", "preceding_text": " having expended so much political and diplomatic capital on defending and justifying Israel’s prosecution of this war, now find themselves stuck on the wrong side of global opinion. [Interruption.] Consequently, the UK’s international reputation has been so diminished that when the process of finding a just, lasting peace in the region begins, the UK will struggle to play a meaningful part in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.728.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-21", "file": "debates2024-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "b5f9e5e90714feb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.728.2", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Ceasefire in Gaza", "cue_speaker": "Brendan O'Hara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brendan O'Hara", "preceding_text": "er Centre, War Child, Unite the union, Unison, the King Centre, World Vision, WaterAid, Tearfund, Street Child, Start Network, Peace Direct, Mercy Corps, CIVICUS, and scores and scores more churches, non-governmental organisations, charities and individuals who have seen Israel completely abandon international humanitarian law by imposing collective punishment on a defenceless civilian population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.728.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-21", "file": "debates2024-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "b5f9e5e90714feb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.729.0", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Ceasefire in Gaza", "cue_speaker": "Brendan O'Hara", "cue_text": "Applause.", "preceding_speaker": "Brendan O'Hara", "preceding_text": " people from across these islands. And then we used our immensely privileged position as Members of this House to demand an immediate ceasefire. By supporting the SNP’s motion calling for that immediate ceasefire, this House can put itself on the side of peace, it can put itself on the side of justice, it can put itself on the side of the people, and it can put itself on the right side of history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.729.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-21", "file": "debates2024-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "b5f9e5e90714feb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.735.3", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Ceasefire in Gaza", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": "I am going to make some progress, because many Members will want to speak and I do not want to dominate the whole debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.735.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-21", "file": "debates2024-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "b5f9e5e90714feb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.736.3", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Ceasefire in Gaza", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": "I have been calling for the fighting to stop for weeks. The Leader of the Opposition has been calling for the fighting to stop for weeks. I say to the hon. Gentleman that I was in the west bank, and in Egypt, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia—that is how seriously we take the issue. I was also in Israel. None of us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.736.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-21", "file": "debates2024-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "b5f9e5e90714feb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.760.0", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Ceasefire in Gaza", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Gwynne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Gwynne", "preceding_text": "or an immediate ceasefire tonight, because the fighting needs to stop and it needs to stop now, but I will be doing so on the basis of the Opposition amendment (a), which was set out so eloquently by my right hon. Friend, the shadow Foreign Secretary. Words matter and it matters that we call for a ceasefire—not a unilateral ceasefire, but a ceasefire of both sides, otherwise it is not a ceasefire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.760.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-21", "file": "debates2024-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "b5f9e5e90714feb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.761.5", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Ceasefire in Gaza", "cue_speaker": "Steve Double", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Double", "preceding_text": "kely to do that. There was a ceasefire on 6 October , and Hamas broke it with the most appalling action in killing more than 1,200 Israelis and committing the most despicable gender-based violence, sexual assault and rape. The point has been made that the one thing glaringly missing from the SNP motion is an utter condemnation of the actions of Hamas on 7 October , and their gender-based violence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.761.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-21", "file": "debates2024-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "b5f9e5e90714feb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.767.1", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Ceasefire in Gaza", "cue_speaker": "Miriam Cates", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miriam Cates", "preceding_text": "ife in both Israel and Gaza, and we are all calling for a pause to the fighting to allow much more humanitarian aid to get through. But to call for an unconditional ceasefire now shows, I am afraid, a naive judgment of the situation on the ground. There is no moral equivalence between a bunch of murderous terrorists and rapists attacking civilians with glee for the sole purpose of inflicting evil.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.767.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-21", "file": "debates2024-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "b5f9e5e90714feb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.796.5", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Ceasefire in Gaza", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Last time I looked, those on the Government Benches had a majority in this House. If they do not like the amendments before them, they could vote this evening to defeat them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.796.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-21", "file": "debates2024-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "b5f9e5e90714feb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.796.5", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Ceasefire in Gaza", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "preceding_text": "ker. Last time I looked, those on the Government Benches had a majority in this House. If they do not like the amendments before them, they could vote this evening to defeat them. [Interruption.] But they have now decided, I understand, not to vote on them, so perhaps we have to ask whether they do still command a majority in this House and whether they are trying to hide behind some other reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.796.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-21", "file": "debates2024-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "b5f9e5e90714feb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.797.1", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Ceasefire in Gaza", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "preceding_text": "Absolutely given up governing. Mr Speaker is trying, I think, Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-21", "file": "debates2024-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "b5f9e5e90714feb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.797.3", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Ceasefire in Gaza", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "preceding_text": "There are a large number of Opposition Members who want to express their view this evening by being able to vote for an amendment in their name.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.797.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-21", "file": "debates2024-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "b5f9e5e90714feb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Ceasefire in Gaza", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for his point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.798.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-21", "file": "debates2024-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "b5f9e5e90714feb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Ceasefire in Gaza", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "points of order, but I suggest that Members allow me to speak first. Further to the hon. Gentleman’s point of order, I have explained that, as I understood it, there were going to be three votes tonight. The Government have withdrawn their amendment. The consequence is, as the hon. Gentleman says, that if the Labour party amendment is passed, it will be added to the SNP motion. He is right to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.798.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-21", "file": "debates2024-02-21c.xml", "sha256": "b5f9e5e90714feb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.799.2", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Ceasefire in Gaza", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "h, the leader of the SNP. The Speaker set out very clearly this morning the reasons for his decision to give the widest possible scope for different views to be heard and voted on. The hon. Member for Midlothian (Owen Thompson) , the SNP Chief Whip, knows that we would have been able to vote on all three propositions. However, because the Government motion has been withdrawn, that is not possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-21c.799.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-22", "file": "debates2024-02-22c.xml", "sha256": "4940fd64ac3064a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-22c.872.4", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "I will also come in at this point. I reiterate that I made a judgment call that did not end up in the position where I expected it to. I regret it and I apologise to the SNP—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-22c.872.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-26", "file": "debates2024-02-26b.xml", "sha256": "e3c04d16654b1cad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-26b.12.1", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Home Department", "cue_speaker": "Chris Philp", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Philp", "preceding_text": " protest. That is unacceptable. This morning, I met the chief constable and the police and crime commissioner of Staffordshire to make that clear. I also spoke this morning to the chair of the National Police Chiefs’ Council, Chief Constable Gavin Stephens, to make the same point. I am pleased to report to the House that four people have now been arrested in relation to the incident in Stoke city—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-26b.12.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-02-28", "file": "debates2024-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "ea0e28cb52d72399", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-28a.388.4", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Pedicabs (London) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "be clear that the regulatory framework’s objectives are to support a safe and responsible pedicab sector, and not potentially to kill it off... The Bill as drafted contains no safeguards to assure us on this point.” If my hon. Friend the Member for Cities of London and Westminster can provide the safeguards that will be contained in the Bill but are not in it at the moment, I am happy to give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-02-28a.388.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-03-01", "file": "debates2024-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "93b17393b1e70a40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-01a.591.0", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Prayers - [Mr Speaker in the Chair]", "cue_speaker": "Maria Caulfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Caulfield", "preceding_text": "lenges in his Bill which has gone through various iterations. The Bill as it stands is a genuine attempt to overcome these challenges, but its clauses raise considerable concerns and I will come on to them in detail shortly. The Government have rightly taken time to carefully consider our own position on these pitfalls and will be publishing a draft Bill on this topic for pre-legislative scrutiny—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-01a.591.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-03-06", "file": "debates2024-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "1e2a9e583d381e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-06b.837.4", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Ways and Means - Financial Statement and Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "Instead of going back to square one, the policies I announce today mean more investment, more jobs, better public services and lower taxes in a Budget for long-term growth. I start with the updated forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility, for which I thank Richard Hughes and his team. First, inflation. When the Prime Minister and I came into office, it was 11%. The latest figures show—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-06b.837.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-03-06", "file": "debates2024-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "1e2a9e583d381e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-06b.856.4", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "k to fiscal rules without complaint, to fight for the living standards of working people and to deliver a sustainable plan for growth. We say to the Chancellor and the Prime Minister that it is time to break the habit of 14 years, to stop the dithering, the delay and the uncertainty, and to confirm 2 May as the date of the next general election, because Britain deserves better and Labour is ready.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-06b.856.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-03-06", "file": "debates2024-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "1e2a9e583d381e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-06b.863.3", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Drew Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Drew Hendry", "preceding_text": "smallest possible step that could have been taken, is welcome, as is any further investment in life sciences. The Chancellor set a lot of store on productivity today—he is going to solve everything with productivity. Yet if we look back over the past 14 years, and indeed before that, we see that the UK has been exceptionally poor on productivity. The figures on productivity have not budged at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-06b.863.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-03-06", "file": "debates2024-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "1e2a9e583d381e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-06b.863.3", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Drew Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Drew Hendry", "preceding_text": "wth supposed to come from? We have not heard it mentioned here today. We do not know where it is. That £28 billion is needed. Labour advisers have told the Labour party that that £28 billion is needed. Everybody knows that that £28 billion a year is needed, yet no one in the Labour party is willing to make the investment that is needed to protect it. This is the abandonment of the just transition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-06b.863.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-03-06", "file": "debates2024-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "1e2a9e583d381e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-06b.863.3", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Drew Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Drew Hendry", "preceding_text": "o not know where it is. That £28 billion is needed. Labour advisers have told the Labour party that that £28 billion is needed. Everybody knows that that £28 billion a year is needed, yet no one in the Labour party is willing to make the investment that is needed to protect it. This is the abandonment of the just transition. [Interruption.] We are hearing chuntering from the Labour Front Benchers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-06b.863.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-03-06", "file": "debates2024-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "1e2a9e583d381e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-06b.863.3", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Drew Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Drew Hendry", "preceding_text": "eeded. Everybody knows that that £28 billion a year is needed, yet no one in the Labour party is willing to make the investment that is needed to protect it. This is the abandonment of the just transition. [Interruption.] We are hearing chuntering from the Labour Front Benchers. [Interruption.] Oh dear, imagine picking up on that one. Their big U-turn, their big abandonment of the just transition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-06b.863.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-03-06", "file": "debates2024-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "1e2a9e583d381e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-06b.867.3", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "Order. I was about to ask for order so that the hon. Gentleman could be heard, but I think that the noise is coming from immediately behind him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-06b.867.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-03-06", "file": "debates2024-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "1e2a9e583d381e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-06b.869.1", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "nteresting to follow the hon. Member for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey (Drew Hendry) . I was waiting to hear how the experiment with higher taxation is going. I invite the SNP to publish the figures showing how many of the top 10 philanthropists in Scotland five years ago are still paying tax in Scotland, and how the top 10 individual taxpayers in Scotland five years ago are doing now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-06b.869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-03-06", "file": "debates2024-03-06b.xml", "sha256": "1e2a9e583d381e05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-06b.908.0", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Blackford", "preceding_text": "eal-terms decline in public spending will be 2.3%. What is 2.3%? It is about £20 billion. We often hear people say that austerity has not happened. My goodness! Look at our constituents and the cuts that are taking place. Look at local authorities in England and the challenges they face. The Government are taking out £20 billion over the next few years. What is taking place is absolutely shocking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-06b.908.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-03-07", "file": "debates2024-03-07c.xml", "sha256": "fbec3b3972c50e51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-07c.986.3", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "try back for far too long. If the UK economy had grown at the average of the OECD rate since 2010, when the Conservatives came to office, it would now be £140 billion bigger than it is today. That is equivalent to £5,000 per household every year, and would mean an additional £50 billion in tax revenues to invest in our public services. Growth matters, but the Tories are incapable of delivering it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-07c.986.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-03-07", "file": "debates2024-03-07c.xml", "sha256": "fbec3b3972c50e51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-07c.990.2", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Mel Stride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mel Stride", "preceding_text": "of spending every year over the forecast period. That did not survive contact with reality. Indeed, she has little to say that is original. When she writes about economics, she has to cut and paste from Wikipedia. When she trumpeted her ruinous £28 billion spending plan, she ultimately had to U-turn and run for the hills. For this shadow Chancellor, when it is not cut and paste, it is cut and run.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-07c.990.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-03-07", "file": "debates2024-03-07c.xml", "sha256": "fbec3b3972c50e51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-07c.993.0", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Mel Stride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mel Stride", "preceding_text": " all the elements that feed into growth, the OBR has confirmed that we will be growing a little faster at certain times than was anticipated at the time of the autumn statement, and our growth will compare favourably with countries such as Germany. This debate is meant to be about making work pay, and the right hon. Member for Leeds West had very little —in fact, next to nothing—to say about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-07c.993.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-03-07", "file": "debates2024-03-07c.xml", "sha256": "fbec3b3972c50e51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-07c.993.2", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Mel Stride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mel Stride", "preceding_text": "You are thinking of the national minimum wage. The national living wage was a Conservative decision —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-07c.993.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-03-07", "file": "debates2024-03-07c.xml", "sha256": "fbec3b3972c50e51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-07c.993.2", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Mel Stride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mel Stride", "preceding_text": "You are thinking of the national minimum wage. The national living wage was a Conservative decision —[Interruption.] You did, but it is a pleasure to correct you on this occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-07c.993.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-03-07", "file": "debates2024-03-07c.xml", "sha256": "fbec3b3972c50e51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-07c.997.2", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Mel Stride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mel Stride", "preceding_text": "I am being asked to conclude, so I think I need to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-07c.997.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-03-11", "file": "debates2024-03-11c.xml", "sha256": "0cb02d592c40719a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-11c.40.2", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Gibraltar: UK-EU Negotiations", "cue_speaker": "David Rutley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Rutley", "preceding_text": "We are seeking a mobility arrangement with the Schengen area to facilitate flow at the Gibraltar-Spain border. The arrangement would remove checks from the Gibraltar-Spain border. Instead, those arriving in Gibraltar would pass through Gibraltar immigration, followed by Schengen immigration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-11c.40.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-03-11", "file": "debates2024-03-11c.xml", "sha256": "0cb02d592c40719a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-11c.51.4", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Budget Resolutions - Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Tan Dhesi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tan Dhesi", "preceding_text": "lericay (Mr Baron) for his intervention about what happened during the covid crisis. Does my hon. Friend agree that we would have had a lot more money for our public finances, for more doctors and nurses, if the Conservative Government had not been busy handing out billions of pounds’ worth of contracts to their friends and chums? That is one of the reasons we need a covid corruption commissioner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-11c.51.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-03-11", "file": "debates2024-03-11c.xml", "sha256": "0cb02d592c40719a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-11c.100.0", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Budget Resolutions - Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "George Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Freeman", "preceding_text": "which is the biggest public service driving the structural deficit. We need to introduce a much faster wave of innovation in artificial intelligence and all sorts of digital health, with earlier prevention and better diagnosis. In that way, we can reduce the appalling problem of pouring money in and getting less out on the ground. Time is very short, Mr Deputy Speaker, but I want just to conclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-11c.100.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-03-12", "file": "debates2024-03-12b.xml", "sha256": "5bb30b843b7931a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-12b.159.0", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Prisons and Probation: Foreign National Offenders", "cue_speaker": "Alex Chalk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Chalk", "preceding_text": " Under Labour’s scheme, which ran for three years, there were no licence conditions at all. Under our scheme there will be licence conditions. Secondly, Labour’s scheme operated in a blanket way across every prison. Ours is targeted and calibrated. Thirdly, and importantly, under this scheme there will be the opportunity for a gold command veto, where the governor has concerns about an individual—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-12b.159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-03-12", "file": "debates2024-03-12b.xml", "sha256": "5bb30b843b7931a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-12b.169.4", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Laura Trott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Laura Trott", "preceding_text": "d reform agenda that saved the Government £14 billion a year by 2014. It captured everything from buying printer paper collectively to managing Government projects better and digitising services. That agenda not only cut costs but improved productivity. Ahead of the pandemic, and under this Government, productivity in the private sector increased by an average of 0.7% a year between 2010 and 2019.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-12b.169.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-03-12", "file": "debates2024-03-12b.xml", "sha256": "5bb30b843b7931a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-12b.170.1", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Laura Trott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Laura Trott", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will see in the OBR figures that public sector net debt overall is expected to fall, and public sector net debt excluding the Bank of England is due to fall in the fourth and fifth year of the forecast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-12b.170.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-03-12", "file": "debates2024-03-12b.xml", "sha256": "5bb30b843b7931a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-12b.180.2", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Richard Thomson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Thomson", "preceding_text": "is nodding again, which is good. I look forward to some answers, and I will happily take an intervention. What parts of the enhanced social settlement in Scotland would the Labour party seek to take away? Is it people’s bus passes? Michael Marra MSP threatened to introduce tuition fees again. Would Labour reverse the Scottish child payment that is taking over 100,000 Scottish children out poverty?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-12b.180.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-03-12", "file": "debates2024-03-12b.xml", "sha256": "5bb30b843b7931a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-12b.250.0", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Edwards", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that this Conservative Budget has confirmed that the next Government will receive the worst economic inheritance since the second world war? Does she agree that the Tories should listen to our constituents, call a general election now and stop taking a wrecking ball to the economy on their way out the door?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-12b.250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-03-12", "file": "debates2024-03-12b.xml", "sha256": "5bb30b843b7931a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-12b.251.5", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Tulip Siddiq", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tulip Siddiq", "preceding_text": "Apologies, Mr Deputy Speaker. I will answer both interventions by saying that I know those on the Conservative Benches do not want to hear it, but if you make a pledge without the plan, you have to clarify where the money is coming from—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-12b.251.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-03-12", "file": "debates2024-03-12b.xml", "sha256": "5bb30b843b7931a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-12b.251.5", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Tulip Siddiq", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tulip Siddiq", "preceding_text": "untry will be carefully costed and fully funded, and it will always put working people first. The Conservatives have failed on growth, failed on living standards and delivered only stagnation and chaos. Labour’s economic plan will build on the pillars of stability, investment and reform: stability brought about by iron discipline and guarded by strong fiscal rules and robust economic institutions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-12b.251.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-03-12", "file": "debates2024-03-12b.xml", "sha256": "5bb30b843b7931a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-12b.252.0", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "preceding_text": " billion on protecting lives and livelihoods after covid. We all know that Putin’s war in Ukraine sent energy prices to unprecedented highs, and that this has had a huge impact on our economy. Since 2023 this Government have principally worked to three economic priorities: halving inflation, growing the economy and reducing the national debt. We have made good progress on each of those priorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-12b.252.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-03-12", "file": "debates2024-03-12b.xml", "sha256": "5bb30b843b7931a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-12b.253.1", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ah!”", "preceding_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "preceding_text": "iverpool, Walton (Dan Carden) , real household incomes overall have increased by 8% since 2010. But we all know that we can go further. The simplest and most effective way to do so is by reducing people’s taxes and getting rid of the double taxation on work, which means reducing national insurance. I was listening carefully to the shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, who is a man I rather like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-12b.253.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-03-12", "file": "debates2024-03-12b.xml", "sha256": "5bb30b843b7931a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-12b.256.1", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bim Afolami", "preceding_text": "sad thing about the one concrete plan that it did have is that there was a document listing all the projects under the £28 billion and going through every constituency. That was the only plan they had, but they have dropped it. They should talk to the right hon. Member for Doncaster North (Edward Miliband) as to whether he is happy about that. Labour Members are confused and I feel sorry for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-12b.256.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-03-13", "file": "debates2024-03-13b.xml", "sha256": "912cc958a07aef83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-13b.307.4", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Gas-fired Power Stations", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "As so often—the hon. Lady does it spectacularly well—she is completely and utterly wrong. Renewables are turned off, as she would say, because of constraints within the system, and gas is turned on because the system could not cope otherwise. That is why we have the transmission acceleration action plan and the connections action plan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-13b.307.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-03-13", "file": "debates2024-03-13b.xml", "sha256": "912cc958a07aef83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-13b.337.0", "colnum": "337", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions (Reduction in Rates) (No.2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": "ch to national insurance and easing the burden contrasts with what we saw under the previous Labour Governments, when we saw increases. We need to work collectively to be on the side of hard-pressed families right now. That is absolutely crucial. I could go back to the Budgets of Gordon Brown and list some of the calamities that took place, but what is the point? We have to speak about the fiscal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-13b.337.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-03-20", "file": "debates2024-03-20c.xml", "sha256": "5bffbbcef14975a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-20c.925.2", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More!", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "ice new powers to crack down on the people-smuggling gangs, he spent months campaigning and voting against it. But thanks to our new laws, 900 criminals have been arrested and 450 have been convicted, serving over 370 years behind bars. If it was up to him, those criminals would still be out on our streets. The truth is that, if he was not the Labour leader, he would still want to be their lawyer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-20c.925.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-03-21", "file": "debates2024-03-21c.xml", "sha256": "bee34ff76a217be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-21c.1036.4", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Transport", "cue_speaker": "Huw Merriman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Huw Merriman", "preceding_text": " the operator but Network Rail, and they involved weather-related issues as well as trespass and, sadly, suicides, which we need to minimise. We also have issues with restrictive contracts, and I would like change there. For example, Avanti is unique as an operator, in the sense that its drivers will not double-trip. They will do one return journey, but will not go over the same leg of rail twice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-21c.1036.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-03-21", "file": "debates2024-03-21c.xml", "sha256": "bee34ff76a217be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-21c.1043.3", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Transport", "cue_speaker": "Mark Harper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Harper", "preceding_text": "What the hon. Gentleman says is interesting. We made a commitment to take the money from the cancellation of the second phase of High Speed 2 to make £8.3 billion available for local road maintenance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-21c.1043.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-03-21", "file": "debates2024-03-21c.xml", "sha256": "bee34ff76a217be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-21c.1051.3", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "preceding_text": " of millions of pounds on new sites to house asylum seekers that will never be used. The truth is that if the Government were ready to implement the scheme, we would see the Bill back here next week. This is their timetable and their delay—no one else’s. I know the Leader of the House will be quick to herald this week’s inflation figures as some kind of proof that the Government’s plan is working.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-21c.1051.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-03-21", "file": "debates2024-03-21c.xml", "sha256": "bee34ff76a217be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-21c.1054.1", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Bob Blackman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Blackman", "preceding_text": "As the House may be aware, the Chairman of the Backbench Business Committee is not able to be here because his daughter-in-law is seriously ill in hospital, and it is right that he is by her side at this time. I am sure the whole House will wish her a speedy recovery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-21c.1054.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-03-22", "file": "debates2024-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "e5f99b65916cb74e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-22a.1190.5", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Greater London Low Emission Zone Charging (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gareth Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gareth Johnson", "preceding_text": "e stood to be Mayor, his manifesto did not mention the fact that he wanted to expand the ULEZ scheme right to the border, so he has no mandate from his manifesto. His transport plan had no mention of the expansion either, so the Mayor of London does not have a mandate for expanding the ULEZ scheme. I have heard people say, “Well, this is interfering with devolution. It is undermining devolution.”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-03-22a.1190.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-04-15", "file": "debates2024-04-15e.xml", "sha256": "7dcb7daa8bb8fa7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-15e.70.3", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Cass Review", "cue_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "preceding_text": "True leadership is not just about being careful with the words we use. I will not recite the many words that other Labour Members have used about trans issues. They say, for example, that it is factually inaccurate to say that only women have a cervix—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-15e.70.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-04-15", "file": "debates2024-04-15e.xml", "sha256": "7dcb7daa8bb8fa7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-15e.70.3", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Cass Review", "cue_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "preceding_text": "True leadership is not just about being careful with the words we use. I will not recite the many words that other Labour Members have used about trans issues. They say, for example, that it is factually inaccurate to say that only women have a cervix—[Interruption.] I am not naming them, but that seems an extraordinary things for a Labour Member to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-15e.70.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-04-15", "file": "debates2024-04-15e.xml", "sha256": "7dcb7daa8bb8fa7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-15e.70.3", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Cass Review", "cue_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "preceding_text": "emanding to be held in prisons that match their chosen gender. This Government, including me and many of my predecessors as Prisons Minister, set clear rules to ensure that situations such as the Karen White case are not repeated, so it was very troubling that Opposition Members did not appear to have the same concerns when it came to the placing of a trans double rapist, Isla Bryson, in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-15e.70.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-04-15", "file": "debates2024-04-15e.xml", "sha256": "7dcb7daa8bb8fa7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-15e.74.4", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Cass Review", "cue_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend’s observations about Members from other parts of the Chamber and their response to this are well made, frankly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-15e.74.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-04-15", "file": "debates2024-04-15e.xml", "sha256": "7dcb7daa8bb8fa7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-15e.77.2", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Cass Review", "cue_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "preceding_text": "ght healthcare and support to patients as quickly as possible. We also want to ensure that we are treating not just the condition, but the patient as a whole. As some of the complexity of the debates that we had this afternoon shows, young people are at the very heart of this. I think this is the final question, Madam Deputy Speaker, so I will end with the young people that we are concerned about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-15e.77.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-04-16", "file": "debates2024-04-16d.xml", "sha256": "eb9dc84861781ed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-16d.265.1", "colnum": "265", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrea Leadsom", "preceding_text": "dren start smoking because of peer pressure, and because of persistent marketing telling them that it is cool. I know from experience how hard it is, once hooked, to kick the habit. I took up smoking at the age of 14. My little sister was 12 at the time, and we used to buy 10 No. 6 and a little book of matches and —yes—smoke behind the bicycle shed, and at the bus stop on the way home from school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-16d.265.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-04-16", "file": "debates2024-04-16e.xml", "sha256": "2d3c13ea8ccdb607", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-16e.171.2", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Rail Manufacturing: Job Losses", "cue_speaker": "Huw Merriman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Huw Merriman", "preceding_text": "k about some of those projects. Of course, his point is completely relevant to the matter before us. The trans-Pennine route upgrade, for which there will be more Government investment than there was for the entirety of Crossrail, allows us to put an order in for TransPennine Express trains, so there will be more trains manufactured as well as better stations, longer platforms and more resilience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-16e.171.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-04-16", "file": "debates2024-04-16e.xml", "sha256": "2d3c13ea8ccdb607", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-16e.176.0", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Rail Manufacturing: Job Losses", "cue_speaker": "Paul Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Howell", "preceding_text": "ded in railways, we want to be in railways, and we always will be in railways. However, the Opposition are treating this as a political football, as the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne Central (Chi Onwurah) has just done. Everybody is saying that this is so simple and can be done at the stroke of a pen. It could not be done at the stroke of a pen when Nexus had the same situation in Newcastle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-16e.176.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-04-16", "file": "debates2024-04-16e.xml", "sha256": "2d3c13ea8ccdb607", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-16e.197.3", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Tobacco and Vapes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "preceding_text": " right hon. Member for South West Norfolk and recently declared candidate to be the next leader of the Conservative party, has said that the Bill is “profoundly unconservative”. A stopped clock is right twice a day, and I find myself agreeing with the former Prime Minister. This is absolutely an un-Conservative Bill. It is a Labour Bill, and we are delighted to see the Government bring it forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-16e.197.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-04-16", "file": "debates2024-04-16e.xml", "sha256": "2d3c13ea8ccdb607", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-16e.275.2", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Solar Supply Chains", "cue_speaker": "Alicia Kearns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alicia Kearns", "preceding_text": "or every one unit with wind energy. Of other renewable forms of energy, only biomass has a larger carbon footprint than solar. In a study by the World Bank comparing 240 countries, the UK was found to have the second lowest potential for solar photovoltaic potential—only Ireland was less suited to solar energy. That explains why I am so pale—there is not much sunshine in my English-Irish heritage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-16e.275.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-04-22", "file": "debates2024-04-22c.xml", "sha256": "39c459317d9c98cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-22c.632.3", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Levelling Up, Housing and Communities", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hoare", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hoare", "preceding_text": "Cornwall is one of the most beautiful areas of the country, second only to Dorset.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-22c.632.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-04-22", "file": "debates2024-04-22c.xml", "sha256": "39c459317d9c98cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-22c.692.0", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "That concludes consideration of the Lords message of 18 April relating to the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill. For clarity, I should say that the result of that Division means that the House has decided that the Reasons Committee should be appointed. I would normally say at that point that the Committee do withdraw immediately, but those in it have probably already gone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-22c.692.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-04-22", "file": "debates2024-04-22c.xml", "sha256": "39c459317d9c98cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-22c.739.0", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Hospice Funding", "cue_speaker": "Richard Drax", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Drax", "preceding_text": "£77 million deficit for the 2024 financial year. Nowhere is that pressure more real than at Julia’s House. Its chief executive, Martin Edwards, said that over 90% of its annual running costs were met by fundraising; the Government’s contribution remains low, at only 8%. That over-reliance on people’s generosity—which is enormous—will see Julia’s House face a budget deficit of £1 million this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-22c.739.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-04-22", "file": "debates2024-04-22c.xml", "sha256": "39c459317d9c98cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-22c.760.1", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alison Thewliss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alison Thewliss", "preceding_text": "appened several times today…that I had to stop myself with difficulty from crying in the middle of the street. Everyone was looking at me. I can’t endure it anymore.” These are the people who have been left behind by this Bill, and have now been left behind by the Labour party, which would not press the amendment further. I now turn to the one remaining amendment of all the amendments we have had.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-22c.760.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-04-29", "file": "debates2024-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "3cad272e2a1f9df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-29a.67.7", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill (Instructions)", "cue_speaker": "Marion Fellows", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marion Fellows", "preceding_text": "t Office.” This kind of thing never leaves those victims—they will carry it to their dying day. Robert Thomson’s mother died before her son spent two years going through the Scottish courts to be exonerated. Every time I have been in this place when any legal issue comes up, I am told that this Parliament is sovereign. Well, prove it: put the provisions of this Bill into Scotland-wide use as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-29a.67.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-04-29", "file": "debates2024-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "3cad272e2a1f9df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-29a.74.0", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill (Instructions)", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Lady has said herself that this is a matter of opinion. I put great confidence in the opinion of Professor Chalmers, but I come to a different conclusion, because the route to conviction lay through civil servants employed by the Scottish Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-29a.74.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-04-29", "file": "debates2024-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "3cad272e2a1f9df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-29a.78.3", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill (Instructions)", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Motherwell and Wishaw (Marion Fellows) clearly does not understand how prosecutions are done in the UK—sorry, in England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-29a.78.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-04-29", "file": "debates2024-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "3cad272e2a1f9df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-29a.79.1", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill (Instructions)", "cue_speaker": "Michael Shanks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Shanks", "preceding_text": "I am happy to agree with the hon. Lady about the responsibility of Post Office Ltd—I said that a few moments ago—but the prosecutions based on that Post Office evidence were taken forward by the Crown Office. There is responsibility to go around here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-29a.79.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-04-30", "file": "debates2024-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "951b690f14082f61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-30a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Port Talbot Steelworks", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "ot paying money to throw people out of work; we do not want to see anyone thrown out of work. Tata has made a decision to close blast furnaces based on the losses it is making. When it came to us, we said, “What can we do to keep people in work?” This was the plan it came up with. Secondly, the plan will have no impact on sovereign steelmaking. The hon. Lady, if she talks to Tata, will understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-30a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-04-30", "file": "debates2024-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "951b690f14082f61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-30a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Port Talbot Steelworks", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "ttleships are made using steel plate and that floating offshore wind turbines are also made using steel plate. Steel plate is not made by Tata at Port Talbot. Tata at Port Talbot produces coil, which is thin and not strong enough to make either battleships or floating offshore wind turbines. The hon. Lady asked about the number of people affected. We have been very clear about that from the start.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-30a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-04-30", "file": "debates2024-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "951b690f14082f61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-30a.177.1", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Hollinrake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Hollinrake", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention and for the amendment, which I will speak to in a moment. The Government have agreed to undertake a review of both primary and secondary markets, and I will deal with those issues later in my remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-30a.177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-04-30", "file": "debates2024-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "951b690f14082f61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-30a.180.5", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Hollinrake", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “You won’t be there.”", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Hollinrake", "preceding_text": "an others at preventing large-scale unauthorised resales. The ticket market is clearly evolving rapidly. Our review will therefore consider evidence from businesses and platforms operating in ticketing and resale markets, as well as venues, artists, enforcers and consumers. The Government intend the review to take place over nine months, after which we will consider any appropriate further action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-30a.180.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-04-30", "file": "debates2024-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "951b690f14082f61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-30a.186.7", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I completely agree, and my hon. Friend is absolutely right. There are terrible instances of all sorts of different scams, and—this is the honest truth—remarkably few prosecutions. Whether the number is two, four or five, it should be in the hundreds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-30a.186.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-04-30", "file": "debates2024-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "951b690f14082f61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-30a.186.7", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "ne: all local authorities have trading standards offices but many are now so depleted because of the state of local government finances that it is very difficult for anybody to get proper recompense and a deal. The Lords amendment—[Interruption.] I am sorry, I am not sure whether the Parliamentary Private Secretary, the hon. Member for Rother Valley (Alexander Stafford) , was seeking to intervene.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-04-30a.186.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-05-01", "file": "debates2024-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "b39a5ad8f0497311", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-01a.245.3", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Scotland", "cue_speaker": "Alister Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alister Jack", "preceding_text": "We absolutely do not fear an election, whether for Holyrood or a general election. As I watch the nationalists implode again, I say, “Bring it on.” I hear them say the same from a sedentary position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-01a.245.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-05-01", "file": "debates2024-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "b39a5ad8f0497311", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-01a.248.8", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Scotland", "cue_speaker": "John Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Lamont", "preceding_text": "The UK Government currently operate 13 successful bilateral youth mobility schemes with international parties. The countries with which we already have arrangements include Andorra, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Japan, Monaco, New Zealand, San Marino, South Korea, Taiwan and Uruguay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-01a.248.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-05-01", "file": "debates2024-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "b39a5ad8f0497311", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-01a.254.1", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "land South (Bridget Phillipson) , who just this morning said, “No, that’s not how it works.” Indeed, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has also said that the link between national insurance and public services funding is “illusory”—just like Labour’s economic plans. However, it is crystal clear that there is one party that will deliver tax cuts for working Britain, and it is the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-01a.254.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-05-01", "file": "debates2024-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "b39a5ad8f0497311", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-01a.284.2", "colnum": "284", "heading": "UK Trade Performance", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "the growth rate of England’s economy. If the SNP had achieved growth in line with England, it could have increased Scotland’s economy by £15 billion. Instead, that welfare economy means no growth, because of Scotland having the highest income tax rates in the UK, and higher wages in the public sector than in the private sector. The SNP’s policies are not helping. The hon. Gentleman asks questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-01a.284.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-05-02", "file": "debates2024-05-02b.xml", "sha256": "6a62186f70ae63cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-02b.368.1", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Bob Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Stewart", "preceding_text": "nd we need the situation to be sorted out so that people do not get away with criminal acts. The mafia are still rampant. When I was in Bosnia, I had to deal with three sides militarily and with the mafia, who were appalling. I do not want to go into how to deal with the mafia, because that is not the purpose of this debate, but they are always there and they are the people who do not want change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-02b.368.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-05-07", "file": "debates2024-05-07b.xml", "sha256": "df486593a6e17e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-07b.498.2", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": " promised a veterans ID card by the end of last year are still missing out, and around 500 veteran households are being made homeless every three months. Our armed forces cannot afford another five years of the Conservatives. With threats increasing and tensions growing, we must make Britain better defended. Labour’s plan for defence will reinforce homeland protections with a new strategic review.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-07b.498.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-05-07", "file": "debates2024-05-07b.xml", "sha256": "df486593a6e17e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-07b.503.1", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Martin Docherty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Docherty", "preceding_text": "Let me come to that in a second, but in common parlance, I think they are always called the “ordinary ranks”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-07b.503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-05-07", "file": "debates2024-05-07b.xml", "sha256": "df486593a6e17e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-07b.504.3", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Martin Docherty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Docherty", "preceding_text": "reason for that is not to replace NATO, but to understand that some of the complexities that EU members face—for example, when it comes to logistics, road design and bridge weights—could be tackled far more easily through the EU in partnership than, say, through NATO. That is because if we are trying to move a tank from the west to the eastern front, it has to get across France, Germany and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-07b.504.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-05-07", "file": "debates2024-05-07b.xml", "sha256": "df486593a6e17e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-07b.537.0", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Bob Seely", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Seely", "preceding_text": "e still have the cutting edge—and we have to be much smarter about what we do and how we do it. Most airmen and most people in the armed forces would tell us that the A400 is a pretty disastrous piece of kit. Maybe they have ironed out those problems in the past few years, but most people in the armed forces would much rather have kept the Hercules and run it with, I think, the C-14 or the Galaxy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-07b.537.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-05-07", "file": "debates2024-05-07b.xml", "sha256": "df486593a6e17e03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-07b.548.2", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Tamar Crossings", "cue_speaker": "Sheryll Murray", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sheryll Murray", "preceding_text": "Before I start, I give an apology: so many Members asked to intervene in this debate that I have decided not to take any interventions in the interests of time. I do apologise to the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-07b.548.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-05-08", "file": "debates2024-05-08c.xml", "sha256": "b01bb45cd43f4bf8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-08c.556.1", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Wales", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "My understanding is that the vast majority of 30 mph roads are now 20 mph. I have seen a figure suggesting that it is around 96%—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-08c.556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-05-08", "file": "debates2024-05-08c.xml", "sha256": "b01bb45cd43f4bf8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-08c.561.2", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Wales", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "I can absolutely assure the right hon. Lady that this Government, and the Conservative party, are completely committed to integrity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-08c.561.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-05-08", "file": "debates2024-05-08c.xml", "sha256": "b01bb45cd43f4bf8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-08c.567.2", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "Actually, just before we get on to that, the right hon. and learned Gentleman talked about a changed Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-08c.567.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-05-08", "file": "debates2024-05-08c.xml", "sha256": "b01bb45cd43f4bf8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-08c.596.0", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Passport e-Gates Network Outage", "cue_speaker": "Tom Pursglove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Pursglove", "preceding_text": "on, and allows us to understand more about passengers whom we currently know very little about before they set off for the United Kingdom, as opposed to trying to deal with issues at the border. We have also introduced e-visas, which are another important part of our programme to digitise the border. It is important to say that there will always be a physical Border Force presence at our airports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-08c.596.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-05-08", "file": "debates2024-05-08c.xml", "sha256": "b01bb45cd43f4bf8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-08c.636.0", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "ously, section 12 will not come into effect until the 2025 financial year, while the Bill will be on the statute book within a couple of months. What would be the point of conducting, within three months of that date, a review into something that will not come about until next year? If the new clause mentioned reviewing the impact of the current high levels of corporation tax, I would be with him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-08c.636.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-05-09", "file": "debates2024-05-09b.xml", "sha256": "d25f391dee318139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-09b.716.0", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Miners and Mining Communities", "cue_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hooray!”", "preceding_speaker": "Grahame Morris", "preceding_text": "ommittee recommendations published April 2021. A legacy of mining is industrial disease, cutting lives short, including those of my own father and grandfather, who were both coalminers who passed away in their 50s, before reaching retirement age. My father died in the belief that his pit pension would provide security for my ageing mother, who happens to be celebrating her 88th birthday on Sunday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-09b.716.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-05-09", "file": "debates2024-05-09b.xml", "sha256": "d25f391dee318139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-09b.738.0", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Miners and Mining Communities", "cue_speaker": "Allan Dorans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Allan Dorans", "preceding_text": "orking, proud men worked in incredibly difficult circumstances for what was a paltry wage—they often relied on meeting unattainable, backbreaking daily or weekly targets to earn a barely liveable wage. Despite those difficulties, the miners and their families created and sustained strong, supportive communities in the face of adversity and came together to look after each other in difficult times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-09b.738.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-05-09", "file": "debates2024-05-09b.xml", "sha256": "d25f391dee318139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-09b.739.2", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Miners and Mining Communities", "cue_speaker": "Allan Dorans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Allan Dorans", "preceding_text": " okay, Madam Deputy Speaker. I have had a drink, so I will continue. I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I totally agree that the system is terribly unjust and that those miners should be properly compensated. With great difficulty, I resist the temptation to mention the part played in the demise of the coal industry by the actions of the late former Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-09b.739.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-05-09", "file": "debates2024-05-09b.xml", "sha256": "d25f391dee318139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-09b.754.3", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Miners and Mining Communities", "cue_speaker": "Owen Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Thompson", "preceding_text": " It has been drafted, so all the Government need to do is support it and we could put that pardon in place to mirror the one established by the Scottish Government. I hope we will see that happen. I genuinely hope that if this Government do not do that, the next one will. However, I wrote to the right hon. Member for Islington North about my Bill in December and I have not yet received a response.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-09b.754.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-05-13", "file": "debates2024-05-13c.xml", "sha256": "c2973f470aba1b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-13c.55.0", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Agriculture", "cue_speaker": "Tim Farron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Farron", "preceding_text": " year. Therefore, there is a range of things that are the fault of this Government which put our farmers at risk and under pressure, and seriously put at risk our ability to feed ourselves in this country and care for our environment. Then there are some things that are not the Government’s fault. I do not blame the Government for the weather, I am sure the Minister will be pleased to hear me say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-13c.55.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-05-21", "file": "debates2024-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "4a5430b4f4fad1da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-21a.732.6", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Energy Security and Net Zero", "cue_speaker": "Dave Doogan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dave Doogan", "preceding_text": "Slightly more enthusiasm might have been welcomed by people living in England in cold and draughty houses. Nevertheless, it is not simply our extensive ambition that leaves the UK behind Scotland, but our delivery, too. Since 2007—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-21a.732.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-05-21", "file": "debates2024-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "4a5430b4f4fad1da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-21a.799.1", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sharon Hodgson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sharon Hodgson", "preceding_text": "emails from those fans, on our television screens and maybe on the front pages of newspapers. We have to be prepared for that, and I am sure that the Minister would be sad to see it. If the Government are truly committed to another review, I know that Lord Moynihan—as we have heard, a highly respected Conservative Lord and a former Minister—has already been recommended to them as a possible chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-05-21a.799.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-17", "file": "debates2024-07-17f.xml", "sha256": "022a19a32ef2d3dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-17f.35.5", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Prayers - [Mr Speaker in the Chair]", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "ith the same respect. I also wish to give some advice about seeking to speak in the Chamber. I take into account a number of factors when determining who to call. One of those is how often a Member speaks. In other words, if you have spoken much more than colleagues, others will be called before you; I ask Jim Shannon to remember that. [Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”] I think that falls on deaf ears—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-17f.35.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-17", "file": "debates2024-07-17f.xml", "sha256": "022a19a32ef2d3dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-17f.43.3", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "preceding_text": "e putting into context how I came to be moving the motion on the King’s Speech this afternoon. Last Thursday morning, I was standing outside the Library minding my own business, watching somewhat bewildered hon. Members wandering up and down the corridors, tentatively putting their heads into the odd room that may or may not have been a broom cupboard. And they were actually the returning Members!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-17f.43.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-17", "file": "debates2024-07-17f.xml", "sha256": "022a19a32ef2d3dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-17f.43.3", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "preceding_text": "with as many as 85% of buildings destroyed or damaged. It paid more than its fair share during that conflict. So I am proud of my communities and their history, and I want the content of the Gracious Speech to be part of their future. As much as I would like to think that the Bootle constituency having the largest majority in the country, so I am told, is down to my character, charm and charisma —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-17f.43.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-17", "file": "debates2024-07-17f.xml", "sha256": "022a19a32ef2d3dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-17f.43.3", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "preceding_text": "ed through the barracks to the stores. My conversation with a member of personnel who, it must be noted, was from the army went as follows: “Good morning, sir. How can I help you?” “Good morning. I’m here to be measured up for a uniform.” “And which service will you be with serving with, sir?” “The Royal Air Force.” “In that case, sir, you’ll be needing a set of silk pyjamas and a smoking jacket.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-17f.43.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-17", "file": "debates2024-07-17f.xml", "sha256": "022a19a32ef2d3dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-17f.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "o be tapped on the shoulder and offered a junior ministerial role. Then, you will find yourself attending Cabinet, and then in the Cabinet. Then, when the Prime Minister’s position becomes untenable, you might end up being called to the highest office, and before you know it, you have a bright future behind you and are left wondering whether you can credibly be an elder statesman at the age of 44.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-17f.49.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-17", "file": "debates2024-07-17f.xml", "sha256": "022a19a32ef2d3dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-17f.61.0", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. I call the Leader of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-17f.61.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-17", "file": "debates2024-07-17f.xml", "sha256": "022a19a32ef2d3dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-17f.69.1", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Flynn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Flynn", "preceding_text": " is enormous. They have a parliamentary majority that will go down in history, and that majority affords them something incredibly important: the ability to deliver change. What that change looks like, and perhaps more importantly what it feels like, for people in their homes is so important. My colleagues and I on the SNP Benches will do everything we possibly can to be as constructive as we can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-17f.69.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-18", "file": "debates2024-07-18f.xml", "sha256": "cde30b4a145700a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-18f.151.4", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Post Office Horizon Scandal", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Hollinrake", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Hollinrake", "preceding_text": "million has been paid to over 2,800 claimants across the scheme, I must push the Government for more detail on when the redress payments set out by the Horizon convictions redress scheme can be expected—we were told that it would be by July. I also note that the Department for Business and Trade has said that it “continues to work” on the new Horizon convictions redress scheme. I ask the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-18f.151.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-18", "file": "debates2024-07-18f.xml", "sha256": "cde30b4a145700a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-18f.157.3", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Chris Philp", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Philp", "preceding_text": "anded as the grey belt. Renaming whole swathes of green belt as grey belt is a piece of shameless spin that would make even Peter Mandelson blush. When will the Government come to the House to explain their plans for the removal of green-belt protections? The Chancellor also made some outlandish claims about the economy and public finances. The economy is in fact in fantastic condition. Inflation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-18f.157.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-18", "file": "debates2024-07-18f.xml", "sha256": "cde30b4a145700a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-18f.162.2", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "preceding_text": " agreed to planning applications for more solar in the past week than—taken together—has ever happened in our country’s history before and we have begun the process to establish Great British Energy. I share the hon. Lady’s frustrations about the quality of water in this country, and it falls to this Government—how can I put it?—to clean up some of the mess of the previous Government in this area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-18f.162.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-18", "file": "debates2024-07-18f.xml", "sha256": "cde30b4a145700a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-18f.192.0", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Clean Energy Superpower Mission", "cue_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "preceding_text": "May I start by congratulating the right hon. Lady on her recent engagement? I wish her and her fiancé all the best for the future. We may disagree on some issues, but I believe this Government and the right hon. Lady can at least share a belief in long honeymoons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-18f.192.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-18", "file": "debates2024-07-18f.xml", "sha256": "cde30b4a145700a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-18f.201.3", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Clean Energy Superpower Mission", "cue_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "preceding_text": "t out in our manifesto, through £8.3 billion from Great British Energy and over £7 billion from our national wealth fund. The truth is that there is massive debate in the House about licensing. The right hon. Gentleman will not have been at the debate when we discussed these issues, but the difference it makes to how much of our gas demand is produced domestically is that under the old Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-18f.201.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-18", "file": "debates2024-07-18f.xml", "sha256": "cde30b4a145700a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-18f.264.1", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Richard Burgon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Burgon", "preceding_text": "bour Government, satisfaction levels with our NHS were at record highs. While it was the Welsh trade unionist and socialist Aneurin Bevan, who was briefly expelled from the Labour party and came back in, who created our national health service, the Conservatives voted against the creation of a national health service over 20 times. That is one of the reasons they could not be trusted with the NHS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-18f.264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-18", "file": "debates2024-07-18f.xml", "sha256": "cde30b4a145700a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-18f.269.1", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "James Cartlidge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Cartlidge", "preceding_text": ", but we did hear some of that in his opening remarks. I am afraid that that excuse will not wash, though. Inflation is at 2% and on target; the economy is growing at a healthy rate and ahead of our competitors; wages are rising; unemployment is almost half what it was in 2010, when we took power; and the deficit is forecast to fall to just over 1% of GDP by the end of the current forecast period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-18f.269.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-19", "file": "debates2024-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "cbf8e07b542acc84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-19b.316.0", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Planning, the Green Belt and Rural Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "tuencies. I will not read out the long list of all the Cabinet members who have been opposing planning in their backyard, including the Housing Minister. Many of them thought that they would get into government and concrete over lots of Tory constituencies. Three weeks ago, just 15% of the green belt was in Labour constituencies. Now it is 50%. They are not Tory constituencies now—they are Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-19b.316.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-19", "file": "debates2024-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "cbf8e07b542acc84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-19b.341.0", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Planning, the Green Belt and Rural Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Alicia Kearns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alicia Kearns", "preceding_text": "use it may not be known that service runs deep in south Lincolnshire. In world war two, our communities on their own raised enough money for a Spitfire to fight for our country. It is also in our communities where the apple dropped for Sir Isaac Newton in 1687. And a long, long time ago, Bytham castle was known to have a Lady Alicia, the lady of Bytham. I suspect I shall not be getting that title.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-19b.341.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-19", "file": "debates2024-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "cbf8e07b542acc84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-19b.351.1", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Planning, the Green Belt and Rural Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Nokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Nokes", "preceding_text": "—to rectify the developer’s problems. In my constituency, we have sometimes seen houses torn down because the build quality was not good enough. Let us ensure that we do not see a repeat of that. While we are talking about new-build estates, can we solve the issue of estate management companies ripping off homeowners and not bringing estates up to the quality needed if the estate is to be adopted?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-19b.351.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-19", "file": "debates2024-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "cbf8e07b542acc84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-19b.368.1", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Planning, the Green Belt and Rural Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Steve Reed", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Reed", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, there is not enough time for me to give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-19b.368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-19", "file": "debates2024-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "cbf8e07b542acc84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-19b.369.1", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Planning, the Green Belt and Rural Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Steve Reed", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Reed", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry, but there are only three minutes left and I need to cover the points that have been raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-19b.369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-19", "file": "debates2024-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "cbf8e07b542acc84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-19b.369.1", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Planning, the Green Belt and Rural Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Steve Reed", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Reed", "preceding_text": "but there are only three minutes left and I need to cover the points that have been raised. [Interruption.] They had their time. We will do that by switching on GB Energy as we make Britain a green energy superpower. We will speed up the building of flood defences to protect rural homes and farms, and rebuild our NHS with 40,000 more appointments every week, 8,500 more mental health professionals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-19b.369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-19", "file": "debates2024-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "cbf8e07b542acc84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-19b.369.1", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Planning, the Green Belt and Rural Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Steve Reed", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Reed", "preceding_text": "ption.] They had their time. We will do that by switching on GB Energy as we make Britain a green energy superpower. We will speed up the building of flood defences to protect rural homes and farms, and rebuild our NHS with 40,000 more appointments every week, 8,500 more mental health professionals—[Interruption]—and a hub in every rural community to tackle loneliness and the mental health crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-19b.369.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-22", "file": "debates2024-07-22e.xml", "sha256": "b5101321614f718d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-22e.371.0", "colnum": "371", "heading": "NATO and European Political Community Meetings", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "do so again. I took the deliberate decision when I was Leader of the Opposition not to depart on Ukraine, because I took, and continue to take, the view that the only winner in that circumstance is Putin, who wants to see division. It is very important for Ukraine to see that continued unity across this House. We will of course work with others. In relation to the point made by the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-22e.371.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-23", "file": "debates2024-07-23e.xml", "sha256": "f03f2c07e061b872", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-23e.531.1", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Immigration and Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "James Cleverly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Cleverly", "preceding_text": "spectacularly failed to recruit those officers, has not backed officers when they said they needed to do more stop and search, and has seen knife crime accelerate, distorting the whole national picture. I really hope that the right hon. Lady takes this seriously. She can chuckle all she likes, but this is about kids getting stabbed on the streets of London, and she should take this more seriously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-23e.531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-23", "file": "debates2024-07-23e.xml", "sha256": "f03f2c07e061b872", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-23e.535.3", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Immigration and Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": " to Rwanda. If they are now lining up to do to the Tory party what they have already done to the Home Office and the country, well, frankly, they deserve each other. Every one of them championed that policy on Rwanda—although the shadow Home Secretary, to be fair to him, did notoriously describe it as “batshit” crazy. Well, maybe that is what someone needs to be to stand for Tory leader right now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-23e.535.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-23", "file": "debates2024-07-23e.xml", "sha256": "f03f2c07e061b872", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-23e.555.1", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Immigration and Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": " that the Children and Young Persons Act 1969 began intermediate treatment orders, which essentially rewarded young people who had committed crimes with the kind of community activities that my hon. Friend describes. People were sent to the Brecon Beacons when their law-abiding neighbours had to make do with a week in Clacton. I mean no disrespect to Clacton or its representative, I hasten to add.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-23e.555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-23", "file": "debates2024-07-23e.xml", "sha256": "f03f2c07e061b872", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-23e.576.3", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Immigration and Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Richard Tice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Tice", "preceding_text": "ople were living in a house with two bedrooms. It was a Bulgarian family, and only one member of that family spoke any English at all. They said, “We’re here to claim benefits—your health benefits and housing benefits. We would prefer it in Bulgaria, but we want to take your benefits and then send the money home.” That is what is going on up and down the country, and it is completely unacceptable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-23e.576.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-24", "file": "debates2024-07-24c.xml", "sha256": "b3629912927cc289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-24c.772.3", "colnum": "772", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gagan Mohindra", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gagan Mohindra", "preceding_text": "iend the Member for Solihull West and Shirley (Dr Shastri-Hurst) has significant experience of three separate careers, and I know he will be a strong advocate for his community. I applaud his focus on early years. I now come to the hon. Member for Harlow (Chris Vince) . I was a councillor in the neighbouring area before I came to this place, so I know your patch well. Your experience as a teacher—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-24c.772.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-24", "file": "debates2024-07-24e.xml", "sha256": "db549d9f2a41deb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-24e.772.3", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Education and Opportunity", "cue_speaker": "Gagan Mohindra", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gagan Mohindra", "preceding_text": "iend the Member for Solihull West and Shirley (Dr Shastri-Hurst) has significant experience of three separate careers, and I know he will be a strong advocate for his community. I applaud his focus on early years. I now come to the hon. Member for Harlow (Chris Vince) . I was a councillor in the neighbouring area before I came to this place, so I know your patch well. Your experience as a teacher—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-24e.772.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-25", "file": "debates2024-07-25e.xml", "sha256": "82e4eb4bd04a22a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-25e.791.6", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Cabinet Office", "cue_speaker": "Ian Lavery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Lavery", "preceding_text": "I thank the Minister for that answer. Sadly, the previous Government dragged their heels with regard to this absolute tragedy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-25e.791.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-25", "file": "debates2024-07-25e.xml", "sha256": "82e4eb4bd04a22a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-25e.809.5", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Chris Philp", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Philp", "preceding_text": "reasonable two-child cap on welfare payments. Then, on Tuesday, the Government whipped their MPs to vote against scrapping it. There was a significant Back-Bench rebellion, less than three weeks after the election—not even Theresa May managed a rebellion within three weeks of an election, so it was a bit of a first. At this rate, the Government’s majority will be gone by about Easter of next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-25e.809.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-25", "file": "debates2024-07-25e.xml", "sha256": "82e4eb4bd04a22a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-25e.817.5", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Aww.”", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "preceding_text": "I join my hon. Friend in thanking teachers right across the country for what they have done this academic year. Given my new duties, I missed my child’s very last day at primary school on Tuesday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-25e.817.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-25", "file": "debates2024-07-25e.xml", "sha256": "82e4eb4bd04a22a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-25e.862.0", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Code of Conduct and Modernisation Committee", "cue_speaker": "Ellie Chowns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ellie Chowns", "preceding_text": "Given that this is a Select Committee that you are setting up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-25e.862.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-25", "file": "debates2024-07-25e.xml", "sha256": "82e4eb4bd04a22a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-25e.878.0", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Code of Conduct and Modernisation Committee", "cue_speaker": "Shaun Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shaun Davies", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. It is a real privilege to make my maiden speech with you in the Chair, and a delight to follow the hon. Member for Spelthorne (Lincoln Jopp) and my hon. Friend the Member for Ipswich (Jack Abbott) . I cannot promise that my speech will be as witty as theirs, but I do support a proper premier league team in Manchester United—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-25e.878.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-25", "file": "debates2024-07-25e.xml", "sha256": "82e4eb4bd04a22a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-25e.909.1", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Code of Conduct and Modernisation Committee", "cue_speaker": "Chris Philp", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Philp", "preceding_text": "n. Friend the Member for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich (Patrick Spencer) is apparently going to be the new Ed Sheeran of Parliament—that is what I took from his speech, anyway—and his mum is with us today. I did speak to a Labour Member whose mum was also here during her maiden speech a few days ago. Apparently, her mum fell asleep during the preceding speeches. You can take that how you will.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-25e.909.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-25", "file": "debates2024-07-25e.xml", "sha256": "82e4eb4bd04a22a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-25e.912.1", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Code of Conduct and Modernisation Committee", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "preceding_text": "ly the modus operandi for which we are hoping. We do not expect to be doing that work ourselves, or duplicating it. The Standards Committee, which was raised earlier, has a completely distinct and different role because of the relationship with the lay members and with the Standards Commissioner. As I have said to the Leader of the House privately—I am sorry; I mean the shadow Leader of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-25e.912.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-26", "file": "debates2024-07-26d.xml", "sha256": "f021ccbb3869c0a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-26d.977.1", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Making Britain a Clean Energy Superpower", "cue_speaker": "Alan Gemmell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Gemmell", "preceding_text": "eech in this debate on energy policy—a subject of great importance to my constituents and people across the UK. I congratulate you on your recent election. I pay tribute to other hon. Members who have taken an early opportunity to give their maiden speeches, including the hon. Member for South Northamptonshire (Sarah Bool) . It is the first time I have followed someone on the road to canonisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-26d.977.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-29", "file": "debates2024-07-29b.xml", "sha256": "269829b3f7a332ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-29b.1117.1", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Adam Jogee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Jogee", "preceding_text": "hened by this Labour Government. I also want to acknowledge the support of my in-laws, who are watching these proceedings from Northern Ireland. The last really important speech I gave was on my wedding day. Memories of that speech are the reason Alison and my family are very pleased indeed that I have an unofficial time limit—although I am pushing it. My speech as a new husband lasted 28 minutes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-29b.1117.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-29", "file": "debates2024-07-29e.xml", "sha256": "4493a2dd7ea7c26f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-29e.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Public Spending: Inheritance", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "I thank the Chancellor for advance sight of her statement, and I echo her thoughts for the people and emergency services of Southport. Today, she will fool absolutely no one with a shameless attempt to lay the grounds for tax rises that she did not have the courage to tell us about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-29e.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-29", "file": "debates2024-07-29e.xml", "sha256": "4493a2dd7ea7c26f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-29e.1040.3", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Public Spending: Inheritance", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "he has chosen to accept those recommendations, but before doing so, was she advised by officials to ask unions for productivity enhancements before accepting above-inflation pay awards, to help to pay for those awards, as the last Government did? If she was advised to do that, why did she reject that advice and simply tell the unions, “Here’s your money, thanks for your support”? Will she confirm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-29e.1040.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-29", "file": "debates2024-07-29e.xml", "sha256": "4493a2dd7ea7c26f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-29e.1040.3", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Public Spending: Inheritance", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Hunt", "preceding_text": "or GB Energy, £8.3 billion for the national wealth fund and around £10 billion for public sector pay awards. That is £24 billion in 24 days: around £1 billion for every day she has been in office, leaving taxpayers to pick up the tab for her profligacy. Doing it this way, she makes the first major misstep of her time as Chancellor, because that great office of state depends more than any on trust—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-29e.1040.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-07-29", "file": "debates2024-07-29e.xml", "sha256": "4493a2dd7ea7c26f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-29e.1043.0", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Public Spending: Inheritance", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "The shadow Chancellor had an opportunity this afternoon to admit what he had done, the legacy he had left. Instead, he takes no responsibility. The word the country was looking for today was sorry. He could not find those words; no wonder the Conservative party so definitively lost the trust of the British people at the election three and a half weeks ago. We say never again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-07-29e.1043.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-09-05", "file": "debates2024-09-05c.xml", "sha256": "0ae5c9ddc8f511c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-09-05c.488.1", "colnum": "488", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Uma Kumaran", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Uma Kumaran", "preceding_text": "th open arms so that they could rebuild their lives and flourish, and it was the east end that they first chose to call their home. This is the London that I know and love, and it is the story of Britain and British values at its best: outward looking and compassionate; a country where people can work hard and triumph. Mum and dad, thank you for everything: your endurance and your will to succeed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-09-05c.488.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-09-05", "file": "debates2024-09-05h.xml", "sha256": "9ae9804a7b5b00d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-09-05h.478.0", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Great British Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "s with the average annual demand of those homes, but of course renewables are intermittent. It seems such an obvious thing to say, but we have to say it: sometimes the sun is shining, sometimes the wind is blowing, and sometimes we have enough water for hydroelectric power, but sometimes not. In the winter months, solar makes very little contribution—it makes no contribution in the dark, at night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-09-05h.478.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-09-10", "file": "debates2024-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "c5b81c6289b5b051", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-09-10a.719.1", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "he Government? The hon. Member for Hackney South and Shoreditch (Dame Meg Hillier) alluded to the fact that there should have been a serious debate about tapering, or something similar. I will tell the House what this is all about. This is about a punishment beating. The New Labour Government decided they had to make their case that the public finances were in a dire state and that there was this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-09-10a.719.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-09-10", "file": "debates2024-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "c5b81c6289b5b051", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-09-10a.754.6", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Winter Fuel Payment", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": "one of the first acts of this awful, cruel and ideological Labour Government would be to assault the nation’s pensioners by removing winter fuel payments? Let us be candid: the nation’s pensioners are falling victim to an ideological decision—a betrayal by Labour as it succumbs to shovelling gross amounts of public spending into the pockets of many of its union paymasters. It is quite interesting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-09-10a.754.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-07", "file": "debates2024-10-07a.xml", "sha256": "14bc684f1f3bf929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-07a.85.1", "colnum": "85", "heading": "NHS Performance: Darzi Investigation", "cue_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "preceding_text": "I strongly agree. Although health is devolved, I look forward to working constructively and closely with Governments right across the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, because every part of the health system in every part of the UK is going through challenges. We are determined to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-07a.85.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-07", "file": "debates2024-10-07a.xml", "sha256": "14bc684f1f3bf929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-07a.85.5", "colnum": "85", "heading": "NHS Performance: Darzi Investigation", "cue_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "preceding_text": "The shadow Secretary of State says that it is nonsense. She is very upset about it, so let me point out to her that earlier this year, the Conservative former dentistry Minister, who served in her team, under her leadership, proposed a monthly £10 insurance fee to see a dentist. That is what the Conservatives were planning before the election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-07a.85.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-07", "file": "debates2024-10-07a.xml", "sha256": "14bc684f1f3bf929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-07a.88.3", "colnum": "88", "heading": "NHS Performance: Darzi Investigation", "cue_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "preceding_text": "lection to rescue the NHS and turn it around, and that is what we will do. I appreciate that the shadow Health Secretary must be embarrassed by all this, not just by the state that she and her Conservative predecessors left the NHS in, but by what Conservative Members have been saying. I was going to say, “Members who are sat behind her,” but they are actually not—I think they are hiding in shame.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-07a.88.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-07", "file": "debates2024-10-07a.xml", "sha256": "14bc684f1f3bf929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-07a.88.3", "colnum": "88", "heading": "NHS Performance: Darzi Investigation", "cue_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "preceding_text": "g is saying… The Conservative government put a lot of money into the NHS, the record is there for all to see… I’m not one of those who is seeking to attack…the Labour Party on the NHS.” He is going for my vote, but sadly—or gladly—I am not qualified to vote in that particular election. Perhaps the shadow Health Secretary can tell us what the shadow Foreign Secretary meant when he said we were not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-07a.88.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-07", "file": "debates2024-10-07a.xml", "sha256": "14bc684f1f3bf929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-07a.88.3", "colnum": "88", "heading": "NHS Performance: Darzi Investigation", "cue_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "preceding_text": "’m not one of those who is seeking to attack…the Labour Party on the NHS.” He is going for my vote, but sadly—or gladly—I am not qualified to vote in that particular election. Perhaps the shadow Health Secretary can tell us what the shadow Foreign Secretary meant when he said we were not—[Interruption.] She is clearly enjoying this. Was the shadow Foreign Secretary speaking for the shadow Cabinet?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-07a.88.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-07", "file": "debates2024-10-07a.xml", "sha256": "14bc684f1f3bf929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-07a.93.1", "colnum": "93", "heading": "NHS Performance: Darzi Investigation", "cue_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "preceding_text": "llion people per day, a 25% increase from the days of the last Labour Government. That is why I am always a little concerned whenever the right hon. Gentleman harks back so far; I do not think he has quite understood the change in capacity and scale of the national health service since we inherited it from the last Labour Government. The majority of those 1.6 million people will receive good care.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-07a.93.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-07", "file": "debates2024-10-07a.xml", "sha256": "14bc684f1f3bf929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-07a.94.4", "colnum": "94", "heading": "NHS Performance: Darzi Investigation", "cue_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "preceding_text": "my former colleagues to sit on that review, because he understands that we bring an enormous amount of knowledge, experience, and—dare I say it?—some hard knocks from working in those massively complex Departments. The right hon. Gentleman knows me. We have done good-humoured battle over the Dispatch Boxes for a long time now, and had he come to me and asked me to help him, I genuinely would have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-07a.94.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-07", "file": "debates2024-10-07a.xml", "sha256": "14bc684f1f3bf929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-07a.94.6", "colnum": "94", "heading": "NHS Performance: Darzi Investigation", "cue_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "preceding_text": "I will listen to the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-07a.94.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-07", "file": "debates2024-10-07a.xml", "sha256": "14bc684f1f3bf929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-07a.94.7", "colnum": "94", "heading": "NHS Performance: Darzi Investigation", "cue_speaker": "Peter Prinsley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Shadow Secretary of State.”", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Prinsley", "preceding_text": "I am grateful that you have given way, and thank you for that. I have been sitting listening to you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-07a.94.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-07", "file": "debates2024-10-07a.xml", "sha256": "14bc684f1f3bf929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-07a.95.2", "colnum": "95", "heading": "NHS Performance: Darzi Investigation", "cue_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "preceding_text": " not protecting structures, bureaucracy and vested interests in the NHS. As I have said repeatedly, we will scrutinise constructively and support any meaningful efforts to reform the NHS to improve outcomes and experiences for patients, because we all want the NHS to thrive. However, after nearly 100 days, there has not been anything yet for us to scrutinise or indeed support from this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-07a.95.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-07", "file": "debates2024-10-07a.xml", "sha256": "14bc684f1f3bf929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-07a.97.5", "colnum": "97", "heading": "NHS Performance: Darzi Investigation", "cue_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "preceding_text": "eed now and in the future. The plan was described by NHS England’s chief executive as “one of the most seminal moments in our 75-year history.” Crikey, even the right hon. Gentleman supported it. Yet this supposedly independent investigation failed to mention the plan once. Will the right hon. Gentleman confirm that this Government stand by this plan and will fund it as the Conservatives would do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-07a.97.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-07", "file": "debates2024-10-07a.xml", "sha256": "14bc684f1f3bf929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-07a.99.0", "colnum": "99", "heading": "NHS Performance: Darzi Investigation", "cue_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "preceding_text": "We entered into that negotiation in good faith, and I gently remind Labour Members of Parliament who were here before the last election that again and again I asked the right hon. Gentleman and Labour MPs to condemn the strike actions and they refused to do so, because we know of their links to their union paymasters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-07a.99.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-07", "file": "debates2024-10-07a.xml", "sha256": "14bc684f1f3bf929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-07a.99.0", "colnum": "99", "heading": "NHS Performance: Darzi Investigation", "cue_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "preceding_text": "Gentleman and Labour candidates during the election campaign. Labour candidates in Watford, Hillingdon, Milton Keynes, Leeds and Basingstoke made promises to their voters that are now at risk under this Labour Government. Patients in Chelsea and Fulham, Truro, Harlow, Plymouth and Kettering will not get the investment and upgrades that they deserve, despite the promises of their Labour candidates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-07a.99.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-07", "file": "debates2024-10-07a.xml", "sha256": "14bc684f1f3bf929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-07a.105.2", "colnum": "105", "heading": "NHS Performance: Darzi Investigation", "cue_speaker": "Ben Goldsborough", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Shame!”", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Goldsborough", "preceding_text": "engineering, with its latest models keeping South Norfolk at the cutting edge of global motorsport and design. I recently had the privilege—perhaps the thrill—of being let loose on the Hethel test track with the stunning new Lotus Emira. That was my best Jeremy Clarkson impression, by the way. I will not be entering the British Grand Prix anytime soon; I can promise you that, Madam Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-07a.105.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-08", "file": "debates2024-10-08c.xml", "sha256": "6ea49df0a4cc1bd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-08c.202.0", "colnum": "202", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Baines", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Baines", "preceding_text": "r state schools, and the millions of people, including the vast majority of my constituents, who rely on them. The Opposition motion “regrets that the Government has decided to impose VAT on independent school fees”. Well, I regret that the last Tory Government did all they could to deliberately and carefully dismantle, defund and destroy our public services, including state schools, for 14 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-08c.202.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-08", "file": "debates2024-10-08e.xml", "sha256": "2ca41d22a1a5bf15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-08e.146.5", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Energy Security and Net Zero", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Jones", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend, and I thank him for his support. I doubt anybody would disagree with him on the benefits of our announcements on carbon capture and storage, which will create 4,000 jobs in the short term, with carbon capture more broadly creating up to 50,000 jobs over the next decade or so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-08e.146.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-08", "file": "debates2024-10-08e.xml", "sha256": "2ca41d22a1a5bf15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-08e.156.0", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Energy Security and Net Zero", "cue_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "preceding_text": "Oh dear, oh dear. The truth is that after three months of this Government, people have breathed a sigh of relief that there is finally a Government with a plan for the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-08e.156.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-08", "file": "debates2024-10-08e.xml", "sha256": "2ca41d22a1a5bf15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-08e.168.4", "colnum": "168", "heading": "VAT: Independent Schools", "cue_speaker": "Paul Holmes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Where is she?”", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Holmes", "preceding_text": "You will find out, Mr Speaker, that I will not test your patience. I want to take my right hon. Friend back to the point he made about the Education Secretary’s tweet, which I thought was disgraceful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-08e.168.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-08", "file": "debates2024-10-08e.xml", "sha256": "2ca41d22a1a5bf15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-08e.175.8", "colnum": "175", "heading": "VAT: Independent Schools", "cue_speaker": "James Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Murray", "preceding_text": "he Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and the Ministry of Defence provide the continuity of education allowance to ensure that this does not interfere with their children’s education. I can give the reassurance today that the Government will monitor closely the impact of these policy changes on affected diplomatic and military families, with any changes to the scheme being considered as—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-08e.175.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-08", "file": "debates2024-10-08e.xml", "sha256": "2ca41d22a1a5bf15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-08e.202.0", "colnum": "202", "heading": "VAT: Independent Schools", "cue_speaker": "David Baines", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Baines", "preceding_text": " on independent school fees”. Well, I regret that the last Tory Government did all they could to deliberately and carefully dismantle, defund and destroy our public services, including state schools, for 14 years—[Interruption.] There is a huge amount that I could say, but we are pushed for time and many Members want to speak, including lots of Government Members. I know there are more of us here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-08e.202.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-08", "file": "debates2024-10-08e.xml", "sha256": "2ca41d22a1a5bf15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-08e.207.0", "colnum": "207", "heading": "VAT: Independent Schools", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Brash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Brash", "preceding_text": "licy of spite, that this is an ideological attack, that this is envy and that this is cruel and vindictive, I say that it is nothing of the sort. This is about fairness. I have friends and former colleagues who are right now teaching in the independent sector—in fact, they are 10 minutes into period six as I speak. When someone runs a private business, they pay VAT. We believe in paying our taxes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-08e.207.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-08", "file": "debates2024-10-08e.xml", "sha256": "2ca41d22a1a5bf15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-08e.219.0", "colnum": "219", "heading": "VAT: Independent Schools", "cue_speaker": "Sam Rushworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sam Rushworth", "preceding_text": "Sure Start centres were closed down, school playing fields were sold off and the education maintenance allowance was abolished. Apprenticeships are down, youth services have been cut by 73% since 2010 and there is a five-year waiting list for CAMHS. A decade has been lost because every school budget has less funding per pupil today than it had in 2010. Is that not the truth? Here is another truth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-08e.219.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-08", "file": "debates2024-10-08e.xml", "sha256": "2ca41d22a1a5bf15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-08e.224.1", "colnum": "224", "heading": "VAT: Independent Schools", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Morgan", "preceding_text": "I am going to make some progress. The right hon. Gentleman spoke earlier. I know that many Members are concerned about children with SEND.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-08e.224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-08", "file": "debates2024-10-08e.xml", "sha256": "2ca41d22a1a5bf15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-08e.232.7", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Farming and Food Security", "cue_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Rubbish!”", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "preceding_text": "wet weather. They extended the farming recovery fund to 1,000 more farmers, so that it covered all those affected in England. On top of that, in March, we announced the allocation of an additional £75 million to internal drainage boards, which are essential to protecting agricultural land from floods and storms. We now have a Labour Government who neither understand nor care for rural communities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-08e.232.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-08", "file": "debates2024-10-08e.xml", "sha256": "2ca41d22a1a5bf15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-08e.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Farming and Food Security", "cue_speaker": "Steve Reed", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Reed", "preceding_text": "ood defences, drainage systems and natural flood schemes so that we can offer farmers and rural communities better protection from extreme weather in the long term. Members are aware that the Government are currently conducting a spending review to fix the foundations of our economy after the previous Government crashed it and left behind a staggering £22 billion black hole in the public finances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-08e.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-08", "file": "debates2024-10-08e.xml", "sha256": "2ca41d22a1a5bf15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-08e.242.3", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Farming and Food Security", "cue_speaker": "Tim Farron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Farron", "preceding_text": "ompetence. My message to the Secretary of State, the Treasury, the Prime Minister, and every Labour MP is this: please do not let the Treasury take financial advantage of Tory incompetence. Do not bake in the underspend. Please, Secretary of State, do not give in to No.11 and No.10. Protect this budget, because without that public money we will not get those public goods. Please fight your corner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-08e.242.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-09", "file": "debates2024-10-09d.xml", "sha256": "03701460b708898a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-09d.287.2", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Women and Equalities", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Voaden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Voaden", "preceding_text": "Given the recent high-profile allegations of appalling abuse that many women suffered in their —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-09d.287.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-09", "file": "debates2024-10-09d.xml", "sha256": "03701460b708898a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-09d.296.4", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "On debt, we left the Government the second lowest debt in the G7. As the Institute for Fiscal Studies has said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-09d.296.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-09", "file": "debates2024-10-09d.xml", "sha256": "03701460b708898a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-09d.297.2", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "I can confirm that we will give the security forces and services the powers that they need, and I hope that that is a shared objective across the House. They do an incredibly important job for us. But the right hon. Gentleman talks about the economy, and it is a real shame that the Opposition cannot simply —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-09d.297.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-09", "file": "debates2024-10-09d.xml", "sha256": "03701460b708898a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-09d.299.6", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "to be able to send their children to private school because they have aspiration for their children, but so does every parent who sends their children to a state school. The problem is that we do not have enough teachers in key subjects in our state secondary schools. The Conservative party may be prepared to tolerate that, but I am not. That is why we have made this change to fund 6,500 teachers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-09d.299.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-09", "file": "debates2024-10-09d.xml", "sha256": "03701460b708898a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-09d.304.2", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Butler", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Butler", "preceding_text": "October is Black History Month, and the theme this year is “Reclaiming Narratives”. I thank you, Mr Speaker, for the event that you are putting on in your apartments with The Temptations, and the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-09d.304.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-09", "file": "debates2024-10-09d.xml", "sha256": "03701460b708898a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-09d.306.0", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Northern Ireland City Deals", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": " I had reached the conclusion that I did. I would just correct the hon. Gentleman: the Belfast city deal was never affected at all—it is roaring ahead and is a great success. In the case of Derry, I was pleased to attend the signing of the deal, which will now progress to its next stage. I would also simply say to the hon. Gentleman that the public finances inheritance the last Government left us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-09d.306.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-09", "file": "debates2024-10-09d.xml", "sha256": "03701460b708898a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-09d.328.4", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Film Industry", "cue_speaker": "Lisa Nandy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lisa Nandy", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that question, and can I convey my thanks to his wife’s cousin for her role in British cultural life and perhaps put in a plea for a cameo in “Paddington 4”?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-09d.328.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-09", "file": "debates2024-10-09d.xml", "sha256": "03701460b708898a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-09d.339.2", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Renters’ Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Liz Truss didn’t!”", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "It is a privilege to open for the Opposition on Second Reading of the Renters’ Rights Bill in this momentous week. As the Secretary of State mentioned, Labour reaches 100 days in office this week, for which it is to be congratulated, as not everyone gets to 100 days—Sue Gray didn’t.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-09d.339.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-09", "file": "debates2024-10-09d.xml", "sha256": "03701460b708898a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-09d.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Renters’ Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rebecca Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rebecca Smith", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member makes a very good point, and that brings me on nicely to the next section of my speech. One of my constituents has recently written to me to say that he is very sadly, having been a landlord for the same tenants for 25 years, selling his entire portfolio of 89 properties. Sometimes, we do actually see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-09d.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-09", "file": "debates2024-10-09d.xml", "sha256": "03701460b708898a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-09d.360.0", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Renters’ Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rebecca Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rebecca Smith", "preceding_text": "My experience has been that this does impact on the market. That is why the market in Plymouth has failed, in the words of the chief executive of the city council, because those properties often get bought by a family who may not have been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-09d.360.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-09", "file": "debates2024-10-09d.xml", "sha256": "03701460b708898a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-09d.362.0", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Renters’ Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Tice", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Surely not.”", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Tice", "preceding_text": "t that requires additional capital for additional new homes to be built. That is a key objective of the Government that I think all of us support, but to ensure sufficient reward and attraction for that capital, landlords need to know that the balance of risks and rewards is appropriate and that vacant possession can be secured. I am old enough, ladies and gentleman, to remember the ’70s and ’80s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-09d.362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-09", "file": "debates2024-10-09d.xml", "sha256": "03701460b708898a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-09d.363.1", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Renters’ Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Pam Cox", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Pam Cox", "preceding_text": "I congratulate all those who have made their first speeches today. I look forward to continuing to work with them in the coming months. I am here in this place at the pleasure of the voters of Colchester.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-09d.363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-09", "file": "debates2024-10-09d.xml", "sha256": "03701460b708898a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-09d.363.1", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Renters’ Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Pam Cox", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Pam Cox", "preceding_text": "we held that title for only a decade, before a woman from Norfolk laid waste to the city. The Romans decided that a muddy river crossing in a little place called Londinium would be a safer bet. That was almost 2,000 years before another woman from Norfolk, more precisely South West Norfolk, entered Londinium and laid waste to the British economy. We Essex folk could have warned you of the dangers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-09d.363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-09", "file": "debates2024-10-09d.xml", "sha256": "03701460b708898a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-09d.380.1", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Renters’ Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Ward", "preceding_text": "rfully restored art deco lido in Saltdean; or simply to jet-ski around Brighton marina, as the leader of the Liberal Democrats prefers to do. For those who have not had the pleasure of going, the easiest way to picture my constituency is running from west to east, from Brighton pier to Peacehaven, and from north to south, from the Amex stadium, which is home to my beloved Brighton and Hove Albion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-09d.380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-09", "file": "debates2024-10-09d.xml", "sha256": "03701460b708898a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-09d.408.1", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Renters’ Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Simmonds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Simmonds", "preceding_text": "re seems to be a similar trend emerging with the winter fuel payments, and with the Renters’ Rights Bill; the Government say that it is very important that we get the policy right, but cannot supply evidence that they have properly considered the equalities impacts and the wider impacts, although much of that was enshrined as a legal requirement under the previous Labour Government. In winding up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-09d.408.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-10", "file": "debates2024-10-10d.xml", "sha256": "d8d829fc3c8a1f73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-10d.464.4", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Chris Philp", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Philp", "preceding_text": " courtesy of Lord Alli’s extremely capacious credit card. Is the Leader of the House ashamed that the Prime Minister has been doing that at the same time as stripping pensioners of their winter fuel allowance? He has paid back £6,000 of the £100,000. Can she explain why it is £6,000? Will he be paying back any more? Finally, this weekend marks 100 days since the formation of the Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-10d.464.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-10", "file": "debates2024-10-10d.xml", "sha256": "d8d829fc3c8a1f73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-10d.493.1", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Sport: Team GB and ParalympicsGB", "cue_speaker": "Max Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Max Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "If, as the shadow Minister says, Government Members are coming out swinging, I promise to play with a straight bat for the next few minutes. [Interruption.] Thank you. I am here all week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-10d.493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-10", "file": "debates2024-10-10d.xml", "sha256": "d8d829fc3c8a1f73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-10d.503.1", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Sport: Team GB and ParalympicsGB", "cue_speaker": "Vikki Slade", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Vikki Slade", "preceding_text": "ong ones are where you stumble across the most interesting places and create lasting memories. Like many people, I have a bucket list. It has just three things on it: to run the London marathon, to earn a degree, and to represent my community as a Member of Parliament. Well, Dad, I finally achieved one of them. Although he is not here in the Chamber today—he is watching at home—I hope he is proud.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-10d.503.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-10", "file": "debates2024-10-10d.xml", "sha256": "d8d829fc3c8a1f73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-10d.548.1", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Sport: Team GB and ParalympicsGB", "cue_speaker": "Louie French", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Oh!”", "preceding_speaker": "Louie French", "preceding_text": "Redditch (Chris Bloore) —I apologise if I have missed anyone, but there were quite a lot of maiden speeches today. We heard about Redditch’s links to Led Zeppelin and Harry Styles and the hon. Member’s love of local roundabouts. I cannot see him in the Chamber, but I have a bad joke here: I was going to say that those roundabouts are perhaps a good background for his Government’s upcoming U-turns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-10d.548.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-10", "file": "debates2024-10-10d.xml", "sha256": "d8d829fc3c8a1f73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-10d.552.1", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Sport: Team GB and ParalympicsGB", "cue_speaker": "Vicky Foxcroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vicky Foxcroft", "preceding_text": "e wants to ensure everyone has the same opportunity. My hon. Friend the Member for Redditch (Chris Bloore) gave an amusing speech, namechecking many people from his constituency, including Harry Styles several times. My hon. Friend the Member for Worsley and Eccles (Michael Wheeler) spoke about tea and cakes. I would not like to say which cake is my favourite, but I will say I was born in Chorley.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-10d.552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-10", "file": "debates2024-10-10d.xml", "sha256": "d8d829fc3c8a1f73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-10d.552.1", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Sport: Team GB and ParalympicsGB", "cue_speaker": "Vicky Foxcroft", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Vicky Foxcroft", "preceding_text": "riend the Member for Bournemouth East (Tom Hayes) paid the most fitting tribute to Tobias Ellwood, who was the first to try to save the life of PC Keith Palmer, to whom we all owe a great debt of gratitude. In finishing this part of my speech, I will just say that I know how nerve-wracking it can be to do a maiden speech. You were all absolutely excellent—sorry, they were all absolutely excellent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-10d.552.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-14", "file": "debates2024-10-14e.xml", "sha256": "d49b31b470991064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-14e.591.1", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "you for allowing this time to pay tribute to Alex Salmond; he absolutely deserves it and it is great that we are doing it. The leader of the SNP, the right hon. Member for Aberdeen South (Stephen Flynn) , spoke very well and very movingly about Alex’s contribution to life, which I think is very generous. The SNP clearly treats its former leaders with great respect, and I think that is a good idea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-14e.591.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-15", "file": "debates2024-10-15e.xml", "sha256": "4378b1836c76eeeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-15e.741.0", "colnum": "741", "heading": "House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gareth Snell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gareth Snell", "preceding_text": "l. Madam Deputy Speaker has been clear that the Bill is specifically about hereditary peers. The Government have committed to reform the appointments process for the House of Lords. Everything does not have to be done in the same Bill. As the former Deputy Prime Minister pointed out, the pace needs to be considered, so that there are no unintended consequences, about which he is rightly concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-15e.741.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-16", "file": "debates2024-10-16e.xml", "sha256": "221c07c7c6199692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-16e.898.0", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Access to Primary Healthcare", "cue_speaker": "Dr Caroline Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr Caroline Johnson", "preceding_text": "nment built five new medical schools, and the graduates of those medical schools have recently started work. The Secretary of State says that he will double the number of medical students. That is an item on his wish list with which I agree, but I do have a few questions. Will he build new medical schools, expand the old ones, or do both? If he is going to build new ones, where will he build them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-16e.898.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-23", "file": "debates2024-10-23d.xml", "sha256": "4e4b98919ad4070b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-23d.271.2", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "preceding_text": "ction campaign is doing his victory lap before retiring with the hereditary peers that he fought so hard to protect. He leaves behind a Tory party in utter denial—heads in the sand, refusing to accept their rejection by the British public. Their plan for Britain includes scrapping the minimum wage, cutting maternity pay and tax breaks for the big oil companies. This Labour Government were elected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-23d.271.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-23", "file": "debates2024-10-23d.xml", "sha256": "4e4b98919ad4070b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-23d.277.3", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "preceding_text": "I welcome my hon. Friend to her place. I am incredibly proud of the Renters’ Rights Bill that we are pushing through Parliament, because too many renters are being exploited by a minority of unscrupulous landlords, unable to challenge bad practices because they could be evicted at any moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-23d.277.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-24", "file": "debates2024-10-24e.xml", "sha256": "c1434ff5f51e8dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-24e.390.6", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Cabinet Office", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Olney", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Olney", "preceding_text": "I offer the congratulations of Liberal Democrat Members to our hon. Friend the Member for Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe (David Chadwick) on the safe arrival of his baby son yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-24e.390.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-24", "file": "debates2024-10-24e.xml", "sha256": "c1434ff5f51e8dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-24e.410.4", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Special Educational Needs and Disabilities", "cue_speaker": "Alicia Kearns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alicia Kearns", "preceding_text": "Are the Government surging support to local authorities to help them process and complete EHCPs within the statutory timeframes? My communities are seeing a significant increase in applications because of the decision to impose VAT on independent schools. I have three SEND schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-24e.410.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-24", "file": "debates2024-10-24e.xml", "sha256": "c1434ff5f51e8dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-24e.424.3", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Chris Philp", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Philp", "preceding_text": "gning in the swing state of North Carolina, and she said, “we will sort your housing”. It looks to me as though that is being organised by the Labour party’s director of operations. Does the Leader of the House agree that it is damaging to our national interest—this is a serious point—if the governing party, the Labour party, is organising interference or campaigning in another country’s election?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-24e.424.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-24", "file": "debates2024-10-24e.xml", "sha256": "c1434ff5f51e8dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-24e.424.3", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Chris Philp", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Philp", "preceding_text": "s election? [Interruption.] Does she agree that it will make it difficult for His Majesty’s Government to deal with the newly elected Administration in America if the other side wins, and that that will undermine our national interest? Does she accept that by engaging in organised campaigning in this way, Labour is putting party interest before national interest, and will she organise that debate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-24e.424.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-24", "file": "debates2024-10-24e.xml", "sha256": "c1434ff5f51e8dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-24e.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Black History Month", "cue_speaker": "Mims Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mims Davies", "preceding_text": "ng the Mother of this House. As for my party, the oldest political party in the western world, the fact that we could be led by a black woman is a testament to the arc of change that we have seen—that is no doubt in part due to the trailblazing of the right hon. Member for Hackney North and Stoke Newington—and, indeed, she would be our fourth female leader, although there is another one available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-24e.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-24", "file": "debates2024-10-24e.xml", "sha256": "c1434ff5f51e8dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-24e.456.0", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Black History Month", "cue_speaker": "Josh Babarinde", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Josh Babarinde", "preceding_text": "Member for Brent East (Dawn Butler) for that amazing tribute and that awesome poem, and I also thank those on the Front Benches who have spoken so far to celebrate Black History Month. I join in paying birthday wishes to Baroness Doreen Lawrence, and as far as the jollof question is concerned, as a Nigerian I will come to that later. As the first black person ever elected as a Liberal Democrat MP—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-24e.456.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-24", "file": "debates2024-10-24e.xml", "sha256": "c1434ff5f51e8dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-24e.456.0", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Black History Month", "cue_speaker": "Josh Babarinde", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Josh Babarinde", "preceding_text": "roud to work in this building alongside so many black House staff, without whom we can all agree this place would grind to a halt overnight. There are too many to pay individual tribute to in just one speech, but let me name just two, who I believe are watching, because Jennifer King in the Members’ Tea Room has arranged for them to slip away from behind the counter. They are Margaret and Godfrey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-24e.456.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-24", "file": "debates2024-10-24e.xml", "sha256": "c1434ff5f51e8dc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-24e.459.4", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Black History Month", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Owen", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Owen", "preceding_text": "k about another trailblazer. It is such a joy to see the Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office, my hon. Friend the Member for Erith and Thamesmead (Ms Oppong-Asare) , take her place and her space at the Government Dispatch Box. I congratulate her on making such an awesome speech. We were long overdue seeing a woman of Ghanaian descent at that Dispatch Box. I think we can all agree: what a woman!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-24e.459.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-29", "file": "debates2024-10-29g.xml", "sha256": "2e863f2b66d690b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-29g.748.3", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Great British Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dave Doogan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dave Doogan", "preceding_text": "1 from the SNP asks the Labour Government to deliver upon what they said they would do ahead of the election. That does not strike me as particularly unreasonable. I do not think our amendment will be selected for separate decision, so I think we will be forced to vote with amendment 6 in the name of the right hon. Member for East Surrey (Claire Coutinho) , which asks for basically the same thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-29g.748.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-30", "file": "debates2024-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "1860831a614f027d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-30a.805.5", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "May I associate myself with your remarks and those of the Prime Minister about the right hon. Member for Richmond and Northallerton (Rishi Sunak) , and thank him for his service? I wish him and the whole country a happy Diwali. Despite our political differences, I have always felt a certain kinship with him since the general election, when he was the only other party leader to get as wet as I did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-30a.805.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-30", "file": "debates2024-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "1860831a614f027d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-30a.811.1", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Financial Statement and Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "preceding_text": ". It is evident to me that they should have been made in this House in the first instance. The principle is unambiguously set out in paragraph 9.1 of the ministerial code. The premature disclosure of the contents of the Budget has always been regarded as a supreme discourtesy to this House and to all of its democratically elected MP, not to mention to Mr Speaker and the Chairman of Ways and Means—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-30a.811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-30", "file": "debates2024-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "1860831a614f027d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-30a.811.2", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Financial Statement and Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "detailed plans for departmental spending set out beyond this year, and the previous Government’s plans relied on a baseline for spending this year, which we now know was wrong because it did not take into account the £22 billion black hole. They also failed to budget for costs that they knew would materialise, including funding for vital compensation schemes for victims of two terrible injustices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-30a.811.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-30", "file": "debates2024-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "1860831a614f027d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-30a.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Financial Statement and Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "ecade. The new charter for Budget responsibility, which I am publishing today, confirms that this will become a permanent feature of our framework. The OBR forecasts that real GDP growth will be 1.1% in 2024, 2.0% in 2025, 1.8% in 2026, 1.5% in 2027, 1.5% in 2028 and 1.6% in 2029. The OBR is clear: this Budget will permanently increase the supply capacity of the economy, boosting long-term growth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-30a.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-30", "file": "debates2024-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "1860831a614f027d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-30a.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Financial Statement and Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "oyers start paying national insurance on each employee’s salary—from £9,100 a year to £5,000. This will raise £25 billion per year by the end of the forecast period. I know that this is a difficult choice; I do not take this decision lightly. We are asking businesses to contribute more, and I know that there will be impacts of this measure felt beyond businesses, too, as the OBR has set out today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-30a.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-30", "file": "debates2024-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "1860831a614f027d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-30a.818.1", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Financial Statement and Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "icked up. Air passenger duty has not kept up with inflation in recent years, so we are introducing an adjustment, meaning an increase of no more than £2 for an economy class short-haul flight. But I am taking a different approach when it comes to private jets, increasing the rate of air passenger duty by a further 50%. That is equivalent to £450 per passenger for a private jet to, say, California.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-30a.818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-30", "file": "debates2024-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "1860831a614f027d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-30a.818.1", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Financial Statement and Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "per business. Alongside this, the small business tax multiplier will be frozen next year. Next, I can confirm that alcohol duty rates on non-draught products will increase in line with RPI from February next year. However, nearly two thirds of alcoholic drinks sold in pubs are served on draught, so today, instead of uprating these products in line with inflation, I am cutting draught duty by 1.7%—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-30a.818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-30", "file": "debates2024-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "1860831a614f027d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-30a.829.4", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "d again, we Conservatives warned that a Labour Government would tax, borrow and spend far beyond what they were telling the country, and time and again they denied they had such plans. Today, the truth has come out—proof that Labour planned to do this all along. Today’s Budget sees the fiscal rules fiddled, borrowing increased by billions of pounds, inflation-busting handouts for the trade unions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-30a.829.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-30", "file": "debates2024-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "1860831a614f027d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-30a.829.6", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "Britain’s poorest pensioners squeezed, welfare spending out of control and a spree of tax rises that the Government promised the working people of this country they would not do. National insurance—up. Capital gains tax—up. Inheritance tax—up. Energy taxes —up. Business rates—up. First time buyer’s stamp duty—up. Pensions tax—up. They have fiddled the figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-30a.829.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-30", "file": "debates2024-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "1860831a614f027d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-30a.829.8", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "l take no lectures from those two about difficult decisions. But because of the decisions we made, the Chancellor inherited lower borrowing than France, America, Italy and Japan, and the second-lowest debt in the entire G7. Any which way you look at it, Labour’s claims about its inheritance are purely ludicrous. These are her choices, so stop blaming everyone else and take responsibility for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-30a.829.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-30", "file": "debates2024-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "1860831a614f027d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-30a.829.8", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "op blaming everyone else and take responsibility for them. [Interruption.] Let me turn to the substance of those choices. During the election, the Chancellor repeatedly promised that her plans were fully funded. Only a few weeks ago, the Prime Minister said the Budget would “balance the books”, but this Budget does no such thing and reveals that they have not been straight with the British people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-30a.829.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-30", "file": "debates2024-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "1860831a614f027d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-30a.830.1", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": " is the Government’s No. 1 priority. The Prime Minister even said that higher growth would come “very quickly”. To be fair, the Prime Minister and Chancellor have had a rapid impact on growth. As their plans for the economy became clear, survey after survey showed business confidence plummeting. No wonder the Government’s own assessment says their French-style labour laws will impose a £5 billion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-30a.830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-30", "file": "debates2024-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "1860831a614f027d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-30a.830.1", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rishi Sunak", "preceding_text": "ively hits working people. But it does not stop there. Businesses on the British high street: your taxes are going up. Businesses investing in British energy: your taxes are going up. The small business owner looking to reap the rewards of years spent growing a business and creating jobs: your taxes are going up. The young couple saving to buy their first home: your taxes are going up. The family—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-30a.830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-30", "file": "debates2024-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "1860831a614f027d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-30a.842.1", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "to “The A.B.C. Murders” of the British economy—austerity and a bungled Brexit, followed by chaos. I see clearly how today’s Budget is a very different kind of settlement. It honours the approach, the compassion, the intelligence and the judgment of the last Budget presented to this House by my good friend, mentor and boss, Lord Darling, in March 2010. Alistair Darling is much missed in this place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-30a.842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-30", "file": "debates2024-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "1860831a614f027d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-30a.849.1", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Never!”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": " is gradually destroying the social contract and people’s belief in the system, and the Government must have a plan to deal with it, which basically means arresting people when they land illegally on these shores, and offshoring them. The other great problem in our national psyche that we have not really addressed is the whole pension system. I have to declare an interest: I am of pensionable age.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-30a.849.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-30", "file": "debates2024-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "1860831a614f027d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-30a.849.1", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "ides of the aisle. We studied countries like Chile that were making explicit the creation of contributory pension systems. People were encouraged to put more into their pensions and plan for their old age. That is the only way, with an ageing population, that we can solve our problems. In addition to all this, I am afraid that wokery and human rights legislation are gradually eating away into our—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-30a.849.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-30", "file": "debates2024-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "1860831a614f027d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-30a.881.0", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Ben Spencer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Spencer", "preceding_text": "bus? Are they not working people? Thankfully, today I got an email from the TUC, which helped clarify who working people are. It pointed out that the TUC are the ones who represent working people. I think our constituents all know that unless they are a trade union member or someone who is dependent on the state, the Labour party does not think they are a working person, and it is coming for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-30a.881.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-30", "file": "debates2024-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "1860831a614f027d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-30a.881.0", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Ben Spencer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Spencer", "preceding_text": "overnment Members start digesting the Budget—when they look at the impact of an extremely low growth rate over the next few years, the impact on farmers, who will struggle to pass on their farms, and the impact on small businesses, which we depend on for growth, investment and prosperity —they will regret what has been said today. I was sad that the south-east and Surrey were not really mentioned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-30a.881.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-31", "file": "debates2024-10-31e.xml", "sha256": "c019169fe2667b02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-31e.941.4", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Chris Philp", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Philp", "preceding_text": "t was simply untrue. Will she come here and apologise for providing that number to the House, given that the OBR report shows that it was simply not true, and certainly does not justify £40 billion-worth of tax rises—the largest tax rises in any Budget in history? Let me turn to election promises and trust in politics, because when we make promises to the public, it is important that we keep them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-31e.941.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-31", "file": "debates2024-10-31e.xml", "sha256": "c019169fe2667b02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-31e.984.1", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "John Whittingdale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Whittingdale", "preceding_text": "away much of the next generation’s ability to carry on producing British food, plan for the future and shepherd the environment.” This is a measure that the Labour party said it would not introduce, but it has broken that promise and is now proposing to introduce it, with enormous damage not just to farmers but to food security and our environment. The second measure that I would like to touch on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-31e.984.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-31", "file": "debates2024-10-31e.xml", "sha256": "c019169fe2667b02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-31e.988.0", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Wendy Chamberlain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Wendy Chamberlain", "preceding_text": "One thing that we always feel after a Budget is a sense of relief, because we at least know that we are going to get some answers. It feels that when we are talking, campaigning and raising issues, we are always told to wait for the Budget. I was additionally relieved yesterday because my son managed to pass his driving test theory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-31e.988.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-31", "file": "debates2024-10-31e.xml", "sha256": "c019169fe2667b02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-31e.1000.1", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I wish we could all have everything that we wanted. Gordon Brown inherited a golden economic legacy from the Conservatives in 1997—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-31e.1000.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-31", "file": "debates2024-10-31e.xml", "sha256": "c019169fe2667b02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-31e.1000.3", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "inue falling as a share of GDP in the near term”. It adds that “business investment falls as a share of GDP as profit margins are squeezed, and the net impact of Budget policies lowers business investment.” Is that good for the British economy? I submit not. What about debt? If someone has too much debt, the one thing they should do is not borrow more money, if they want to get out of a debt trap—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-31e.1000.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-31", "file": "debates2024-10-31e.xml", "sha256": "c019169fe2667b02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-31e.1014.3", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Rosindell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Rosindell", "preceding_text": " paid by employers will, of course, clearly be passed on to employees. It is nothing but a stealth tax by this supposedly transparent Labour Government, and it is job destroying. Businesses in my constituency have already been telling me that they will not be employing people because of this reckless increase in national insurance. My constituents, all our constituents, might even lose their jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-31e.1014.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-31", "file": "debates2024-10-31e.xml", "sha256": "c019169fe2667b02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-31e.1014.3", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Rosindell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Rosindell", "preceding_text": "ingdale) , the hon. Member for Harlow (Chris Vince) and others. People in my county of Essex are very disillusioned by all this, because they are aspirational and hard-working. They are market traders and small business people. They will be devastated by all this. I warn Labour Members that they will find that out when they next knock on doors in their constituency. As Margaret Thatcher warned us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-31e.1014.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-31", "file": "debates2024-10-31e.xml", "sha256": "c019169fe2667b02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-31e.1014.3", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Rosindell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Rosindell", "preceding_text": "ty of Essex are very disillusioned by all this, because they are aspirational and hard-working. They are market traders and small business people. They will be devastated by all this. I warn Labour Members that they will find that out when they next knock on doors in their constituency. As Margaret Thatcher warned us—[Laughter.] Well, she did rescue our country’s economy; let’s be honest about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-31e.1014.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-10-31", "file": "debates2024-10-31e.xml", "sha256": "c019169fe2667b02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-31e.1016.1", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Rosindell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Rosindell", "preceding_text": "I have to say that I agree with the hon. Gentleman. The last Government wasted a huge amount of money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-10-31e.1016.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-04", "file": "debates2024-11-04f.xml", "sha256": "eade5057fc3530cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-04f.17.9", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Education", "cue_speaker": "Bridget Phillipson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bridget Phillipson", "preceding_text": "The Conservative party has learned absolutely nothing and parents will not buy it. We were faced with some very tough choices because of the £22 billion hole in the public finances, as the right hon. Lady, the former Chief Secretary to the Treasury, knows all too well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-04f.17.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-04", "file": "debates2024-11-04f.xml", "sha256": "eade5057fc3530cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-04f.19.8", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Education", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "I call Tim Shannon—I mean, Farron.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-04f.19.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-04", "file": "debates2024-11-04f.xml", "sha256": "eade5057fc3530cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-04f.19.9", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Education", "cue_speaker": "Tim Farron", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Farron", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) and I are indeed never seen in the same place together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-04f.19.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-04", "file": "debates2024-11-04f.xml", "sha256": "eade5057fc3530cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-04f.23.2", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Budget: Implications for Farming Communities", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Zeichner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Zeichner", "preceding_text": "n our country’s history. We are also releasing £60 million to support farmers whose farms have been devastated by severe flooding, and investing £208 million to protect the nation from potential disease outbreaks that threaten our farming industry, food security and human health. However, as we are all only too aware, the Conservatives left behind a £22 billion black hole in our nation’s finances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-04f.23.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-04", "file": "debates2024-11-04f.xml", "sha256": "eade5057fc3530cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-04f.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Harpreet Uppal", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Harpreet Uppal", "preceding_text": "It has to be about skills as well as infrastructure, and the people of Huddersfield must be front and centre. I am therefore delighted that we are increasing the minimum wage and seeing increased funding for our NHS. It is also important that we finally fix our social care system. My late mum was a care worker, and I saw the difference that she made every day. We must now fight for her colleagues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-04f.76.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-04", "file": "debates2024-11-04f.xml", "sha256": "eade5057fc3530cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-04f.79.1", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Sadik Al-Hassan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sadik Al-Hassan", "preceding_text": "n the line has raged fiercely in my constituency, and I want to reassure my constituents that I intend to fight tooth and nail to see that project across the line after decades of false starts. I first got into politics as a town councillor in Emersons Green, only for my wife to become a district councillor shortly thereafter. Now that I am an MP, I dread to think how she will one-up me this time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-04f.79.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-04", "file": "debates2024-11-04f.xml", "sha256": "eade5057fc3530cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-04f.96.0", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Gagan Mohindra", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Gagan Mohindra", "preceding_text": "I start by welcoming the fact that this is the first Budget presented by a female Chancellor. The House should be proud of that. I also send my thanks to the Prime Minister for acknowledging the former leader of the Conservative party and his heritage as a second-generation Indian. This place is symbolic not just here but around the world. I am going to shift tone, if I may.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-04f.96.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-06", "file": "debates2024-11-06f.xml", "sha256": "eb3ca434de500239", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-06f.287.5", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Wales", "cue_speaker": "Jo Stevens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jo Stevens", "preceding_text": "I was very pleased that the Budget was able to protect the current farming budget for the next financial year, despite the difficult decisions that we had to make because the Conservative party had trashed our economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-06f.287.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-06", "file": "debates2024-11-06f.xml", "sha256": "eb3ca434de500239", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-06f.293.0", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "oreign Secretary, and I am very sure that President Trump will soon be calling to thank him for sending all of those north London Labour activists to campaign for his opponent. Given that most of his Cabinet signed a motion to ban President Trump from addressing Parliament, will the Prime Minister show that he and his Government can be more than student politicians by asking the Speaker to extend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-06f.293.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-06", "file": "debates2024-11-06f.xml", "sha256": "eb3ca434de500239", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-06f.294.0", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "There is no more important duty than keeping the people of this country safe. It was the Labour Government who signed the NATO treaty in the first place, and we are strong supporters. We have a strategic defence review, and we are committed to 2.5%.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-06f.294.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-11", "file": "debates2024-11-11f.xml", "sha256": "476aa9e788a807c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-11f.512.1", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Defence: 2.5% GDP Spending Commitment", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "One of the weaknesses in our system is that the often-excellent innovation, research and development does not get developed, invested in or commercialised, so potentially brilliant small companies do not grow and expand. I have to say to the right hon. Gentleman that I am not familiar with Planshare—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-11f.512.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-11", "file": "debates2024-11-11f.xml", "sha256": "476aa9e788a807c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-11f.538.6", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Rural Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "preceding_text": "to feed the nation in wars gone by. This is a critical time for our rural way of life. After years of unforgiving weather, rising commodity prices and more crop and livestock diseases, our farmers now face a new threat: a city-dwelling, socialist Government who do not understand or care for the rural way of life. The evidence is there in Labour’s first Budget, for which it had 14 years to prepare.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-11f.538.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-11", "file": "debates2024-11-11f.xml", "sha256": "476aa9e788a807c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-11f.540.3", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Rural Affairs", "cue_speaker": "John Glen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Glen", "preceding_text": "n those family farmers need to raise a relatively modest amount over 10 years, the impact of securing that funding is beyond them, given the margins they get from farming. Will my right hon. Friend reflect on the fact that this is, without doubt, a Treasury hit-and-run? The Secretary of State flatters himself to think he has secured the overall budget, but he has left farmers in a far worse state.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-11f.540.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-11", "file": "debates2024-11-11f.xml", "sha256": "476aa9e788a807c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-11f.571.2", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Rural Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Josh MacAlister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Josh MacAlister", "preceding_text": "d to avoid paying inheritance tax, and how that is forcing up land prices so that young farmers can no longer afford it. The Government’s changes seek to address that and are likely to affect only a very small number of estates in my constituency. I know that Ministers actively engage with farmers, and Government Members are very proud that Labour now represents many of the UK’s rural communities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-11f.571.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-11", "file": "debates2024-11-11f.xml", "sha256": "476aa9e788a807c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-11f.602.3", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Rural Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Saqib Bhatti", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Saqib Bhatti", "preceding_text": " In my constituency and those across the country, family farms ensure that we have food on our tables. They do not do so at a profit, even if they have assets that they will now be taxed on. I spent some time wondering why the policy was introduced, and it is clear that it is a cynical ploy to free up land so that the Deputy Prime Minister can concrete over our green belt and the Energy Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-11f.602.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-11", "file": "debates2024-11-11f.xml", "sha256": "476aa9e788a807c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-11f.602.3", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Rural Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Saqib Bhatti", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Saqib Bhatti", "preceding_text": " Secretary of State do not know their own policies and are contradicting each other? The Government continue to say that the policy will not affect that many farmers, but DEFRA’s own analysis shows that it will affect 66% of them. The Secretary of State said he was using the Treasury’s figures. Why do two Departments’ figures contradict each other? We need clarity on that, because it is important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-11f.602.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-11", "file": "debates2024-11-11f.xml", "sha256": "476aa9e788a807c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-11f.608.0", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Rural Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Zeichner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Zeichner", "preceding_text": "hat it has taken a Labour Government to give Government time to allow Members to speak up for rural areas. What brilliant contributions we have had from Labour Members about the things that matter to rural areas. I shall mention some of the excellent speeches. I was thrilled to hear the three maiden speeches. My hon. Friend the Member for Cannock Chase (Josh Newbury) spoke about a range of issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-11f.608.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-11", "file": "debates2024-11-11f.xml", "sha256": "476aa9e788a807c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-11f.608.0", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Rural Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Zeichner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Zeichner", "preceding_text": "om my hon. Friend the Member for Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme (Lee Pitcher) about flooding—a feature of many speeches. We heard a powerful speech from my hon. Friend the Member for Shrewsbury (Julia Buckley) about the positive things that the Labour Government are doing to address the real issues that we face. We also heard from the Chair of the Select Committee, who is not in his place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-11f.608.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-11", "file": "debates2024-11-11f.xml", "sha256": "476aa9e788a807c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-11f.608.0", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Rural Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Zeichner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Zeichner", "preceding_text": "he figures have been misrepresented, but he was right to say that there is a real fear out there—precisely because of the misrepresentations, not because of the figures. We heard from my hon. Friend the Member for South Norfolk (Ben Goldsborough) , who showed the difference between this side of the House and the other side. The future will be different for rural areas, food production and farming—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-11f.608.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-12", "file": "debates2024-11-12d.xml", "sha256": "74cdba9147811053", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-12d.629.1", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Energy Security and Net Zero", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Bowie", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Bowie", "preceding_text": "on. We launched the Fusion Futures programme to provide up to £55 million of funding to train more than 2,000 people, we became the first country in the world to regulate fusion as a distinct energy technology, and we launched the process to build the spherical tokamak for energy production—I cannot say that as quickly—at what will be the first fusion power plant at West Burton in Nottinghamshire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-12d.629.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-12", "file": "debates2024-11-12d.xml", "sha256": "74cdba9147811053", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-12d.647.0", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Social Security Advisory Committee: Winter Fuel Payment", "cue_speaker": "Emma Reynolds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emma Reynolds", "preceding_text": "I do apologise for the delay in responding to the committee’s letter; it is regrettable. The initial delay, as I set out, was because we were waiting for the OBR to come forward with its costings of the policy. Then there was another, unexpected delay. There has been a delay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-12d.647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-12", "file": "debates2024-11-12d.xml", "sha256": "74cdba9147811053", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-12d.686.0", "colnum": "686", "heading": "House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gareth Snell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More!”", "preceding_speaker": "Gareth Snell", "preceding_text": "It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Madam Chair. I will keep my comments brief, because I know that that will entertain the Committee more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-12d.686.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-12", "file": "debates2024-11-12d.xml", "sha256": "74cdba9147811053", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-12d.688.1", "colnum": "688", "heading": "House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gareth Snell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Gareth Snell", "preceding_text": "I know when to move on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-12d.688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-12", "file": "debates2024-11-12d.xml", "sha256": "74cdba9147811053", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-12d.689.3", "colnum": "689", "heading": "House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gareth Snell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gareth Snell", "preceding_text": "I think the very fact that we that we would be seeking to expel the bishops, who are the representatives of the Church of England, from the national legislature, would by its nature start a consideration of that process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-12d.689.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-12", "file": "debates2024-11-12d.xml", "sha256": "74cdba9147811053", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-12d.698.0", "colnum": "698", "heading": "House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gavin Williamson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Gavin Williamson", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend makes a powerful point. We have to respect the fact that Labour achieved a majority at the last general election. It had a manifesto to enact change—I think that was the phrase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-12d.698.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-12", "file": "debates2024-11-12d.xml", "sha256": "74cdba9147811053", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-12d.704.5", "colnum": "704", "heading": "House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Phil Brickell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Brickell", "preceding_text": "s reform, but I will come to these points later, if I may. The consequences of not acting are no less than existential when it comes to trust in our politics, in this place and in the other House. Trust in politics is at an all-time low, which is a legacy of 14 years of cronyism and corruption from the party opposite. Indeed, polling conducted by the UK Anti-Corruption Coalition earlier this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-12d.704.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-12", "file": "debates2024-11-12d.xml", "sha256": "74cdba9147811053", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-12d.710.5", "colnum": "710", "heading": "House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "What I can say categorically to the hon. Gentleman is that there is nobody who has given one single penny to the Scottish National party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-12d.710.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-12", "file": "debates2024-11-12d.xml", "sha256": "74cdba9147811053", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-12d.722.1", "colnum": "722", "heading": "House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "That is a matter for those on the Front Bench. I see members of the Conservative Whips Office in their place and I see my hon. Friend the Member for Brentwood and Ongar (Alex Burghart) sitting behind the Dispatch Box. These days, I am merely a highly regarded, distinguished and senior Back Bencher.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-12d.722.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-12", "file": "debates2024-11-12d.xml", "sha256": "74cdba9147811053", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-12d.722.1", "colnum": "722", "heading": "House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "her than rushing to legislate, he set up a conference between both sides of the House to determine a compromise. Belloc, as Members will remember, was elected as a Liberal MP. He parodied that process and said that what came out of it was no better than what went into it. None the less, it was an attempt, at least, to reach a settlement in a dignified way on how we might reform the second Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-12d.722.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-12", "file": "debates2024-11-12d.xml", "sha256": "74cdba9147811053", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-12d.723.1", "colnum": "723", "heading": "House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "erms of efficacy. The last time we considered these matters, Members will remember that I quoted Proust. It was a bit too rich a diet for the hon. Member for Perth and Kinross-shire. He is not a Proustian. I think it stretched the canon of his reading matter beyond breaking point. Today, I am going to test him a little more and refer to G. K. Chesterton, who I think might be more within his scope.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-12d.723.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-13", "file": "debates2024-11-13d.xml", "sha256": "6b37ca2b1001a192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-13d.781.5", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister can plant as many questions as he likes with his Back Benchers, but at the end of the day I am the one he has to face at the Dispatch Box. I welcome him back from his trip to Azerbaijan, where he has unilaterally made commitments that will make life more expensive for everyone back home. Speaking of making life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-13d.781.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-13", "file": "debates2024-11-13d.xml", "sha256": "6b37ca2b1001a192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-13d.788.1", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "I am glad to see the hon. Member making a rare appearance back here in Britain. He has spent so much time in America recently that I was half expecting to see him in the immigration statistics when we see the next batch—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-13d.788.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-13", "file": "debates2024-11-13d.xml", "sha256": "6b37ca2b1001a192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-13d.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "act that flooding has had on my hon. Friend’s constituency, including in Storm Henk earlier this year. The last Government left flood defences in the worst condition on record. We are investing £2.4 billion in flood resilience over the next two years, and we have launched a flood resilience taskforce to co-ordinate national and local flood preparation to better protect communities and our economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-13d.789.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-13", "file": "debates2024-11-13d.xml", "sha256": "6b37ca2b1001a192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-13d.794.1", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Chagos Islands", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Doughty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Doughty", "preceding_text": "national courts were reaching judgments and international organisations were taking steps not to undermine Mauritian sovereignty. That threatened the secure and effective operation of the base. In the absence of a negotiated solution, a legally binding decision against the UK seemed inevitable. That would have threatened the secure and effective operation of the base, and that was not sustainable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-13d.794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-13", "file": "debates2024-11-13d.xml", "sha256": "6b37ca2b1001a192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-13d.794.1", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Chagos Islands", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Doughty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Doughty", "preceding_text": "base, and that was not sustainable. [Interruption.] On the hon. Gentleman’s comments about the incoming US Administration, we very much look forward to working with them, and I am sure that they will be briefed on the full detail of the deal. I am confident that the details of the arrangement will allay any concerns, otherwise we would not have entered into any such arrangement in the first place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-13d.794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-13", "file": "debates2024-11-13d.xml", "sha256": "6b37ca2b1001a192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-13d.796.2", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Chagos Islands", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Doughty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Doughty", "preceding_text": "vernment about the nature of the special relationship and the depth of that relationship. That is why we have proceeded only on the basis that we were all satisfied with the arrangements. The right hon. Lady will be able to scrutinise those arrangements in due course, as will the House, Mr Speaker. The treaty will be presented in the usual way after signature. It will go through the usual process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-13d.796.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-13", "file": "debates2024-11-13d.xml", "sha256": "6b37ca2b1001a192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-13d.814.2", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Future of the Post Office", "cue_speaker": "Gareth Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gareth Thomas", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend is right to stress the importance of post office branches to the future of all our communities. In that regard, work is required from trade unions and others on highlighting the importance of banking services. I wish that work had been given more attention by my predecessor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-13d.814.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-14", "file": "debates2024-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "12bdd64030e0367a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-14b.909.3", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Clive Betts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Betts", "preceding_text": "I really do not know how the Opposition spokesperson, the hon. Member for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner (David Simmonds) , can stand there and talk about cuts and shortfalls with a straight face. We know where responsibility lies—and on the Lib Dem Benches as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-14b.909.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-14", "file": "debates2024-11-14b.xml", "sha256": "12bdd64030e0367a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-14b.935.5", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "preceding_text": "ers would be unaffected by the changes and that only around 500 claims from the wealthiest estates would be affected each year. There are a number of mitigations available, in relation to how long that could be paid back and so on. The Government support our rural communities. We support our farmers. We are really proud to have returned a record number of Labour MPs representing rural communities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-14b.935.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-20", "file": "debates2024-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "2f7ec9bb43a7b5bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-20b.254.3", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "preceding_text": "I think it is an audacity for the hon. Gentleman to stand at the Dispatch Box and suggest in some way that Labour broke promises or raised taxes. I will school the hon. Gentleman: it was his Government who raised taxes to their highest level for a generation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-20b.254.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-25", "file": "debates2024-11-25e.xml", "sha256": "bfc938b37789eb2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-25e.556.2", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Murray", "preceding_text": "I will come to business rates. The hon. Gentleman will have a chance to respond in full in just a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-25e.556.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-26", "file": "debates2024-11-26d.xml", "sha256": "97a087031f0916b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-26d.639.1", "colnum": "639", "heading": "COP29", "cue_speaker": "Claire Coutinho", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Claire Coutinho", "preceding_text": "s largest wind developers, has warned that the Secretary of State’s rush to meet his 2030 target will lead to price spikes, with consumers losing out. The chief executive of Octopus has warned about the £6 billion in costs that consumers will have to pay, because the right hon. Gentleman wants to build renewables without reforming the grid. The former head of MI6 has warned the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-26d.639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-26", "file": "debates2024-11-26d.xml", "sha256": "97a087031f0916b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-26d.641.1", "colnum": "641", "heading": "COP29", "cue_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "preceding_text": " pattern here, Mr Speaker. Every week, the right hon. Lady takes to Twitter to express her outrage about a policy, asking, “Who on earth could support this?” Every week, someone pops up in her replies and says politely, “You did, just a few months back.” It is not the only time that she has done this. Last week, she came out against the clean heat market mechanism—another policy that she proposed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-26d.641.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-27", "file": "debates2024-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "e718fd87f3545477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-27a.755.7", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Adam Jogee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Jogee", "preceding_text": "I wish the Secretary of State a happy birthday for yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-27a.755.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-27", "file": "debates2024-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "e718fd87f3545477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-27a.778.2", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Stellantis Luton", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Reynolds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Reynolds", "preceding_text": "Mr Speaker, I would like to clarify some of the points that the hon. Gentleman raised. The ZEV mandate policy is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-27a.778.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-27", "file": "debates2024-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "e718fd87f3545477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-27a.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Murray", "preceding_text": "If Conservative Members disagree with the difficult but necessary choices that this Government have had to make to repair the public finances and protect working people, they have every right to oppose our plans, but they must explain what choices they would make instead. So far, their new leadership has fallen at the very first hurdle of being a credible Opposition by trying to have it both ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-27a.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-27", "file": "debates2024-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "e718fd87f3545477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-27a.813.2", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Murrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Murrison", "preceding_text": "The then Leader of the Opposition, and now Prime Minister, rightly said that his Administration would go for growth. He made it his No. 1 priority, and he inherited the fastest-growing economy in the G7.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-27a.813.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-27", "file": "debates2024-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "e718fd87f3545477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-27a.823.4", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mel Stride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mel Stride", "preceding_text": " than half that figure. It also made the point that, had it been known at that time, there would have been discussions between Treasury officials and the OBR, and that number might well have been smaller still. And it is equally the case that Governments manage down in-year fiscal pressures as a matter of course. To use another astronomer’s analogy, this is not so much a black hole as a red dwarf.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-27a.823.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-27", "file": "debates2024-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "e718fd87f3545477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-27a.829.1", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Daisy Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daisy Cooper", "preceding_text": "nd the threats and opportunities of AI, and I wish her well in her career in this House. There is no doubt but that the Government have received a terrible inheritance. Under the former Conservative Government, our economy flatlined, people’s living standards plummeted and our public services were left on their knees, so inevitably the incoming Government have had to make some difficult decisions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-27a.829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-27", "file": "debates2024-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "e718fd87f3545477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-27a.829.1", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Daisy Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daisy Cooper", "preceding_text": "ell in her career in this House. There is no doubt but that the Government have received a terrible inheritance. Under the former Conservative Government, our economy flatlined, people’s living standards plummeted and our public services were left on their knees, so inevitably the incoming Government have had to make some difficult decisions. [Interruption.] Conservative Members might like side B.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-27a.829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-27", "file": "debates2024-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "e718fd87f3545477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-27a.837.1", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "t envy and attack on misguided targets. For instance, children with special educational needs in private schools will be pulled out of those schools mid-year because their families can no longer afford to send them there. That was not the intent; not only did Labour Members want to stand on an honest prospectus, but that is not, I am sure, what they wanted. Nevertheless, that is what is happening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-27a.837.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-27", "file": "debates2024-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "e718fd87f3545477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-27a.849.2", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dave Doogan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dave Doogan", "preceding_text": "leasure enjoyed by many more people on the Government Benches. Last time I checked—it has been a while since I was at university—it was quite important to have constituents’ views heard on the Finance Bill and the Budget. It is scandalous how quiet the Government Benches are. We will have in the order of eight Labour speeches today, which is just unbelievable. If one were a Unionist, and I am not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-27a.849.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-27", "file": "debates2024-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "e718fd87f3545477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-27a.853.2", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dave Doogan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dave Doogan", "preceding_text": " Parliament as a result of the Bill and the Budget that goes with it, and that will extend the UK’s long pay stagnation. The Resolution Foundation has found that “By 2028, average weekly earnings are set to be just £13 higher than they were in 2008.” Furthermore, the Institute for Fiscal Studies states: “Labour’s spending plans after 2025-26 are unlikely to survive contact with reality” Those are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-27a.853.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-11-27", "file": "debates2024-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "e718fd87f3545477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-27a.863.1", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Luke Charters", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Luke Charters", "preceding_text": "iver for the British people by delivering the green jobs of the future. May I briefly refer to the first Bill I ever spoke on in this House, which is now the Budget Responsibility Act 2024? I said the Bill was important because it was “the only way we can grow those public services with a stable economy.”—[Official Report, 30 July 2024 ; Vol. 752, c. 1253.] That is as true now as it was back then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-11-27a.863.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-02", "file": "debates2024-12-02c.xml", "sha256": "63c9e345a0c0ba23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-02c.46.3", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Migration and Border Security", "cue_speaker": "Lisa Smart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lisa Smart", "preceding_text": "The Conservatives trashed our immigration system, and now it is time to pick up the pieces—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-02c.46.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-02", "file": "debates2024-12-02c.xml", "sha256": "63c9e345a0c0ba23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-02c.89.0", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Grenfell Tower Inquiry", "cue_speaker": "Florence Eshalomi", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Florence Eshalomi", "preceding_text": "er a decade of missed opportunities to identify the risks associated with combustible cladding. The shadow Secretary of State quoted it, as did the hon. Member for Taunton and Wellington (Gideon Amos) , and I will quote again. There were “deliberate and sustained strategies” from cladding providers “to manipulate the testing processes, misrepresent test data and mislead the market.” Shame on them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-02c.89.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-03", "file": "debates2024-12-03d.xml", "sha256": "dc195d7f1394a66d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-03d.154.6", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Treasury", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-03d.154.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-03", "file": "debates2024-12-03d.xml", "sha256": "dc195d7f1394a66d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-03d.195.0", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Elections (Proportional Representation)", "cue_speaker": "Lewis Cocking", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lewis Cocking", "preceding_text": "st-the-post elections, it is clear who will be in power and who will be in opposition. As we saw in the recent general election, it is possible for voters to change who governs them if that is the choice they wish to make. Finally, I remind the House that the British people have made clear their opposition to proportional representation. In 2011, 13 million people voted to remain—sorry, to retain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-03d.195.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-03", "file": "debates2024-12-03d.xml", "sha256": "dc195d7f1394a66d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-03d.204.1", "colnum": "204", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stuart Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stuart Anderson", "preceding_text": "I believe the Minister is misleading the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-03d.204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-03", "file": "debates2024-12-03d.xml", "sha256": "dc195d7f1394a66d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-03d.235.0", "colnum": "235", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dave Doogan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dave Doogan", "preceding_text": "ctor? The bill for Scotland—the gross quantum by which it will be penalised by this fiscal misadventure—is £2 billion, and the private sector is on the hook for £1.25 billion of that, which is entirely unacceptable. While we are talking about what is happening to Scotland, wouldn’t it have been nice if some of the Scottish Labour MPs had turned up for the debate to speak up for their constituents?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-03d.235.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-03", "file": "debates2024-12-03d.xml", "sha256": "dc195d7f1394a66d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-03d.238.3", "colnum": "238", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Ferguson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Ferguson", "preceding_text": "taxes to pay for them. Like many Labour Members, I have a huge amount of experience of opposition. I have never sat on the Opposition Benches and I do not want to sit on them any time soon, but I have a huge amount of experience of the business of opposition, and I would gently offer some advice that I doubt will be taken. You are going to have to do a lot better than this if you want to convince—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-03d.238.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-03", "file": "debates2024-12-03d.xml", "sha256": "dc195d7f1394a66d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-03d.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tom Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Hayes", "preceding_text": "I have literally just said that this debate should not be about party politics, but about the scrutiny of this Government’s Budget. Instead of asking questions about the nature and substance of the Budget, the Opposition are resorting to party politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-03d.243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-03", "file": "debates2024-12-03d.xml", "sha256": "dc195d7f1394a66d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-03d.245.3", "colnum": "245", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dan Tomlinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "y voted for change and investment in our public services, and that is what this Budget makes possible. When we came into power in July, we faced a difficult economic inheritance. I wish we had taken power in more benign circumstances, but Opposition Members will know that public sector debt had increased to 100% of GDP—the same size as the economy—and trillions of pounds, constraining our ability—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-03d.245.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-03", "file": "debates2024-12-03d.xml", "sha256": "dc195d7f1394a66d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-03d.246.1", "colnum": "246", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dan Tomlinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "spoken to the chief executive of the trust. They were clear that what has happened nationally, and has filtered through to their hospital, is that capital spending budgets have been raided to fund day-to-day spending, and that has made it more difficult for the NHS to be productive. More beds and £3 billion for scanners and other capital equipment will make a difference to productivity in the NHS.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-03d.246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-03", "file": "debates2024-12-03d.xml", "sha256": "dc195d7f1394a66d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-03d.246.3", "colnum": "246", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dan Tomlinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "tive Members are again covering themselves in the pong of the Liz Truss Administration. That Administration made the mistake of not making efforts to balance day-to-day public spending and tax increases. That is what caused interest rates to rise and the economy to be in much turmoil. The Labour Government are ensuring that increases in day-to-day spending are matched by increases in tax revenues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-03d.246.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-03", "file": "debates2024-12-03d.xml", "sha256": "dc195d7f1394a66d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-03d.258.4", "colnum": "258", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stuart Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stuart Anderson", "preceding_text": "I stand by the comments that I made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-03d.258.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-03", "file": "debates2024-12-03d.xml", "sha256": "dc195d7f1394a66d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-03d.258.7", "colnum": "258", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tulip Siddiq", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tulip Siddiq", "preceding_text": "it works, which is why I am on this side of the House and the hon. Gentleman is on that side. That is why I am a Treasury Minister and he is not, and probably never will be. The hon. Member for Huntingdon (Ben Obese-Jecty) spoke about hospitality. Without any Government intervention, retail, hospitality and leisure relief would have ended entirely in April 2025, creating a cliff edge for business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-03d.258.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-04", "file": "debates2024-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "df267e8e76b7b061", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-04b.281.4", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Scotland", "cue_speaker": "Ian Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Murray", "preceding_text": "I will be corrected if I am wrong, but I think the hon. Gentleman backed former Prime Minister Liz Truss, who, when she was Prime Minister, crashed the economy and left a £22 billion black hole—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-04b.281.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-04", "file": "debates2024-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "df267e8e76b7b061", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-04b.284.2", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Scotland", "cue_speaker": "Ian Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Murray", "preceding_text": "Mr Speaker, you will not be surprised to hear that I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-04b.284.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-04", "file": "debates2024-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "df267e8e76b7b061", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-04b.291.5", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "I have seen the OECD report, and what it says is that they will be coming back for more taxes. The whole House will have heard him fail to repeat his own pledge. He cannot even repeat the pledges he made just a few weeks ago. We are here to stop him damaging the economy, and that is why—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-04b.291.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-04", "file": "debates2024-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "df267e8e76b7b061", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-04b.308.0", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Farming and Inheritance Tax", "cue_speaker": "Alison Hume", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alison Hume", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member left a trail of destruction across the Government. She was the Health Secretary who broke the NHS, the Prisons Minister who ran out of prison places and the Treasury Minister who crashed the economy—no wonder her constituency majority crashed from 28,000 to 5,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-04b.308.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-04", "file": "debates2024-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "df267e8e76b7b061", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-04b.308.5", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Farming and Inheritance Tax", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hoare", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hoare", "preceding_text": "This point of order is spontaneous, unlike that intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-04b.308.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-04", "file": "debates2024-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "df267e8e76b7b061", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-04b.308.7", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Farming and Inheritance Tax", "cue_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "preceding_text": "ally, it means you are winning the argument. Let me help the hon. Member for Scarborough and Whitby with the second set of calculations that her Chancellor has got so wrong, because the Chancellor’s cockeyed accounting extends to the claim that farmers will be able to transfer £3 million tax-free. That is wrong. Only a few in a specific set of circumstances will be able to claim that magic figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-04b.308.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-04", "file": "debates2024-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "df267e8e76b7b061", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-04b.310.4", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Farming and Inheritance Tax", "cue_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend and Lincolnshire neighbour sets out exactly the personal impact of the tax. I know how Treasury Ministers look at spreadsheets and those terribly impressive packs of information from civil servants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-04b.310.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-04", "file": "debates2024-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "df267e8e76b7b061", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-04b.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Farming and Inheritance Tax", "cue_speaker": "Baggy Shanker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Baggy Shanker", "preceding_text": "The shadow Secretary of State made an important point about the health and wellbeing of our farmers. As operation waiting times were almost three times higher when she was Health Secretary than they were in 2010, does she not welcome the investment that this Government are putting into our NHS?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-04b.311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-04", "file": "debates2024-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "df267e8e76b7b061", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-04b.312.3", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Farming and Inheritance Tax", "cue_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "preceding_text": "I am pretty sure that the hon. Gentleman has his facts wrong about the then Trade Secretary. The Conservative party is in favour of trade deals, but we want trade deals that best support our farming industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-04b.312.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-04", "file": "debates2024-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "df267e8e76b7b061", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-04b.322.2", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Farming and Inheritance Tax", "cue_speaker": "Becky Gittins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Becky Gittins", "preceding_text": "Despite attempts by the Opposition to hijack this debate, I can honestly say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-04b.322.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-04", "file": "debates2024-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "df267e8e76b7b061", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-04b.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Farming and Inheritance Tax", "cue_speaker": "Esther McVey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Esther McVey", "preceding_text": "% of family farms will be affected. If I were in government and I saw the discrepancy between those numbers, I would go back to the drawing board, check the figures and ask why those discrepancies are there, not dig in deeper. I think the curse of this Labour Government and what they will be remembered for is their distinct lack of grasp of detail and of how the economy works, rural and otherwise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-04b.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-04", "file": "debates2024-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "df267e8e76b7b061", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-04b.352.0", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Farming and Inheritance Tax", "cue_speaker": "George Freeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Freeman", "preceding_text": "Treasury policy that has been landed on unwitting Ministers, who are now having to carry the can. We know it is anti-small business, anti-family business and anti the rural economy. The former Labour adviser, John McTernan, let the cat out of the bag. He said that Labour has waited a long time to seek revenge for the Tory attacks on the miners, and it was going to attack the farming community now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-04b.352.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-04", "file": "debates2024-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "df267e8e76b7b061", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-04b.354.3", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Farming and Inheritance Tax", "cue_speaker": "Joe Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joe Morris", "preceding_text": "When we start a new job and find that the previous person in that job had not paid invoices for the previous year and deliberately withheld financial information, we have an honest conversation with the public about what is achievable. In any business, we have to be honest with people about deliverables.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-04b.354.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-04", "file": "debates2024-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "df267e8e76b7b061", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-04b.355.5", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Farming and Inheritance Tax", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “What about Brexit?”", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "I rise to support the many farmers in my constituency and the rural communities that farmers are the very heart of. I want to do something a little different in this debate and try to figure out what is behind some of the moves that the Labour party has put in place when it comes to farming.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-04b.355.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-04", "file": "debates2024-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "df267e8e76b7b061", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-04b.365.0", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Farming and Inheritance Tax", "cue_speaker": "Josh Fenton-Glynn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Josh Fenton-Glynn", "preceding_text": "Conservative Members talk about being friends of the farmers but for the past 14 years they were not. It shows how little they care that only 18% of their parliamentary party is present for a debate that they have called—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-04b.365.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-05", "file": "debates2024-12-05c.xml", "sha256": "ccf7fc58538d502c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-05c.467.6", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Scott Arthur", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Scott Arthur", "preceding_text": "I was going to ask a more political question, but I will accept the invitation to talk about Small Business Saturday. I invite the Leader of the House to my constituency to meet some of our small businesses. Two in particular come to mind. The first is the Bald Baker, a business started up during lockdown by a single dad. His latest creation is a pie that contains cheese, chips and doner kebab.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-05c.467.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-05", "file": "debates2024-12-05c.xml", "sha256": "ccf7fc58538d502c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-05c.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Plan for Change: Milestones for Mission-led Government", "cue_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "preceding_text": "e Government must be feeling pretty unstable at the moment. Labour Members talk about legacy, and I wish them good fortune in government—I genuinely mean that. The last Government had to clean up the mess from the greatest financial crisis in a century. The last Government had to deal with the biggest pandemic in a century. The last Government had to deal with the biggest war in Europe since 1945.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-05c.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-05", "file": "debates2024-12-05c.xml", "sha256": "ccf7fc58538d502c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-05c.490.1", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Detained British Nationals Abroad", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "e in his trial—at which, by the way, a number of Members present have been named. I have been apparently named. I am already sanctioned by the Chinese, but I have also been named as being party to the case being brought against him. I have to say publicly that I have, sadly, never met Jimmy Lai or corresponded with him. I wish that I had. I wish that I could tell him what a brave man he really is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-05c.490.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-09", "file": "debates2024-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "8612de5310cd83f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-09b.689.5", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Planning Committees: Reform", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Vince", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Vince", "preceding_text": "My constituents often complain about the amount of time it takes for a plan to go from paper to the end product. In fact, it is a conversation I often have with my best hon. Friend, the hon. Member for Thurrock (Jen Craft) . [Hon. Members: “Aww!”] I need some brownie points back. Can you tell me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-09b.689.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-09", "file": "debates2024-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "8612de5310cd83f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-09b.731.1", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Holmes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Holmes", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is reasonable and a very good colleague in the way she carries out her duties in this House, so it will come as no surprise to hear that I absolutely agree with her. I do say that about some Government Members, so I am not being partisan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-09b.731.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-09", "file": "debates2024-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "8612de5310cd83f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-09b.732.1", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Holmes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Holmes", "preceding_text": "I would like to say that I have given that great thought, but as hon. Members across the House will know, after we came back in July, my tenure as a shadow Home Affairs Minister was rather short—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-09b.732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-09", "file": "debates2024-12-09b.xml", "sha256": "8612de5310cd83f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-09b.749.3", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "preceding_text": "ses but has a wider value, and that protecting the public is not just a matter for Government; others also have an important responsibility in that area. Let me turn to the hon. Member for Hamble Valley (Paul Holmes) , who has been very patient. I have to say, I am a little mystified that he is not on the Opposition Front Bench. He seems an effective performer and responded well on Second Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-09b.749.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-10", "file": "debates2024-12-10e.xml", "sha256": "f0f437bc7735bf82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-10e.829.0", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Murray", "preceding_text": "The oil and gas industry recognises that a transition to clean energy is under way. It wants to support investment and jobs in the industry but also to contribute to the transition. Taking a fair and balanced approach is the right way to protect the jobs and industries of today and tomorrow and, crucially, to protect bill payers, giving them permanently lower bills and greater energy independence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-10e.829.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-10", "file": "debates2024-12-10e.xml", "sha256": "f0f437bc7735bf82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-10e.835.1", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Daisy Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daisy Cooper", "preceding_text": "alls from Liberal Democrats and others and finally scrapped the unfair investment allowance loophole, but we would like the Minister to give the Committee some clarity on how much money will be raised, particularly through the abolition of the carve-out. By extension, we would be able to see how much money could have been raised under the previous Government but was gifted to the large gas giants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-10e.835.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-10", "file": "debates2024-12-10e.xml", "sha256": "f0f437bc7735bf82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-10e.840.0", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Wera Hobhouse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wera Hobhouse", "preceding_text": "d global supply chain problems that caused energy prices to soar. While the oil and gas giants saw record profits, my constituents in Bath and others across the country faced a cost of living crisis. The previous Government have a lot to answer for. They sat and watched as the oil and gas giants lined their pockets off the back of people struggling with their bills. It did not have to be that way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-10e.840.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-10", "file": "debates2024-12-10e.xml", "sha256": "f0f437bc7735bf82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-10e.843.2", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sammy Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sammy Wilson", "preceding_text": "0 workers in Scotland who depend on the oil and gas industry feel abandoned today because there is no one here to defend them—although I have to say that if I were a Scottish Member I might not want to stick my head over the parapet, defend measures such as these, and then have to go back to my constituents to explain. I suspect that they will go through the Lobby and vote for those measures, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-10e.843.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-11", "file": "debates2024-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "8b9fe5d53c167625", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-11d.883.6", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Wales", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "There is no better way of strengthening the Union than improving the healthcare of people in Wales. Somehow, at the general election, Labour managed to mislead the public in England into thinking that it could bring the change to the health service. In truth, we need Welsh people to have a much improved health service, as the people of England have had under Conservative control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-11d.883.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-11", "file": "debates2024-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "8b9fe5d53c167625", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-11d.888.1", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister did not answer a single—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-11d.888.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-11", "file": "debates2024-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "8b9fe5d53c167625", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-11d.888.4", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "I am invited to tell the House what went wrong under the last Government—that would take us all afternoon. We are going to smash the gangs that are running this vile trade. We signed a landmark agreement with Germany this week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-11d.888.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-11", "file": "debates2024-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "8b9fe5d53c167625", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-11d.893.2", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "I think everybody welcomes the £5 billion over the next two years that we put in the Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-11d.893.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-11", "file": "debates2024-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "8b9fe5d53c167625", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-11d.897.0", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Lady for raising this case. It is something that is all too common because of the fact that the last Government broke the NHS. She will have seen the Lord Darzi report that we published on the state of the NHS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-11d.897.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-11", "file": "debates2024-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "8b9fe5d53c167625", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-11d.908.2", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Border Security: Collaboration", "cue_speaker": "Amanda Martin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Amanda Martin", "preceding_text": "The Conservatives should be absolutely ashamed of their asylum and immigration policy, of their inactivity and of the complete mess in which they left Britain and our borders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-11d.908.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-11", "file": "debates2024-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "8b9fe5d53c167625", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-11d.951.1", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, Hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "preceding_text": "No doubt the whole House will join me in congratulating the next speaker on his engagement. How lucky you are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-11d.951.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-11", "file": "debates2024-12-11d.xml", "sha256": "8b9fe5d53c167625", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-11d.953.0", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Matt Rodda", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matt Rodda", "preceding_text": "May I also extend my congratulations to my hon. Friend on this wonderful day for him and his family? He is making an excellent speech. On the specific point about housing, can my hon. Friend say a little more about his vision?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-11d.953.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-12", "file": "debates2024-12-12c.xml", "sha256": "8cee1be783a2a466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-12c.1018.1", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Business and Trade", "cue_speaker": "Greg Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Smith", "preceding_text": "Sorry seems to be the hardest word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-12c.1018.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-12", "file": "debates2024-12-12c.xml", "sha256": "8cee1be783a2a466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-12c.1025.8", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Business and Trade", "cue_speaker": "Tonia Antoniazzi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tonia Antoniazzi", "preceding_text": "akeover by Airbus of only 50% of the work at its site in the city. We all know what happens to supply chains, communities and individuals in these circumstances, so what discussions are Ministers having with Cabinet colleagues, with Airbus, and with other interested parties to safeguard those jobs at Spirit now and to increase Government spend with Northern Ireland defence companies in the future?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-12c.1025.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-12", "file": "debates2024-12-12c.xml", "sha256": "8cee1be783a2a466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-12c.1026.0", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Business and Trade", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "I know it’s Christmas, but come on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-12c.1026.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2024-12-12", "file": "debates2024-12-12c.xml", "sha256": "8cee1be783a2a466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-12c.1026.4", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Business and Trade", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members:", "cue_text": "More!", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "preceding_text": "reland. Defence, light engineering and cyber-security are all vital to jobs and the economy in Northern Ireland, but what assessment has been made of the sustainability and efficiency of Northern Ireland’s agrifood sector, and will the Minister commit to promote the productivity of that industry across the United Kingdom and, indeed, across the world? That is as short as I can make it, Mr Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-12c.1026.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-12", "file": "debates2024-12-12c.xml", "sha256": "8cee1be783a2a466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-12c.1029.8", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Business and Trade", "cue_speaker": "Tristan Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tristan Osborne", "preceding_text": "As we all settle down for Christmas, we will be watching “Mission: Impossible”, “James Bond”, “Ironclad”, and perhaps even “Call the Midwife”, which were all filmed in Medway—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-12c.1029.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-12", "file": "debates2024-12-12c.xml", "sha256": "8cee1be783a2a466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-12c.1048.4", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Urgh”.", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "preceding_text": "Now that is a good Christmas joke! That’s how to tell ‘em, I say. I absolutely join my hon. Friend in congratulating Pippa on her very paws-itive work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-12c.1048.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-12", "file": "debates2024-12-12c.xml", "sha256": "8cee1be783a2a466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-12c.1050.3", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Paul Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Davies", "preceding_text": "Rural communities often feel neglected when it comes to crime. House of Commons Library research shows a 32% rise in rural crime since 2011, compared with 24% in urban areas. That includes 130,000 more reported offences, and 30,000 additional cases of criminal damage and arson. Those figures highlight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-12c.1050.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-12", "file": "debates2024-12-12c.xml", "sha256": "8cee1be783a2a466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-12c.1054.1", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Swallow", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Oh, no, you didn’t!”", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Swallow", "preceding_text": "On Friday, I attended the opening night of panto at the fantastic South Hill Park arts centre in Bracknell.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-12c.1054.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-12", "file": "debates2024-12-12c.xml", "sha256": "8cee1be783a2a466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-12c.1060.1", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Building Homes", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Hollinrake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Hollinrake", "preceding_text": "I thank the Minister for advance sight of his statement. First, I welcome the ambitious target of 1.5 million homes in this Parliament. I think he may have unintentionally misled the House regarding the “dire inheritance” that he claims. Conservative Members are rightly proud of our record on housing delivery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-12c.1060.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-12", "file": "debates2024-12-12c.xml", "sha256": "8cee1be783a2a466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-12c.1062.0", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Building Homes", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Pennycook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Pennycook", "preceding_text": "homes a year when disaggregated—once in 14 years. There were so many inaccuracies and misleading statements in that response, and a fundamental misunderstanding of the framework that we have planned, that I am not sure where to start. The assertion that we are waging war on rural England or that we have distributed housing targets predominantly towards rural areas is simply wrong. We are focusing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-12c.1062.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-12", "file": "debates2024-12-12c.xml", "sha256": "8cee1be783a2a466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-12c.1118.0", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "LGBT Veterans: Etherton Review", "cue_speaker": "Julia Buckley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, Hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Julia Buckley", "preceding_text": "rson to do so; it had taken 51 years. I would like to be the second person to thank her for her service and to ask that it be recorded in the Houses of Parliament. Claire Ashton is here today, having travelled on the train at 5 am from Shrewsbury. She is in the Gallery, watching the debate, and I hope that she feels the respect and admiration of this House for her contribution to our armed forces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-12c.1118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-16", "file": "debates2024-12-16d.xml", "sha256": "ff23f966c5fb5571", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-16d.5.5", "colnum": "5", "heading": "Work and Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Danny Kruger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Kruger", "preceding_text": "e were reforming the work capability assessment. The Office for Budget Responsibility said that our reforms would have seen 400,000 fewer people on long-term sickness benefits, saving £5.4 billion over this Parliament. The Labour Government have paused that work while they hold a review. They have had 14 years. I do not know what they were doing to plan for government—not very much, it looks like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-16d.5.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-16", "file": "debates2024-12-16d.xml", "sha256": "ff23f966c5fb5571", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-16d.9.4", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Work and Pensions", "cue_speaker": "David Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Taylor", "preceding_text": "by the local charity DENS, there has been a 1,000% increase in the number of people needing to use food banks over the past 10 years. Meanwhile, another institution, the Hemel Hempstead community fridge, sees queues an hour before it opens, in scenes akin to something out of Soviet Russia. Does the Minister agree that there are few more shameful examples of the last Government’s record on poverty?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-16d.9.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-16", "file": "debates2024-12-16d.xml", "sha256": "ff23f966c5fb5571", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-16d.41.2", "colnum": "41", "heading": "English Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Vikki Slade", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vikki Slade", "preceding_text": "for breaches of standards, which is very welcome, but it says little about how we reset the relationship with those counsellors to make sure that the time and effort they put in is properly reflected. The White Paper fails to say anything meaningful about the ticking time bomb of social care, and its reference to the financial crisis being faced up and down the country hints at further devolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-16d.41.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-16", "file": "debates2024-12-16d.xml", "sha256": "ff23f966c5fb5571", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-16d.67.4", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Royal Mail Takeover", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Gibson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Gibson", "preceding_text": "will not be reduced as a result of this sale to EP Group and that any changes on the horizon will not be charged to the public purse. My questions about the delivery standards are particularly important, given that we are in the middle of Christmas, and many millions of people rely on the Royal Mail, not least for that. One thing that is particularly concerning for us at the moment might well be —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-16d.67.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-16", "file": "debates2024-12-16d.xml", "sha256": "ff23f966c5fb5571", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-16d.84.2", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Water (Special Measures) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "preceding_text": "ion. I understand why the Labour Government highlight the bonuses that water company bosses have received. Again, I gently point out to the Secretary of State—perhaps he has not done his homework—that the Environment Act 2021, which his Back Benchers do not seem to have read, gave regulators the power to ban water bosses from receiving bonuses if companies have committed serious criminal breaches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-16d.84.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-16", "file": "debates2024-12-16d.xml", "sha256": "ff23f966c5fb5571", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-16d.106.0", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Water (Special Measures) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "David Reed", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Reed", "preceding_text": "be familiar with the long history of this issue, so I will not relitigate arguments that have been made already, but it is important to reiterate that this is not a problem that has emerged overnight. We have collectively dropped the ball on this issue—from the last Labour Government under Blair and Brown to the Lib Dem-Conservative coalition and the last Governments, we are all in part complicit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-16d.106.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-16", "file": "debates2024-12-16d.xml", "sha256": "ff23f966c5fb5571", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-16d.113.0", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Water (Special Measures) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Pakes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Pakes", "preceding_text": "Phew! Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-16d.113.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-16", "file": "debates2024-12-16d.xml", "sha256": "ff23f966c5fb5571", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-16d.114.0", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Water (Special Measures) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Tom Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Hayes", "preceding_text": "The water is key to Bournemouth’s appeal as the most stunningly beautiful town in our country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-16d.114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-16", "file": "debates2024-12-16d.xml", "sha256": "ff23f966c5fb5571", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-16d.126.0", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Water (Special Measures) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Lizzi Collinge", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ah!”", "preceding_speaker": "Lizzi Collinge", "preceding_text": "er companies and not enforced by the Conservatives, but now we have a Labour Government who will not only enforce the law, but strengthen it. Morecambe bay is an ecologically special place. It is a site of special scientific interest and a bird watcher’s paradise, as a sanctuary for over 240,000 birds each year. Unfortunately, we do not have time for all the interesting bird facts that I prepared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-16d.126.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-17", "file": "debates2024-12-17d.xml", "sha256": "e0d0526235f0fda3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-17d.150.4", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Energy Security and Net Zero", "cue_speaker": "Michael Shanks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Shanks", "preceding_text": "In the spirit of Christmas, I thank the hon. Lady for all the engagement and discussions we have had—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-17d.150.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-18", "file": "debates2024-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "2e7834d74e9f3d0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-18b.304.5", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "The Leader of the Opposition has asked three questions about winter fuel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-18b.304.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-18", "file": "debates2024-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "2e7834d74e9f3d0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-18b.306.1", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for her question. Jim Callaghan was a giant of the Labour movement and a great public servant. He left school at 17 and served in our Royal Navy before becoming Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Chancellor and, of course, finally Prime Minister. I am sure that he, as a proud son of Portsmouth, would be honoured to be remembered in such a way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-18b.306.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-18", "file": "debates2024-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "2e7834d74e9f3d0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-18b.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right that the SNP is letting down patients in Scotland. As the Scottish Auditor General says, “greater leadership” is needed in the Scottish NHS. Waiting list targets are being missed, spending on agency staff is skyrocketing, and delays to patient discharge are hitting record levels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-18b.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2024-12-18", "file": "debates2024-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "2e7834d74e9f3d0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-18b.308.5", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "I have just set out the factual background and the percentage who knew about the change. The simple fact of the matter is that in the current economic circumstances, the taxpayer cannot bear the burden of tens of billions of pounds in compensation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2024-12-18b.308.5"}
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