{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-01-06", "file": "debates2025-01-06b.xml", "sha256": "a8f88a21869ab782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-06b.589.8", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has put his finger on a long-standing, deep-running weakness, namely a procurement policy under the last Government that did not recognise the UK steel industry as a strategic industry and was content for the amount of UK steel sourced for some new ships to be in the single figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-06b.589.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-01-06", "file": "debates2025-01-06b.xml", "sha256": "a8f88a21869ab782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-06b.604.2", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Health and Adult Social Care Reform", "cue_speaker": "Ben Coleman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Coleman", "preceding_text": "ng our promises as a Government. It is also very good that we are taking the necessary time to create this cross-party consensus on social care while keeping the show so firmly on the road. Carers will be supported to carry out more health tasks, as they do already in my constituency with wound dressing and medicine management. The problem is they do not have any possibility of career progression.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-06b.604.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-01-06", "file": "debates2025-01-06b.xml", "sha256": "a8f88a21869ab782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-06b.609.5", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Health and Adult Social Care Reform", "cue_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his question. That is why in the Budget the Chancellor delivered a big uplift in the spending power of local authorities, with £880 million ringfenced specifically for social care. We are also delivering through measures such as the disabled facilities grant to deal immediately with the pressures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-06b.609.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-01-06", "file": "debates2025-01-06b.xml", "sha256": "a8f88a21869ab782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-06b.634.0", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse", "cue_speaker": "Chris Philp", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Philp", "preceding_text": "I pay tribute to people who have raised these cases over the years, starting with former Labour MP Ann Cryer, who first raised these problems nearly two decades ago and bravely persevered despite accusations of racism and worse, including from her own colleagues. In that vein, let me say a word on the Prime Minister’s comments this morning: it is not far-right to stand up for victims of mass rape.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-06b.634.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-01-06", "file": "debates2025-01-06b.xml", "sha256": "a8f88a21869ab782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-06b.685.0", "colnum": "685", "heading": "NHS Backlog", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Stafford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Stafford", "preceding_text": "I welcome this debate, although we have had a number of health debates over the past few sitting days that have crystallised the real problem that we see in the NHS. It is stark that none of the Government Members have mentioned covid thus far and its massive impact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-06b.685.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-01-07", "file": "debates2025-01-07a.xml", "sha256": "884bce51b3a23dad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-07a.720.3", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Health and Social Care", "cue_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "preceding_text": "Of course, clinical need is paramount and must always drive decision making about who to treat when and the order in which people are treated. That is why I find the question posed so deeply disingenuous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-07a.720.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-01-07", "file": "debates2025-01-07a.xml", "sha256": "884bce51b3a23dad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-07a.735.4", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Northern Gaza", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": "or securing this urgent question. Innocent civilians in Gaza are suffering and the situation is desperate; everyone in the House recognises that and we all want aid and support to reach them. Does the Minister also recognise that innocent civilians are being used continuously as human shields by Hamas, which has no regard for their safety or welfare? There are no excuses for the current situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-07a.735.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-01-07", "file": "debates2025-01-07a.xml", "sha256": "884bce51b3a23dad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-07a.755.0", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Northern Gaza", "cue_speaker": "Hamish Falconer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hamish Falconer", "preceding_text": "ot burnishing our minds as it is at the moment. We will continue to act. The fact that, as my hon. Friend the Member for Hammersmith and Chiswick (Andy Slaughter) said, I am answering so many hon. Members’ questions with similar answers over a course of weeks and months is of huge frustration to me. I would want to be making more progress on some of these questions, whether they are on aid access—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-07a.755.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-01-07", "file": "debates2025-01-07a.xml", "sha256": "884bce51b3a23dad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-07a.793.0", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Crown Estate Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Angus MacDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus MacDonald", "preceding_text": "in enabling the Crown Estate to play a greater role in the transition towards net zero. I fully support its efforts and ambitions. The partnership between the Crown Estate and Great British Energy to develop offshore wind projects is exciting. Many of us have been trying to get Great British Energy to include community benefits and community ownership within its reach, but we have failed to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-07a.793.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-01-08", "file": "debates2025-01-08b.xml", "sha256": "62dadaa86e1dcf85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-08b.839.2", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": " excuse. I would say to him that, by refusing this inquiry, he is enabling those people who wish to smear all British Muslims based on the actions of a small minority. He is talking about distraction tactics. Let us have the truth. The Prime Minister cannot tell the House the full scale of the scandal. He does not want questions asked of Labour politicians who may be complicit. He will not listen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-08b.839.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-01-09", "file": "debates2025-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "5bd474127b58d242", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-09b.999.0", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Public Finances: Borrowing Costs", "cue_speaker": "Darren Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Darren Jones", "preceding_text": "I am pleased that the right hon. Gentleman enjoyed my performance—I have not even had my first cup of coffee yet this morning. Let me answer some of his questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-09b.999.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-01-09", "file": "debates2025-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "5bd474127b58d242", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-09b.999.0", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Public Finances: Borrowing Costs", "cue_speaker": "Darren Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Darren Jones", "preceding_text": "es. As I said in my statement, those rules are non-negotiable. As the Chancellor set out at the Budget, we have two fiscal rules: first, that day-to-day spending should be met by tax receipts, and secondly, that debt should be falling as a share of the economy. The right hon. Gentleman talked about the debt burden that this country has. Maybe we should reflect a little on why we have so much debt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-09b.999.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-01-20", "file": "debates2025-01-20b.xml", "sha256": "d2a7f4ee52999ea9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-20b.758.1", "colnum": "758", "heading": "New Hospital Programme Review", "cue_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "preceding_text": "at he has. He wants to talk about the costs placed on the country, but he should look in the mirror and consider the costs that he and his colleagues in government lumbered this country with when they imposed over a decade of austerity, of Trussonomics and the worst sort of kamikaze ideological project that this country has experienced in modern times. I would just remind the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-20b.758.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-01-28", "file": "debates2025-01-28b.xml", "sha256": "e81b5fa39a183d8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-28b.142.0", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Justice", "cue_speaker": "Shabana Mahmood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shabana Mahmood", "preceding_text": "I have said on many occasions in this House that I believe in punishment and in prison. Prison has a core role to play in the punishment of offenders. However, we must not run out of prison places. We must balance the need to punish and imprison people with interventions that expand the use of punishment outside prison.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-28b.142.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-01-29", "file": "debates2025-01-29c.xml", "sha256": "4071cc73bfa1c0a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-29c.362.1", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Charter for Budget Responsibility", "cue_speaker": "Darren Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Darren Jones", "preceding_text": "and because no-fault evictions were allowed under the last Government, many people lost their homes. This fundamental insecurity in people’s lives stems from the actions of politicians here in Government. That is why the fiscal rules are so important and why the Chancellor—and indeed the whole Government—are so iron-clad in their commitment to them. That is why the fiscal rules are non-negotiable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-29c.362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-01-30", "file": "debates2025-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "26b28466a0dd574b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-30a.428.3", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Women’s Health Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Karin Smyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Karin Smyth", "preceding_text": "I am not entirely clear what the hon. Member is referring to. I have been clear that we are committed to the women’s health strategy, and we will take it forward as part of the 10-year plan. Most of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-30a.428.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-01-30", "file": "debates2025-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "26b28466a0dd574b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-30a.430.3", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Women’s Health Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Barry Gardiner", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Gardiner", "preceding_text": "ears ago this month, my wife almost died of an eclamptic seizure because a general practitioner had failed to recognise the symptoms of pre-eclampsia. According to the most recent report on pre-eclampsia, four times as many women are dying of pre-eclampsia today than were dying in 2012. That is an absolute disgrace. If men got pre-eclampsia, they would have solved the problem many, many years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-30a.430.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-01-30", "file": "debates2025-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "26b28466a0dd574b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-30a.433.4", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Joy Morrissey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “But—”", "preceding_speaker": "Joy Morrissey", "preceding_text": "f the House will join me in rejoicing at the return of more of the Israeli hostages today. It is an honour to respond to the right hon. Lady. Serving with her on the Modernisation Committee, I have observed the energy that she puts into bringing this House into the second quarter of the 21st century. We are lucky to have someone so persuasive in her position, someone who really listens to Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-30a.433.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-01-30", "file": "debates2025-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "26b28466a0dd574b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-30a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Proportional Representation: General Elections", "cue_speaker": "Olly Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Olly Glover", "preceding_text": "rties in the House for this debate. However, I agree with other colleagues who have said that while we do not necessarily know how people will vote if they are given a more proportional voting system, that is all the more reason for us to have one, so that people can feel they can vote with their hearts and not with their heads or, indeed, on the basis of a bar chart of whatever level of accuracy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-30a.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-01-30", "file": "debates2025-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "26b28466a0dd574b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-30a.484.4", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Proportional Representation: General Elections", "cue_speaker": "Paul Holmes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Holmes", "preceding_text": "21. Those evolutionary changes have allowed us, as a country, to forgo frequent domestic upheaval and civil wars, which are a feature of other less stable systems. I know I am in a minority of one this afternoon—apart from the hon. Member for Ilford South (Jas Athwal) —but the Conservative party has long championed first past the post as the fairest and most effective way to elect representatives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-30a.484.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-01-30", "file": "debates2025-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "26b28466a0dd574b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-30a.486.2", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Proportional Representation: General Elections", "cue_speaker": "Paul Holmes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Holmes", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman is seriously suggesting to the House that just because other people do it, we should follow suit, then he needs to go away and think about his policy proposition again. This country —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-01-30a.486.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-05", "file": "debates2025-02-05b.xml", "sha256": "1bb2c3610513b109", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-05b.733.5", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Women and Equalities", "cue_speaker": "Ben Obese-Jecty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Obese-Jecty", "preceding_text": "lion in back pay and an annual wage bill increase of £400 million—an even bigger blow than the additional £100 million increase in the company’s wage bill as a result of the Chancellor’s Budget. Does the Minister agree that private companies should be free to set different wages for completely different jobs, irrespective of the gender balance in those roles, without being overruled by the courts?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-05b.733.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-05", "file": "debates2025-02-05b.xml", "sha256": "1bb2c3610513b109", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-05b.815.5", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Police Grant Report", "cue_speaker": "Matt Vickers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matt Vickers", "preceding_text": "No, I am going to make some progress, thank you very much. Some might say that the Minister is giving with one hand and taking with the other. However, given the tax rises, it is clear that she is giving with the left hand and taking back with the far-left hand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-05b.815.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-05", "file": "debates2025-02-05b.xml", "sha256": "1bb2c3610513b109", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-05b.817.7", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Police Grant Report", "cue_speaker": "Matt Vickers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matt Vickers", "preceding_text": "By the measurements in September, that is not the case. By the time September came—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-05b.817.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-05", "file": "debates2025-02-05b.xml", "sha256": "1bb2c3610513b109", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-05b.836.1", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Police Grant Report", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Ryan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Ryan", "preceding_text": "Padiham, and Brierfield town centres and feel safe at any time. I should be able to know that if I call 999, I will get a good response time for an emergency service. I should be able—anybody should be able—to know that repeat offenders will not be dealt with lightly and that the kids throwing rocks at buses in Padiham or Burnley town centre will get a clip round the ear and so will their parents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-05b.836.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-05", "file": "debates2025-02-05b.xml", "sha256": "1bb2c3610513b109", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-05b.837.0", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Police Grant Report", "cue_speaker": "Matt Vickers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matt Vickers", "preceding_text": "hat, it plans to reduce the number of police officers by around 200, bringing the total down to 1,000 officers by 2028-29, alongside cancelling the upcoming police officer intake for March. Lincolnshire is unfortunately not alone. In Essex the shortfall in the Government’s police funding settlement led the police force to announce plans to eliminate all 99 of its police community support officers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-05b.837.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-05", "file": "debates2025-02-05b.xml", "sha256": "1bb2c3610513b109", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-05b.839.3", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Police Grant Report", "cue_speaker": "Jess Phillips", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jess Phillips", "preceding_text": "I am not exactly sure how much it will cost West Midlands police, but what I do know is that the Home Office is going to give it to them. The shadow Minister has talked as if taxes do not pay for our public services—that is an absolute madness; money has to be raised to pay for our public services. The Home Office is funding the national insurance rise for West Midlands police and every other—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-05b.839.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-05", "file": "debates2025-02-05b.xml", "sha256": "1bb2c3610513b109", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-05b.840.1", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Police Grant Report", "cue_speaker": "Jess Phillips", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jess Phillips", "preceding_text": "What I think is that we have put £1.1 billion extra into policing, and what I expect to happen across police forces is that we will work with them. As we have seen today from Members in Essex—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-05b.840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-05", "file": "debates2025-02-05b.xml", "sha256": "1bb2c3610513b109", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-05b.872.0", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "ay that it was a very short timeframe. I understand that we will receive the letter very soon and that is great, but how long will there be after that for the county council to work up a proposal that might be acceptable to the Government? That is what it will want to know. I request earnestly that we have enough time to consult people as widely as possible, for the reasons that I have just given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-05b.872.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-05", "file": "debates2025-02-05b.xml", "sha256": "1bb2c3610513b109", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-05b.882.0", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Ellie Chowns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ellie Chowns", "preceding_text": "er jam jar, they have not replaced it in the new formula with a fair allocation of funding on the basis of rurality. I beg the Minister to revisit that issue when he comes up with the multi-year funding settlement. Otherwise, the serious problem of rural areas having their specific elements of deprivation under-recognised in the funding formula will build up so many other problems into the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-05b.882.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-06", "file": "debates2025-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "a04510fe06efcb28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-06b.919.6", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Solicitor General", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Rigby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Rigby", "preceding_text": " works with the Government Legal Department, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, the Crown Prosecution Service and the Serious Fraud Office to obtain additional information and compile the final list of conflicts and actions associated with each case. As the shadow Solicitor General knows, the Attorney General cannot publish a list of his former clients due to client confidentiality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-06b.919.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-06", "file": "debates2025-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "a04510fe06efcb28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-06b.974.5", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Coalfield Communities", "cue_speaker": "Adam Jogee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Jogee", "preceding_text": "ernment as we seek to do exactly as he said—get these communities back on track, in the place and with the support that they need and deserve. Last Friday, I met the widow and two of the five daughters of the late Jimmy Flynn at the weekly coffee morning at St Giles’ church in Newcastle-under-Lyme. I hope that one day, you will join me there, Madam Deputy Speaker—they do a good fry in the morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-06b.974.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-06", "file": "debates2025-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "a04510fe06efcb28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-06b.995.0", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Coalfield Communities", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Taylor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Taylor", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Adam Jogee) for arranging this debate. We share an office so I know how important this issue is to him and how frequently he speaks about the need for regeneration in coalfield communities—that is, when he is not arguing with my staff about how old he looks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-06b.995.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-06", "file": "debates2025-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "a04510fe06efcb28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-06b.1021.0", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Financial Education", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Vince", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Vince", "preceding_text": " to teach him how pensions work, I would struggle. That means not that I do not know how pensions work, but that I have not been taught the skills to teach that to somebody else. People do not naturally have the ability to explain things; they have to be trained in that skill. I hope what I am saying, in a roundabout way, is seen as constructive, not critical. If we believe in financial education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-06b.1021.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-10", "file": "debates2025-02-10e.xml", "sha256": "c9c234f7ac6156ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-10e.3.4", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Will Stone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Will Stone", "preceding_text": "In my time in the Army, I saw at first hand blokes not getting the kit and equipment that they needed to operate efficiently. It angered me to read this weekend that the previous Administration wasted £5 million on McClaren mudflaps. Will the Secretary of State promise me that he will not take the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-10e.3.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-10", "file": "debates2025-02-10e.xml", "sha256": "c9c234f7ac6156ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-10e.3.6", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Will Stone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Will Stone", "preceding_text": "To return to my question, I angers me that the previous Administration wasted £5 million, when blokes like me did not have the kit and equipment that they needed to operate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-10e.3.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-10", "file": "debates2025-02-10e.xml", "sha256": "c9c234f7ac6156ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-10e.20.5", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "Are the Government doing any forward thinking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-10e.20.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-10", "file": "debates2025-02-10e.xml", "sha256": "c9c234f7ac6156ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-10e.30.1", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Rosebank and Jackdaw Oilfields", "cue_speaker": "Michael Shanks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Shanks", "preceding_text": "for many years to come, to which we are committed, and that investment must match our climate obligations. The transition that is now under way must have Government at its heart, supporting the jobs and industries that come in the future. If the hon. Gentleman supported some of the investment that we propose, such as at Great British Energy in Aberdeen, instead of deriding it at every single turn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-10e.30.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-10", "file": "debates2025-02-10e.xml", "sha256": "c9c234f7ac6156ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-10e.34.2", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Rosebank and Jackdaw Oilfields", "cue_speaker": "Michael Shanks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Shanks", "preceding_text": "wider work to decarbonise across our economy. That is incredibly important and we do not have a moment to waste. A fair transition is key to ensuring that we move away from a carbon-based economy. We have already closed the last of our coal power stations, which was an important moment, and my visit to Ratcliffe on Soar was an important moment for me to recognise how a transition can be done well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-10e.34.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-10", "file": "debates2025-02-10e.xml", "sha256": "c9c234f7ac6156ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-10e.69.7", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Philp", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Philp", "preceding_text": "ence of facilitating illegal immigration. Clauses 19 to 26 contain plans to seize phones, which in principle we support, but that power exists already in section 15 and schedule 2 of the Illegal Migration Act 2023. There is an element of duplication. Let me move on to the more objectionable parts of the Bill. Clause 37 repeals the entirety of the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-10e.69.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-10", "file": "debates2025-02-10e.xml", "sha256": "c9c234f7ac6156ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-10e.127.3", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Matt Vickers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matt Vickers", "preceding_text": ", enables further interventions and enhances data availability, we will welcome it. The experience of the enforcement authorities must be heard to ensure that they have the necessary powers. These sensible measures should not, however, be bundled into a Bill that simultaneously weakens the Secretary of State’s authority. The Home Secretary’s remarks failed to acknowledge the impact of the repeals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-10e.127.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-10", "file": "debates2025-02-10e.xml", "sha256": "c9c234f7ac6156ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-10e.129.0", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": ", and why they are voting against sensible extensions of powers, which have been asked for by the National Crime Agency, our Border Security Commander and the police, to help deal with this challenge on our borders. Why are they against the Bill? Almost all of them are still trying to claim that somehow their fantasy of the Rwanda scheme actually was a deterrent, when we know that it did not work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-10e.129.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-10", "file": "debates2025-02-10e.xml", "sha256": "c9c234f7ac6156ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-10e.130.1", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "ter way I hope, to some of the many excellent speeches we have heard today, I remind the House of the dire legacy left to us by the Conservatives. They left a system in chaos, where asylum claims were hardly being processed. It takes some brass neck for the shadow Home Secretary to complain that the number has gone up. It has gone up because we started to process decisions, which they had stopped.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-10e.130.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-10", "file": "debates2025-02-10e.xml", "sha256": "c9c234f7ac6156ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-10e.131.3", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Private jets!”", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "fting the Bill, we have been busy in other places. As we know, there are no quick and easy answers to this complex problem; we finally heard that from the shadow Minister. We have therefore struck groundbreaking new agreements with key international partners, ranging from the Calais group to Italy and Germany. The Home Secretary has been to Iraq to do some important work on dealing with the gangs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-10e.131.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-11", "file": "debates2025-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "59cc1bb235c413f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-11b.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Clonoe Inquest", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ah!”", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "ection manifesto and the King’s Speech our commitment to repeal and replace the legacy Act, because it did something quite remarkable in uniting the political parties and communities of Northern Ireland in opposition to it. It is a fatally flawed piece of legislation that has been found, in a number of respects, to be incompatible with our obligations under the European convention on human rights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-11b.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-11", "file": "debates2025-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "59cc1bb235c413f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-11b.174.0", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Clonoe Inquest", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "ts. I completely understand the concerns, which he has expressed with such passion, about our armed services personnel, including in relation to this case. He has just said, “If this is the law, the law needs to be changed.” Is he suggesting that the arrangements for inquests and the way in which they are conducted—coroners sitting, hearing the evidence and coming to a finding—ought to be changed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-11b.174.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-11", "file": "debates2025-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "59cc1bb235c413f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-11b.178.2", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Clonoe Inquest", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": " inquest system that we support and that applies right across the piece, it is not possible to write legislation that says, “We will have the verdicts, judgments and findings that we like, but we will not have the findings that we do not like.” That is a decision—[Interruption.] Independent coroners make those decisions in respect of individual cases. I feel the anger of many Members of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-11b.178.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-12", "file": "debates2025-02-12c.xml", "sha256": "8e71cbc2fdeb5c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-12c.249.3", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "If the Prime Minister was on top of his brief, perhaps he would be able to answer some questions. Given this crazy decision and so many others, new legislation is needed to clarify the right to a family life in article 8.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-12c.249.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-12", "file": "debates2025-02-12c.xml", "sha256": "8e71cbc2fdeb5c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-12c.256.5", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "Farming is top of the agenda, as far as I am concerned. That is why we put £5 billion to support farmers in the Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-12c.256.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-12", "file": "debates2025-02-12c.xml", "sha256": "8e71cbc2fdeb5c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-12c.260.2", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Energy Infrastructure: Chinese Companies", "cue_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "preceding_text": "I was pleased to hear the Minister confirm the importance of our energy security, in contrast to what we saw under the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-12c.260.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-12", "file": "debates2025-02-12c.xml", "sha256": "8e71cbc2fdeb5c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-12c.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Energy Infrastructure: Chinese Companies", "cue_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "preceding_text": "When the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-12c.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-12", "file": "debates2025-02-12c.xml", "sha256": "8e71cbc2fdeb5c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-12c.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Energy Infrastructure: Chinese Companies", "cue_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "preceding_text": "When the Minister—[Interruption.] Sorry, I am the Minister now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-12c.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-12", "file": "debates2025-02-12c.xml", "sha256": "8e71cbc2fdeb5c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-12c.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Mak", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Mak", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State needs to listen to the creative industries sector. So far he has ignored that sector, issued a consultation late and given it no faith whatsoever. The timing of the consultation and the Bill is fully faulty, reflecting Labour’s entirely incoherent approach—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-12c.297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-12", "file": "debates2025-02-12c.xml", "sha256": "8e71cbc2fdeb5c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-12c.297.3", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Mak", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Mak", "preceding_text": "I am not in government, so I will not give way until later—although if the Secretary of State wants to come to the Dispatch Box to explain why his consultation and review are late and why he has not given any certainty to the sector, I am happy to give way, but I do not think he wants to do that. Let us go back to the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-12c.297.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-12", "file": "debates2025-02-12c.xml", "sha256": "8e71cbc2fdeb5c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-12c.351.8", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "field (Josh Simons) was absolutely right: there might be a win-win solution that provides certainty, clarity and remuneration for both AI and creative industries, and that is what we are striving for. My hon. Friend the Member for Scarborough and Whitby (Alison Hume) was rather shy about her own successes in life. In 2008, she was named Royal Television Society writer of the year for “Summerhill”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-12c.351.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-25", "file": "debates2025-02-25c.xml", "sha256": "6b97fb7d85134196", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-25c.616.4", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "tlers. Immediately, two punks turned up with sub-machine guns, intimidating us—that is happening all over the place. We went to Hebron. It is completely closed down. This is appalling. The whole House should unite against the extremist Jewish settlers and the illegal settlements, because it is not in the interest of moderate Israeli opinion. It is directly contrary to peace and we must fight this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-25c.616.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-26", "file": "debates2025-02-26c.xml", "sha256": "266f8d9793c1343b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.803.5", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Family Businesses", "cue_speaker": "Mike Martin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Martin", "preceding_text": "I thought that I would let the shadow Chancellor make a little progress in his speech before intervening on him. It seems odd to hear a speech about the economy from the Conservative party without any mention of Liz Truss. Now we hear mention of trade deals. Let me ask him this very directly: does he think that the policies of Liz Truss—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.803.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-26", "file": "debates2025-02-26c.xml", "sha256": "266f8d9793c1343b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.804.1", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Family Businesses", "cue_speaker": "Mel Stride", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mel Stride", "preceding_text": "I have made the position extremely clear. What is very clear is that we actually left the current Government with an excellent inheritance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.804.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-26", "file": "debates2025-02-26c.xml", "sha256": "266f8d9793c1343b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.812.1", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Family Businesses", "cue_speaker": "James Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Murray", "preceding_text": "o-hours contracts. We will deliver the commitment through two measures: first, a right to guaranteed hours where the number of hours offered reflects the hours worked by the worker during a reference period; and secondly, new rights to offer reasonable notice of shifts, with proportionate payment for shifts that are cancelled, moved or curtailed at short notice. I will try to draw this to a close.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.812.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-26", "file": "debates2025-02-26c.xml", "sha256": "266f8d9793c1343b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Family Businesses", "cue_speaker": "Daisy Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daisy Cooper", "preceding_text": "he anchor stores, bringing back loyal customers time and again. Family businesses are present in every part of the UK. Indeed, they are often the largest employer in a region and the largest philanthropic organisation in those communities, too. But in tabling the motion, the official Opposition do not seek to acknowledge or accept the damage that they have done to family businesses over the years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-26", "file": "debates2025-02-26c.xml", "sha256": "266f8d9793c1343b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Family Businesses", "cue_speaker": "Daisy Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daisy Cooper", "preceding_text": "y companies, building merchants and electric vehicle charger stores, all of which are family businesses. And one of my favourite pubs, too: The Boot, handed down from Will to his son Sean. On the subject of pubs, what on earth is this absurd idea in the Opposition day motion that the Product Regulation and Metrology Bill will somehow put the British pint at threat? The pint is well and truly safe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-26", "file": "debates2025-02-26c.xml", "sha256": "266f8d9793c1343b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Family Businesses", "cue_speaker": "Daisy Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daisy Cooper", "preceding_text": "anciful as Labour’s claim that punters will see a penny taken off the price of their pint. They won’t. Frankly, if the Opposition think they are standing up for pubs they need to think again. I say this not only as the MP for St Albans, where we have more pubs per square mile than anywhere else in Britain, but also, I am proud to say, as the MP crowned last year as pub parliamentarian of the year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-26", "file": "debates2025-02-26c.xml", "sha256": "266f8d9793c1343b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.816.2", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Family Businesses", "cue_speaker": "Daisy Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daisy Cooper", "preceding_text": "ple’s opportunities. We have rehearsed on a number of occasions the impact of the Government’s Budget on small businesses and family businesses across the land. The Liberal Democrats are incredibly concerned about the impacts on family businesses and on the future of our high streets. We will not be supporting the official Opposition’s motion today, which I am sure they will be astonished to hear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.816.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-26", "file": "debates2025-02-26c.xml", "sha256": "266f8d9793c1343b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.821.3", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Family Businesses", "cue_speaker": "Mark Ferguson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Ferguson", "preceding_text": "I have spoken to Josh who runs the business about every single aspect of it and I assure Members that he is delighted with how his business is going. I am delighted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.821.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-26", "file": "debates2025-02-26c.xml", "sha256": "266f8d9793c1343b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.825.1", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Family Businesses", "cue_speaker": "Laurence Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Laurence Turner", "preceding_text": "l. That system very clearly broke down.” He said that “there was about £9.5 billion-worth of net pressure on Departments’ budgets, which they did not disclose to us…which under the law and under the Act they should have done.” The decisions that awaited the incoming Government on public sector pay, which is the other element of the £22 billion, had been ducked and delayed until after the election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.825.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-26", "file": "debates2025-02-26c.xml", "sha256": "266f8d9793c1343b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.825.1", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Family Businesses", "cue_speaker": "Laurence Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Laurence Turner", "preceding_text": "at their offer to public sector workers would have been. I wonder whether any Conservative Member wants to tell us today what their offer would have been, if not 5.5%, had they won the election. It should not be a hard question to answer. What would the difference be in the pay packets of nurses, teachers and members of the armed forces? I would be very happy to take an intervention on that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.825.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-26", "file": "debates2025-02-26c.xml", "sha256": "266f8d9793c1343b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.829.1", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Family Businesses", "cue_speaker": "Mike Martin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “How do you follow that?", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Martin", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-26", "file": "debates2025-02-26c.xml", "sha256": "266f8d9793c1343b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.829.1", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Family Businesses", "cue_speaker": "Mike Martin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Martin", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. [Hon. Members: “How do you follow that?] It will be hard—probably with a lower level of energy. I recently met with Peter, Kate and Edward, who run the two Basil cafés in Tunbridge Wells; there are four across Kent. They are a family business—the subject of today’s motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-26", "file": "debates2025-02-26c.xml", "sha256": "266f8d9793c1343b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.830.1", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Family Businesses", "cue_speaker": "Joe Morris", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Joe Morris", "preceding_text": "pointed to read the Opposition motion. Once again, we are here discussing a kind of hodgepodge of various gripes and groans that the Conservatives have with Government policy. That is absolutely fine, and it is their right so to do—there are Members sitting on the Tory Benches now who I genuinely respect and, in some cases, admire—but they are better than that, and they should be better than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-26", "file": "debates2025-02-26c.xml", "sha256": "266f8d9793c1343b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.830.1", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Family Businesses", "cue_speaker": "Joe Morris", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Joe Morris", "preceding_text": "after the election. It was a wonderful event, although I think Hana probably enjoyed it more than I did. Ultimately, from having those positive conversations and looking at what business needs, we can see that it is infrastructure and investment. They need a Government who listen, not one who embark on some kind of haywire, high-minded ideological crusade, as the Opposition did when in government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-26", "file": "debates2025-02-26c.xml", "sha256": "266f8d9793c1343b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.832.1", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Family Businesses", "cue_speaker": "John Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Cooper", "preceding_text": "will cost businesses up to £5 billion a year. That is £5 billion, when grandparents are in tears as family farms face being split up; £5 billion, when families who have been in business for decades look at their bottom line and despair? The worst aspect of that Bill is the premise that all trade union organisers are saints and all business owners are robber barons intent on exploiting the workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-26", "file": "debates2025-02-26c.xml", "sha256": "266f8d9793c1343b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.836.2", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Family Businesses", "cue_speaker": "Saqib Bhatti", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Saqib Bhatti", "preceding_text": "I refer Members to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. As a qualified chartered accountant, I spent the best part of a decade in my family business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.836.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-26", "file": "debates2025-02-26c.xml", "sha256": "266f8d9793c1343b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.836.2", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Family Businesses", "cue_speaker": "Saqib Bhatti", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Saqib Bhatti", "preceding_text": " not want to accept that today, but they may well want to reflect on that. The hon. Member for Hexham (Joe Morris) talked about our motion—I note that he did not name the Tory Members that he respects, and I hope that he does at some point—and I have to tell him that these are not things that we made up; they are things that businesses are telling us. This is what they are talking about every day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.836.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-26", "file": "debates2025-02-26c.xml", "sha256": "266f8d9793c1343b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.853.3", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Family Businesses", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Griffith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Griffith", "preceding_text": "that if the hon. Lady reads the Bill, she will find that it precisely confers those powers on the Secretary of State, but she can join with those on our Benches in the other place by supporting the amendment. The Government can make clear today whether they are scaremongering or whether we should all be deeply concerned. By backing the amendment, they can remove that live risk to the British pint.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.853.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-26", "file": "debates2025-02-26c.xml", "sha256": "266f8d9793c1343b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.854.0", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Family Businesses", "cue_speaker": "Gareth Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gareth Thomas", "preceding_text": "Business and Trade, the hon. Member for Arundel and South Downs (Andrew Griffith) , who never seems to mention any more that he was once in the Treasury helping to write the Liz Truss Budget. Any time he wants to intervene and apologise for that, he will find me willing to let him do so. He finished his time in Government as a business Minister, when a record number of family businesses went bust.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.854.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-26", "file": "debates2025-02-26c.xml", "sha256": "266f8d9793c1343b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.862.4", "colnum": "862", "heading": "British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": " of urgent question applications that you and Mr Speaker have presided over on the issue, the Government have acted in a secretive manner, providing little information on the deal agreed and how it was reached. Getting facts and information out of the Government has been like extracting water from a stone, but after asking many questions we have managed to secure some information. What do we know?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.862.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-26", "file": "debates2025-02-26c.xml", "sha256": "266f8d9793c1343b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.871.7", "colnum": "871", "heading": "British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "Anneliese Dodds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anneliese Dodds", "preceding_text": "knows, is necessary. This deal will ensure the continued, uninterrupted operation of the base on Diego Garcia, well into the next century. It will cement UK and US presence in the Indo-Pacific for generations to come. I did not hear a single suggestion in the right hon. Lady’s lengthy speech about how she would secure that base at all. Base operations have been under increasing threat for decades—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.871.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-26", "file": "debates2025-02-26c.xml", "sha256": "266f8d9793c1343b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.872.1", "colnum": "872", "heading": "British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "Anneliese Dodds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anneliese Dodds", "preceding_text": "Claims that there were no legal necessities to negotiate are absolutely wrong; they misunderstand the legal jeopardy and immediate operational challenges that the base faces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.872.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-26", "file": "debates2025-02-26c.xml", "sha256": "266f8d9793c1343b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.873.2", "colnum": "873", "heading": "British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "Anneliese Dodds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anneliese Dodds", "preceding_text": "ber of legal concerns around the present situation. Those who had the genuine security of that base at the front of their minds would be determined to secure its future. Without a deal, it is inevitable that Mauritius would pursue a legally binding judgment against UK sovereignty. Since 2015, 28 international judges and arbitrators have expressed views on the sovereignty of the Chagos archipelago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.873.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-26", "file": "debates2025-02-26c.xml", "sha256": "266f8d9793c1343b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.874.1", "colnum": "874", "heading": "British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "Anneliese Dodds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anneliese Dodds", "preceding_text": "No, I will keep speaking, as is my right. Without a negotiated solution with Mauritius, it would pursue its legal campaign; it has made that very clear, as the shadow Minister knows. That would lead to an inevitable, legally binding judgment, which would be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.874.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-26", "file": "debates2025-02-26c.xml", "sha256": "266f8d9793c1343b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.874.3", "colnum": "874", "heading": "British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "Anneliese Dodds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anneliese Dodds", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. As I was saying, in that kind of situation, we would unfortunately see international organisations following that determination, such as the International Telecommunication Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.874.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-26", "file": "debates2025-02-26c.xml", "sha256": "266f8d9793c1343b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.886.0", "colnum": "886", "heading": "British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "Gagan Mohindra", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gagan Mohindra", "preceding_text": "he Minister. She has had a very difficult outing today and she has held her head up high. Her former career as a lecturer will hopefully hold the House in good stead and perhaps she can educate us on some basic questions, because this is the second time this week I have asked questions about the Chagos islands and I am still confused. The Conservative Government entered into negotiations 11 times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-26c.886.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-27", "file": "debates2025-02-27c.xml", "sha256": "838230f66b48ce16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-27c.988.0", "colnum": "988", "heading": "War in Ukraine: Third Anniversary", "cue_speaker": "Wendy Morton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wendy Morton", "preceding_text": "come the Government’s decision to increase spending on defence to 2.5% of GDP by 2027. That is an important step, albeit overdue, and I commend the Government for recognising, as my party does, that our security requires sustained investment. The war in Ukraine has demonstrated the power of people-to-people solidarity, as my right hon. Friend for Chingford and Romford West—I hope I got that right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-27c.988.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-02-27", "file": "debates2025-02-27c.xml", "sha256": "838230f66b48ce16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-27c.1035.4", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "St David’s Day and Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Henry Tufnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Henry Tufnell", "preceding_text": " company based in Haverfordwest, and its fantastic cohort of new apprentices. This family-run business offers a brilliant range of apprenticeships and makes a real difference in our community, helping to improve the energy efficiency of buildings and homes. Mid and South Pembrokeshire has a proud industrial history. The oil industry transformed the county’s economic fortunes in the 1960s and ’70s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-02-27c.1035.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-03", "file": "debates2025-03-03c.xml", "sha256": "b58edc849fc04a71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-03c.89.5", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Murray", "preceding_text": "ng to grow the economy. As I mentioned in my opening remarks, the Finance Bill not only delivers on our plan to repair the public finances, but supports the investment necessary for long-term economic growth. Such investment is, of course, crucial for clean energy, an area in which the Prime Minister’s plan for change makes clear that we are committed to securing the UK’s place as a global leader.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-03c.89.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-05", "file": "debates2025-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "25c75280c3ccdf7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-05a.271.4", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "al Marines, who was killed in Helmand Province in 2007. These men fought and died for their country—our country. Across the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, 642 individuals died fighting for Britain alongside our allies. Many more were wounded. We will never forget their bravery and their sacrifice. I know that the whole House will join with me in remembering them and all those who serve our country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-05a.271.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-05", "file": "debates2025-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "25c75280c3ccdf7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-05a.285.1", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Courts and Tribunals: Sitting Days", "cue_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "preceding_text": "It is great to see the Justice Secretary back in the country after her holiday in Texas. If she can find time to travel to America, why can she not find time to travel to the two category A prisons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-05a.285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-05", "file": "debates2025-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "25c75280c3ccdf7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-05a.285.1", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Courts and Tribunals: Sitting Days", "cue_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "preceding_text": " again today is that she is still turning down available sitting days, and astonishingly, she has conceded that the court backlog will keep on rising. That is simply not acceptable. Of course, I welcome the changes made by the Justice Secretary, but they are not enough. She says that victims will get quicker justice—tell that to the victims of rape who are having their court cases listed for 2028.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-05a.285.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-06", "file": "debates2025-03-06d.xml", "sha256": "510bc9b5fbe9a238", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-06d.430.3", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "preceding_text": "also share my deep concern at the latest news in relation to Ukraine and will wish to send all of our best wishes to the Prime Minister and other European leaders in doing everything they can to support that country. It is now three months or so since I became shadow Leader of the House, and I am sad to say that these joyous Thursday morning sessions seem to have fallen into a little bit of a rut.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-06d.430.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-10", "file": "debates2025-03-10c.xml", "sha256": "162c721ba5808ec0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-10c.761.1", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Crime and Policing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Matt Vickers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matt Vickers", "preceding_text": " unchallenged. The measures in this Bill to tackle antisocial behaviour signal an understanding that removing crime from our streets must be a priority. However, we must consider whether more can be done legislatively to ensure that police time is used effectively. I must stress that all the well-meaning measures contained in the Bill are meaningless without a well-funded police force. Forces are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-10c.761.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-11", "file": "debates2025-03-11e.xml", "sha256": "88fead3825a24352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-11e.786.0", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Justice", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Dakin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Dakin", "preceding_text": "The sentencing review’s interim report describes the situation at the moment, and it is the first stage of that independent review’s addressing this long-standing issue. Frankly, this is something that the Conservatives spent the last 14 years avoiding tackling. That is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-11e.786.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-11", "file": "debates2025-03-11e.xml", "sha256": "88fead3825a24352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-11e.786.1", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Justice", "cue_speaker": "Kieran Mullan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kieran Mullan", "preceding_text": "The House will have heard very starkly that the Minister did not offer me any clarity. I can help him by telling him that there is not one word anywhere on the expectations of victims of crime and their families—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-11e.786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-11", "file": "debates2025-03-11e.xml", "sha256": "88fead3825a24352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-11e.806.1", "colnum": "806", "heading": "North Sea Vessel Collision", "cue_speaker": "Mike Kane", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Kane", "preceding_text": "Mr Speaker, I was dealing with the situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-11e.806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-11", "file": "debates2025-03-11e.xml", "sha256": "88fead3825a24352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-11e.855.0", "colnum": "855", "heading": "4J Nature of declaration relating to other working conditions", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "en the appalling evidence that the Business and Trade Committee took from McDonald’s, where the BBC investigation exposed allegations from hundreds of young workers who were suffering harassment, and even allegations from one worker of managers soliciting them for sex in return for scheduling shifts. The tightening up that he proposes is very welcome. When does he think he will set out the detail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-11e.855.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-11", "file": "debates2025-03-11e.xml", "sha256": "88fead3825a24352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-11e.860.4", "colnum": "860", "heading": "4J Nature of declaration relating to other working conditions", "cue_speaker": "Alison Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alison Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Would the Minister be kind enough to name one of those businesses on the press release?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-11e.860.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-11", "file": "debates2025-03-11e.xml", "sha256": "88fead3825a24352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-11e.867.0", "colnum": "867", "heading": "4J Nature of declaration relating to other working conditions", "cue_speaker": "Wendy Morton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wendy Morton", "preceding_text": "Listening to the debate, it is clear that there are Conservative Members who understand business, and who come to this place with years of experience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-11e.867.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-11", "file": "debates2025-03-11e.xml", "sha256": "88fead3825a24352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-11e.881.1", "colnum": "881", "heading": "4J Nature of declaration relating to other working conditions", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Nokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Nokes", "preceding_text": "Order. I think the hon. Lady is in fact making her speech, rather than an intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-11e.881.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-11", "file": "debates2025-03-11e.xml", "sha256": "88fead3825a24352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-11e.903.2", "colnum": "903", "heading": "4J Nature of declaration relating to other working conditions", "cue_speaker": "Richard Burgon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Burgon", "preceding_text": "e used statutory discrimination questionnaires to smoke out discrimination in the workplace in relation to age, disability, sex, race, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, gender reassignment, religion or belief, and marriage and civil partnership. I bumped into an old colleague who is a trade union lawyer on a train, and he made the point that statutory discrimination questionnaires also—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-11e.903.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-11", "file": "debates2025-03-11e.xml", "sha256": "88fead3825a24352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-11e.909.0", "colnum": "909", "heading": "4J Nature of declaration relating to other working conditions", "cue_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "preceding_text": " we do not have kids, we pay the price because of maternity discrimination. We all know of employers who do not employ women in their 20s and 30s because of the risk that ladies do babies. The challenge with this legislation, which rightfully strengthens maternity discrimination powers, is that it could inadvertently reinforce that message if we do not bring forward legislation to support fathers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-11e.909.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-11", "file": "debates2025-03-11e.xml", "sha256": "88fead3825a24352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-11e.912.2", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Stafford", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Stafford", "preceding_text": "It is always a pleasure to follow the King.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-11e.912.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-11", "file": "debates2025-03-11e.xml", "sha256": "88fead3825a24352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-11e.912.4", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Stafford", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More! More!”", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Stafford", "preceding_text": " force. Rushed policymaking will not help workers or businesses; it will create uncertainty and drive investment away. That is why it is essential that we accept new clause 87 in the name of the shadow Secretary of State, because we need an impact assessment of how the Bill will affect businesses. Madam Deputy Speaker, I fear the clock may not have started for my speech, so I will draw to a close.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-11e.912.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-11", "file": "debates2025-03-11e.xml", "sha256": "88fead3825a24352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-11e.917.1", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Russell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Russell", "preceding_text": "cern is that those on the Conservative Benches talk about employees as if they are, as I said, unexploded bombs, and they talk about employers as if they are unlikely ever to recruit anyone ever again, and I just do not believe that to be true. Most employers will make a sensible assessment of whether having an additional member of staff will benefit their business and then they will recruit them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-11e.917.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-11", "file": "debates2025-03-11e.xml", "sha256": "88fead3825a24352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-11e.943.1", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Anna Dixon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anna Dixon", "preceding_text": "harter for care providers to sign up to. This Government have already shown how serious they are about valuing those who do so much to care for, and provide support to, disabled adults and older people in this country. The third area I want to mention, which other colleagues have talked about and which my hon. Friend the Member for Bradford East (Imran Hussain) has addressed in his new clause 102—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-11e.943.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-11", "file": "debates2025-03-11e.xml", "sha256": "88fead3825a24352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-11e.951.1", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Justin Madders", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justin Madders", "preceding_text": " objective. Our plan to make work pay is a pro-growth package and sets out an ambitious agenda to deliver our plan for change by ensuring that employment rights are fit for a modern economy, empower working people and contribute to economic growth. The plan will bring the UK back into line with our international competitors and directly address our low-growth, low-productivity and low-pay economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-11e.951.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-12", "file": "debates2025-03-12c.xml", "sha256": "f0b19242f9f9454b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-12c.1031.4", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Wales", "cue_speaker": "Jo Stevens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jo Stevens", "preceding_text": "Last week, the hon. Lady’s colleagues in the Senedd voted against extra money for tourism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-12c.1031.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-12", "file": "debates2025-03-12c.xml", "sha256": "f0b19242f9f9454b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-12c.1037.6", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "As I have just said, we will support those who need support, but help those who can work into work. Those will be the guiding principles. What we have inherited is shocking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-12c.1037.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-12", "file": "debates2025-03-12c.xml", "sha256": "f0b19242f9f9454b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-12c.1037.6", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "As I have just said, we will support those who need support, but help those who can work into work. Those will be the guiding principles. What we have inherited is shocking—[Interruption]—and those on the Opposition Benches ought to be silent. One in eight young people is not in education, work or training—that is a lost generation. That is the inheritance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-12c.1037.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-12", "file": "debates2025-03-12c.xml", "sha256": "f0b19242f9f9454b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-12c.1045.1", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Sustainable Farming Incentive", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Zeichner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Zeichner", "preceding_text": "dgetary controls so that SFI is affordable to the public purse. The revised offer will align with our land use framework to better target SFI actions fairly and effectively, focusing on helping less productive land contribute to our priorities for food, farming and nature. The underlying problem facing the sector, however, is that farmers do not make enough money. The Government are changing that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-12c.1045.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-12", "file": "debates2025-03-12c.xml", "sha256": "f0b19242f9f9454b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-12c.1048.0", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Sustainable Farming Incentive", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Zeichner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Zeichner", "preceding_text": "s that her own Government created actually work. Let me explain the problem that we inherited—there are some on the shadow Front Bench who, I think, understand this better than her. This time last year, these schemes were undersubscribed; they are now oversubscribed. It is not a complicated thing to say that, when the budget is spent, a responsible Government responds to that. The budget is spent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-12c.1048.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-12", "file": "debates2025-03-12c.xml", "sha256": "f0b19242f9f9454b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-12c.1048.0", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Sustainable Farming Incentive", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Zeichner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Zeichner", "preceding_text": "d—there are some on the shadow Front Bench who, I think, understand this better than her. This time last year, these schemes were undersubscribed; they are now oversubscribed. It is not a complicated thing to say that, when the budget is spent, a responsible Government responds to that. The budget is spent. [Interruption.] The budget has been spent and what we are doing in a sensible, serious way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-12c.1048.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-12", "file": "debates2025-03-12c.xml", "sha256": "f0b19242f9f9454b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-12c.1051.0", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Sustainable Farming Incentive", "cue_speaker": "Sam Rushworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sam Rushworth", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the Minister shares my wish to see a bit more humility from Conservative Members, given their failure to get the agricultural budget out of the door.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-12c.1051.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-12", "file": "debates2025-03-12c.xml", "sha256": "f0b19242f9f9454b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-12c.1084.7", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Greg Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Smith", "preceding_text": " the Government are making to the political fund through the Bill. Let us be in no doubt that the changes have one simple purpose: to bolster the coffers of the Labour party. Clause 52 will mean that members of trade unions will automatically contribute to their trade union’s political fund without being asked about it first. Members will have to opt out, rather than opt in, as they do at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-12c.1084.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-12", "file": "debates2025-03-12c.xml", "sha256": "f0b19242f9f9454b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-12c.1087.1", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Greg Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Smith", "preceding_text": "t, would have required that if the consumer did not opt into the arrangement described, the trader had to “provide a date by which the consumer must notify the trader of the consumer’s intention to renew the contract, which must be no earlier than 28 days before the renewal date.” If the consumer did not provide a notification, the subscription contract could not renew. Where am I going with this?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-12c.1087.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-12", "file": "debates2025-03-12c.xml", "sha256": "f0b19242f9f9454b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-12c.1089.2", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Greg Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Smith", "preceding_text": "As ever, Madam Deputy Speaker, I take your advice and will speed up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-12c.1089.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-12", "file": "debates2025-03-12c.xml", "sha256": "f0b19242f9f9454b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-12c.1104.1", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Saqib Bhatti", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Saqib Bhatti", "preceding_text": "They are absolutely are. The Deputy Prime Minister, when challenged to name a business that supported the Bill, could not do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-12c.1104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-12", "file": "debates2025-03-12c.xml", "sha256": "f0b19242f9f9454b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-12c.1105.4", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Saqib Bhatti", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Saqib Bhatti", "preceding_text": " single supportive business when challenged to do so. In the short time I have left, I will make a couple of quick points. Labour Members keep saying that the Bill will lead to fewer strikes. It will not; it makes it easier to strike. In fact, the Transport Secretary today said that strikes will be necessary in the areas covered by her portfolio. The Bill will make it easier to strike, not harder.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-12c.1105.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-12", "file": "debates2025-03-12c.xml", "sha256": "f0b19242f9f9454b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-12c.1105.4", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Saqib Bhatti", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Saqib Bhatti", "preceding_text": "ll stand up for businesses. I have questions for all Labour Members. People ask what this Labour Government stand for. They undermine businesses and working people, so that is a legitimate question. I fail to see who, other than trade unions, the Labour party now stands for. When people asked what we Conservatives stand for, Margaret Thatcher had a very good answer. She said that the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-12c.1105.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-12", "file": "debates2025-03-12c.xml", "sha256": "f0b19242f9f9454b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-12c.1116.0", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "A lot of people outside this place might feel that the answer to that question is that the trade unions have funded Labour Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-12c.1116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-12", "file": "debates2025-03-12c.xml", "sha256": "f0b19242f9f9454b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-12c.1121.2", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Allison Gardner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Allison Gardner", "preceding_text": "cost of living crisis created by 14 years of Tory rule. By strengthening protections for the lowest-paid workers and preventing exploitative employment practices, the Bill will give our working people the solid foundations on which to build a better quality of life. I will very briefly comment on a couple of topics debated yesterday, which are of personal relevance and relevant to my constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-12c.1121.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-12", "file": "debates2025-03-12c.xml", "sha256": "f0b19242f9f9454b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-12c.1129.1", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Frith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Frith", "preceding_text": "I have had conversations with the vast majority of them. They support the general emphasis—[Interruption.] Actually, if the right hon. Gentleman has been listening, he will know that the argument I am making is that on much of the proposed legislation—giving rights on day one, being fair minded, making work pay—they are already doing that. The point I am making—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-12c.1129.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-13", "file": "debates2025-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "42ad6c268f4dded4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-13a.1265.0", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "preceding_text": ", given the action that we have taken, it has been oversubscribed in the meantime. That is why we have closed that fund, but we are setting out a new fund after the spring statement next week. I might give the shadow Leader of the House an alternative point of view on recent history. Order Paper aficionados will have noticed that Tuesday marked our 100th sitting day of this parliamentary Session —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-13a.1265.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-19", "file": "debates2025-03-19c.xml", "sha256": "15a5426891b492ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-19c.360.0", "colnum": "360", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Murray", "preceding_text": "ook at the Budget last year, and this Bill implements one of those decisions. At Prime Minister’s questions earlier today, it was noticeable that when the Prime Minister asked the Leader of the Opposition whether she would reverse the national insurance contribution rise that we are bringing in through the Bill, she refused to commit to that. I am unclear exactly what the Conservative position is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-19c.360.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-19", "file": "debates2025-03-19c.xml", "sha256": "15a5426891b492ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-19c.362.1", "colnum": "362", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Murray", "preceding_text": "illion for tax relief for charities and their donors in the tax year to April 2024 through features that will continue in the tax year that we are entering. The employment allowance is more than doubling from £5,000 to £10,500, which will benefit all charities in this country. Charities, particularly small charities, will benefit directly from changes that we have made to the employment allowance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-19c.362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-19", "file": "debates2025-03-19c.xml", "sha256": "15a5426891b492ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-19c.365.4", "colnum": "365", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Blake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Blake", "preceding_text": "I listened carefully to your answer to the Minister’s question about what you would cut if this change were to be reversed. You have not been clear about whether you would reverse it, but I listened carefully to the answer, and what I heard you say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-19c.365.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-19", "file": "debates2025-03-19c.xml", "sha256": "15a5426891b492ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-19c.368.1", "colnum": "368", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gareth Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gareth Davies", "preceding_text": "That is right, and it is an important point, because the decisions made by this Government are having such a profound impact on people in the real economy. I simply say to the British public that if they are unhappy with the decisions being made, they have to change the people making them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-19c.368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-19", "file": "debates2025-03-19c.xml", "sha256": "15a5426891b492ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-19c.417.1", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Winter Fuel Payment", "cue_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "preceding_text": "I do not think that anybody in the House is going to be treating pensioners with disdain. That is why the state pension will rise by 4.1% in April, why we have put £26 billion into the NHS and why we intend to learn the lessons of the last Administration’s failure to cut pensioner poverty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-19c.417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-19", "file": "debates2025-03-19c.xml", "sha256": "15a5426891b492ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-19c.419.0", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Winter Fuel Payment", "cue_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "preceding_text": "All of us in this place should be slightly careful when talking about what is a highly sensitive subject. There is not robust analysis that can separate out different causes of excess mortality over the winter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-19c.419.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-19", "file": "debates2025-03-19c.xml", "sha256": "15a5426891b492ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-19c.419.0", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Winter Fuel Payment", "cue_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "preceding_text": "reful when talking about what is a highly sensitive subject. There is not robust analysis that can separate out different causes of excess mortality over the winter. [Interruption.] I will come on to answer the right hon. Gentleman’s question. If we look at the excess mortality data for this winter, we see that deaths are actually down. It is hard to separate out the effects of different measures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-19c.419.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-19", "file": "debates2025-03-19c.xml", "sha256": "15a5426891b492ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-19c.421.0", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Winter Fuel Payment", "cue_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "preceding_text": "into the details of economic forecasts and living standards forecasts—[Interruption.] “Please do”, Members say. Right—the reason why forecasts of living standards and of growth are often lower than we might like at the moment is that, although we talk about forecasts as forward-looking measures, what they are often actually doing is looking backwards at the disastrous growth this country has seen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-19c.421.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-19", "file": "debates2025-03-19c.xml", "sha256": "15a5426891b492ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-19c.421.0", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Winter Fuel Payment", "cue_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "preceding_text": "t like at the moment is that, although we talk about forecasts as forward-looking measures, what they are often actually doing is looking backwards at the disastrous growth this country has seen—[Interruption.] Those are the facts about what is actually going on. The only way we are going to sort this country out is to get growth going once again, and that is what this Government are trying to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-19c.421.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-19", "file": "debates2025-03-19c.xml", "sha256": "15a5426891b492ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-19c.459.1", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Winter Fuel Payment", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Western", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Western", "preceding_text": "Member for South Leicestershire. I will not accept those sorts of attacks from the Conservatives—the party of Downing Street parties, the party of the inhumane Rwanda scheme, and the party that drove so many to food banks. My conscience is clear, Madam Deputy Speaker; it is appalling to imagine that theirs is the same after what they did to this country over 14 years. I listened very carefully to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-19c.459.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-24", "file": "debates2025-03-24d.xml", "sha256": "b9db692e78f29cbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-24d.683.0", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Planning and Infrastructure Bill", "cue_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "preceding_text": "d that the Secretary of State refused to be drawn on specific schemes, including when challenged by her own Front Bench. Perhaps the Minister can tell us in winding up how much more quickly a typical reservoir will be constructed as a result of this Bill and what the percentage of savings will be from that. That sort of detail is currently lacking from claims such as those made by the hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-24d.683.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-24", "file": "debates2025-03-24d.xml", "sha256": "b9db692e78f29cbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-24d.734.0", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Planning and Infrastructure Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Davies", "preceding_text": "Britain finds itself in a chokehold, with bottlenecks leaving it unable to update its infrastructure to a modern standard. Part of the story behind that is the last Government’s inertia and infighting, which came at the expense of the national interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-24d.734.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-24", "file": "debates2025-03-24d.xml", "sha256": "b9db692e78f29cbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-24d.736.0", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Planning and Infrastructure Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Holmes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Holmes", "preceding_text": "democratic when it comes to agricultural land, and he is absolutely correct. My hon. Friend the Member for Mid Bedfordshire (Blake Stephenson) recognises, as we do, the Government’s mandate to try to build the 1.5 million homes required under their legislation. However, I have to say to the House that nobody believes they will be able to achieve it, including the Minister for Housing and Planning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-24d.736.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-24", "file": "debates2025-03-24d.xml", "sha256": "b9db692e78f29cbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-24d.738.2", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Planning and Infrastructure Bill", "cue_speaker": "Wendy Morton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wendy Morton", "preceding_text": "On that point, does my hon. Friend agree that one way of helping to deliver homes would be to ensure that those that have planning permission are built out first, thus saving the green belt and some of our suburban areas and rural areas, sooner rather than later?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-24d.738.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-25", "file": "debates2025-03-25e.xml", "sha256": "52c3ceb51d10ac2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-25e.767.0", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Health and Social Care", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Kinnock", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Kinnock", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for that question and I congratulate him again on his 60th birthday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-25e.767.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-25", "file": "debates2025-03-25e.xml", "sha256": "52c3ceb51d10ac2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-25e.805.2", "colnum": "805", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sammy Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sammy Wilson", "preceding_text": "Does the shadow Minister find it puzzling that the NHS will be exempt from these changes, yet the many services on which people depend for their health—dental services, social care and so on—will be hit by this rise in national insurance contributions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-25e.805.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-26", "file": "debates2025-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "d5c182e325fd7952", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-26b.945.1", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Spring Statement", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "The OBR forecast that the investment rule would also be met two years early, with net financial debt of 82.9% of GDP in ’25-26 and 83.5% in ’26-27, before falling to 83.4% in ’27-28, to 83.2% in 2028-29 and then to 82.7% in 2029-30, providing headroom of £15.1 billion in the final year of the forecast, broadly unchanged from the autumn forecast. After the last Government doubled the national debt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-26b.945.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-27", "file": "debates2025-03-27c.xml", "sha256": "e799e86e7de319e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-27c.1164.0", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "St Patrick’s Day and Northern Irish Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Butler", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Butler", "preceding_text": "I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Adam Jogee) on securing this very important debate. I am proud to be one of its supporters. In Brent East, I think I have the largest Irish constituency in the whole of the UK, of which I am very proud. I do ensure that I go and have a Guinness every year, no matter where I am. I don’t particularly like Guinness, to be honest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-27c.1164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-27", "file": "debates2025-03-27c.xml", "sha256": "e799e86e7de319e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-27c.1185.1", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Modern Slavery Act 2015: 10th Anniversary", "cue_speaker": "Blair McDougall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Blair McDougall", "preceding_text": "t Government and how they were under similar pressure. We will continue to have this debate every time issues of public procurement are raised in the House until we fix our modern slavery legislation. As the right hon. Lady was talking about the legislation, I was thinking of how it is similar to me: 10 years ago, it was fresh and perhaps a thing of beauty, but now it is tired and showing its age.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-27c.1185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-03-28", "file": "debates2025-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "a0594c9900d8a67d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-28b.1222.1", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Clive Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Lewis", "preceding_text": "I can now—for my next trick, I can hear thinking! I can hear them thinking, “But we have just passed the Water (Special Measures) Act 2025, Clive, so what are you talking about?” Yes, we have, but I am afraid to say it has been watered down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-03-28b.1222.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-02", "file": "debates2025-04-02c.xml", "sha256": "ab6f63da9289aa15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-02c.401.2", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Clonoe Inquest", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "uld be possible to find another group of lawyers who hold a different view. The purpose of the courts is to adjudicate between the various arguments that are put and reach a decision, and we respect the judgments of the court. It is not possible to have a legal system or a coronial system where we get all the verdicts we like and we are guaranteed to never get verdicts we do not like. The fact is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-02c.401.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-03", "file": "debates2025-04-03c.xml", "sha256": "a787a281c1a339ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-03c.409.6", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Culture, Media and Sport", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Are you still in the cup, by the way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-03c.409.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-03", "file": "debates2025-04-03c.xml", "sha256": "a787a281c1a339ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-03c.437.2", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "preceding_text": "I join my hon. Friend in congratulating the Whitburn brass band, the Scottish brass band champions, and wish them all the very best in the UK-wide national brass band championships. If I may say so, she is doing a fantastic job of blowing the trumpet on behalf of her constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-03c.437.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-03", "file": "debates2025-04-03c.xml", "sha256": "a787a281c1a339ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-03c.440.1", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "preceding_text": "It is always a pleasure to see the right hon. Gentleman here. I am not sure how his promise to stay committed to this House is faring, as I think he has now had another flip-flop on that and I hear he is still going for that second job. For as long as he is here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-03c.440.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2025-04-03", "file": "debates2025-04-03c.xml", "sha256": "a787a281c1a339ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-03c.450.6", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members:", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Obese-Jecty", "preceding_text": ". At a sprightly 101 years old, he is known locally as the poppy man. Can I ask the Leader of the House and all Members to join me in congratulating George on his achievement and his incredible life of dedication and service, and will she make time in the parliamentary schedule to give thanks to all those who dedicate their lives to volunteering for charity organisations and to the help of others?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-03c.450.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-03", "file": "debates2025-04-03c.xml", "sha256": "a787a281c1a339ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-03c.469.2", "colnum": "469", "heading": "UK-US Trade and Tariffs", "cue_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "preceding_text": "servative Benches claimed that a trade deal with Donald Trump could increase our trade with the US by up to five times. It was clearly more difficult than they thought, but it is important to learn from failure. I wonder whether the Opposition had been in a position to pass on any pearls of wisdom or any advice—maybe even an oven-ready deal—that might help the country at this time of difficulties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-03c.469.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-03", "file": "debates2025-04-03c.xml", "sha256": "a787a281c1a339ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-03c.485.1", "colnum": "485", "heading": "UK-US Trade and Tariffs", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Reynolds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Reynolds", "preceding_text": "international sectors of the food and drink economy. If he ever wants to come and see me in my office in the Old Admiralty Building, I keep a bottle of Lagavulin there, which I think we can all agree is an excellent choice. You would be welcome to come for that conversation at any time, Madam Deputy Speaker. We have to keep the numbers down, but we will look at that if we come through with a deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-03c.485.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-03", "file": "debates2025-04-03c.xml", "sha256": "a787a281c1a339ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-03c.485.2", "colnum": "485", "heading": "UK-US Trade and Tariffs", "cue_speaker": "Scott Arthur", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Scott Arthur", "preceding_text": "ble our efforts in our search for growth. I welcome the pragmatic words given around the zero emission vehicle mandate. Ultimately, without compromising our aims, we can work together with businesses and trade unions to get a better outcome, but I wonder if the same approach can be taken elsewhere. The AI regulations that we have been discussing, which I think were mentioned earlier, come to mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-03c.485.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-03", "file": "debates2025-04-03c.xml", "sha256": "a787a281c1a339ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-03c.535.0", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Access to Sport: PE in Schools", "cue_speaker": "Dave Robertson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Oh!”", "preceding_speaker": "Dave Robertson", "preceding_text": "t. I had the pleasure of playing for my school’s cricket team—once. I had the pleasure of playing for my school’s football team—once. I was a little bit better at basketball, so I got to play that twice. It turns out that there is a limit on how far enthusiasm will get you. Rugby union was my sport in school, and at the risk of the northerners’ ire, I will say that rugby union is the correct code.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-03c.535.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-03", "file": "debates2025-04-03c.xml", "sha256": "a787a281c1a339ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-03c.538.1", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Access to Sport: PE in Schools", "cue_speaker": "Max Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Max Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker—you would always be my first pick.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-03c.538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-03", "file": "debates2025-04-03c.xml", "sha256": "a787a281c1a339ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-03c.538.1", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Access to Sport: PE in Schools", "cue_speaker": "Max Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Aw!”", "preceding_speaker": "Max Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare (Dan Aldridge) mentioned the school that I went to. That took me right back to my GCSE PE assessment, where we were told that we would do rounders because it was the easiest and we would get good grades as a result. I regret to inform the House that I got a three out of seven for rounders. I have no idea how, and that led to my failing to get a C grade at GCSE PE.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-03c.538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-07", "file": "debates2025-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f4633ca0e21b0ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-07a.562.4", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Housing, Communities and Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Pennycook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Pennycook", "preceding_text": "I am very fond of the hon. Gentleman, but I am afraid that, characteristically, he has got this one completely wrong. The 1.3—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-07a.562.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-07", "file": "debates2025-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f4633ca0e21b0ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-07a.585.0", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Scunthorpe Steelworks", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Jones", "preceding_text": "oduced really good jobs, which are better paid than the average in the area and are done by really good, qualified people we want to retain in the UK. The hon. Gentleman talked about energy. Again, the reason why we are here is that we had years of the previous Government not intervening in this space. We are well aware of energy prices in this country and are doing all we can to bring those down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-07a.585.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-07", "file": "debates2025-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f4633ca0e21b0ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-07a.586.1", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Scunthorpe Steelworks", "cue_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "preceding_text": "It is a shame that the Conservative Members who were heckling the Minister have forgotten their own Government’s failure to tackle the problems of high industrial energy prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-07a.586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-07", "file": "debates2025-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f4633ca0e21b0ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-07a.596.2", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate", "cue_speaker": "Gareth Bacon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gareth Bacon", "preceding_text": "I thank the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-07a.596.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-07", "file": "debates2025-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f4633ca0e21b0ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-07a.597.0", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate", "cue_speaker": "Heidi Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Heidi Alexander", "preceding_text": "emission vehicle mandate, and the clear commitment from Government to incentivise electric vehicle uptake and invest in infrastructure.” The shadow Secretary of State also said that consumers do not want to buy electric vehicles. He needs to do his homework; the UK is the third largest market for electric vehicles in the world, after the US and China. It is the largest market in Europe. Last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-07a.597.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-07", "file": "debates2025-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f4633ca0e21b0ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-07a.611.1", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Israel: Refusal of Entry for UK Parliamentarians", "cue_speaker": "Hamish Falconer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Hamish Falconer", "preceding_text": "en flown back in the early hours of Sunday morning. It is my understanding that this is the first time a British MP has been barred from entering Israel. That decision appears to have been taken on the basis of comments made in this Chamber. As the Foreign Secretary has made clear, and as I am sure almost every Member of this House will agree, their treatment is unacceptable and deeply concerning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-07a.611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-07", "file": "debates2025-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f4633ca0e21b0ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-07a.612.1", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Israel: Refusal of Entry for UK Parliamentarians", "cue_speaker": "Wendy Morton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wendy Morton", "preceding_text": " that British nationals visiting Israel—a country that is at war—should be aware of those requirements and consider them carefully before making decisions to travel, and that they therefore travel to Israel at their own risk? I think it would also be helpful today to understand what the Minister considers to count as an official trip, and whether the FCDO was aware in advance of this trip. As MPs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-07a.612.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-07", "file": "debates2025-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f4633ca0e21b0ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-07a.612.1", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Israel: Refusal of Entry for UK Parliamentarians", "cue_speaker": "Wendy Morton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wendy Morton", "preceding_text": " what the Minister considers to count as an official trip, and whether the FCDO was aware in advance of this trip. As MPs—[Interruption.] As Members of Parliament, we do not have diplomatic immunity, so what would the FCDO do—this is really important—if MPs were allowed entry and then arrested? [Interruption.] Moreover, who were the aides who accompanied the delegation and also returned to the UK?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-07a.612.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-07", "file": "debates2025-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f4633ca0e21b0ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-07a.613.1", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Israel: Refusal of Entry for UK Parliamentarians", "cue_speaker": "Wendy Morton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wendy Morton", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. It is important and right that we ask some questions. Will the Minister update the House on the UK Government’s latest engagement with key interlocutors on efforts to find a way through the current, extremely difficult moment in the conflict?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-07a.613.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-07", "file": "debates2025-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f4633ca0e21b0ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-07a.613.5", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Israel: Refusal of Entry for UK Parliamentarians", "cue_speaker": "Hamish Falconer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hamish Falconer", "preceding_text": "ition did not take the opportunity to ask questions before her Sunday round—not of the two MPs concerned, and not of the Foreign Office. She characterised their comments in this House as “Hamas propaganda.” She can make whatever political characterisation she likes of Back-Bench MPs, but she seemed to imply that the reason for their removal was that they were not going to comply with Israeli laws.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-07a.613.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-07", "file": "debates2025-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f4633ca0e21b0ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-07a.655.5", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Road Maintenance", "cue_speaker": "John Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Lamont", "preceding_text": "n his election leaflets that he was absolutely committed to upgrading and dualling the A1—a promise that has now been ripped up. I suspect the people of Northumberland will remember that when the next election day comes. That A1 is crucial to North Northumberland and to my constituents. Its road safety is terrible. Forget the economic arguments; the safety arguments make it all the more important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-07a.655.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-07", "file": "debates2025-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "f4633ca0e21b0ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-07a.678.1", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Road Maintenance", "cue_speaker": "Jerome Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jerome Mayhew", "preceding_text": "he Opposition by talking about the need for predictable long-term funding, which is a key issue. I wish to draw a quote to the House’s attention: “British people are bored of seeing their politicians aimlessly pointing at potholes with no real plan to fix them”. That quote is not from me, but from the Prime Minister. He was right, and he identified the problem, but he has gone on to make it worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-07a.678.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-08", "file": "debates2025-04-08b.xml", "sha256": "0b8ca706ec4f8f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-08b.734.1", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Tackling Child Sexual Abuse", "cue_speaker": "Anna Sabine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anna Sabine", "preceding_text": "ld protection authority, and I know she is delighted to see that coming forward today. The Lib Dems are committed to working proactively and constructively with the Government and the whole House to support and protect vulnerable children at risk of exploitation and abuse, unlike the Conservatives, sadly, who are still shamefully using the victims of grooming gangs scandal as a political football—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-08b.734.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-08", "file": "debates2025-04-08b.xml", "sha256": "0b8ca706ec4f8f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-08b.804.0", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Easter Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Julie Minns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julie Minns", "preceding_text": "It is a pleasure to speak in this Easter recess debate, to pay tribute to Sir David and to bring to the attention of the House a movement that has been spreading across cities and communities all over the world. I speak, of course, of yarn bombing. Yarn bombing is an urban art form that involves decorating objects in public places with knitted or crocheted yarn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-08b.804.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-12", "file": "debates2025-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "1ebcbd98085fb049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-12a.838.1", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill: Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "preceding_text": "today. We are incredibly grateful to them. I am sure we are going to hear a lot today about urgency, moving at pace and the rest of it, but the truth is that the Government have made a total pig’s breakfast of this whole arrangement. The fact is that anyone who has been paying any attention to this story over the past few months has known that this was coming down the track. The House was sitting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-12a.838.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-12", "file": "debates2025-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "1ebcbd98085fb049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-12a.839.2", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "I remind Members that, under the Order of the House of today, notice of amendments and new clauses to be moved in Committee of the whole House may be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-12a.839.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-12", "file": "debates2025-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "1ebcbd98085fb049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-12a.844.3", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Reynolds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Reynolds", "preceding_text": "t Port Talbot open on polling day, because it would have closed due to the industrial action that almost took place. The previous Government were nowhere to be seen, even before the result of the election was in. We were not able to reopen the deal, but we did negotiate a better deal. As a result, Port Talbot is in a stronger position than British Steel, because it has a long-term future in place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-12a.844.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-12", "file": "debates2025-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "1ebcbd98085fb049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-12a.849.2", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-12a.849.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-12", "file": "debates2025-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "1ebcbd98085fb049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-12a.851.6", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Griffith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Griffith", "preceding_text": "That is a bit slow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-12a.851.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-12", "file": "debates2025-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "1ebcbd98085fb049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-12a.862.2", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "preceding_text": "Well, thank you, Mr Speaker—no pressure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-12a.862.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-12", "file": "debates2025-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "1ebcbd98085fb049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-12a.870.1", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Flynn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Flynn", "preceding_text": "act that the Bill applies only to England. The important consideration is: why is this not being extended to Scotland? Why is Grangemouth not being included, why is the smelter up at Lochaber not being included and why are the Dalzell steelworks not being included? The answer to why they are not being included is that Westminster is only interested in Westminster; it is not interested in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-12a.870.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-12", "file": "debates2025-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "1ebcbd98085fb049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-12a.873.0", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": " at $250 per megawatt-hour, while France and the others all have lower costs for producing energy. That energy is critical for the steel industry, and that is one of the big issues that the Secretary of State has to deal with. China, with its subsidies and broken free market rules, is at $60 per megawatt-hour. We should not attempt to compete with it; we must say that it is not competitive at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-12a.873.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-12", "file": "debates2025-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "1ebcbd98085fb049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-12a.888.5", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Before I adjourn the House, I once again pass on my thanks to all the staff of the House, who have worked extremely hard at very short notice to make this sitting happen. The House stands adjourned —I have had apologies from Jim Shannon, by the way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-12a.888.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-22", "file": "debates2025-04-22b.xml", "sha256": "2000bea0ca9eed98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-22b.904.2", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Justice", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Dakin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Dakin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman urges us to get on with it. By my reckoning, the Conservative party had 14 years to get on with it. We are getting on with it. We set up the snap review straightaway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-22b.904.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-22", "file": "debates2025-04-22b.xml", "sha256": "2000bea0ca9eed98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-22b.914.0", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Birmingham: Waste Collection", "cue_speaker": "Jim McMahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim McMahon", "preceding_text": "really did not land. What do people in Birmingham want? In the context of an unacceptable situation, where rubbish is accumulating, the people of Birmingham want it to be resolved. What they have in this Government is a Government who do not pray in aid party politics or councils’ rows in the way the previous Government did. What we do is work together in partnership for the end that is important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-22b.914.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-22", "file": "debates2025-04-22b.xml", "sha256": "2000bea0ca9eed98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-22b.949.0", "colnum": "949", "heading": "“For Women Scotland” Supreme Court Ruling", "cue_speaker": "Bridget Phillipson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bridget Phillipson", "preceding_text": "dy. She and the Conservative party had 14 years to provide clarity on the issues that they now claim to take an interest in. The Supreme Court has confirmed that Labour’s Equality Act 2010 is the basis for single-sex spaces and protection, but the Conservatives did not provide that clarity. Before I say a bit more about her record, I will say a little more about mine. I will come to the questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-22b.949.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-23", "file": "debates2025-04-23c.xml", "sha256": "ea26420735ec7e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-23c.1130.2", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Sewage", "cue_speaker": "Tim Farron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Farron", "preceding_text": "I agree. The Ministers are really lucky in so many ways. They are in the best the Department and—like few others in government—they have an army of volunteers to call upon who will be their arms and legs out in the community. We ask the Government to empower those volunteers even more. If there is one more intervention, I will take it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-23c.1130.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-23", "file": "debates2025-04-23c.xml", "sha256": "ea26420735ec7e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-23c.1140.3", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Sewage", "cue_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "preceding_text": "t-sensitive farming to all farms in England. We stepped up the requirements for investment, including investment from water companies, and storm overflow improvements. After 14 years in opposition, the Labour party should have come into office with a plan of what more needs to be done to fix this century-old problem and, what is more, have set that plan in action last summer with energy and gusto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-23c.1140.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-23", "file": "debates2025-04-23c.xml", "sha256": "ea26420735ec7e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-23c.1141.1", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Sewage", "cue_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "preceding_text": "e so that only rainwater flows into it. It was a laudable ambition. Who can disagree with that ambition? However, he gave no timeframe and no plan for delivering this vision. I have also visited the constituency of the hon. Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale (Tim Farron) . I met local residents and farmers—something I do not think the Secretary of State managed to do—and business owners recently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-23c.1141.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-23", "file": "debates2025-04-23c.xml", "sha256": "ea26420735ec7e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-23c.1165.1", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Sewage", "cue_speaker": "Emma Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emma Hardy", "preceding_text": "lways lobbies so gently, Madam Deputy Speaker, with a smile on her face every time she sees me. That is why I was so pleased that DEFRA and the Welsh Government were able to give £1 million for research to understand pollution and the other pressures and to develop a plan to tackle the issues in the Wye catchment. My hon. Friend the Member for Hexham (Joe Morris) , who is somewhere in the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-23c.1165.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-28", "file": "debates2025-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "a9c72bbfe36295de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-28c.39.0", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Child Rape Gangs", "cue_speaker": "Jess Phillips", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jess Phillips", "preceding_text": "As I said, I will consider the situation as it unfolds. What I would say is with the amount of money that the Government are allocating for local inquiries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-28c.39.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-28", "file": "debates2025-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "a9c72bbfe36295de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-28c.40.4", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Child Rape Gangs", "cue_speaker": "Jess Phillips", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jess Phillips", "preceding_text": "It had written to the previous Government, as had Telford. So, for me, this story started many years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-28c.40.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-28", "file": "debates2025-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "a9c72bbfe36295de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-28c.44.4", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Child Rape Gangs", "cue_speaker": "Jess Phillips", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jess Phillips", "preceding_text": "What we have proposed is better because it is about acting now in areas where it is needed. We have already had a national inquiry, which took seven years and wrote a 200-page dossier on group-based sexual abuse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-28c.44.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-28", "file": "debates2025-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "a9c72bbfe36295de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-28c.45.2", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Child Rape Gangs", "cue_speaker": "Jess Phillips", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jess Phillips", "preceding_text": "s be respectful. I shall pay it back in kind and say that there is absolutely no way that the Government wish for the past to be forgotten or for a line to be drawn. That is absolutely the opposite of what I want. I want every single perpetrator rounded up and locked up; I want every single victim to feel supported; and I want everybody who covered these actions up to be held accountable for that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-28c.45.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-28", "file": "debates2025-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "a9c72bbfe36295de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-28c.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Football Governance Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Lisa Nandy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lisa Nandy", "preceding_text": " of pride to me that from the Bill’s inception—from the moment the fan-led review began—it has been a cross-party endeavour. I am grateful for the relationships we have been able to forge across the House to get us here. Let me address head-on the question about the chair of the independent football regulator. David Kogan is by far one of the people in football most qualified to take on this role.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-28c.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-28", "file": "debates2025-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "a9c72bbfe36295de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-28c.51.1", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Football Governance Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Lisa Nandy", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lisa Nandy", "preceding_text": "They just cannot stop embarrassing themselves. Seriously, the hon. Member was the Whip on the Bill Committee. He knows full well that UEFA has confirmed in writing to me, as the Football Association confirmed directly to Members of both Houses, that the Bill before the House does not breach UEFA statutes. I will say to him gently, as I said to Opposition Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-28c.51.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-28", "file": "debates2025-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "a9c72bbfe36295de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-28c.52.0", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Football Governance Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Lisa Nandy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lisa Nandy", "preceding_text": "are virtually indistinguishable from the hon. Member for Clacton (Nigel Farage) . I can only think that he is writing their policy on football. But seriously, how can the right hon. Member for Daventry look football fans in Hartlepool, Bolton, Portsmouth, Reading, Bury and Luton in the eye and defend this amendment, after making them a promise just two years ago, and again at the general election?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-28c.52.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-28", "file": "debates2025-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "a9c72bbfe36295de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-28c.52.0", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Football Governance Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Lisa Nandy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lisa Nandy", "preceding_text": " has. The Bill will take into account factors such as league, club size and financial health. That will ensure that the regulation is light-touch. We have cemented the proportionate approach that we inherited from him by adding two measures: a financial growth duty, so that the regulator will need to consider the financial growth of English football as part of its secondary duties; and a specific—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-28c.52.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-28", "file": "debates2025-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "a9c72bbfe36295de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-28c.60.0", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Football Governance Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Stuart Andrew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stuart Andrew", "preceding_text": "I wholeheartedly agree with my right hon. Friend. He is absolutely right. This is not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-28c.60.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-28", "file": "debates2025-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "a9c72bbfe36295de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-28c.60.2", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Football Governance Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Stuart Andrew", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Stuart Andrew", "preceding_text": "I say to the hon. Gentleman that his party is actually going to be adding cost to those clubs. I have just mentioned the £47.3 million, but with the football regulator’s remit now considerably expanded, operational costs could rise to £150 million, which clubs like his will have to fund through the levy. Baroness Brady, someone with deep knowledge of the football industry as vice-chairman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-28c.60.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-28", "file": "debates2025-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "a9c72bbfe36295de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-28c.61.3", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Football Governance Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Stuart Andrew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stuart Andrew", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes really important points. This appointment is really important to the future of the regulator. What have the Labour Government done? They have announced the appointment of David Kogan, a key Labour donor and political insider, to lead the football regulator. It is deeply troubling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-28c.61.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-28", "file": "debates2025-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "a9c72bbfe36295de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-28c.63.0", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Football Governance Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Stuart Andrew", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Stuart Andrew", "preceding_text": "e with the increased regulatory burden she has brought in? It truly pains me to see what this Government have done regarding this issue, playing fast and loose with the independence of the regulator. They have turned this into a Labour Government regulator, increasing burdens on clubs when the Treasury is already hammering them with its taxes. It is beyond disappointing and I am genuinely furious—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-28c.63.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-28", "file": "debates2025-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "a9c72bbfe36295de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-28c.80.3", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Football Governance Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Charlie Dewhirst", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charlie Dewhirst", "preceding_text": " and structures, being in the scope of the Bill places the Government on a collision course with those international federations. That has already been discussed. Ultimately, the fact we are here discussing this Bill today is a sad indictment of the relationship between the existing stakeholders. However, it is not beyond the wit of Government to find solutions that do not involve a new regulator.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-28c.80.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-28", "file": "debates2025-04-28c.xml", "sha256": "a9c72bbfe36295de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-28c.131.0", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Football Governance Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Stephanie Peacock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephanie Peacock", "preceding_text": " will not intervene on commercial matters such as sponsorship. The Government will continue to follow the best available evidence on the impact of gambling sponsorship in sport to inform future decisions. Let me be very clear: UEFA has confirmed in writing to the Secretary of State, and the FA confirmed directly to Members of the other place, that the Bill as drafted does not breach UEFA statutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-28c.131.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-29", "file": "debates2025-04-29b.xml", "sha256": "6141d6332011dbd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-29b.150.5", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Energy Security and Net Zero", "cue_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "preceding_text": "isely that, in a Government-to-Government collaboration. As for the hon. Lady’s wider question about industrial energy prices, we should obviously look at what different sectors are saying. A lot of nonsense is being talked about steel. UK Steel has said categorically that the difference between our prices and those of continental Europe is a result of our reliance on natural gas power generation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-29b.150.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-29", "file": "debates2025-04-29b.xml", "sha256": "6141d6332011dbd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-29b.183.2", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Kashmir: Increasing Tension", "cue_speaker": "Hamish Falconer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hamish Falconer", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Gentleman’s question is: will I condemn the existence of British Indian and British Pakistani communities? No, I won’t. There is tension between those communities and I have called for calm. If he is asking me whether I think there has been too much immigration over the last 14 years, yes indeed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-29b.183.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-30", "file": "debates2025-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "9ecb8d64b144437b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-30a.355.0", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Energy Grid Resilience", "cue_speaker": "Michael Shanks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Shanks", "preceding_text": "Madam Deputy Speaker, I think you need to make a ruling on drawing marathon-related puns in the House to an end, but the subject is a really important one. Of course, that is why we are in this sprint towards building more network infrastructure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-30a.355.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-04-30", "file": "debates2025-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "9ecb8d64b144437b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-30a.398.1", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Sentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kieran Mullan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kieran Mullan", "preceding_text": ". That is the very approach that the Lord Chancellor has been forced to bring in emergency legislation to curtail. That approach is why the appetite for proper action is so limited. The legislation before the House is a fig leaf to hide the truth that a Labour party led by Keir Starmer will always have to be dragged kicking and screaming to tackle the judicial activism that he has long championed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-04-30a.398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-01", "file": "debates2025-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "22124adc1363099c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-01a.442.5", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Business and Trade", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Reynolds", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Reynolds", "preceding_text": "We should always be careful about what we read in some newspapers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-01a.442.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-01", "file": "debates2025-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "22124adc1363099c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-01a.455.0", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "preceding_text": "He is a very popular Member of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-01a.455.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-06", "file": "debates2025-05-06b.xml", "sha256": "5fab4796c4f9cfb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-06b.657.3", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Neon Signage", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": " economy. Let us be absolutely clear: as my hon. Friend said, neon is not simply about advertising, and it is not just a relic of a bygone era. It is artistry and craftsmanship; it is a part of our living heritage and of the living texture of our urban and rural landscapes. I remember for a while there was a neon sign on entering the Rhondda that used to say, “Two can dine for £1.99. Fine dining.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-06b.657.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-07", "file": "debates2025-05-07b.xml", "sha256": "6925fb42779053c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-07b.678.4", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Matt Vickers", "cue_text": "“Ooh!”", "preceding_speaker": "Matt Vickers", "preceding_text": "Last week I was talking to Jason, a pub landlord, and he told me that he has heard a rumour about the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-07b.678.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-07", "file": "debates2025-05-07b.xml", "sha256": "6925fb42779053c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-07b.689.1", "colnum": "689", "heading": "United States Film Tariff", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "nist measures around a whole series of industries. It has tended not to happen in services, and to be more about goods, which is one of the other issues. The hon. Member is right about Scotland. I am very keen on working with all the devolved Administrations to make sure that we remain the best place in which to make films and high-end television. I do not know whether anybody has watched “Havoc”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-07b.689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-07", "file": "debates2025-05-07b.xml", "sha256": "6925fb42779053c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-07b.692.5", "colnum": "692", "heading": "United States Film Tariff", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "The thing is, Tom Cruise does all his own stunts, doesn’t he? I am a little bit nervous about being dangled off the back of a helicopter or dumped in a vat of—I don’t know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-07b.692.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-07", "file": "debates2025-05-07b.xml", "sha256": "6925fb42779053c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-07b.699.2", "colnum": "699", "heading": "India-Pakistan: Escalation", "cue_speaker": "Bob Blackman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Blackman", "preceding_text": "nister has outlined, India took diplomatic action and further actions to penalise Pakistan. Pakistan then retaliated. But it was made clear at the time by India that either Pakistan removes the terrorist spaces along the line of control, or India would remove them. Last night, nine sites were hit. Those were terrorist bases where terrorists were being trained to commit further atrocities in India.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-07b.699.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-07", "file": "debates2025-05-07b.xml", "sha256": "6925fb42779053c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-07b.735.3", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Ben Spencer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Spencer", "preceding_text": "y clear on this, and it is important in such a complex area to look at the detail and nuance of the challenges around—(Interruption.) Well, it is very easy to create a new clause where we click our fingers and say, “Let’s make this more illegal; let’s bring in x, y or z restriction.” As a responsible Opposition, we are looking at the detail and complexities around implementing something like this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-07b.735.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-07", "file": "debates2025-05-07b.xml", "sha256": "6925fb42779053c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-07b.736.3", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Ben Spencer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Spencer", "preceding_text": " 16. It might be the case that, over the next six months, the shaking out of the Online Safety Act demonstrates that this intervention is not necessary. Perhaps concerns around particular high-risk social media platforms will change as technology evolves. We are saying that the Government should do the work with a view to raising the age in 18 months unless there is evidence to prove the contrary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-07b.736.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-08", "file": "debates2025-05-08c.xml", "sha256": "ed228399073de627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-08c.829.2", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Environment, Food and Rural Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on weaving in a farms question on fly-tipping, but he is right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-08c.829.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-08", "file": "debates2025-05-08c.xml", "sha256": "ed228399073de627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-08c.842.2", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Marie Goldman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marie Goldman", "preceding_text": " of the vote; put another way, three out of every four voters put their cross in somebody else’s box. However, the lowest winning vote share was in Cornwall, where the winner in one race—a Liberal Democrat—was elected with just 18.9% of the vote. Just seven and a half percentage points separated the top six candidates. It is clear that we are witnessing the end of the traditional two-party system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-08c.842.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-08", "file": "debates2025-05-08c.xml", "sha256": "ed228399073de627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-08c.856.0", "colnum": "856", "heading": "St George’s Day and English Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Adam Jogee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Jogee", "preceding_text": "n the way of that. Christopher Nolan, an Englishman, is arguably one of the most exciting and skilled film directors working today. We give thanks for actors like the late Dame Maggie Smith and the late and wonderful Glenda Jackson, formerly of this parish, and to those still going strong like Dame Joanna Lumley and Dame Judi Dench, who I had the pleasure of celebrating my birthday with last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-08c.856.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-08", "file": "debates2025-05-08c.xml", "sha256": "ed228399073de627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-08c.856.0", "colnum": "856", "heading": "St George’s Day and English Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Adam Jogee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Jogee", "preceding_text": "to our future with hope and optimism, because doing so is part of what makes us English, and things can only get better. I leave my final words to the last verse of one of my, and my late grandfather’s, favourite hymns. He moved to this country in the late 1940s to help ensure that we beat fascism and defended democracy. I shall resist the temptation to sing the verse to you, Madam Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-08c.856.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-08", "file": "debates2025-05-08c.xml", "sha256": "ed228399073de627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-08c.900.0", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Trade Negotiations", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "preceding_text": "ok ahead to the first EU-UK summit on 19 May , having delivered deals with India and the United States, we are now looking to reset that relationship with our friends, neighbours and partners in the EU, not least because three of our five largest trading partners are actually members of the European Union. On the specific points about the film industry, we continue to negotiate on the UK’s behalf—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-08c.900.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-12", "file": "debates2025-05-12e.xml", "sha256": "c3e7ada68db0a14d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-12e.45.3", "colnum": "45", "heading": "US-UK Trade Deal: Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Reynolds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Reynolds", "preceding_text": "greeing those is with the Government, rather than Parliament. I am not aware of any substantive proposal to change that system. It is certainly not something that the UK Government today are committed to doing. The hon. Member talks about the impact of leaving our existing trade relationships in the customs union. That was part of that referendum. I understand how people feel intensely about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-12e.45.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-12", "file": "debates2025-05-12e.xml", "sha256": "c3e7ada68db0a14d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-12e.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Immigration System", "cue_speaker": "Chris Philp", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Philp", "preceding_text": ". The Home Secretary admitted on Laura Kuenssberg’s programme yesterday that the measures will reduce net migration by only 50,000, which is just one 10th of the impact of the previous Conservative changes. The honest truth is that we need to go much further than this White Paper does. Immigration needs to come down a lot more. Under new leadership, the Conservative party is taking a new approach.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-12e.50.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-12", "file": "debates2025-05-12e.xml", "sha256": "c3e7ada68db0a14d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-12e.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Immigration System", "cue_speaker": "Chris Philp", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Philp", "preceding_text": " low-skilled migration undermines our economy’s productivity and costs other taxpayers money, because low-wage migrants consume services that cost the Exchequer more than they pay in tax, particularly where there are dependants, so we need to go much further. That is why later today the House will vote on two Conservative proposals in amendments to the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-12e.50.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-12", "file": "debates2025-05-12e.xml", "sha256": "c3e7ada68db0a14d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-12e.59.1", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Immigration System", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Farage", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Farage", "preceding_text": "The Home Secretary will be aware that five years ago I warned that if we did not leave the European convention on human rights and immediately deport those who arrived in Dover via small boats, there would be an invasion. Sure enough, I was right. Already today, a further 600 young men have been processed through Dover, perhaps the odd Iranian terrorist among them—who knows?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-12e.59.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-12", "file": "debates2025-05-12e.xml", "sha256": "c3e7ada68db0a14d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-12e.102.3", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Philp", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Philp", "preceding_text": " are more complicated techniques these days, such as testing DNA methylation, and other less intrusive tests. We are the only country not to use them. Many people who illegally cross the channel claim to be under 18—they usually claim to be 17—when common sense would often suggest that they are far older. There are documented cases where men with beards have ended up in schools with teenage girls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-12e.102.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-12", "file": "debates2025-05-12e.xml", "sha256": "c3e7ada68db0a14d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-12e.122.0", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "ger in their places. May I just say to hon. Members on the Conservative and Labour Benches that they are more or less wasting my time: why would voters go for one of the diet versions when they could have the full-fat version in the hon. Member for Clacton (Nigel Farage) ? I have spoken at every stage of this Bill, including four interminable weeks and countless hours on the Public Bill Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-12e.122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-12", "file": "debates2025-05-12e.xml", "sha256": "c3e7ada68db0a14d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-12e.126.1", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "I agree with my right hon. Friend. If one wants a current example, there was a headline in The Daily Telegraph on 1 May that read, “Migrant spared prison after punching female officer”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-12e.126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-13", "file": "debates2025-05-13d.xml", "sha256": "8dfefd2f75887ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-13d.215.3", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Mansion House Accord", "cue_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "preceding_text": "Clearly, the hon. Member has not even read the accord. It talks about private assets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-13d.215.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-13", "file": "debates2025-05-13d.xml", "sha256": "8dfefd2f75887ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-13d.221.1", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Mansion House Accord", "cue_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The lower Thames crossing has been consented, and it is another example of this Government getting on with getting the country building again, and when we come to the spending review—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-13d.221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-13", "file": "debates2025-05-13d.xml", "sha256": "8dfefd2f75887ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-13d.226.4", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Beckett!”", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "preceding_text": "nt that this House receives some clarity on what this Government are fighting for, what they stand for and what their red lines are, because even at this late stage, this House is unaware of the Government’s intentions. I do not know whether you remember, Madam Deputy Speaker, but there was a very good TV programme in the 1980s called “Quantum Leap”. In it, an American scientist, Dr Samuel Butler—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-13d.226.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-13", "file": "debates2025-05-13d.xml", "sha256": "8dfefd2f75887ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-13d.226.4", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "preceding_text": "iations. Our position is simple: there can be no going back. The Conservative party fought long and hard to take control of our laws, our borders and our money, and with those powers, we succeeded in securing 70 new trade deals and the fastest vaccine roll-out in Europe. The naysayers, gloomsters and dismal voices on the Opposition Benches said that it would come to nothing, but in 2015, UK trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-13d.226.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-13", "file": "debates2025-05-13d.xml", "sha256": "8dfefd2f75887ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-13d.228.1", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "preceding_text": "at will be easy for the Labour party to understand, because on 24 February , we heard the Home Secretary rule out a youth mobility deal—the Government were not going to do it and were not looking into it. At the beginning of March, though, the Postmaster General suggested in a Westminster Hall debate that he was open to such a deal, but then on 24 April , the Postmaster General ruled it out again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-13d.228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-13", "file": "debates2025-05-13d.xml", "sha256": "8dfefd2f75887ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-13d.229.3", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "preceding_text": "From a sedentary position, the Paymaster General says that that is absolute nonsense. I am pleased to hear it, but the right hon. Gentleman has not yet had an opportunity to tell the House that. It was clear that someone in the Government, or within the EU, was briefing journalists over the weekend that this might be true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-13d.229.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-13", "file": "debates2025-05-13d.xml", "sha256": "8dfefd2f75887ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-13d.230.5", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "preceding_text": "n and to treat us not as an external power coming to parlay, but rather as a close and long-term friend whose loyalty has already been proved many times over. It would also be good today to have clarification from the Government of their position on EU lawmaking. I was lucky enough to have a call with my friend Sir William Cash this morning. It was an unusually brief call, lasting only 20 minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-13d.230.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-13", "file": "debates2025-05-13d.xml", "sha256": "8dfefd2f75887ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-13d.234.5", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Nick Thomas-Symonds", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Terrible!”", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Thomas-Symonds", "preceding_text": "I would not describe the hon. Gentleman as being confined to any island. I have already spoken about smart, controlled youth mobility schemes; the previous Government agreed a number of them. This Government are exercising diplomacy in our national interest. We need only take one look at the trade deals that we have signed with the United States —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-13d.234.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-13", "file": "debates2025-05-13d.xml", "sha256": "8dfefd2f75887ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-13d.239.4", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Nick Thomas-Symonds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Thomas-Symonds", "preceding_text": "Just to be clear, whether on energy, an SPS agreement or employment rights, this Government are interested in a race to the top, not a race to the bottom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-13d.239.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-13", "file": "debates2025-05-13d.xml", "sha256": "8dfefd2f75887ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-13d.240.4", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Nick Thomas-Symonds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Thomas-Symonds", "preceding_text": " Union is stopping that. If the hon. Gentleman wants evidence of that, he can see the UK-India trade deal that this Government agreed in recent weeks, or look at the deal with the United States that we agreed in recent weeks. Nothing we are doing with the European Union cuts across that. Our position has been that we will not choose between our allies. The UK’s national interest lies in deepening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-13d.240.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-13", "file": "debates2025-05-13d.xml", "sha256": "8dfefd2f75887ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-13d.255.6", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "uropean Defence Agency is an embryo European Ministry of Defence. That is what is intended. Let us just suppose that, in the ideal world that Labour and the Liberal Democrats live in, this defence capability comes about. The fundamental problem is that the European Union was never originally conceived as a defence and foreign policy organisation. There are many countries in it with very different—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-13d.255.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-13", "file": "debates2025-05-13d.xml", "sha256": "8dfefd2f75887ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-13d.277.0", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "preceding_text": "May I start with a warning to my colleagues elected in 2024? Many of us who were here between 2017 and 2019 have been deeply triggered by this debate, which has rerun and rehashed the debates of old. We have the scars on all our backs. I warn hon. Members: do not go down that rabbit hole. No good can come of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-13d.277.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-13", "file": "debates2025-05-13d.xml", "sha256": "8dfefd2f75887ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-13d.277.10", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "preceding_text": "6,000 businesses have given up trading with Europe all together, because the truth about Brexit is that it was just paperwork—reams and reams of it—and small businesses in this country have sadly had to up sticks. I declare an interest as the chair of the Labour Movement for Europe. I am not standing here arguing to rejoin, but I am a red against red tape and what I see is the amount of paperwork—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-13d.277.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-13", "file": "debates2025-05-13d.xml", "sha256": "8dfefd2f75887ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-13d.283.0", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Gethins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Gethins", "preceding_text": "EU consider themselves any less independent or sovereign for being a member of the European Union—not one of them. Just one did, and it is this British nationalist exceptionalism that is so utterly damaging to everybody in the UK. The most sovereign country in the world is North Korea, because we give up a tiny bit of sovereignty with deals. All these other states that see themselves as sovereign—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-13d.283.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-13", "file": "debates2025-05-13d.xml", "sha256": "8dfefd2f75887ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-13d.292.2", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "xceptions, including Labour’s Peter Shore, and Tony Benn, who made the case for national self-government in what my right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith) told me was one of the best speeches he has heard in this Chamber in his years here. On our side, there were noble exceptions, too. Enoch Powell stands proud among those, but there were many others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-13d.292.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-20", "file": "debates2025-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "1a23bf4ee16373a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-20a.900.1", "colnum": "900", "heading": "UK-EU Summit", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "The arrangement we got to yesterday with the EU has absolute clarity: there is no impediment to e-gates, which means that we can now work with member states to get them in place as quickly as possible. We have already started our work with them to get e-gates through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-20a.900.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-20", "file": "debates2025-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "1a23bf4ee16373a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-20a.907.4", "colnum": "907", "heading": "UK-EU Summit", "cue_speaker": "Chris Law", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Law", "preceding_text": "The people of Scotland voted overwhelmingly to remain in the European Union in 2016, and overwhelmingly support rejoining it today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-20a.907.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-20", "file": "debates2025-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "1a23bf4ee16373a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-20a.926.1", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": "If I can return to my remarks, how does that non-participation help to get aid into Gaza and stop the suffering that is being experienced by everyone?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-20a.926.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-20", "file": "debates2025-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "1a23bf4ee16373a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-20a.926.1", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": "If I can return to my remarks, how does that non-participation help to get aid into Gaza and stop the suffering that is being experienced by everyone? [Interruption.] Members shake their heads, but we should all be focused on securing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-20a.926.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-20", "file": "debates2025-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "1a23bf4ee16373a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-20a.926.1", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": "If I can return to my remarks, how does that non-participation help to get aid into Gaza and stop the suffering that is being experienced by everyone? [Interruption.] Members shake their heads, but we should all be focused on securing—[Interruption.] Labour Members should be ashamed of themselves, because the focus of this House should be on getting aid into Gaza. The UK—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-20a.926.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-20", "file": "debates2025-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "1a23bf4ee16373a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-20a.926.1", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": " us that we have influence when it comes to the ceasefire and negotiating a better future in this part of the world. What discussions have taken place with Administration of the United States—one country that does have influence—on peace efforts and getting aid into Gaza? In conclusion, strong words will do little to resolve the real challenges and the suffering that we are seeing day in, day out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-20a.926.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-21", "file": "debates2025-05-21c.xml", "sha256": "b2862ecb05402e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-21c.1041.3", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Business and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Griffith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Griffith", "preceding_text": "y Prime Minister, which will have a chilling effect on business, are the right way to proceed. Whether they are stabbed by employment red tape or shot by higher taxes, the outcome for businesses is the same. The Government duck the difficult questions while the Chancellor fiddles the fiscal rules, making it up as she goes along. Families know that the cost of living is getting higher under Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-21c.1041.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-21", "file": "debates2025-05-21c.xml", "sha256": "b2862ecb05402e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-21c.1057.5", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Business and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Jeevun Sandher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeevun Sandher", "preceding_text": "I was a very young man then as it happens; it was rather a long time ago. I believe that the hon. Member for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston (Neil O’Brien) wanted to intervene too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-21c.1057.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-21", "file": "debates2025-05-21c.xml", "sha256": "b2862ecb05402e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-21c.1074.3", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Business and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Neil O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Neil O'Brien", "preceding_text": "ng up the mess—I am afraid I am going to use a generation X metaphor—I mean it was like one of those enormous brontosaurus poops in the film “Jurassic Park”. We were cleaning up a big mess, and it took us a long time. We had to make some difficult decisions, particularly during the coalition years, to clean that up. Members have referred to my peroration, but I am afraid I am only getting started.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-21c.1074.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-21", "file": "debates2025-05-21c.xml", "sha256": "b2862ecb05402e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-21c.1086.0", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Business and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "preceding_text": "ng economy that proves to people that tomorrow can be better than today. I welcome it that the Conservative party has called this debate. It is an important topic, it is deserving of our time and I thank all hon. Members for their contributions, even if I cannot thank them all for the duration of those contributions. Fifty minutes to deliver one speech is Britain’s productivity crisis right there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-21c.1086.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-21", "file": "debates2025-05-21c.xml", "sha256": "b2862ecb05402e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-21c.1087.5", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Business and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "preceding_text": ". I will come on to the labour market, which the hon. Member for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston raised. The hon. Member for Richmond Park (Sarah Olney) asked about employment and changes to national insurance, and several Members claimed that there is a direct relationship between changes to national insurance and changes in vacancies in the labour market. Let us introduce some facts to the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-21c.1087.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-21", "file": "debates2025-05-21c.xml", "sha256": "b2862ecb05402e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-21c.1089.2", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Business and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Member for East Hampshire (Damian Hinds) and the shadow Minister sounded as if they were opposed to all taxes and made it the core of their argument that a higher tax level is a problem that this Government have put in place. Neither of them mentioned that the increase in taxes under the Tories in the last Parliament was significantly higher than any change in taxes under this Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-21c.1089.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-21", "file": "debates2025-05-21c.xml", "sha256": "b2862ecb05402e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-21c.1096.2", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Chris Philp", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Philp", "preceding_text": "have a problem with integration, and that is why we need to get these numbers dramatically down, until such time as we can address these issues. Let me turn to the economy, because it has long been thought that net migration is an unalloyed economic good. Indeed, that is one reason why successive Governments of both colours over some decades allowed immigration to get so high and to stay too high.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-21c.1096.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-21", "file": "debates2025-05-21c.xml", "sha256": "b2862ecb05402e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-21c.1097.1", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Chris Philp", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Philp", "preceding_text": "carefully. I expressly said that highly skilled migrants do make a contribution and should be welcomed, and when I referred to issues involving social housing, economic inactivity and criminality, I was reading out facts. I was reading out census data published by the Office for National Statistics. Those are facts. The right hon. Gentleman may not like the facts, but they are facts none the less.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-21c.1097.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-21", "file": "debates2025-05-21c.xml", "sha256": "b2862ecb05402e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-21c.1097.3", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Chris Philp", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Too late!”", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Philp", "preceding_text": "and if we cannot, in this House of all places, lay out the facts—published data—as a way of having an honest debate about it, I do not know where we have got to. That kind of shouting down, saying that it is somehow beyond the pale to discuss these facts, is precisely why we ended up in this mess in the first place. Let me come on to some of the steps taken late in the time of the last Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-21c.1097.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-21", "file": "debates2025-05-21c.xml", "sha256": "b2862ecb05402e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-21c.1106.1", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "When we came into office, we ended the Rwanda scheme. The scheme was about deporting people, processing their asylum in another country and never letting them back here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-21c.1106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-21", "file": "debates2025-05-21c.xml", "sha256": "b2862ecb05402e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-21c.1106.1", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "When we came into office, we ended the Rwanda scheme. The scheme was about deporting people, processing their asylum in another country and never letting them back here. [Interruption.] But it did not work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-21c.1106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-21", "file": "debates2025-05-21c.xml", "sha256": "b2862ecb05402e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-21c.1107.3", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "ing of small boat parts for use in illegal activities. It upgrades serious crime prevention orders to target individuals involved in organised immigration crime. It creates a new offence of endangering life at sea to act as a deterrent against small boat overcrowding. It also sends an unambiguous message that we are ready to take action against those who are complicit in fatalities in the channel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-21c.1107.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-21", "file": "debates2025-05-21c.xml", "sha256": "b2862ecb05402e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-21c.1108.4", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "I agree. Of course, the Conservative party also oppose all of the Bill, despite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-21c.1108.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-21", "file": "debates2025-05-21c.xml", "sha256": "b2862ecb05402e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-21c.1116.3", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "I of course agree with my right hon. Friend, who as usual has brought a particular insight based on his long experience to our considerations, and let us just take one example of that. Some 647,000 migrants received health and care visas from 2021 to June 2024; 270,000 of them were workers and an extraordinary, outrageous 377,000 were dependants. Even—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-21c.1116.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-21", "file": "debates2025-05-21c.xml", "sha256": "b2862ecb05402e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-21c.1118.0", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Nick Timothy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Timothy", "preceding_text": "ondon Mayor, “part and parcel of living in a big city”, people have been told to keep their views to themselves and parrot the official line instead. However, diversity is not our strength: it is a very serious and difficult challenge that we have to manage, thanks to policies imposed on the public by politicians who chose—arrogantly and callously—to ignore what the people of their country wanted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-21c.1118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-21", "file": "debates2025-05-21c.xml", "sha256": "b2862ecb05402e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-21c.1118.0", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Nick Timothy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Timothy", "preceding_text": "he people of their country wanted. [Interruption.] If the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent Central (Gareth Snell) wants to intervene, he can do so. Britain’s true strengths are our long stability, our legal inheritance, our institutions, our language, our shared identity forged through the triumphs and tragedies of history, the places we have in common, our literature, our culture and even our food.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-21c.1118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-21", "file": "debates2025-05-21c.xml", "sha256": "b2862ecb05402e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-21c.1119.4", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Nick Timothy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Timothy", "preceding_text": "e riots we saw in Leicester three years ago. When the Prime Minister referred to an island of strangers, he was not wrong, even if the Immigration Minister did not back him up in using that language in her speech. The pity is that the policy response is risible. From Tony Blair to Boris Johnson, we have seen successive Governments talk things up, only to deliver ultra-liberal immigration policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-21c.1119.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-21", "file": "debates2025-05-21c.xml", "sha256": "b2862ecb05402e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-21c.1127.0", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Ryan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Surely not!”", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Ryan", "preceding_text": "c that immigration has been an issue for 30 or 40 years, but the numbers have been sky high over the past 10—since Brexit, really. And the Tories wonder why people think they are irrelevant. There is mention in the motion of a cap, but—as always with this Opposition—there is a history lesson here. I am old enough to remember 2013 to 2015, and the cap that was announced by the coalition Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-21c.1127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-22", "file": "debates2025-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "20b89e93869b0c8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-22a.1152.7", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Culture, Media and Sport", "cue_speaker": "Max Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Max Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am pleased to not be forgotten today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-22a.1152.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-22", "file": "debates2025-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "20b89e93869b0c8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-22a.1171.2", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "School Teachers’ Review Body: Recommendations", "cue_speaker": "Catherine McKinnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Catherine McKinnell", "preceding_text": "our to sort out, this afternoon we will announce the teachers’ pay award, which will be the earliest announcement for a decade. We understand the importance of giving schools certainty, giving them time to plan their budgets, and ensuring that they can recruit and retain the expert teachers our children need. The Secretary of State’s written ministerial statement will be coming out this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-22a.1171.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-22", "file": "debates2025-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "20b89e93869b0c8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-22a.1176.1", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "School Teachers’ Review Body: Recommendations", "cue_speaker": "Catherine McKinnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Catherine McKinnell", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is rather getting ahead of himself. He was in the last Government, and we were left with an appalling inheritance. We are taking tough decisions to fix the foundations and to bring back stability, because education is a priority for this Government. That is why we are rebuilding the crumbling schools that the Conservatives left.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-22a.1176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-22", "file": "debates2025-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "20b89e93869b0c8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-22a.1184.1", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "School Teachers’ Review Body: Recommendations", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. The right hon. Member for South West Wiltshire (Dr Murrison) has just walked right across the Floor of the House while the Minister was answering. I cannot believe it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-22a.1184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-22", "file": "debates2025-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "20b89e93869b0c8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-22a.1190.1", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Independent Sentencing Review", "cue_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "preceding_text": "Today is about one question: should violent and prolific criminals be on the streets or behind bars? I think they should be behind bars. For all the Justice Secretary’s rhetoric, the substance of her statement could not be clearer: she is okay and her party is okay with criminals terrorising our streets and tormenting our country. The truth is this: any Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-22a.1190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-22", "file": "debates2025-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "20b89e93869b0c8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-22a.1190.3", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Independent Sentencing Review", "cue_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "preceding_text": "Mr Speaker, the truth is this: any Government serious about keeping violent criminals behind bars, any Government willing to do whatever it took, could obviously find and build the prison cells required to negate the need for these disastrous changes. What do the changes amount to?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-22a.1190.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-22", "file": "debates2025-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "20b89e93869b0c8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-22a.1192.1", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Independent Sentencing Review", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. I want the same respect from Members on the Opposition Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-22a.1192.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-22", "file": "debates2025-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "20b89e93869b0c8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-22a.1263.2", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "Access to NHS Dentistry", "cue_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "preceding_text": "I call Ben Maguire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-22a.1263.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-22", "file": "debates2025-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "20b89e93869b0c8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-22a.1285.0", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Diego Garcia Military Base", "cue_speaker": "James Cartlidge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Cartlidge", "preceding_text": "tack on a third State directly emanating from the Base on Diego Garcia.” Will the Secretary of State confirm that that means we would need to tell Mauritius if the base were to be used to launch strikes against Iran or its proxies? What guarantees has he received that Mauritius would not tell potential adversaries? As we all know, the key issue is that the Government fear a binding legal judgment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-22a.1285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-22", "file": "debates2025-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "20b89e93869b0c8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-22a.1285.0", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Diego Garcia Military Base", "cue_speaker": "James Cartlidge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Cartlidge", "preceding_text": "n. Member for Crawley (Peter Lamb) , a Labour Back Bencher, said earlier, we are all “Getting real tired of this ‘the courts have settled it’ line of argument”. It is not so much a case of “no surrender”, as “yes, surrender” every single time, always listening to the lawyers instead of our national interests, even if that means surrendering our veterans, our fishing grounds and the Chagos islands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-22a.1285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-22", "file": "debates2025-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "20b89e93869b0c8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-22a.1286.2", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "Diego Garcia Military Base", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "I regret the tone that the hon. Gentleman has struck this evening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-22a.1286.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-22", "file": "debates2025-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "20b89e93869b0c8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-22a.1286.4", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "Diego Garcia Military Base", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "Yes, whose side are you on?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-22a.1286.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-05-22", "file": "debates2025-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "20b89e93869b0c8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-22a.1294.2", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "Diego Garcia Military Base", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "vernment that having now introduced this new element—the UN convention on the law of the sea and, I presume, the associated International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea—as the decisive factor that might have created a binding ruling, it really is incumbent on the Government to set out in a statement exactly how it would have affected the electromagnetic spectrum or our ability to use it in Diego—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-05-22a.1294.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-02", "file": "debates2025-06-02c.xml", "sha256": "7c6443c33f1dbffd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-02c.26.3", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Government Announcements", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "preceding_text": "review, and the Defence Secretary has made a statement on the future of the Diego Garcia military base. This afternoon, the full conclusions of the important strategic defence review will be published and laid before this House first, with a significant statement from the Defence Secretary to follow. I am satisfied that this Government are coming to the House regularly to keep Parliament informed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-02c.26.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-02", "file": "debates2025-06-02c.xml", "sha256": "7c6443c33f1dbffd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-02c.27.2", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Government Announcements", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "preceding_text": " previous Government. Do you remember when the former Prime Minister was found to have misled Parliament? There is no greater disrespect to Parliament. Rather than upholding the ministerial code, the previous Government ignored breaches of it time and again, with reports sitting on the Prime Minister’s desk and nothing being done about them. We, by contrast, have strengthened the ministerial code.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-02c.27.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-02", "file": "debates2025-06-02c.xml", "sha256": "7c6443c33f1dbffd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-02c.37.2", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Government Announcements", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "preceding_text": "To reiterate—the Minister for the Armed Forces is sitting next to me—Members from the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties were offered briefings this morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-02c.37.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-02", "file": "debates2025-06-02c.xml", "sha256": "7c6443c33f1dbffd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-02c.40.2", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Government Announcements", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. We have followed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-02c.40.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-02", "file": "debates2025-06-02c.xml", "sha256": "7c6443c33f1dbffd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-02c.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Strategic Defence Review", "cue_speaker": "James Cartlidge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Cartlidge", "preceding_text": "Before I turn to the substance, in responding to my point of order, the Secretary of State said that when he was in opposition, “We were not offered a briefing”, and “We had no advance copy of the defence review.”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-02c.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-02", "file": "debates2025-06-02c.xml", "sha256": "7c6443c33f1dbffd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-02c.53.3", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Strategic Defence Review", "cue_speaker": "James Cartlidge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Cartlidge", "preceding_text": "ing so in this Parliament, not the next; secondly, getting a grip on our welfare budget, rather than competing with Reform to expand it; thirdly, saving billions by scrapping their crazy Chagos plan. That is a plan to back our armed forces and make our country stronger from the party that actually last spent 3%, in 1996. The terrible shame of this SDR unravelling is that this was an extraordinary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-02c.53.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-02", "file": "debates2025-06-02c.xml", "sha256": "7c6443c33f1dbffd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-02c.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Jerome Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jerome Mayhew", "preceding_text": "bedded in the Bill. The existing 2017 legislation has been referred to more than once during the debate. It recognises that mayoral combined authorities have the scale and resources needed to manage the development of franchise model. However, even here, political ineptitude and mayoral hubris can make a mess of things. Andy Burnham’s Bee Network has been touted as the socialist example to follow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-02c.127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-03", "file": "debates2025-06-03d.xml", "sha256": "c07a0baabd4186df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-03d.157.3", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Justice", "cue_speaker": "Shabana Mahmood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shabana Mahmood", "preceding_text": "No; what this Government are doing is cleaning up the almighty mess left to us by the previous Government, of which the right hon. Gentleman was a member. He knows full well that I have already signalled an intention to review the powers of the Sentencing Council. We have an upcoming sentencing Bill, and I will take the action that he and his Government never did in 14 long years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-03d.157.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-04", "file": "debates2025-06-04d.xml", "sha256": "990f83aca5b6daae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.290.6", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Scotland", "cue_speaker": "Ian Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Murray", "preceding_text": "I join the shadow Secretary of State in congratulating—through gritted teeth—Aberdeen on winning the Scottish cup. Speaking as a big Hearts fan, it is always nice to see the smaller clubs doing well in national competitions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.290.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-04", "file": "debates2025-06-04d.xml", "sha256": "990f83aca5b6daae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.299.7", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Clive Efford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Efford", "preceding_text": "but as a country that can host major cultural and sporting events. My right hon. and learned Friend has been written to by over 200 of our top athletes—some of them are members of Cambridge Harriers, who meet in my constituency—and they are calling for the Government to support the bid for the 2029 world athletics championships to take place in London. If successful, it will lift the whole nation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.299.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-04", "file": "debates2025-06-04d.xml", "sha256": "990f83aca5b6daae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.299.9", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "One of the greatest achievements of the last Labour Government was the 2012 Olympics in London, and we all remember it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.299.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-04", "file": "debates2025-06-04d.xml", "sha256": "990f83aca5b6daae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.301.3", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "I am going to look in my folder because here I have the quote that the right hon. Lady said on Sky News—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.301.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-04", "file": "debates2025-06-04d.xml", "sha256": "990f83aca5b6daae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.301.3", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "I am going to look in my folder because here I have the quote that the right hon. Lady said on Sky News—[Interruption.] I will read it, thank you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.301.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-04", "file": "debates2025-06-04d.xml", "sha256": "990f83aca5b6daae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.301.3", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "ell, that was certainly noticed in the Russian embassy because they put out a statement saying that the Leader of the Opposition has “finally called a spade a spade”. It said: “Ukraine is indeed fighting a proxy war against Russia on behalf of Western interests”. It went on to say: “The illegitimate Kyiv regime, created, financed and armed by the West, has been at it since 2014.” So they endorsed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.301.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-04", "file": "debates2025-06-04d.xml", "sha256": "990f83aca5b6daae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.302.0", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "The only advice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-04", "file": "debates2025-06-04d.xml", "sha256": "990f83aca5b6daae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.302.0", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "The only advice—[Interruption.] She gets up on a Wednesday morning, scrolls through social media and never does any of the detail. We are the only country in the world that is not paying the 50% tax on steel, and we are working on the rest. That will be coming down. She—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-04", "file": "debates2025-06-04d.xml", "sha256": "990f83aca5b6daae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.302.0", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "The only advice—[Interruption.] She gets up on a Wednesday morning, scrolls through social media and never does any of the detail. We are the only country in the world that is not paying the 50% tax on steel, and we are working on the rest. That will be coming down. She—[Interruption.] We are working to bring it down to zero; that is going to happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-04", "file": "debates2025-06-04d.xml", "sha256": "990f83aca5b6daae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.303.2", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "We have a deal and we are implementing it. Within a very short time, I am very confident that we will get those tariffs down in accordance with the deal. I will come back to the right hon. Gentleman and update the House in due course, and I think the House will be very pleased at the outcome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.303.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-04", "file": "debates2025-06-04d.xml", "sha256": "990f83aca5b6daae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.305.3", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for raising this issue. At a time of global conflict, it is staggering that the SNP policy is to block an £11 million investment for a new national welding centre on the Clyde. I was there earlier this week and saw the huge potential for apprenticeships, for job opportunities, and for young people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.305.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-04", "file": "debates2025-06-04d.xml", "sha256": "990f83aca5b6daae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.314.0", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Regional Growth", "cue_speaker": "Richard Fuller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Fuller", "preceding_text": " form of flattery. Now, we know that this Chancellor has a reputation for copying, so I thought I would have a look at the statement made in 2023 on Network North allocations, which I am sure the Chief Secretary has seen. I thought I would compare those allocations with the Government’s announcement today. I have the Conservative announcements in one hand and the Labour announcements in the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.314.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-04", "file": "debates2025-06-04d.xml", "sha256": "990f83aca5b6daae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.314.0", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Regional Growth", "cue_speaker": "Richard Fuller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Fuller", "preceding_text": "ave an issue in their constituency and want to stand up for their constituents, they should make a bid to this Chief Secretary, because he will back down and give them the money. That is what we know from Labour. We also know that in the Government’s analysis of the Green Book, they are looking to change the assessments of the cost-benefit analysis. My question to the Chief Secretary therefore is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.314.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-04", "file": "debates2025-06-04d.xml", "sha256": "990f83aca5b6daae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.345.3", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories", "cue_speaker": "Hamish Falconer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “When?”", "preceding_speaker": "Hamish Falconer", "preceding_text": "at other Members will also raise the deeply distressing reports that there have been in recent days, and indeed going even further back, in both the west bank and in Gaza. Let me be clear, as the Prime Minister was clear with France and Canada: if Israel does not cease the renewed military offensive and lift its restrictions on humanitarian aid, we will take further concrete actions in this place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.345.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-04", "file": "debates2025-06-04d.xml", "sha256": "990f83aca5b6daae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.346.0", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories", "cue_speaker": "Hamish Falconer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “When?”", "preceding_speaker": "Hamish Falconer", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Gentleman for the force of his remarks. I hear so many colleagues say that they are fed up with my words, which is gentle, but on 20 May we announced concrete actions. I am telling the House this afternoon that further actions will come if there are not changes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.346.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-04", "file": "debates2025-06-04d.xml", "sha256": "990f83aca5b6daae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.350.5", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Butler", "preceding_text": "The passion is overtaking me, Madam Deputy Speaker. Minister, do you not agree that we need—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.350.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-04", "file": "debates2025-06-04d.xml", "sha256": "990f83aca5b6daae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.358.0", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories", "cue_speaker": "Hamish Falconer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hamish Falconer", "preceding_text": "With respect, and I appreciate the hon. Gentleman’s commitment to these issues, it was not the badge or the protest that stopped the arms to Gaza. It was the Labour Government. That was the effect of voting for a Labour Government and having a Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.358.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-04", "file": "debates2025-06-04d.xml", "sha256": "990f83aca5b6daae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.358.4", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories", "cue_speaker": "Hamish Falconer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hamish Falconer", "preceding_text": "I have seen children in Gaza. My Department was able to get two of them out of Gaza last week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.358.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-04", "file": "debates2025-06-04d.xml", "sha256": "990f83aca5b6daae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.366.0", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Gaza (Independent Public Inquiry)", "cue_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Aye!”", "preceding_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "preceding_text": "The Question is, That the right hon. Member have leave to bring in the Bill. As many as are of that opinion, say Aye.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.366.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-04", "file": "debates2025-06-04d.xml", "sha256": "990f83aca5b6daae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.378.1", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Gareth Snell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gareth Snell", "preceding_text": "long with the company stamp. Quite often, they can identify their own work in shops because their way of painting and applying transfers is unique to them; it becomes a fingerprint. New clause 1 encourages people to buy British, as my hon. Friends the Members for Stoke-on-Trent North (David Williams), for Stoke-on-Trent South (Dr Gardner), and for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Adam Jogee) have been doing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-04", "file": "debates2025-06-04d.xml", "sha256": "990f83aca5b6daae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.391.2", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Adam Jogee", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Jogee", "preceding_text": "eramics industry. I grateful to her for placing that on the record. There are two Adams in the parliamentary Labour party: my hon. Friend the Member for Erewash (Adam Thompson) and me—he is older than me—but there is only one metrologist, so although I enjoyed his speech, I will not attempt to repeat it. But I did enjoy him sharing his experience of testing leather standards, Madam Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.391.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-04", "file": "debates2025-06-04d.xml", "sha256": "990f83aca5b6daae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.391.2", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Adam Jogee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Jogee", "preceding_text": "before Parliament. New clause 1 is an amendment that I hope few colleagues will disagree with. I proudly wear the flag of our United Kingdom on my lapel. From what I have gathered, I think I was made in the United Kingdom—that detailed conversation has obviously never taken place—and I want the same for the ceramics industry: designed, produced and rooted in Newcastle-under-Lyme and Staffordshire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.391.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-04", "file": "debates2025-06-04d.xml", "sha256": "990f83aca5b6daae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.392.0", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Vince", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Vince", "preceding_text": "It is an honour to speak in this debate on the Product Regulation and Metrology Bill, and in particular the amendments tabled by the Public Bill Committee. I was not on the Committee—some might say I did not measure up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.392.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-04", "file": "debates2025-06-04d.xml", "sha256": "990f83aca5b6daae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.418.5", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Justin Madders", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Oh.”", "preceding_speaker": "Justin Madders", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention—he has certainly got the measure of this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-04d.418.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-05", "file": "debates2025-06-05c.xml", "sha256": "e2a569f0350fe16e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-05c.441.2", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Cabinet Office", "cue_speaker": "Mike Wood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Aw.”", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Wood", "preceding_text": "I do not know how much longer the love-in will last.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-05c.441.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-05", "file": "debates2025-06-05c.xml", "sha256": "e2a569f0350fe16e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-05c.466.3", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "preceding_text": "ress some of the issues in that question, albeit from the right hon. Gentleman sitting on the Back Benches. I gently remind the right hon. Gentleman that the process that was followed by the Ministry of Defence, which included making available in advance security briefings for Opposition Members and others, as well as a reading room, was exactly the same process that was followed in previous SDRs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-05c.466.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-05", "file": "debates2025-06-05c.xml", "sha256": "e2a569f0350fe16e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-05c.481.0", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Free School Meals", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Morgan", "preceding_text": "tion for our country. Unlike them, we will not sit by and watch more children fall into poverty. Unlike them, we are not offering a tax break for private schools. We are delivering positive change for our country. We are giving children back the opportunity to achieve and thrive. With this announcement, we are ensuring that every child, no matter what their background, gets the best start in life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-05c.481.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-05", "file": "debates2025-06-05c.xml", "sha256": "e2a569f0350fe16e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-05c.514.3", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Bank Closures and Banking Hubs", "cue_speaker": "Ian Lavery", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Lavery", "preceding_text": "I totally agree with the right hon. Gentleman’s point. I like bringing school kids into Parliament. Down in one of the corridors there is an ATM that says “Free cash”, and I tell all the kids, “That’s what you get if you are an MP—you can get as much cash as you want from here—it’s free, it’s free!”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-05c.514.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-05", "file": "debates2025-06-05c.xml", "sha256": "e2a569f0350fe16e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-05c.517.1", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Bank Closures and Banking Hubs", "cue_speaker": "Richard Quigley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Quigley", "preceding_text": " of financial inclusion on the island, it is a welcome and tangible step in the right direction. However, we cannot ignore this trend and the anxiety that it causes our constituents. Across the country, rural and coastal communities are seeing their bank branches vanish from the high street. In many cases, residents must travel miles, sometimes without reliable transport, just to deposit a cheque.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-05c.517.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-05", "file": "debates2025-06-05c.xml", "sha256": "e2a569f0350fe16e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-05c.522.0", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Bank Closures and Banking Hubs", "cue_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "preceding_text": "Order. I call Helen Morgan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-05c.522.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-05", "file": "debates2025-06-05c.xml", "sha256": "e2a569f0350fe16e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-05c.563.0", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Battery Energy Storage Sites: Safety Regulations", "cue_speaker": "Nick Timothy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Timothy", "preceding_text": "p on what my hon. Friend the Member for South Northamptonshire (Sarah Bool) said about ideology. The Government are betting on battery energy storage systems thanks to their ideological aim to decarbonise the entire grid within five years, therefore choosing to depend on unreliable, intermittent and expensive renewables. That is the root cause of the dependence on the technologies we are debating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-05c.563.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-09", "file": "debates2025-06-09e.xml", "sha256": "801bf084ae394b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-09e.586.4", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Housing, Communities and Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Alex Norris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Norris", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman offers me two opportunities there. First, we talk about challenges on the high street, but I remind the House of the more than a decade of starved demand because the economic policies of the Conservatives and all the impacts that had, followed by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-09e.586.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-09", "file": "debates2025-06-09e.xml", "sha256": "801bf084ae394b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-09e.587.3", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Housing, Communities and Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "PC C rating or above, so those homes were too cold and had bills that were too high. It was 60% by 2024 when we left power. Will the Minister share with the House the ambition and give us a number for the percentage of homes that we should expect to have that basic EPC C rating by the end of this term, which I hope will be the only one the Minister has, so he should make a difference while he can?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-09e.587.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-09", "file": "debates2025-06-09e.xml", "sha256": "801bf084ae394b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-09e.588.7", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Housing, Communities and Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "preceding_text": "The Minister is right to point out the need for regeneration for towns in Scotland. Last week, the Government agreed in this Chamber to funding for England and Wales. That leaves only one part of the United Kingdom left out: Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-09e.588.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-09", "file": "debates2025-06-09e.xml", "sha256": "801bf084ae394b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-09e.614.2", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Winter Fuel Payment", "cue_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "preceding_text": "payment. Those that prefer not to receive a payment can opt out of receiving it. As was previously the case before July 2024, where the household is not getting an income-related benefit and there is more than one pensioner in the household, shared payments split across the recipients will be made. This Government have had to make tough decisions. It is right to means-test the winter fuel payment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-09e.614.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-09", "file": "debates2025-06-09e.xml", "sha256": "801bf084ae394b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-09e.616.0", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Winter Fuel Payment", "cue_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "preceding_text": " After all, that was the policy of her party’s leader, who once also supported means-testing the entire state pension in one of her bolder moments. Conservative Members say that the policy is not much comfort to pensioners, but Age UK says the exact opposite: charity director Caroline Abrahams said that this announcement is “the right thing to do”. Martin Lewis says that it is a “big improvement”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-09e.616.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-09", "file": "debates2025-06-09e.xml", "sha256": "801bf084ae394b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-09e.623.6", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Winter Fuel Payment", "cue_speaker": "Pamela Nash", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Will the hon. Lady give way?”", "preceding_speaker": "Pamela Nash", "preceding_text": " are making in turning around our economy. For my constituents, however, the future of the winter fuel payment—or its equivalent—lies in the hands of the Scottish Government. Can the Minister confirm that the Barnett consequentials to Scotland resulting from today’s announcement will exceed what the Scottish Government are already planning to spend on their equivalent of the winter fuel allowance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-09e.623.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-09", "file": "debates2025-06-09e.xml", "sha256": "801bf084ae394b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-09e.762.2", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Planning and Infrastructure Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Holmes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Holmes", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. [Interruption.] Labour Members may chunter, but I have a right to raise a point of order on process in this House. Madam Deputy Speaker, may I ask for your guidance? I am a relatively new Member, but it is my—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-09e.762.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-09", "file": "debates2025-06-09e.xml", "sha256": "801bf084ae394b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-09e.781.1", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Breast Cancer Screening: Bassetlaw", "cue_speaker": "Jo White", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Jo White", "preceding_text": " they have had friends taken too soon by breast cancer; I do not want anyone else to have to go through that. Lynn Dixon from Bassetlaw had breast cancer in her family and was first diagnosed at the age of 36 after finding a lump, and she has just recently found another lump and was screened. This week she is facing further treatment for breast cancer. My thoughts and love are with Lynn right now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-09e.781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-10", "file": "debates2025-06-10b.xml", "sha256": "ab59e65ca791140b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-10b.790.3", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Energy Security and Net Zero", "cue_speaker": "Michael Shanks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Shanks", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will not be surprised that I completely agree with her. Today, we have announced a new golden age of nuclear power in this country after decades of dither and delay; in fact, I think that the last switch-on of a nuclear power station was before I was even born.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-10b.790.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-10", "file": "debates2025-06-10b.xml", "sha256": "ab59e65ca791140b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-10b.863.1", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Planning and Infrastructure Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Holmes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ah!”", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Holmes", "preceding_text": "follow the hon. Member for Northampton South (Mike Reader) . He was very generous in congratulating many Members on their amendments and very constructive when he outlined his position on this piece of legislation. I know that Members across the Chamber will be devastated to hear that this will be my last contribution on the Bill before the shadow Secretary of State makes his Third Reading speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-10b.863.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-10", "file": "debates2025-06-10b.xml", "sha256": "ab59e65ca791140b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-10b.866.0", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Planning and Infrastructure Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Holmes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Holmes", "preceding_text": "riously. The quote my right hon. Friend read out is a very good example of why there are many people who are experts through their professions and who day to day live their ambitions to ensure that the environment is improved. I note that the Minister’s Parliamentary Private Secretary, the hon. Member for Huddersfield (Harpreet Uppal) , has said, “When did you start caring about the environment?”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-10b.866.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-11", "file": "debates2025-06-11c.xml", "sha256": "e65aee7972b2d734", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-11c.977.1", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Spending Review 2025", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "hed our economy, sent mortgage rates spiralling and put our pensions in peril. I will never take those risks. Yet Reform is itching to do the same thing all over again. The hon. Member for Clacton (Nigel Farage) may be playing the friend of the workers now, but some of us are old enough to remember when he described the disastrous Liz Truss Budget as “the best Conservative Budget” since the 1980s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-11c.977.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-16", "file": "debates2025-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "a52c360834dee557", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-16b.8.4", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Education", "cue_speaker": "Bridget Phillipson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bridget Phillipson", "preceding_text": "t the early years are crucial, and that is why we have set an ambitious target of making sure that a record number of children at the end of the early years foundation stage are ready for the next step on their journey through the school system. The last Government made all kinds of promises to parents, but they did not fund them. In fact, they left behind a huge black hole in the public finances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-16b.8.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-16", "file": "debates2025-06-16b.xml", "sha256": "a52c360834dee557", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-16b.30.0", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Child Sexual Exploitation: Casey Report", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": " Minister, he and the Home Secretary dismissed calls for an inquiry because they did not want to cause a stir. They accused those of us who demanded justice for the victims of this scandal of “jumping on a far-right bandwagon”, a claim that the Prime Minister’s official spokesman restated this weekend—shameful. Time and again, it has been left to the Conservatives to force this issue. Three times—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-16b.30.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-17", "file": "debates2025-06-17d.xml", "sha256": "de72cf5aef6caad1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-17d.199.2", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Crime and Policing Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Martin McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Martin McDonnell", "preceding_text": "s’ walking distance away—but that the times of services are avoided as well. Interestingly, until recently there had never been a problem, but the police seem to have hardened their attitude, I think as a result of coming under pressure from organisations that might simply not want the protest to go ahead in any form because they take a different attitude to what is happening in Gaza and Pakistan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-17d.199.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-17", "file": "debates2025-06-17d.xml", "sha256": "de72cf5aef6caad1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-17d.307.1", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Crime and Policing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tonia Antoniazzi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tonia Antoniazzi", "preceding_text": "sue. I understand that people across the House have deeply held religious views—indeed, I was brought up a Catholic. My issue, from what I have been told, is this: how would that woman go about it? If it was by taking abortion pills, she would have a baby. Painting a picture of killing an unborn child in that way does not help to serve what we are doing in this place. We need to protect the women.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-17d.307.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-18", "file": "debates2025-06-18e.xml", "sha256": "f659e3966b6c9306", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-18e.375.1", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Adam Thompson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More!”", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Thompson", "preceding_text": "r what this Government are doing to help people improve their maths skills after they have left school? I came across an awful case the other day: a 61-year-old man who believed he had counted up £7 billion of Government spending, when there was really only £27 million. What can we do for people like the leader of Reform UK, the hon. Member for Clacton (Nigel Farage) , who evidently cannot add up?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-18e.375.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-18", "file": "debates2025-06-18e.xml", "sha256": "f659e3966b6c9306", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-18e.507.0", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Crime and Policing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lisa Smart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lisa Smart", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for timing his arrival to the Chamber so beautifully—that is a skill. I agree with him about the importance of neighbourhood policing. I also agree that the funding formula should put enough weight behind neighbourhood policing so that all our communities that need that strong neighbourhood policing get it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-18e.507.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-25", "file": "debates2025-06-25b.xml", "sha256": "c5b0522722f3a1d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-25b.1112.0", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "preceding_text": "Well, what the Conservatives were told at the general election was, “We don’t want you.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-25b.1112.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-25", "file": "debates2025-06-25b.xml", "sha256": "c5b0522722f3a1d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-25b.1122.3", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Nuclear-certified Aircraft Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Scott Arthur", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ooh!”", "preceding_speaker": "Scott Arthur", "preceding_text": "Following on from the previous question, I have to declare that I have flown an F-35—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-25b.1122.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-25", "file": "debates2025-06-25b.xml", "sha256": "c5b0522722f3a1d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-25b.1128.3", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Bell Ribeiro-Addy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bell Ribeiro-Addy", "preceding_text": "t is outrageous. NHSBT was talking about quality of data, but if any agency should look at its quality of data—given the important service that it provides—it should be NHSBT. I have a number of other questions as well, but NHSBT needs to understand how much everybody is doing. A few weeks ago, it was National Blood Donor Week and people across the country donated so much that the website crashed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-25b.1128.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-25", "file": "debates2025-06-25b.xml", "sha256": "c5b0522722f3a1d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-25b.1143.3", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Criminal Justice - Ministry of Justice", "cue_speaker": "Linsey Farnsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Linsey Farnsworth", "preceding_text": "I recognise that prison places were created, but we are talking in net terms, and net, there were 500 extra places.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-25b.1143.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-25", "file": "debates2025-06-25b.xml", "sha256": "c5b0522722f3a1d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-25b.1144.0", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Criminal Justice - Ministry of Justice", "cue_speaker": "Tom Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Hayes", "preceding_text": "l behaviour, and the illegal use of e-scooters and e-bikes are examples that people in our communities raise of local decline, and they say that there are too few police to respond to those issues. This is not just a matter of law and order; it is a matter of fairness, decency and safety. This Labour Government have a challenge: to put right a criminal justice system that was fundamentally broken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-25b.1144.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-25", "file": "debates2025-06-25b.xml", "sha256": "c5b0522722f3a1d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-25b.1177.0", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Ministry of Defence", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": " That goes for parties on both sides of the House; when the Conservatives were in government, they met our NATO commitments, and we have always met them and will continue to do so. The way that our spending commitments will be funded in the next Parliament will be set out during that Parliament, but we cannot set a path directly from this Parliament into the next one. NATO will be looking at that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-25b.1177.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-25", "file": "debates2025-06-25b.xml", "sha256": "c5b0522722f3a1d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-25b.1178.1", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Ministry of Defence", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": "I mean, the right hon. Gentleman has only just walked in. If he wants to start heckling me, I am happy to have a discussion with him in the Tea Room afterwards, but there is no point in him heckling me from a sedentary position when he has not taken part in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-25b.1178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-26", "file": "debates2025-06-26c.xml", "sha256": "347cd5241a01a365", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-26c.1245.0", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "preceding_text": "May I start by wishing two Deputy Speakers a happy birthday?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-26c.1245.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-26", "file": "debates2025-06-26c.xml", "sha256": "347cd5241a01a365", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-26c.1263.1", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "G7 and NATO Summits", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "? Are they the same levers he is using with his Back-Bench rebels? Is he just asking them to please play nice? Let us be honest: nobody cares what this Prime Minister thinks—why should they, when he does not even know what he thinks? Clearly no one cares what he thinks, because he was not involved. We used to be a strategic player on the global stage, advancing Britain’s interests with confidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-26c.1263.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-26", "file": "debates2025-06-26c.xml", "sha256": "347cd5241a01a365", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-26c.1263.3", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "G7 and NATO Summits", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": " deeply flawed surrender deal? If not, when will he introduce the legislation setting out the details of the Chagos surrender, so that Parliament can consider and debate it? We welcome the announcement that the UK will be buying F-35A fighter jets, and I am pleased that the Labour party has now moved on from its previous position of not supporting NATO and advocating against the nuclear deterrent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-26c.1263.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-26", "file": "debates2025-06-26c.xml", "sha256": "347cd5241a01a365", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-26c.1263.3", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "G7 and NATO Summits", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "tens, if not hundreds, of billions we are going to need to find if we are to meet that defence spending target. This is the problem, Mr Speaker: it is one thing to talk about spending money on planes and infrastructure and to make announcements about reviews, but it is another to be clear about where the money will come from and how it will be spent efficiently to secure the defence of our nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-26c.1263.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-26", "file": "debates2025-06-26c.xml", "sha256": "347cd5241a01a365", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-26c.1294.1", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "Armed Forces Day", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "gree. We should do everything we can to help all veterans, whatever their gender, to find good employment after their service, and that certainly includes female veterans. Forgive me, Mr Deputy Speaker, but as it is taking place in the hon. Lady’s constituency, why on earth are Kneecap being allowed to appear at the Glastonbury festival? Why on earth have the organisers allowed that to take place?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-26c.1294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-06-26", "file": "debates2025-06-26c.xml", "sha256": "347cd5241a01a365", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-26c.1334.4", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "Floating Solar Panels", "cue_speaker": "Lincoln Jopp", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More!”", "preceding_speaker": "Lincoln Jopp", "preceding_text": "eing covered at great expense to reduce evaporation. He might know that where floating solar panels exist, they reduce evaporation by 70. In the case of the Queen Elizabeth II reservoir, that is 100 tonnes of water a day. It is absolutely extraordinary. I know Members are thinking, “Well, Lincoln, it couldn’t get any better,” but I have to tell the House that there are still some further benefits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-06-26c.1334.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-02", "file": "debates2025-07-02c.xml", "sha256": "adc01478ac0e1069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-02c.266.7", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "There are other small businesses that are able to trade perfectly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-02c.266.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-02", "file": "debates2025-07-02c.xml", "sha256": "adc01478ac0e1069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-02c.274.4", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "rime Minister forgets is that since the election—since he became Prime Minister—an additional 1,000 people a day are signing on to incapacity benefit. That is 50% more than under us. Astonishingly, because of the mess that the Government made yesterday—because there are no more savings—sickness benefits alone are set to rise to £100 billion on the Prime Minister’s watch. He cannot reduce that now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-02c.274.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-02", "file": "debates2025-07-02c.xml", "sha256": "adc01478ac0e1069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-02c.275.2", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "ot some brass neck. Has he read the papers this morning? That Bill will achieve nothing. It is a pointless waste of time, and it is absolute proof that he does not have a plan. Let me tell the House what is going to happen: in November, the Chancellor is going to put up our taxes to pay for the Prime Minister’s incompetence. We on the Opposition Benches know that you cannot tax your way to growth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-02c.275.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-02", "file": "debates2025-07-02c.xml", "sha256": "adc01478ac0e1069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-02c.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "d there is no strategy; there is just a series of humiliating U-turns, as with winter fuel and as with grooming gangs. What is really shocking is the fact that every other party in the House voted for even more welfare spending yesterday—yes, those MPs behind the Prime Minister, and the Liberal Democrats, and Reform. The Conservative party believes that this country needs to live within its means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-02c.276.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-07", "file": "debates2025-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8316a4ec1272a01e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-07a.657.2", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Government Performance against Fiscal Rules", "cue_speaker": "Darren Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Darren Jones", "preceding_text": " the Chancellor will ask the OBR to produce a new fiscal forecast in the autumn for the annual Budget. That forecast will include an updated assessment of the Government’s performance against their fiscal rules. As the Prime Minister confirmed last week, the Government are committed to their fiscal rules, which remain non-negotiable. We have seen what happens when fiscal rules are put to one side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-07a.657.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-07", "file": "debates2025-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8316a4ec1272a01e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-07a.662.0", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Government Performance against Fiscal Rules", "cue_speaker": "Darren Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Darren Jones", "preceding_text": "Because of the Chancellor’s decision to update the definition of debt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-07a.662.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-07", "file": "debates2025-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8316a4ec1272a01e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-07a.667.0", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Government Performance against Fiscal Rules", "cue_speaker": "Chris Curtis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Curtis", "preceding_text": "The only way out of the economic doom loop that the previous Government got us into is by growing the British economy again. If the British economy had grown over the past 10 years as quickly as the OECD national average, there would be £40 billion more sitting in the Exchequer without having to touch spending or taxes at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-07a.667.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-07", "file": "debates2025-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8316a4ec1272a01e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-07a.677.5", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Actions of Iranian Regime: UK Response", "cue_speaker": "Hamish Falconer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hamish Falconer", "preceding_text": "I would be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-07a.677.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-07", "file": "debates2025-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8316a4ec1272a01e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-07a.684.0", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Giving Every Child the Best Start in Life", "cue_speaker": "Bridget Phillipson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bridget Phillipson", "preceding_text": "ew, and in the strategy that we published today. This is additional investment that we are putting into supporting our youngest children, because this Labour Government prioritise the early years and want to make sure that all our children get the best start in life. The only policy that the right hon. Lady has is to cut budgets in state schools and hand a tax break to private schools. That is it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-07a.684.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-07", "file": "debates2025-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8316a4ec1272a01e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-07a.691.5", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Giving Every Child the Best Start in Life", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "I endorse the tribute to the late Tessa Jowell—she was a remarkable lady. The Secretary of State pointedly refused to rule out scrapping EHCPs. If that is her intention, may I genuinely offer her some advice? Please do not do that. I have had parents in my surgery in tears of frustration, some of whom have had to spend over two years navigating a bureaucratic assault course to get an EHCP.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-07a.691.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-07", "file": "debates2025-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8316a4ec1272a01e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-07a.716.1", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Pension Schemes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for her question and for her oversight of all our pensions, which I think is reassuring.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-07a.716.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-07", "file": "debates2025-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8316a4ec1272a01e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-07a.716.5", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Pension Schemes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "preceding_text": "to enforce consolidation. That will protect savers from getting stuck in poorly performing schemes—something that can knock thousands of pounds off their pension pots. We are also at last addressing the small pension pots issue. I was out door-knocking in Swansea earlier this spring, and a woman in her mid-30s told me that something was really winding her up—and it was not me knocking on the door.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-07a.716.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-07", "file": "debates2025-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8316a4ec1272a01e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-07a.718.2", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Pension Schemes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Smith", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister update us on when consumers will see the introduction of the pensions dashboard?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-07a.718.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-07", "file": "debates2025-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8316a4ec1272a01e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-07a.722.0", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Pension Schemes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Garnier", "preceding_text": "ch will revolutionise the way people access their pension information and plan for their financial future. For too long, the complexity and fragmentation of pension pots has left savers confused and disengaged, as we have heard. If you are anything like me, Madam Deputy Speaker, and are thinking more actively, dare I say it, about your retirement income—actually not like me; you are a lot younger.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-07a.722.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-07", "file": "debates2025-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8316a4ec1272a01e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-07a.725.1", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Pension Schemes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Garnier", "preceding_text": "s the potential to unlock as much as £700 billion by 2035, according to research by Aviva. Rather than imposing top-down mandates, we want the Government to maximise growth opportunities from our pension industry by turning over every stone and seeking out the unintended consequences of old regulations, not imposing new ones. I will conclude, Madam Deputy Speaker, as you will be delighted to hear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-07a.725.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-07", "file": "debates2025-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8316a4ec1272a01e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-07a.735.1", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Pension Schemes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kit Malthouse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kit Malthouse", "preceding_text": "e space of 18 months to try to interfere with the local government pension scheme, and I stood in this Chamber and opposed Michael Gove, now Lord Gove in the other place, when he attempted to manipulate the local government pension scheme for political reasons. I urge the Minister to think twice before he does so. Secondly, I believe that this Bill is conceptually flawed. If we are being generous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-07a.735.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-07", "file": "debates2025-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8316a4ec1272a01e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-07a.747.0", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Pension Schemes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lincoln Jopp", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lincoln Jopp", "preceding_text": "of about four years’ experience as a director of the first pensions superfund, having attempted to get it through the Pensions Regulator and the interim regime put up under the last Government. That was ultimately unsuccessful; part of the reason why we are going to need the Pensions Minister’s enthusiasm and ambition is that he will come up against a series of vested interests. When we attempted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-07a.747.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-07", "file": "debates2025-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8316a4ec1272a01e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-07a.759.1", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Pension Schemes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rebecca Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rebecca Smith", "preceding_text": "eturns on their savings and ultimately have the comfortable and secure retirement for which they were planning. We have heard many contributions this evening. I will briefly mention the hon. Member for Tamworth (Sarah Edwards) and my right hon. Friend the Member for North West Hampshire (Kit Malthouse) , both of whom gave us lengthy and very detailed speeches presenting both sides of the argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-07a.759.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-08", "file": "debates2025-07-08d.xml", "sha256": "9e970fca92f3b309", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-08d.818.1", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Road and Rail Projects", "cue_speaker": "Gareth Bacon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gareth Bacon", "preceding_text": "link road and the Portishead branch line were both announced and granted permission under the last Conservative Government. The new stations at Wellington and Cullompton and the midlands rail hub were all approved under the previous Conservative Government. The development consent order for the A66 northern trans-Pennine project was signed in March last year under the last Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-08d.818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-08", "file": "debates2025-07-08d.xml", "sha256": "9e970fca92f3b309", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-08d.864.0", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Football Governance Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Clive Betts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Betts", "preceding_text": "Would the shadow Minister like to join me in thanking the shadow Secretary of State, his right hon. Friend the Member for Daventry (Stuart Andrew) , for first introducing legislation to this House that promoted an independent football regulator?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-08d.864.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-08", "file": "debates2025-07-08d.xml", "sha256": "9e970fca92f3b309", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-08d.866.4", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Football Governance Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Lisa Nandy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lisa Nandy", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way, given that he has named me. May I ask him why the previous Government—including his colleague the shadow Secretary of State, who is sitting next to him and who was the Minister responsible at the time—actively headhunted the individual in question and added him to the shortlist?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-08d.866.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-08", "file": "debates2025-07-08d.xml", "sha256": "9e970fca92f3b309", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-08d.867.0", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Football Governance Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Louie French", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Louie French", "preceding_text": "I will reflect on that comment, Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-08d.867.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-08", "file": "debates2025-07-08d.xml", "sha256": "9e970fca92f3b309", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-08d.867.0", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Football Governance Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Louie French", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Louie French", "preceding_text": "I will reflect on that comment, Madam Deputy Speaker—[Interruption.] And I withdraw it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-08d.867.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-08", "file": "debates2025-07-08d.xml", "sha256": "9e970fca92f3b309", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-08d.867.0", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Football Governance Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Louie French", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Louie French", "preceding_text": "not by the then Minister in question. The Minister in question, my right hon. Friend the Member for Daventry (Stuart Andrew) , has already said on the Floor of the House that he did not approach the said gentleman. Perhaps the Secretary of State would also like to reflect on her comments. There is a revolving door of vested interests ready to leap in. We would not let the chairman of a rival club—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-08d.867.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-08", "file": "debates2025-07-08d.xml", "sha256": "9e970fca92f3b309", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-08d.872.3", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Football Governance Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Ian Lavery", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Lavery", "preceding_text": "Neurodegenerative disease is a real concern of many people in the sport. I am not sure whether it should be part of the governance Bill, despite the fact that it is going to be the biggest socialist nationalised Bill there has ever been in our lifetime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-08d.872.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-08", "file": "debates2025-07-08d.xml", "sha256": "9e970fca92f3b309", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-08d.873.1", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Football Governance Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Max Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Max Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "We welcome this Bill, as did Members across the House until a few short months ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-08d.873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-08", "file": "debates2025-07-08d.xml", "sha256": "9e970fca92f3b309", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-08d.874.3", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Football Governance Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Max Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Max Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for her intervention. The point here is that Gen Z and people younger than those in the Chamber today consume sport and media in a very different way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-08d.874.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-09", "file": "debates2025-07-09d.xml", "sha256": "f538d1c6801e4aef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-09d.936.3", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Scotland", "cue_speaker": "Ian Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Murray", "preceding_text": "eel the benefit of economic growth. We have given the largest settlement in the history of the Scottish Government—£14 billion extra. The stability in the economy has enabled four interest rate cuts, meaning cheaper mortgages for home owners. Fuel duty is frozen, meaning 3 million Scots motorists pay less at the pump. The minimum wage is up, meaning a pay rise for 200,000 of the lowest-paid Scots—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-09d.936.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-09", "file": "debates2025-07-09d.xml", "sha256": "f538d1c6801e4aef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-09d.938.2", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "It is rare—[Interruption.] It is rare that the Prime Minister is able to give a clear answer, but I am glad that he has done so now. He also promised—in fact, he boasted—that he had solved the doctors strike. Only a Prime Minister who was so weak would give doctors a 28% pay rise—only for us now to see them vote to strike again. He folds in every negotiation and claims it is a triumph.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-09d.938.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-09", "file": "debates2025-07-09d.xml", "sha256": "f538d1c6801e4aef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-09d.939.1", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “No!”", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "No, of course it is not. It soared under the last Government. Here she goes again: the Leader of the Opposition is back on familiar territory. She comes here every week complaining about the national insurance rise, and when she is asked whether she would have the courage to reverse it, what is her answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-09d.939.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-09", "file": "debates2025-07-09d.xml", "sha256": "f538d1c6801e4aef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-09d.940.0", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister says that he has stabilised the economy. Has he spoken to any farmers recently? It is time for him to take responsibility for the mess that he is making. He has been in office for a year, and all we see is him congratulating himself on what a fantastic job he has done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-09d.940.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-09", "file": "debates2025-07-09d.xml", "sha256": "f538d1c6801e4aef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-09d.942.1", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Farage", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Farage", "preceding_text": "The main reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-09d.942.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-09", "file": "debates2025-07-09d.xml", "sha256": "f538d1c6801e4aef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-09d.942.3", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Farage", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Farage", "preceding_text": "The main reason why that this country wisely voted for Brexit back in 2016, including millions of Labour supporters, is that we wanted to take back control of our borders, so that we alone decide who comes and settles in our country. Does the Prime Minister understand that this demand is even greater today than it was back in 2016, and that we demand—the country demands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-09d.942.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-09", "file": "debates2025-07-09d.xml", "sha256": "f538d1c6801e4aef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-09d.944.0", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "rom prosecution for those who committed the most appalling terrorist crimes, and that is why it did not have support in the communities or from any political party in Northern Ireland. That was among the reasons it was found to be unlawful. We have to tread carefully, and we have to get this right. I will work with the right hon. Gentleman on that, but we do not get there by cheapening the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-09d.944.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-09", "file": "debates2025-07-09d.xml", "sha256": "f538d1c6801e4aef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-09d.986.4", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "efforts by the Front-Bench team have now come to nought. They have given in to their Back Benchers and they no longer have any control or say on the direction of this Government. Together, these straightforward safeguards to protect the public purse would help reduce waste and misuse. I have no doubt that the Secretary of State will stand up today and try to paint this as a fair and measured Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-09d.986.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-09", "file": "debates2025-07-09d.xml", "sha256": "f538d1c6801e4aef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-09d.1040.3", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Danny Kruger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Kruger", "preceding_text": "e have some amendments to that very effect. First, amendment 45 would improve the quality of assessments. There is a bigger piece of work to be done, and I welcome the Government looking closely at the assessments process, but right now we could make one clear and simple improvement. In 2019, 84% of PIP assessments were conducted face to face; last year, the figure was 5%. That was a covid change—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-09d.1040.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-10", "file": "debates2025-07-10c.xml", "sha256": "00d485619988e768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-10c.1123.4", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "preceding_text": "eminding that 2025 is 760 years since Simon de Montfort convened the first representative Parliament. Perhaps even more significantly, this year marks 800 years since the year 1225, when the charter we now know as Magna Carta was agreed as a statute and, indeed, became the first of all our statutes. To that extent, it is 1225 and not 1215 that should be recognised as the birth date of Magna Carta.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-10c.1123.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-10", "file": "debates2025-07-10c.xml", "sha256": "00d485619988e768", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-10c.1163.0", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Electricity Market Review", "cue_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "preceding_text": " challenging, but who is surprised, given the state of the Conservative party? I think the shadow Secretary of State and I have a number of differences. The fundamental difference is this: she wants to gamble in the fossil fuel casino—she wants to gamble on fossil fuel prices. That is what the Conservatives did when they were in office, and it led to the worst cost of living crisis in generations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-10c.1163.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-11", "file": "debates2025-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "8d90df4d13135065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-11a.1244.3", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Unauthorised Entry to Football Matches Bill", "cue_speaker": "Katie Lam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Katie Lam", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Member for Amber Valley (Linsey Farnsworth) for bringing the Bill forward and my hon. Friend the Member for Christchurch (Sir Christopher Chope) for his amendments. At this stage, is it correct that you wish us to speak only to the amendment, Mr Speaker?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-11a.1244.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-14", "file": "debates2025-07-14d.xml", "sha256": "72ceb102968e2a89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-14d.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "UK-France Migration: Co-operation", "cue_speaker": "Chris Philp", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Philp", "preceding_text": "ny kind of deterrent? Her claim to smash the gangs was a gimmick and so is her 6% returns deal. The truth is this: the only way to fix this is to remove, without judicial process, every single illegal arrival as soon as they get here, either to their country of origin or to a third country. That would be a real deterrent. We saw that approach work in Australia about 10 years ago and such a scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-14d.54.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-14", "file": "debates2025-07-14d.xml", "sha256": "72ceb102968e2a89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-14d.111.2", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Royal Albert Hall Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "events can take place there—the right hon. Member for Maldon mentioned Cirque du Soleil, for example. The Royal Albert Hall is a great part of the British cultural sector, and it is unique in the way it is structured financially and constitutionally. I do not think that anybody has said this evening that it is precisely how one would probably want to constitute it if one was starting from scratch.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-14d.111.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-15", "file": "debates2025-07-15c.xml", "sha256": "7cb1268e62e8b1de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-15c.218.0", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Taxes", "cue_speaker": "Darren Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Darren Jones", "preceding_text": "e had hope when he said, “I will tell the House what I would do differently.” I sat and listened carefully, and the grand reveal: “I would focus on productivity.” Well, I think the Conservatives said that before, and how did that go? Not one policy, suggestion or apology for their record—not one thing. In contrast, this Government were elected with an historic landslide and on a mandate of change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-15c.218.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-16", "file": "debates2025-07-16b.xml", "sha256": "ef2fc8b334088798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-16b.288.0", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Withdraw!”", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": " week, and we are keeping to them. I am not going to write the Budget months out from the Budget. I am proud of the decisions that we took to invest in our NHS and to invest in our public services—all decisions that the Conservatives opposed. It is no wonder that after the first year of a Labour Government, business confidence is at a nine-year high. That is longer than she has been in government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-16b.288.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-16", "file": "debates2025-07-16b.xml", "sha256": "ef2fc8b334088798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-16b.288.3", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "m. But it is the end of term, so why don’t we go through the Prime Minister’s end-of-term scorecard? The economy is contracting, inflation is the highest in the G7, unemployment is up every month under this Government, spending is out of control, borrowing costs are more expensive than in Greece—and this is just the first year. The Labour party should be ashamed of what it is doing to the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-16b.288.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-07-17", "file": "debates2025-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7c13b974800fc40a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-17a.466.0", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Powell", "preceding_text": "I of course join my hon. Friend in congratulating George Bloor on qualifying for the golf Open championship, and what an achievement—it is a very high bar to attain. I will watch out for him later, when he will hopefully get a few under par golf things—whatever they are called—under his belt and maybe beat Rory McIlroy in the Open.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-07-17a.466.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-03", "file": "debates2025-09-03e.xml", "sha256": "ff283f37dbe4b81c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-03e.364.1", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Hospitality Sector", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lewin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lewin", "preceding_text": "irms. I turn now to how the Government are seeking to address them and why it matters to my constituents. A fitting place to start is the people who work in the sector. The average age is 35. Our shops, restaurants, pubs, cafés and cinemas are powered by younger people. When I bought my last suit at the Galleria in Hatfield, I received much-needed sartorial advice from an employee younger than me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-03e.364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-03", "file": "debates2025-09-03e.xml", "sha256": "ff283f37dbe4b81c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-03e.370.1", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Hospitality Sector", "cue_speaker": "Michael Payne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Payne", "preceding_text": " are acting: permanent business rate cuts from 2026; high-street rental auctions; and a ban on unfair rent clauses—real measures to make our high streets revive and thrive. The Conservative motion mentions “catastrophic choices”, but Conservative Members should take a long, hard look in the mirror. On their watch, inflation peaked at 11.1% in October 2022, and food inflation hit 19% by March 2023.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-03e.370.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-03", "file": "debates2025-09-03e.xml", "sha256": "ff283f37dbe4b81c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-03e.377.0", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Hospitality Sector", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Hopkins", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Congratulations!”", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Hopkins", "preceding_text": "ongratulate my parents, Pat and Kelvin, on their diamond wedding anniversary. [Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”] Just two weeks ago, we celebrated with a pub lunch at the Jolly Topers. I thank the team there for making that lunch special; they really do know what customer service is. We had a slightly more boisterous evening with Artan and co. at Lartista, celebrating my niece’s brilliant exam results.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-03e.377.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-03", "file": "debates2025-09-03e.xml", "sha256": "ff283f37dbe4b81c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-03e.386.0", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Hospitality Sector", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Voaden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Voaden", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the thousands of hospitality workers across South Devon for coming to the end of another summer season, catering to visitors from far and wide—from Brixham to Bigbury and from Start Point up to Dartmoor. With 2,618 establishments in my constituency, Members will be pleased to hear that I am not going to start naming them all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-03e.386.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-04", "file": "debates2025-09-04a.xml", "sha256": "9a55e7ca459cd2de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-04a.422.0", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Environment, Food and Rural Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Steve Reed", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Reed", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on raising that important issue, and I agree with the points he makes. The SNP Government in Scotland should be taking a much tougher line against such situations, as it is not acceptable. Levels of pollution in England are bad enough, but under the SNP in Scotland they are even worse, and the SNP Government should be fully ashamed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-04a.422.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-04", "file": "debates2025-09-04a.xml", "sha256": "9a55e7ca459cd2de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-04a.428.6", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Environment, Food and Rural Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Zeichner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Zeichner", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will be pleased to know that we will be making announcements on this very shortly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-04a.428.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-04", "file": "debates2025-09-04a.xml", "sha256": "9a55e7ca459cd2de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-04a.443.4", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "preceding_text": "orrowing. Of course, it seems that the only person who will not be paying more tax is the Deputy Prime Minister. I like and rather admire the Deputy Prime Minister—uniquely among the Government, she at least has a policy of trying to reduce taxes. We just heard the Solicitor General talk about Government taking a strict line on fraud; I did not hear so much about taking a strict line on tax fraud—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-04a.443.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-04", "file": "debates2025-09-04a.xml", "sha256": "9a55e7ca459cd2de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-04a.454.1", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Clive Efford", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Where are they?”", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Efford", "preceding_text": ". What is the point of being elected to this place if Members are not prepared to bring these issues to the Floor of the House and have them debated? Will my right hon. Friend write to Members and remind them of the opportunities they have to raise these important issues so that we can scrutinise them in a proper way, rather than scuttle off to another country and act in a totally unpatriotic way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-04a.454.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-04", "file": "debates2025-09-04a.xml", "sha256": "9a55e7ca459cd2de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-04a.498.2", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Privilege", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hoare", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hoare", "preceding_text": "Commission in bringing legal proceedings that would prevent the laying of a report before this House be referred to the Committee of Privileges. I am grateful to Mr Speaker for granting this request. The House will be delighted to know that on the first week back after a longish summer recess, the five hours allocated for this debate will not be taken up—I will only take four hours and 50 minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-04a.498.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-08", "file": "debates2025-09-08e.xml", "sha256": "294d943acf8dd3f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-08e.576.3", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Sam Carling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sam Carling", "preceding_text": "Last week, I visited RAF Wyton in Huntingdonshire, which employs many of my constituents. Under the new cyber and specialist operations command, Wyton provides a critical part of our defence intelligence, and the plans to expand the work of the base will provide significant career opportunities for my constituents in northern Huntingdonshire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-08e.576.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-08", "file": "debates2025-09-08e.xml", "sha256": "294d943acf8dd3f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-08e.592.3", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Palestine Action: Proscription and Protests", "cue_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "preceding_text": "ne, not Parliament Square. I asked for this urgent question because I think it is for us to act. Legislation on public order focuses on specific Acts; proscription orders target specific terrorist groups. Nothing sits in between. Given that, what discussions has the Minister had with the police about distinguishing between members of Palestine Action and people concerned about proscription itself?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-08e.592.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-08", "file": "debates2025-09-08e.xml", "sha256": "294d943acf8dd3f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-08e.602.1", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Palestine Action: Proscription and Protests", "cue_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "preceding_text": " over the course of this weekend. I am sure she would have seen that. I hope she will understand that this Government have not done anything that interferes with anybody’s lawful right to express their concern about an issue. Just to pick up on one other point that she made, let me give her an absolute assurance that we did not group the three proscribed organisations together for the reasons she—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-08e.602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-08", "file": "debates2025-09-08e.xml", "sha256": "294d943acf8dd3f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-08e.644.1", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Renters’ Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Cleverly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Cleverly", "preceding_text": "ly valuable to many families around the country because there is a risk of abuse. If we were to do that, there would be loads of areas where Government would not legislate. We do not disregard an opportunity just because of the potential for abuse; we manage that potential for abuse. I will move on a bit more quickly as I want to ensure that all Labour Back Benchers get their opportunity to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-08e.644.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-09", "file": "debates2025-09-09c.xml", "sha256": "4f63da42dd1e735c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.720.2", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Treasury", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "Sorry, Mr Speaker, bear with me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.720.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-09", "file": "debates2025-09-09c.xml", "sha256": "4f63da42dd1e735c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.721.1", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Treasury", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "In the Universal Credit Act 2025, which passed before the summer recess, we reformed the universal credit system to reduce the gap between what people on the health element and those on the standard element got. That reform will help more people into work, as well as the £1 billion package of measures to help people—particularly those who have been long-term unemployed—get back to work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-09", "file": "debates2025-09-09c.xml", "sha256": "4f63da42dd1e735c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.730.3", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Jaguar Land Rover Cyber-attack", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on surviving the reshuffle. This Minister adds to the general merriment of the nation, so we will miss him when he’s gone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.730.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-09", "file": "debates2025-09-09c.xml", "sha256": "4f63da42dd1e735c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.738.1", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Jaguar Land Rover Cyber-attack", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "I call Luke Pollard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-09", "file": "debates2025-09-09c.xml", "sha256": "4f63da42dd1e735c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.740.9", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill", "cue_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "preceding_text": "Chagossians affected by decisions taken by Britain many years ago. We recognise in the preamble to the universal deep regret over what happened. It is acknowledged on the face of the treaty, and I know there is cross-party support for the Chagossians, although there is a range of views on the deal within the Chagossian community. I want to place that on the record right at the start of the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.740.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-09", "file": "debates2025-09-09c.xml", "sha256": "4f63da42dd1e735c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.742.4", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill", "cue_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "preceding_text": "I have a lot of time for the right hon. Gentleman. The provisions of those judgments affect the operations of the base—that is what is important here. It is also about the extension of the judgments, because other powers could be used on the basis of those judgments. That is the reason that the Conservatives started the negotiations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.742.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-09", "file": "debates2025-09-09c.xml", "sha256": "4f63da42dd1e735c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.742.11", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill", "cue_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr Speaker. I will make some progress, but I will take Members’ interventions in just a wee moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.742.11"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-09", "file": "debates2025-09-09c.xml", "sha256": "4f63da42dd1e735c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.754.3", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": "e United Kingdom; and because the Treaty does not properly protect the rights of the Chagossian people, or the future of the Marine Protected Area.” We on the Opposition side of the House stand against Labour’s £35 billion Chagos surrender deal. Everything about this surrender deal is wrong, from the way it was negotiated behind closed doors within weeks of Labour coming to power, to the betrayal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.754.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-09", "file": "debates2025-09-09c.xml", "sha256": "4f63da42dd1e735c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.755.1", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": "Let me be clear: I was not a member of the previous Government, but the hon. Member knows perfectly well that no one on the Conservative Benches has any authority to publish classified papers from previous Governments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-09", "file": "debates2025-09-09c.xml", "sha256": "4f63da42dd1e735c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.756.3", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": "Having led Five Eyes for our country—I am very proud to have done so—it is a matter of great concern that the deal has been backed by Iran, China and Russia. I say to the hon. Gentleman that that is exactly why this is a bad deal for our country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.756.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-09", "file": "debates2025-09-09c.xml", "sha256": "4f63da42dd1e735c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.757.0", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": "For the benefit of the House and everyone, to provide absolute clarity again, it was the Conservative Foreign Secretary who ended all discussions on this matter. I say it again: in all respect to Lord Cameron—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.757.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-09", "file": "debates2025-09-09c.xml", "sha256": "4f63da42dd1e735c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.757.2", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": "No, sit down. In all respect to Lord Cameron, I think the Labour party should apologise for the gross misrepresentation that has taken place. Speaking of Foreign Secretaries, it is a real shame that the new Foreign Secretary is not here today to speak on the Bill. She could have come in, reviewed the details and got out the slide rule, which would be quite a good tool in this case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.757.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-09", "file": "debates2025-09-09c.xml", "sha256": "4f63da42dd1e735c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.759.5", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill", "cue_speaker": "Joy Morrissey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Joy Morrissey", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend made an excellent point earlier about the underlying socialism in this agreement. The initial agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.759.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-09", "file": "debates2025-09-09c.xml", "sha256": "4f63da42dd1e735c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.761.1", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for his contribution, and for pursuing this line of question in the Chamber with other Ministers. He is absolutely correct. We know that the United States of America is not contributing to the cost of the deal. The cost is solely on the British taxpayer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.761.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-09", "file": "debates2025-09-09c.xml", "sha256": "4f63da42dd1e735c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.769.1", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill", "cue_speaker": "Calum Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Calum Miller", "preceding_text": "ple had no state and no power. He said: “All we have is our voice but that has been silenced for so long.” The views of the many Chagossians living here in the UK have not changed since. The right hon. Member for Witham (Priti Patel) peppered her speech with breathless hyperbole, but let me speak plainly. There has been consistency between the approaches of the last Government and this Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.769.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-09", "file": "debates2025-09-09c.xml", "sha256": "4f63da42dd1e735c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.790.2", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Holmes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Holmes", "preceding_text": "I will in a second. I just want to emphasise the point so we do not hear it again. There were no negotiations. There was no deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.790.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-09", "file": "debates2025-09-09c.xml", "sha256": "4f63da42dd1e735c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.791.3", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Holmes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Holmes", "preceding_text": "y in doing that. This is a bad deal for this country. It has been welcomed by malign international partners, it has undermined our defence, and it will cost us billions. Above all, with this Bill, the Government have abandoned and avoided every scrutiny mechanism within the House of Commons that would enable hon. Members to challenge them and get the answers that this House quite rightly deserves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.791.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-09", "file": "debates2025-09-09c.xml", "sha256": "4f63da42dd1e735c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Whittingdale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Whittingdale", "preceding_text": "treated over years, and it is of concern to me that they appear to have had virtually no input in this agreement, and that there has been no consultation with them. I know that a contact group is being established in the Foreign Office, but there is some scepticism about whether it has ever met, and about how many staff will be allocated to it. Perhaps the Minister might give details in his reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.798.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-09", "file": "debates2025-09-09c.xml", "sha256": "4f63da42dd1e735c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.802.0", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill", "cue_speaker": "Thomas Tugendhat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Thomas Tugendhat", "preceding_text": " MP. I have a different perspective, because my job—and, I thought, the job of Labour Members, but clearly I was wrong—is to stand up for the British people. Instead, all I hear is that Labour Members are standing up for the interests of different foreign powers. That is absolutely fine. They worship international treaties and stand up for so-called international law, but they conveniently forget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.802.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-09", "file": "debates2025-09-09c.xml", "sha256": "4f63da42dd1e735c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.824.3", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill", "cue_speaker": "Wendy Morton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wendy Morton", "preceding_text": "y Thomas), for Broxbourne (Lewis Cocking) and for Hinckley and Bosworth (Dr Evans). One thing that is very obvious is that we need clarity. To give just one example, the Government claim that we may have problems with spectrum if we do not agree a deal, but other parts of the Government have indicated that the International Telecommunication Union has no power to veto the use of military spectrum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-09c.824.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-10", "file": "debates2025-09-10e.xml", "sha256": "d476a91d89328f62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-10e.861.1", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "Our deputy leader contest started this week and ends on 25 October . The Conservatives’ leadership contest has been going on for months, and will continue for a very long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-10e.861.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-10", "file": "debates2025-09-10e.xml", "sha256": "d476a91d89328f62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-10e.998.1", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Richard Holden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Holden", "preceding_text": "What bus passengers really want is reliable, affordable and cheap bus travel on a growing network. That is what was guaranteed under the last Conservative Government’s £2 fare cap. It was a commitment in our manifesto, and one that worked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-10e.998.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-11", "file": "debates2025-09-11b.xml", "sha256": "1ba4de8317766e81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-11b.1021.0", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Transport", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Before the Secretary of State answers, I say to the right hon. Gentleman that welcoming the shadow Secretary of State does not mean that he can then have an essay to portray one question!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-11b.1021.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-11", "file": "debates2025-09-11b.xml", "sha256": "1ba4de8317766e81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-11b.1021.1", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Transport", "cue_speaker": "Heidi Alexander", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Heidi Alexander", "preceding_text": "Let me congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on his appointment. I know he has experience as a Transport Minister. And, of course, he had extensive experience of travelling the length and breadth of the country before the last election searching for that rarest thing, a Tory safe seat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-11b.1021.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-11", "file": "debates2025-09-11b.xml", "sha256": "1ba4de8317766e81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-11b.1039.1", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "UK Ambassador to the US: Appointment Process", "cue_speaker": "Andy McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy McDonald", "preceding_text": "or the whole House in sending our best wishes to my hon. Friend the Member for Washington and Gateshead South (Mrs Hodgson) on the appalling fire at her office overnight. We send our very best wishes to her and her staff. May I thank the Minister for his statement? The Prime Minister has made exactly the right decision, and I think that has to be acknowledged. He has moved at pace to put it right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-11b.1039.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-11", "file": "debates2025-09-11b.xml", "sha256": "1ba4de8317766e81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-11b.1064.3", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Marie Goldman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Marie Goldman", "preceding_text": "Thursday morning. I look forward to working with the Leader of the House in the various Committees on which we serve. I hope that he will follow the Government’s mantra to go further and faster, especially in modernisation. Today is a big day for news. In particular, I echo the words condemning the appalling attack on the office of the hon. Member for Washington and Gateshead South (Mrs Hodgson) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-11b.1064.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-11", "file": "debates2025-09-11b.xml", "sha256": "1ba4de8317766e81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-11b.1076.5", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Alan Campbell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Campbell", "preceding_text": "I am not sure that would be a particularly attractive sight, I have to say, because my memory suggests that my costume has a hole in the knee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-11b.1076.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-11", "file": "debates2025-09-11b.xml", "sha256": "1ba4de8317766e81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-11b.1106.1", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Regional Transport Inequality", "cue_speaker": "Tom Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Hayes", "preceding_text": "ing test backlog. I welcome the fact that we have £1.1 million in funding coming to Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole council for the improvement of transport infrastructure, and that we have an extra £2 million to invest on potholes. I particularly want to make the case, for the first time in this Chamber, for the resurrection of a tram network in Bournemouth, which I think is really important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-11b.1106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-15", "file": "debates2025-09-15e.xml", "sha256": "d207ba75dbbcbb34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-15e.1216.6", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Griffith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Griffith", "preceding_text": "0 pages of red tape. Why on earth would the Government put their Members through the Lobby to oppose listening and consulting with small businesses? We support Lords amendment 60, which has cross-party support, at the behest of millions of those who enjoy heritage railway attractions. If the Secretary of State has not yet made it to the Amberley museum, which is not that far from his constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-15e.1216.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-15", "file": "debates2025-09-15e.xml", "sha256": "d207ba75dbbcbb34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-15e.1248.0", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Laurence Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Laurence Turner", "preceding_text": "nts raised, I had not intended at the start of the debate to talk about heritage railways. Indeed, it must be said that during those long years in opposition, when we were looking closely as trade union officials at the potential future issues that would be covered by trade union legislation, I think it is fair to say that that issue never once came up, but perhaps we were guilty of tunnel vision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-15e.1248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-16", "file": "debates2025-09-16d.xml", "sha256": "9f2c250169deaefe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-16d.1317.1", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "Speaker’s Statement", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Before we come to the main business, I am sure the whole House will wish to join me in sending our thanks and best wishes to Colin Lee, who retires today as Clerk of Legislation after 37 years’ service to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-16d.1317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-16", "file": "debates2025-09-16d.xml", "sha256": "9f2c250169deaefe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-16d.1342.2", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "Ambassador to the United States", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “No.”", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "uestions to answer, and as I said yesterday, the central question is: who knew what, and when? Let us be clear, though. There are many questions on many levels in this matter, and the Government must answer them all; so far, they have singularly failed to do so. The questions fall naturally into four categories. First, was Peter Mandelson ever an appropriate character to appoint as our ambassador?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-16d.1342.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-16", "file": "debates2025-09-16d.xml", "sha256": "9f2c250169deaefe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-16d.1357.1", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Ambassador to the United States", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": " now know that the Prime Minister was aware of the compromising emails last Wednesday at Prime Minister’s questions, yet he came to the House and said that he had confidence in his ambassador. Many on the Labour Benches cheered, but now they are all looking at their phones, and most of them do not have the courage to look me in the eye. They were cheering last week, and now they are full of shame.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-16d.1357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-16", "file": "debates2025-09-16d.xml", "sha256": "9f2c250169deaefe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-16d.1363.1", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "Ambassador to the United States", "cue_speaker": "John Slinger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Slinger", "preceding_text": "I will not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-16d.1363.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-16", "file": "debates2025-09-16d.xml", "sha256": "9f2c250169deaefe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-16d.1364.2", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "Ambassador to the United States", "cue_speaker": "Desmond Swayne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Desmond Swayne", "preceding_text": "I have some advice for the hon. Member for Rugby: those that lick the feet of the unworthy gain for themselves nothing but a dirty tongue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-16d.1364.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-16", "file": "debates2025-09-16d.xml", "sha256": "9f2c250169deaefe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-16d.1387.1", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "Ambassador to the United States", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Doughty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Doughty", "preceding_text": " a £400 million contract with Google Cloud, boosting secure communications between the UK and US and building new intelligence capabilities for the UK armed forces. On Sunday, we announced more than £1.2 billion of private US investment in the UK’s world-leading financial services sector, and that new investment will create 1,800 new jobs across the UK and boost benefits for millions of customers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-16d.1387.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-16", "file": "debates2025-09-16d.xml", "sha256": "9f2c250169deaefe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-16d.1409.1", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "Sentencing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "preceding_text": "er Front Bench. Behind the many thousands of criminals who will walk free because of this Bill are thousands of victims, and each has a harrowing story. Daniel Tweed launched a vicious attack on his partner in their home in Northampton. He punched her multiple times. He dragged her by her hair. He kicked her and stamped on her. She was subsequently taken to hospital. He was sentenced to 12 months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-16d.1409.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-16", "file": "debates2025-09-16d.xml", "sha256": "9f2c250169deaefe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-16d.1413.1", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "Sentencing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is on rocky ground, because the Justice Secretary literally put his name to a letter stopping the then Government deporting foreign criminals from our country back to their own countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-16d.1413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-16", "file": "debates2025-09-16d.xml", "sha256": "9f2c250169deaefe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-16d.1432.1", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "Sentencing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Pochin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “No, we do not.”", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Pochin", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Member—I was going to call him an hon. Friend, but I am not sure that is appropriate—and, yes, I could do that, but I think all Members know Reform’s policies on building prisons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-16d.1432.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-16", "file": "debates2025-09-16d.xml", "sha256": "9f2c250169deaefe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-16d.1451.1", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "Sentencing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kieran Mullan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kieran Mullan", "preceding_text": "f the whole House, which also means that the many victims groups will not be able to come before the House and voice their objections, and then one day for Report and Third Reading. The Government clearly hope that the Bill will also go through its future stages unnoticed by their constituents, who, they hope, will not know that Labour MPs want to let rapists and paedophiles out of prison earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-16d.1451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-16", "file": "debates2025-09-16d.xml", "sha256": "9f2c250169deaefe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-16d.1453.2", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "Sentencing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "preceding_text": "I see that we have a fresh Minister, whom I congratulate and welcome to the Dispatch Box.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-16d.1453.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-09-16", "file": "debates2025-09-16d.xml", "sha256": "9f2c250169deaefe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-16d.1453.3", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "Sentencing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jake Richards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jake Richards", "preceding_text": "tes and invest in community sentencing that has led to the mess this Government are clearing up. As for Reform, I listened to the speech of the hon. Member for Runcorn and Helsby (Sarah Pochin) , and I say with the greatest respect that it is quite clear she simply has not read the Bill. She was given ample opportunity during her speech to set out what Reform’s position is, and she simply refused.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-09-16d.1453.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-13", "file": "debates2025-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "956d58b5de9169ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-13b.35.0", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Manchester Terrorism Attack", "cue_speaker": "Shabana Mahmood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shabana Mahmood", "preceding_text": "or laws, and it will always be met with the full force of the law. I do say to the Liberal Democrats that they really have to decide whether they are going to stand up for the rule of law in this country. If they have things to say —suggestions or amendments—about our terror laws, they should raise them in the normal and legitimate way in the House, but do not break the rule of law in our country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-13b.35.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-13", "file": "debates2025-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "956d58b5de9169ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-13b.66.0", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Security Update: Official Secrets Act Case", "cue_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "preceding_text": "ned when she was in government, on her watch. I believe that it is important to discuss these matters in a fair and reasonable way, so I particularly made sure that the right hon. Lady had early sight of the statement, to give her ample opportunity. She has clearly not read the statement—she either did not read the statement or did not listen to what I have said, because she has asked me a number—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-13b.66.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-13", "file": "debates2025-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "956d58b5de9169ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-13b.66.2", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Security Update: Official Secrets Act Case", "cue_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "preceding_text": "I took every opportunity to give the right hon. Lady as long as I possibly could so that she could look at the points that we were seeking to raise today. But she has asked me questions that I answered in my earlier responses. I say that to her because it is important that we seek to discuss these things in a reasonable way. Matters relating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-13b.66.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-13", "file": "debates2025-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "956d58b5de9169ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-13b.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Security Update: Official Secrets Act Case", "cue_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "preceding_text": "ectly useful to an enemy”. When the Crown Prosecution Service was building its case, presumably it had a witness and presumably that witness was the deputy National Security Adviser, who was there to answer this question: is China an enemy? Without that evidence, there was no point in charging the men in 2024. What has changed since 2024? We are told that what has changed is that the enemy is now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-13b.68.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-13", "file": "debates2025-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "956d58b5de9169ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-13b.77.0", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Security Update: Official Secrets Act Case", "cue_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows that I always value his sage advice and listen carefully to what he has to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-13b.77.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-13", "file": "debates2025-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "956d58b5de9169ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-13b.78.0", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Security Update: Official Secrets Act Case", "cue_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "preceding_text": "ration of national security issues. At the same time, any fair-minded, reasonable Government have to understand the economic opportunities that exist. As a former Attorney General, he would not recommend that I get into the business of second-guessing judgments and decisions taken by the DPP. On his point about publishing the evidence, he hopefully will have heard the response I gave a moment ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-13b.78.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-13", "file": "debates2025-10-13b.xml", "sha256": "956d58b5de9169ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-13b.99.1", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Digital ID", "cue_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has a huge amount of experience on this issue; I look forward to discussing it with her. The only area where we are proposing the digital ID to be mandatory is for right-to-work checks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-13b.99.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-15", "file": "debates2025-10-15b.xml", "sha256": "4e7867c75f90cc34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-15b.366.3", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "gue. He is very much still in our hearts and minds. The way he died reminds us that the security of Members and this Parliament is paramount, so it concerns us all that the case against two people spying on Members of this House has collapsed. It is simply unbelievable. Exactly as I expected, the Prime Minister had to be dragged out at the top of PMQs to give a statement that answers no questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-15b.366.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-15", "file": "debates2025-10-15b.xml", "sha256": "4e7867c75f90cc34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-15b.367.1", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "nder that Government, who set out their policy position. What was on issue in the trial is not the position of the current Government, but the position of the last Government. They carefully avoided describing China as an enemy because that was their policy at the time. As far as the position under this Government is concerned, no Minister or special adviser was involved. I will double-check this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-15b.367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-15", "file": "debates2025-10-15b.xml", "sha256": "4e7867c75f90cc34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-15b.411.0", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Pride in Place", "cue_speaker": "Miatta Fahnbulleh", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Why?”", "preceding_speaker": "Miatta Fahnbulleh", "preceding_text": " going into them from next year and then flowing in the year after. We are very clear about this opportunity for our communities. This is not about party politics, so I am incredibly disappointed by the hon. Member for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner (David Simmonds) . This is an opportunity to support parts of our country that have been absolutely hollowed out. I would expect a bit more contrition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-15b.411.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-15", "file": "debates2025-10-15b.xml", "sha256": "4e7867c75f90cc34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-15b.421.3", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Pride in Place", "cue_speaker": "Munira Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Munira Wilson", "preceding_text": ". Of course, we all agree with that, and today’s announcement is welcome. However, as a fellow London MP, she will be aware that the so-called fairer funding review will actually decimate the funding of many London local authorities. My own borough of Richmond is set to lose a staggering amount—over 90% of its core Government funding—and our most vulnerable and disadvantaged residents will suffer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-15b.421.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-15", "file": "debates2025-10-15b.xml", "sha256": "4e7867c75f90cc34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-15b.429.2", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Pride in Place", "cue_speaker": "Miatta Fahnbulleh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miatta Fahnbulleh", "preceding_text": "I 100% agree. That example shows the difference that a Labour Government working with a Labour council can make. We inherited a decade and a half of decline and neglect, and it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-15b.429.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-16", "file": "debates2025-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "85c260e4c4cfbb0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-16a.500.5", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Culture, Media and Sport", "cue_speaker": "Lisa Nandy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lisa Nandy", "preceding_text": "As the very proud Member of Parliament for Wigan, which is the greatest coalmining community on earth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-16a.500.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-16", "file": "debates2025-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "85c260e4c4cfbb0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-16a.509.5", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Official Secrets Act Case: Witness Statements", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. May I just say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-16a.509.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-16", "file": "debates2025-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "85c260e4c4cfbb0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-16a.511.0", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Official Secrets Act Case: Witness Statements", "cue_speaker": "Chris Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Ward", "preceding_text": "used the pretty unusual process of publishing the evidence in full yesterday, so transparency is something the Government are trying to provide. The key point the shadow Minister made was about why the Prime Minister or Ministers did not interfere or try to do so. As the Prime Minister made clear yesterday, this was a matter for the CPS independently, and an important principle of this Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-16a.511.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-16", "file": "debates2025-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "85c260e4c4cfbb0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-16a.511.0", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Official Secrets Act Case: Witness Statements", "cue_speaker": "Chris Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Ward", "preceding_text": "hadow Minister made was about why the Prime Minister or Ministers did not interfere or try to do so. As the Prime Minister made clear yesterday, this was a matter for the CPS independently, and an important principle of this Government—[Interruption.] Evidence was provided independently by the deputy National Security Adviser. The Prime Minister made it clear, and this is the bit I find confusing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-16a.511.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-16", "file": "debates2025-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "85c260e4c4cfbb0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-16a.511.2", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Official Secrets Act Case: Witness Statements", "cue_speaker": "Chris Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Ward", "preceding_text": "ear that that is not the case, and that no Prime Minister and no Government would interfere with the CPS on a decision to charge, which is entirely for it to make. In terms of the evidence in the three statements put forward yesterday, there is clear consistency across them. They all set out the very, very serious threats that China poses. I do not think anyone can think that that is not the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-16a.511.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-16", "file": "debates2025-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "85c260e4c4cfbb0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-16a.514.0", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Official Secrets Act Case: Witness Statements", "cue_speaker": "Chris Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Ward", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. and learned Gentleman for the tone of his question. On the first point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-16a.514.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-16", "file": "debates2025-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "85c260e4c4cfbb0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-16a.514.2", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Official Secrets Act Case: Witness Statements", "cue_speaker": "Chris Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Ward", "preceding_text": "I am so sorry; I thank the right hon. and learned Gentleman. That was done to provide broader context of the Government’s position on China at the time, but it was an independent decision—taken freely, without interference from Ministers or advisers—of the DSNA to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-16a.514.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-16", "file": "debates2025-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "85c260e4c4cfbb0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-16a.515.5", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Official Secrets Act Case: Witness Statements", "cue_speaker": "Thomas Tugendhat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Thomas Tugendhat", "preceding_text": "May I apologise for earlier outbursts, Mr Speaker?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-16a.515.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-16", "file": "debates2025-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "85c260e4c4cfbb0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-16a.515.7", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Official Secrets Act Case: Witness Statements", "cue_speaker": "Thomas Tugendhat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Thomas Tugendhat", "preceding_text": "orks. No, no, it was “process, process”. Well, who the hell’s side are you on? This is not about bureaucracy; this is about leadership. We are not sent here to be civil servants. We are sent here to lead the country and to make decisions. I feel nothing but fondness for the Minister in his place, and I am very sorry that he has been sent out on what is not quite his first outing, but pretty close—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-16a.515.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-16", "file": "debates2025-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "85c260e4c4cfbb0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-16a.518.1", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Official Secrets Act Case: Witness Statements", "cue_speaker": "Chris Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Ward", "preceding_text": "It was. There was no political interference from the Government in any of the statements made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-16a.518.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-16", "file": "debates2025-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "85c260e4c4cfbb0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-16a.520.5", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Official Secrets Act Case: Witness Statements", "cue_speaker": "Chris Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Ward", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman raises a good point, and I thank him for his kind words in welcoming me. If I can speak as many times in this place as he does, I will be very grateful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-16a.520.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-16", "file": "debates2025-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "85c260e4c4cfbb0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-16a.529.4", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Dowd", "preceding_text": "As a current member of the Panel of Chairs, may I say what a wonderful job you do in this Chamber, Mr Speaker?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-16a.529.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-16", "file": "debates2025-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "85c260e4c4cfbb0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-16a.531.0", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Alan Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Campbell", "preceding_text": "I was aware of that anniversary, because I think the hon. Gentleman has raised it before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-16a.531.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-16", "file": "debates2025-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "85c260e4c4cfbb0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-16a.587.1", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Bill", "cue_speaker": "Pippa Heylings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pippa Heylings", "preceding_text": "With the leave of the House, it only remains to say that we have heard, across the Chamber, impassioned and professional expertise. We have also heard about the importance of working together, not only in terms of multilateralism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-16a.587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-20", "file": "debates2025-10-20e.xml", "sha256": "0a389afb8da30b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.611.5", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Education", "cue_speaker": "Bridget Phillipson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bridget Phillipson", "preceding_text": "as in the Conservative manifesto, which was roundly rejected by the British people and ridiculed for being financially illiterate, because the funding system simply does not work in that way. The message that I want to come across loud and clear from this Dispatch Box is that if young people have got what it takes and they have the qualifications to go to university, that is a good route for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.611.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-20", "file": "debates2025-10-20e.xml", "sha256": "0a389afb8da30b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.617.6", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Education", "cue_speaker": "Bridget Phillipson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bridget Phillipson", "preceding_text": "I do not know how the right hon. Lady has the brass neck. For 14 years, we saw groups in our—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.617.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-20", "file": "debates2025-10-20e.xml", "sha256": "0a389afb8da30b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.627.0", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Alleged Spying Case: Home Office Involvement", "cue_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "preceding_text": "With great respect, a lot of what has just been said does not actually relate to the urgent question that was initially asked by the shadow Home Secretary. I have to say, the Opposition’s position is confusing. They initially criticised the Government for intervening. Then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.627.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-20", "file": "debates2025-10-20e.xml", "sha256": "0a389afb8da30b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.627.0", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Alleged Spying Case: Home Office Involvement", "cue_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "preceding_text": " Secretary. I have to say, the Opposition’s position is confusing. They initially criticised the Government for intervening. Then—[Interruption.] I will answer the question. I am answering it. I think it is important that on these matters of national security, we try to debate things in a reasonable and sensible way. That is the approach that this Government will seek to take. If Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.627.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-20", "file": "debates2025-10-20e.xml", "sha256": "0a389afb8da30b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.627.2", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Alleged Spying Case: Home Office Involvement", "cue_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "preceding_text": "f hanging people out to dry. Given that this urgent question relates to the activities of the Home Office, I am not at all clear why the shadow Home Secretary thinks it is appropriate—given accusations that have been made previously about hanging officials out to dry—to name an official in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. How does that relate to the urgent question that was asked?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.627.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-20", "file": "debates2025-10-20e.xml", "sha256": "0a389afb8da30b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.627.4", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Alleged Spying Case: Home Office Involvement", "cue_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for your guidance, Mr Speaker. I am simply pointing out to the shadow Home Secretary that Conservative Members have previously criticised Ministers and the Government for, to use their words, hanging officials out to dry, and now the shadow Home Secretary has just named twice an official from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.627.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-20", "file": "debates2025-10-20e.xml", "sha256": "0a389afb8da30b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.628.3", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Alleged Spying Case: Home Office Involvement", "cue_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "preceding_text": "for purpose. But it took eight years for them to introduce the National Security Act 2023. Fortunately, the law has now been updated, with cross-party support, but not in time to protect our Parliament from Chinese espionage. If the Conservatives had acted more quickly and the National Security Act had been in place when these alleged offences happened, the prosecution would likely have proceeded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.628.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-20", "file": "debates2025-10-20e.xml", "sha256": "0a389afb8da30b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.631.1", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Alleged Spying Case: Home Office Involvement", "cue_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Father of the House!”", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "preceding_text": "I always appreciate the Leader of the House’s questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.631.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-20", "file": "debates2025-10-20e.xml", "sha256": "0a389afb8da30b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.633.4", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Alleged Spying Case: Home Office Involvement", "cue_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman refers to what he described as a “highly political” appointment. With great respect to him, and he knows that I hold him in the highest regard, I disagree with his characterisation of that appointment. The National Security Adviser is someone who has huge experience of government, is extremely well connected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.633.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-20", "file": "debates2025-10-20e.xml", "sha256": "0a389afb8da30b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.647.4", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Maccabi Tel Aviv FC: Away Fans Ban", "cue_speaker": "Lisa Nandy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lisa Nandy", "preceding_text": "Can I just say to the hon. Gentleman that I am appalled by the specific incidents and chants he mentions, and that none of us in this House should seek to condone them in any sense? But can I also say to him that it is entirely disingenuous to say that you respect cohesion and inclusion when you are seeking to divide and exclude?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.647.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-20", "file": "debates2025-10-20e.xml", "sha256": "0a389afb8da30b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.654.0", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Maccabi Tel Aviv FC: Away Fans Ban", "cue_speaker": "Zarah Sultana", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Zarah Sultana", "preceding_text": "Maccabi Tel Aviv’s racist fan hooliganism cannot be separated from Israeli militarism. Many of these fans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.654.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-20", "file": "debates2025-10-20e.xml", "sha256": "0a389afb8da30b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.654.2", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Maccabi Tel Aviv FC: Away Fans Ban", "cue_speaker": "John Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Cooper", "preceding_text": "Birmingham’s best band is, of course, Black Sabbath and it has counselled us that: “If you listen to fools, the mob rules.” This is a case of mob rule here. The Secretary of State has done a tremendous job of setting out the Government’s position. Will she review, while maintaining police independence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.654.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-20", "file": "debates2025-10-20e.xml", "sha256": "0a389afb8da30b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.654.5", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Maccabi Tel Aviv FC: Away Fans Ban", "cue_speaker": "Lisa Nandy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lisa Nandy", "preceding_text": "We are not considering making changes to the principle that has stood for a long time about the operational independence of the police, but as I have set out to other Members, we are clear that there is a role for Government here and we are determined to play our part in helping to resolve this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.654.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-20", "file": "debates2025-10-20e.xml", "sha256": "0a389afb8da30b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.655.2", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Maccabi Tel Aviv FC: Away Fans Ban", "cue_speaker": "Adnan Hussain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adnan Hussain", "preceding_text": "hich rightly warns against holding Jewish people collectively responsible for Israel’s actions, does the Minister agree that the conflation of criticism of Israel—with its ongoing genocide, war crimes, breaches of international law and current genocide trial at the International Court of Justice—with antisemitism against British Jews or Jewish people in general actually undermines that definition?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.655.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-20", "file": "debates2025-10-20e.xml", "sha256": "0a389afb8da30b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.655.7", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Maccabi Tel Aviv FC: Away Fans Ban", "cue_speaker": "Lisa Nandy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lisa Nandy", "preceding_text": "I have made it absolutely clear that it is perfectly acceptable for people to hold strong and passionate views about what is happening in Israel and Gaza, and that there is a right in this country to make representations to sporting governing bodies and the Government about who can participate in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.655.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-20", "file": "debates2025-10-20e.xml", "sha256": "0a389afb8da30b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.657.0", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Maccabi Tel Aviv FC: Away Fans Ban", "cue_speaker": "Lisa Nandy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lisa Nandy", "preceding_text": "The decision that was made last night, as I understand it, was on the basis of rioting occurring at a live event. It was not a decision that is unprecedented in the UK from a safety advisory group in recent times—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.657.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-20", "file": "debates2025-10-20e.xml", "sha256": "0a389afb8da30b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.689.1", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill", "cue_speaker": "Wendy Morton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wendy Morton", "preceding_text": "I am not sure where the hon. Gentleman has been for the past year and several months, but we have gone over this time and again in this Chamber. There was no legal basis. We stopped—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-20", "file": "debates2025-10-20e.xml", "sha256": "0a389afb8da30b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.695.3", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill", "cue_speaker": "Calvin Bailey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Calvin Bailey", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Member for his intervention. The Bill has been before the House already, and at the moment we are discussing the amendments that have been tabled. The hon. Member will soon have the opportunity to discuss the amendments he has tabled. However, abdicating this Chamber’s decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.695.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-20", "file": "debates2025-10-20e.xml", "sha256": "0a389afb8da30b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.701.1", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stuart Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stuart Anderson", "preceding_text": "The whole area is full of them. When we start looking at the security of buffer zones, we see that we cannot move in this area for Chinese submarines. The whole space is swamped with them. We are doing a deal that will remove our ability to sit at the table where we used to have such strength. Our armed forces now would have trouble supporting our allies in any area, particularly the Indo-Pacific—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-20", "file": "debates2025-10-20e.xml", "sha256": "0a389afb8da30b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.701.3", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "onisation was to assert the self-determination of peoples. The United Nations was founded upon the principle that nations and peoples should be free to determine their own destiny in a peaceful way. Chagossians, as we now all agree, were wronged by both the British and the Mauritian authorities. By the way, I am probably the only person sitting in this Chamber who has actually been to the islands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.701.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-20", "file": "debates2025-10-20e.xml", "sha256": "0a389afb8da30b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.720.0", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill", "cue_speaker": "Luke Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Luke Evans", "preceding_text": "Was my hon. Friend as surprised as I was to find out that the National Security Adviser does not speak to his deputy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.720.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-20", "file": "debates2025-10-20e.xml", "sha256": "0a389afb8da30b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.731.3", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Doughty", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “How much?", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Doughty", "preceding_text": "number of the amendments refer to it. I have to be absolutely clear, as I was on Second Reading: the £30 billion to £35 billion figure quoted by some from the Opposition is totally inaccurate and wildly misleading. It is utterly wrong to ignore the effects of inflation and the changing value of money on the real costs of a deal that lasts 99 years. We published the full costs alongside the treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.731.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-20", "file": "debates2025-10-20e.xml", "sha256": "0a389afb8da30b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.734.1", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Doughty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Doughty", "preceding_text": "We have been very clear about the legal position and the legal risk. The right hon. Gentleman’s Government knew this; it is why they started the process. I do not want to detain the Committee by going through all the arguments that I made on Second Reading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.734.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-20", "file": "debates2025-10-20e.xml", "sha256": "0a389afb8da30b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.734.5", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Doughty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Doughty", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman chunters “potential”, but is he willing to gamble with our national security? Is he willing to gamble on the operational effect?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.734.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-20", "file": "debates2025-10-20e.xml", "sha256": "0a389afb8da30b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.753.0", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": "the heroic Chagossian community who have joined us once again for this debate and have been here for a good four hours. In response to the Minister’s last point—he may have heard us say this previously on Second Reading and during Opposition day debates—no deal is better than a terrible deal, and the Conservative party would never have put this deal forward. Throughout the process, the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.753.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-20", "file": "debates2025-10-20e.xml", "sha256": "0a389afb8da30b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.753.0", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": "r hours. In response to the Minister’s last point—he may have heard us say this previously on Second Reading and during Opposition day debates—no deal is better than a terrible deal, and the Conservative party would never have put this deal forward. Throughout the process, the Government—[Interruption.] They can all make as much noise as they want on the Government benches. None of them were here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.753.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-20", "file": "debates2025-10-20e.xml", "sha256": "0a389afb8da30b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.753.0", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": " as they want on the Government benches. None of them were here—[Interruption.] They can point their fingers as much as they want; none of them were sitting here earlier to defend their Government on this terrible deal. Let me come back to the Chagossian community, because throughout this process, they have been silenced and ignored by this Government, and they have faced decades of pain and hurt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.753.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-20", "file": "debates2025-10-20e.xml", "sha256": "0a389afb8da30b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.753.0", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": "s, who they have made representations on behalf of as well. I think we should thank them for the work that they have done. I also want to thank hon. Members from across the House for their interest in this Bill and their diligent scrutiny. I say that because the Labour Government have sought to keep debates on their surrender treaty as short and restricted as possible, and we have seen that again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.753.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-20", "file": "debates2025-10-20e.xml", "sha256": "0a389afb8da30b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.756.1", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill", "cue_speaker": "Al Pinkerton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “How are you voting?”", "preceding_speaker": "Al Pinkerton", "preceding_text": "he House to think carefully when voting this evening about whether they wish to compound that half century of injustice or embrace the foundational principles of the UN. [Interruption.] If this House wishes to do the latter, we cannot allow the Bill to pass without ensuring that Chagossians themselves are sovereign over their citizenship, the governance of their islands and the prospect of return.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.756.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-20", "file": "debates2025-10-20e.xml", "sha256": "0a389afb8da30b6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.762.3", "colnum": "762", "heading": "A50/A500 Corridor", "cue_speaker": "Allison Gardner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Allison Gardner", "preceding_text": "The A50/A500 growth corridor offers massive potential for growth. In my constituency, I have junction 15 of the M6 and the Sideway roundabout, which joins the A500 with the A50 before it goes on through the Meir tunnel and towards Uttoxeter. It is often congested, but it is a vital part of the supply chain for the advanced manufacturing corridor. Does my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-20e.762.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-21", "file": "debates2025-10-21g.xml", "sha256": "78374926a6232a93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-21g.797.2", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Rape Gangs: National Statutory Inquiry", "cue_speaker": "Jess Phillips", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jess Phillips", "preceding_text": ". I think she mischaracterises me as the fiercest of advocates because she, as a grooming victim, with a child born of rape, is the fiercest and bravest. I could cry, I feel so proud that the Government sought to get her elected. I have been campaigning for the thing she has fought for with grooming gang victims for nearly a decade. I met with Ministers of the then Government and nothing was done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-21g.797.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-21", "file": "debates2025-10-21g.xml", "sha256": "78374926a6232a93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-21g.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Rape Gangs: National Statutory Inquiry", "cue_speaker": "Jess Phillips", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jess Phillips", "preceding_text": "ill are. They are not spreading misinformation at all, but the hon. Member’s interpretation is a brilliant case in point. I will be completely honest. The conversation with Oldham is: do we not think it might be better for Oldham just to take part in a statutory inquiry? It has absolutely nothing to do with the idea that Oldham is telling me what to do. The more people on the Conservative Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-21g.798.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-21", "file": "debates2025-10-21g.xml", "sha256": "78374926a6232a93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-21g.873.6", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Sentencing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Pochin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Pochin", "preceding_text": "to a third in order to free up prison capacity. This means that dangerous criminals who have been locked up for some of the worst possible offences, including paedophiles, could be let back into the community after serving only a third of their sentence behind bars. Only the most serious offenders, including those convicted of rape, will serve half their sentences in jail, reduced from two thirds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-21g.873.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-21", "file": "debates2025-10-21g.xml", "sha256": "78374926a6232a93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-21g.884.5", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Sentencing Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "If more people are sentenced to incarceration, perfectly properly, that changes the trend. We certainly could have dealt more effectively with foreign national offenders than we did, which was another growing problem. Furthermore, over a long period of time, while we were adding places we took some prison places out. We need to think about the number of prisons that closed. She is therefore right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-21g.884.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-21", "file": "debates2025-10-21g.xml", "sha256": "78374926a6232a93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-21g.902.1", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Sentencing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Esther McVey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Esther McVey", "preceding_text": "I am deeply dismayed by what the Minister had to say. This Bill will make the streets of our country less safe. It will both let thousands of criminals out of prison and stop thousands of criminals going to prison. It will have a devastating impact on society. If the Minister is honest and is being truthful about this being an emergency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-21g.902.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-22", "file": "debates2025-10-22b.xml", "sha256": "16b6150f2b4f3ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-22b.955.0", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Roz Savage", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Roz Savage", "preceding_text": "regret to inform the House that yesterday there was a very serious breach of national security, when my Prime Minister’s question was photographed heading into No. 10 in a transparent folder. The nation can rest easy, as on this occasion no state secrets were revealed. However, it does make me wonder whether this Government can be trusted with a digital ID scheme that is mandatory in all but name.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-22b.955.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-22", "file": "debates2025-10-22b.xml", "sha256": "16b6150f2b4f3ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-22b.956.2", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Shame!”", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "I doubt that Fiona will be satisfied with that answer. The Prime Minister says that they could return to the panel if they wish to. Why would they do that? The Government have been engaged in a briefing war against survivors. Elizabeth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-22b.956.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-22", "file": "debates2025-10-22b.xml", "sha256": "16b6150f2b4f3ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-22b.957.0", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister says that he wants survivors to be at the heart of this, but in his first PMQs this year he said that we did not need a national inquiry. When he did, all of these Labour Members cheered. They were nodding their heads, including the Safeguarding Minister. They voted against the national inquiry three times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-22b.957.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-22", "file": "debates2025-10-22b.xml", "sha256": "16b6150f2b4f3ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-22b.958.0", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "Can I answer that? It is a serious point, because whether the inquiry should be judge-led was looked at by Louise Casey. She decided against that for a reason, and her reasons were twofold—I will spell them out. The first was the speed with which we could do this, and it would have been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-22b.958.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-22", "file": "debates2025-10-22b.xml", "sha256": "16b6150f2b4f3ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-22b.958.0", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "self—is that they are often held back until the end of the criminal investigations, and I was determined that we would be able to run the two together. It is because of that that we have been able to reopen 1,200 historical cases at the same time. The Leader of Opposition asks what is the point of the mandatory reporting that she voted against. I do not think she understands how it works. This is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-22b.958.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-22", "file": "debates2025-10-22b.xml", "sha256": "16b6150f2b4f3ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-22b.958.1", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "nd the survivors. I spoke to one of them yesterday. Let us remember that these are victims who waived their anonymity—an incredibly difficult thing to do—and they believe that the Safeguarding Minister has lied to them and about them. One of the survivors has said: “Jess Phillips needs to be removed because I don’t think her conduct during this…has been acceptable for the position that she holds”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-22b.958.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-22", "file": "debates2025-10-22b.xml", "sha256": "16b6150f2b4f3ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-22b.961.6", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "I welcome Millie to the Gallery—I appreciate that Members on the Opposition Benches cannot see her, but she is looking down at us and smiling with the courage and positivity that I know is everything to her. We absolutely salute that; we are humbled by it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-22b.961.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-22", "file": "debates2025-10-22b.xml", "sha256": "16b6150f2b4f3ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-22b.964.3", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Rubbish!”", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "Our small business plan was drawn up with small businesses. I sent the hon. Member a copy online; I hope that she shared that with the 3,000 small businesses in her constituency. That shows what we are doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-22b.964.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-22", "file": "debates2025-10-22b.xml", "sha256": "16b6150f2b4f3ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-22b.980.5", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Heathrow: National Airports Review", "cue_speaker": "John Slinger", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "John Slinger", "preceding_text": "I reassure my right hon. Friend that many of us on the Government Benches want us to get on and build, baby, build.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-22b.980.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-22", "file": "debates2025-10-22b.xml", "sha256": "16b6150f2b4f3ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-22b.984.1", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Personal Statement", "cue_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Rayner", "preceding_text": " people. As tough as politics can be, it is nothing—nothing—compared to what thousands of my constituents and many more across this country face every single day. Whether we sit on the Back Benches or on the Front Bench, elected office is not about us. It is about our chance to change the lives of others. From wherever I sit on these Benches, I will fight with everything I have to do exactly that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-22b.984.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-22", "file": "debates2025-10-22b.xml", "sha256": "16b6150f2b4f3ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-22b.1007.5", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Life Sciences Innovative Manufacturing Fund", "cue_speaker": "Julia Lopez", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julia Lopez", "preceding_text": "ment have screwed the public finances so badly that they have nowhere to go on these issues, not least because the NHS has had to spend a large chunk of the money that the Government have taken from our constituents. They took a lot of money from our constituents and told us that it would make this big difference to the NHS, but the money went on wage deals in the NHS and national insurance rises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-22b.1007.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-22", "file": "debates2025-10-22b.xml", "sha256": "16b6150f2b4f3ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-22b.1022.2", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Devolution in Scotland", "cue_speaker": "Jamie Stone", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jamie Stone", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That this House has considered devolution in Scotland. I am jolly glad I came to the Chamber when I did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-22b.1022.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-22", "file": "debates2025-10-22b.xml", "sha256": "16b6150f2b4f3ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-22b.1037.2", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Devolution in Scotland", "cue_speaker": "Katrina Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Katrina Murray", "preceding_text": "e targets were met. I see the toll of that every week, with people living in pain, losing mobility and struggling with their mental health. They look at the improving picture south of the border and ask, “How much longer do we have to wait?” What they are hearing is, “Actually, this crisis is business as usual.” NHS staff are being failed by the very system that devolution was meant to strengthen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-22b.1037.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-22", "file": "debates2025-10-22b.xml", "sha256": "16b6150f2b4f3ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-22b.1052.2", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Devolution in Scotland", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Member recognise the over 100 SNP achievements? I could list them if she wants, but I am not going to be allowed to do so. Does she recognise the real gains and progress that we have made in Scotland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-22b.1052.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-23", "file": "debates2025-10-23b.xml", "sha256": "54edf1e41e7883b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-23b.1119.3", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "preceding_text": "In addition to the tributes that were paid earlier this week, I believe I will be speaking for all Members in mourning the death on Monday of our former colleague Oliver Colvile.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-23b.1119.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-27", "file": "debates2025-10-27f.xml", "sha256": "97488b065e77761e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-27f.1.4", "colnum": "1", "heading": "Business before Questions", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "hanks to the many Members and Members’ staff who contributed their time and insights to the conference. Your experiences have been vital in shaping the findings and recommendations outlined in the report. We published our first report in June, and today we publish our second and final report. We now come to topical questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. I call Catherine Fookes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-27f.1.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-27", "file": "debates2025-10-27f.xml", "sha256": "97488b065e77761e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-27f.29.0", "colnum": "29", "heading": "North Sea Oil and Gas Industry", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Flynn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Flynn", "preceding_text": "May I convey in the strongest possible terms to the junior Minister the anger and anxiety that is felt by my constituents in Aberdeen? Right now they are providing energy security to each and every one of us on these isles, as well as revenue to his Treasury, yet their only reward, and the only certainty they seem to have on this Government’s watch, is that of looming job losses. May I ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-27f.29.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-27", "file": "debates2025-10-27f.xml", "sha256": "97488b065e77761e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-27f.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "North Sea Oil and Gas Industry", "cue_speaker": "Michael Shanks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Shanks", "preceding_text": "I am in Aberdeen regularly and do meet constituents of the right hon. Member who work in renewables, carbon capture and hydrogen as well as in oil and gas. It is his constituents who will benefit from the investments that Great British Energy will make, for example, which he failed to vote for, and who tell me that after a long period of having no credible plan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-27f.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-27", "file": "debates2025-10-27f.xml", "sha256": "97488b065e77761e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-27f.40.5", "colnum": "40", "heading": "North Sea Oil and Gas Industry", "cue_speaker": "Richard Foord", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Foord", "preceding_text": "The United Kingdom’s electricity price is set by gas 98% of the time. By contrast, the electricity price in the European Union is set by gas less than 40% of the time. If the electricity price in the UK were set by the price of clean energy more often, would the UK not be a more attractive destination for investment in energy generation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-27f.40.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-27", "file": "debates2025-10-27f.xml", "sha256": "97488b065e77761e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-27f.131.3", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Victims and Courts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kieran Mullan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kieran Mullan", "preceding_text": "ak to in support of these measures, will be appalled that at the same time that the Government are giving this, they are taking away with the other hand in a truly appalling way. Many of the campaigns and measures relate to violence and sexual offences, yet this week the Government will ask MPs to vote through clauses that will allow thousands of violent and sexual offenders out of prison earlier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-27f.131.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-28", "file": "debates2025-10-28c.xml", "sha256": "20ae6a08e1809f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-28c.177.2", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Stamp Duty Land Tax", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Vince", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Vince", "preceding_text": "The Minister is always generous with his time—I thank him for giving way—and I am always smiling in the Chamber, as the right hon. Member for Beverley and Holderness (Graham Stuart) will know. Conservative Members seem to be suffering from collective amnesia. Will my right hon. Friend remind me if the national debt went up or down under the last Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-28c.177.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-28", "file": "debates2025-10-28c.xml", "sha256": "20ae6a08e1809f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-28c.177.3", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Stamp Duty Land Tax", "cue_speaker": "James Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Murray", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right to draw attention to the Conservatives’ record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-28c.177.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-28", "file": "debates2025-10-28c.xml", "sha256": "20ae6a08e1809f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-28c.179.3", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Stamp Duty Land Tax", "cue_speaker": "Daisy Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daisy Cooper", "preceding_text": "e to scrap nearly the whole of the Ministry of Justice—given revelations in recent days about prisoners being let out wrongly, it feels like that may already have happened. The Conservatives could instead decide to end all support for farmers by scrapping the entirety of the budget for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which reached £7.4 billion in 2028-29, including capital—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-28c.179.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2025-10-28", "file": "debates2025-10-28c.xml", "sha256": "20ae6a08e1809f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-28c.181.0", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Stamp Duty Land Tax", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members:", "cue_text": "We’ve heard this one before!", "preceding_speaker": "Daisy Cooper", "preceding_text": "e truly interested in growing the economy, surely they will agree that the best and most immediate way to do so is to reverse the damage of their terrible Brexit deal with Europe. Analysis shows that if the Government did a better deal with the EU, within their own red lines, they would raise an additional £25 billion per year by unleashing the growth potential of our exporting British businesses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-28c.180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-28", "file": "debates2025-10-28c.xml", "sha256": "20ae6a08e1809f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-28c.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Stamp Duty Land Tax", "cue_speaker": "Saqib Bhatti", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Saqib Bhatti", "preceding_text": "t, it will be her Back Benchers who stab her in the back. That is her fundamental conundrum, because she also has to placate the bond market, where we have highest bond yields. I see Labour Members shaking their heads, but that is the reality of what Back Benchers are dealing with. We are putting good proposals on the table that would mean that young families who want to get on the housing ladder—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-28c.195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-28", "file": "debates2025-10-28c.xml", "sha256": "20ae6a08e1809f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-28c.206.1", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Stamp Duty Land Tax", "cue_speaker": "Antonia Bance", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Antonia Bance", "preceding_text": "f our economy less than the Conservatives propose taking out in their motion today—it left the bottom fifth of households £517 poorer, while the top fifth gained £174. Austerity did not just deepen inequality; it entrenched it. It led to the longest pay squeeze in 200 years, with growth anaemic, productivity absolutely flatlined and public investment slashed. My friends at the TUC have worked out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-28c.206.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-28", "file": "debates2025-10-28c.xml", "sha256": "20ae6a08e1809f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-28c.211.4", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Stamp Duty Land Tax", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Blake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Blake", "preceding_text": "For the last two hours, the proposal has been presented by Opposition Members as a meaningful housing market intervention because of their supposed commitment to aspiration. The Labour party has always been the party of aspiration, and it has been the driving force behind social mobility throughout the last century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-28c.211.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-28", "file": "debates2025-10-28c.xml", "sha256": "20ae6a08e1809f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-28c.212.1", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Stamp Duty Land Tax", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Stafford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Stafford", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is being generous with interventions; I thank her for that. To bring her back to stamp duty land tax, the average house price in her constituency is over £1 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-28c.212.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-28", "file": "debates2025-10-28c.xml", "sha256": "20ae6a08e1809f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-28c.213.6", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Stamp Duty Land Tax", "cue_speaker": "Rebecca Paul", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More!”", "preceding_speaker": "Rebecca Paul", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that pertinent point. This is proper Conservative policy. This is the kind of thing everyone in this country is clamouring for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-28c.213.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-28", "file": "debates2025-10-28c.xml", "sha256": "20ae6a08e1809f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-28c.232.1", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Stamp Duty Land Tax", "cue_speaker": "James Cleverly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Cleverly", "preceding_text": "r, even in the face of opposition from Labour—a party that should be about aspiration and used to be about aspiration, but which has lost its way, drifted from the path of righteousness, and, if Labour Members do as they claim today, a party that will oppose the removal of what is regularly described by economic experts as the single most damaging tax on our books. I will conclude with this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-28c.232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-28", "file": "debates2025-10-28c.xml", "sha256": "20ae6a08e1809f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-28c.232.1", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Stamp Duty Land Tax", "cue_speaker": "James Cleverly", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More!”", "preceding_speaker": "James Cleverly", "preceding_text": "party that should be about aspiration and used to be about aspiration, but which has lost its way, drifted from the path of righteousness, and, if Labour Members do as they claim today, a party that will oppose the removal of what is regularly described by economic experts as the single most damaging tax on our books. I will conclude with this point. [Interruption.] I can continue if Members want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-28c.232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-28", "file": "debates2025-10-28c.xml", "sha256": "20ae6a08e1809f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-28c.234.1", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Stamp Duty Land Tax", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Rigby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Rigby", "preceding_text": "I will make some progress. That is the Conservatives’ pitch to the British public—reckless with our public finances, reckless with our public services and reckless with the future of this country. Conservative Members are competing to say how sad and angry they are about this tax. They will be furious when they find out which party gave us the highest tax burden since the second world war!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-28c.234.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-28", "file": "debates2025-10-28c.xml", "sha256": "20ae6a08e1809f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-28c.234.6", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Stamp Duty Land Tax", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Rigby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Rigby", "preceding_text": "x cut affecting the budgets of our most essential services. It is the same horror show from the same old Conservatives, wildly swinging their scythe at public services without a care in the world for the consequences for our NHS, our schools and our armed forces. Which services would Conservative Members want to cut down this time? Would it be fewer nurses, fewer soldiers or fewer police officers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-28c.234.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-28", "file": "debates2025-10-28c.xml", "sha256": "20ae6a08e1809f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-28c.243.3", "colnum": "243", "heading": "China Spying Case", "cue_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "preceding_text": "ld have heard that the Director of Public Prosecutions said last week that it was categorically not a question of what the last Government said. Now that I have the hon. Gentleman’s attention, I will repeat for his benefit what the DPP said: that the question was “whether China was—as a matter of fact—an active threat to national security.” It was not a question of policy; it was a matter of fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-28c.243.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-28", "file": "debates2025-10-28c.xml", "sha256": "20ae6a08e1809f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-28c.245.4", "colnum": "245", "heading": "China Spying Case", "cue_speaker": "Nick Thomas-Symonds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Thomas-Symonds", "preceding_text": "uals charged under the Official Secrets Act 1911. Everyone in the Government was hoping that the trial would go ahead and planning on the basis that it would. As a reminder, following the arrests of Christopher Cash and Christopher Berry in March 2023 as part of a counter-espionage operation, counter-terrorism police requested that the deputy National Security Adviser act as a witness in the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-28c.245.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-28", "file": "debates2025-10-28c.xml", "sha256": "20ae6a08e1809f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-28c.257.2", "colnum": "257", "heading": "China Spying Case", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "It is a particular pleasure that you should be in the Chair for this debate, Madam Deputy Speaker, because like me and the others, some of whom have been named, you are sanctioned by a brutal Chinese Government. I think it is excellent that you are here to invigilate this debate and to keep us on track—forgive me if I go over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-28c.257.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-28", "file": "debates2025-10-28c.xml", "sha256": "20ae6a08e1809f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-28c.269.0", "colnum": "269", "heading": "China Spying Case", "cue_speaker": "Luke Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Luke Evans", "preceding_text": "I feel I am being misquoted, because I have simply asked for all this to be resolved by publishing the information. The Government could come out and say that China is a threat. I have also said that we can call it a threat and work economically with the Chinese. That is what I hope will happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-28c.269.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-29", "file": "debates2025-10-29f.xml", "sha256": "e474518c7cb2da4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-29f.301.4", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "ight and learned hon. Gentleman says that no Prime Minister or Chancellor will say these things before the Budget. Has he told his Chancellor? She has been out there flying kites, causing constant speculation around the Budget that is damaging the economy. All week, the Government have been briefing about tax rises. What we have heard is that he does not have a plan, so we have some ideas for him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-29f.301.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-29", "file": "debates2025-10-29f.xml", "sha256": "e474518c7cb2da4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-29f.302.4", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "Chancellor borrowed £20 billion. He will have to sell a hell of a lot more jets to make up for that. He will not rule out any tax rises, he cannot cut spending and he is increasing unemployment. This man knows nothing about economic growth, except how to destroy it. In his weakness, he has caved in to the unions on their regulations that will cripple businesses, costing them £5 billion every year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-29f.302.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-29", "file": "debates2025-10-29f.xml", "sha256": "e474518c7cb2da4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-29f.352.2", "colnum": "352", "heading": "European Convention on Human Rights (Withdrawal)", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Farage", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Farage", "preceding_text": "move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to make provision for the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights, and to make further provision in connection with the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from that Convention. In many ways, this is unfinished business. On 23 June 2016 , in the biggest democratic exercise in the history of these islands, the British people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-29f.352.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-29", "file": "debates2025-10-29f.xml", "sha256": "e474518c7cb2da4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-29f.352.7", "colnum": "352", "heading": "European Convention on Human Rights (Withdrawal)", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Farage", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Farage", "preceding_text": "It is marvellous to see the intellectual levels of debate in this place—it really is. Is it any wonder—[Interruption.] Is it any wonder that out in the country there is growing frustration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-29f.352.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-29", "file": "debates2025-10-29f.xml", "sha256": "e474518c7cb2da4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-29f.353.0", "colnum": "353", "heading": "European Convention on Human Rights (Withdrawal)", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Farage", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Farage", "preceding_text": "and freedom. These are things that over centuries served our country far better than any other nation in the European continent. This is about liberty, it is about freedom, it is about democratic control. Just think, whatever the election result, even if 650 of us wanted to change rules on who can come across the channel and stay, we could be overruled by a convention that we signed up to in 1998—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-29f.353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-29", "file": "debates2025-10-29f.xml", "sha256": "e474518c7cb2da4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-29f.353.0", "colnum": "353", "heading": "European Convention on Human Rights (Withdrawal)", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Farage", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Farage", "preceding_text": " It is about our voters being able to choose the future course and direction of our own country. That is why this matters. Let us remind ourselves briefly of some of the worst examples of the ECHR taking away our democratic rights. Interestingly, it was the last Conservative Government who decided to put in place the Rwanda legislation. It was, in theory, very good, as it would act as a deterrent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-29f.353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-29", "file": "debates2025-10-29f.xml", "sha256": "e474518c7cb2da4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-29f.353.0", "colnum": "353", "heading": "European Convention on Human Rights (Withdrawal)", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Farage", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Farage", "preceding_text": "val would harm the children he had had in this country. The list goes on and on—Brazilian murderers, rapists and many others who claim the right to a family life under article 8. Well, what about British families? What about their rights and their freedoms? What are the priorities of Members of this place? Of course, we will be told that by leaving this completely outdated, 75-year-old convention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-29f.353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-29", "file": "debates2025-10-29f.xml", "sha256": "e474518c7cb2da4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-29f.353.0", "colnum": "353", "heading": "European Convention on Human Rights (Withdrawal)", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Farage", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Farage", "preceding_text": "t have constitutions or democracies that could prevent them from going into extremism—but we are not Russia and we are not Belarus. Nobody in the Chamber would say that countries like New Zealand, Australia and Canada are barbaric or backward; they defend freedoms. But I do not defend state-given human rights, because they can be taken away by the very states who has given them in the first place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-29f.353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-29", "file": "debates2025-10-29f.xml", "sha256": "e474518c7cb2da4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-29f.353.0", "colnum": "353", "heading": "European Convention on Human Rights (Withdrawal)", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Farage", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Farage", "preceding_text": "sia and we are not Belarus. Nobody in the Chamber would say that countries like New Zealand, Australia and Canada are barbaric or backward; they defend freedoms. But I do not defend state-given human rights, because they can be taken away by the very states who has given them in the first place. [Interruption.] I have never seen so many Liberal Democrats in all my life—it is absolutely marvellous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-29f.353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-29", "file": "debates2025-10-29f.xml", "sha256": "e474518c7cb2da4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-29f.354.2", "colnum": "354", "heading": "European Convention on Human Rights (Withdrawal)", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "sis possible. Before Brexit, we effectively had a returns agreement with every EU country: the Dublin system—a deterrent that worked. Now, undocumented migrants are trying to reach the UK because they know they cannot be returned. Thanks to the hon. Member, his Brexit ripped up Britain’s rights to return people with no right to be here and people who should have claimed asylum elsewhere in Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-29f.354.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-29", "file": "debates2025-10-29f.xml", "sha256": "e474518c7cb2da4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-29f.395.1", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Sentencing Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "mand were treated in a different way—and that, essentially, is about more court sittings and more court time for faster access to justice—fewer prisoners would be kept on remand. If we do not believe that, we would have to assume that every person brought to trial would be found guilty or imprisoned, which cannot be true. If we dealt with the huge number of foreign national offenders more swiftly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-29f.395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-29", "file": "debates2025-10-29f.xml", "sha256": "e474518c7cb2da4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-29f.436.1", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Sentencing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kieran Mullan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kieran Mullan", "preceding_text": "gs to improve in one direction, they must accept a betrayal in another. I ask Labour Members to reflect again on the figures I have given them. They are the correct figures and they are the facts, no matter what those on the Government Front Bench have muttered as I have been speaking. I ask Labour Members to force this Government to make different choices. Do not support this betrayal of victims.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-29f.436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-29", "file": "debates2025-10-29f.xml", "sha256": "e474518c7cb2da4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-29f.445.2", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Offshore Wind Supply Chain: Tyneside", "cue_speaker": "Mary Glindon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Glindon", "preceding_text": "foundation structures, including monopiles, transitional pieces and jackets. Those form the essential building blocks of the critical infrastructure required for UK renewable energy security. Smulders, based in Wallsend, is one of many businesses along the Tyne that are markers of the Tyne’s proud and enduring legacy. Throughout history, the Tyne has stepped up when the country has needed it most.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-29f.445.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-30", "file": "debates2025-10-30b.xml", "sha256": "05ce1ce0df0e58ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-30b.459.2", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Business and Trade", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. Mr Timothy, you used to be an adviser who specialised in not answering questions; we do not need any help!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-30b.459.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-30", "file": "debates2025-10-30b.xml", "sha256": "05ce1ce0df0e58ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-30b.486.4", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "preceding_text": "ion into a party political broadcast. It undermines a valuable opportunity to bring the House together every week on a matter of public importance before the usual knockabout of PMQs begins. It is unworthy of the Prime Minister’s office and unworthy of the Prime Minister, who is a very decent human being. Therefore, may I politely invite the Leader of the House to ask the Prime Minister to desist?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-30b.486.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-30", "file": "debates2025-10-30b.xml", "sha256": "05ce1ce0df0e58ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-30b.488.0", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Alan Campbell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Campbell", "preceding_text": "ates. I thank the conference for this important work. The Government will look closely at the recommendations, not least through my role on the defending democracy taskforce. I would like to express my personal thanks to Mike McCarthy BEM, who is departing from the Government Whips Office this week, having served every Government since 1987. I hope the whole House will join me in wishing him well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-30b.488.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-30", "file": "debates2025-10-30b.xml", "sha256": "05ce1ce0df0e58ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-30b.491.1", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "preceding_text": "Order. Colleagues can see that it will be impossible for me to get everybody in, particularly if you are 13 minutes late—Mr Grahame Morris, you will most definitely not be getting in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-30b.491.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-10-30", "file": "debates2025-10-30b.xml", "sha256": "05ce1ce0df0e58ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-30b.553.2", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Property Service Charges", "cue_speaker": "Lewis Cocking", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lewis Cocking", "preceding_text": "I fully support the right to buy, which was a good policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-10-30b.553.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-03", "file": "debates2025-11-03b.xml", "sha256": "f9011f0cea13b3ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-03b.602.7", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "r side of the world, and we ask them to move with their families every few years around the UK. The very last thing they should worry about is whether their wives, husbands, partners or kids are living in cold, damp and leaky homes. We are ending what my hon. Friend says is the Tory scandal of unfit forces housing, and we are getting Britain building the homes that we need on surplus defence land—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-03b.602.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-03", "file": "debates2025-11-03b.xml", "sha256": "f9011f0cea13b3ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-03b.627.3", "colnum": "627", "heading": "“Soldier F” Trial Verdict", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "The legislation that the Government have put before the House will make no change at all to the basis on which decisions about any potential prosecutions are made. Indeed, that system will remain as it has been right through the course of the troubles and in the 27 and a half years since.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-03b.627.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-03", "file": "debates2025-11-03b.xml", "sha256": "f9011f0cea13b3ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-03b.628.1", "colnum": "628", "heading": "“Soldier F” Trial Verdict", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “What?”", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "I agree with the hon. Member that 90% of those who were killed during the troubles were killed by paramilitary terrorists, which is why the vast majority of those who have been prosecuted and convicted have been paramilitary terrorists. However, I do not agree with her when she uses the phrase “vexatious prosecutions”. There are no vexatious prosecutions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-03b.628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-03", "file": "debates2025-11-03b.xml", "sha256": "f9011f0cea13b3ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-03b.635.2", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Huntingdon Train Attack", "cue_speaker": "Shabana Mahmood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Shabana Mahmood", "preceding_text": "w particular attention to one member of the onboard crew who ran towards danger, confronting the attacker for a sustained period of time, and stopped his advance through the train. He put himself in harm’s way, suffered grievous injuries as a result, and remains in hospital today in a critical but stable condition. On Saturday, he went to work to do his job—today, he is a hero and forever will be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-03b.635.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-03", "file": "debates2025-11-03b.xml", "sha256": "f9011f0cea13b3ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-03b.689.1", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Public Office (Accountability) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jim Allister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Allister", "preceding_text": "? Such a motion could be sought from Stormont and from Edinburgh, and in that means we could have uniformity across the United Kingdom. That is the mechanism for doing it, but the starting point is to make the clause applicable across the United Kingdom, and then to have the legislative consent motion that would enable it to be enforced. That is how Parliament works with the devolved institutions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-03b.689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-04", "file": "debates2025-11-04b.xml", "sha256": "1d2c7be3620f02e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-04b.744.0", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Treasury", "cue_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "preceding_text": "The LGPS actually has a strong track record of local investment of exactly the kind that my hon. Friend mentions, including in social housing, and we want to build on that record. The Pension Schemes Bill will introduce requirements for local government pension scheme pools to work with strategic authorities, including mayoral strategic authorities, on local investment opportunities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-04b.744.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-04", "file": "debates2025-11-04b.xml", "sha256": "1d2c7be3620f02e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-04b.774.2", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Supporting High Streets", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Griffith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Griffith", "preceding_text": "I am not sure that we were in charge in the particular area that the hon. Gentleman has mentioned, but I am pleased to know that, like so many of us, he had his first experience of work—his first leg-up, his first work opportunity—in the retail and hospitality sector. It is hugely important, and gives people great opportunities in life. I have talked about our promises—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-04b.774.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-04", "file": "debates2025-11-04b.xml", "sha256": "1d2c7be3620f02e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-04b.786.0", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Supporting High Streets", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Olney", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Olney", "preceding_text": "There are, dare I say, perhaps some bits missing, which mean it does not add up and we can’t put it all together—I don’t know where I am going with that, sorry!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-04b.786.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-04", "file": "debates2025-11-04b.xml", "sha256": "1d2c7be3620f02e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-04b.787.1", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Supporting High Streets", "cue_speaker": "Polly Billington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Polly Billington", "preceding_text": " that we have made specific progress in dealing with the botched Brexit deal left as part of the legacy of the previous Tory Government, which she may indeed welcome. For example, our sanitary and phytosanitary deal includes being able to boost exports by slashing red tape and bureaucracy specifically for our farmers and food producers, lower food prices at the checkout and co-operation on energy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-04b.787.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-04", "file": "debates2025-11-04b.xml", "sha256": "1d2c7be3620f02e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-04b.790.2", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Supporting High Streets", "cue_speaker": "Thomas Tugendhat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Thomas Tugendhat", "preceding_text": "eets today is a reflection of that tax policy. We are seeing the increasing ratchet of control—control through regulation, through taxation and through any number of different tools that this Government have brought in. In wonderful towns such as Tonbridge, Edenbridge and Borough Green—I am sure you could add a few of your own, Madam Deputy Speaker; it would be worth saying that Portsmouth itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-04b.790.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-04", "file": "debates2025-11-04b.xml", "sha256": "1d2c7be3620f02e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-04b.800.2", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Supporting High Streets", "cue_speaker": "Connor Naismith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Connor Naismith", "preceding_text": "teen years of Conservative government saw projects stall, shopfronts shuttered and absentee landlords allowed to hold back regeneration. In Crewe, the failed Royal Arcade redevelopment became the symbol of that neglect. Shops were demolished as part of a regeneration scheme, only for inflation, particularly construction inflation, to soar through the ceiling as a result of Liz Truss’s mini-Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-04b.800.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-04", "file": "debates2025-11-04b.xml", "sha256": "1d2c7be3620f02e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-04b.849.1", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Welfare Spending", "cue_speaker": "Helen Whately", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Whately", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman thinks he is so clever, but I am sorry to say this is a whole lot more serious than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-04b.849.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-04", "file": "debates2025-11-04b.xml", "sha256": "1d2c7be3620f02e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-04b.849.1", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Welfare Spending", "cue_speaker": "Helen Whately", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Whately", "preceding_text": "rruption.] I am glad Labour Members liked that. The fact is, if the hon. Gentleman looked a little further than his time in politics, back to 2010, he would know that the welfare bill and unemployment figures came down, and that we had the huge reform of universal credit, led by my right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith) , which made a huge difference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-04b.849.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-05", "file": "debates2025-11-05f.xml", "sha256": "255cf3443e85dffb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-05f.1007.0", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Western", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Western", "preceding_text": "ace. We welcome the challenge and scrutiny provided by peers’ contributions, but we cannot accept changes that risk undermining the powers. The Government’s position will continue to reflect that, including in our amendments in lieu. First, Lords amendment 1 would give the Minister for the Cabinet Office the power to initiate an investigation when they consider it necessary in the public interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-05f.1007.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-12", "file": "debates2025-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "935b539355564102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-12f.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Independent Football Regulator", "cue_speaker": "Lisa Nandy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lisa Nandy", "preceding_text": "ber for Old Bexley and Sidcup (Mr French) will know that Mr Kogan was approached for this job under the last Conservative Government and put on the list, which I inherited from the last Government. I want to be crystal clear on this point. Mr Kogan was not added to the list after the general election; he was on the list from the last Conservative Government. The hon. Gentleman talks about cronies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-12f.160.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-12", "file": "debates2025-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "935b539355564102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-12f.193.3", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Taxes", "cue_speaker": "Charlie Maynard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charlie Maynard", "preceding_text": "Okay, can I just respond to my colleague chuntering in the background? He keeps saying “the OBR”. We are Parliament. We have a responsibility to scrutinise the Budget, and I believe that we, as a Parliament, should be doing that properly, line by line and taking out what is wasted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-12f.193.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-12", "file": "debates2025-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "935b539355564102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-12f.194.2", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Taxes", "cue_speaker": "Sam Rushworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sam Rushworth", "preceding_text": "I would also like to thank the Opposition for giving us this opportunity to set out two competing visions for Britain: growth, modernisation, new infrastructure and stronger public services under Labour; or a return to austerity, Government waste and decline under the Tories—of both their shades of blue. The Tories’ 14 years of power is a tale of two halves. First came—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-12f.194.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-12", "file": "debates2025-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "935b539355564102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-12f.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Taxes", "cue_speaker": "Sam Rushworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sam Rushworth", "preceding_text": "Obviously, we are in a global economy. We have the fastest growth in the G7; I think that is well known—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-12f.195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-12", "file": "debates2025-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "935b539355564102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-12f.198.1", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Taxes", "cue_speaker": "Sam Rushworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sam Rushworth", "preceding_text": "ment are addressing child poverty in multiple ways, including through the welfare system. However, children are not poor just because we do not have good enough benefits. In Bishop Auckland, people do not want better benefits; they want better jobs, a stronger local economy, better infrastructure, better education and a better health service. All that will require public spending. If I may say so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-12f.198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-12", "file": "debates2025-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "935b539355564102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-12f.201.0", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Taxes", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Vince", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Vince", "preceding_text": "s that I had only just walked into the Chamber, and as my hon. Friend the Member for Calder Valley (Josh Fenton-Glynn) has found, someone cannot intervene if they have only just walked in. The second reason I did not intervene on the right hon. Gentleman was that I have to declare an interest when it comes to tax: I am the son of not one but two of His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs tax inspectors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-12f.201.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-12", "file": "debates2025-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "935b539355564102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-12f.202.0", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Taxes", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Vince", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ahh!”", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Vince", "preceding_text": "mes if they were vulnerable, and they “helped people complete tax returns, claim allowances, and ensure they paid the correct tax.” They also administered what were then child tax credits. She was also “able to authorise hardship payments in this context.” Sadly, in 2014, 20,000 staff in HMRC customer services were made redundant, and as Members across the House will know, that included my mother—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-12f.202.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-12", "file": "debates2025-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "935b539355564102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-12f.203.3", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Taxes", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Vince", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Vince", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. So I cannot talk about my father’s and grandfather’s experiences—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-12f.203.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-12", "file": "debates2025-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "935b539355564102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-12f.220.6", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Taxes", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Stafford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Stafford", "preceding_text": "I do not think I have mentioned the Climate Change Act, but I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising it. I think what my constituents want—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-12f.220.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-12", "file": "debates2025-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "935b539355564102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-12f.231.1", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Taxes", "cue_speaker": "Dan Tomlinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "Let me make a bit more progress—I am only on page 2 of a six page speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-12f.231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-12", "file": "debates2025-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "935b539355564102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-12f.239.3", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Energy", "cue_speaker": "Claire Coutinho", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Claire Coutinho", "preceding_text": "need electricity that will work in the winter when the sun is not shining, or when the wind is not blowing. The question I would ask is this: why is the Labour party signing up to those high prices and locking all our constituents in for 20 years? It is because the Secretary of State is in the pocket of the wind developers. These are the highest prices for wind power that we have seen in a decade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-12f.239.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-12", "file": "debates2025-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "935b539355564102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-12f.241.2", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Energy", "cue_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady was kind enough to go through her plan with me. I will be honest: I think there is merit in discussing some of the proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-12f.241.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-12", "file": "debates2025-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "935b539355564102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-12f.249.3", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Energy", "cue_speaker": "Martin McCluskey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin McCluskey", "preceding_text": "The other solution is that we get off gas—that we move away from gas on to clean power. I would say to the right hon. Gentleman that the warm home discount, which is giving support to one in six households across the country this winter, is providing £150 of support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-12f.249.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-12", "file": "debates2025-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "935b539355564102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-12f.253.3", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Energy", "cue_speaker": "Tim Farron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Farron", "preceding_text": "That the right hon. Gentleman was the Energy Minister makes me question the selection standards of the previous Prime Minister. How far do we need to look? The channel is not that wide. Look at France and Spain. France has nuclear, and Spain has renewable energy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-12f.253.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-12", "file": "debates2025-11-12f.xml", "sha256": "935b539355564102", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-12f.282.3", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Nolan Principles", "cue_speaker": "Seamus Logan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Seamus Logan", "preceding_text": " that Labour MPs from Scotland who are keen to be elected here spend most of their time talking about events in Holyrood. Why do they not go up the road to the Parliament there? I was talking about the Prime Minister and the Chancellor. Furthermore, three junior Ministers have been forced out of office as a result of conflicts of interest in housing and entanglement in an overseas corruption case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-12f.282.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-13", "file": "debates2025-11-13i.xml", "sha256": "e0dd62d32ba099a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-13i.292.7", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Environment, Food and Rural Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "We inherited a whole system failure in the waste industry, from end to end with failures at every level. That is why there has been an epidemic of illegal fly-tipping. It is now the work of serious and organised crime. We have a waste crime unit that has undertaken in the last financial year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-13i.292.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-13", "file": "debates2025-11-13i.xml", "sha256": "e0dd62d32ba099a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-13i.372.0", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Planning and Infrastructure Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gideon Amos", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gideon Amos", "preceding_text": ". It would ensure that the new spatial development strategies include protections for our incredibly rare and valuable chalk streams. Shockingly, there is currently a lack of protection for these rare and incredible habitats. Around 85% of the world’s chalk streams are in England. They are as rare globally as rainforests, and yet they do not have the required designation as irreplaceable habitats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-13i.372.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-13", "file": "debates2025-11-13i.xml", "sha256": "e0dd62d32ba099a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-13i.381.1", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Planning and Infrastructure Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kit Malthouse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kit Malthouse", "preceding_text": " that compromise has always been neighbourhood planning. Far too often in my constituency, villages and towns feel as if planning is something that is done to them. They dread the land promoter showing up to ram some inappropriate planning through. Some of that compromise can be about beauty, and I lament the fact that the design standards were taken out of the NPPF and that that word is not used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-13i.381.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-17", "file": "debates2025-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "38bc1c558ae1d533", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-17b.458.6", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Home Department", "cue_speaker": "John Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Lamont", "preceding_text": "Last week, brave grooming-gang survivor Fiona Goddard spoke of how she was trafficked to Scotland as a vulnerable teenager. As she rightly said, the idea that this issue stops at the border is “insane”. Despite clear evidence from victims about grooming gangs operating in Scotland, the SNP Government in Edinburgh still refuse to hold an inquiry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-17b.458.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-17", "file": "debates2025-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "38bc1c558ae1d533", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-17b.462.6", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Home Department", "cue_speaker": "Shabana Mahmood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Shabana Mahmood", "preceding_text": "I am pleased to start with some very good news indeed: one of the heroes of the Huntingdon attack, Samir Zitouni, the member of the train’s crew who risked his own life to save others, has been discharged from hospital. There is a long road ahead of him and his family have asked for privacy, but I am sure the whole House joins me in wishing him the swiftest and fullest recovery possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-17b.462.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-17", "file": "debates2025-11-17b.xml", "sha256": "38bc1c558ae1d533", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-17b.478.1", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Budget: Press Briefings", "cue_speaker": "James Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Murray", "preceding_text": "I fear that my history is not good enough to know exactly what that question means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-17b.478.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-18", "file": "debates2025-11-18d.xml", "sha256": "679b52e3502972a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-18d.653.2", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Access to Finance for Women in Business", "cue_speaker": "Sonia Kumar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sonia Kumar", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to require the Secretary of State to prepare and publish a report on access to finance for women in business; to make provision about the publication of data relating to access to finance for women in business; and for connected purposes. The Bill seeks to confront—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-18d.653.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-18", "file": "debates2025-11-18d.xml", "sha256": "679b52e3502972a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-18d.659.1", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Northern Ireland Troubles Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "the 2023 Act failed because it did not command any support in Northern Ireland among victims and survivors, or the political parties. That was no basis for progress or reconciliation. That point has to be acknowledged. One of the principal reasons for that lack of support was the Act’s attempt to offer immunity from prosecution, including to terrorists who had committed the most appalling murders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-18d.659.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-19", "file": "debates2025-11-19d.xml", "sha256": "23470e8c6207616a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-19d.767.0", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for raising this important issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-19d.767.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-19", "file": "debates2025-11-19d.xml", "sha256": "23470e8c6207616a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-19d.768.4", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "On ExxonMobil, it is a difficult time for the workforce there, and we must focus on supporting them. We have been meeting the company for more than six months and explored every possible reasonable avenue. It has been facing losses for the past five years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-19d.768.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-20", "file": "debates2025-11-20d.xml", "sha256": "8e6bd0330c75b848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-20d.935.0", "colnum": "935", "heading": "International Men’s Day", "cue_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "preceding_text": "t (Dr Arthur) was truly the worst. I would like to get involved, Madam Deputy Speaker, but as is well known, I have absolutely no sense of humour—less sense of humour than Downing Street has for tolerating my jokes. I am not a fan of political jokes anyway, as too many end up getting elected. However, I did once hear of a Canadian politician who was popular with everyone—it’s probably not Trudeau.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-20d.935.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-24", "file": "debates2025-11-24d.xml", "sha256": "d7a1ee730467f0c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-24d.4.0", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Housing, Communities and Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Alison McGovern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alison McGovern", "preceding_text": "There we have it: in a question about homelessness, we have a Tory MP getting up and asking how he can say no to more homes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-24d.4.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-24", "file": "debates2025-11-24d.xml", "sha256": "d7a1ee730467f0c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-24d.35.0", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Ministerial Code", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "We just want the transparency that was promised to be delivered. The Minister has been given an impossible task as a junior Minister, but the House surely deserves to know how much cash was transferred to the Prime Minister by someone who has been given a £130,000-a-year part-time sinecure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-24d.35.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-24", "file": "debates2025-11-24d.xml", "sha256": "d7a1ee730467f0c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-24d.39.0", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Maccabi Tel Aviv FC: Away Fans Ban", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Jones", "preceding_text": "SAG process was set up following Hillsborough for a different purpose, and we find ourselves in a different world with a different set of situations. If changes to the SAG process are needed, we will make them. As I also said, I have written to the chief constable of West Midlands police to ask some questions of him, and we have asked the inspector to conduct a review. The Home Secretary is right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-24d.39.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-24", "file": "debates2025-11-24d.xml", "sha256": "d7a1ee730467f0c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-24d.95.0", "colnum": "95", "heading": "English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Holmes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More!”", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Holmes", "preceding_text": "egin by welcoming the Minister to her place? We spent a long time together on the Bill Committee, working cross-party, along with many other Members on both sides of the House. They included the Statler and Waldorf of the Committee, the hon. Member for Camborne and Redruth (Perran Moon) and the hon. Member for Banbury (Sean Woodcock) , whose heckling of me throughout the sittings was very welcome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-24d.95.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-24", "file": "debates2025-11-24d.xml", "sha256": "d7a1ee730467f0c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-24d.131.2", "colnum": "131", "heading": "English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Allison Gardner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Allison Gardner", "preceding_text": "for its tourism industry, although that is absolutely a failure on the part of the country and of everybody, because we have great tourism attractions in Stoke. I have seen that when we have Airbnbs on family estates, and different people come and go, it creates an awful lot of unrest, antisocial behaviour and real concern about the revolving door of different people, which upsets local residents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-24d.131.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-24", "file": "debates2025-11-24d.xml", "sha256": "d7a1ee730467f0c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-24d.152.0", "colnum": "152", "heading": "English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Munt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Munt", "preceding_text": "In Somerset, we were set back enormously by six years of council tax freeze during the early 2010s, under the Conservative-led council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-24d.152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-24", "file": "debates2025-11-24d.xml", "sha256": "d7a1ee730467f0c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-24d.153.1", "colnum": "153", "heading": "English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miatta Fahnbulleh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miatta Fahnbulleh", "preceding_text": "g to impose on places. I categorically reject that. The Bill will implement the biggest transfer of power that we have seen for a generation, which is something that the Conservatives did not do in 14 years. Let us take the example of local government reorganisation, which was raised by Members from across the House. This is a bottom-up, local-led process, where places have come up with proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-24d.153.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-25", "file": "debates2025-11-25d.xml", "sha256": "4d2798a98acd027a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-25d.195.6", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Health and Social Care", "cue_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "preceding_text": "Industrial action sets back our progress on waiting lists, but frankly, the Conservatives presided over an absolute mess—not just over the course of 14 years, when waiting lists rose every single year during the Conservatives’ time in power, but in their catastrophic mishandling of industrial relations. We came in, and we settled with the British Medical Association—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-25d.195.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-25", "file": "debates2025-11-25d.xml", "sha256": "4d2798a98acd027a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-25d.207.4", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Health and Social Care", "cue_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "preceding_text": "Obesity robs children of the best possible start in life, hits the poorest hardest, sets them up for a lifetime of health problems and costs the NHS billions, so I can announce to the House that we are expanding the soft drinks industry levy to include bottles and cartons of milkshakes, flavoured milk and milk substitute drinks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-25d.207.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-25", "file": "debates2025-11-25d.xml", "sha256": "4d2798a98acd027a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-25d.242.1", "colnum": "242", "heading": "COP30", "cue_speaker": "Claire Coutinho", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Who?”", "preceding_speaker": "Claire Coutinho", "preceding_text": "us into ever higher energy bills. He has taken the most hair-shirt, ideological approach to climate policy, with thousands of jobs lost and high bills for decades. We are not setting an example to the rest of the world; what he has created is a warning. It is now the renewables advocates at home who are raising the alarm about the folly of the Secretary of State’s plans to shut down the North sea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-25d.242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-25", "file": "debates2025-11-25d.xml", "sha256": "4d2798a98acd027a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-25d.242.1", "colnum": "242", "heading": "COP30", "cue_speaker": "Claire Coutinho", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Claire Coutinho", "preceding_text": "rs: “Who?”] They say, “Who?” Let me name them. Scottish Renewables, Octopus Energy and—they may have heard of this one—the chair of his very own Great British Energy have all said that we have to continue to drill in the North sea, because they know that there is no just transition by pulling the plug as thoughtlessly as the Government are doing. This is student politics, yet thousands of Britons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-25d.242.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-25", "file": "debates2025-11-25d.xml", "sha256": "4d2798a98acd027a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-25d.323.3", "colnum": "323", "heading": "English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miatta Fahnbulleh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miatta Fahnbulleh", "preceding_text": "drive the change that they want to see in their places. We believe that this Bill is an important first step. We will continue to engage with Members from across the House to ensure that the regulations and provisions in the Bill are matched by tangible change on the ground. I know that hon. Members across the House support our endeavour. We must drive the change that we want to see in our places.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-25d.323.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-26", "file": "debates2025-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "d1113799502d5c8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.373.4", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "May I first pay tribute to the many farmers who have come to Westminster today to protest about the shameful attack on them in last year’s Budget? I want them to know that the Conservatives stand with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.373.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-26", "file": "debates2025-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "d1113799502d5c8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.384.2", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Financial Statement and Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "preceding_text": "es. This disappointing trend in relation to Budget briefings has been growing for a number of years under successive Governments, but it appears to have reached an unprecedented high. Weeks ago, we saw the Chancellor delivering a speech in Downing Street setting the scene for the Budget, and specific policy announcements have been briefed out to the media in advance of today’s financial statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.384.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-26", "file": "debates2025-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "d1113799502d5c8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.384.3", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Financial Statement and Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "ing jobs and supporting public services. That is what our plan, this Government and our Prime Minister are all about. Today’s Budget builds on the choices that we have made since July last year to cut NHS waiting lists, to cut the cost of living, and to cut debt and borrowing. No doubt, we will face opposition again, but I have yet to see a credible or a fairer alternative plan for working people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.384.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-26", "file": "debates2025-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "d1113799502d5c8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.386.1", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Financial Statement and Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "y delivered not just the 2 million additional appointments that we promised, but an additional 5.2 million appointments since the general election. I joined the Labour party almost 30 years ago because I could see that the Conservative Government I grew up under did not care much about schools like mine. Textbooks were rationed—[Interruption.] I know that many of you were not at schools like mine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.386.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-26", "file": "debates2025-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "d1113799502d5c8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.390.1", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Financial Statement and Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "t fraud and error and to prevent public money from being paid to people who are not entitled to it. I thank Tom Hayhoe, the covid corruption commissioner, for his work in helping to chase down nearly £400 million from dodgy pandemic spending and contracts. Tory contracts handed out by Tory Ministers to Tory peers and Tory friends—[Interruption.] That money belongs in our schools, in our hospitals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-26", "file": "debates2025-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "d1113799502d5c8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.392.1", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Financial Statement and Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": " million back from dodgy pandemic spending and contracts. Tory contracts handed out by Tory Ministers to Tory peers and Tory donors. That money belongs in our schools and in our hospitals, and we are getting it back. Finally, we are ramping up sanctions on Russia and freezing known Russian assets. Let me be clear, I do not mean the hon. Member for Clacton (Nigel Farage) . Under the Conservatives —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-26", "file": "debates2025-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "d1113799502d5c8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.392.3", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Financial Statement and Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "rates revenues to fund the public services we all use, and supports investment to grow our economy. That does mean that today I am asking everyone to make a contribution. The previous Conservative Government froze personal tax thresholds from 2021 until 2028. Today, I will maintain all income tax and equivalent national insurance thresholds at their current level for three further years from 2028—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.392.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-26", "file": "debates2025-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "d1113799502d5c8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Financial Statement and Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "althiest pay their fair share. The reforms I made last year will raise an additional £8 billion a year by 2030 from wealth. I increased taxes last year on private equity, private schools and private jets, and I abolished the non-dom tax regime. This year I will make two changes to cap trust charges and prevent avoidance. I reformed inheritance tax on agricultural and business assets and this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-26", "file": "debates2025-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "d1113799502d5c8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Financial Statement and Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "sly. I will not tolerate the grotesque indignity to women of the rape clause any longer. It is dehumanising, it is cruel and I will remove it from the statute book. So because I am tackling fraud and error in our welfare system, cracking down on tax avoidance and reforming gambling taxation, I can announce today, fully costed and fully funded, the removal of the two-child limit in full from April.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-26", "file": "debates2025-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "d1113799502d5c8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Financial Statement and Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": " tackling fraud and error in our welfare system, cracking down on tax avoidance and reforming gambling taxation, I can announce today, fully costed and fully funded, the removal of the two-child limit in full from April. [Interruption.] It is amazing what people get so angry about. We have seen the Conservatives’ true colours today—the thing they get angry about is lifting children out of poverty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-26", "file": "debates2025-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "d1113799502d5c8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.397.3", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Financial Statement and Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "ystem, making it fairer and stronger for the future. I have protected our NHS, maintaining public investment and driving efficiency in government spending. I have taken action on our broken welfare system, rooting out waste and lifting children out of poverty. And I have cut the cost of living, with money off bills and prices frozen, all while keeping every single one of our manifesto commitments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.397.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-26", "file": "debates2025-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "d1113799502d5c8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.400.4", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "May I congratulate the right hon. Lady on delivering her second Budget? I hope she enjoyed it, because it really should be her last. What a total humiliation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.400.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-26", "file": "debates2025-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "d1113799502d5c8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.400.6", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "it was a one-off. She told everyone that from now on, there would be stability and she would pay for everything with growth. Today, she has broken every single one of those promises. If she had any decency, she would resign. At the last Budget, she said she was proud to be the country’s first-ever female Chancellor; after this Budget, she will go down as the country’s worst-ever Chancellor. Today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.400.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-26", "file": "debates2025-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "d1113799502d5c8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.400.8", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "bord of misery we just heard from her can be summed up in one sentence: Labour is hiking taxes to pay for welfare. This is a Budget for “Benefits Street”, paid for by working people. This Budget increases benefits for 560,000 families by an average of £5,000. The Government are hiking taxes on workers, pensioners and savers to pay for handouts to keep their Back Benchers quiet. These are the same—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.400.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-26", "file": "debates2025-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "d1113799502d5c8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.400.8", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “You!”", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "hancellor—she did not seem to understand what the OBR was saying. Inflation is up, not down, and that inflation was stoked by her tax and spend decisions. The economic and fiscal outlook says that the OBR expects inflation to stay higher for longer. Everybody else has read the OBR analysis, but she still has not. She blames higher than expected borrowing costs. Where does she think they came from?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.400.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-26", "file": "debates2025-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "d1113799502d5c8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.400.8", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Down!”", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": " chaos and disorder? There are 1 million more people claiming universal credit than there were at the time of the last Budget. Government spending? Up. Welfare spending? Up. Universal credit claimants? Up. Unemployment? Up. Debt interest? Up. Inflation? Up. And what about the things that we want to go up? Growth? Down. Investment? Down. Business confidence? Down. The credibility of the Chancellor?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.400.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-26", "file": "debates2025-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "d1113799502d5c8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.400.8", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "ng. Does the Chancellor really think that anyone will be confused by the sleight of hand in her speech? Her speech today was an exercise in self-delusion. Today she had an opportunity to apologise and show some humility; instead, we have been fed puff pieces in The Times and the FT showing a woman wallowing in self-pity and whining about mansplaining and misogyny. Let me explain to the Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.400.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-26", "file": "debates2025-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "d1113799502d5c8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.402.1", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "udget is “the single biggest reason growth has flatlined”. What did the Chancellor think would happen when she went on breakfast telly to do an emergency public service announcement: “I interrupt your Cheerios to bring you this frightening message about income tax”? Then, unbelievably, she changed her mind three days later. No wonder people are in despair. She says she wants people to respect her—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-26", "file": "debates2025-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "d1113799502d5c8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.402.3", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": " what? Making stuff up at the Dispatch Box, incompetent chaos and the highest tax burden in history? She said to them, “I’ll be there on Wednesday, I’ll be there next year, and I’ll be back the year after that.” God help us! She is spineless, shameless and completely aimless. Talk to any business and or anyone looking for a job—unemployment is up every single month since Labour has been in office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.402.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-26", "file": "debates2025-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "d1113799502d5c8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.402.3", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "God help us! She is spineless, shameless and completely aimless. Talk to any business and or anyone looking for a job—unemployment is up every single month since Labour has been in office. [Interruption.] Labour MPs do not want to hear it, but it is true. They are shouting and complaining, but they cannot create jobs. It is the worst year for graduate recruitment on record. Are they proud of that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.402.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-26", "file": "debates2025-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "d1113799502d5c8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.403.1", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "onth after month. She chose to abandon welfare reform, meaning that the benefits bill is spiralling. She chose to spend more and more money she did not have, leaving taxpayers to foot the bill. She is out of money, out of ideas, out of her depth, and she has run out of road. The country simply cannot afford a Chancellor who cannot keep her own promises. Her position is untenable, and she knows it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-26", "file": "debates2025-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "d1113799502d5c8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.403.1", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "o live in a country where hard work pays—where what you put in reflects what you get out, and we agree with them. There is an alternative, and we Conservatives have set it out. This Budget could have saved £47 billion, including £23 billion from welfare. The Chancellor could have applied our golden economic rule, allocating half those savings to cutting the deficit and using the rest to cut taxes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-26", "file": "debates2025-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "d1113799502d5c8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.423.1", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "l Justice estimates that by 2026 there will be a gap of over £2,500 between earnings and combined benefit income for under-25s. I could go on making those arguments, but I will proceed to the next part of my speech, on immigration. I accept that the greatest failure of our last Government was immigration. I admit, and I apologise on behalf of my Government, that the 2021 to 2024 Boriswave allowed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-26", "file": "debates2025-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "d1113799502d5c8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.423.1", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "ional Statistics show that direct taxes reduced income inequality by only 4.4 percentage points: limited redistribution for a heavy burden. Higher taxes on the wealthy simply encourage them to leave. Data from the Henley & Partners 2025 migration report suggests that the UK may lose 16,500 millionaires this year. What is the point of it? Why are we driving these wealth creators out of the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-26", "file": "debates2025-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "d1113799502d5c8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.454.1", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "in line with France and Germany before we left the European Union, and that our leaving the European Union was the “economic non-event” of the century. We have been approximating along at about the same growth rates. The very dire forecasts were based on the idea that there was going to be a 25% decline in our trade—that has not happened. There has been a marginal decline in our trade with the EU—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-26", "file": "debates2025-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "d1113799502d5c8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.455.2", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I will not be thanking the Chancellor and her Government on behalf of all the young people who thought they would be able to get jobs in the hospitality sector, but now will not get them. Students will not get those part-time jobs to help to pay off their student loans. These issues have to be balanced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.455.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-26", "file": "debates2025-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "d1113799502d5c8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.464.2", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Evans", "preceding_text": "ne thing: for 40 years, we have been in the grip of a failed economic theory, and we see it still today. We hear all the time that we can cut taxes and keep public services at the same level or improve them, and that there are no consequences of that, but there is only one outcome: more borrowing. That went on under previous Governments over and over again, but eventually we have to pay the piper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.464.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-26", "file": "debates2025-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "d1113799502d5c8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.465.1", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Evans", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman asks me a specific question, I will answer it. What does he mean? This is what I am talking about—this is the reason we are where we are. We are sitting on a debt mountain and we have to pay the piper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-26", "file": "debates2025-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "d1113799502d5c8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.465.3", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Evans", "preceding_text": "To be honest, it is a bit rich for the Conservatives to talk about job losses. In the 1970s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.465.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-26", "file": "debates2025-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "d1113799502d5c8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.465.3", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Evans", "preceding_text": "l, it actually rests at the door of the party opposite—that is the truth. More people claimed incapacity benefit under the Tory Government. They failed to bring about an economic plan. Those people lost their jobs because of heavy industry leaving. They did not plan for that or bring anything about; they just put people on the scrapheap. That is why we have the problems we have today. The fact is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.465.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-26", "file": "debates2025-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "d1113799502d5c8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.472.4", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Income Tax (Charge)", "cue_speaker": "Ben Spencer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Spencer", "preceding_text": "eform of child maintenance, particularly on the barriers that were set up in the system, both in terms of direct and indirect payments. I think all of us across the House would agree that the child maintenance system needs reform. The issue with the two-child benefit cap is that most, if not all, parents love their children and would like to have more children, should money, time and other things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-26a.472.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-27", "file": "debates2025-11-27d.xml", "sha256": "c52a1358fa77fbb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-27d.532.3", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "preceding_text": "ancastrians everywhere, and perhaps most especially to the only Lancastrian Speaker of the 158 people to have held that office—there will have to be three more before it reaches the number of Herefordians who have held it. I also wish a very happy Thanksgiving to all our American friends, hosts and families. No one needs reminding that the Leader of the House is a thoroughly good and sensible man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-27d.532.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-27", "file": "debates2025-11-27d.xml", "sha256": "c52a1358fa77fbb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-27d.539.0", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Alan Campbell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Campbell", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend does not mind, I might duck that one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-27d.539.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-27", "file": "debates2025-11-27d.xml", "sha256": "c52a1358fa77fbb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-27d.551.6", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Mel Stride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mel Stride", "preceding_text": " right and centre, and when they got into power, what did they do within a few short months? They slapped taxes—£40 billion-worth—on the British people, £25 billion of that by way of national insurance increases on business alone. It is no surprise that that destroyed employment and growth. They talked down the economy. They came up with this confected £22 billion black hole. What an irony it was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-27d.551.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-27", "file": "debates2025-11-27d.xml", "sha256": "c52a1358fa77fbb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-27d.554.0", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Mel Stride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mel Stride", "preceding_text": "tudent loan payment thresholds. Young people are already disproportionately impacted by the changes to national insurance, particularly the reduction in the threshold that means that lower-income earners, which include younger people, will be disproportionately impacted by those tax changes. The Employment Rights Bill, which is coming down the line, will make it far riskier to take younger people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-27d.554.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-27", "file": "debates2025-11-27d.xml", "sha256": "c52a1358fa77fbb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-27d.554.4", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Mel Stride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mel Stride", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Lady on reading accurately from the Whips’ circular. The Opposition stand by our record—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-27d.554.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-27", "file": "debates2025-11-27d.xml", "sha256": "c52a1358fa77fbb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-27d.554.4", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Mel Stride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mel Stride", "preceding_text": "ly from the Whips’ circular. The Opposition stand by our record—[Interruption.] Absolutely. When we were in government, we were a job-creating machine: there were 4 million more jobs under us than had been there before. When we left on the day of the general election, we had a near-record high level of employment and a near-record low level of unemployment. Unemployment is now at a five-year high—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-27d.554.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-27", "file": "debates2025-11-27d.xml", "sha256": "c52a1358fa77fbb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-27d.555.3", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Mel Stride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mel Stride", "preceding_text": "ngs should go towards driving down the deficit and the debt, but we would then have capacity to drive down taxes as well. That is exactly what we set out at our conference: £49 billion of savings, and £23 billion of savings on welfare. Thanks to the solid commendable work of my hon. Friend the shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, we have found those savings, and it is a tragedy that the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-27d.555.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-27", "file": "debates2025-11-27d.xml", "sha256": "c52a1358fa77fbb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-27d.555.3", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Mel Stride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mel Stride", "preceding_text": " exactly what we set out at our conference: £49 billion of savings, and £23 billion of savings on welfare. Thanks to the solid commendable work of my hon. Friend the shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, we have found those savings, and it is a tragedy that the Government—[Interruption.] The Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury says, “What are the savings?” The savings are £23 billion on welfare—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-27d.555.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-27", "file": "debates2025-11-27d.xml", "sha256": "c52a1358fa77fbb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-27d.555.3", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Mel Stride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mel Stride", "preceding_text": "the Treasury says, “What are the savings?” The savings are £23 billion on welfare—[Interruption.] It is a number. As a member of the Treasury team, he should be familiar with numbers, but clearly he is not. We will be bringing down the welfare bill, and the savings are clear. I direct the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury to the paper from the Centre for Social Justice, which makes it clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-27d.555.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-27", "file": "debates2025-11-27d.xml", "sha256": "c52a1358fa77fbb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-27d.555.3", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Mel Stride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mel Stride", "preceding_text": " the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury to the paper from the Centre for Social Justice, which makes it clear—[Interruption.] Well, it is rather better than the Resolution Foundation stuff that he produced, I have to say. The paper from the Centre for Social Justice makes it clear that by changing the gateways into longer-term sickness and health benefits, which we did when we were in office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-27d.555.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-27", "file": "debates2025-11-27d.xml", "sha256": "c52a1358fa77fbb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-27d.555.3", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Mel Stride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mel Stride", "preceding_text": "ntry. When we were in office, we made reforms to the work capability assessment that, according to the OBR’s own scoring, would have seen 450,000 fewer people going on to those benefits. We were making a real difference in arresting the rise of the welfare bill. What did the Government do on coming to office? They scrapped those measures on day one. They then came forward with their own proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-27d.555.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-27", "file": "debates2025-11-27d.xml", "sha256": "c52a1358fa77fbb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-27d.561.1", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Daisy Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daisy Cooper", "preceding_text": "ers does not make it any fairer. Economists from left to right all agreed yesterday that the Government’s proposals are complicated and will cause bunching in the tax system. They are a messy compromise that does not raise very much money, and will raise none for around three years. These proposals could result in many appeals and could distort behaviour. This is not the way to fix property taxes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-27d.561.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-27", "file": "debates2025-11-27d.xml", "sha256": "c52a1358fa77fbb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-27d.569.4", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Tonia Antoniazzi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tonia Antoniazzi", "preceding_text": "our—for helping my constituents who used to work at the former 3M plant with the pre-1997 indexation issues that they had with their pensions. I want to take this opportunity to raise a couple of other subjects that are very close to my heart, and I have had conversations with Front Benchers and the Chancellor regarding some of my concerns. I am the chair of the all-party parliamentary beer group—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-27d.569.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-27", "file": "debates2025-11-27d.xml", "sha256": "c52a1358fa77fbb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-27d.588.1", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Monica Harding", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ah!”", "preceding_speaker": "Monica Harding", "preceding_text": "l care? Where is the money in the plan for the £14 billion deficit in SEND provision to help local authorities that are about to go bankrupt? The Budget is a smorgasbord of contempt for aspiration and growth. The Government have not only abandoned working people in my constituency, but waged a quiet war on aspiration itself. I am pleased that the Government have lifted the two-child benefit limit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-27d.588.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-27", "file": "debates2025-11-27d.xml", "sha256": "c52a1358fa77fbb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-27d.604.0", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Olney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Olney", "preceding_text": "at how property is taxed. I have heard people say that residents in Darlington pay more than those in Mayfair. Let me tell the House that a band A resident in my constituency pays more council tax than a band F resident in the borough next door. This is not about equalising council tax rates between poorer and richer houses. We already pay a considerably elevated amount of council tax in Richmond.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-27d.604.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-11-27", "file": "debates2025-11-27d.xml", "sha256": "c52a1358fa77fbb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-27d.623.1", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Helen Whately", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Whately", "preceding_text": "th five children could get an extra £10,500, while a family with eight children will be able to get an extra £21,000, nearly as much as the annual pay before tax of a full-time worker on the minimum wage. Labour Members have told us again and again today how Labour is fixing child poverty by giving out that extra money. We all care about children—we all want children to get the best start in life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-11-27d.623.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-01", "file": "debates2025-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "10a1262af6013c51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-01b.657.5", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Education", "cue_speaker": "Bridget Phillipson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bridget Phillipson", "preceding_text": "The Conservatives might not be serious about tackling child poverty, but the Labour party is and always has been. This Government will lift 450,000 children out of poverty, alongside other measures such as Best Start family hubs, expanding childcare and new free breakfast clubs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-01b.657.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-01", "file": "debates2025-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "10a1262af6013c51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-01b.688.7", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "preceding_text": "This is all about working people, as I tried to explain earlier in my speech. Sixty per cent of people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-01b.688.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-01", "file": "debates2025-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "10a1262af6013c51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-01b.688.7", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "preceding_text": " per cent of families who will benefit from the measure are in work. If the right hon. Lady wants to ask about the Chancellor’s wider Budget strategy, let me say that I absolutely fully support it, because it was a fair Budget. Yes, it did raise taxes on those with expensive homes—a policy that I advocated for 10 years ago, as a matter of interest—as well as on gambling companies and on landlords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-01b.688.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-01", "file": "debates2025-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "10a1262af6013c51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-01b.689.5", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "preceding_text": "“Yes”, says the hon. Gentleman—although, of course, he was an Energy Minister and he never did it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-01b.689.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-01", "file": "debates2025-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "10a1262af6013c51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-01b.692.5", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "preceding_text": "I have already given way to the hon. Gentleman. With Russia still at war in Ukraine, with deep tensions in the middle east, and with NATO being tested, this is ridiculous irresponsibility from the Conservatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-01b.692.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-01", "file": "debates2025-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "10a1262af6013c51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-01b.693.4", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "preceding_text": "The shadow Secretary of State wants to talk about fairness. One of the practical consequences of retaining the two-child cap was that in order to be exempted from it, 3,000 women had to declare to a Department for Work and Pensions official that they had been raped.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-01b.693.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-01", "file": "debates2025-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "10a1262af6013c51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-01b.694.2", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Peter Swallow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Swallow", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady has repeatedly suggested that energy bills are going up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-01b.694.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-01", "file": "debates2025-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "10a1262af6013c51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-01b.696.0", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Claire Coutinho", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Claire Coutinho", "preceding_text": "We can exchange quotes, but the hon. Gentleman might want to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-01b.696.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-01", "file": "debates2025-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "10a1262af6013c51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-01b.712.2", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Luke Charters", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Luke Charters", "preceding_text": "I wanted to come in on the right hon. Member’s point about inflation. I am sure that he will welcome a Budget that reduces inflation. If he looks at the Blue Book—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-01b.712.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-01", "file": "debates2025-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "10a1262af6013c51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-01b.713.2", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Sam Carling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sam Carling", "preceding_text": "in the lowest income deciles will benefit most from the decisions taken by this Government from the 2024 Budget onwards. Indeed, by percentage of income, all but the richest 10% of households will benefit from overall policy decisions in 2028-29. When it comes to slashing the cost of living, this Government are backing up their words with real action, reversing the damage done by our predecessors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-01b.713.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-01", "file": "debates2025-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "10a1262af6013c51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-01b.713.2", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Sam Carling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sam Carling", "preceding_text": "ch the only one on record in which living standards fell. People in Peterborough and North West Cambridgeshire are really going to feel the benefits locally. I am delighted that the Chancellor announced £20 million for the new Peterborough sports quarter during her speech. That includes funding for a new Peterborough pool, after the Conservatives closed our regional pool when they ran the council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-01b.713.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-01", "file": "debates2025-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "10a1262af6013c51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-01b.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "James Naish", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "James Naish", "preceding_text": "I want to acknowledge my hon. Friend’s own leadership on this issue within the House. There are almost 200 former British Coal staff living in my constituency who will see a 41% uplift in their pension, and my hon. Friend has played a large part in that, so I thank him on behalf of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-01b.739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-01", "file": "debates2025-12-01b.xml", "sha256": "10a1262af6013c51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-01b.772.2", "colnum": "772", "heading": "M6: Junction 38", "cue_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "preceding_text": "It is more than that, Madam Deputy Speaker; it is about the main thoroughfare for lorries and traffic going to Stranraer and then to Larne. It is about that road and that junction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-01b.772.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-02", "file": "debates2025-12-02c.xml", "sha256": "5f2c565c4b68d729", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-02c.803.1", "colnum": "803", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "preceding_text": "stration of justice is as important as ever. It is a link that serves as a check on an occasionally overbearing state. Our ancestors did not stop bad King John, only to be undone 800 years later by this Prime Minister and his court jester. And all of this because the Justice Secretary cannot manage his own Department. This morning, in England alone more than 50 Crown courtrooms sit empty. In fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-02c.803.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-02", "file": "debates2025-12-02g.xml", "sha256": "29e2b23241c8e9b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-02g.803.1", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Criminal Court Reform", "cue_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "preceding_text": "stration of justice is as important as ever. It is a link that serves as a check on an occasionally overbearing state. Our ancestors did not stop bad King John, only to be undone 800 years later by this Prime Minister and his court jester. And all of this because the Justice Secretary cannot manage his own Department. This morning, in England alone more than 50 Crown courtrooms sit empty. In fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-02g.803.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-02", "file": "debates2025-12-02g.xml", "sha256": "29e2b23241c8e9b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-02g.836.6", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "preceding_text": "We could go back as far as the Government of Benjamin Disraeli and find a Conservative Prime Minister committed to public health in a way that Labour and Conservative Prime Ministers have been in my lifetime. We did not always agree on how to get there, but there was at least agreement on the destination. However, as the opposition parties lurch to the right, consensus after consensus is breaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-02g.836.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-02", "file": "debates2025-12-02g.xml", "sha256": "29e2b23241c8e9b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-02g.837.1", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Where are they?”", "preceding_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "preceding_text": "ants one, she’s got it, and it will be a short conversation. The answer from this side is “No, over our dead body.” We will always defend the NHS as a publicly funded public service, free at the point of use, owned by us, and there for all of us. Of course, it is not just the Leader of the Opposition saying these things; the leader of Reform wants to replace the NHS with an insurance-style system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-02g.837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-02", "file": "debates2025-12-02g.xml", "sha256": "29e2b23241c8e9b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-02g.840.0", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "preceding_text": "e say two things in response. I am almost certain that my hon. Friends will be delighted that he has intervened in defence of their plight at the hands of the Labour Whips, but he knows as well as I do that the Whip was removed from some of my hon. Friends not because of the substance of the issue they were raising but because we never, ever accept people voting against a King’s or Queen’s Speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-02g.840.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-02", "file": "debates2025-12-02g.xml", "sha256": "29e2b23241c8e9b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-02g.841.1", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "preceding_text": "n cure. The leader of Reform, the hon. Member for Clacton, says we should instead be educating people to make healthier choices—I assume that he will not be leading from the front on that campaign. But we know that Reform and the Conservatives oppose our agenda to improve public health. They oppose our investment in the NHS. They should just be honest and admit that they now oppose the NHS itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-02g.841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-02", "file": "debates2025-12-02g.xml", "sha256": "29e2b23241c8e9b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-02g.841.1", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "preceding_text": "alth. They oppose our investment in the NHS. They should just be honest and admit that they now oppose the NHS itself. [Interruption.] Conservative Members do not like it, but I challenge them to dispute a single claim I just read. Let me repeat the charge sheet for their benefit: they oppose our investment in the NHS. Have they not opposed every budget spending review since Labour came to office?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-02g.841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-02", "file": "debates2025-12-02g.xml", "sha256": "29e2b23241c8e9b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-02g.845.3", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Stuart Andrew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stuart Andrew", "preceding_text": "We will see what happens. It would be interesting to know exactly where the money will come from.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-02g.845.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-02", "file": "debates2025-12-02g.xml", "sha256": "29e2b23241c8e9b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-02g.904.1", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "Richard Fuller", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Fuller", "preceding_text": "I think a number of right hon. and hon. Members are aware, that since you presided over the opening of this debate last Wednesday, you have been subject to abuse online, with a series of presumptions on your ethnicity and your place of birth. I would like to say—I think on behalf of all of us here—that you have presided over this debate fairly, competently and in the best traditions of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-02g.904.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-02", "file": "debates2025-12-02g.xml", "sha256": "29e2b23241c8e9b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-02g.907.4", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "James Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Murray", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman knows, Madam Deputy Speaker, I give way to him week in, week out in this place, so I know pretty much what he is going to say. I do not have much time, so I am going to make some progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-02g.907.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-02", "file": "debates2025-12-02g.xml", "sha256": "29e2b23241c8e9b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-02g.908.3", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Income tax (charge)", "cue_speaker": "James Murray", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "James Murray", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman may not have been here, but a colleague of his asked me that same question before. Unfortunately, I did not know the history of that story; I shall have to look it up on Wikipedia tonight to find out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-02g.908.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-03", "file": "debates2025-12-03g.xml", "sha256": "929c02ffdf169865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-03g.978.6", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Wales", "cue_speaker": "Anna McMorrin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anna McMorrin", "preceding_text": "Quite the contrary: the visitor levy would boost the economy by up to £33 million if all councils were to accept it across Wales. I do not think that will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-03g.978.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-03", "file": "debates2025-12-03g.xml", "sha256": "929c02ffdf169865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-03g.979.8", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Ian Lavery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Lavery", "preceding_text": "ing in poverty, the unemployment rates are above the national average, and wages are below the national average. The people in the north-east are a proud breed, and we deserve much more than this, mind. Can the Prime Minister assure me and the people in my constituency and in the north-east whether there is much to look forward to on the horizon, and will he meet me to discuss how we can shape it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-03g.979.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-03", "file": "debates2025-12-03g.xml", "sha256": "929c02ffdf169865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-03g.981.0", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister talks about losing the plot. Let me read to him what his own Cabinet Members are saying—that the handling of the Budget has been “a disaster from start to finish.” Who said that? Was it him? Was it her? It was probably her, actually—it was probably the Chancellor!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-03g.981.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-03", "file": "debates2025-12-03g.xml", "sha256": "929c02ffdf169865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-03g.981.1", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "R did a productivity review on their record in office, and that cost an additional £16 billion that we had to find in the Budget. But notwithstanding that, we have protected the NHS—waiting times are coming down; notwithstanding that, we have cuts in borrowing at the fastest rate in the G7; notwithstanding that, we have got £150 off energy bills, in addition to rail fare and prescriptions freezes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-03g.981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-03", "file": "debates2025-12-03g.xml", "sha256": "929c02ffdf169865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-03g.981.3", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "What the right hon. Lady does not understand is that picking up a £16 billion tab for the Conservatives’ failure is not a good starting point for any Budget. The OBR said yesterday that the Chancellor’s speech was not misleading, so if the Leader of the Opposition had any decency, she would get up now and apologise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-03g.981.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-03", "file": "debates2025-12-03g.xml", "sha256": "929c02ffdf169865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-03g.982.2", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "Let me tell the Prime Minister: making the whole country poorer and destroying jobs is not how to keep children out of poverty. In the past week we have seen broken promises, broken leadership and a broken Budget for “Benefits Street”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-03g.982.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-03", "file": "debates2025-12-03g.xml", "sha256": "929c02ffdf169865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-03g.985.1", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "decisions at the Budget to invest in the NHS and tackle waiting lists, which was to help people such as David. We delivered £29 billion extra investment into the NHS and scrapped NHS England to invest in the frontline. We are opening 250 neighbourhood health centres to treat patients closer to home, and we have more than 5 million extra appointments being delivered. Waiting lists are down 230,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-03g.985.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-03", "file": "debates2025-12-03g.xml", "sha256": "929c02ffdf169865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-03g.987.1", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "Let me start by congratulating Rochdale football club on being top of the league for the time being.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-03g.987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-03", "file": "debates2025-12-03g.xml", "sha256": "929c02ffdf169865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-03g.988.3", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "George Freeman", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "George Freeman", "preceding_text": "I was recently the target of an AI deepfake video announcing my defection to Reform. As colleagues across the House will know, that is about as likely as Reform moving from pub populism to a coherent programme for government. I am delighted to reassure my Chief Whip and the House that I am and always have been a faithful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-03g.988.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-03", "file": "debates2025-12-03g.xml", "sha256": "929c02ffdf169865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-03g.991.3", "colnum": "991", "heading": "OBR: Resignation of Chair", "cue_speaker": "Mel Stride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mel Stride", "preceding_text": "y prior to his resignation? Mr Hughes said last week that he served “subject to the confidence of the Chancellor”. Did the Chancellor give Mr Hughes her full confidence? Was any pressure put on Mr Hughes to resign? Did the Chancellor approve the OBR’s publication on Friday and discuss it with the permanent secretary? I believe that the Minister has confirmed that, but perhaps he might do so again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-03g.991.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-03", "file": "debates2025-12-03g.xml", "sha256": "929c02ffdf169865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-03g.994.5", "colnum": "994", "heading": "OBR: Resignation of Chair", "cue_speaker": "Clive Efford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Efford", "preceding_text": "Over my years here, I have seen many Budgets. Members on the Government Benches wave their Order Papers on the day, then watch as the Budget unravels over the next 48 hours, but we do not seem to have had any of that with this Budget. It has been extraordinarily tight in what it seeks to achieve—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-03g.994.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-03", "file": "debates2025-12-03g.xml", "sha256": "929c02ffdf169865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-03g.1004.1", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Official Secrets Act and Espionage", "cue_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "preceding_text": "ember has referred provides further useful thought on how we can best safeguard our national security, and the Government genuinely welcome that constructive feedback. I look forward to engaging with the Committee, and with responsible Members in all parts of the House, as we continue to consider how best to go on protecting our democracy and our nation. The hon. Member asked me about the minutes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-03g.1004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-03", "file": "debates2025-12-03g.xml", "sha256": "929c02ffdf169865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-03g.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Pension Schemes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kirsty Blackman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kirsty Blackman", "preceding_text": "ut the local government pension scheme and how terrible it is that it is spending so much money on fees. That was in September, after Second Reading, at which he did not speak about that. He did not table any amendments on it before the Committee stage, and he has not shown up to raise it on Report. It is almost as if Reform MPs are saying things in press conferences and not doing any actual work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-03g.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-03", "file": "debates2025-12-03g.xml", "sha256": "929c02ffdf169865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-03g.1073.0", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Pension Schemes Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Milne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Milne", "preceding_text": "o let’s see what effect it has.” That is not good enough. The companies that have not been shamed into action in a quarter of a century are not miraculously going to discover altruism today. Some form of compulsion is required. I hope that the pre-1997 section will be taken further in the Lords, where the balance of power gives the Liberal Democrats somewhat more leverage than we had in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-03g.1073.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-03", "file": "debates2025-12-03g.xml", "sha256": "929c02ffdf169865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-03g.1081.2", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Pension Schemes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "preceding_text": " the hon. Member for Mid Dunbartonshire (Susan Murray) that the task of Government is to reduce the complexity in our pensions system, rather than just hoping that ever more advice will help savers to navigate it. That is exactly why the parts of the Bill on guided retirement and small pots are so important as we move forward. I would just like to cover some of the commitments I made in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-03g.1081.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-03", "file": "debates2025-12-03g.xml", "sha256": "929c02ffdf169865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-03g.1081.2", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Pension Schemes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "preceding_text": "t like to cover some of the commitments I made in Committee. [Interruption.] I know this is going to be electric for all Members. That is the kind of enthusiasm I hope to see from more Members across the House. I will make a quick update on pensions dashboards, which at least one Member will appreciate. User testing on pensions dashboards has begun. I know that will thrill everybody in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-03g.1081.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-03", "file": "debates2025-12-03g.xml", "sha256": "929c02ffdf169865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-03g.1081.2", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Pension Schemes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "preceding_text": " [Interruption.] I know this is going to be electric for all Members. That is the kind of enthusiasm I hope to see from more Members across the House. I will make a quick update on pensions dashboards, which at least one Member will appreciate. User testing on pensions dashboards has begun. I know that will thrill everybody in this House. [Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”] That is the attitude we need!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-03g.1081.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-04", "file": "debates2025-12-04c.xml", "sha256": "5323b30690740314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-04c.1166.2", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Local Elections", "cue_speaker": "Miatta Fahnbulleh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miatta Fahnbulleh", "preceding_text": "Let me be very clear: it was not us who briefed the media. We cannot control what other parties do—we always want to update the House, as well as local authorities. It is incredibly, incredibly important to be very clear that this is not about the cancellation of elections—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-04c.1166.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-04", "file": "debates2025-12-04c.xml", "sha256": "5323b30690740314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-04c.1168.0", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Local Elections", "cue_speaker": "Miatta Fahnbulleh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miatta Fahnbulleh", "preceding_text": "I reiterate that these are inaugural elections, and therefore we are not cancelling elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-04c.1168.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-04", "file": "debates2025-12-04c.xml", "sha256": "5323b30690740314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-04c.1168.0", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Local Elections", "cue_speaker": "Miatta Fahnbulleh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miatta Fahnbulleh", "preceding_text": "ng a statutory instrument and subject to the consent of places. To the right hon. Member’s specific point, it is really important that we bring the House back to why we are going through the process of local government reorganisation. We are not doing it because it is fun, or just for the sake of it; we are doing it because of the state in which local government was left by the Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-04c.1168.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-04", "file": "debates2025-12-04c.xml", "sha256": "5323b30690740314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-04c.1168.2", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Local Elections", "cue_speaker": "Miatta Fahnbulleh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miatta Fahnbulleh", "preceding_text": "deliver for their people. I know that the Conservatives do not like me to talk about it, but the legacy we have is that huge swathes of our country have been held back—growth and investment have been held back. That is not a reality that we are willing to contend with, which is why we are doing the hard yards and the graft in order to unlock powerful institutions that can deliver for their people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-04c.1168.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-04", "file": "debates2025-12-04c.xml", "sha256": "5323b30690740314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-04c.1260.2", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "War in Ukraine", "cue_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "preceding_text": "on or belief, which I chair, has undertaken incredible work on this matter so that all religions and communities can be represented. Damage has affected Orthodox churches, Protestant churches, prayer houses, Jehovah’s witness kingdom halls, Catholic churches, mosques, synagogues and others in a systematic campaign by Russia against religious churches and freedom of belief, which we all believe in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-04c.1260.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-08", "file": "debates2025-12-08f.xml", "sha256": "04206a2aab00fced", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-08f.32.3", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Restriction of Jury Trials", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the Minister’s treatment of the 60% figure only tends to confirm my belief that one is better off with the common sense of 12 ordinary people than with one legal professional.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-08f.32.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-08", "file": "debates2025-12-08f.xml", "sha256": "04206a2aab00fced", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-08f.62.0", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Child Poverty Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Helen Whately", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Whately", "preceding_text": "rd school uniforms for their kids. The Centre for Social Justice found that children in workless households are four times more likely to be materially deprived. Under this Government, the number of children growing up in workless households has seen the fastest increase on record, rising to 1.5 million children. Contrast that to our record, which saw the number of children in workless households—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-08f.62.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-08", "file": "debates2025-12-08f.xml", "sha256": "04206a2aab00fced", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-08f.89.3", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Griffith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Griffith", "preceding_text": "”—no Labour Members have declared their interests—478 times. It includes: the union right to roam; scrapping the turnout threshold on union strike ballots; more paid time off for union reps; and automatic deductions of union political funds. It also orders businesses to hand out Government-written pro-union propaganda. Strikes will become far more common. But don’t take do not take my word for it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-08f.89.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-09", "file": "debates2025-12-09d.xml", "sha256": "bd5696c127060770", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-09d.152.0", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Treasury", "cue_speaker": "Dan Tomlinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "We have set out our plans to reduce the multipliers for retail, hospitality and leisure properties, which is a rebalancing in the system. It means that those businesses—particularly the smallest RHL properties—face the lowest tax rate in the system since 1991. At the same time, there is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-09d.152.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-09", "file": "debates2025-12-09d.xml", "sha256": "bd5696c127060770", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-09d.193.3", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Grooming Gangs: Independent Inquiry", "cue_speaker": "Shabana Mahmood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Shabana Mahmood", "preceding_text": "First, the Minister for Safeguarding will happily talk to anyone, anywhere and under any auspices about the need for justice for victims and survivors of these heinous crimes. Let me just say to the hon. Lady that I hope the House can elevate beyond party political point scoring.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-09d.193.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-09", "file": "debates2025-12-09d.xml", "sha256": "bd5696c127060770", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-09d.200.1", "colnum": "200", "heading": "UK-EU Customs Union (Duty to Negotiate)", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hoare", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hoare", "preceding_text": "more isolated—far from it. The two are entirely separate things. The proposal in the Bill deserves to be opposed for four reasons. I say that as somebody who voted to remain part of the European Union in the referendum and campaigned strongly to do so, but I accepted the result of the referendum, as most people on the Conservative Benches did. I say to the hon. Member, whom I woke up to in my ear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-09d.200.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-09", "file": "debates2025-12-09d.xml", "sha256": "bd5696c127060770", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-09d.216.1", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Holden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Holden", "preceding_text": " of State. Despite the right hon. Lady’s flagrant disregard of taxpayers’ money and an “ain’t bovvered” approach to passenger welfare, I had hoped that she would have ensured that this Bill contained the necessary safeguards—guard rails, perhaps—and a strong regulator with the statutory authority to intervene and set things straight. Are we going to have such a regulator? Oh, but we dare to dream!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-09d.216.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-09", "file": "debates2025-12-09d.xml", "sha256": "bd5696c127060770", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-09d.236.0", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Wendy Morton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wendy Morton", "preceding_text": "ll prevents such a unilateral political decision from being made again. It provides no guarantee of transparency, and no duty to consult affected communities. As a former Rail Minister, I am very aware that we on this side of the House have long recognised that the old model needed updating. That is why, in government, we began the work for Great British Railways, through the Williams-Shapps plan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-09d.236.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-09", "file": "debates2025-12-09d.xml", "sha256": "bd5696c127060770", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-09d.267.0", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jerome Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jerome Mayhew", "preceding_text": "Let us wait to see if Labour actually nationalises it first; but the Conservatives are here to lead, not to follow. There is plenty of evidence because we have tried the nationalisation experiment before. The railways were nationalised in 1948.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-09d.267.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-10", "file": "debates2025-12-10c.xml", "sha256": "63e583e8ea43459f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.304.3", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "Let me answer the question for the Prime Minister. He is being called a caretaker because everyone can see that he has lost control of his party, and this lot on the Government Front Bench are all so busy trying to replace him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.304.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-10", "file": "debates2025-12-10c.xml", "sha256": "63e583e8ea43459f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.304.5", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "Labour Members can make as much noise as they like. We all know that this lot are so busy trying to replace the Prime Minister that they have taken their eyes off the ball. Let us start—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.304.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-10", "file": "debates2025-12-10c.xml", "sha256": "63e583e8ea43459f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.304.6", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "I am very pleased to say that we are taking £150 off energy bills. I can also tell the right hon. Lady that that is on top of the £150 we took off last year for the 3 million poorest families and have now taken off for the 6 million poorest families. She talks about leaving, but the problem is that last week, three ex——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.304.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-10", "file": "debates2025-12-10c.xml", "sha256": "63e583e8ea43459f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "More than when the Conservatives left office, and I am very proud to say so. We are on an upward trajectory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-10", "file": "debates2025-12-10c.xml", "sha256": "63e583e8ea43459f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.305.2", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "Wrong! There are now 400 fewer teachers since the Education Secretary came into office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.305.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-10", "file": "debates2025-12-10c.xml", "sha256": "63e583e8ea43459f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.305.3", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "justice system is utterly broken; Sir Brian Leveson has said that. They lost control of our borders. They lost control of every single Department. The right hon. Lady has obviously spent the morning rehearsing for “The Liz Truss Show”. She is probably going to be the guest star next week, both of them talking about how Liz Truss was “100% right”. Liz Truss said that the Conservatives need to take—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.305.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-10", "file": "debates2025-12-10c.xml", "sha256": "63e583e8ea43459f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.306.1", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "I asked the Prime Minister how many appointments have been lost to strike action. He does not know. Let me tell him. We have lost 93,000 appointments to strikes since the Health Secretary gave doctors a massive pay rise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-10", "file": "debates2025-12-10c.xml", "sha256": "63e583e8ea43459f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.306.1", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": " know the truth if it punched them in the face, but I am telling them the truth. It is no wonder that we read this morning that the former Deputy Prime Minister, the right hon. Member for Ashton-under-Lyne (Angela Rayner) , has said that she would rather stick pins in her eyes than be on the Health Secretary’s golden ticket. The Prime Minister congratulates himself on 5 million extra appointments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-10", "file": "debates2025-12-10c.xml", "sha256": "63e583e8ea43459f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.312.3", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Yes.”", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right to draw attention to the crisis in our courts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.312.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-10", "file": "debates2025-12-10c.xml", "sha256": "63e583e8ea43459f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.312.3", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right to draw attention to the crisis in our courts—[Hon. Members: “Yes.”] I hear “yes” from the Opposition Benches. Sir Brian Leveson is one of our most respected senior judges. He did an independent report and made it clear that we risk “total collapse” of the criminal justice system without change—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.312.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-10", "file": "debates2025-12-10c.xml", "sha256": "63e583e8ea43459f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.312.3", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "out change—[Interruption.] The Conservatives are chuntering along, but they left a system near total collapse, where victims of sexual violence and rape wait years to get justice. That is not justice—that is victims failed. I know that my hon. Friend feels very strongly about this matter, and I can reassure him that juries will remain a cornerstone of our justice system for the most serious cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.312.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-10", "file": "debates2025-12-10c.xml", "sha256": "63e583e8ea43459f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Seasonal Work", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Huddleston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Huddleston", "preceding_text": "This is just noise. The hon. Lady needs to speak to businesses in her constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-10", "file": "debates2025-12-10c.xml", "sha256": "63e583e8ea43459f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.329.4", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Seasonal Work", "cue_speaker": "Blair McDougall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Blair McDougall", "preceding_text": "nths and nearly two thirds have seen rising order volumes in the last three months. The hon. Gentleman mentions, as did other Members, Small Business Saturday. Small Business Britain reports that spending during Small Business Saturday last weekend was the highest it has been in five years. Despite what the hon. Gentleman says, I ran a business for a decade and I know how hard the last decade was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.329.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-10", "file": "debates2025-12-10c.xml", "sha256": "63e583e8ea43459f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.343.1", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Seasonal Work", "cue_speaker": "Euan Stainbank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Euan Stainbank", "preceding_text": "Yes, absolutely. I also find it disgraceful that the Leader of the Opposition suggested this week that we should freeze the minimum wage. That would mean that, in later years, the workers who are going to keep the lights on this Christmas in the gift shops, the pubs and the restaurants would be entitled to less as inflation went up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-10", "file": "debates2025-12-10c.xml", "sha256": "63e583e8ea43459f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.348.0", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Seasonal Work", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hoare", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hoare", "preceding_text": "Let us take a look at the amendment which Mr Speaker has selected in the name of the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister’s amendment tells us that he “welcomes the policy paper” on “the plan for small and medium sized businesses, which sets out”— wait for it— “a comprehensive vision for productivity and success”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.348.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-10", "file": "debates2025-12-10c.xml", "sha256": "63e583e8ea43459f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.349.3", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Seasonal Work", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hoare", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hoare", "preceding_text": "if you like, and we’ll abandon if we have to, but there’ll be a cost that will have to be paid. That cost will be taxed, and there will be a concomitant diminution in confidence among employers and customers.” I could quote several publicans, but Barbara Cossins, who owns and runs the Langton Arms in Tarrant Monkton, would have my guts for garters if I did not take this opportunity to mention her.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.349.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-10", "file": "debates2025-12-10c.xml", "sha256": "63e583e8ea43459f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.365.3", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Seasonal Work", "cue_speaker": "Antonia Bance", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Antonia Bance", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend. Employers may continue to dismiss, as long as they do so for fair reasons and following a fair process, and good employers already do that. My favourite measures in the Employment Rights Bill—this could be a very long speech, but I will bring it to a close—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.365.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-10", "file": "debates2025-12-10c.xml", "sha256": "63e583e8ea43459f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Seasonal Work", "cue_speaker": "Tom Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Hayes", "preceding_text": "o grow the economy, and are to do the other things that we want to do as a country, what is the right way of raising the funds that allows our country to pay down our debt and the amount we spend each year to service our deficit and to bring the change that people want in delivery of public services? I ask the hon. Lady please not to say “Welfare reform.” I agree that we need to do welfare reform—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-10", "file": "debates2025-12-10c.xml", "sha256": "63e583e8ea43459f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.373.2", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Seasonal Work", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Bool", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Bool", "preceding_text": "At least the hon. Member has acknowledged that we have to repay debt, unlike the Green party, which suddenly believes that repaying debt interest is not a viable or true alternative in this world. The hon. Gentleman denies talk of welfare, but it is a fundamental element.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.373.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-10", "file": "debates2025-12-10c.xml", "sha256": "63e583e8ea43459f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.379.5", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Seasonal Work", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Griffith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Griffith", "preceding_text": "mise of strawberries and cream sellers in Wimbledon fortnight. The Government’s plans will even mean the death of Father Christmases and assistant elf helpers in shopping centres across the nation, because there is little demand for a Christmas elf in January, February or March. This is bureaucratic madness, yet Ministers press on, deaf to the cries of those who would most benefit from the choice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.379.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-10", "file": "debates2025-12-10c.xml", "sha256": "63e583e8ea43459f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.398.2", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Conduct of the Chancellor of the Exchequer", "cue_speaker": "Mel Stride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mel Stride", "preceding_text": "et. Billions of pounds more are to be borrowed and spent. The consequences of that are that inflation has been stickier and higher for longer, as I have set out. It will be the highest in the G7 this year and the highest in the G7 next year. The consequences of that are that the Bank of England has had to keep interest rates higher for longer than it otherwise would have. The consequences of that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.398.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-10", "file": "debates2025-12-10c.xml", "sha256": "63e583e8ea43459f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.411.3", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Conduct of the Chancellor of the Exchequer", "cue_speaker": "Daisy Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daisy Cooper", "preceding_text": "st year and more, set out the different ways in which we would raise taxes, including by reforming capital gains tax, looking at other taxes and a windfall tax on the big banks, as recommended by the Institute for Public Policy Research and endorsed by independent economists. We have also set out how getting a customs union with the European Union would boost public finances by £25 billion a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.411.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-10", "file": "debates2025-12-10c.xml", "sha256": "63e583e8ea43459f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Conduct of the Chancellor of the Exchequer", "cue_speaker": "James Wild", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Wild", "preceding_text": " is a rare and serious conduct motion that calls on the Chancellor of the Exchequer to apologise for misleading the country about the state of the public finances, breaking promises on tax and breaching the OBR confidentiality process—in short, for not being straight with the British people. I was expecting to refer to more contributions this afternoon, but it has been a slightly curtailed debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-10", "file": "debates2025-12-10c.xml", "sha256": "63e583e8ea43459f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.420.1", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Conduct of the Chancellor of the Exchequer", "cue_speaker": "James Wild", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Wild", "preceding_text": "I am sure that Madam Deputy Speaker is not questioning anyone. I am pointing out that the Chancellor said that there was a big £16 billion downgrade from the productivity—that was all offset—but she did not mention that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-10c.420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-11", "file": "debates2025-12-11c.xml", "sha256": "b9937155fccd8c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-11c.461.2", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Business and Trade", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": " Brexit which, frankly, was not fit for purpose. That is precisely what we should be changing. Of course there are problems for lots of businesses up and down the country, but I note that every single time we ask the Conservatives, “Where is the money to come from to pay for improving the NHS and putting our public services back on their feet?” they always say it will come from some random budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-11c.461.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-11", "file": "debates2025-12-11c.xml", "sha256": "b9937155fccd8c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-11c.461.7", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Business and Trade", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "Well, I will find some hearing aids for the hon. Lady, because she refused to listen to the answer I was providing. Basically, when the Conservatives left government, they had not provided a single penny to make sure the cliff edge would not affect every single small business in this country. That is the problem they should be apologising for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-11c.461.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-11", "file": "debates2025-12-11c.xml", "sha256": "b9937155fccd8c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-11c.468.2", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Business and Trade", "cue_speaker": "Wera Hobhouse", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “There are!”", "preceding_speaker": "Wera Hobhouse", "preceding_text": "of £250 million a day in tax revenue, according to research from the House of Commons Library. We Liberal Democrats want the Government to focus on a golden opportunity to grow the economy by considering a new customs union with the EU. Is it not time that the Government look at a new customs union with the EU? We will be told that there are deals with India and New Zealand that would be in peril.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-11c.468.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-11", "file": "debates2025-12-11c.xml", "sha256": "b9937155fccd8c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-11c.532.1", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Backbench Business - St Andrew’s Day and Scottish AffairsBackbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Graeme Downie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graeme Downie", "preceding_text": "I could not agree more. St Andrews University, which I mentioned at the beginning of my remarks, is the heart of education in Scotland, along with institutions in Edinburgh, Glasgow and elsewhere across the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-11c.532.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-15", "file": "debates2025-12-15e.xml", "sha256": "87219421998a3c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-15e.618.8", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "preceding_text": "Having been a shadow fisheries Minister when the botched Brexit deal went through, I know that much of the extra fish is paper fish that cannot be caught. The new restrictions that were put on our fishermen mean that it does not work. This Department is focusing on improving our defences and increasing defence spending—something the right hon. Gentleman never did when he was in government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-15e.618.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-15", "file": "debates2025-12-15e.xml", "sha256": "87219421998a3c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-15e.627.0", "colnum": "627", "heading": "NHS: Winter Preparedness", "cue_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "preceding_text": "It is as if the ghost of Christmas past has come to visit: one of my predecessors is here to remind the BMA of what it used to have to deal with. Perhaps the BMA will be a bit more content with the ghost of Christmas present—and that is before we are threatened by the ghost of Christmas future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-15e.627.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-15", "file": "debates2025-12-15e.xml", "sha256": "87219421998a3c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-15e.643.5", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Violence against Women and Girls Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Jess Phillips", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jess Phillips", "preceding_text": "Okay, I may have to stand corrected, but all I can say is that a huge amount of what is being cited on police numbers is being taken from the previous Government’s figures. In my area, we have not got up to the level of police funding that we had in 2010, so I will not take lectures from the Conservatives, given the hollowing out of the police over their era.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-15e.643.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-15", "file": "debates2025-12-15e.xml", "sha256": "87219421998a3c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-15e.660.1", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Sudan: Humanitarian Situation", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Member for Aberdeenshire North and Moray East (Seamus Logan) on securing this urgent question. Although there have been two recent sanctions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-15e.660.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-15", "file": "debates2025-12-15e.xml", "sha256": "87219421998a3c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-15e.660.2", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Sudan: Humanitarian Situation", "cue_speaker": "Chris Elmore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Elmore", "preceding_text": "sanctions, but I confirm to the House that we will not rule out any additional sanctions. On the work of the Quad, the statement on 12 September is a significant development, and we remain completely focused on pushing for the humanitarian pause, the wider ceasefire, and supporting the Sudanese-led political transition. It is for all sides as part of that Quad to ensure that they can do that work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-15e.660.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-15", "file": "debates2025-12-15e.xml", "sha256": "87219421998a3c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-15e.690.1", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Griffith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Griffith", "preceding_text": "f the cap. It is beyond me, I am afraid. Yet what is happening in our employment tribunals? On Friday, as I am sure the Minister knows, it was revealed that the delay and backlogs at the employment tribunal have reached their highest ever level. At the end of the most recent quarter, there were 515,000 open claims. Before anyone intervenes, let me say that I accept that much of that was inherited—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-15e.690.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-15", "file": "debates2025-12-15e.xml", "sha256": "87219421998a3c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-15e.700.4", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Employment Rights Bill", "cue_speaker": "Laurence Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Laurence Turner", "preceding_text": " rejected, it would have two immediate effects. First, it would collapse the agreement between employers and union representatives. It is not some reasonable call for a review; it strikes out the changes to the compensation cap, which was a key component of that agreement. The Conservatives know that it is a nonsense to call for a review if the legislation that would give it effect is not carried—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-15e.700.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-15", "file": "debates2025-12-15e.xml", "sha256": "87219421998a3c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-15e.720.1", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Industry and Exports (Financial Assistance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "nce and said that the trouble with the French economy was that there was no French word for “entrepreneur”. It was repeated by a Conservative Secretary of State for Wales, who went to Wales and said that there is no word in Welsh for “entrepreneur”—that was a bit ironic. I will try to do something extraordinary, Madam Deputy Speaker, by answering the questions that have been put to the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-15e.720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-15", "file": "debates2025-12-15e.xml", "sha256": "87219421998a3c99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-15e.721.1", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Industry and Exports (Financial Assistance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "Yes, but I am not sure that the hon. Gentleman was here for the rest of the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-15e.721.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-16", "file": "debates2025-12-16d.xml", "sha256": "f8a31a8ef78a4857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-16d.797.0", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Planning Reform", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Pennycook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Pennycook", "preceding_text": "r brownfield passports, that will mean that, in practice, the development of suitable urban land will be acceptable by default. That is a doubling down on a brownfield-first approach. The shadow Minister raised concerns about the green-belt. As ever, this Government are committed to protecting the green-belt, which has served England’s towns and cities well over many decades, but we did introduce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-16d.797.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-16", "file": "debates2025-12-16d.xml", "sha256": "f8a31a8ef78a4857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-16d.797.0", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Planning Reform", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Pennycook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Pennycook", "preceding_text": "that is the right number or whether it should go higher or lower. There are appropriate densities in the framework for all stations across the country and higher densities for specific well-connected stations in those areas. The shadow Minister asked me what we are doing on rural affordable housing. We want to see greater support for social and affordable housing in rural areas. The new framework—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-16d.797.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-16", "file": "debates2025-12-16d.xml", "sha256": "f8a31a8ef78a4857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-16d.803.1", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Planning Reform", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Pennycook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Pennycook", "preceding_text": "ll-connected stations outside. That will provide clarity and confidence that these locations are suitable for growth, with the potential to unlock land for up to 1.8 million homes over the decades ahead. Alongside this, as I have said, we are proposing minimum densities to ensure that land is used effectively. The right hon. Gentleman asked me for a specific radius. It is set out in the framework—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-16d.803.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-16", "file": "debates2025-12-16d.xml", "sha256": "f8a31a8ef78a4857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-16d.826.3", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dan Tomlinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "I am happy to discuss those numbers with the right hon. Member in more detail, either afterwards or I can come in and discuss those points with him, although I did not quite follow all of the maths—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-16d.826.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-16", "file": "debates2025-12-16d.xml", "sha256": "f8a31a8ef78a4857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-16d.858.3", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Robbie Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robbie Moore", "preceding_text": "eir late 80s. They have been told that the only way to pay a BPR liability, should a death occur after April 2026, is to sell plant or machinery, or to sell shares in their business, either way losing control of their business or not being able to keep their business productive. That demonstrates how uninformed the Government are about the changes they will be making. I think I have made my point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-16d.858.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-16", "file": "debates2025-12-16d.xml", "sha256": "f8a31a8ef78a4857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-16d.867.1", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gareth Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Gareth Davies", "preceding_text": "t to give those on the Labour Front Bench a maths lesson, although I am afraid it is a little late for that and entirely futile. I enjoyed very much the speech by the right hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr Carmichael) . I enjoyed his A. A. Milne reference almost as much as I enjoyed the unexpected mention of Tinder. Of course, when it comes to politics, I encourage everybody to swipe right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-16d.867.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-17", "file": "debates2025-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "e15b77d1185dab2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.903.2", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "What pubs has the Prime Minister been speaking to? Labour Members have been barred from all of them!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.903.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-17", "file": "debates2025-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "e15b77d1185dab2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.903.4", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "Of course the Prime Minister is not going to ban doctors’ strikes; he does not have the baubles!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.903.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-17", "file": "debates2025-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "e15b77d1185dab2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.914.0", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Northern Ireland Troubles: Legacy and Reconciliation", "cue_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "preceding_text": "Thank you very much, Mr Speaker, for granting this urgent question, which I have asked because I think there is a very real danger that the Government may be about to break the law. It is very important that the House is aware that the Joint Committee on Human Rights was not in possession of all the facts when it wrote its report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.914.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-17", "file": "debates2025-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "e15b77d1185dab2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.915.1", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Northern Ireland Troubles: Legacy and Reconciliation", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "I do agree with my hon. Friend. It seems that the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar (Alex Burghart) and the Conservative party remain wedded to immunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-17", "file": "debates2025-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "e15b77d1185dab2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.915.1", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Northern Ireland Troubles: Legacy and Reconciliation", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "ative party remain wedded to immunity. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for South Suffolk (James Cartlidge) says, as he does in all these debates, “Conditional immunity.” I think the last time we debated it, I reminded him that the previous Government’s legislation said that the commission must give immunity—must give immunity—if the conditions for giving immunity are met, which are, quite clearly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-17", "file": "debates2025-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "e15b77d1185dab2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.919.0", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Northern Ireland Troubles: Legacy and Reconciliation", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "I would say two things to the right hon. Gentleman. First, I reject the suggestion that I or the Government have misappropriated a remedial order or misapplied section 10 of the Human Rights Act, and I would cite in aid of that argument that the JCHR, whose job it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.919.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-17", "file": "debates2025-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "e15b77d1185dab2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.921.2", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Northern Ireland Troubles: Legacy and Reconciliation", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "came into office committed to get rid of immunity—we have been quite clear about that from the start—and the remedial order will seek to give effect to that. We have discussed prosecutions of veterans. If one looks at the figures, one sees that there has been one successful prosecution of a veteran since the signing of the Good Friday agreement. The point I was making, if one looks at the figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.921.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-17", "file": "debates2025-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "e15b77d1185dab2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.922.0", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Northern Ireland Troubles: Legacy and Reconciliation", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "As I have indicated, I reject the suggestion that the Government are in any way engaging in lawfare against veterans, in the same way that I reject any suggestion that there are such things as politically motivated or vexatious prosecutions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.922.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-17", "file": "debates2025-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "e15b77d1185dab2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.922.2", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Northern Ireland Troubles: Legacy and Reconciliation", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "Once again, I do not accept that the Government are acting on an unlawful basis. Given the right hon. and learned Gentleman’s distinguished legal credentials and experience, I say to him that I note he encourages me to speculate on a potential outcome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.922.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-17", "file": "debates2025-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "e15b77d1185dab2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.926.0", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Northern Ireland Troubles: Legacy and Reconciliation", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am too experienced to try to displease you in any way. For clarity, I was responding to the fact that the hon. Gentleman had accused—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.926.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-17", "file": "debates2025-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "e15b77d1185dab2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.932.1", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Puberty Suppressants Trial", "cue_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "preceding_text": "I certainly do not need to be told what my responsibilities are on this. I always take responsibility for the decisions I take. I acknowledge the extent to which the hon. Gentleman and members of his party seek to weaponise this issue, and to personalise it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.932.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-17", "file": "debates2025-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "e15b77d1185dab2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.952.3", "colnum": "952", "heading": "UK-EU Common Understanding Negotiations", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "and the relatives of the victims, of the infected blood scandal? He did a very good job, and he reached out to us in a much-appreciated, non-partisan way. This statement is entitled “UK-EU Common Understanding Negotiations”. Is it his understanding, as the Minister for EU relations, that the people with whom he is having dealings are still bent on the creation of a federal United States of Europe?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.952.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-17", "file": "debates2025-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "e15b77d1185dab2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.984.1", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Francis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Francis", "preceding_text": "Five years ago, the Conservative-controlled council in the London borough of Bexley found itself in such a dire situation that it sought a capitalisation order, made 15% of staff redundant and had to sell a building because it could not even fund the redundancy notices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.984.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-17", "file": "debates2025-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "e15b77d1185dab2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.993.2", "colnum": "993", "heading": "INEOS Chemicals: Grangemouth", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Flynn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Flynn", "preceding_text": " incredibly important and, contrary to what the Prime Minister said earlier, everyone will welcome that, but we cannot escape the fact that 500 jobs are being lost every two weeks in Scotland’s North sea—not my figures but those of Paul de Leeuw from Robert Gordon University, and they are emphasised by the GMB trade union, local charities and industry itself. The Chancellor, while at Grangemouth —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.993.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-17", "file": "debates2025-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "e15b77d1185dab2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.1008.2", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. This is a short and simple Bill. It is a stocking filler to yesterday’s Finance Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.1008.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-17", "file": "debates2025-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "e15b77d1185dab2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.1009.6", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "preceding_text": "I am going to make a bit of progress, and then I will give way to the hon. Member. The truth is that reform was inevitable. Although Conservative Members are not saying it now, they know this is true, because it is what they said in government. In the 2015 summer Budget, they said: “Salary sacrifice arrangements…are becoming increasingly popular and the cost to the taxpayer is rising”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.1009.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-17", "file": "debates2025-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "e15b77d1185dab2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.1012.0", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Garnier", "preceding_text": "take drops to £2.6 billion in the second year because people will change their behaviour. Even the Government lose out. The Government’s contradictions are legion. The financial inclusion strategy, published recently, stated very clearly: “Our aim is to create a culture in which everyone is supported to build a savings habit, building their financial resilience in the long term.” A brilliant idea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.1012.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-17", "file": "debates2025-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "e15b77d1185dab2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.1015.1", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Garnier", "preceding_text": "Indeed—our report, though it was published in May this year. It is a weighty tome. Even its title is pretty dry: “Understanding the attitudes and behaviours of employers towards salary sacrifice for pensions”. The Minister proudly told us that this document underscored the rationale for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.1015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-17", "file": "debates2025-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "e15b77d1185dab2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.1015.1", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Garnier", "preceding_text": "invest back into their business and staff; and incentives for recruitment and retention. These are all good things—this is the stuff of delivering growth and the basis of creating a savings and investment culture. Why would this Government want to take it away? The report came to the conclusion that of the three proposed options for change, the £2,000 cap is no more than the least terrible option.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.1015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-17", "file": "debates2025-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "e15b77d1185dab2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.1015.1", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Garnier", "preceding_text": "top earners, but the reality is that those on middle incomes will be disproportionately hit—the very people we should be encouraging to save more. The Bill will also potentially hit low earners. Somebody who is lucky enough to get a Christmas bonus will not be able to add it to their salary sacrifice, taking advantage of any headroom, because the accounting looks at regular payments, not one-offs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.1015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-17", "file": "debates2025-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "e15b77d1185dab2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.1015.1", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Garnier", "preceding_text": "ons will have on employers. According to the Government’s own impact assessment, it will hit 290,000 employers. A business highlighted in the 2025 report that “If salary sacrifice were to go away, it would be additional cost of £600,000 to £700,000 per annum to the company in national insurance”. While the Government are not abolishing it altogether, 44% of people currently using salary sacrifice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.1015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-17", "file": "debates2025-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "e15b77d1185dab2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.1015.1", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Garnier", "preceding_text": "y sacrifice were to go away, it would be additional cost of £600,000 to £700,000 per annum to the company in national insurance”. While the Government are not abolishing it altogether, 44% of people currently using salary sacrifice—[Interruption.] I am worried; the pairing Whip is coughing. Anyway, there is going to be a cost, and that money will be taken away from businesses. This is going to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.1015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-17", "file": "debates2025-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "e15b77d1185dab2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.1015.1", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Garnier", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Garnier", "preceding_text": "entation. It would be a big job.” The National Audit Office estimates that the annual cost on business just to comply with this Government’s tax system is £15.4 billion, yet the Government feel that the time is right to put more costs on businesses. I have to ask, what happened to the Chancellor’s pledge to cut red tape by a quarter? I think I will move on to my conclusion in order to save people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.1015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-17", "file": "debates2025-12-17b.xml", "sha256": "e15b77d1185dab2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.1022.0", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Nokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Nokes", "preceding_text": "Order. Before I call the Minister, I want to put on the record that the behaviour I have seen on both Front Benches this evening has been about the worst I have ever witnessed. The debate should take place across the Dispatch Box, not from a sedentary position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-17b.1022.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-18", "file": "debates2025-12-18d.xml", "sha256": "7109b8b42595569a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-18d.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Environment, Food and Rural Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Emma Reynolds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emma Reynolds", "preceding_text": "I am proud that this Government, unlike the previous Government, are protecting and promoting British farming in our trade deals, including with India and the USA.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-18d.1040.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-18", "file": "debates2025-12-18d.xml", "sha256": "7109b8b42595569a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-18d.1066.3", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Animal Welfare Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "preceding_text": "I feel I should declare an interest, Mr Speaker, in that Mrs Carmichael will be one of those veterinary surgeons who will be on call on Christmas Day this year. It will be me in the kitchen, yet again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-18d.1066.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-18", "file": "debates2025-12-18d.xml", "sha256": "7109b8b42595569a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-18d.1075.2", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Bobby Dean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bobby Dean", "preceding_text": "d news for the elves, as thanks to the national minimum wage increase, their pay is on the up. However, this wage compression is apparently demotivating for Father Christmas and some garden centres across the country are struggling to get him to turn up. As it happens, he is also upset about the Employment Rights Bill, because it has made it much more difficult for him to get the sack—ba-dum tish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-18d.1075.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-18", "file": "debates2025-12-18d.xml", "sha256": "7109b8b42595569a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-18d.1106.4", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Violence against Women and Girls Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Rushanara Ali", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Rushanara Ali", "preceding_text": "I commend my hon. Friend for her tireless work to tackle violence against women and girls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-18d.1106.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2025-12-18", "file": "debates2025-12-18d.xml", "sha256": "7109b8b42595569a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-18d.1120.1", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Ukraine", "cue_speaker": "John Martin McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Martin McDonnell", "preceding_text": "May I return to the issue of the Russian assets? I talked to members of the Ukrainian community last night, and their anxiety is that if a deal is not done quickly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2025-12-18d.1120.1"}
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