{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-05", "file": "debates2026-01-05d.xml", "sha256": "6e792f96b537a005", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-05d.35.1", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Agricultural Property Relief and Business Property Relief", "cue_speaker": "Dan Tomlinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "es that the Government have proposed. The hon. Gentleman asks about manifesto commitments. We were very clear in our manifesto that we would return economic stability to this country, putting behind us the chaos of Liz Truss and the chaos that the Conservatives left us with. Part of that is about ensuring that we do not continue to borrow at excessive levels, as they did, but bring borrowing down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-05d.35.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-05", "file": "debates2026-01-05d.xml", "sha256": "6e792f96b537a005", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-05d.64.2", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Northern Ireland Troubles Bill: Armed Forces Recruitment and Retention", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Carns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Carns", "preceding_text": "ody had athlete’s foot as a child, they could not join the military, and people needed multiple sets of medical records. That was ridiculous. We also have financial retention incentives. [Interruption.] Individuals on the Conservative Benches can say that they know, but they did nothing about it; I lived it. We have done a single living accommodation review, and we have a Christmas travel payment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-05d.64.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-06", "file": "debates2026-01-06d.xml", "sha256": "d8455694550fb9f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-06d.158.7", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Energy Security and Net Zero", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Nothing!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-06d.158.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-06", "file": "debates2026-01-06d.xml", "sha256": "d8455694550fb9f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-06d.175.1", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ian Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Murray", "preceding_text": "nvestment. Government Departments will be held to standards equivalent to those set out in the Bill. That is why the public sector and the Government are not included in the scope of the Bill. The Government should not need to legislate for themselves; we should just get on with making sure that we are leading the charge and that the cyber action plan strengthens the Government’s cyber-resilience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-06d.175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-07", "file": "debates2026-01-07b.xml", "sha256": "16c28d77d0567c2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07b.375.2", "colnum": "375", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "ives and Lib Dems, bus routes in England declined by 50% after 2010. Some 8,000 services were slashed on their watch. We have taken immediate action through the Bus Services Act, which includes provision to support the socially necessary bus services that are so important in rural areas. I am grateful to have the bus Minister sitting next to me, and we have maintained the national £3 bus fare cap.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07b.375.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-07", "file": "debates2026-01-07d.xml", "sha256": "e5928e91e16afa3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.253.4", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “When?”", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "se in relation to that. Yesterday’s was a political declaration that sits under those military plans. If there were to be deployment, there would have to be a legal instrument. Deployment would only be after a ceasefire, to support Ukraine’s capabilities, to conduct deterrent operations, and to construct and protect military hubs. There will be a statement to the House at the earliest opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.253.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-07", "file": "debates2026-01-07d.xml", "sha256": "e5928e91e16afa3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.253.4", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "n that sits under those military plans. If there were to be deployment, there would have to be a legal instrument. Deployment would only be after a ceasefire, to support Ukraine’s capabilities, to conduct deterrent operations, and to construct and protect military hubs. There will be a statement to the House at the earliest opportunity. [Hon. Members: “When?”] There could hardly be an opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.253.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-07", "file": "debates2026-01-07d.xml", "sha256": "e5928e91e16afa3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.254.0", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": " is that the Prime Minister does not want everybody in this House to be able to ask him questions, so he leaves that just to Prime Minister’s questions, which last for half an hour. At least on Monday his Foreign Secretary stood up to speak for two hours and 15 minutes. It was a non-event, but at least she did that. The Prime Minister is scared of our being able to ask him questions—six questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-07", "file": "debates2026-01-07d.xml", "sha256": "e5928e91e16afa3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.255.2", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "d increase in defence spending since the cold war, and that means better kit and better housing for our forces, and better defence as an engine for growth. Compare that with the Conservatives’ record. Ben Wallace, who was on the radio this morning—the longest-serving Conservative Defence Secretary—admitted that on their watch, the armed services had been, in his words, “hollowed out”. Our defence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.255.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-07", "file": "debates2026-01-07d.xml", "sha256": "e5928e91e16afa3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.256.2", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "I heard what—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.256.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-07", "file": "debates2026-01-07d.xml", "sha256": "e5928e91e16afa3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.257.0", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "Let me start by talking about the shadow Attorney General.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.257.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-07", "file": "debates2026-01-07d.xml", "sha256": "e5928e91e16afa3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.260.0", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "I know how deeply the right hon. Gentleman feels about these issues. As he knows, the Bill will put in place new measures designed specifically to protect veterans. Those safeguards have been developed with veterans in mind after carefully listening to their concerns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-07", "file": "debates2026-01-07d.xml", "sha256": "e5928e91e16afa3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "I am very pleased about the measures we were able to announce this week. They come on top of the 5 million extra appointments we have delivered in the first year of this Labour Government and the 300,000 who have been taken off waiting lists, and more is to come as we turn into 2026. My hon. Friend is absolutely right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-07", "file": "debates2026-01-07d.xml", "sha256": "e5928e91e16afa3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.271.9", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Jury Trials", "cue_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Jenrick", "preceding_text": "rrent backlog? She responded that although the system had been poorly funded for some time, which had created a number of challenges, the primary cause was the pandemic. Covid created immense strain on our justice system. As a result of that, a backlog that had, broadly speaking, been falling in the years prior to the pandemic—it had begun to rise slightly in the period immediately before—shot up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.271.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-07", "file": "debates2026-01-07d.xml", "sha256": "e5928e91e16afa3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.279.2", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Jury Trials", "cue_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "preceding_text": "Order. Interventions should be short and colleagues should have been here at the beginning if they wish to intervene—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.279.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-07", "file": "debates2026-01-07d.xml", "sha256": "e5928e91e16afa3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.298.4", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Jury Trials", "cue_speaker": "Emma Foody", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emma Foody", "preceding_text": "Unfortunately, I did not hear the apology that should have preluded the question, for the absolute carnage the Conservatives left in our courts on their watch. They have shown no recognition or contrition for what they left behind. In every single one of those cases there is at least one victim unable to access justice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.298.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-07", "file": "debates2026-01-07d.xml", "sha256": "e5928e91e16afa3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.306.2", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Jury Trials", "cue_speaker": "Saqib Bhatti", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Saqib Bhatti", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend. I suspect that I am running out of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.306.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-07", "file": "debates2026-01-07d.xml", "sha256": "e5928e91e16afa3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.312.2", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Jury Trials", "cue_speaker": "Ben Obese-Jecty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Obese-Jecty", "preceding_text": ", badly maintained court buildings, shortages of court staff and poor technology”. While none of those are quick or easy to overcome, maximising productivity is a far more practical and measured step than the controversial and nuclear option of judge-only trials via the introduction of a new intermediate court, the Crown court bench division, which has been neither piloted nor thoroughly modelled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.312.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-07", "file": "debates2026-01-07d.xml", "sha256": "e5928e91e16afa3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.330.0", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Rural Communities", "cue_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Victoria Atkins", "preceding_text": "ery worrying events are happening overseas, food prices for all our constituents are continuing to rise, and jobs are being lost in all our constituencies because of the policies of this Government, they appear to be prioritising a lawful hobby, but I will come on to that in a minute. In the midst of all this socialist misery, Labour is killing off pubs with their business rate hikes of up to 78%.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.330.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-07", "file": "debates2026-01-07d.xml", "sha256": "e5928e91e16afa3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.333.0", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Rural Communities", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Oh, no!”", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "ind tackling rural crimes such as the theft of high value farm equipment and livestock.” I welcome the chance to open the debate on behalf of the Government and to highlight what we are doing to support rural people, businesses and communities to realise their full potential. I apologise in advance to the House and to you, Madam Deputy Speaker, that I will not be able to stay for the whole debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.333.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-07", "file": "debates2026-01-07d.xml", "sha256": "e5928e91e16afa3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.335.8", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Rural Communities", "cue_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "preceding_text": "y had legislative time spent on them—why are the Government going to spend so much time on banning trail hunting? Is she aware that, if that goes through, in Shropshire alone we will likely see the death of at least 300 hounds? That will impact on many rural SMEs. As the Minister has been in the House a very long time, she will know that I have had at least three animal welfare Bills in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.335.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-07", "file": "debates2026-01-07d.xml", "sha256": "e5928e91e16afa3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Rural Communities", "cue_speaker": "Danny Chambers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Chambers", "preceding_text": "out this bus, they will not be able to remain living in a little village, or remain living independently. It had not occurred to me that there are the communities that buses themselves create. Some people I met said that they met their friends on the bus, and they now go for coffee together and check up on each other, but they would not even have known each other had they not been on the same bus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-07", "file": "debates2026-01-07d.xml", "sha256": "e5928e91e16afa3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.355.1", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Rural Communities", "cue_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Barclay", "preceding_text": "rmers—in Norfolk and across the border in Fenland in my constituency—hearing the hon. Members for South West Norfolk (Terry Jermy) and for South Norfolk (Ben Goldsborough) say how important farming is, after they voted for the family farm tax. That builds on a contradiction we saw at the general election. The Labour party said that it wanted to offer a new deal for farming, yet that new deal has —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-07", "file": "debates2026-01-07d.xml", "sha256": "e5928e91e16afa3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Rural Communities", "cue_speaker": "Joy Morrissey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joy Morrissey", "preceding_text": "al welfare: what exactly do the Government think is going to happen to the 170 packs of hounds in England when they are no longer in use? What is going to happen to the 20,000 hounds and numerous horses if the trail hunting ban goes through? Let us be brutally honest: many of them will be destroyed. If you have a hound, have you ever tried to have it domesticated? Have you tried to have a harrier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-07", "file": "debates2026-01-07d.xml", "sha256": "e5928e91e16afa3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.369.2", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Rural Communities", "cue_speaker": "Joe Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joe Robertson", "preceding_text": " such as mine on the Isle of Wight, it is not just farmers who have the worst possible deal from this Government; it is the fishing communities too. Just two decades ago, there were 30 fully crewed fishing boats in my constituency; there are now three. This Government rubbed the fishing community’s face in it when they renegotiated with the EU, folded and gave away our fishing rights for 12 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.369.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-07", "file": "debates2026-01-07d.xml", "sha256": "e5928e91e16afa3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.375.2", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Rural Communities", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "ives and Lib Dems, bus routes in England declined by 50% after 2010. Some 8,000 services were slashed on their watch. We have taken immediate action through the Bus Services Act, which includes provision to support the socially necessary bus services that are so important in rural areas. I am grateful to have the bus Minister sitting next to me, and we have maintained the national £3 bus fare cap.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.375.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-07", "file": "debates2026-01-07d.xml", "sha256": "e5928e91e16afa3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.376.1", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Rural Communities", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "Yes, we are announcing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-07", "file": "debates2026-01-07d.xml", "sha256": "e5928e91e16afa3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.394.0", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Ukraine and Wider Operational Update", "cue_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "preceding_text": "secret deployment beforehand, but this is a public, planned deployment, as set out in the Paris agreement. It could not be more public than that. Will he commit to a vote in this House before the deployment, and not a debate in the House only? He will know that in 2013—he was in the House; I think he entered Parliament in 1997—the then Prime Minister, now Lord Cameron of somewhere in Oxfordshire —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.394.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-07", "file": "debates2026-01-07d.xml", "sha256": "e5928e91e16afa3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Ukraine and Wider Operational Update", "cue_speaker": "Adam Jogee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Jogee", "preceding_text": "r-Lyme safe. I have had reports of empty grit bins on Sterndale Drive in Westbury Park and on Plymouth Grove, of our town centre being an ice rink, of the A34 from Newcastle to Talke not being fit for purpose and of the roads through Chesterton, Audley and Madeley being cut off, just like roads in Wolstanton. Madam Deputy Speaker, can you advise me of the best way to raise this issue in the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-07d.409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-08", "file": "debates2026-01-08c.xml", "sha256": "4419ee15cdd166cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-08c.435.5", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Transport", "cue_speaker": "Simon Lightwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Lightwood", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State announced various new measures at the Transport Committee to continue to bring down the waiting times for learner drivers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-08c.435.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-08", "file": "debates2026-01-08c.xml", "sha256": "4419ee15cdd166cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-08c.435.6", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Transport", "cue_speaker": "Richard Holden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Holden", "preceding_text": "The Minister has still not properly answered the question and, frankly, should be embarrassed by that answer. Labour promised to reduce average waiting times to seven weeks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-08c.435.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-08", "file": "debates2026-01-08c.xml", "sha256": "4419ee15cdd166cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-08c.531.3", "colnum": "531", "heading": "High Street Gambling Reform", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Butler", "preceding_text": " 12 hours so that her credit card limit would be renewed and she could take out money and start gambling again. They knew her favourite chair and her favourite machine, and they let her gamble for 16 hours. Wendy lost almost £2,000 in that session. Merkur was fined £95,000 as a result of social responsibility failings—none of that money, I might add, went to the family. Wendy later died of cancer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-08c.531.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-12", "file": "debates2026-01-12e.xml", "sha256": "886d87d96e08dd1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-12e.589.0", "colnum": "589", "heading": "New Medium Helicopter Contract", "cue_speaker": "Calvin Bailey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Calvin Bailey", "preceding_text": " Yeovil that are at stake; we must also recognise the opportunities for social mobility that industries such as this create for young people from across the country and from every background. I note that the NMH programme existed in the previous Government’s unfunded £29 billion equipment plan. Their failure to prioritise the programme and deliver the defence funding that such hard decisions need—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-12e.589.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-12", "file": "debates2026-01-12e.xml", "sha256": "886d87d96e08dd1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-12e.592.3", "colnum": "592", "heading": "New Medium Helicopter Contract", "cue_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right to say that the defence industrial strategy is a key piece of the puzzle in building up our new armed forces. It was published last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-12e.592.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-12", "file": "debates2026-01-12e.xml", "sha256": "886d87d96e08dd1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-12e.599.3", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Water Supplies: East Grinstead", "cue_speaker": "Emma Hardy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Emma Hardy", "preceding_text": "on the ongoing water supply disruption across southern England, but before I do that, I pay tribute to my dad, David Mattinson, who passed away last Monday at Dove House hospice. I thank everybody at the hospice for the wonderful care they gave him. As a primary headteacher, he inspired so many people and was truly loved. He will be deeply missed by my sisters, my mum and me, and all who knew him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-12e.599.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-12", "file": "debates2026-01-12e.xml", "sha256": "886d87d96e08dd1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-12e.614.2", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Social Media: Non-consensual Sexual Deepfakes", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State agree that, in responding to a threat of this magnitude, a graduated response is required, and is she tentatively encouraged by the fact that X has decided to say that users cannot be anonymous in doing that sort of mischief?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-12e.614.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-12", "file": "debates2026-01-12e.xml", "sha256": "886d87d96e08dd1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-12e.614.2", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Social Media: Non-consensual Sexual Deepfakes", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State agree that, in responding to a threat of this magnitude, a graduated response is required, and is she tentatively encouraged by the fact that X has decided to say that users cannot be anonymous in doing that sort of mischief? [Interruption.] Wait for it. I do not think X is taking that step out of the goodness of its heart.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-12e.614.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-12", "file": "debates2026-01-12e.xml", "sha256": "886d87d96e08dd1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-12e.631.0", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gareth Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gareth Davies", "preceding_text": "I have great sympathy with what my right hon. Friend says. He is right that there is a point at which you overtax risk and enterprise, and people stop taking risk and stop being enterprising. The trick in the Treasury is to ensure that the Government can raise enough revenue from a broad base of different taxes to pay for public services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-12e.631.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-12", "file": "debates2026-01-12e.xml", "sha256": "886d87d96e08dd1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-12e.634.5", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jeevun Sandher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeevun Sandher", "preceding_text": "on funds they own, which will be their biggest savings vehicle; that would not be subject to dividend taxation in the same way because people will buy out at the end and ensure that they have a payment for their products. I am not sure I quite follow, but, to be fair to the hon. Gentleman, it is possible that I misunderstood his point. I can see there are lots of people trying to get in, Ms Nokes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-12e.634.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-12", "file": "debates2026-01-12e.xml", "sha256": "886d87d96e08dd1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-12e.636.0", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dan Tomlinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "k increasing the state pension significantly over the course of the Parliament. Those are the steps that we can take to help to support people to have more disposable income and be able to save more when they would like to. On that point, a tax information and impact note has also been published in the standard way for UK-wide changes to the tax system The Government keep tax changes under review—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-12e.636.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-12", "file": "debates2026-01-12e.xml", "sha256": "886d87d96e08dd1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-12e.639.5", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dan Tomlinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "He touched on the crucial point—it is worth making this clearly—repeatedly pointed out by many tax experts and tax commentators that one challenge in the UK’s taxation system is that we treat income received from different sources very differently, which can lead to distortions. It is better to ensure that we do what we can to reduce the gaps between the tax treatment of different sorts of income.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-12e.639.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-12", "file": "debates2026-01-12e.xml", "sha256": "886d87d96e08dd1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-12e.639.5", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dan Tomlinson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "er remarks, and it is only right and proper for me to mention that. The hon. Member also raised the impact of these changes on rents; of course the Government will continue to monitor the impact of taxation changes on the rental market. One crucial thing we can do to support private renters is to increase the supply of housing to push down the price of rents in the long term. To begin to conclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-12e.639.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-13", "file": "debates2026-01-13d.xml", "sha256": "d11926c411fe5a85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-13d.765.1", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Chinese Embassy", "cue_speaker": "Ian Roome", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Roome", "preceding_text": "I will offer the Government some advice. It is one word: common sense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-13d.765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-13", "file": "debates2026-01-13d.xml", "sha256": "d11926c411fe5a85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-13d.835.3", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Adam Jogee", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Jogee", "preceding_text": "It is one of the largest private sector employers in Newcastle-under-Lyme—that was not in my hon. Friend’s notes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-13d.835.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-13", "file": "debates2026-01-13d.xml", "sha256": "d11926c411fe5a85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-13d.845.1", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gareth Snell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gareth Snell", "preceding_text": "Absolutely, we do need to do that. I am an old-fashioned state regulator; I like the idea that the state can regulate things. I like the idea of tax and spend as well, which is what we are doing in the Budget. It is a good thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-13d.845.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-14", "file": "debates2026-01-14e.xml", "sha256": "5ec9cc6758e1fdb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-14e.912.2", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Scotland", "cue_speaker": "Dave Doogan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dave Doogan", "preceding_text": "The SNP delivered yet another ambitious budget for Scotland yesterday. It saw almost £1 billion for rates relief, £5 billion for energy and climate change and a 10% uplift for Scotland’s colleges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-14e.912.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-14", "file": "debates2026-01-14e.xml", "sha256": "5ec9cc6758e1fdb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-14e.912.2", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Scotland", "cue_speaker": "Dave Doogan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dave Doogan", "preceding_text": "vered yet another ambitious budget for Scotland yesterday. It saw almost £1 billion for rates relief, £5 billion for energy and climate change and a 10% uplift for Scotland’s colleges. [Interruption.] The SNP has delivered 10.5% growth since 2007, compared with the UK’s 5.1%. The question is not about what the UK Government will do for Scotland’s economy, but what they will do to stop damaging it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-14e.912.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-14", "file": "debates2026-01-14e.xml", "sha256": "5ec9cc6758e1fdb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-14e.915.4", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Scotland", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Gethins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Gethins", "preceding_text": "sly if so many Labour MPs had not lost the Whip for backing our vote on tackling the two-child cap. The Scottish child payment, which has been described as “game changing”, has been extended to provide additional funding for babies, meaning that those from deprived communities in Scotland get the best start in life anywhere in the UK in Scotland, so why on earth is Labour abstaining on the Budget?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-14e.915.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-14", "file": "debates2026-01-14e.xml", "sha256": "5ec9cc6758e1fdb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-14e.917.4", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": " thank my hon. Friend the Member for West Suffolk (Nick Timothy) for relentlessly pushing this issue. I welcome the Prime Minister’s latest U-turn—I feel like I say that every week. Mandatory digital ID was a rubbish policy, and the Opposition are glad to see the back of it. Yesterday, the Health Secretary said that the Prime Minister’s new year’s resolution should be to try to get it right first—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-14e.917.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-14", "file": "debates2026-01-14e.xml", "sha256": "5ec9cc6758e1fdb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-14e.918.3", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "The principle we put in place on inheritance tax is the right one. We listened, and we made an announcement. What we are doing is turning the country around.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-14e.918.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-14", "file": "debates2026-01-14e.xml", "sha256": "5ec9cc6758e1fdb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-14e.919.3", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "l the time is because he is clueless. He is blowing around like a plastic bag in the wind, with no sense of direction whatsoever. Let us be clear: this mess goes beyond pubs. The whole hospitality industry—cafés, hotels and restaurants, they are all being clobbered by Labour’s tax hikes. There is an answer to this: Conservatives would abolish business rates for small businesses on the high street.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-14e.919.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-14", "file": "debates2026-01-14e.xml", "sha256": "5ec9cc6758e1fdb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-14e.921.0", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend draws attention to the important work of the Mayor of London. Nobody should be talking our country down or talking London down. She is right to say that since we came into office the number of knife crime offences is down, but there is more to do. We are introducing new powers to seize knives and increasing the penalty for selling knives to under-18s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-14e.921.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-14", "file": "debates2026-01-14e.xml", "sha256": "5ec9cc6758e1fdb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-14e.942.2", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Northern Powerhouse Rail", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Pochin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Pochin", "preceding_text": "No, we haven’t. That’s a lie!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-14e.942.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-14", "file": "debates2026-01-14e.xml", "sha256": "5ec9cc6758e1fdb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-14e.971.2", "colnum": "971", "heading": "West Midlands Police", "cue_speaker": "Judith Cummins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Judith Cummins", "preceding_text": "Members within it with respect. If we do so, we cannot go far wrong. Although that is not a point of order, it is a matter for the Chair and I thank the right hon. Gentleman for raising it. That concludes the statement. I will now announce the result of today’s deferred Division on the draft Public Order Act 2023 (Interference With Use or Operation of Key National Infrastructure) Regulations 2025—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-14e.971.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-14", "file": "debates2026-01-14e.xml", "sha256": "5ec9cc6758e1fdb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-14e.976.0", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Offshore Wind", "cue_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "preceding_text": " gas. However much she tries to struggle or flail around, those are the facts, I am afraid. She asks about carbon pricing. It is very interesting that even when we take off carbon pricing, gas is still more expensive, on the figures we published today. Her sums simply do not add up. What is really rich is that the right hon. Lady asked about constraint payments. Why do we have constraint payments?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-14e.976.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-20", "file": "debates2026-01-20g.xml", "sha256": "91425c12a97459b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-20g.168.4", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Mobile Phones and Social Media: Use by Children", "cue_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liz Kendall", "preceding_text": "lic health at the King’s Fund, and thinking about this issue in a public health framework is extremely important. As the hon. Member for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (John Lamont) just said, people want action. I know that and have said loudly and clearly that I want to hear the views of all parents and families. I will listen to those views, but I also want to take evidence, including from—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-20g.168.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-20", "file": "debates2026-01-20g.xml", "sha256": "91425c12a97459b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-20g.212.0", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Sentencing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sally Jameson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sally Jameson", "preceding_text": " during their time in office. That was a dereliction of duty beyond comprehension and something that must not be forgotten in the context of this Bill. Our prisons were brought to the point of crisis; frankly, they only survived until the 2024 general election because, on the quiet, the last Government released 10,000 offenders early, completely undermining public confidence in our justice system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-20g.212.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-20", "file": "debates2026-01-20g.xml", "sha256": "91425c12a97459b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-20g.233.3", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Doughty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Doughty", "preceding_text": "As I have said in this House many times, the last Government—the right hon. Gentleman knows this, as he was part of that Government—started this deal because they recognised that there was a serious challenge to the operation of the base, which is critical for our national security.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-20g.233.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-21", "file": "debates2026-01-21c.xml", "sha256": "fcedcc13b286dfb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-21c.300.2", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "Labour Government. [Interruption.] The strategic defence review has backed the biggest sustained increase in defence spending since the cold war. That is £270 billion this Parliament, making defence an engine of growth. That is a stark contrast. Ben Wallace, the longest-serving Conservative Defence Secretary, openly admitted that under the Conservatives’ watch our armed forces were “hollowed out”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-21c.300.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-21", "file": "debates2026-01-21c.xml", "sha256": "fcedcc13b286dfb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-21c.302.4", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "They have not even published the defence investment plan that was promised last autumn. That delay is putting critical industries, such as helicopter manufacturing based in Yeovil, at risk. Putin is waging a war in Europe, and Trump is threatening to undermine NATO. We have to rearm fast. So why will the Prime Minister not just get on with buying Great British helicopters made in the west country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-21c.302.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-21", "file": "debates2026-01-21c.xml", "sha256": "fcedcc13b286dfb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-21c.319.3", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Warm Homes Plan", "cue_speaker": "Tom Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Hayes", "preceding_text": "It was interesting to hear the Liberal Democrats really struggle to say that they admire this policy, given that they seem to be getting everything they want from it, and it is disappointing to see the deserted Conservative Benches for this statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-21c.319.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-21", "file": "debates2026-01-21c.xml", "sha256": "fcedcc13b286dfb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-21c.336.0", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Water White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Emma Reynolds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emma Reynolds", "preceding_text": "egulator that we need. That is what this water White Paper and the upcoming water Bill will deliver. The right hon. Lady talks about improving water supply. It is absolutely correct—maybe we can agree on something—that we have seen very poor performance from South East Water in recent weeks, and I was in the area last week to meet constituents of the hon. Member for Tunbridge Wells (Mike Martin) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-21c.336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-21", "file": "debates2026-01-21c.xml", "sha256": "fcedcc13b286dfb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-21c.336.0", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Water White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Emma Reynolds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emma Reynolds", "preceding_text": ". The right hon. Lady talks about improving water supply. It is absolutely correct—maybe we can agree on something—that we have seen very poor performance from South East Water in recent weeks, and I was in the area last week to meet constituents of the hon. Member for Tunbridge Wells (Mike Martin) —[Interruption.] The right hon. Lady asked whether I should have gone earlier. Did she bother to go?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-21c.336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-21", "file": "debates2026-01-21c.xml", "sha256": "fcedcc13b286dfb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-21c.337.4", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Water White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Emma Reynolds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emma Reynolds", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Lady for, I think, some support for the White Paper and what she has said. We both share real concerns about the status quo. On mutual ownership, I do not really hear a plan from the Liberal Democrats as to how to get to that point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-21c.337.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-21", "file": "debates2026-01-21c.xml", "sha256": "fcedcc13b286dfb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-21c.362.4", "colnum": "362", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "preceding_text": "In a shock move, I entirely agree with my hon. Friend. Members of those parties who have said that they intend to vote against this Bill today cannot keep coming to this Chamber, day after day, calling for additional spending in more areas, while opposing any means of raising taxes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-21c.362.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-21", "file": "debates2026-01-21c.xml", "sha256": "fcedcc13b286dfb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-21c.387.3", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Northern Ireland Troubles: Legacy and Reconciliation", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "The basis of the Republic of Ireland’s inter-state case, which is a matter for the Republic of Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-21c.387.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-21", "file": "debates2026-01-21c.xml", "sha256": "fcedcc13b286dfb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-21c.392.1", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Northern Ireland Troubles: Legacy and Reconciliation", "cue_speaker": "Desmond Swayne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Desmond Swayne", "preceding_text": "sequence of the decisions that were made in the courts; it is entirely a matter for this House. The Government have made a choice. They had a choice to pursue the change through primary legislation or through this remedial order. They made a choice, notwithstanding the fact that they have a Bill coming down the line. Frankly, I think that was a ridiculous decision by my Committee, but there it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-21c.392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-21", "file": "debates2026-01-21c.xml", "sha256": "fcedcc13b286dfb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-21c.395.4", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Northern Ireland Troubles: Legacy and Reconciliation", "cue_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "preceding_text": "takes away from the fact that there is a choice before this House. We do not have to go down the route of erasing the line we have attempted to draw under the troubles. I say to Labour Members that there is not just a moral risk; there is also a political risk for anyone who has doubts. Simply put, the Prime Minister has, over the course of the past few months, U-turned 12 or 13 times—which is it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-21c.395.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-21", "file": "debates2026-01-21c.xml", "sha256": "fcedcc13b286dfb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-21c.397.1", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Northern Ireland Troubles: Legacy and Reconciliation", "cue_speaker": "Andy McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy McDonald", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Member for that intervention. There is an obligation on the Government under section 4 of the Human Rights Act: where they have been told by a court that legislation is incompatible with a convention right, they are duty-bound to remove that incompatibility. That is exactly what is being done here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-21c.397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-21", "file": "debates2026-01-21c.xml", "sha256": "fcedcc13b286dfb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-21c.399.3", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Northern Ireland Troubles: Legacy and Reconciliation", "cue_speaker": "Paul Kohler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Kohler", "preceding_text": "We have a greater percentage, I think the hon. Gentleman will find—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-21c.399.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-21", "file": "debates2026-01-21c.xml", "sha256": "fcedcc13b286dfb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-21c.401.2", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Northern Ireland Troubles: Legacy and Reconciliation", "cue_speaker": "Peter Swallow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Swallow", "preceding_text": "hat that legacy means for communities across Northern Ireland and the whole of the UK. For that reason, the Government have set out their grounds for seeking to use a remedial order. I referred to that in great detail. I also emphasise that, given the nature of the Bill before the House, the legislation will take some time to progress as it is scrutinised by both Houses and, indeed, our Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-21c.401.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-21", "file": "debates2026-01-21c.xml", "sha256": "fcedcc13b286dfb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-21c.408.3", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Northern Ireland Troubles: Legacy and Reconciliation", "cue_speaker": "Gavin Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gavin Robinson", "preceding_text": " they call protections, were sufficient. Only two weeks ago, the Prime Minister accepted with me that those were insufficient and that he was going to have to bring forward amendments. That was shut down by a representative of the Irish Government some two hours later, who said that the Secretary of State has no power to bring forward any amendments unless he attains their agreement. Shame, I say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-21c.408.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-21", "file": "debates2026-01-21c.xml", "sha256": "fcedcc13b286dfb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-21c.421.0", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Northern Ireland Troubles: Legacy and Reconciliation", "cue_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "preceding_text": "Myself and my party, the DUP, stand squarely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-21c.421.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-21", "file": "debates2026-01-21c.xml", "sha256": "fcedcc13b286dfb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-21c.421.4", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Northern Ireland Troubles: Legacy and Reconciliation", "cue_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "preceding_text": "nity. The reason that we do not trust the Irish Government on legacy issues is clear and warranted: it was a murder haven for years. Without information, there can be no Irish influence. Anything less is the gravest insult to the memory of those murdered and to the families who grieve them. The fact of the matter is that we can never equate the death of a terrorist killed when carrying out murder—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-21c.421.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-21", "file": "debates2026-01-21c.xml", "sha256": "fcedcc13b286dfb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-21c.432.0", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Northern Ireland Troubles: Legacy and Reconciliation", "cue_speaker": "Gavin Robinson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Gavin Robinson", "preceding_text": "uty Speaker. I mentioned this briefly in my opening remarks, but I place on record my appreciation for the agreement that this evening’s motion could be extended for double-time. Having praised the usual channels, the Government and Opposition Chief Whips and the Leader of the House, may I also pay tribute to you, Madam Deputy Speaker? Thank you for trying to ensure that everyone was accommodated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-21c.432.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-22", "file": "debates2026-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "4036830dc1f1dcd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-22a.464.5", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "preceding_text": "er in professing publicly that he prefers Davos to Westminster? Amid all this nonsense, other, very serious changes are under way. Last week, the Government published the results of the latest auction for renewable energy, which set a floor price for renewables of £91 per kilowatt-hour. No one in this House disputes the importance of green energy, or the importance of renewables in the energy mix—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-22a.464.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-22", "file": "debates2026-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "4036830dc1f1dcd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-22a.488.0", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Local Government Reorganisation", "cue_speaker": "Steve Reed", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Reed", "preceding_text": "I have to say that the right hon. Gentleman’s case would be much stronger and would sound less self-righteous if he had not done exactly the same thing, for exactly the same reasons, when he was in government—only, unlike him when his party was in government, I have imposed nothing. This was a locally led approach.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-22a.488.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-22", "file": "debates2026-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "4036830dc1f1dcd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-22a.542.0", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Agricultural Sector: Import Standards", "cue_speaker": "Charlie Dewhirst", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charlie Dewhirst", "preceding_text": "place in the UK. To convert to a free farrowing system would require planning permission; the crates cannot just be pulled out and replaced. It will be a huge challenge. I am sure that the Minister is aware that the issue with the sow stall ban in 1999 was that there was not a sufficient transition period. I hesitate to say this, but I think she is experienced enough to have been here at the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-22a.542.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-26", "file": "debates2026-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "13fdf2f351e013b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-26a.624.0", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Police Reform White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Shabana Mahmood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shabana Mahmood", "preceding_text": "view to recommend what the new structure of the regional forces should look like, but let me pay tribute to the work of Greater Manchester police and the chief constable in particular. Greater Manchester is a very good example of a large force that is not burdened by significant national services. It is therefore able to concentrate on policing its local communities, and to do so very effectively.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-26a.624.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-27", "file": "debates2026-01-27f.xml", "sha256": "d6da746a3b932ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-27f.734.6", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Treasury", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "not mention the beautiful Bournemouth pier, which we visited together in August and where we enjoyed a very nice ice cream, but he did mention J.P. Morgan, which has announced record investment in its Bournemouth campus. It is employing a shedload of apprentices on that campus, helping it to grow its business, and after this year’s Budget, J. P. Morgan has announced a new building in Canary Wharf.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-27f.734.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-27", "file": "debates2026-01-27f.xml", "sha256": "d6da746a3b932ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-27f.737.0", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Treasury", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for bringing this matter to the House’s attention. I cannot comment on individual cases of covid fraud and tax, but that person would not be the first member of Reform who took a fraudulent covid loan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-27f.737.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-27", "file": "debates2026-01-27f.xml", "sha256": "d6da746a3b932ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-27f.770.2", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Business Rates", "cue_speaker": "Dan Tomlinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "Let me apologise profusely for not letting you know in advance, Madam Deputy Speaker. This is the first time I have done one of these statements, and I will not make the same mistake again. I am glad that the same courtesy will be afforded to the shadow Chancellor, and I look forward to hearing a full 15 minutes of remarks from him. I am sure that they will be entertaining for us all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-27f.770.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-27", "file": "debates2026-01-27f.xml", "sha256": "d6da746a3b932ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-27f.771.0", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Business Rates", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": " This is not acceptable. I have to be quite honest, because the other Front Benchers need time to respond. When a statement is meant to take 10 minutes, that is meant to be 10 minutes. If Ministers tell me otherwise in advance, I am willing to work with them, but they cannot just carry on speaking. Minister, I take it that you are now coming to the last page of the statement, not the middle pages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-27f.771.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-27", "file": "debates2026-01-27f.xml", "sha256": "d6da746a3b932ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-27f.807.1", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wes Streeting", "preceding_text": " the former Home Secretary, the right hon. and learned Member for Fareham and Waterlooville (Suella Braverman) , or the former Immigration Minister, the right hon. Member for Newark (Robert Jenrick) , I am afraid that Reform looks rather more like the Conservative party that the country rejected at the last election, which I am sure will not be lost on people when they go to the ballot box in May—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-27f.807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-28", "file": "debates2026-01-28c.xml", "sha256": "928435fb40b61793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28c.1006.2", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Western", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Western", "preceding_text": "or Faversham and Mid Kent (Helen Whately) , who showed that the Conservatives have suddenly developed empathy for young people after leaving us with a NEET number of almost 1 million. We heard Tory Members compare the youth unemployment rate with those of other G7 countries, but we have the second-highest youth employment rate in the G7. We are not complacent, and we know that there is work to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28c.1006.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-28", "file": "debates2026-01-28d.xml", "sha256": "d980c960c3674ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.891.5", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Griffith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Griffith", "preceding_text": "The Deputy Prime Minister wants to talk about experience. I spent 25 years building businesses and creating jobs; he spent 25 years manufacturing grievance. If the Labour party knew anything about business, it would know that this is too little, too late. Our high streets—their high streets—are bleeding out, and the Chancellor is handing out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.891.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-28", "file": "debates2026-01-28d.xml", "sha256": "d980c960c3674ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.899.0", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. I did not want to have to get up. Mr Anderson, one of us will have to sit down, and it is not going to be me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.899.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-28", "file": "debates2026-01-28d.xml", "sha256": "d980c960c3674ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.907.5", "colnum": "907", "heading": "British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I think it demonstrates their disdain and contempt for the British people, quite frankly. It is pretty obvious that as the Prime Minister and various other Ministers travel the globe, they go around waving the white flag of surrender.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.907.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-28", "file": "debates2026-01-28d.xml", "sha256": "d980c960c3674ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.907.5", "colnum": "907", "heading": "British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": "ntempt for the British people, quite frankly. It is pretty obvious that as the Prime Minister and various other Ministers travel the globe, they go around waving the white flag of surrender. [Interruption.] Government Members can sit there chuntering, but the British public can see exactly what is going on with them: they are weak, feeble and giving away the public’s money. Had the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.907.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-28", "file": "debates2026-01-28d.xml", "sha256": "d980c960c3674ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.907.5", "colnum": "907", "heading": "British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": "er. [Interruption.] Government Members can sit there chuntering, but the British public can see exactly what is going on with them: they are weak, feeble and giving away the public’s money. Had the Prime Minister—[Interruption.] The Minister is chuntering about the start of the negotiations, but this deal is on him, the Labour Government, their lefty friends and their international law agreements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.907.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-28", "file": "debates2026-01-28d.xml", "sha256": "d980c960c3674ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.907.5", "colnum": "907", "heading": "British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": "iving away the public’s money. Had the Prime Minister—[Interruption.] The Minister is chuntering about the start of the negotiations, but this deal is on him, the Labour Government, their lefty friends and their international law agreements. [Interruption.] Perhaps the Minister would like to listen; he might learn a few things today. Had the Prime Minister and his dear friend the Attorney General—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.907.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-28", "file": "debates2026-01-28d.xml", "sha256": "d980c960c3674ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.912.0", "colnum": "912", "heading": "British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "Priti Patel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Priti Patel", "preceding_text": " time, I am grateful for, because we have a lot of other colleagues who want to speak. It is worth pointing out that the Government will have a few of their Members who like to climb the greasy pole—there is one, who is not present today, who is now the trade envoy for Mauritius because he spoke up so frequently for the Government. Ultimately, this is about the security and defence of our country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.912.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-28", "file": "debates2026-01-28d.xml", "sha256": "d980c960c3674ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.913.3", "colnum": "913", "heading": "British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "Seema Malhotra", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Seema Malhotra", "preceding_text": "No. Furthermore, I will have no truck with Reform, which has no record on supporting the security of our country, especially given what has happened in Wales. The Opposition may not want to hear this, but they backed negotiations over Chagos every step of the way. Some 85% of the Chagos negotiations took place under the Conservatives, and were led by the former Foreign Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.913.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-28", "file": "debates2026-01-28d.xml", "sha256": "d980c960c3674ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.913.3", "colnum": "913", "heading": "British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "Seema Malhotra", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Seema Malhotra", "preceding_text": "ened in Wales. The Opposition may not want to hear this, but they backed negotiations over Chagos every step of the way. Some 85% of the Chagos negotiations took place under the Conservatives, and were led by the former Foreign Secretary. [Interruption.] They may not want to hear this, but it is important to share that, in November 2022, the former Foreign Secretary said that through negotiations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.913.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-28", "file": "debates2026-01-28d.xml", "sha256": "d980c960c3674ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.913.7", "colnum": "913", "heading": "British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "Seema Malhotra", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Seema Malhotra", "preceding_text": "tary said that “taking into account relevant legal proceedings, it is our intention to secure an agreement on the basis of international law to resolve all outstanding issues”.—[Official Report, 3 November 2022 ; Vol. 721, c. 27WS.] In February last year, a spokesperson for the Leader of the Opposition insisted that negotiations over the islands were needed due to the international legal position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.913.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-28", "file": "debates2026-01-28d.xml", "sha256": "d980c960c3674ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.914.1", "colnum": "914", "heading": "British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "Seema Malhotra", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Seema Malhotra", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Member for his comments. The answer to that question has been set out by Lord Coaker, and I will be laying it out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-28", "file": "debates2026-01-28d.xml", "sha256": "d980c960c3674ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.914.5", "colnum": "914", "heading": "British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "Seema Malhotra", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Seema Malhotra", "preceding_text": "I will finish my remarks on this point. The ICJ concluded that “the United Kingdom is under an obligation to bring to an end its administration of the Chagos Archipelago as rapidly as possible”.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.914.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-28", "file": "debates2026-01-28d.xml", "sha256": "d980c960c3674ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.915.6", "colnum": "915", "heading": "British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "Seema Malhotra", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Seema Malhotra", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member will know that these matters have been shared before with the House. Perhaps I may remind him what US Secretary Hegseth said: “The UK’s (very important) deal with Mauritius secures the operational capabilities of the base and key”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.915.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-28", "file": "debates2026-01-28d.xml", "sha256": "d980c960c3674ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.915.7", "colnum": "915", "heading": "British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. Dr Evans, do you have to keep chuntering? You have asked the question, and you are getting an answer. I do not need—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.915.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-28", "file": "debates2026-01-28d.xml", "sha256": "d980c960c3674ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.916.0", "colnum": "916", "heading": "British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "Seema Malhotra", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Seema Malhotra", "preceding_text": "I thank the shadow Defence Secretary for his intervention. It is a long-standing policy, as he will know this from having been in government, that we do not comment on operational matters or the location of nuclear weapons. The Opposition know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.916.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-28", "file": "debates2026-01-28d.xml", "sha256": "d980c960c3674ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.917.0", "colnum": "917", "heading": "British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "Seema Malhotra", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Seema Malhotra", "preceding_text": "No, I have been very generous in giving way. I will continue with my remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.917.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-28", "file": "debates2026-01-28d.xml", "sha256": "d980c960c3674ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.921.2", "colnum": "921", "heading": "British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "Tim Roca", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Yet!”", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Roca", "preceding_text": "I feel I should put on record at the beginning that I am not the Government’s trade envoy to Mauritius—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.921.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-28", "file": "debates2026-01-28d.xml", "sha256": "d980c960c3674ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.925.2", "colnum": "925", "heading": "British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "John Slinger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Slinger", "preceding_text": " Patel) , gave to the right hon. Member for Beverley and Holderness (Graham Stuart) —a Member I respect hugely. She mentioned climbing the greasy pole, possibly even in relation to me. It is always amusing when people who have served in the Cabinets of multiple Conservative Prime Ministers accuse Back-Bench Members of somehow being involved in climbing a greasy pole. It is just very, very amusing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.925.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-28", "file": "debates2026-01-28d.xml", "sha256": "d980c960c3674ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.928.1", "colnum": "928", "heading": "British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "Kieran Mullan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kieran Mullan", "preceding_text": " they do not know whether nuclear weapons will be allowed on the island and that they are happy to support the deal anyway is disgraceful. We must address the wider consequences of this decision. If Labour is willing to abandon the Chagos islands so easily, what message does that send to our other overseas territories? The International Court of Justice may have issued an advisory opinion in 2019—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.928.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-28", "file": "debates2026-01-28d.xml", "sha256": "d980c960c3674ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.938.2", "colnum": "938", "heading": "British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "s, although I see no reason why I cannot repeat it. In essence, this whole thing falls on to a couple of stools, but there is an intervening issue. The hon. Member for Macclesfield (Tim Roca) and I have been to Ukraine together, and I have a very high regard for him. The Government ought to put him on their Front Bench as soon as possible, because he will make less of a mess of it than the others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.938.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-28", "file": "debates2026-01-28d.xml", "sha256": "d980c960c3674ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.948.5", "colnum": "948", "heading": "British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "Lincoln Jopp", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lincoln Jopp", "preceding_text": "e you, the bank, this house. I then propose to pay you, the bank, rent above the market rate not only for me, but for all the Americans who live upstairs. I would be very grateful for your advice on this issue.” The bank manager wrote back to Mr Powell: “Dear Mr Powell, are you okay? I am concerned for your mental state, because what you are proposing would appear to be an act of GREAT STUPIDITY.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.948.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-28", "file": "debates2026-01-28d.xml", "sha256": "d980c960c3674ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.955.3", "colnum": "955", "heading": "British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "Luke Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Luke Evans", "preceding_text": "I am surprised that a party that represents trade unionists does not understand that when there is a dispute between one party and another, it is a good thing to try to talk about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.955.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-28", "file": "debates2026-01-28d.xml", "sha256": "d980c960c3674ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.955.5", "colnum": "955", "heading": "British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "I completely and utterly opposed my Government when they started this, categorically—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.955.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-28", "file": "debates2026-01-28d.xml", "sha256": "d980c960c3674ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.957.1", "colnum": "957", "heading": "British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "preceding_text": "No, I will not. The hon. Gentleman has a meeting to get to and I am trying to help him get there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-28", "file": "debates2026-01-28d.xml", "sha256": "d980c960c3674ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.958.4", "colnum": "958", "heading": "British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "preceding_text": "To help the Front-Bench team get to their shadow Cabinet meeting, I will not read out the same points again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.958.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-28", "file": "debates2026-01-28d.xml", "sha256": "d980c960c3674ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.965.1", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Youth Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Helen Whately", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Whately", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend makes the point so clearly. It is so obvious to the Conservatives, as the party of business, that if the Government keep taxing business, there will be fewer jobs—but they just do not seem to get it. Labour Members do know that they are in trouble, though. That is why they are talking up their youth programmes, youth hubs and youth guarantees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.965.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-28", "file": "debates2026-01-28d.xml", "sha256": "d980c960c3674ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.981.1", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Youth Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Damian Hinds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Hinds", "preceding_text": "elp the House with a non-partisan description of what has happened in relation to apprenticeships over the past 20 or more years. The truth is that under the previous Labour Government, and under the first few years of the coalition Government, many tens of thousands of young people were doing an apprenticeship without even knowing they were doing so, so thin and flimsy were those apprenticeships.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-28", "file": "debates2026-01-28d.xml", "sha256": "d980c960c3674ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.1003.3", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Youth Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Harriett Baldwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriett Baldwin", "preceding_text": "ss selective grouping of statistics than we heard from the Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions, the right hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham (Dame Diana Johnson) when she opened the debate. This Government have made it more expensive, burdensome and risky for businesses to hire young people. That is not a view that I am expressing from a partisan point of view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.1003.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-28", "file": "debates2026-01-28d.xml", "sha256": "d980c960c3674ea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.1006.2", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Youth Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Western", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Western", "preceding_text": "or Faversham and Mid Kent (Helen Whately) , who showed that the Conservatives have suddenly developed empathy for young people after leaving us with a NEET number of almost 1 million. We heard Tory Members compare the youth unemployment rate with those of other G7 countries, but we have the second-highest youth employment rate in the G7. We are not complacent, and we know that there is work to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-28d.1006.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-29", "file": "debates2026-01-29b.xml", "sha256": "146a49f3849dd7e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-29b.1028.5", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Business and Trade", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I note the hon. Gentleman’s support for pubs in his constituency. It is obviously intense—he basically took us on a pub crawl there. If he is looking for a Valentine’s day dinner, perhaps with his wife, the Coach & Horses in Freckleton is offering two mains and two drinks for £25.99. But we will keep it quiet so that it is a surprise for his wife—or whoever else he takes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-29b.1028.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-29", "file": "debates2026-01-29b.xml", "sha256": "146a49f3849dd7e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-29b.1029.4", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Business and Trade", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "On touring artists, we are absolutely determined to secure that—not least because I have personally promised Elton John that we will, as has the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-29b.1029.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-29", "file": "debates2026-01-29b.xml", "sha256": "146a49f3849dd7e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-29b.1033.5", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Business and Trade", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "rade Organisation ministerial conference in Cameroon at the end of March. There has been a moratorium on tax in relation to that, and we would like to make it permanent—we are discussing that with our international allies. On exports, I was at Fever-Tree on Monday morning. Its adverts used to say, “If three quarters of your gin and tonic is the tonic, why on earth do you not care about the tonic?”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-29b.1033.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-29", "file": "debates2026-01-29b.xml", "sha256": "146a49f3849dd7e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-29b.1044.5", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Business and Trade", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Vince", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Oh!”", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Vince", "preceding_text": "Last weekend, I had the pleasure of visiting the Advanced Aquarium Consultancy in my constituency of Harlow, where they breed, grow and sell coral. I am not going to make any coral jokes, which will be a reef to everybody.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-29b.1044.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-29", "file": "debates2026-01-29b.xml", "sha256": "146a49f3849dd7e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-29b.1053.0", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Alan Campbell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Campbell", "preceding_text": "Christopher was renowned for his mastery in drafting legislation and worked on many important pieces, including the Summer Time Act 1972 and the first devolution Bills for Scotland and Wales. He will also be remembered for pioneering explanatory notes, which clearly explain the purpose of the Bill. I am sure that the whole House will join me in passing on our condolences to his friends and family.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-29b.1053.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-01-29", "file": "debates2026-01-29b.xml", "sha256": "146a49f3849dd7e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-29b.1061.6", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Seamus Logan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Seamus Logan", "preceding_text": "ie, who is chairing a public inquiry into events at the Queen Elizabeth University hospital in Glasgow. He stated that the Scottish Government had “sided with the health board and dismissed families who went through tragic circumstances.”—[Official Report, 28 January 2026 ; Vol. 779, c. 900.] That is categorically untrue, given that it was the SNP Scottish Government who set up the public inquiry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-01-29b.1061.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-03", "file": "debates2026-02-03d.xml", "sha256": "7d7ca07cbfc70e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-03d.168.4", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Neil Shastri-Hurst", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Neil Shastri-Hurst", "preceding_text": "At its heart, this debate is about choices, and the choice before us today is whether we believe that compassion is best expressed through limitless expenditure or through a system that is fair, responsible and worthy of the people who fund it. We in this House all share the same objective: we want every child—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-03d.168.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-03", "file": "debates2026-02-03d.xml", "sha256": "7d7ca07cbfc70e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-03d.195.2", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Zarah Sultana", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Zarah Sultana", "preceding_text": "I agree completely with the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-03d.195.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-03", "file": "debates2026-02-03d.xml", "sha256": "7d7ca07cbfc70e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-03d.208.1", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Nokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Nokes", "preceding_text": "Order. For the assistance of Back Benchers who still wish to speak, I am about to remove the time limit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-03d.208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-03", "file": "debates2026-02-03d.xml", "sha256": "7d7ca07cbfc70e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-03d.214.1", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lizzi Collinge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lizzi Collinge", "preceding_text": "That is actually a reasonable question. The answer is that we had to make sure the country could afford it and we had to take a strategic approach to tackling child poverty. What we were not going to do, given the absolute state of the economy when we came into government, was make very quick decisions on such a scale. We did it properly, carefully and as part of a strategy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-03d.214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-03", "file": "debates2026-02-03d.xml", "sha256": "7d7ca07cbfc70e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-03d.215.0", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jeevun Sandher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeevun Sandher", "preceding_text": "Madam Deputy Speaker, it is a pleasure to be able to speak for the next hour, while there is no time limit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-03d.215.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-03", "file": "debates2026-02-03d.xml", "sha256": "7d7ca07cbfc70e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-03d.216.1", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rebecca Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rebecca Smith", "preceding_text": "Well, without having the statistics in front of me right this second—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-03d.216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-03", "file": "debates2026-02-03d.xml", "sha256": "7d7ca07cbfc70e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-03d.218.0", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Slinger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Slinger", "preceding_text": "The number of children—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-03d.218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-03", "file": "debates2026-02-03d.xml", "sha256": "7d7ca07cbfc70e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-03d.218.2", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Slinger", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Where are they?”", "preceding_speaker": "John Slinger", "preceding_text": "That is indeed the statistic that I was reaching for in my notes, and I thank my hon. Friend. Even now, Opposition Members would undo progress. They would reintroduce the limit; they would make things worse. And as for Reform UK—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-03d.218.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-03", "file": "debates2026-02-03d.xml", "sha256": "7d7ca07cbfc70e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-03d.218.6", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Slinger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Slinger", "preceding_text": "I could not have put it better, particularly the point my hon. Friend made about enjoying a pint. I too enjoy a pint, but linking something as serious as tackling child poverty to the price of a pint in our pubs is trivialising an incredibly serious topic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-03d.218.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-03", "file": "debates2026-02-03d.xml", "sha256": "7d7ca07cbfc70e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-03d.220.3", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Slinger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Slinger", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his intervention; I always enjoy them. I found this one particularly amusing—and I very much respect and like the right hon. Gentleman—given that I was not actually quoting. I did not say, “And I quote”. I am allowed to use words without having to justify every single one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-03d.220.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-03", "file": "debates2026-02-03d.xml", "sha256": "7d7ca07cbfc70e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-03d.220.3", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Slinger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Slinger", "preceding_text": " I always enjoy them. I found this one particularly amusing—and I very much respect and like the right hon. Gentleman—given that I was not actually quoting. I did not say, “And I quote”. I am allowed to use words without having to justify every single one. [Interruption.] The right hon. Gentleman knows full well that I was referring to the general view of hon. and right hon. Members in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-03d.220.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-03", "file": "debates2026-02-03d.xml", "sha256": "7d7ca07cbfc70e8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-03d.222.2", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rebecca Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rebecca Smith", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman is making, but I too have been doing some research while this debate has been going on. It is worth noting that those food bank numbers have increased because they only count Trussell Trust food banks, so the more food banks join the Trussell Trust network, the more those numbers go up. In my city, where, as I may have mentioned, I held the cost of living portfolio during the pandemic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-03d.222.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-04", "file": "debates2026-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "fceeae957262a216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-04a.260.1", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": " I have seen a Humble Address without that exemption. Just to be clear, to vote to release something that would prejudice national security is wrong in principle. The second exemption is in relation to things that would prejudice international relations. There will be discussions about security, intelligence and trade that are highly sensitive to the two countries involved, and to third countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-04a.260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-04", "file": "debates2026-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "fceeae957262a216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-04a.269.3", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Alicia Kearns", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Call him back!”", "preceding_speaker": "Alicia Kearns", "preceding_text": "sition mentioned national security. However, I have checked the two most recent Humble Addresses laid by the Labour party when it was in opposition, and all Labour Members should be aware that the words “national security” do not feature even once, because it is not necessary in an Humble Address. So how can we get the Prime Minister to correct the record when he has chosen just to leave the room?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-04a.269.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-04", "file": "debates2026-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "fceeae957262a216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-04a.269.4", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Don’t be ridiculous. I say to the hon. Lady that she had put this on the record—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-04a.269.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-04", "file": "debates2026-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "fceeae957262a216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-04a.280.5", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Lord Mandelson", "cue_speaker": "Nick Thomas-Symonds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Thomas-Symonds", "preceding_text": "Let me pick up this point, which I know a number of right hon. and hon. Members have raised. In the first instance, the process will be conducted and led by the Cabinet Secretary, with unimpeachable integrity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-04a.280.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-04", "file": "debates2026-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "fceeae957262a216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-04a.280.5", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Lord Mandelson", "cue_speaker": "Nick Thomas-Symonds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Thomas-Symonds", "preceding_text": "ink. Secondly, this will be conducted by Cabinet Office lawyers. The House is asking, fairly, a broader question about scrutiny, as is my right hon. Friend the Member for Ashton-under-Lyne (Angela Rayner) , and there is a role, as the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee said, for Select Committees in how they scrutinise this, as well as existing powers for the ISC in terms of scrutinising this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-04a.280.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-04", "file": "debates2026-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "fceeae957262a216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-04a.283.5", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Lord Mandelson", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Vince", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Vince", "preceding_text": "I made this point on Monday, but it is really important to make it again. The vast majority of Members in this House come here to represent our constituencies, and people across this House will recognise that I do my best to represent Harlow as much as I possibly can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-04a.283.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-04", "file": "debates2026-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "fceeae957262a216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-04a.297.4", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Lord Mandelson", "cue_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "preceding_text": "No, please, let me finish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-04a.297.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-04", "file": "debates2026-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "fceeae957262a216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-04a.312.5", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Lord Mandelson", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Flynn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Flynn", "preceding_text": "ish intervention. I would have let the hon. Member intervene earlier, if I had known that was coming. He knows fine well that the First Minister of Scotland does not appoint the ambassador to the United States of America. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom does. I thought that for once we had consensus in this House, and agreed that the Prime Minister lacked judgment by appointing Mandelson.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-04a.312.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-04", "file": "debates2026-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "fceeae957262a216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-04a.326.2", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Lord Mandelson", "cue_speaker": "Scott Arthur", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Scott Arthur", "preceding_text": "Greens and the Lib Dems back the original Humble Address. I am not sure whether Your Party backs it —perhaps the right hon. Gentleman was just speaking on his own behalf. The Conservatives seem to accept that their Humble Address was a little reckless, and they want to support the involvement of the ISC. The Government have now shown leadership and brought that in. I think that is where we are at.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-04a.326.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-04", "file": "debates2026-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "fceeae957262a216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-04a.328.5", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Lord Mandelson", "cue_speaker": "Scott Arthur", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Scott Arthur", "preceding_text": "rvivors of Epstein’s sexual abuse—and, in fact, survivors of sexual abuse everywhere. I think that the residents of Edinburgh South West, and everyone else, expect us to work together on this, and to reach consensus, and hopefully we can. I am still not sure whether the Liberal Democrats, the Scottish National party and the Greens are on board, but I think we are moving much closer to one another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-04a.328.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-04", "file": "debates2026-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "fceeae957262a216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-04a.343.3", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Lord Mandelson", "cue_speaker": "Stuart Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stuart Anderson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is making a great speech about Mandelson’s influence in the Labour party. It is reported that he was involved in the selection of up to 25% of its candidates. Does my hon. Friend think that the documents in question should be made available to anyone who needs help looking into his influence on the Labour party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-04a.343.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-04", "file": "debates2026-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "fceeae957262a216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-04a.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Lord Mandelson", "cue_speaker": "Saqib Bhatti", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Saqib Bhatti", "preceding_text": "I am glad to say that I did not mention any single Member of the House, so I am happy that the hon. Lady has put that on that record, but I do not trust Mandelson—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-04a.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-04", "file": "debates2026-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "fceeae957262a216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-04a.352.1", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Lord Mandelson", "cue_speaker": "John Martin McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Martin McDonnell", "preceding_text": "ard to who interprets what is released. The manuscript amendment excepts elements of information that are prejudicial to national security and international relations, “which shall instead be referred to the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament.” I agree with that, but I would like clarity on whether the Intelligence and Security Committee will make the decision about publication, or—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-04a.352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-04", "file": "debates2026-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "fceeae957262a216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-04a.354.9", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Lord Mandelson", "cue_speaker": "Wendy Morton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wendy Morton", "preceding_text": "At the start of this afternoon, I sat through Prime Minister’s questions and did not really have any intention of taking part in this Opposition day debate. I quite often take part in what we call Oppo day debates, but I had other commitments in the diary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-04a.354.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-04", "file": "debates2026-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "fceeae957262a216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-04a.354.9", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Lord Mandelson", "cue_speaker": "Wendy Morton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wendy Morton", "preceding_text": "lear that there were many questions that were not being answered and that the Government were attempting simply to sweep this issue to the side, and to deflect to other matters around the periphery. First, let me come to the Humble Address. I have not been in this place as long as some of my vintage colleagues—I say that in a very kind way—but I have a few scars to bear from my time as Chief Whip.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-04a.354.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-04", "file": "debates2026-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "fceeae957262a216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-04a.356.5", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Lord Mandelson", "cue_speaker": "Wendy Morton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Wendy Morton", "preceding_text": " the Prime Minister choose to ignore all that, at a time when Members on both sides of the House know that the public are often scathing about politicians? They say that we are all the same, but I can assure them that we are not. They question our motives and our integrity. Some even refer to Members of this place as members of the establishment, which is something that I will always rail against.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-04a.356.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-04", "file": "debates2026-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "fceeae957262a216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-04a.356.5", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Lord Mandelson", "cue_speaker": "Wendy Morton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wendy Morton", "preceding_text": "ers on both sides of the House know that the public are often scathing about politicians? They say that we are all the same, but I can assure them that we are not. They question our motives and our integrity. Some even refer to Members of this place as members of the establishment, which is something that I will always rail against. [Laughter.] No, no, I can absolutely see why they might say that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-04a.356.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-04", "file": "debates2026-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "fceeae957262a216", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-04a.368.3", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Lord Mandelson", "cue_speaker": "Chris Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Ward", "preceding_text": "Just to be clear, he was not appointed to any role in the 2024 election campaign. I remember that campaign very well. Let me clear up two other points that were raised in the debate. As Members made very clear earlier, Mandelson had no role in candidate selection at all. That is done by the national executive committee, and through the rule book. He had absolutely no role in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-04a.368.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-05", "file": "debates2026-02-05c.xml", "sha256": "cec2e3fb5982e476", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-05c.408.2", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Solicitor General", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. The idea was not to talk about the particular court case. I think we will leave it at that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-05c.408.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-09", "file": "debates2026-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "fba9e5c91139aedf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-09a.536.2", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Home Department", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Jones", "preceding_text": "In the last two years of the previous Conservative Government, shop theft rose by 60%—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-09a.536.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-09", "file": "debates2026-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "fba9e5c91139aedf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-09a.549.4", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Home Department", "cue_speaker": "Shabana Mahmood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shabana Mahmood", "preceding_text": "ed up this new policy of leaving the ECHR in opposition; it is not one that the Conservatives took up when they were in government. [Interruption.] I am afraid he is now just carping from the sidelines, to which he has been condemned by the British people for failing to control our borders. It is this Government who are sorting out the abject mess in our migration system left by the Conservatives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-09a.549.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-09", "file": "debates2026-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "fba9e5c91139aedf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-09a.563.2", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Jimmy Lai: Prison Sentence", "cue_speaker": "Seema Malhotra", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Seema Malhotra", "preceding_text": "ill not tolerate this harassment and intimidation in the UK. The safety of Hongkongers in the UK is of the utmost importance for the Government. He will know that training and guidance on state threats activity is now offered by counter-terrorism policing to all 45 territorial police forces across the United Kingdom. That includes upskilling dedicated 999 call handlers on transnational repression.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-09a.563.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-09", "file": "debates2026-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "fba9e5c91139aedf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-09a.566.1", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Standards in Public Life", "cue_speaker": "Darren Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Darren Jones", "preceding_text": "value the lives, let alone the voices, of women and girls. The series and sequencing of events across the last week has made it clear to us all, rightly, that for too long, and too often, influential people in positions of power—overwhelmingly men—have been able to avoid proper and just scrutiny because of the perverse power structures that incentivise their belief that rules do not apply to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-09a.566.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-11", "file": "debates2026-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "546ebd0fc1468139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.772.1", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "Millions of people in this country have been let down for years and years, and one of the reasons for that was austerity, which the right hon. Gentleman’s party supported. He should take accountability and responsibility for what he has inflicted on this country!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.772.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-11", "file": "debates2026-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "546ebd0fc1468139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.778.4", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Bob Blackman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Blackman", "preceding_text": "Kingsbury high school yesterday. It is absolutely right that we allow the police to get on with their job of investigating this terrible atrocity; indeed, the police are out there now, providing reassurance to parents and people in the community. I am sure I speak for the whole House when I say that our thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their families and those who witnessed the atrocity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.778.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-11", "file": "debates2026-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "546ebd0fc1468139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.780.0", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Ayoub Khan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ayoub Khan", "preceding_text": "Rubbish is building up right beneath my very nose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.780.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-11", "file": "debates2026-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "546ebd0fc1468139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.781.1", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Blake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Blake", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Yesterday, a Reform UK MP visited a synagogue in my constituency and failed to notify me; it was a political visit. This is part of a pattern that has been observed. At a time when we need to work together in our communities to tackle antisemitism, a terrible form of hate, I would like your guidance on the correct procedure for Members on when they should—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-11", "file": "debates2026-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "546ebd0fc1468139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.781.2", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. Mr Tice, it is very important that I hear this point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.781.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-11", "file": "debates2026-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "546ebd0fc1468139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.799.7", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Police Grant Report", "cue_speaker": "Andy McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy McDonald", "preceding_text": "inister, because I have some local concerns. However, after hearing the shadow Secretary of State’s remarks about police numbers, I have to say, in all candour, that the reduction of 20,000 police officers in the name of austerity was one of the most reckless and stupid things a Government could ever do. I would like him to come to the Dispatch Box and apologise for that gross dereliction of duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.799.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-11", "file": "debates2026-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "546ebd0fc1468139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.800.1", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Police Grant Report", "cue_speaker": "Andy McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy McDonald", "preceding_text": "I will in a minute. Perhaps the shadow Secretary of State would like to apologise to the country for the damage that was caused. I can tell him that removing so many officers at a stroke had a devastating impact. Looking at the raw numbers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.800.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-11", "file": "debates2026-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "546ebd0fc1468139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.802.1", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Police Grant Report", "cue_speaker": "Max Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Max Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "I would like to start by declaring an interest, in that my father-in-law is the police chaplain for North Yorkshire police and my brother-in-law is an inspector in North Yorkshire police.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.802.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-11", "file": "debates2026-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "546ebd0fc1468139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.803.2", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Police Grant Report", "cue_speaker": "Max Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Max Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his intervention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.803.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-11", "file": "debates2026-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "546ebd0fc1468139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.803.7", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Police Grant Report", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Jones", "preceding_text": "To be clear, by the end of this Parliament there will be 13,000 extra neighbourhood police. The hon. Gentleman can divide that by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.803.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-11", "file": "debates2026-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "546ebd0fc1468139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.809.1", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Police Grant Report", "cue_speaker": "Mary Foy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Foy", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker; I was happy to take that intervention. To the right hon. Member’s point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-11", "file": "debates2026-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "546ebd0fc1468139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.820.0", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Police Grant Report", "cue_speaker": "Matt Vickers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matt Vickers", "preceding_text": "When the Conservatives last left office, we had record numbers of police on the streets. I do not know how many police officers we had on the streets when the Liberal Democrats last left office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.820.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-11", "file": "debates2026-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "546ebd0fc1468139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.820.0", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Police Grant Report", "cue_speaker": "Matt Vickers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matt Vickers", "preceding_text": "while forces face rising costs and rising demand. In 2023, an MP told this House that the then Government’s approach was to “put up local taxes, put up council tax, push the problem on to local forces”, and that “Ministers have chosen to heap the burden on to hard-pressed local taxpayers through the precept.”—[Official Report, 8 February 2023 ; Vol. 727, c. 935.] Any idea who that might have been?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.820.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-11", "file": "debates2026-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "546ebd0fc1468139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.822.2", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Police Grant Report", "cue_speaker": "Jess Phillips", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jess Phillips", "preceding_text": "use can agree that no one likes the funding formula. The hon. Member for North Norfolk (Steff Aquarone) gave an especially good trot-through of that issue. While he is not of my political stripes, he is considerably better than the previous right hon. Member for North Norfolk, who bears some responsibility for the damage that this Government are having to fix. The funding formula is fundamentally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.822.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-11", "file": "debates2026-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "546ebd0fc1468139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.824.3", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Police Grant Report", "cue_speaker": "Jess Phillips", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jess Phillips", "preceding_text": "we are seen, because I was not old enough to vote when the last Labour Government came to power. Perhaps we should update some of the references. The idea that the figures we use will date from 2001 seems completely and utterly ridiculous, but the review that will be undertaken will look at that. All I can say is that it will be as recent as one would expect and as recent as is possible with data.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.824.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-11", "file": "debates2026-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "546ebd0fc1468139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.836.7", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Danny Beales", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Beales", "preceding_text": "very generous with his time. I always have a lot of time for him. He is talking about our constituents in Hillingdon. Is it not the case that the financial settlement of the previous Tory Government, which also included council tax, had a 7% cut to core spending power for our constituents in Hillingdon? This spending settlement has almost a 40% increase in core spending power for our constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.836.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-11", "file": "debates2026-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "546ebd0fc1468139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.843.0", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Layla Moran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Layla Moran", "preceding_text": " is giving a powerful speech outlining how Liberal Democrat councils up and down the country are doing their best in this cost of living crisis. Oxfordshire county council finds itself in a £24 million deficit as a result of the settlement. Meanwhile, residents on the doorstep are saying to us, “What about my potholes?” He is right to point out that social care is part of that demographic deficit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.843.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-11", "file": "debates2026-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "546ebd0fc1468139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.844.4", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Gideon Amos", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gideon Amos", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is right that massive savings were made after the financial crash in 2008—some would say around £40 billion over the coalition years. He would be horrified to learn that the only people suggesting cuts greater than £41 billion were those in the Labour party in their 2010 manifesto, which proposed £56 billion in cuts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.844.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-11", "file": "debates2026-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "546ebd0fc1468139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.857.4", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Danny Beales", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Beales", "preceding_text": "I am an MP with a Conservative council, and a colleague from the Conservative Croydon council area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.857.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-11", "file": "debates2026-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "546ebd0fc1468139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.874.0", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Alison McGovern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alison McGovern", "preceding_text": "to the House. Many Members will know that I suffer from chronic migraine, and I have been having an attack over the past couple of days, so my contribution might not be as long as it might otherwise have been. In show business and in politics, the show must go on, albeit my speech might be slightly shorter than it would have otherwise been, but I think that will be a cause of joy for many Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.874.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-11", "file": "debates2026-02-11b.xml", "sha256": "546ebd0fc1468139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.876.1", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Alison McGovern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alison McGovern", "preceding_text": "I am determined not to give way, if that is okay—I think we need to bring this debate to a close.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-11b.876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-12", "file": "debates2026-02-12c.xml", "sha256": "152f87eeb6c7ee0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-12c.924.2", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Lord Mandelson: Government Response to Humble Address Motion", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "But I am sure you will have a go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-12c.924.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-12", "file": "debates2026-02-12c.xml", "sha256": "152f87eeb6c7ee0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-12c.924.3", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Lord Mandelson: Government Response to Humble Address Motion", "cue_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "preceding_text": "he Minister told me he would write to me and my right hon. Friend the Member for Skipton and Ripon (Sir Julian Smith) about the Palantir contract. He has not yet done so. Please will he confirm that he will this week? Lastly, and separately, will the Minister commit to publishing all documentation relating to the nomination of Matthew Doyle as a peer? That is now a matter of acute public interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-12c.924.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-12", "file": "debates2026-02-12c.xml", "sha256": "152f87eeb6c7ee0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-12c.969.2", "colnum": "969", "heading": "LGBT+ History Month", "cue_speaker": "Nadia Whittome", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Nadia Whittome", "preceding_text": " it has become a regular fixture of the calendar in the world’s gayest Parliament. I also thank my hon. Friend the Member for Jarrow and Gateshead East (Kate Osborne) , who made the application with me and whose relentless work for LGBTQ+ rights inspires me every day, not least her victory at the Council of Europe, where her report on banning conversion practices passed with a resounding majority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-12c.969.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-12", "file": "debates2026-02-12c.xml", "sha256": "152f87eeb6c7ee0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-12c.974.1", "colnum": "974", "heading": "LGBT+ History Month", "cue_speaker": "Kate Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Kate Osborne", "preceding_text": " the One Centre, the first LGBT media and business centre in the UK—and it is in my constituency. The location is a brand new LGBTQ+ inclusive space, and its facilities are incredible. When I visited, I was honoured and moved to realise that I was featured on the icons wall, alongside Bowie, and that there was a room named after me and another after the wonderful Lord Cashman from the other place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-12c.974.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-12", "file": "debates2026-02-12c.xml", "sha256": "152f87eeb6c7ee0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-12c.993.3", "colnum": "993", "heading": "LGBT+ History Month", "cue_speaker": "Mims Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mims Davies", "preceding_text": "highlighted by many Members this afternoon. Those sectors are absolutely vital to our economy and to the wellbeing of us all, from technology to business, our environment and—crucially—our healthcare. Today, we celebrate all LGBT people, past and present, who contribute so much. I too am a proud ally and friend, particularly to my hon. Friend the Member for Hamble Valley (Paul Holmes) , of course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-12c.993.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-23", "file": "debates2026-02-23f.xml", "sha256": "28ad87188cab361e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-23f.103.3", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Industry and Exports (Financial Assistance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "at there was a suggestion that Northern Ireland was losing out because of the money from UKEF. It is quite the reverse. If either Member wants to go through what is already published in this sphere, they will see for themselves precisely how well Northern Ireland does—and, of course, it should do. The whole point of the two Acts that we are referring to today is that they should be able to enable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-23f.103.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-23", "file": "debates2026-02-23f.xml", "sha256": "28ad87188cab361e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-23f.146.2", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Helen Whately", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Whately", "preceding_text": "t differently. We know that children are better off if the country is better off; if there are more jobs, higher wages, lower inflation and stronger growth. Look at the moments in our history when living standards rose for everyone. It was when people were motivated to strive, ideas were turned into businesses and hard work reaped rewards. That is how countries get ahead and their children thrive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-23f.146.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-23", "file": "debates2026-02-23f.xml", "sha256": "28ad87188cab361e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-23f.146.2", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Helen Whately", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Whately", "preceding_text": "s, higher wages, lower inflation and stronger growth. Look at the moments in our history when living standards rose for everyone. It was when people were motivated to strive, ideas were turned into businesses and hard work reaped rewards. That is how countries get ahead and their children thrive. [Interruption.] I do not expect the argument that I am making to be popular in this Chamber, although—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-23f.146.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-24", "file": "debates2026-02-24c.xml", "sha256": "4b68872c730e478e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-24c.168.1", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Health and Social Care", "cue_speaker": "Natalie Fleet", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Natalie Fleet", "preceding_text": "Fourteen years of Conservative rule has consequences for the children in my constituency. A quarter of them have tooth decay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-24c.168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-24", "file": "debates2026-02-24c.xml", "sha256": "4b68872c730e478e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-24c.172.5", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Health and Social Care", "cue_speaker": "Ashley Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ashley Dalton", "preceding_text": "What the hon. Member highlights is part of this rigorous process. That is what happens. Why the MHRA has changed its view is a question for the MHRA, but it is up to the MHRA to raise these issues through the process. That is why we run such trials.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-24c.172.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-24", "file": "debates2026-02-24c.xml", "sha256": "4b68872c730e478e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-24c.173.7", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Health and Social Care", "cue_speaker": "Joe Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joe Robertson", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has compared GPs’ salaries to that of the Prime Minister. I can understand why he is taking a keen interest in how much a Prime Minister is paid, but can the Government assure the House that the GP contract will include an increase in GP funding over and above inflationary pressures?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-24c.173.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-24", "file": "debates2026-02-24c.xml", "sha256": "4b68872c730e478e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-24c.191.0", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor", "cue_speaker": "Matt Bishop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matt Bishop", "preceding_text": "I thank the Leader of the Opposition for giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-24c.191.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-24", "file": "debates2026-02-24c.xml", "sha256": "4b68872c730e478e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-24c.191.0", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor", "cue_speaker": "Matt Bishop", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More!”", "preceding_speaker": "Matt Bishop", "preceding_text": "I thank the Leader of the Opposition for giving way. [Interruption.] Sorry, the leader of the Liberal Democrats—I stand corrected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-24c.191.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-24", "file": "debates2026-02-24c.xml", "sha256": "4b68872c730e478e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-24c.191.2", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "is own private interest. I remember him coming to visit the Sea Cadets in Tonypandy. They were delighted and excited to meet a member of the royal family, but he insisted on coming by helicopter, unlike his mother, who came twice to the Rhondda and by car. He left early, and he showed next to no interest in the young people. That is, of course, not a crime, nor is arrogance—fortunately, I suppose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-24c.191.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-24", "file": "debates2026-02-24c.xml", "sha256": "4b68872c730e478e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-24c.197.5", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "the victims, and that means that we have to have a proper police procedure. If there are charges brought, that has to go through a judicial process as well and I do not want to undermine that. I am very happy, both privately and publicly, to update the House when I have anything possible to say. I am trying to get to the end of my speech. People normally like it when I get to the end of my speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-24c.197.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-24", "file": "debates2026-02-24c.xml", "sha256": "4b68872c730e478e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-24c.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor", "cue_speaker": "Lisa Smart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lisa Smart", "preceding_text": "hool or had the same experience, those teams will be missing an awful lot. My hon. Friend is entirely right to talk about elected Members and Ministers, but also about the officials who are working with them, advising them and supporting them. That is an extremely well-made point. Only when we have elected as many mediocre women to this place as we have mediocre men will we have achieved equality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-24c.229.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-24", "file": "debates2026-02-24c.xml", "sha256": "4b68872c730e478e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-24c.233.2", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I completely agree that there is a cultural issue that needs to be looked at. I am certainly not able to commit the Government today to a public inquiry—I think all Members accept that I am not going to do that—but I am also not entirely convinced that public inquiries actually often end up changing culture. Culture changes because we choose to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-24c.233.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-25", "file": "debates2026-02-25c.xml", "sha256": "679e1f7c9c28b8a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-25c.327.7", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "Mr Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-25c.327.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-25", "file": "debates2026-02-25c.xml", "sha256": "679e1f7c9c28b8a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-25c.328.1", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": " desperate to talk about the last Government so that he can distract from the mess that he is making now. The fact is that he is the Prime Minister today. This is a man who got legislation in to fix his own pension—just his, no one else’s. He will not sort out student loans for other people. He has no plan to get young people into work. He has no plan to help graduates to get out of the debt trap.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-25c.328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-25", "file": "debates2026-02-25c.xml", "sha256": "679e1f7c9c28b8a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-25c.328.2", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member wants me to talk about this Government. Bills are down £117 under this Government. Inflation is down under this Government. Surplus is up, at a record. Resales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-25c.328.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-25", "file": "debates2026-02-25c.xml", "sha256": "679e1f7c9c28b8a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-25c.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "Yet again, the right hon. Member has shown why she is so utterly irrelevant—carping from the sidelines and trying to talk down the economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-25c.329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-25", "file": "debates2026-02-25c.xml", "sha256": "679e1f7c9c28b8a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-25c.334.3", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Member for raising this matter. I will look into it straightaway and give him a full answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-25c.334.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-25", "file": "debates2026-02-25c.xml", "sha256": "679e1f7c9c28b8a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-25c.339.0", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Diego Garcia and British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "Hamish Falconer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hamish Falconer", "preceding_text": " and, indeed, the President of the United States in recent months. There is no question of us going around the US Government. The hon. Member says, “Well, what has changed?” Clearly, the view of the US President may well have changed, but the treaty has not. We have discussed the treaty in great detail in this House. The treaty emerges from talks initiated by the previous Government and completed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-25c.339.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-25", "file": "debates2026-02-25c.xml", "sha256": "679e1f7c9c28b8a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-25c.339.0", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Diego Garcia and British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "Hamish Falconer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hamish Falconer", "preceding_text": "s Government and completed—[Interruption.] Mr Speaker, I might find the chuntering on the Conservative Benches more plausible had I not been a Foreign Office diplomat during the period when, for 11 rounds, they were negotiating this deal. I understand that right hon. and hon. Members on the Conservative Benches now wish to distance themselves from the 11 rounds they conducted, but let us at least—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-25c.339.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-25", "file": "debates2026-02-25c.xml", "sha256": "679e1f7c9c28b8a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-25c.339.2", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Diego Garcia and British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "Hamish Falconer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hamish Falconer", "preceding_text": "nce of the hon. Member’s question, I would just like to remind him that if he turned up with a selfie stick to RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire, which is a similarly sensitive military base, he would be turned away. I do not understand his surprise, or that of those who travelled with him, that when you sought over the weekend to film a video on a sensitive military site under the control of the UK—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-25c.339.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-25", "file": "debates2026-02-25c.xml", "sha256": "679e1f7c9c28b8a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-25c.341.0", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Diego Garcia and British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "Hamish Falconer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hamish Falconer", "preceding_text": "As I have said, I would find the Conservatives’ position more plausible had they not held 11 rounds of these negotiations. The attempt by Conservative and Reform Members to act as though there was no issue to be addressed, and as though the reason they started 11 rounds of negotiations was some sort of lack of focus—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-25c.341.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-25", "file": "debates2026-02-25c.xml", "sha256": "679e1f7c9c28b8a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-25c.343.4", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Diego Garcia and British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "Hamish Falconer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hamish Falconer", "preceding_text": "ments of the question and leave the questions about the treaty and its passage through the two Houses to that process, as that is my understanding of how best to deal with urgent questions. I will leave the question about the judicial review, which I understand is not urgent but is related to the passage of the treaty through the two Houses, to the Minister responsible to respond in the usual way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-25c.343.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-25", "file": "debates2026-02-25c.xml", "sha256": "679e1f7c9c28b8a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-25c.345.0", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Diego Garcia and British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "Hamish Falconer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Hamish Falconer", "preceding_text": "I am appalled by the right hon. Member: Newark may well be a market town but Lincoln is a city, and has been for a very long time, so I invite him to withdraw that remark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-25c.345.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-25", "file": "debates2026-02-25c.xml", "sha256": "679e1f7c9c28b8a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-25c.347.7", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Diego Garcia and British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "Hamish Falconer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hamish Falconer", "preceding_text": "If those were disparaging comments about my preparedness, I would encourage the hon. Member to listen to my previous answers, in which I said that I will not be drawn on operational questions for reasons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-25c.347.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-25", "file": "debates2026-02-25c.xml", "sha256": "679e1f7c9c28b8a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-25c.348.5", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Diego Garcia and British Indian Ocean Territory", "cue_speaker": "Hamish Falconer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hamish Falconer", "preceding_text": "arted under the Conservative Government, but I am very happy to check the Foreign Office records and come back on that question. Whether they were started in 2009 or in 2010, that was quite a long period afterwards during which the Conservative Government were in charge and this strength of feeling was not demonstrated. Indeed, other hon. Members did not raise these issues in their time in office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-25c.348.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-26", "file": "debates2026-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "9b821eecc669e401", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-26a.466.0", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Alan Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Campbell", "preceding_text": "with additional needs will benefit from better, more tailored support, with SEND support in every school and community. Finally, I want to wish all those celebrating a happy St David’s day on Sunday. Let me now turn to the hon. Lady’s remarks. I will begin with what I thought were her fairly churlish remarks about the Prime Minister. She failed to mention that, because he is doing such a good job—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-26a.466.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-26", "file": "debates2026-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "9b821eecc669e401", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-26a.515.3", "colnum": "515", "heading": "St David’s Day and Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Jessica Morden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jessica Morden", "preceding_text": "ridge annual general meeting tonight, and my hon. Friend and I hope to get there in time. I support Newport city council’s expression of interest for the town of culture competition, and particularly Caerleon’s bid. As one of the most significant and best understood Roman legionary sites in the former empire, with a strong community, it would be a really worthy winner, so let us hope that happens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-26a.515.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-02-26", "file": "debates2026-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "9b821eecc669e401", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-26a.544.1", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Bereaved Children: Government Support", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Voaden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Voaden", "preceding_text": " their parent is there, the next he is gone. I remember Laura, who had just learned to say the word “Dadda”, going round the house opening the doors, going “Dadda, Dadda”, because she could not find him. I did not really know anything about the impact of bereavement on children, but in the last 20 years, I have learned quite a lot. In the UK, around 120 children are bereaved of a parent every day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-02-26a.544.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-02", "file": "debates2026-03-02f.xml", "sha256": "d35126afb2d90b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-02f.591.3", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Middle East", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "We obviously co-ordinate with our Five Eyes partners. We were dealing with a specific request to take action, and it was important that we applied the principle, which actually has been applied by successive Governments, to ask and get legal advice on the question: is there a lawful basis for what is proposed, and does it have a viable, thought-through plan?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-02f.591.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-02", "file": "debates2026-03-02f.xml", "sha256": "d35126afb2d90b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-02f.597.2", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Middle East", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "I assure my hon. Friend that I spoke to the President of Cyprus yesterday, and I am hoping to speak to him again later today. I repeat what I said earlier, because it is important for reasons that he and the House will understand. The bases in Cyprus are not being used and are not going to be used by the US.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-02f.597.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-02", "file": "debates2026-03-02f.xml", "sha256": "d35126afb2d90b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-02f.599.2", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Middle East", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "I will resist setting out the full international law test, but it is clear what the test is—I think that is not disputed. As far as I know, nobody is challenging the Attorney General’s advice, the summary of which has been published for all to see; I do not think anybody is saying that that is the wrong advice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-02f.599.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-02", "file": "debates2026-03-02f.xml", "sha256": "d35126afb2d90b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-02f.614.6", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Middle East", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "I reassure the hon. Member, and through him everybody in Cyprus, that protective measures are in place. His description was not right, and it is not helpful to those living in Cyprus to cast it in those terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-02f.614.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-02", "file": "debates2026-03-02f.xml", "sha256": "d35126afb2d90b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-02f.688.1", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Simmonds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Simmonds", "preceding_text": "he Government recently voted within their own internal party processes to determine that an officer of a Labour local association must be at least 18—a measure supported and championed by the right hon. Member for Ashton-under-Lyne (Angela Rayner) . We acknowledge in that small way, and in much larger ones mentioned by Members, that there must be a degree of consistency about the process, so that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-02f.688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-02", "file": "debates2026-03-02f.xml", "sha256": "d35126afb2d90b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-02f.690.0", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Bonavia", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Bonavia", "preceding_text": "Does the shadow Minister not accept that the crime of impersonation is vanishingly small in this country, so what problem is he actually trying to fix?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-02f.690.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-03", "file": "debates2026-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dcb14467106a0787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-03a.728.2", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office", "cue_speaker": "Chris Elmore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Elmore", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Member for his question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-03a.728.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-03", "file": "debates2026-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dcb14467106a0787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-03a.729.1", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Spring Forecast", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "This Government have the right economic plan for our country, a plan that is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-03a.729.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-03", "file": "debates2026-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dcb14467106a0787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-03a.729.3", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Spring Forecast", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More!”", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "d otherwise be wasted. The Tories have said that they would reinstate that destructive policy, and now Reform is saying exactly the same thing—two parties united in their intention to plunge nearly half a million children back into poverty at a single stroke. If you import failed Tory politicians, you get failed Tory policies too. Labour—and only Labour—has the right economic plan for our country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-03a.729.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-03", "file": "debates2026-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dcb14467106a0787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-03a.729.3", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Spring Forecast", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "nstrated the resilience of Britain’s economy in the face of global headwinds with the fastest growth of any G7 country in Europe. Today the Office for Budget Responsibility has updated its growth forecasts, including reflecting lower net migration. Average growth across the forecast period is largely unchanged, while the OBR has adjusted the profile of GDP so that it grows slightly slower in 2026—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-03a.729.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-03", "file": "debates2026-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dcb14467106a0787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-03a.729.3", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Spring Forecast", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": " I have always said that growth is for a purpose—to make working people better off. I can confirm that GDP per person is set to grow more than was expected in the autumn, with growth of 5.6% over the course of this Parliament. That compares with a fall in GDP per capita in the last Parliament. By the next election, after accounting for inflation, people are forecast to be £1,000 a year better off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-03a.729.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-03", "file": "debates2026-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dcb14467106a0787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-03a.729.3", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Spring Forecast", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "ce—in their pay packets, in their bills and in their mortgages. That is what the Conservatives inflicted on working people over 14 years. We had austerity, which cut off investment; Brexit, which cut us off from our closest trading partners; and Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-Budget, cheered on by the Leader of the Opposition and by the hon. Member for Clacton (Nigel Farage) —oh, he’s not here today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-03a.729.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-03", "file": "debates2026-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dcb14467106a0787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-03a.734.1", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Spring Forecast", "cue_speaker": "Mel Stride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mel Stride", "preceding_text": "Is that it? What utter complacency—a Chancellor in denial. She speaks of stability, but what planet is she on? She has lurched from putting up taxes to destroying growth and headroom, and then to coming back and putting up more taxes, with more growth destroyed. Round and round we go, like a fiscal twister, ripping up everything in its path.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-03a.734.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-03", "file": "debates2026-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dcb14467106a0787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-03a.734.6", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Spring Forecast", "cue_speaker": "Mel Stride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mel Stride", "preceding_text": "en the right hon. Lady rises again, will she tell the House how she will fill the £6 billion black hole in the special educational needs and disabilities budget? She mentions, quite rightly, the Iran war and the greater threats that our country faces, but could she explain how she is going to fund what we have been urging: 3% of GDP on defence by the end of this Parliament? How will she fund that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-03a.734.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-03", "file": "debates2026-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dcb14467106a0787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-03a.735.0", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Spring Forecast", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. Seriously, we need to hear this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-03a.735.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-03", "file": "debates2026-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dcb14467106a0787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-03a.735.1", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Spring Forecast", "cue_speaker": "Mel Stride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mel Stride", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr Speaker. The right hon. Lady says the cost of borrowing is coming down, but does she not know that the cost of borrowing in this country has been the highest in the G7 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-03a.735.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-03", "file": "debates2026-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dcb14467106a0787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-03a.736.0", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Spring Forecast", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More!”", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": "I know that the OBR did not publish the forecast until I sat down, but I still think the shadow Chancellor could have done a little bit better than that. To be honest, I was hoping that the Leader of the Opposition was going to respond today; after that performance, I expect she does, too!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-03a.736.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-03", "file": "debates2026-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dcb14467106a0787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-03a.738.4", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Spring Forecast", "cue_speaker": "Daisy Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daisy Cooper", "preceding_text": "oyed. We are facing a youth unemployment crisis. The Chancellor’s youth guarantee is simply a sticking plaster for the damage that has been done by the jobs tax. The Chancellor could have used today’s spring statement to reverse the jobs tax changes that have undermined job opportunities for young people and part-time workers. Why didn’t she? Graduates are being ripped off. They have studied hard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-03a.738.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-03", "file": "debates2026-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dcb14467106a0787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-03a.738.4", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Spring Forecast", "cue_speaker": "Daisy Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daisy Cooper", "preceding_text": ". The Chancellor’s youth guarantee is simply a sticking plaster for the damage that has been done by the jobs tax. The Chancellor could have used today’s spring statement to reverse the jobs tax changes that have undermined job opportunities for young people and part-time workers. Why didn’t she? Graduates are being ripped off. They have studied hard—[Interruption.] Graduates are being ripped off—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-03a.738.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-03", "file": "debates2026-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dcb14467106a0787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-03a.745.4", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Spring Forecast", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": " your old friends for advice. Perhaps, given that the right hon. Gentleman called his new colleague “Zia Useless” a couple of months ago, he needs all the friends he can get. It might have been a couple of weeks ago, but he used to be in a party that, just three months after losing office, was going to get rid of the fuel duty support. That was in the plans that we inherited, and we scrapped them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-03a.745.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-03", "file": "debates2026-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dcb14467106a0787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-03a.751.4", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Spring Forecast", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": " energy profits levy—just that levy, not all the other taxes paid —falls is because oil and gas prices have fallen sharply since last year’s Budget. Of course, oil and gas prices have increased hugely in the last couple of days. The increase in oil and gas prices was the reason why the Conservative Government introduced the energy profits, and they used that money to take money off people’s bills—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-03a.751.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-03", "file": "debates2026-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dcb14467106a0787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-03a.769.0", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Aw!”", "preceding_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "preceding_text": "I call the shadow Minister, Greg Smith. I believe it is your birthday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-03a.769.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-03", "file": "debates2026-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dcb14467106a0787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-03a.779.0", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tom Collins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Collins", "preceding_text": "A few of my colleagues have been offering jokes. I was not able to prepare detailed remarks, so I hope they will forgive me if I just wing it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-03a.779.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-03", "file": "debates2026-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dcb14467106a0787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-03a.789.0", "colnum": "789", "heading": "SEND Provision: Local Authorities", "cue_speaker": "Georgia Gould", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Georgia Gould", "preceding_text": "I confess that I think I have committed to go to every constituency in the country, but I will do my best.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-03a.789.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-04", "file": "debates2026-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "509297e615fcc714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.795.5", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Wales", "cue_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More!”", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "preceding_text": "ngland, we are better together. We are also better together historically and culturally. My Gaelic cousins on the Benches in front of me are my friends—I want them to stay in the United Kingdom. What can the Minister do to persuade people who are as yet undecided about what to do that it is better to be within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland? We are always better together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.795.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-04", "file": "debates2026-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "509297e615fcc714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.803.0", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "That was not the question I asked the Prime Minister. Nobody wants to see an escalation. The fact is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.803.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-04", "file": "debates2026-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "509297e615fcc714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.803.2", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "out a long list—it is not enough. He says that we are pre-deploying; the one ship that we are sending, HMS Dragon, is still in Portsmouth. The fact is that the Type 45s cannot take out incoming missiles. This is not enough—he has read out a long list, but the people who understand know that it is not enough. He should be doing more. Yesterday, the Chancellor could have given more money to defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.803.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-04", "file": "debates2026-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "509297e615fcc714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.803.2", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "st, but the people who understand know that it is not enough. He should be doing more. Yesterday, the Chancellor could have given more money to defence. [Interruption.] I do not know why Labour MPs are laughing—I do not know why that is funny. It is not funny. Yesterday, the Chancellor could have given more money to defence; instead, she gave more money for welfare. Their priorities are all wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.803.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-04", "file": "debates2026-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "509297e615fcc714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.803.2", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "have given more money to defence. [Interruption.] I do not know why Labour MPs are laughing—I do not know why that is funny. It is not funny. Yesterday, the Chancellor could have given more money to defence; instead, she gave more money for welfare. Their priorities are all wrong—[Interruption.] They can chunter as much as they like. The fact of the matter is that the war in Iran is happening now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.803.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-04", "file": "debates2026-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "509297e615fcc714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.803.4", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "The fact of the matter is that the war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.803.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-04", "file": "debates2026-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "509297e615fcc714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.804.1", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "I will not take lectures on defence from the Conservatives. They came into office and what did they do? They cut the defence budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.804.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-04", "file": "debates2026-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "509297e615fcc714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.804.3", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "t those who are trapped in the region, and that is why we are taking action. I can update the House that yesterday more than 1,000 British nationals arrived back in the UK on commercial flights from the UAE. A further eight flights are due to leave the UAE for the UK today. I can confirm that the first charter flight is expected to leave Oman later today and two more will leave in the coming days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.804.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-04", "file": "debates2026-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "509297e615fcc714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.804.3", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "are taking action. I can update the House that yesterday more than 1,000 British nationals arrived back in the UK on commercial flights from the UAE. A further eight flights are due to leave the UAE for the UK today. I can confirm that the first charter flight is expected to leave Oman later today and two more will leave in the coming days—[Interruption.] The country really does want to know this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.804.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-04", "file": "debates2026-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "509297e615fcc714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.804.3", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": " back in the UK on commercial flights from the UAE. A further eight flights are due to leave the UAE for the UK today. I can confirm that the first charter flight is expected to leave Oman later today and two more will leave in the coming days—[Interruption.] The country really does want to know this. [Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”] Family and friends are worried sick about people who are caught up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.804.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-04", "file": "debates2026-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "509297e615fcc714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.804.4", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "I was not asking about evacuations; I was asking about defence spending. The Prime Minister needs to focus on the question he is being asked, not the statement that was prepared in the bunker. He stands there telling us that he is spending more money on defence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.804.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-04", "file": "debates2026-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "509297e615fcc714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.804.4", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "Prime Minister needs to focus on the question he is being asked, not the statement that was prepared in the bunker. He stands there telling us that he is spending more money on defence—[Interruption.] No, he is not. In fact, the Government are cutting defence spending by £2.6 billion from the Ministry of Defence budget this year, and that is why there are no Royal Navy warships in the middle east—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.804.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-04", "file": "debates2026-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "509297e615fcc714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.805.1", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "ot know what is going on in respect of any policy, so he reads pre-prepared statements irrespective of the question, and the whole country can see it. The truth is that, because the Government spent money on welfare, there is no defence investment plan, and because there is no defence investment plan, they are not ordering enough missiles. The fact is that this crisis goes beyond defence spending—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.805.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-04", "file": "debates2026-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "509297e615fcc714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.805.3", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister, again, does not understand the energy transition. You do not need to stop drilling for oil and gas to get renewables. This is basic stuff. The Prime Minister does not understand his policy. He has a sea of orcs and goons who have no idea at all how anything is working.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.805.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-04", "file": "debates2026-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "509297e615fcc714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.806.3", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "I have not asked my question. The situation in Iran shows that this Prime Minister has the wrong priorities. When it comes to defence, it is someone else’s job. When it comes to welfare, the Government find the money. When our bases are attacked, they call the lawyers. When our energy security is under threat, they stop drilling in the North sea. After last week’s by-election, is it not the truth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.806.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-04", "file": "debates2026-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "509297e615fcc714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.808.1", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "ployments were put in place, and I think they speak for themselves as to why they were put in those places. In relation to defence spend, obviously we are increasing it to 2.6% of GDP—that is £270 billion over the Parliament—but as I said in the speech I gave in Munich just a couple of weeks ago, we are going to have to spend more and faster after the years of under-investment and troop cuts that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.808.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-04", "file": "debates2026-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "509297e615fcc714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.808.2", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Davies", "cue_text": "“Ooh!”", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Davies", "preceding_text": "Like the Prime Minister, I had the transformative benefit of a music education as a young person, although he had his some while before I had mine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.808.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-04", "file": "debates2026-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "509297e615fcc714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.841.3", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office", "cue_speaker": "John Whittingdale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Whittingdale", "preceding_text": "which is under huge threat in a wide range of countries. We have seen journalists threatened with imprisonment, harassed and, in some cases, murdered. The UK has a very important role to play in promoting media freedom and taking a lead on such things as the introduction of visas for journalists who are under threat and sanctions. I was pleased to see that we have just placed sanctions on Georgia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.841.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-04", "file": "debates2026-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "509297e615fcc714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.842.2", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office", "cue_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "preceding_text": "ast. They are giving support and guidance to hundreds of thousands of Brits who are stranded, scared and desperate to return home. There are so many lessons to learn from what is happening in the Gulf at the moment, but for the purposes of this debate, the lesson we should learn is the vital importance of the Foreign Office. It is not all about wearing linen and drinking gin under jacaranda trees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.842.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-04", "file": "debates2026-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "509297e615fcc714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.856.2", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office", "cue_speaker": "Sam Rushworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sam Rushworth", "preceding_text": "o make different decisions about China from one election cycle to the other. China, on the other hand, has a 100-year plan for global dominance. It is enslaving the developing world in debt. It is using Chinese companies to build the infrastructure, and it is also building a polity of loyal people. That is why the BBC World Service, our education work and technical assistance are all so important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.856.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-04", "file": "debates2026-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "509297e615fcc714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.868.1", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office", "cue_speaker": "Chris Elmore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Elmore", "preceding_text": "ent Partnership and the Media Freedom Coalition—reinforces our values internationally and shows that we practise what we preach on transparency and accountability. I can reassure the right hon. Member for Maldon and the House that just this morning I had a meeting with leading experts in the media freedom space, and I will be speaking at the Media Freedom Coalition’s conference in London tomorrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-04", "file": "debates2026-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "509297e615fcc714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.880.1", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Ministry of Defence", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "le available on rotation so that next time a long deployment comes around, different people—different regiments and different squadrons—are deployed. There are a lot of things we need to think about when it comes to personnel. One is that we must have a pipeline in the future. The PAC did an inquiry into reserves and cadets, and it seems to me that we need to do a little better in both categories.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-04a.880.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-05", "file": "debates2026-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "1b87feead277d23c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-05a.938.8", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Cabinet Office", "cue_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "preceding_text": "I never had an undisclosed meeting with Palantir, with a person—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-05a.938.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-05", "file": "debates2026-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "1b87feead277d23c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-05a.949.4", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Cabinet Office", "cue_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "preceding_text": "On a simple point of fact, FIRS is not three years old. When we came into government, FIRS was not a properly developed system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-05a.949.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-05", "file": "debates2026-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "1b87feead277d23c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-05a.1027.1", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Commonwealth Troops: First World War", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "from the Commonwealth, particularly if we include those from what is now modern day Bangladesh and Pakistan. I think it contributed more than a million troops in total over the course of the first world war. I should declare an interest here as my great-grandfather-in-law Colonel William Sanders served as part of the Indian Army, and at one time commanded a battery of artillery towed by elephants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-05a.1027.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-09", "file": "debates2026-03-09d.xml", "sha256": "9adf2dbd4dcdba74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-09d.6.2", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Work and Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Western", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Western", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may be unaware that the proportion of foreign nationals claiming universal credit who are in work is one third higher than the proportion for people who are British or Irish claiming—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-09d.6.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-09", "file": "debates2026-03-09d.xml", "sha256": "9adf2dbd4dcdba74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-09d.13.1", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Work and Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Peter Prinsley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “No! No way!”", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Prinsley", "preceding_text": "I declare an interest, in that I receive a state pension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-09d.13.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-09", "file": "debates2026-03-09d.xml", "sha256": "9adf2dbd4dcdba74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-09d.14.2", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Work and Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "preceding_text": "That was just a bit sad, because the U-turn that we are seeing is from the hon. Member, who declined to vote against the Pensions Schemes Bill at Second Reading and on Report. I will quote him back to himself. He told me that “the Minister”—that is me— “will be pleased to hear that there is cross-party consensus on many of the planned changes.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-09d.14.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-09", "file": "debates2026-03-09d.xml", "sha256": "9adf2dbd4dcdba74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-09d.67.0", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Middle East: Defence", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": " Over 14 years, they hollowed out and underfunded our forces. They cut £12 billion from the defence budget in their first five years. Total frigate and destroyer numbers were cut from 23 to 17, and in 14 years in government they did not order a single new destroyer. We have Dragon available to go to the middle east today only because the Labour Government commissioned it before 2010. I completely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-09d.67.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-10", "file": "debates2026-03-10b.xml", "sha256": "d2db72f57d82a1c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-10b.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Digital ID: Public Consultation", "cue_speaker": "Darren Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Darren Jones", "preceding_text": "the idea of a digital ID has sparked significant public interest, so I have instructed my Department to ensure that this consultation goes further than any other that the Government have done before. As part of the public consultation, which is live right now, we will invite a representative sample of the public at large—from all walks of life and all parts of the country—to form a people’s panel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-10b.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-10", "file": "debates2026-03-10b.xml", "sha256": "d2db72f57d82a1c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-10b.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Digital ID: Public Consultation", "cue_speaker": "Darren Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Darren Jones", "preceding_text": "m all walks of life and all parts of the country—to form a people’s panel. [Interruption.] That deliberative democracy process will build on our experience of supporting Parliament’s citizens assembly on net zero in the previous Parliament. Working with over 100 citizens, we will debate the difficult questions, find ways forward and build a system that can secure the trust and support of everyone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-10b.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-10", "file": "debates2026-03-10b.xml", "sha256": "d2db72f57d82a1c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-10b.194.3", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Digital ID: Public Consultation", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Mr Shannon, you kept saying “you”. Am I the devil, or is it the Chief Secretary?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-10b.194.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-10", "file": "debates2026-03-10b.xml", "sha256": "d2db72f57d82a1c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-10b.223.1", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Courts and Tribunals Bill", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Cox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Cox", "preceding_text": "No, I am not giving way. I am mindful of time and I must complete what I have to say. This is a time when not just this House but the judiciary and the courts are under attack. The unprecedented attacks upon the judiciary and the legal profession are deplorable. Institutional trust is under siege, and now is not the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-10b.223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-10", "file": "debates2026-03-10b.xml", "sha256": "d2db72f57d82a1c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-10b.223.1", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Courts and Tribunals Bill", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Cox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Cox", "preceding_text": "No, I am not giving way. I am mindful of time and I must complete what I have to say. This is a time when not just this House but the judiciary and the courts are under attack. The unprecedented attacks upon the judiciary and the legal profession are deplorable. Institutional trust is under siege, and now is not the time—[Interruption.] I am trying to make a speech that is non-partisan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-10b.223.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-11", "file": "debates2026-03-11g.xml", "sha256": "98e90682ee029af2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-11g.317.0", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "y party supports.” She asked why I have “not actually worked with” America “to be much more proactive”. Last Wednesday, the Leader of the Opposition said: “we are in this war whether they like it or not. What is the Prime Minister waiting for?”—[Official Report, 4 March 2026 ; Vol. 781, c. 803.] Then yesterday she says, “I never said”—[Interruption.] I know the Conservatives don’t want to hear it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-11g.317.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-11", "file": "debates2026-03-11g.xml", "sha256": "98e90682ee029af2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-11g.317.1", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. Enough is enough. I cannot hear it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-11g.317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-11", "file": "debates2026-03-11g.xml", "sha256": "98e90682ee029af2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-11g.317.3", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister seems to be answering last week’s questions. This week I am asking about fuel duty. He has said that he wants to help—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-11g.317.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-11", "file": "debates2026-03-11g.xml", "sha256": "98e90682ee029af2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-11g.318.1", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More!”", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman said, “If she were Prime Minister”, but if I were Prime Minister, HMS Dragon would have left a week ago. The only time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-11g.318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-11", "file": "debates2026-03-11g.xml", "sha256": "98e90682ee029af2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-11g.318.3", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "Mr Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-11g.318.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-11", "file": "debates2026-03-11g.xml", "sha256": "98e90682ee029af2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-11g.318.3", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "Mr Speaker—[Interruption.] Hang on. I think they should wait for it. I have never criticised our armed forces. I have criticised the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-11g.318.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-11", "file": "debates2026-03-11g.xml", "sha256": "98e90682ee029af2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-11g.320.4", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "ector and others, and with allies, to do everything we can to ensure that energy bills do not rise. We are working around the clock on that. The most important and most effective thing we can do is to work with our allies to find a way to de-escalate the situation. The right hon. Gentleman is right about the Leader of the Opposition and the leader of Reform. Last week, they were urging us to join—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-11g.320.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-11", "file": "debates2026-03-11g.xml", "sha256": "98e90682ee029af2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-11g.320.4", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "s, to do everything we can to ensure that energy bills do not rise. We are working around the clock on that. The most important and most effective thing we can do is to work with our allies to find a way to de-escalate the situation. The right hon. Gentleman is right about the Leader of the Opposition and the leader of Reform. Last week, they were urging us to join—[Interruption.] This is serious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-11g.320.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-11", "file": "debates2026-03-11g.xml", "sha256": "98e90682ee029af2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-11g.320.5", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Order. Who said “lying” again? I want that withdrawn. Is that withdrawn?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-11g.320.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-11", "file": "debates2026-03-11g.xml", "sha256": "98e90682ee029af2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-11g.321.3", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Flynn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Flynn", "preceding_text": "s indiscriminately attacking both civilians across the region and cargo ships, as well as potentially even mining the strait of Hormuz, the economic consequences of which will be stark not just for the global economy, but for every single person living on these isles. Whether the Prime Minister accepts it or not, he did take us into that war when he allowed the Americans to use UK bases last week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-11g.321.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-11", "file": "debates2026-03-11g.xml", "sha256": "98e90682ee029af2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-11g.326.4", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "Is it about PMQs? The right hon. Lady did not ask a question, so is it relevant? Points of order come after statements and UQs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-11g.326.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-11", "file": "debates2026-03-11g.xml", "sha256": "98e90682ee029af2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-11g.401.0", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ashley Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ashley Fox", "preceding_text": "Has my hon. Friend noticed a common thread through the Budget, which is that everyone who works hard, saves hard, invests and creates jobs is being penalised, and all that money is being used to benefit Benefits Street? It is no wonder that the growth rate is going down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-11g.401.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-11", "file": "debates2026-03-11g.xml", "sha256": "98e90682ee029af2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-11g.401.1", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Wild", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More!”", "preceding_speaker": "James Wild", "preceding_text": "eakage in export markets. There are proposals to exempt our manufacturing exports from UK ETS costs and CBAM to make the industry more competitive, putting it on a level playing field internationally. Has the Minister considered maintaining long-term free allowances for products destined for the export markets? Given those complexities—I could go on about them more, but the Minister gets the gist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-11g.401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-11", "file": "debates2026-03-11g.xml", "sha256": "98e90682ee029af2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-11g.402.0", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Stella Creasy", "preceding_text": "I rise to support the legislation. In particular, I want to talk about new clause 4. I have to admit that I am a terrible person to go shopping with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-11g.402.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-11", "file": "debates2026-03-11g.xml", "sha256": "98e90682ee029af2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-11g.419.2", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kirsty Blackman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kirsty Blackman", "preceding_text": "whisky duty. The figures show that there will be a £600 million downgrade in receipts as a result of continuing to increase this tax. Increasing the tax will reduce receipts, which will result in jobs in Scotland being put at risk, and the Government getting less money. I do not understand the logic of continuing to push ahead with raising whisky duty. We really want the Government to think again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-11g.419.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-12", "file": "debates2026-03-12d.xml", "sha256": "97585775751ffb48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-12d.478.4", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Business and Trade", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "There is an assumption that we will get there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-12d.478.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-12", "file": "debates2026-03-12d.xml", "sha256": "97585775751ffb48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-12d.496.2", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Business and Trade", "cue_speaker": "Max Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Max Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "High streets are a key concern for us all in this House. On the Promenade in Cheltenham we have Cavendish House, which was a cherished retail centre for 200 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-12d.496.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-12", "file": "debates2026-03-12d.xml", "sha256": "97585775751ffb48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-12d.542.1", "colnum": "542", "heading": "International Women’s Day", "cue_speaker": "Joy Morrissey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Joy Morrissey", "preceding_text": "for anyone. I want to highlight the incredible work that you have done to champion Uyghur women and girls. When everyone was turning their back on Uyghur women and girls, you led the campaign. You tirelessly campaigned across the world to make sure their story was heard and their voice was heard. You worked cross-party on that, so from everyone across the House: thank you for your incredible work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-12d.542.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-12", "file": "debates2026-03-12d.xml", "sha256": "97585775751ffb48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-12d.580.1", "colnum": "580", "heading": "International Women’s Day", "cue_speaker": "Dave Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dave Robertson", "preceding_text": "I am thankful to the hon. Member for mentioning Jessie and Kathryn, who act as the secretariat in a difficult space. They do that in and around other busy jobs. It is clear to me and the hon. Member that without their hard work, we would not have been able to do this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-12d.580.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-16", "file": "debates2026-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "391edbe6c4ddef93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-16a.606.0", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "preceding_text": "This is just the politics of grievance from the SNP. This Labour Government have allocated £50 million to support growth in Scotland, including £5 million for the Arrol Gibb campus in Rosyth and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-16a.606.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-16", "file": "debates2026-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "391edbe6c4ddef93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-16a.613.0", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": " Once the scale and nature of the indiscriminate and widespread Iranian response became clear and the circumstances were changing, we altered and adopted further actions. The deployment of HMS Dragon was part of that. I took the decision to give that go-ahead on the same day the Chief of the Defence Staff offered that to Ministers as an option. The hon. Gentleman served as a reservist in the Navy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-16a.613.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-16", "file": "debates2026-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "391edbe6c4ddef93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-16a.663.0", "colnum": "663", "heading": "GP Contract", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Kinnock", "preceding_text": "n clinical evidence for advice and guidance, I think that the evidence speaks for itself. We introduced advice and guidance in the last contract with an £80 million investment, and it has been a stunning success. Take-up across the country has been huge, and—this is the statistic that matters most of all—1.3 million referrals that would otherwise have gone to electives have been dealt with by GPs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-16a.663.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-16", "file": "debates2026-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "391edbe6c4ddef93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-16a.680.0", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Heating Oil Support", "cue_speaker": "Martin McCluskey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin McCluskey", "preceding_text": "ata on how many heating oil-fuelled households there are in each individual nation. That is why Northern Ireland comes out with £17 million, Scotland with £4.6 million and Wales with less. It is not a Barnett share; it is based on the number of households that use heating oil. Finally, I do wish that the hon. Gentleman would stop coming to this Chamber and talking down the UK’s oil and gas sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-16a.680.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-17", "file": "debates2026-03-17b.xml", "sha256": "73ab16d8507aed43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-17b.740.1", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Justice", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": "I have to say, the hon. Gentleman has not apologised for the state that the Conservatives left the criminal justice system in, closing 40% of court buildings in England—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-17b.740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-17", "file": "debates2026-03-17b.xml", "sha256": "73ab16d8507aed43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-17b.743.3", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Justice", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "I am not quite sure whether the right hon. Member’s supplementary is relevant to the main question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-17b.743.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-17", "file": "debates2026-03-17b.xml", "sha256": "73ab16d8507aed43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-17b.789.3", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Youth Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Pat McFadden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pat McFadden", "preceding_text": "ut of work for six months. The bonus will be worth £3,000 per young person. There will also be bonuses of £2,000 for small and medium-sized businesses that hire young apprentices. Both bonuses can be combined if the young person hired has been out of work for six months or more. What a contrast with the Conservatives’ record on apprenticeships, which was to take opportunity away from young people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-17b.789.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-17", "file": "debates2026-03-17b.xml", "sha256": "73ab16d8507aed43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-17b.826.2", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Ministerial Salaries (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Ward", "preceding_text": "ment; it is simply to rectify the anomaly of unpaid Ministers in the other place. The right hon. Gentleman served in several Governments of this size over the past 10 years, and he asked why this Bill should come forward at this time. One answer to “Why now?” is that the leader of the Conservative party in the House of Lords proposed it in an amendment. It was put forward by the Conservative side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-17b.826.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-17", "file": "debates2026-03-17b.xml", "sha256": "73ab16d8507aed43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-17b.830.7", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Ministerial Salaries (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "preceding_text": "I have just a few short remarks. First, it would be helpful if the Minister set out how the Government have come to the totals that they have come to: why one, four and nine in total? Why not fewer, and why not more? Secondly, I did not quite get the Dispatch Box commitment I was looking for that this would mark an end to unpaid ministerial posts in this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-17b.830.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-18", "file": "debates2026-03-18b.xml", "sha256": "383f7b51f161cab8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18b.929.2", "colnum": "929", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Georgia Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Georgia Gould", "preceding_text": "I think it is really relevant to make sure that the public know who created this system—and not only created it, but froze those loans 10 times over the last 12 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18b.929.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-18", "file": "debates2026-03-18e.xml", "sha256": "52a004c84231fc44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.852.2", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister wants to talk about my leadership. I am shocked. His former deputy has just fired the starting gun on the race to replace him. I will tell him one thing: she and I both agree that this weak man should be replaced by a strong woman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.852.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-18", "file": "debates2026-03-18e.xml", "sha256": "52a004c84231fc44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.852.3", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "n I see Hindus celebrating Diwali, when I see Jews celebrating ChanukahLive!, when I see Christians performing the passion of Christ, or Muslims praying—that shows the great strength of our diverse city and country. I have never heard her party call out anything other than the Muslim events; it is only when Muslims are praying. The only conclusion is that the Tory party has a problem with Muslims.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.852.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-18", "file": "debates2026-03-18e.xml", "sha256": "52a004c84231fc44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.853.2", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "as no judgment. This is the Leader of the Opposition who said that I should have empty-chaired the most important NATO summit in years, this is the Leader of the Opposition who said that Greenland is a second-order issue, and this is the Leader of the Opposition who would have jumped into a war with Iran without stopping to think. On top of that, this week, we have the failure to condemn and sack—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.853.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-18", "file": "debates2026-03-18e.xml", "sha256": "52a004c84231fc44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.866.3", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Fuel Duty", "cue_speaker": "Richard Holden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Holden", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend makes an incredibly important point. The Government are forgoing tax revenue that is going into the coffers of other Treasuries right across Europe and across the world, but why? To what end? We will see whether Ministers will answer why they are willing to forgo hundreds of thousands of jobs and billions of pounds every year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.866.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-18", "file": "debates2026-03-18e.xml", "sha256": "52a004c84231fc44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.869.0", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Fuel Duty", "cue_speaker": "Richard Holden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Holden", "preceding_text": "m that? Certainly not passengers, certainly not the airlines, and certainly not British business. They have also raised air passenger duty, with passengers facing a 15% jump in one year alone, followed by permanent increases, year after year after year, of between 3% and 4%, just to get on to a plane. In the last few weeks the Government have raised the price of railcards for the first time since—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.869.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-18", "file": "debates2026-03-18e.xml", "sha256": "52a004c84231fc44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.875.0", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Fuel Duty", "cue_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "preceding_text": "Our position is to deliver a stable transition. That was the position of the Conservative party. It is the party that introduced the energy profits levy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.875.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-18", "file": "debates2026-03-18e.xml", "sha256": "52a004c84231fc44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.876.1", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Fuel Duty", "cue_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "preceding_text": "As I have said, oil and gas will be with us for some time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.876.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-18", "file": "debates2026-03-18e.xml", "sha256": "52a004c84231fc44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.876.1", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Fuel Duty", "cue_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "preceding_text": "As I have said, oil and gas will be with us for some time. [Interruption.] Let me finish. That is why the Chancellor met the sector. [Interruption.] I hear all the chuntering from Opposition Members, but I did not hear as much chuntering when we saw a 70% fall in jobs in the North sea on their watch.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-18", "file": "debates2026-03-18e.xml", "sha256": "52a004c84231fc44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.882.2", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Fuel Duty", "cue_speaker": "Tim Farron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Farron", "preceding_text": "fall quickly—of course, it has not—and that Tehran would not attack the Gulf states or close the strait of Hormuz, which of course was always likely. Why would we align not just with such a moral outrage, but with such epic stupidity? Although I am grateful to the Conservatives for submitting a timely and important motion, we must remember that they are part of the reason that we are in this mess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.882.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-18", "file": "debates2026-03-18e.xml", "sha256": "52a004c84231fc44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.929.2", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Student Loans", "cue_speaker": "Georgia Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Georgia Gould", "preceding_text": "I think it is really relevant to make sure that the public know who created this system—and not only created it, but froze those loans 10 times over the last 12 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.929.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-18", "file": "debates2026-03-18e.xml", "sha256": "52a004c84231fc44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.929.4", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Student Loans", "cue_speaker": "Georgia Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Georgia Gould", "preceding_text": "I was talking about plan 2—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.929.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-18", "file": "debates2026-03-18e.xml", "sha256": "52a004c84231fc44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.939.1", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Student Loans", "cue_speaker": "Ian Sollom", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Sollom", "preceding_text": "The point is to allow the market and the regulation of that market to decide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.939.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-18", "file": "debates2026-03-18e.xml", "sha256": "52a004c84231fc44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.940.0", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Student Loans", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Wrighting", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Wrighting", "preceding_text": " Labour Government, but also because young people in my constituency, and their parents and grandparents, wanted me to speak of my own experience of how tough it has been for my generation. One of the tasks we navigate as MPs is how best to use our privileged position in this building to influence change. As often one of the only young people in the Chamber, and almost always the only young woman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.940.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-18", "file": "debates2026-03-18e.xml", "sha256": "52a004c84231fc44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.952.3", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Student Loans", "cue_speaker": "Alex McIntyre", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex McIntyre", "preceding_text": "dge in any direction, I would encourage them to look again at what we can do to expand the offering of free childcare. I am not going to take lectures from the Conservatives on young people. They had no plan for young people during their 14 years. They did not care about young people like me when they were in government. Quite frankly, they wrote me off and I had to fight my way to get here today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.952.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-18", "file": "debates2026-03-18e.xml", "sha256": "52a004c84231fc44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.955.2", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Student Loans", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Bonavia", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Right honourable.”", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Bonavia", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.955.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-18", "file": "debates2026-03-18e.xml", "sha256": "52a004c84231fc44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.964.0", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Student Loans", "cue_speaker": "Ian Sollom", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Sollom", "preceding_text": "onded to his point earlier, and I would like to take another bite of the cherry. The point I was trying to make was that simply basing it on salary value is not the only way to assess value. The right way to do it is through the regulator, the OfS, and to take that as just one element of many. The OfS should drive that. Would the hon. Gentleman make salary value the primary driver for all courses?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.964.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-18", "file": "debates2026-03-18e.xml", "sha256": "52a004c84231fc44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.969.1", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Student Loans", "cue_speaker": "Neil O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Neil O'Brien", "preceding_text": "We have already talked about that. If the hon. Gentleman wants a full list, he can go on my Substack and see a whole bunch of different institutions with low returns. He can also do better than that: he can look on the DFE’s website and see that many courses lead to low earnings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-18", "file": "debates2026-03-18e.xml", "sha256": "52a004c84231fc44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.971.1", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Student Loans", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Western", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Western", "preceding_text": "se he is always considered in this area and, indeed, I consider him an expert on this subject. I cannot pretend to be familiar with the Brown and Cable plans, but it is important to pick up a point he made around the vast majority of apprenticeships being taken by people over 25. I believe that that is a problem in the system. That is why we are creating foundation apprenticeships and that is why—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-18", "file": "debates2026-03-18e.xml", "sha256": "52a004c84231fc44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.971.1", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Student Loans", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Western", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Western", "preceding_text": "rea and, indeed, I consider him an expert on this subject. I cannot pretend to be familiar with the Brown and Cable plans, but it is important to pick up a point he made around the vast majority of apprenticeships being taken by people over 25. I believe that that is a problem in the system. That is why we are creating foundation apprenticeships and that is why—[Interruption.] I am not suggesting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-18", "file": "debates2026-03-18e.xml", "sha256": "52a004c84231fc44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.986.1", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Flooding: Rural Communities", "cue_speaker": "Emma Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emma Hardy", "preceding_text": "I am very happy to do that. Apologies; I normally listen out for the coughing that comes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-18e.986.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-19", "file": "debates2026-03-19b.xml", "sha256": "466db271f1b7b514", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-19b.1097.1", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Katie White", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Katie White", "preceding_text": "the world. Since 2011, we have helped 137 million people adapt to the effects of climate change, whether it is creating a renewable-powered clean water supply in Mexico or building infrastructure that can withstand extreme weather in the Caribbean. We have also provided 89 million people with improved access to clean energy, including solar-powered cold storage to help prevent food waste in Kenya—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-19b.1097.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-19", "file": "debates2026-03-19c.xml", "sha256": "fa165dfba49a304e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-19c.999.4", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Environment, Food and Rural Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Emma Reynolds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emma Reynolds", "preceding_text": "cisely because we want more farmers to benefit from it. At the moment, 25% of SFI funding goes to just 4% of farms, and we do not think that is right. We are simplifying the scheme, so that it is easier and less costly to administer. We have new leadership at the Rural Payments Agency, as he will know, and the cap he talked about affects only a tiny minority of those who already have an agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-19c.999.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-19", "file": "debates2026-03-19c.xml", "sha256": "fa165dfba49a304e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-19c.1027.4", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Chris Law", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “They were given the money!”", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Law", "preceding_text": "f worship grant scheme, which has allowed congregations to reclaim VAT on repairs to listed places of worship, would close at the end of March. While a replacement scheme was announced for England, I understand that the Scottish Government were not informed in advance of this change, leaving both the Scottish Government and places of worship in the lurch following this sudden, unexpected decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-19c.1027.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-19", "file": "debates2026-03-19c.xml", "sha256": "fa165dfba49a304e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-19c.1059.1", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "UK Steel Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Peter Kyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Kyle", "preceding_text": "measure, we are backing electric arc furnaces to shift to greener, decarbonised steel production. As we see at Sheffield Forgemasters, electric arc furnaces have the technical capability that we need to produce steel to the very highest of standards for nuclear, for aerospace and for defence. This is important, as traditional blast furnaces will eventually reach the end of their operational lives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-19c.1059.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-19", "file": "debates2026-03-19c.xml", "sha256": "fa165dfba49a304e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-19c.1063.0", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "UK Steel Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Matt Western", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Oh.”", "preceding_speaker": "Matt Western", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for his statement. As he says, steel is national security and economic security. Can I just say, it is terrific at long last to hear a Government showing some mettle?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-19c.1063.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-19", "file": "debates2026-03-19c.xml", "sha256": "fa165dfba49a304e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-19c.1097.1", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Backbench Business", "cue_speaker": "Katie White", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Katie White", "preceding_text": "the world. Since 2011, we have helped 137 million people adapt to the effects of climate change, whether it is creating a renewable-powered clean water supply in Mexico or building infrastructure that can withstand extreme weather in the Caribbean. We have also provided 89 million people with improved access to clean energy, including solar-powered cold storage to help prevent food waste in Kenya—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-19c.1097.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-23", "file": "debates2026-03-23c.xml", "sha256": "70c24ee39d7ae977", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-23c.94.4", "colnum": "94", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "preceding_text": "struggling to get by who was somehow putting £5,000 into their pension every year. As I mentioned earlier, 90% of young graduates are saving £2,000 or less into their pensions. Why are they not saving more? Because their wages did not rise under the Conservative party. Why are they not saving more? Because that party did not build enough houses to help them get on to the property ladder. He asked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-23c.94.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-23", "file": "debates2026-03-23e.xml", "sha256": "3134fa5733708c3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-23e.28.0", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Middle East", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "ayered defence of this United Kingdom. Our Navy, our RAF and our Army are all involved, and we operate our defence with other NATO allies. That layered defence against missiles or any other sort of threat is an important part of keeping this country safe. It seems to have taken a war in the middle east for the hon. Gentleman to realise that air and missile defence systems for the UK are important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-23e.28.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-23", "file": "debates2026-03-23e.xml", "sha256": "3134fa5733708c3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-23e.38.2", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Middle East", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": " daily by the Chief of Joint Operations, who reports to me each week. My hon. Friend is completely right. I was in Cyprus a couple of weeks ago, talking to the pilots and crews that allow our F-35s and Typhoons to fly those defensive missions, as they have done from day one of this conflict, and they were frankly insulted that the Leader of the Opposition had accused them of “just hanging around”—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-23e.38.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-23", "file": "debates2026-03-23e.xml", "sha256": "3134fa5733708c3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-23e.88.1", "colnum": "88", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Garnier", "preceding_text": " they have an opportunity to make up for their mistake last week. By voting in favour of Lords amendments 2 and 8, they could make a real difference for our young people. Take the example of a graduate earning £45,000 a year. Prior to this legislation, if they sacrificed £5,000 of that salary, they would save £1,000 in income tax, £400 in national insurance contributions and £450 in student loans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-23e.88.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-23", "file": "debates2026-03-23e.xml", "sha256": "3134fa5733708c3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-23e.92.1", "colnum": "92", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charlie Maynard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charlie Maynard", "preceding_text": "n, as I did on Second Reading, that I am sceptical of the timing of this change. It will, very conveniently for the Government, only kick in during the likely election year of 2029-30, and not in 2026-27 or 2027-28. It seems as if the Government are motivated more by a wish to fix their numbers nominally to meet their fiscal rules than by a genuine belief that this change is the right thing to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-23e.92.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-23", "file": "debates2026-03-23e.xml", "sha256": "3134fa5733708c3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-23e.94.0", "colnum": "94", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "preceding_text": " will not reiterate the arguments for the Bill as a whole, but I will try to respond directly to the points that they have made. The hon. Member for Wyre Forest explained that the Conservatives are opposed entirely to these changes, but of course he did not explain at all which bits of the NHS services they would cut, since they obviously do not support the revenue being raised from this sensible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-23e.94.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-24", "file": "debates2026-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "b34e5647e5a90866", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-24b.142.4", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Energy Security and Net Zero", "cue_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "preceding_text": "Before the hon. Gentleman self-combusts, let me tell him that, as a result of the court decision, those projects are proceeding at risk. I will tell him the way we will make a decision. I am not going to comment on a live planning issue, but I will say in general that we will make a decision that is legally watertight. The last Government made a series of decisions that were found—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-24b.142.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-24", "file": "debates2026-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "b34e5647e5a90866", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-24b.156.0", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Middle East: Economic Update", "cue_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rachel Reeves", "preceding_text": " case. The shadow Chancellor asks about Rosebank and Jackdaw. It was because of the failure to do the work properly that they were challenged in the courts. One month after the previous Government left office—because they were kicked out—the courts came back and said that we had to reconsider scope 3 emissions. The energy companies Shell and Equinor resubmitted their plans at the end of last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-24b.156.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-24", "file": "debates2026-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "b34e5647e5a90866", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-24b.236.2", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "James MacCleary", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James MacCleary", "preceding_text": "country to produce its own independent deterrent. This is a multi-decade project. We understand that the Conservatives do not grasp fiscal responsibility—we saw that from the state they left our economy in—but a multi-decade project requires a serious commitment. In the short term, we should be looking to bring servicing and maintenance of the missiles into the UK to reduce our reliance on others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-24b.236.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-24", "file": "debates2026-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "b34e5647e5a90866", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-24b.236.2", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "James MacCleary", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James MacCleary", "preceding_text": "ats have argued that the defence investment plan must be accompanied by an immediate cash injection to support vital capital investment in our forces. We have detailed what this programme could look like, raising £20 billion in defence bonds over two years. [Hon. Members: “Yay!”] I am pleased that Conservative Members are so excited about the bonds idea—perhaps they have come around to it at last.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-24b.236.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-24", "file": "debates2026-03-24b.xml", "sha256": "b34e5647e5a90866", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-24b.246.2", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Michelle Scrogham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michelle Scrogham", "preceding_text": "g of what is happening in society. Under their Government, for 14 years, the people living at the poorest edges were working—those people on benefits were working and still could not pay the bills to feed their families and put the heating on. That tells us that the Conservatives do not understand working people. They assume that anybody receiving a benefit is a scrounger or does not want to work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-24b.246.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-25", "file": "debates2026-03-25e.xml", "sha256": "b2c7f947a7fcf355", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-25e.281.4", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Business before Questions", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "rk of Legislation, and for the past two years he has been working in a part-time role in the Chamber Business Team. I thank Liam for his service and for the advice that he has given me over many years. He will no doubt continue to play a role in international parliamentary capacity building, which has been a passion of his. I am sure that the House will join me in wishing Liam and his family well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-25e.281.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-25", "file": "debates2026-03-25e.xml", "sha256": "b2c7f947a7fcf355", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-25e.291.2", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "We can have renewables and oil and gas. The Prime Minister says it is a matter for the Secretary of State—I thought that he was the Prime Minister. He loves to hide behind legal process every single time. I wonder what a Director of Public—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-25e.291.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-25", "file": "debates2026-03-25e.xml", "sha256": "b2c7f947a7fcf355", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-25e.292.0", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "I am going to have one more go. The legislation, the statute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-25e.292.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-25", "file": "debates2026-03-25e.xml", "sha256": "b2c7f947a7fcf355", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-25e.292.0", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "tion. The legislation sets out who the decision maker is: it is the Secretary of State, not the Prime Minister. It has to be the Secretary of State, and it is a quasi-judicial process—exactly the process that they ran for many years. Oil and gas will be part of the mix for many years to come, but we do need to get on to renewables. We are discussing this because of the war. We need to de-escalate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-25e.292.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2026-03-25", "file": "debates2026-03-25e.xml", "sha256": "b2c7f947a7fcf355", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-25e.293.2", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members:", "cue_text": "More!", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "ld drill our own gas in the North sea. What is he doing? He is planning another giveaway to people on welfare. Yet again, he is taking money from those who work to give it to those who do not. First, we had the Budget for “Benefits Street”; now, we have the bail-out for “Benefits Street”. Does that not just prove that they have given up on being the Labour party and are now just the welfare party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-25e.293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-25", "file": "debates2026-03-25e.xml", "sha256": "b2c7f947a7fcf355", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-25e.293.3", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "The Conservatives are the ones who doubled the spend on welfare. They were the ones with a broken system. When we tried to mend it, what did they do? They voted against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-25e.293.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-25", "file": "debates2026-03-25e.xml", "sha256": "b2c7f947a7fcf355", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-25e.294.1", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "mitism has no place in our society. Given the potential links with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, I hope that the Government will move faster to proscribe the group as terrorists. As a former Secretary of State for Energy who granted licences for oil and gas exploration, may I make a judgment on this argument? The Prime Minister is actually right, and the Leader of the Opposition is wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-25e.294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-25", "file": "debates2026-03-25e.xml", "sha256": "b2c7f947a7fcf355", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-25e.294.4", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "Well, let me now give my verdict. The right hon. Gentleman is right about the Leader of the Opposition wanting to join the war, and she is wrong about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-25e.294.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-25", "file": "debates2026-03-25e.xml", "sha256": "b2c7f947a7fcf355", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-25e.294.4", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "Well, let me now give my verdict. The right hon. Gentleman is right about the Leader of the Opposition wanting to join the war, and she is wrong about that. [Interruption.] At least the right hon. Gentleman has read the legislation on which I am being challenged; it does help.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-25e.294.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-25", "file": "debates2026-03-25e.xml", "sha256": "b2c7f947a7fcf355", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-25e.296.3", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More!”", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "I see that Reform Members have walked out. They obviously realise that they are absolutely snookered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-25e.296.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-25", "file": "debates2026-03-25e.xml", "sha256": "b2c7f947a7fcf355", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-25e.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Foreign Financial Influence and Interference: UK Politics", "cue_speaker": "James Cleverly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Cleverly", "preceding_text": "vely agrees with. However, the process falls far short of what this House should expect. The 50-page Rycroft review was published just 20 minutes before Prime Ministers questions, and only five minutes before one of the Secretary of State’s Ministers was hosting a meeting to which I was invited about local government reorganisation, making it very difficult for me to read the detail of the report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-25e.305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-25", "file": "debates2026-03-25e.xml", "sha256": "b2c7f947a7fcf355", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-25e.320.2", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Foreign Financial Influence and Interference: UK Politics", "cue_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Nusrat Ghani", "preceding_text": "I am completely disappointed with myself for not wishing the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) a happy birthday today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-25e.320.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-25", "file": "debates2026-03-25e.xml", "sha256": "b2c7f947a7fcf355", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-25e.332.3", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Victims and Courts Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick Timothy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Timothy", "preceding_text": "rds amendments. The amendments would make the criminal justice system more transparent and give victims stronger rights to challenge unduly lenient sentences. We must ask: why are this Government so afraid of the public? Why do Ministers not trust the people? Why do they want to keep injustice—from rape gangs, to serious criminals getting away with a few brief years in prison—out of the spotlight?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-25e.332.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-26", "file": "debates2026-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "6ebbdc9fc1515766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-26b.382.2", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Transport", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "te has written to me to say that we are not going to get the train because of accessibility problems in Market Rasen station. It is ludicrous to spend £15 million on extending a platform that does not need to be extended and building a bridge that does not need to be built. What does the Secretary of State want me to do? Does she want me to get on my knees and beg for this train? Let me do so now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-26b.382.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-03-26", "file": "debates2026-03-26b.xml", "sha256": "6ebbdc9fc1515766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-26b.416.4", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Bobby Dean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bobby Dean", "preceding_text": " the attack in north London—this House stands united against antisemitism. I am grateful for the Government’s swift commitment to replace the ambulances, which was an important gesture. I welcome the confirmation of the date for the King’s Speech. As the Leader of the House knows, I will not be present as my first baby is due in a few weeks’ time so I will be on leave, but I hope it all goes well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-03-26b.416.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-15", "file": "debates2026-04-15f.xml", "sha256": "d24a5ec605c3d851", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-15f.819.1", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "This is so poor from the Prime Minister—[Laughter.] Labour MPs are laughing, but this is a moment of profound national seriousness. And what are they doing? They are promoting sex toys in Parliament. It gives a whole new meaning to fiddling while Rome burns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-15f.819.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-15", "file": "debates2026-04-15f.xml", "sha256": "d24a5ec605c3d851", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-15f.838.0", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Strategic Defence Review: Funding", "cue_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "preceding_text": " Liz Truss and the Conservatives did to our economy only a few years ago. I agree that we need to increase defence spending. Let me say to him clearly: not a single person in uniform today—not an admiral, general or anyone of any rank who has served in the UK armed forces—has had a decade ahead of increasing defence spending. It is such a sizeable change when it comes to our armed forces spending.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-15f.838.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-16", "file": "debates2026-04-16b.xml", "sha256": "bc238e09a64d0bbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-16b.1013.0", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Alan Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Campbell", "preceding_text": "ay. I turn now to the remarks of the shadow Leader of the House. If I may, I will deal broadly with his first two questions together. He referred first to the way in which the Prime Minister addressed the questions put to him yesterday, and secondly announcements made outside the House and whether the House should be the first to hear. The right hon. Gentleman has been here a very, very long time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-16b.1013.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-16", "file": "debates2026-04-16b.xml", "sha256": "bc238e09a64d0bbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-16b.1072.1", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Modernisation Committee Report: Access to the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Vince", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Vince", "preceding_text": "Do you want more? Okay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-16b.1072.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-16", "file": "debates2026-04-16b.xml", "sha256": "bc238e09a64d0bbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-16b.1078.2", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Modernisation Committee Report: Access to the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Alan Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Campbell", "preceding_text": " is a portrait of a former Member for Tynemouth—Dame Irene Ward, who was also the longest-serving woman MP—in the gallery, and I recently surpassed the length of time that she served in that seat. I am just letting them know that there is a certain logical conclusion that follows, but so far, they have not taken the hint—although I will not be wearing the hat that she is wearing in her photograph.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-16b.1078.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-16", "file": "debates2026-04-16b.xml", "sha256": "bc238e09a64d0bbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-16b.1081.1", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Modernisation Committee Report: Access to the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Alan Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Campbell", "preceding_text": "n on Third Reading. The point of listening and making a speech against a Bill on Second Reading is that it will go to Committee, where changes can be made. If hon. Members do not like it, they can have a go on Report, and if they still do not like it they can vote it down on Third Reading. We spend a great deal of time on Divisions when we pretty well know what the results will be in most of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-16b.1081.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-20", "file": "debates2026-04-20f.xml", "sha256": "49bccb8506bed4e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-20f.7.2", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Education", "cue_speaker": "Josh MacAlister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Josh MacAlister", "preceding_text": "The Conservatives’ new deal is funded by cutting opportunities in higher education. The Tory plan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-20f.7.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-21", "file": "debates2026-04-21f.xml", "sha256": "5002e04d8fc046ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-21f.214.2", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Peter Mandelson: Government Appointment", "cue_speaker": "Allison Gardner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Allison Gardner", "preceding_text": "stion to the Prime Minister in his statement, I focused on Jeffrey Epstein’s victims, but I briefly mentioned the issue of other parties seeking to gain political capital. Much to the chagrin of the reasonable, quiet people of this country, those parties asked for the Prime Minister’s resignation, yet again causing chaos, to which the Opposition are so addicted, for the governance of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-21f.214.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-21", "file": "debates2026-04-21f.xml", "sha256": "5002e04d8fc046ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-21f.214.2", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Peter Mandelson: Government Appointment", "cue_speaker": "Allison Gardner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Allison Gardner", "preceding_text": "will take this opportunity to clarify. If we ignore the social media trolls and bots and ignore the self-interest of the billionaire-owned right-wing press, we see that the quiet, reasonable majority of people do not want a change of Prime Minister. As one lifelong Tory said to me yesterday, “I see the Prime Minister is still here. That is a good thing.” They are grateful that this Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-21f.214.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-21", "file": "debates2026-04-21f.xml", "sha256": "5002e04d8fc046ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-21f.266.1", "colnum": "266", "heading": "English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miatta Fahnbulleh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miatta Fahnbulleh", "preceding_text": "engaged in debate on the Bill. I look forward to continuing those constructive conversations, with a view to securing agreement across both Houses. I believe there is a genuine consensus on the need for devolution. It is a big step change in the way that government has operated for decades, when the centre thought it knew best and imposed its will. The Conservatives had 15 years and failed to act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-21f.266.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-22", "file": "debates2026-04-22e.xml", "sha256": "884ccb7b80665af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-22e.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "at I set out to the House on Monday is that Foreign Office officials granted security clearance to Mandelson against the recommendation of UK Security Vetting. Yesterday, Sir Olly Robbins was asked if he shared that decision with me, No. 10 or any other Ministers. He gave a clear answer: no. That puts to bed all the allegations levelled at me by those opposite in relation to dishonesty. I believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-22e.315.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-27", "file": "debates2026-04-27e.xml", "sha256": "ec66bc51a3cc4238", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-27e.594.0", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Lord Mandelson Humble Address: Government Response Update", "cue_speaker": "Darren Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Darren Jones", "preceding_text": "I always enjoy the right hon. Gentleman’s interventions, but that did not pertain to the statement before us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-27e.594.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-27", "file": "debates2026-04-27e.xml", "sha256": "ec66bc51a3cc4238", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-27e.594.9", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Lord Mandelson Humble Address: Government Response Update", "cue_speaker": "Perran Moon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Perran Moon", "preceding_text": "The worst outcome from this process is that a police investigation is compromised by materials making their way into the public domain before time. While Opposition MPs seek to rush this process through, can the Chief Secretary confirm that no documents of interest will be put in the public domain until they have been cleared by the Met police?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-27e.594.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-27", "file": "debates2026-04-27e.xml", "sha256": "ec66bc51a3cc4238", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-27e.621.0", "colnum": "621", "heading": "English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miatta Fahnbulleh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miatta Fahnbulleh", "preceding_text": "I thank hon. Members for their continued engagement on the Bill and their insightful contributions to the debate. I am glad that our concessions have secured support. I thank both my hon. Friends on the Labour Benches and hon. Members across the House for their feedback and insights, which have led to these concessions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-27e.621.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-27", "file": "debates2026-04-27e.xml", "sha256": "ec66bc51a3cc4238", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-27e.629.3", "colnum": "629", "heading": "English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miatta Fahnbulleh", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Miatta Fahnbulleh", "preceding_text": "y, decisions can be made to improve the lot of their place. We believe that the cabinet and leader model works. We think that we have found the right balance. I implore Members across the House, particularly given that 80% of local authorities are already deploying the model that we are talking about, that we are keen to make progress and allow our local authorities to move forward. In conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-27e.629.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-27", "file": "debates2026-04-27e.xml", "sha256": "ec66bc51a3cc4238", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-27e.662.0", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Northern Ireland Troubles Bill (Carry-over)", "cue_speaker": "Tonia Antoniazzi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tonia Antoniazzi", "preceding_text": "I thank the shadow Secretary of State for giving way. However, this faux outrage was never—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-27e.662.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-27", "file": "debates2026-04-27e.xml", "sha256": "ec66bc51a3cc4238", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-27e.677.5", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Northern Ireland Troubles Bill (Carry-over)", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "rthern Ireland, now say, “Oh, that’s okay; it’d be a good idea to see what comes next time around, because they were so honest this time around.”? The Government have failed to be honest about this from start to finish. The Armed Forces Minister is not here for a reason—because he knows very well that he does not want to be sitting on the Front Bench when the Bill gets voted through to the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-27e.677.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-27", "file": "debates2026-04-27e.xml", "sha256": "ec66bc51a3cc4238", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-27e.679.1", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Northern Ireland Troubles Bill (Carry-over)", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": " for Brentwood and Ongar (Alex Burghart) , but I am sorry to say that he did not address the central problem, which is that the previous Government’s legislation failed and needs to be replaced. He also appeared to suggest that he knows that victims and survivors will find out nothing from the very process that that legislation put in place, which I am keeping in the form of the legacy commission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-27e.679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-27", "file": "debates2026-04-27e.xml", "sha256": "ec66bc51a3cc4238", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-27e.680.1", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Northern Ireland Troubles Bill (Carry-over)", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "atter of public record that there has been no early release of any prisoners at all, and there have been no negotiations. I have said it in the House before, and I will say it again: there have been no negotiations with dissident terrorists at all. I did not say that no letters of comfort were issued; what I said to the House was that the letters of comfort did not grant immunity from prosecution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-27e.680.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-27", "file": "debates2026-04-27e.xml", "sha256": "ec66bc51a3cc4238", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-27e.705.2", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gareth Snell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gareth Snell", "preceding_text": "I want to be clear in my own mind. Opposition Members seem to think that they have extracted from the Government a commitment that social media for under-16s will be banned as a result of the amendment. The wording does not say that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-27e.705.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-28", "file": "debates2026-04-28d.xml", "sha256": "931bef0e74daa046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.724.7", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Treasury", "cue_speaker": "Dan Tomlinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "The Scottish National party has had ample opportunity in Scotland to invest in energy, to invest in energy infrastructure and to invest in the changes that we need in our economy to bring down energy bills, and when it comes to fuel duty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.724.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-28", "file": "debates2026-04-28d.xml", "sha256": "931bef0e74daa046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.744.0", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Clive Efford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Efford", "preceding_text": "On 4 February , this House unanimously passed a motion on a Humble Address. It was the opinion of the whole House that all the documents relating to Peter Mandelson’s appointment should be made available and published, and that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.744.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-28", "file": "debates2026-04-28d.xml", "sha256": "931bef0e74daa046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.746.5", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "em. The Prime Minister appointed Peter Mandelson before security vetting was granted, in direct contravention of the advice given to him on 11 November 2024 by the then Cabinet Secretary—that is not due process. The Prime Minister’s own National Security Adviser described the appointment and due diligence as “weirdly rushed”, and the Foreign Office was not asked to feed in—that is not due process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.746.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-28", "file": "debates2026-04-28d.xml", "sha256": "931bef0e74daa046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.749.3", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "I am afraid to say that they are being scorched. Let me ask Labour Members this: if the Prime Minister has nothing to hide, why is he whipping them to avoid scrutiny? They are being whipped today to exonerate him before the facts have even been tested. This is not the first time I have had to tell Labour MPs that they are being stitched up. This is a man who has led them up and down so many hills—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.749.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-28", "file": "debates2026-04-28d.xml", "sha256": "931bef0e74daa046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.750.8", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "st be a debate about the Labour party, or a division between those who are in the inner circle and those who are on the outside. Again and again, we have seen the children of the chosen ones—people who had never been in Parliament before—getting all the best jobs. We now have the sacked chief of staff Morgan McSweeney’s wife, who is a Whip, telling people to vote for a cover-up. That is not right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.750.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-28", "file": "debates2026-04-28d.xml", "sha256": "931bef0e74daa046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.755.1", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "It is an honour to follow the hon. Member for South Shields (Emma Lewell) , who made a very powerful speech. I think Members on all sides of the House listened to it, and I hope her colleagues on the Government Benches think about it carefully during the debate. The Prime Minister called this motion a “stunt”. That is not why I put my name to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.755.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-28", "file": "debates2026-04-28d.xml", "sha256": "931bef0e74daa046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.777.0", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Ellie Chowns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ellie Chowns", "preceding_text": "Having recognised that, as Sir Philip Barton said this morning, there cannot be any doubt that there was pressure to get this “done as quickly as possible”—that is, to jump through all the hoops, to confirm an announcement that had already been made that Mandelson was appointed as ambassador—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.777.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-28", "file": "debates2026-04-28d.xml", "sha256": "931bef0e74daa046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.778.4", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Alicia Kearns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alicia Kearns", "preceding_text": "going through the other Lobby. I will never, ever accept feeling that way ever again. I say to the new intake that there is a reason why no other MPs from previous intakes are on the Labour Benches, and why MPs from previous intakes have said, “If your gut is telling you there’s a problem, there’s a problem.” They have given you their advice. They often tell us how dismissive you are of them, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.778.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-28", "file": "debates2026-04-28d.xml", "sha256": "931bef0e74daa046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.780.1", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Alicia Kearns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alicia Kearns", "preceding_text": "oris Johnson had misled the House. My advice to Labour MPs is to listen to your conscience and do what you know is right. Members will thank themselves, as the years pass by, for being free of the weight of regret. Standards matters should never be whipped. Is any Labour MP willing to stand up and say that the threat of having the Whip removed has not been made? So far, none of them has said that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-28", "file": "debates2026-04-28d.xml", "sha256": "931bef0e74daa046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.780.1", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Alicia Kearns", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “They may find!”", "preceding_speaker": "Alicia Kearns", "preceding_text": " being free of the weight of regret. Standards matters should never be whipped. Is any Labour MP willing to stand up and say that the threat of having the Whip removed has not been made? So far, none of them has said that. [Interruption.] Indeed, pressure seems to be an issue that we ought to debate more. I would also say to Labour MPs who are considering speaking in this debate that you may find—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-28", "file": "debates2026-04-28d.xml", "sha256": "931bef0e74daa046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.787.0", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Alex Barros-Curtis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Barros-Curtis", "preceding_text": "That is an irrelevant point. I have already said that regardless of the position of the party, I do not need to be told how I will vote on this motion, because the case has not been made out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.787.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-28", "file": "debates2026-04-28d.xml", "sha256": "931bef0e74daa046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.788.4", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Alex Barros-Curtis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Barros-Curtis", "preceding_text": "ich means we become subject to death threats. As my hon. Friend the Member for South Shields said, that makes it much worse for her in her constituency. Indeed, the Tory Front Benchers were nodding when my hon. Friend the Member for Bishop Auckland talked about this earlier. As I said, they probably already have their digital media attacks ready, in which they will define us as voting to cover up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.788.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-28", "file": "debates2026-04-28d.xml", "sha256": "931bef0e74daa046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.797.0", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lewin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lewin", "preceding_text": "In advocating for the motion, the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.797.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-28", "file": "debates2026-04-28d.xml", "sha256": "931bef0e74daa046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.803.1", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Phil Brickell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Brickell", "preceding_text": "I am going to make some progress, if that is okay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.803.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-28", "file": "debates2026-04-28d.xml", "sha256": "931bef0e74daa046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.809.1", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Vince", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Vince", "preceding_text": "I apologise to you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for the fact that I cannot promise as learned and long a speech as that given by my hon. Friend the Member for Bolton West (Phil Brickell) .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-28", "file": "debates2026-04-28d.xml", "sha256": "931bef0e74daa046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.809.1", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Vince", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Quite right.”", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Vince", "preceding_text": " the vetting process, and I would ask him to refer to that in his winding-up speech, if he were here. I have expressed my genuine concern about the impact of Peter Mandelson’s appointment on the victims of Jeffrey Epstein. Madam Deputy Speaker, I want to put on record my deepest respect for the Speaker’s Office, and for you personally. As you will be aware, I find you just a little bit terrifying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-28", "file": "debates2026-04-28d.xml", "sha256": "931bef0e74daa046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.809.1", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Vince", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “But you have.”", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Vince", "preceding_text": "the Member for Cardiff West (Mr Barros-Curtis) , because I genuinely worry about my security and that of my family, although I have to put on record that I do; Members from across the House who have supported me in that matter will know what I am talking about. On a lighter note, I was reluctant to speak in this debate because I could not work out how I was going to make reference to Harlow in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-28", "file": "debates2026-04-28d.xml", "sha256": "931bef0e74daa046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.809.1", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Vince", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Vince", "preceding_text": " in it. [Hon. Members: “But you have.”] Twice. Then I realised that that was the point; I come to this place to talk about my constituents. Take my constituent, friend and former work colleague Jamie, who works six days a week, and has nothing left with which to enjoy himself or treat his family, including his two-year-old son. I want to be talking about how this Government help people like Jamie.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-28", "file": "debates2026-04-28d.xml", "sha256": "931bef0e74daa046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.809.1", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Vince", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Horny?”", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Vince", "preceding_text": "agree. As Members know, I was a teacher before I came to this place, and I came to this place because I was angry with the former Member for Surrey Heath. I frankly disagreed with some of the decisions he made about education, but what really struck me when I came here was that Opposition Members are not the horrible, terrible, horned beasts that I was led to believe they were—some of them, maybe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-28", "file": "debates2026-04-28d.xml", "sha256": "931bef0e74daa046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.819.3", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges", "cue_speaker": "John Slinger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Slinger", "preceding_text": "I like the right hon. Gentleman a great deal and thank him for his kind words. The moment has somewhat passed, but he was implying that the Prime Minister is avoiding answering questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.819.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-28", "file": "debates2026-04-28d.xml", "sha256": "931bef0e74daa046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.825.1", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "preceding_text": "ther right-hand men. The motion before us is very simple. It is about starting a process that will take what has been discussed in this House and put it in the hands of a Committee of our peers, who will get to adjudicate, because there is no agreement on these points. That process has long existed in this House to resolve issues such as these. We are doing this for a reason. It is simply because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.825.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-28", "file": "debates2026-04-28d.xml", "sha256": "931bef0e74daa046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.825.1", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "preceding_text": "tly false. What Sir Olly actually said was: “Throughout January, honestly, my office and the Foreign Secretary’s office were under constant pressure… While I think the Department felt under pressure, we were proud of the fact that we had not bowed to that pressure.” He also said that he found an “atmosphere where this was not just, ‘Please get this done quickly,’ but, ‘And get it done.’” That was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.825.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-28", "file": "debates2026-04-28d.xml", "sha256": "931bef0e74daa046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.825.1", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "preceding_text": "spoken. The Prime Minister’s failure to self-refer, as several Labour MPs have suggested he should, has put them in this position. They are being whipped to support something that they know is wrong. They are being whipped to support something that they know their constituents will hate. They are being whipped to defend the Labour Together machine, which has brought such shame on the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.825.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-28", "file": "debates2026-04-28d.xml", "sha256": "931bef0e74daa046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.829.1", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Darren Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Darren Jones", "preceding_text": "alposts, and they have tried again and again to make their arguments fit. Today alone, we have heard Opposition Members bounce from one accusation to another in a desperate search for something that will stick. We have been subjected to the ranting incoherence of the Leader of the Opposition while she was in search of something that she could use to justify today’s politically motivated spectacle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-28", "file": "debates2026-04-28d.xml", "sha256": "931bef0e74daa046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.830.1", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Darren Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Darren Jones", "preceding_text": "I am not going to answer silly questions. Next, on the question of pressure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-28", "file": "debates2026-04-28d.xml", "sha256": "931bef0e74daa046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.831.0", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Darren Jones", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Answer it!”", "preceding_speaker": "Darren Jones", "preceding_text": "That is an important question, because it goes to the very heart of the motion before the House today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.831.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-28", "file": "debates2026-04-28d.xml", "sha256": "931bef0e74daa046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.831.0", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Darren Jones", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Ah!”", "preceding_speaker": "Darren Jones", "preceding_text": "That is an important question, because it goes to the very heart of the motion before the House today. [Hon. Members: “Answer it!”] I am going to—rest your horses. It is important to place the Prime Minister’s words in the right context. When the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.831.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-28", "file": "debates2026-04-28d.xml", "sha256": "931bef0e74daa046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.832.6", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Darren Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Darren Jones", "preceding_text": "renewing our high streets and delivering home-grown energy. This is relevant, Mr Speaker, because it goes to the motivation behind today’s motion. This Labour Government are doing the hard work of building a better Britain, a Britain that gives people hope for a better future. All these Opposition parties want to tear that down—they want to tear down this Labour Government and the labour movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.832.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-28", "file": "debates2026-04-28d.xml", "sha256": "931bef0e74daa046", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.839.4", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Pension Schemes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Torsten Bell", "preceding_text": " Bill. It is obviously disappointing to see that not every Member in this Chamber wishes to stay for a detailed discussion of the Pension Schemes Bill, but it is not the biggest disappointment ever. It is good to see our regular engagers on this Bill in their place. I thank in particular those Members for helpful discussions on the Bill in recent days. I do not intend to detain the House for long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-28d.839.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-29", "file": "debates2026-04-29c.xml", "sha256": "77b89c3611e7de63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-29c.891.0", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": " who is in control. Since the last King’s Speech, it has been one disaster after another: cronyism, jobs for friends of convicted paedophiles, peerages for other friends of convicted paedophiles, broken promises on taxes, and U-turn after U-turn after U-turn. He has lost a Deputy Prime Minister, two chiefs of staff, two Cabinet Secretaries, the support of his Back Benchers and all his credibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-29c.891.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-29", "file": "debates2026-04-29c.xml", "sha256": "77b89c3611e7de63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-29c.896.0", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "After years of failure being tolerated, and failing staff and patients, our new intensive recovery programme is targeting sites that need tailored support. There is more to do, but we are seeing real progress across our NHS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-29c.896.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-04-29", "file": "debates2026-04-29c.xml", "sha256": "77b89c3611e7de63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-29c.899.5", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "John Martin McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Martin McDonnell", "preceding_text": "nline by the Financial Times that tapes exist that include conversations by APCO’s head of media relations for Europe, Tom Harper, discussing the deletion of an email account and saying “they will be able to see that through digital forensics or something like that” with regard to references and this inquiry. He also refers to processes to “muddy the waters” and the audit trail. I can also report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-04-29c.899.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-05-13", "file": "debates2026-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7d8fca34afce0623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-13a.7.3", "colnum": "7", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Naseem Shah", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Naseem Shah", "preceding_text": "er listening to the speeches by my hon. Friends the Members for Bootle (Peter Dowd) and for Vauxhall and Camberwell Green (Florence Eshalomi) the last time this occasion happened, and thinking, “Now, that is an honour.” Had I known God was listening, I would have asked to win the EuroMillions. In fact, had I known that not always voting with the Government also works, I might have done more of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-13a.7.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-05-14", "file": "debates2026-05-14e.xml", "sha256": "1b08dcf00876c19e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-14e.231.1", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Saqib Bhatti", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Saqib Bhatti", "preceding_text": " twice. Those who are paying those fees are now doing so with no promise of valued work at the end of it all. I also want to address the SEND Bill—the education for all Bill—proposed in the King’s Speech. Given the time I have today, I do not have the luxury of asking all the questions that parents have wanted me to pose to the Government, but there are a couple of questions that I do want to ask.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-14e.231.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-05-19", "file": "debates2026-05-19b.xml", "sha256": "6eae5d463ba83d86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-19b.437.0", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Energy Security", "cue_speaker": "Claire Coutinho", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Claire Coutinho", "preceding_text": "I will very happily ask the Secretary of State the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-19b.437.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-05-19", "file": "debates2026-05-19b.xml", "sha256": "6eae5d463ba83d86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-19b.440.5", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Energy Security", "cue_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes his point incredibly well, and I do want to say something about renewables before I move on. At the time of the AR7 auction, the right hon. Member for East Surrey said that we should cancel that auction. As I said, that auction secured power for the equivalent of 16 million homes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-19b.440.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-05-19", "file": "debates2026-05-19b.xml", "sha256": "6eae5d463ba83d86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-19b.440.5", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Energy Security", "cue_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ed Miliband", "preceding_text": "t we should cancel that auction. As I said, that auction secured power for the equivalent of 16 million homes—[Interruption.] Perhaps Opposition Members could listen for a second. That included offshore wind at prices that are 40% cheaper to build and operate than new gas. At the time, the right hon. Lady shouted out from a sedentary position “Gas is falling!”, as a justification for her position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-19b.440.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-05-19", "file": "debates2026-05-19b.xml", "sha256": "6eae5d463ba83d86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-19b.447.2", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Energy Security", "cue_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Esterson", "preceding_text": "As I have said, the amount we are talking about is very small, compared to the needs of the UK.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-19b.447.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-05-19", "file": "debates2026-05-19b.xml", "sha256": "6eae5d463ba83d86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-19b.450.2", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Energy Security", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Aah!”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "oving away from fossil fuels and gradually becoming a more green-energy economy, but we should not simply export our emissions and set arbitrary dates. As this is a debate on the King’s Speech, I hope you will you forgive me, Madam Deputy Speaker, if I mention another subject in the short time available to me. When you get to my age, you can say unpopular things; I have not got much longer anyway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-19b.450.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-05-19", "file": "debates2026-05-19b.xml", "sha256": "6eae5d463ba83d86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-19b.452.0", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Energy Security", "cue_speaker": "Roger Gale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Gale", "preceding_text": " resource we have in the North sea to help us do that. It is absolute nonsense to buy in fuel from Norway or elsewhere, when we could be producing it from the same sources ourselves, and we should be doing that. Do not tell me that it is a drop in the ocean, because it is an important potential contributor to bridging the gap in our energy needs. Sadly, the Secretary of State is no longer with us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-19b.452.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-05-19", "file": "debates2026-05-19b.xml", "sha256": "6eae5d463ba83d86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-19b.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Energy Security", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Cross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Cross", "preceding_text": " help us with our energy security and energy independence. Labour talks about price a lot. We understand that the price of oil and gas goes up and down; that is understandable. Contracts for difference allocation round 7—AR7—signed us up to higher prices for 20 years. We have committed to paying those high prices for 20 years, which are higher than what oil and gas has been for the past few years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-19b.477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-05-19", "file": "debates2026-05-19b.xml", "sha256": "6eae5d463ba83d86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-19b.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Energy Security", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Cross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Cross", "preceding_text": " goes up and down; that is understandable. Contracts for difference allocation round 7—AR7—signed us up to higher prices for 20 years. We have committed to paying those high prices for 20 years, which are higher than what oil and gas has been for the past few years. [Interruption.] I do not need wails; I appreciate that oil and gas is high at the moment, but it is not always high. It has been low—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-19b.477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-05-19", "file": "debates2026-05-19b.xml", "sha256": "6eae5d463ba83d86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-19b.502.1", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Energy Security", "cue_speaker": "Sean Woodcock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sean Woodcock", "preceding_text": "You were very clear about taking interventions, Madam Deputy Speaker. Although I do normally appreciate the right hon. Gentleman’s contributions, this time I will not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-19b.502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-05-19", "file": "debates2026-05-19b.xml", "sha256": "6eae5d463ba83d86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-19b.510.1", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Energy Security", "cue_speaker": "Michael Shanks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Shanks", "preceding_text": "We are consulting on the future of gas storage. I have made it my policy to meet every MP who wants to meet me, and I have always had—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-19b.510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-05-19", "file": "debates2026-05-19b.xml", "sha256": "6eae5d463ba83d86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-19b.510.1", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Energy Security", "cue_speaker": "Michael Shanks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Shanks", "preceding_text": "We are consulting on the future of gas storage. I have made it my policy to meet every MP who wants to meet me, and I have always had—[Interruption.] The shadow Minister says, “Even him?” I have always had very good conversations with the right hon. Member for Beverley and Holderness (Graham Stuart) . He is in the wrong party—they all hate him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-19b.510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-05-19", "file": "debates2026-05-19b.xml", "sha256": "6eae5d463ba83d86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-19b.511.0", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Energy Security", "cue_speaker": "Michael Shanks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Shanks", "preceding_text": "s regularly and I always talk about my pride in the North sea, not as a Minister reading from a brief, but as someone who has friends and family who work offshore and as a Scottish MP who knows more than many about what the sector means. It is about people right now doing skilled, dangerous and vital work—work that this country has depended on for decades, and which does not get taken for granted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-19b.511.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-05-20", "file": "debates2026-05-20c.xml", "sha256": "cff72f13d6596026", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-20c.536.3", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "o associate myself with the words of the Prime Minister regarding the tragic death of Lance Bombardier Ciara Sullivan. We send our condolences to her family on this terrible loss. I welcome some of what the Prime Minister has said about fuel duty. Yes, there is still a freeze, but we asked him about this on 11 March and 25 March and he said he was not going to do it, so I thank him for the U-turn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-20c.536.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-05-20", "file": "debates2026-05-20c.xml", "sha256": "cff72f13d6596026", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-20c.538.1", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "I really think that to misunderstand and misrepresent what is happening—this is a very serious issue. We are working—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-20c.538.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-05-20", "file": "debates2026-05-20c.xml", "sha256": "cff72f13d6596026", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-20c.539.0", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": " He is importing sanctioned Russian oil, nationalising steel and imposing price controls in the supermarket—it is like the Soviets won. This country needs a Government who have got their act together. Instead, what we have is a Prime Minister hanging by a thread with fake support from his Back Benchers, too scared to take difficult decisions, and losing his moral compass by backsliding on Ukraine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-20c.539.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-05-20", "file": "debates2026-05-20c.xml", "sha256": "cff72f13d6596026", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-20c.539.0", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “More!”", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": " saw them huddled in the corridors, talking about Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting. The fact is that the Prime Minister has a Cabinet fighting to replace him, and the worst part is that they are not getting rid of him over his terrible agenda—no, they actually like it. They just want a better salesman. Is it not the case that it does not matter who replaces him; the real problem is the Labour party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-20c.539.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-05-20", "file": "debates2026-05-20c.xml", "sha256": "cff72f13d6596026", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-20c.563.0", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Defence Readiness", "cue_speaker": "James Cartlidge", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “At pace!”", "preceding_speaker": "James Cartlidge", "preceding_text": " and industry should crisis escalate into conflict.” With war on two fronts, surely such legislation should be the absolute top priority of this Government, but alas, there is no defence readiness Bill in the King’s Speech. Why not? The defence readiness Bill is not ready. What else is not ready? The defence investment plan is not ready, of course. We know that the Government are working flat out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-20c.563.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-05-20", "file": "debates2026-05-20c.xml", "sha256": "cff72f13d6596026", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-20c.602.1", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Defence Readiness", "cue_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "preceding_text": "pent in this House apart from one other, who went on to be Prime Minister. That is my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond and Northallerton (Rishi Sunak) —just to be clear, that is Richmond, Yorkshire. Richmond, Surrey—or London—has the 54 Lib Dem councillors, but that is not the case in Richmond, Yorkshire, and hopefully never will be. I think my speech has already gone out the window, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-20c.602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-05-20", "file": "debates2026-05-20c.xml", "sha256": "cff72f13d6596026", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-20c.645.1", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Defence Readiness", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "position Front-Bench Members: we have to get this right. The equipment programme and the procurement plan that we took on was over-committed, underfunded, and unsuited to our changing threats and battlefield conditions. Defence has not done a line-by-line assessment of how it spends taxpayers’ money for nearly 20 years. The last Government made commitments of tens of billions that were not funded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-20c.645.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-05-21", "file": "debates2026-05-21b.xml", "sha256": "b936a3443c0d6de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-21b.680.3", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Business and Trade", "cue_speaker": "Rupa Huq", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rupa Huq", "preceding_text": "Ending ticketing scandals was a manifesto pledge prompted by the Oasis surge-pricing scandal, but it appears only in draft form in the King’s Speech. Peak gig-going season is upon us—maybe even for you, Mr Speaker, with your Motown habit—as is a cost of living crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-21b.680.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-05-21", "file": "debates2026-05-21b.xml", "sha256": "b936a3443c0d6de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-21b.694.6", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Business and Trade", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Griffith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Griffith", "preceding_text": "First, I congratulate the Government on securing the Gulf Co-operation Council deal. Success has many authors, and Members on both sides of the House have been part of these negotiations as Ministers, but a win is a win. These are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-21b.694.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-05-21", "file": "debates2026-05-21b.xml", "sha256": "b936a3443c0d6de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-21b.701.3", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Costs for Motorists", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Rigby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Rigby", "preceding_text": ". A rapid de-escalation in the middle east remains the best way to bring down fuel prices. The most impactful step, of course, would be to reopen the strait of Hormuz. That is exactly why the UK Government are playing a leading role in the international effort to get shipping flowing freely. Indeed, I contrast that with the position of the Leader of the Opposition, who would have rushed us to war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-21b.701.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-05-21", "file": "debates2026-05-21b.xml", "sha256": "b936a3443c0d6de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-21b.709.4", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Costs for Motorists", "cue_speaker": "Lucy Rigby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lucy Rigby", "preceding_text": "I wholeheartedly reject any accusation or idea whatsoever that we are somehow going soft on Russia and Putin. That is completely wrong. The new package of sanctions that we have introduced is stronger today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-05-21b.709.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-01", "file": "debates2026-06-01c.xml", "sha256": "3a7701f70a9d36f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-01c.841.6", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Member will know, we are increasing sanctions on Russian oil.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-01c.841.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-02", "file": "debates2026-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "060ee1419c188c5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-02a.982.5", "colnum": "982", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Al Pinkerton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Al Pinkerton", "preceding_text": "e cap from July. Given that there are interconnectors with six European countries already, does the Minister agree with a coterie of esteemed energy economists that the single greatest thing that this Government could do to strengthen our energy security, drive long-term investment in renewable energy and bring down bills would be to recouple our electricity market with that of the European Union?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-02a.982.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-03", "file": "debates2026-06-03b.xml", "sha256": "b36b733e90ab7464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-03b.1216.1", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Lebanon: Israel Defence Forces Operations", "cue_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "preceding_text": "now Mandelson had—I think we can reasonably hypothesise about what the police are looking at. That would be—this is speculation—an abuse of his position in Washington to support the interests of his business relations. It is very unfortunate that we will not see that information for some time, because it goes to the heart of one of the problems with the appointment of Mandelson in the first place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-03b.1216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-03", "file": "debates2026-06-03b.xml", "sha256": "b36b733e90ab7464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-03b.1216.1", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Lebanon: Israel Defence Forces Operations", "cue_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Burghart", "preceding_text": "That would be—this is speculation—an abuse of his position in Washington to support the interests of his business relations. It is very unfortunate that we will not see that information for some time, because it goes to the heart of one of the problems with the appointment of Mandelson in the first place. [Interruption.] I think Madam Deputy Speaker is encouraging me to wind up, so that I will do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-03b.1216.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-04", "file": "debates2026-06-04b.xml", "sha256": "a5889090368d3ed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-04b.1381.0", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Vince", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Vince", "preceding_text": " (Sir Oliver Dowden) , who is not here, said, “Hear, hear” when I mentioned my uncle, and I am genuinely very grateful for that. I again proudly say the name Stephen Vince in this place. He was let down by our society because he was gay, but he was one of the warmest, kindest people I have had the opportunity to know. I am very proud to be able to talk about him, and the fact that he was my uncle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-04b.1381.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-10", "file": "debates2026-06-10b.xml", "sha256": "283f532d3e5b9580", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-10b.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "r; immigration is down, after she cheerleaded for it to go up, and NHS waiting lists have come down at the fastest rate in 17 years. I am going to keep fighting for the people who elected a Labour Government and sent us here two years ago—people who want to live in a safer world, parents who want a better future for their children and young people growing up in poverty who deserve a better future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-10b.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-10", "file": "debates2026-06-10b.xml", "sha256": "283f532d3e5b9580", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-10b.290.1", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Defence Investment Plan", "cue_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "preceding_text": " of wanting to know the answer, he would already have known it. The hon. Gentleman would also have known that the SDR was not market sensitive, so what he said was not correct. We are, however, very clear that we are investing more in defence. We are ending the hollowing out and underfunding that his Government presided over. We are very clear that the DIP will be published before the NATO summit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-10b.290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-10", "file": "debates2026-06-10b.xml", "sha256": "283f532d3e5b9580", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-10b.290.1", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Defence Investment Plan", "cue_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "preceding_text": "he said was not correct. We are, however, very clear that we are investing more in defence. We are ending the hollowing out and underfunding that his Government presided over. We are very clear that the DIP will be published before the NATO summit. [Interruption.] He can keep chuntering, but I am trying to answer his questions. He had an opportunity to ask them; let me have a go at answering them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-10b.290.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-10", "file": "debates2026-06-10b.xml", "sha256": "283f532d3e5b9580", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-10b.293.3", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Defence Investment Plan", "cue_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "preceding_text": "as someone who comes from a military family and represents a military constituency. We will publish the defence investment plan shortly. What it will show is a Labour Government increasing defence spending, ending the hollowing out and underfunding that his Government, in which he was a Minister, presided over: new capabilities for our armed forces and a stronger Britain in a more dangerous world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-10b.293.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-10", "file": "debates2026-06-10b.xml", "sha256": "283f532d3e5b9580", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-10b.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jerome Mayhew", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jerome Mayhew", "preceding_text": "nd its timetable for the summer. It has already been nationalised, and it has been directed by the Department for Transport to cut one in seven services to save money. Look at Govia Thameslink: it has been nationalised and ordered by the Department for Transport to cut hundreds of trains this summer to save money. I am not making this up; this is what is happening now as reported in The Telegraph.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-10b.349.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-11", "file": "debates2026-06-11c.xml", "sha256": "5333b1417b179a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-11c.448.2", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Transport", "cue_speaker": "Heidi Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Heidi Alexander", "preceding_text": " are now in public ownership and are performing better, on average, than those still in private hands. [Interruption.] That is just one part of how we are transforming journeys. Tomorrow I am launching the third cycling and walking investment strategy, building on the investment already announced, to enable more people to make safe and healthy choices to get around. We are progressing legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-11c.448.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-15", "file": "debates2026-06-15d.xml", "sha256": "f5506d9dbe3736b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-15d.632.3", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Russian Shadow Fleet", "cue_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his welcome. That seemed a little bit different from some of the reported comments I heard over the weekend. I will leave that to one side for now, not least because I think he has extended me an invitation to go out for a run in the morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-15d.632.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-15", "file": "debates2026-06-15d.xml", "sha256": "f5506d9dbe3736b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-15d.634.5", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Russian Shadow Fleet", "cue_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dan Jarvis", "preceding_text": "ansparency and shell companies. My ministerial colleagues on either side of me—the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and my hon. Friend the Minister for Trade—were listening intently to the points she raised, and were providing me with assurances that a lot of activity is taking place in their Departments on standing against the kind of activity that she highlighted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-15d.634.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-15", "file": "debates2026-06-15d.xml", "sha256": "f5506d9dbe3736b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-15d.639.1", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Royal Albert Hall Bill [Lords]: Revival", "cue_speaker": "John Whittingdale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Whittingdale", "preceding_text": "talking about very few events where tickets are sold at a much greater price than their face value. There will be some. The problem with what the hon. Gentleman suggests is that, at the end of the day, we are talking about somebody’s right as a legal owner of a property to decide what to do with it. The seat holders have been extremely generous in the level to which they agree to support the hall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-15d.639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-16", "file": "debates2026-06-16e.xml", "sha256": "e5ff39cd6be2828b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-16e.716.0", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Thames Water", "cue_speaker": "Emma Reynolds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emma Reynolds", "preceding_text": "nservatives ever cap polluting water bosses’ bonuses? Never. The right hon. Lady lectures me about amendments to our Act. Our Act did more in less than a year than her party did in 14 years to ensure a fairer deal for customers and a better deal for the environment. The right hon. Lady asks about nationalisation. I gently say that a special administration regime is not the same as nationalisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-16e.716.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-16", "file": "debates2026-06-16e.xml", "sha256": "e5ff39cd6be2828b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-16e.716.0", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Thames Water", "cue_speaker": "Emma Reynolds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emma Reynolds", "preceding_text": "ion and a special administration regime. With nationalisation, the Government would be taking ownership of the company. With a special administration regime, the Government would finance a special administrator appointed by the courts to run the company. The right hon. Lady talks about public trust in our water sector being at record lows. All I can say is that we are clearing up her party’s mess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-16e.716.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-16", "file": "debates2026-06-16e.xml", "sha256": "e5ff39cd6be2828b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-16e.727.4", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Thames Water", "cue_speaker": "Emma Reynolds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Emma Reynolds", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for conveying the concerns of his constituency of Harlow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-16e.727.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-16", "file": "debates2026-06-16e.xml", "sha256": "e5ff39cd6be2828b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-16e.728.1", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Thames Water", "cue_speaker": "Chris Hinchliff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Hinchliff", "preceding_text": "e spills into chalk streams and their tributaries across North East Hertfordshire that Thames Water has continued to oversee are unforgiveable, if not technically illegal. Thames Water is failing in practically every possible way. The level of incompetence is staggering, given that it has 16 million captive customers. My constituents are not interested in Thames Water being given any more chances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-16e.728.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-16", "file": "debates2026-06-16e.xml", "sha256": "e5ff39cd6be2828b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-16e.780.4", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kanishka Narayan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kanishka Narayan", "preceding_text": "Given the specificity of his question, I will suggest that I come back to my hon. Friend. The broad thrust is that through our investment control legislation and procurement legislation, there are a series of responsibilities on Departments to look at it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-16e.780.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-16", "file": "debates2026-06-16e.xml", "sha256": "e5ff39cd6be2828b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-16e.781.3", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kanishka Narayan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kanishka Narayan", "preceding_text": "I will not, because I am testing the patience of Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-16e.781.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-17", "file": "debates2026-06-17d.xml", "sha256": "3b01b19bebf87017", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-17d.822.1", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Claire Coutinho", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Claire Coutinho", "preceding_text": "If everything is fine, why do we have a new Defence Secretary?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-17d.822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-17", "file": "debates2026-06-17d.xml", "sha256": "3b01b19bebf87017", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-17d.822.2", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": "hon. Lady, because I am standing in for the leader of my party. I am proud to serve the Prime Minister and proud of what the Labour Government are delivering: more rights for working people—the biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in a generation—the biggest boost to defence spending since the cold war, and lifting more children out of poverty in a single term than any British Government in history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-17d.822.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-17", "file": "debates2026-06-17d.xml", "sha256": "3b01b19bebf87017", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-17d.828.3", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "preceding_text": "May I say to the Deputy Prime Minister that he is looking very prime ministerial today? He certainly has my vote if he decides to run for Labour leader on Friday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-17d.828.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-17", "file": "debates2026-06-17d.xml", "sha256": "3b01b19bebf87017", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-17d.844.1", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Steel Tariffs", "cue_speaker": "Chris McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris McDonald", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member talks of tool steels. As I have said, this is about steels that are made or could be made in the UK. Clearly, for the steel businesses to be profitable, we need to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-17d.844.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-17", "file": "debates2026-06-17d.xml", "sha256": "3b01b19bebf87017", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-17d.866.3", "colnum": "866", "heading": "National Security (State Threats) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alicia Kearns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alicia Kearns", "preceding_text": "s us against the plot that is ordered, but leaves us open to one for which no order has been given. I will press the detail of these points in Committee, but I raise them now because they go to the heart of whether the Bill will work. I am afraid that Foreign Office lawyers, Home Office lawyers and Home Office officials have been unable to reassure me on any of these points. In fact, their answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-17d.866.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-17", "file": "debates2026-06-17d.xml", "sha256": "3b01b19bebf87017", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-17d.907.2", "colnum": "907", "heading": "National Security (State Threats) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alicia Kearns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alicia Kearns", "preceding_text": "nd they happen abroad, unless it is prejudicial to the safety of the UK. It would be very straightforward for a lawyer to argue that something that takes place in Iraq is not prejudicial to the safety of the UK. When I met Foreign Office and Home Office lawyers last night, they said it was “likely” that that would be captured. I said, “I recognise that ‘likely’ is hopeful, but it is not absolute.”", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-17d.907.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-17", "file": "debates2026-06-17d.xml", "sha256": "3b01b19bebf87017", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-17d.948.2", "colnum": "948", "heading": "National Security (State Threats) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alicia Kearns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alicia Kearns", "preceding_text": "o decades ago—will fall through a gap that we were forbidden to close. Britain may be used as a base from which to plot against our friends in Dublin, Berlin or Brussels, or even those in Hong Kong and Tehran. The flag of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps may still be flown, lawfully, on a British street, glorifying every threat against our Jewish communities that the regime has directed here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-17d.948.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-18", "file": "debates2026-06-18c.xml", "sha256": "82394bf59cc4ba69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-18c.1007.3", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Shannon", "preceding_text": "The Leader of the House will always be the king of the north as far as I am concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-18c.1007.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-18", "file": "debates2026-06-18c.xml", "sha256": "82394bf59cc4ba69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-18c.1016.0", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Science, Innovation and Technology Committee", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Bloore", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Bloore", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Stafford (Leigh Ingham) has stolen my thunder by speaking about towns, for which I will never forgive her!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-18c.1016.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-18", "file": "debates2026-06-18c.xml", "sha256": "82394bf59cc4ba69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-18c.1035.1", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Infected Blood Compensation Scheme", "cue_speaker": "Ian Lavery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Lavery", "preceding_text": "I am sure that hon. Members from across the House would agree with the hon. Lady’s sentiments. On the estate claims, what has just been explained cannot be right, as the right hon. Member—sorry, I am promoting the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-18c.1035.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-22", "file": "debates2026-06-22e.xml", "sha256": "219f2fbe6026c322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-22e.30.0", "colnum": "30", "heading": "G7 Summit", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "nd that Britain is not able to borrow any more money, and that it has all been spent on welfare. He will realise that this Government are providing export finance to rebuild Ukraine’s energy system, while crippling our own, and are reducing sanctions on Russian oil, while sanctioning oil from Aberdeen. Only one thing matters at the G7 and NATO summits, and that is our collective national security.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-22e.30.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-23", "file": "debates2026-06-23d.xml", "sha256": "5f1fb8d8cad0739d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-23d.210.0", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "ht back and see how much previous Governments failed with regard to defence. I was serving in the late 1970s when the Labour Government were in terrible difficulty. They were slashing the budgets, and military personnel from the captain and senior sergeant ranks were leaving the Army in droves. I remember having one depressed conversation after another—helped by a certain amount of Scottish water.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-23d.210.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-23", "file": "debates2026-06-23d.xml", "sha256": "5f1fb8d8cad0739d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-23d.212.2", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "I do; it was difficult and we stuck to the task. We were not very popular at the time, but that has been a constant in my life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-23d.212.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-23", "file": "debates2026-06-23d.xml", "sha256": "5f1fb8d8cad0739d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-23d.213.0", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Alison Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alison Taylor", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his comments, and I agree with him. My father said that the biggest mistake in the late ’30s was that we had our head in the sand. The right hon. Gentleman has been here for a long time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-23d.213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-23", "file": "debates2026-06-23d.xml", "sha256": "5f1fb8d8cad0739d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-23d.215.1", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lewin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lewin", "preceding_text": "I am pleased that the hon. Member takes my point, but I am saying that the circumstances had changed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-23d.215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-23", "file": "debates2026-06-23d.xml", "sha256": "5f1fb8d8cad0739d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-23d.217.2", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lewin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lewin", "preceding_text": "I will make some progress and talk about the record of this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-23d.217.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-23", "file": "debates2026-06-23d.xml", "sha256": "5f1fb8d8cad0739d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-23d.227.3", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ben Obese-Jecty", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Obese-Jecty", "preceding_text": "for us and a further five for the Norwegians. Given our significant commitment to global operations in comparison with the commitment of the Norwegians, do we really think that just three more ships will cover our global commitments? This has been a whistlestop tour through just some of the myriad capabilities that will need to be detailed in the defence investment plan within the next week or so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-23d.227.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-23", "file": "debates2026-06-23d.xml", "sha256": "5f1fb8d8cad0739d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-23d.244.3", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "preceding_text": "nding, which was raised by a number of colleagues across the House, let me be clear: this Labour Government are spending more on defence. I welcome a debate that asks how we can spend even more and faster, but we should be clear that we are spending more on defence. Next year, we will spend 2.5% of GDP on defence. That figure was not met in a single year of the previous 14 under the Conservatives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-23d.244.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-23", "file": "debates2026-06-23d.xml", "sha256": "5f1fb8d8cad0739d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-23d.246.6", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Paul Holmes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Holmes", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I wonder if I can seek your guidance. In this Opposition day debate, many of us have spent four and a half hours in this Chamber seeking answers from a Government Minister. When he refuses to give way, how do we ensure that he responds to our questions? Is it in order, Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-23d.246.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-23", "file": "debates2026-06-23d.xml", "sha256": "5f1fb8d8cad0739d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-23d.262.1", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Puberty Blockers", "cue_speaker": "James Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Murray", "preceding_text": "I have responsibility for NHS England as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, and I am setting out the protocol agreed in relation to this trial, as it is a subject that is arousing a lot of questions in the Chamber, which is fair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-23d.262.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-25", "file": "debates2026-06-25d.xml", "sha256": "8e430ba32e529154", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-25d.511.3", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jesse Norman", "preceding_text": "llied and harassed her. That evidence, too, was never heard by the jury. The Thirlwall inquiry into the Countess of Chester hospital has yet to publish its final report, despite many delays, but yesterday’s Nottingham University hospitals report is a powerful reminder that in neonatal and maternity settings, grave harm can arise from not only individual malfeasance but systematic clinical failure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-25d.511.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-06-25", "file": "debates2026-06-25d.xml", "sha256": "8e430ba32e529154", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-25d.515.2", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Bobby Dean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bobby Dean", "preceding_text": "I join the Leader of the House in his comments about Venezuela, Edinburgh, Bedford and our armed forces. I acknowledge his comments about the summer of saving, but ask him: a summer of saving who? Paternity leave has been a joy. I know it will not make me popular with new parents, but mercifully my daughter has been sleeping pretty well, so far—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-06-25d.515.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-06", "file": "debates2026-07-06c.xml", "sha256": "4f27b5c90f308228", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-06c.19.0", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Luke Pollard", "preceding_text": "After the last Government tied up HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark, never planning to send them to sea again, this Labour Government are bringing back amphibious ships. We are working with the Netherlands to develop a joint capability, and our ambition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-06c.19.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-06", "file": "debates2026-07-06c.xml", "sha256": "4f27b5c90f308228", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-06c.19.8", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "My salary is “up to” £1 billion a year, but sadly that does not make me a billionaire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-06c.19.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-06", "file": "debates2026-07-06c.xml", "sha256": "4f27b5c90f308228", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-06c.71.2", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Civil Service Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Nick Thomas-Symonds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Thomas-Symonds", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will be aware from my statement that £9.9 million has been withheld from Capita. I will continue, where milestones are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-06c.71.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-07", "file": "debates2026-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "4a925aa17fa2dce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-07a.154.4", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Energy Security and Net Zero", "cue_speaker": "Michael Shanks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Shanks", "preceding_text": "The shadow Secretary of State has made some very serious claims. If she has that information, she should share it with the Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-07a.154.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-07", "file": "debates2026-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "4a925aa17fa2dce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-07a.157.1", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Energy Security and Net Zero", "cue_speaker": "Greg Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Smith", "preceding_text": "Ministers have consistently been trying to argue that solar needs 1% of agricultural land, yet in a spectacular display of disjointed Government, their own land use framework talks about 9% of our agricultural land being taken out of food production for environmental schemes. At the same time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-07a.157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-07", "file": "debates2026-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "4a925aa17fa2dce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-07a.159.0", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Energy Security and Net Zero", "cue_speaker": "Michael Shanks", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “He still does.”", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Shanks", "preceding_text": "afety in the industry, but, as the hon. Gentleman rightly said, it is also a reminder that there are men and women working in extremely dangerous circumstances right now in order to keep the country going. I welcome the hon. Gentleman’s support for the Government, which is actually not a first. Until he ended up on the Opposition Benches, he regularly agreed with what the Government are now doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-07a.159.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-07", "file": "debates2026-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "4a925aa17fa2dce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-07a.205.1", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Damian Hinds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Hinds", "preceding_text": "e the previous leader of the Labour party, the right hon. Member for Islington North (Jeremy Corbyn) , used to bring them up at Prime Minister’s questions every week, and gave the impression that half the country was on a zero-hours contract and was getting no work whatsoever. In fact, it turned out that less than 3% had their main job as a zero-hours contract, so far from them working zero hours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-07a.205.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-08", "file": "debates2026-07-08b.xml", "sha256": "3994c3cbd033bde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-08b.314.5", "colnum": "314", "heading": "European Entry and Exit System", "cue_speaker": "Max Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Max Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "ate disruption? Will he seek an immediate meeting with the European Commission so that contingency measures can be put in place to protect passengers as a matter of urgency? Will the Government drop their red lines on Europe, and commit to joining the single market and customs union? Not only would that reverse the damage done by Brexit and get our economy back on track, but it would mean that we—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-08b.314.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-08", "file": "debates2026-07-08b.xml", "sha256": "3994c3cbd033bde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-08b.388.1", "colnum": "388", "heading": "NHS Corridor Care", "cue_speaker": "Rosena Allin-Khan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosena Allin-Khan", "preceding_text": "I think my hon. Friend has been on most of my last A&E shifts with me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-08b.388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-09", "file": "debates2026-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "253d3b6a343ed6e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-09a.452.0", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Environment, Food and Rural Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "I think you have had your quota.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-09a.452.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-09", "file": "debates2026-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "253d3b6a343ed6e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-09a.502.2", "colnum": "502", "heading": "NATO Summit", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "The shadow Foreign Secretary says from a sedentary position that times have changed. She is right: times did change. Times changed when Russia invaded Crimea. That was the evidence that the post-cold war peace dividend had gone, and yet it took her party 10 years to recognise that defence spending needed to increase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-09a.502.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-14", "file": "debates2026-07-14b.xml", "sha256": "33e1898fe9fe28ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-14b.767.1", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Alan Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Campbell", "preceding_text": "With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a short statement to update the House on tomorrow’s business. The business for tomorrow is now: Wednesday 15 July —A general debate on Iran—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-14b.767.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-14", "file": "debates2026-07-14b.xml", "sha256": "33e1898fe9fe28ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-14b.769.1", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Bobby Dean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bobby Dean", "preceding_text": "nment Ministers. While we are on the subject of Opposition days, it would be remiss of me not to highlight that the Leader of the Opposition recently said: “The fact is we are the smallest opposition party in history—we don’t have enough MPs.” I suggest to the Leader of the House that if the Government want to allocate more Opposition day debates to the Liberal Democrats, we will gladly take them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-14b.769.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-14", "file": "debates2026-07-14b.xml", "sha256": "33e1898fe9fe28ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-14b.772.0", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Alan Campbell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “When?”", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Campbell", "preceding_text": "I am not seeking to usurp that. What I am saying is that I have also been in this place for the past 25 years, to jog the hon. Gentleman’s memory, and it has happened. It does happen on occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-14b.772.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-14", "file": "debates2026-07-14b.xml", "sha256": "33e1898fe9fe28ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-14b.772.4", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Alan Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Campbell", "preceding_text": "I am sure that when the Prime Minister is in place, he will be coming to this House at the earliest opportunity following recess, and he will set that out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-14b.772.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-14", "file": "debates2026-07-14b.xml", "sha256": "33e1898fe9fe28ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-14b.773.0", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Alan Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Campbell", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for informing those on the Government Benches what the other topic was going to be for the Opposition day debate. [Interruption.] I am standing at the Dispatch Box, and Mr Speaker knows the importance I put on Ministers telling the absolute truth when they stand here. I was totally unaware until the right hon. Gentleman just told us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-14b.773.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-14", "file": "debates2026-07-14b.xml", "sha256": "33e1898fe9fe28ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-14b.774.2", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Alan Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Campbell", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Lady for reminding us what tomorrow was going to be about, because we did not know. [Interruption.] Well, we might have known tomorrow, but we certainly did not know today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-14b.774.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-14", "file": "debates2026-07-14b.xml", "sha256": "33e1898fe9fe28ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-14b.785.5", "colnum": "785", "heading": "UK-Switzerland Enhanced Free Trade Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "Or deviate. Or repeat! I do not want to exaggerate, but this may be the most significant iconic moment for the UK and Switzerland since Sean Connery and Ursula Andress met one another in “Dr. No” back in 1962.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-14b.785.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-14", "file": "debates2026-07-14b.xml", "sha256": "33e1898fe9fe28ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-14b.888.0", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Public Office (Accountability) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kieran Mullan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kieran Mullan", "preceding_text": "but it is our job—mine, the Opposition’s and all MPs’—to both hold in one hand, sincerely and clearly, the experiences of all those people who have suffered so greatly and, on the other, our duty and responsibility to legislate carefully and in a considered way. I am deeply disappointed that this Prime Minister and this Government have made that task much, much more difficult than it needed to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-14b.888.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-14", "file": "debates2026-07-14b.xml", "sha256": "33e1898fe9fe28ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-14b.890.4", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Public Office (Accountability) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Daisy Cooper", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Daisy Cooper", "preceding_text": "As an Opposition MP myself, I must say that my party and I have been critical of the handover of power that has taken place in the Labour party, but this particular moment, on Third Reading, should belong to the families.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-14b.890.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-14", "file": "debates2026-07-14b.xml", "sha256": "33e1898fe9fe28ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-14b.891.1", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Public Office (Accountability) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kieran Mullan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kieran Mullan", "preceding_text": "As I have said, this could have been a Bill that we supported without reservation, but I am afraid that we maintain reservations about it, entirely as a result of its mismanagement by the Prime Minister. I want to conclude by saying that none of this takes anything at all away from the families.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-14b.891.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-15", "file": "debates2026-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7071327b816fcbde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-15a.915.8", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Scotland", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "preceding_text": "I am glad to see that SNP Members are staying classy, as usual. On the matter of personnel choices, I am not sure that my first go-to source would be the First Minister, because of course he appointed Peter Murrell to be the chief executive of the Scottish National party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-15a.915.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-15", "file": "debates2026-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7071327b816fcbde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-15a.921.5", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Scotland", "cue_speaker": "Kirsty McNeill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kirsty McNeill", "preceding_text": "estion of using devolution as a shield; it is a question of proper accountability. Farming is a devolved matter, and the SNP Scottish Government have not delivered for Scotland’s farmers. Take the Scottish Government’s future farming investment scheme: in some areas, rejection rates for ineligibility were as high as 94%, which is a typical example of the overly bureaucratic nature of SNP policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-15a.921.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-15", "file": "debates2026-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7071327b816fcbde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-15a.925.0", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "I thank the Prime Minister for that answer. No doubt, he will be disappointed that he will not be emulating his hero Harold Wilson in winning multiple elections. However, we all hope that he may be about to emulate him in another way: by being the Prime Minister when England win the world cup. That is something that every single one of us in the House should get behind—especially the SNP.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-15a.925.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-15", "file": "debates2026-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7071327b816fcbde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-15a.925.2", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "Well, Reform intends to spend the summer arguing with a bin. My advice to everyone is: put your vote in the Bin!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-15a.925.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-15", "file": "debates2026-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7071327b816fcbde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-15a.926.0", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "As Prime Minister, I have participated in over 60 sessions of PMQs—always a pleasure and always something to look forward to—and I have answered, or at least given answers, 2,800 times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-15a.926.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-15", "file": "debates2026-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7071327b816fcbde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-15a.926.2", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "I thank the Prime Minister for that answer and for paying tribute to so many of the people he has been able to help. In fact, I remember when I started this job, the Prime Minister was very helpful to me, saying that I would not last the year. Life comes at you fast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-15a.926.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-15", "file": "debates2026-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7071327b816fcbde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-15a.926.3", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "I will give my wholehearted support to my successor. I want this Labour Government to be a success. I want our country to be a success. I shall give my support privately if asked for, not publicly when not asked for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-15a.926.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-15", "file": "debates2026-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7071327b816fcbde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-15a.926.4", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "That is a lovely statement that the Prime Minister has just made to Pooja; I am sure that the whole House will agree. I think that the whole House will also agree that he gave a very diplomatic answer to the question I asked on advice to his successor. Having heard that answer, I say this to Labour MPs with as much goodwill as I can muster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-15a.926.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-15", "file": "debates2026-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7071327b816fcbde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-15a.928.3", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “There’s still time!”", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "vice and her murder was truly horrifying. I support his campaign for a memorial to her in this Chamber. I also thank the Leader of the Opposition for her tribute to Ann, and for reminding the whole House and the whole country that we need to remember her for the way she lived her life. I have to make a confession: I have always been slightly jealous of Ann for appearing on “Strictly Come Dancing”.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-15a.928.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-15", "file": "debates2026-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7071327b816fcbde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-15a.928.3", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "g England well against Argentina tonight after their superb win against Norway? It is the last job of the Prime Minister to make sure that we win the world cup. Can I also pick up on a remark from the Leader of the Opposition about the by-election we are about to see in Clacton? I have to tell her that I cannot back joke figures with ridiculous policies, which is why I am supporting Count Binface.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-15a.928.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-15", "file": "debates2026-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7071327b816fcbde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-15a.929.1", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "Can I invite the Prime Minister to join me at Chessington World of Adventures? We have not always agreed across the Floor, but can I pay my own tribute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-15a.929.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-15", "file": "debates2026-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7071327b816fcbde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-15a.930.0", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "I am not sure about a note for my successor. We left one in 2010 which did not work too well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-15a.930.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-15", "file": "debates2026-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7071327b816fcbde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-15a.932.2", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Danny Kruger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Kruger", "preceding_text": "I thank the Prime Minister for his service; he is a good man, and I wish him very well for the future. Politics is not a joke. Every other party in this House, except Reform, has put forward as their candidate in the Clacton by-election a comedian with a dustbin on his head—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-15a.932.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-15", "file": "debates2026-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7071327b816fcbde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-15a.936.0", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "cue_text": "Applause.", "preceding_speaker": "Keir Starmer", "preceding_text": "y one of you. To my successor and each of you, I will give my full support. To all colleagues across the House, I wish you good health and happiness. To all those in the Gallery whose lives have been changed or improved by this Labour Government, and all those across the country who struggle to be seen or heard, you are the reason I came into politics. To my wife and children, I love you. Goodbye.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-15a.936.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-15", "file": "debates2026-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7071327b816fcbde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-15a.943.1", "colnum": "943", "heading": "National Energy System Operator: Blackout Risk", "cue_speaker": "Michael Shanks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Shanks", "preceding_text": "It is right and proper that we are talking about this issue, but I can assure the hon. Gentleman that there is absolutely no complacency on my part or that of the Government. I take my responsibilities incredibly seriously, as do NESO and Ofgem, the operator, and I think he should be careful of his language on an issue as serious as this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-15a.943.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-15", "file": "debates2026-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7071327b816fcbde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-15a.980.0", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Iran", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Vince", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Vince", "preceding_text": "not mean this response to sound jokey, but if I, for example, wanted to promote Harlow to be the UK capital of culture—sadly, we got rejected—the way to achieve that might not just be to directly say to people, “Come on, let’s get behind Harlow.” I am not suggesting that these bad actors are pro-Scottish independence necessarily, but you use views that are not your own to slowly manipulate people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-15a.980.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-15", "file": "debates2026-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7071327b816fcbde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-15a.980.0", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Iran", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Vince", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Vince", "preceding_text": "hat might not just be to directly say to people, “Come on, let’s get behind Harlow.” I am not suggesting that these bad actors are pro-Scottish independence necessarily, but you use views that are not your own to slowly manipulate people. [Interruption.] I see a Scottish National party Member on the Benches opposite. I am not trying to suggest that they are trying to promote Scottish independence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-15a.980.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-15", "file": "debates2026-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7071327b816fcbde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-15a.1001.2", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Iran", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "No. If I were the hon. Gentleman, I would not embarrass myself again. He should sit down and take a break. That is the reason why the Government have scheduled this debate, which is likely to finish more than two hours early—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-15a.1001.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-16", "file": "debates2026-07-16b.xml", "sha256": "b2566371300c2d60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-16b.1099.1", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Local Government Reorganisation", "cue_speaker": "James Cleverly", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "James Cleverly", "preceding_text": "not be until the autumn, what on earth gives him the confidence that they will be implemented in time for shadow elections in May next year? What assessment has he made of the likelihood of judicial reviews further delaying the timetable before 2029? The statement raises more questions than it answers. If this proves to be the Secretary of State’s final appearance at the Dispatch Box in this role—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-16b.1099.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-16", "file": "debates2026-07-16b.xml", "sha256": "b2566371300c2d60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-16b.1103.3", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Local Government Reorganisation", "cue_speaker": "Adam Jogee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Jogee", "preceding_text": "The announcement today and the proposals in it are completely unacceptable. I reject them in the strongest terms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-16b.1103.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-16", "file": "debates2026-07-16b.xml", "sha256": "b2566371300c2d60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-16b.1133.4", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Work and Pensions Committee", "cue_speaker": "Debbie Abrahams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Debbie Abrahams", "preceding_text": "they would keep under review the position of people unable to continue to work. No such review had been published by the time of the 2024 general election, and the current Government do not plan to evaluate the increase until after it is completed in 2028. That is too late. They will have missed an opportunity to identify risks and put mitigations in place before any further increases take effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-16b.1133.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-07-16", "file": "debates2026-07-16b.xml", "sha256": "b2566371300c2d60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-16b.1155.0", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Sir David Amess Summer Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "y our constituency and parliamentary staff. It is right that we should thank them on this occasion and also thank all the parliamentary staff for what they do. I thank those in my local authority for what they do, in particular the street cleaners who cleaned up after the largest ever football celebration in Britain when Arsenal won the league. I am sure everybody will cheer that straight away—no.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-07-16b.1155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-09-01", "file": "debates2026-09-01a.xml", "sha256": "50757e9fec28228c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-09-01a.27.1", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Direction of Government", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "r the right hon. Gentleman, since he asked. From the 1980s, this country took a series of wrong turns. Political power was centralised, economic power privatised and the country deindustrialised. Austerity followed, hollowing out councils and depriving them of the agency to act to reverse any of it, and then Brexit compounded the damage, ushering in a decade of low growth and stalled regeneration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-09-01a.27.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-09-01", "file": "debates2026-09-01a.xml", "sha256": "50757e9fec28228c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-09-01a.27.1", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Direction of Government", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "leaking monument to that approach—a country run in the private rather than public interest. That is now abundantly clear to voters of all parties, including the Conservative party. The Government I lead will be relentless in giving people and places what they were promised 10 years ago: ownership and control. From that control over their destiny comes change and growth. I say this with confidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-09-01a.27.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-09-01", "file": "debates2026-09-01a.xml", "sha256": "50757e9fec28228c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-09-01a.27.1", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Direction of Government", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "prohibitively expensive sums of money if they try to bring those dates forward, as I heard on my visit to a farm near Truro. Household energy bills are the highest in Europe, and the cost of energy is impacting business and inward investment. Too many areas have seen water supplies disrupted this summer due to a lack of reservoir capacity. Our tourism industry is damaged by too many sewage spills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-09-01a.27.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-09-01", "file": "debates2026-09-01a.xml", "sha256": "50757e9fec28228c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-09-01a.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Direction of Government", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "ight against Russian aggression. That being said, I am also very relieved to see that he has not brought his guitar with him today. His predecessor stood at that Dispatch Box two years ago sounding very triumphant, having just won a landslide victory. What went wrong? Where is he now? Gone. That job is not as easy as it looks from the outside. Labour MPs have not explained why they got rid of him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-09-01a.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-09-01", "file": "debates2026-09-01a.xml", "sha256": "50757e9fec28228c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-09-01a.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Direction of Government", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "our forces. Let me ask the Prime Minister very clearly: will he provide the funding that his own Chancellor said was necessary to keep British troops safe? That means 3% by the end of this decade. Keeping this country safe also means defending our borders. The Prime Minister mentioned boat crossings, but we must be honest: boat crossings have not gone down because of anything that Labour has done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-09-01a.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-09-01", "file": "debates2026-09-01a.xml", "sha256": "50757e9fec28228c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-09-01a.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Direction of Government", "cue_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kemi Badenoch", "preceding_text": "that his predecessor never could and cut the benefits bill? It is a simple question. The Prime Minister engineered it so that he could have as long a summer holiday as possible, so he should be ready with some answers. I am even hearing rumours that he does not want to do Prime Minister’s questions next week, but it is my job to ask him serious questions, and it is time for him to start answering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-09-01a.29.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-09-01", "file": "debates2026-09-01a.xml", "sha256": "50757e9fec28228c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-09-01a.116.1", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Sovereign Grant", "cue_speaker": "James Wild", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “He can’t vote!”", "preceding_speaker": "James Wild", "preceding_text": "nities together at moments of celebration or national reflection, the royal family performs an indispensable public service. We saw that in the response following the death of the late Queen and in the support that His Majesty the King has had as he has taken on the responsibilities of the Crown. I should note that His Majesty is a constituent when he is resident at Sandringham in my constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-09-01a.116.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-09-02", "file": "debates2026-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "cfea9edaa6a66f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-09-02a.162.0", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Prime Minister", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "I say to the right hon. Lady that I have worked with Jim O’Neill for 10 years. Jim O’Neill always gives me candid advice. We do not always agree, but he and I worked together to turn Greater Manchester from a former industrial heartland to the fastest-growing city region in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-09-02a.162.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2026-09-02", "file": "debates2026-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "cfea9edaa6a66f92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-09-02a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Danny Kruger", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Kruger", "preceding_text": " hon. Member for Walthamstow (Ms Creasy) —always reliable—who made clear exactly what the Bill is about and who it is aimed at. I am grateful to the hon. Member for Walthamstow, too, for pointing out that the Bill exempts from any suggestion of a restriction donations by trade unions, which have given £17 million to the Labour party in the last five years, £10 million of that at the last election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2026-09-02a.296.1"}
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