argyrotsipi/train-dataset huggingface dataset:
UK Steel Industry — House of Commons, 2015-09-17
Topic: Mixed Topics
Stephen John Doughty (Labour, Centre-left): I absolutely agree; that applies to the UK Government as well. It is important that the Scottish Government take full responsibility. I am glad that Community is seeking a meeting with the First Minister of Scotland and with the Welsh First Minister, Carwyn Jones, because it is important that we work on this together across the country .
UK Steel Industry — House of Commons, 2015-09-17
Topic: Mixed Topics
Andrew Joseph McDonald (Labour, Centre-left): When there was a crisis in the south-west of England after the floods, I recall the Prime Minister saying that the problem would be corrected no matter what the cost. On the steel industry, he has said that he will do everything he can. Does that mean that the outcome will be secure and that he will do anything to keep the steel industry on the rails?
UK Steel Industry — House of Commons, 2015-09-17
Topic: Mixed Topics
Anna Catherine Turley (Labour, Centre-left): As my hon. Friend says, they should be bold and look at everything that they can do. It is in their hands to see where the money can be found. We have heard the strength of the feeling today—the money must be found and action must be taken I thank everybody who has contributed. When my hon. Friend the Member for Middlesbrough was speaking so passionately about the history and heritage of steelmaking on Teesside, I remembered a word that is held dear on Teesside: "Erimus", which means, "We shall be". That word came about on Teesside when steelmaking was coming to the fore, and our whole area was built upon it. It is about our destiny and our future. I do not want steelmaking to be about our past; I want it to be our future, so please tell us once again that it will be Question put and agreed to. Resolved, That this House recognises the unprecedented gravity of the challenges currently facing the UK steel industry; and calls on the Government to hold a top-level summit with the key players from the steel industry to seek meaningful and urgent solutions to the crisis.
Barclays Bank Branch on Woodhill (Leicester) — House of Commons, 2015-09-17
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Keith Anthony Vaz (Labour, Centre-left): I would like to present a petition signed by 79 local residents, predominantly in the North Evington area of my constituency. Signatures were collected by volunteers in the local area and I thank Councillors Jean Khote, Luis Fonseca and Abdul Osman for their support. The residents of Leicester East declare that the proposed closure of Barclays bank on Woodhill in North Evington will have an extremely negative impact on elderly residents in the area who use the branch. The petitioners therefore request that the House of Commons urges the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to meet representatives of Barclays to examine the impact of branch closures on local residents. There will be more signatures and more petitions on this matter, but this is the petition that I will be presenting on behalf of my constituents today [Following is the full text of the petition: The petition of residents of Leicester East, Declares that local Barclays Bank customers are greatly concerned that their local Barclays Bank branch on Woodhill (Leicester) will be closed in the coming months and further that residents of Woodhill and the surrounding area fear that they will have to travel much further to an alternative Barclays branch in Leicester city which poses serious difficulties for some residents. The petitioners therefore request that the House of Commons urges the Government to encourage Barclays Bank to reconsider the decision to close the Woodhill Branch in Leicester, as there are no other Barclays branches in the vicinity. And the Petitioners remain, etc]. [P001546]
Scotland Bill — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Other
Questions: If he will make it his policy to table substantive Government amendments to the Scotland Bill in the House of Commons rather than in the House of Lords.
Ian Murray (Labour, Centre-left): My party has submitted more than 80 amendments to the Scotland Bill, more than all the other parties in the House combined. The Secretary of State has said today that he will listen, and will return to the House with amendments to the Bill. May I ask which of Labour’s amendments he will be accepting?
Gaming Machines — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Questions: What assessment he has made of the potential effects in Scotland of the devolution of decisions on varying the number of applications for new gaming machines where the maximum stake is above £10.
Graham Peter Jones (Labour, Centre-left): Fixed odds betting terminals are a plague on poor communities—they are known as the crack cocaine of gambling. Why is it acceptable for the Government to devolve that power to Scotland but not to local authorities like mine, which, along with 93 other authorities, has tabled a request for action from the Department for Communities and Local Government?
Points of Order — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Mixed Topics
Deborah Angela Elspeth Marie Abrahams (Labour, Centre-left): On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Three weeks ago today, the Prime Minister promised to publish data on the number of people in receipt of employment and support allowance and incapacity benefit who had died since November 2011, including those who had been found fit for work. Indeed, I raised it as a point of order on the same day. To date, nothing has been published. These people who died and their families deserve better than this. As we are approaching the summer recess, I will be very grateful if you can advise me on how I might expedite the publication of these data—on actual deaths and not just mortality rates as the Government have proposed.
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Other
Angela Eagle (Labour, Centre-left): I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his clarification about voting after what will be the next day’s debate on the 22 pages of changes to the Standing Orders that the Government propose. Last week in the emergency debate, I asked whether the Government would propose to allow not only amendments to be tabled but more than one or two votes to be taken, so that the will of the House could be tested on them. Under the old process that was originally suggested that would have been in doubt. Will the right hon. Gentleman be a bit clearer about which procedure we will use when we debate the Standing Orders?
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Other
Graham William Allen (Labour, Centre-left): I thank the Leader of the House for extending the amount of time in which we can consider this issue. I commend him for that; he did not have to do it, but he listened to the House. Will he also listen to the House in a more measured way and inform us today that there will be no votes at all on this matter until the Procedure Committee and the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee have had a chance to issue a report that all Members can read?
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Mixed Topics
Ian Colin Lucas (Labour, Centre-left): If the right hon. Gentleman believes in a United Kingdom Parliament, will he extend to Members from Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland the same rights in this Parliament that he is according to MPs from England?
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Other
Lindsay Harvey Hoyle (Labour, Centre-left): Order. I am not responsible. When you say "you" it means me, and I do not want to take that responsibility. It is down to the Leader of the House, and I am not going to let him shirk away from that.
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Other
Angela Eagle (Labour, Centre-left): I thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way again; it is gracious of him. He mentioned that day two of our proceedings on this matter will be sometime in September and he has not announced when. It is clearly quite important for Members of Parliament that, when we come back for the September sitting, there is a little bit of time between the evidence he gives to the Procedure Committee, and perhaps other Committees, and our consideration of the proposals. Will he give us some reassurance that there will be enough time and that the debate will not happen very quickly as soon as the House returns?
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Mixed Topics
Fiona Margaret Mactaggart (Labour, Centre-left): I am a proud Unionist. The voices of proud Unionists on the Opposition Benches say to the Leader of the House that there is a profound risk in his proposals. The risk is, first, making a differential between Members. Further, he tells us that he has looked, with the Clerks, at what might happen and that we can all deal with that after a year. We are arguing for a careful review before this is implemented, because it sounds to me as if, for example, English voters—
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Other
Angela Eagle (Labour, Centre-left): We accept the Leader of the House’s point about the Chair of a Committee, but what if there were a Front Bencher on either side who was Scottish or Welsh who would not be allowed to vote in the Bill Committee?
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Other
David George Hanson (Labour, Centre-left): I am grateful. One person he has not mentioned in detail so far is the Speaker of the House of Commons. There will be moments when controversial issues arise in relation to the certification of an England-only Bill and the parties are in dispute. What consultation has the right hon. Gentleman undertaken with the Speaker and the Deputy Speakers on this matter?
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Other
Angela Eagle (Labour, Centre-left): I agree with my hon. Friend that changes of this kind are much better made on a cross-party basis, in an attempt to reach consensus, than by means of the partisan, semi-secretive process with which we are now faced.
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Other
Angela Eagle (Labour, Centre-left): I agree with the right hon. Gentleman about the diagram. It looks more like a plate of spaghetti than a way of legislating sensibly. As for his question, how often that "ping pong to the power squared" would actually happen would depend on how much disagreement there was between the other place and this place. I think that we in the House of Commons must think very carefully about quite how complex some of these legislative processes become if there is contention.
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Other
Angela Eagle (Labour, Centre-left): I think it is a lot more complicated than that, and I think the hon. Gentleman should be a bit more wary about waving his red rag at the bull, because he is causing dissension rather than trying to achieve consensus. That is not the best way to behave when we are dealing with the Standing Orders of the House, although the hon. Gentleman appears to be enjoying himself.
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Other
Stephen James McCabe (Labour, Centre-left): On the subject of ping pong, am I right in thinking that an all-England Committee would send the Bill to the other place, where Members from all nations and regions would change it, and it would then come back to the entire House of Commons to be voted on. If so, what exactly would we have achieved?
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Other
Angela Eagle (Labour, Centre-left): I may have to be corrected, but my understanding of the process is that if it is an England-only ping-pong, the English will have a veto on it. So there could be a majority in both the Lords and the Commons in favour of something being in a Bill, but it could be vetoed by a minority.
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Other
David George Hanson (Labour, Centre-left): On that point, I wonder whether my hon. Friend can help me: Lord Thomas of Gresford in Wrexham, who has never won an election in his life in north-east Wales, will vote on these matters in another place, while I, who have won elections on six occasions in north-east Wales, will not be able to do so.
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Other
Angela Eagle (Labour, Centre-left): My right hon. Friend, who has the unique distinction of missing out by one vote from being selected in Wallasey before I was, is a very experienced winner of elections and the point he makes is absolutely spot-on. What the Government are suggesting is all in direct defiance of the advice given by the McKay commission, which the Government appointed and whose advice they have inexplicably ignored for reasons they have not chosen to share with us.
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Other
Angela Eagle (Labour, Centre-left): I thank the right hon. and learned Gentleman for accepting my goodwill, at least. We are in a more complex position than we needed to be in because of the way in which the Government have chosen to proceed on this difficult issue. In my view, cross-party consensus leads to more sustainable and long-lasting solutions.
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Other
Angela Eagle (Labour, Centre-left): I found out about the nature of the Government’s proposals at quarter past six the night before the Leader of the House made his statement to the House. That was three and a half hours after I was originally meant to see him to be confronted with the proposals. If there had been a real attempt to reach cross-party consensus and to move forward on the basis of agreement, we would not be where we are now.
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Other
Angela Eagle (Labour, Centre-left): Yes, I did, and I even read the English manifesto, but it contained just a short sentence or two on this. It did not mention some of the most worrying detail about what the right hon. Gentleman is proposing to do.
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Other
Angela Eagle (Labour, Centre-left): There is the constitutional convention and a lot of the issues of powers also—[Interruption.] Because the hon. Gentleman represents the Government, and it is for them to put forward legislation in this place and for the Opposition then to deal with it. I do not know whether he knows his constitution, but that is how it is meant to be. If we had been the Government, we would be dealing with this. His party is the Government and therefore we are dealing with their proposals. That is what I am trying to do.
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Mixed Topics
Angela Eagle (Labour, Centre-left): That is part of the problem: we have never had an explanation from the Government as to why the very sensible, well-debated, well-researched views of the McKay commission have been completely disregarded We appear to have a Government in a hurry to offend and to govern by provoking grievance and division, which is no doubt why they laughably refer to themselves—
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Other
Angela Eagle (Labour, Centre-left): The hon. Gentleman uses his usual charm. He can take it now that I will not be giving way to him again for the rest of my speech. Part of coming to cross-party agreement is that one does not have a completely developed plan that one wishes to force on everybody else—it is called compromise. Obviously, the hon. Gentleman does not understand how that works, but that is not a surprising given his antics in the debate today.
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Other
Wayne David (Labour, Centre-left): I am grateful to my colleague for giving way on the question who takes an interest in these matters and who is present today. Does he agree that it is notable that so few English Members are present to debate English-only laws?
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Other
Natascha Engel (Labour, Centre-left): Order. There are too many conservations going on besides the speaker, so let us keep them to a minimum. Members may intervene if they want to, but let us hear what Pete Wishart has to say.
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Other
David George Hanson (Labour, Centre-left): Does the hon. Gentleman also accept that there is no mechanism to make representations to the Speaker before he makes his decision? Those of us who have interests in England but represent seats in Wales could not influence the Speaker’s decision beforehand.
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Other
Natascha Engel (Labour, Centre-left): To be helpful, I say to the hon. Member for Glasgow South (Stewart McDonald) that "you" is directed at the Chair. He wants to speak to the hon. Member for Beverley and Holderness (Graham Stuart), not to me.
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Other
Ian Colin Lucas (Labour, Centre-left): They will. They will prevent me from putting down amendments in Committee and voting in the Legislative Grand Committee (England). That is entirely the proposal. It will exclude me from the Legislative Grand Committee. It is limiting my right to speak on behalf of my constituents.
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Mixed Topics
Susan Elan Jones (Labour, Centre-left): Does my hon. Friend agree that even though there is a simplicity—and simplicity can be very nice—to some of the arguments being put forward in favour the proposal, one area where it really falls down is on the issue of Barnett consequentials? Something can look as English as cricket from Lords on a Sunday afternoon, but when one examines the impact with the Barnett consequentials, one realises why the proposed procedure is flawed.
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Civil Rights
Wayne David (Labour, Centre-left): Another relatively small example—people might think it is such—shows the complexity of the situation we are talking about. In the run-up to the first police and crime commissioner elections, a mistake was made in Westminster because the election ballot papers were not bilingual. The legislation to correct that had to come from Westminster because it was an electoral matter, and it was done belatedly. Westminster clearly has the power to legislate on some Welsh language matters.
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Mixed Topics
Ian Colin Lucas (Labour, Centre-left): I do not believe that these measures will safeguard the United Kingdom, and I do not believe that they are the same proposals that the Conservative party placed before the electorate. That is why I oppose them so vehemently.
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Other
Natascha Engel (Labour, Centre-left): Order. Most of the Back-Bench contributions have lasted almost half an hour. A large number of Members want to speak, so I ask Members to keep to about 10 minutes. I do not want to impose a time limit, especially not on the maiden speeches, so if speeches are kept to 10 minutes and interventions are kept to an absolute minimum, we will get there. I call Derek Thomas for his maiden speech.
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Other
David George Hanson (Labour, Centre-left): While I remain sceptical about the whole process, would a solution not be for the Speaker, when he is minded to certify a proposal, to allow a period of grace—say 14 days—in which to receive representations from Members on both sides of the House?
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Other
Wayne David (Labour, Centre-left): The right hon. Gentleman makes an extremely important point, and I can well understand the validity of his case. However, he suggests an interpretation of the draft Standing Orders which means that the Speaker may be asked to make a subjective decision. I suggest that that is fraught with difficulties.
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Mixed Topics
Mark Richard Tami (Labour, Centre-left): I shall make a few practical points about the proposals and explain how they may adversely affect a border area such as the one I represent. I say "border", but to all intents and purposes, the border is not there for that area between north-east Wales and north-west England. Every day, thousands of people leave north Wales to work in England and thousands cross the border the other way. Companies such as Airbus employ 7,000 people, 60% living in Wales and 40% in England. Likewise, many people living in north Wales work at the large plants in north-west England, particularly at Vauxhall in Ellesmere Port. We are a distinct region spanning north-east Wales and north-west England. The Mersey Dee Alliance has done a lot of work promoting this area, and politicians of all political parties have worked well to get our area recognised as a distinct region and to secure positive outcomes for it The Government like to tell us that English votes for English laws is a clearcut issue, but it is not—and we have heard today many reasons why it is not. Residents of Alyn and Deeside use healthcare services both sides of the border. Our children’s hospital is the Alder Hey, which happens to be in Liverpool, and our heart hospital is based there, too. We use cancer services at Christie’s and Clatterbridge. So why should I or other Members representing north Wales be prevented from participating in decisions that will affect the people who elect us to serve them?
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Other
Kevan David Jones (Labour, Centre-left): (North Durham) (Lab): Does my hon. Friend think it likely that the Government will announce that a Bill is English-only before the Speaker has even had a chance to look at it? Might there be some conflict, or confusion, in the eyes of the public?
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Mixed Topics
Mark Richard Tami (Labour, Centre-left): I do, and the Leader of the House said earlier today that he has already looked at this, and there are already Bills coming forward that he seems to have decided will be English-only Bills. I thought this was a matter for the Speaker to decide, but clearly the Leader of the House has decided what those Bills will be I fear that, rather than solve the problem of English votes, we will merely fan the flames of nationalism. The Government need to make their mind up: do we want to keep the United Kingdom together with a united and equal Parliament, or not? We are at that crossroads.
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Mixed Topics
Wayne David (Labour, Centre-left): The hon. Gentleman’s quote is constitutionally and historically correct, but does he agree that a central tenet of established constitutional practice is that all Members of Parliament should be equal? These proposals will drive a coach and horses through that by creating inequality among Members.
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Other
James Dolan Cunningham (Labour, Centre-left): One of the reasons I think the Government are playing games with this and trying to rush it through is that the UK Independence party is driving them forward, but we have not seen that yet.
English Votes for English Laws — House of Commons, 2015-07-15
Topic: Other
Madeleine Moon (Labour, Centre-left): I disagree with the hon. Gentleman. The issue here is not the English question, but the Conservative question. It has nothing at all to do with England, and everything to do with the Conservative party and its desire to steal power.