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26 Feb 2025, 3:12 p.m. - House of Commons
"the party of the pint and Harold Wilson expressed enthusiastic support for preserving the pint "
Mark Ferguson MP (Gateshead Central and Whickham, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript
3 Mar 2025, 6:36 p.m. - House of Commons
"wine merchants. Harold Wilson, the co-founder of the wine merchants "
Mr Paul Kohler MP (Wimbledon, Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript
4 Mar 2025, 3:59 p.m. - House of Commons
"youth and community hub was opened by my predecessor, Harold Wilson, who the Minister mentioned in his "
Anneliese Midgley MP (Knowsley, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript
6 Mar 2025, 4:07 p.m. - House of Lords
"find that. I think a great in saying it is doing it to the lowest level since Harold Wilson was Prime Minister. There will be less girls "
Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript
13 Mar 2025, 3:39 p.m. - House of Lords
"maiden speech from Lord Raval and the same from Lord Rook later on. I start with Harold Wilson, the Prime "
Lord Mendelsohn (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript
13 Mar 2025, 3:39 p.m. - House of Lords
"start with Harold Wilson, the Prime Minister in 1965, who appointed the Archbishop of Canterbury, under "
Lord Mendelsohn (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript
14 Mar 2025, 12:56 p.m. - House of Commons
"in poverty. Harold Wilson famously said that the Labour Party has a "
Private Members' Bills: Free School Meals (Automatic Registration of Eligible Children) Bill: Second Reading Peter Lamb MP (Crawley, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript
20 Oct 2025, 10:01 p.m. - House of Lords
"Harold Wilson government 59 years ago, accurately recalls the "
Lord Fuller (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript
20 Oct 2025, 8:58 p.m. - House of Commons
"done so already. The 1965 decision made by Harold Wilson, the then "
Rt Hon Jeremy Corbyn MP (Islington North, Independent) - View Video - View Transcript
23 Oct 2025, 12:45 p.m. - House of Commons
"Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who contacted Paul and promised to "
Bob Blackman MP (Harrow East, Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript
23 Oct 2025, 12:45 p.m. - House of Commons
"bring in a Race Relations Act if elected. Harold Wilson kept his "
Bob Blackman MP (Harrow East, Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript
15 May 2025, 4:25 p.m. - House of Lords
"under Harold Wilson, brought in the "
Amendment 278 Lord Bird (Crossbench) - View Video - View Transcript
3 Nov 2025, 3:10 p.m. - House of Lords
"Harold Wilson established the Open University. A distance learning model reached people who could not or would not attend residential "
Lord Evans of Rainow (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript
3 Nov 2025, 3:10 p.m. - House of Lords
"work of our former Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, and the Open University. My Lords, the "
Lord Leong (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript
5 Nov 2025, 4:18 p.m. - House of Lords
"government of Harold Wilson, there was no general right of appeal against Home Office immigration "
Lord Davies of Gower (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript
26 Nov 2025, 5:38 p.m. - House of Commons
"Labour Party values. When Harold Wilson once said of our party, our movement, that we're a moral "
Rt Hon Kit Malthouse MP (North West Hampshire, Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript
4 Dec 2025, 1:40 p.m. - House of Lords
"enough to remember the government of Harold Wilson came in and promising white heat and left with "
Lord Dobbs (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript
5 Jan 2026, 6:33 p.m. - House of Lords
"by Harold Wilson, who was then Prime Minister, there was "
Lord Horam (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript
21 Jan 2026, 12:50 p.m. - House of Commons
"after 1945, delivering on the promises of homes for the people, modernising the nation's housing stock under Harold Wilson in the "
Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP, The Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero (Doncaster North, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript
21 Jan 2026, 12:50 p.m. - House of Commons
"stock under Harold Wilson in the 1960s, introducing the Decent Homes standard for social housing. In the "
Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP, The Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero (Doncaster North, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript


Parliamentary Debates
Warm Homes Plan
102 speeches (11,438 words)
Wednesday 21st January 2026 - Commons Chamber
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
Mentions:
1: Ed Miliband (Lab - Doncaster North) delivering on the promise of “homes for the people”, modernising the nation’s housing stock under Harold Wilson - Link to Speech

Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill
131 speeches (30,193 words)
Report stage
Monday 5th January 2026 - Lords Chamber
Ministry of Defence
Mentions:
1: Lord Horam (Con - Life peer) Remember that in the original deal in 1965, conducted by Harold Wilson, the then Prime Minister, there - Link to Speech

Digital ID
239 speeches (28,141 words)
Monday 8th December 2025 - Westminster Hall
Cabinet Office
Mentions:
1: Josh Simons (Lab - Makerfield) Harold Wilson grasped the white heat of technology to modernise the state. - Link to Speech

Autumn Budget 2025
152 speeches (54,901 words)
Thursday 4th December 2025 - Lords Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Lord Dobbs (Con - Life peer) unemployment, so allow me to help him.Many of us, sadly, are old enough to remember the Government of Harold Wilson - Link to Speech

Budget Resolutions
264 speeches (48,734 words)
Wednesday 26th November 2025 - Commons Chamber
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Mentions:
1: Chris Evans (LAB - Caerphilly) Harold Wilson once said that our party and our movement is“a moral crusade or it is nothing.”That is - Link to Speech

Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
169 speeches (44,144 words)
Report stage
Wednesday 5th November 2025 - Lords Chamber
Home Office
Mentions:
1: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) My Lords, before the Immigration Appeals Act 1969, passed by the Labour Government of Harold Wilson, - Link to Speech

AI: Workforce Training
15 speeches (1,355 words)
Monday 3rd November 2025 - Lords Chamber

Mentions:
1: Lord Evans of Rainow (Con - Life peer) In 1969 Harold Wilson established the Open University, a distance learning model to reach people who - Link to Speech
2: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) I thank the noble Lord for reminding us of the great work of our former Prime Minister Harold Wilson - Link to Speech

Black History Month
81 speeches (25,189 words)
Thursday 23rd October 2025 - Commons Chamber
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Mentions:
1: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) His campaigning caught the attention of future Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who contacted Paul - Link to Speech

Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill
195 speeches (33,595 words)
Committee of the whole House
Monday 20th October 2025 - Commons Chamber
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Mentions:
1: Jeremy Corbyn (Ind - Islington North) Nations General Assembly.It is worth recalling, as many Members have done, the 1965 decision made by Harold Wilson - Link to Speech

Planning and Infrastructure Bill
78 speeches (19,939 words)
Report stage part two
Monday 20th October 2025 - Lords Chamber
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Mentions:
1: None understand that the process of agricultural land classification, which has been in place since the Harold Wilson - Link to Speech

Space Industry (Indemnities) Bill
30 speeches (6,146 words)
3rd reading
Friday 4th July 2025 - Commons Chamber
Department for Transport
Mentions:
1: John Grady (Lab - Glasgow East) When Armstrong and Aldrin were waiting in the lunar module, and we had had a man on the moon, Harold Wilson - Link to Speech

UK Nuclear Deterrent
51 speeches (5,009 words)
Monday 2nd June 2025 - Commons Chamber
Ministry of Defence
Mentions:
1: Jeremy Corbyn (Ind - Islington North) It was a Labour Government led by Harold Wilson in the 1960s that initiated the nuclear non-proliferation - Link to Speech

Renters’ Rights Bill
40 speeches (9,463 words)
Thursday 15th May 2025 - Lords Chamber
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Mentions:
1: Lord Bird (XB - Life peer) In 1965, when the Labour Government under Harold Wilson brought in the Rent Act, it meant in fact that - Link to Speech

Personal Independence Payment: Disabled People
102 speeches (13,028 words)
Wednesday 7th May 2025 - Westminster Hall
Department for Work and Pensions
Mentions:
1: Richard Burgon (Lab - Leeds East) Harold Wilson once said:“The Labour party is a moral crusade, or it is nothing.”We need to be clear, - Link to Speech

Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]
233 speeches (32,168 words)
2nd reading
Tuesday 1st April 2025 - Commons Chamber
Department for Business and Trade
Mentions:
1: Laurence Turner (Lab - Birmingham Northfield) his memoir of his time at head of the No. 10 policy unit, the noble Lord Donoughue details how Harold Wilson - Link to Speech

Free School Meals (Automatic Registration of Eligible Children) Bill
30 speeches (7,415 words)
2nd reading
Friday 14th March 2025 - Commons Chamber
Department for Education
Mentions:
1: Peter Lamb (Lab - Crawley) Harold Wilson famously said that the Labour party is“a moral crusade or it is nothing.”If this Government - Link to Speech

Integration and Community Cohesion
41 speeches (19,657 words)
Thursday 13th March 2025 - Lords Chamber
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Mentions:
1: Lord Dholakia (LD - Life peer) Raval, and I look forward to the same from the noble Lord, Lord Rook, later on.I will start with Harold Wilson - Link to Speech

International Women’s Day
67 speeches (34,127 words)
Thursday 6th March 2025 - Lords Chamber
Department for Education
Mentions:
1: Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale (Lab - Life peer) short-sighted and counterproductive to reduce overseas development assistance to its lowest level since Harold Wilson - Link to Speech

Plan for Neighbourhoods
59 speeches (7,719 words)
Tuesday 4th March 2025 - Commons Chamber
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Mentions:
1: Anneliese Midgley (Lab - Knowsley) heart of Kirkby, is a vital youth and community hub that was opened by my illustrious predecessor, Harold Wilson - Link to Speech

Independent Schools: VAT and Business Rates Relief
85 speeches (23,318 words)
Monday 3rd March 2025 - Westminster Hall
Department for Work and Pensions
Mentions:
1: Neil O'Brien (Con - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston) Likewise, Clement Attlee did not do it, and nor did Harold Wilson or Jim Callaghan. - Link to Speech

Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 2025
10 speeches (3,378 words)
Monday 3rd March 2025 - Grand Committee
Department for Work and Pensions
Mentions:
1: None I had the honour of serving in those three Administrations for Harold Wilson and James Callaghan, each - Link to Speech

Family Businesses
215 speeches (31,779 words)
Wednesday 26th February 2025 - Commons Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Laurence Turner (Lab - Birmingham Northfield) Harold Wilson expressed enthusiastic support for preserving the pint measure. - Link to Speech

Holocaust Memorial Day
57 speeches (33,272 words)
Thursday 13th February 2025 - Lords Chamber
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Mentions:
1: Lord Balfe (Con - Life peer) Frankly, had it not been for Harold Wilson, we would probably have made a lesser contribution to the - Link to Speech

Growing the UK Economy
142 speeches (13,107 words)
Wednesday 29th January 2025 - Commons Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Kanishka Narayan (Lab - Vale of Glamorgan) Harold Wilson said:“The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.”Today, we can - Link to Speech

Great British Energy Bill
79 speeches (23,124 words)
Committee stage
Tuesday 17th December 2024 - Lords Chamber
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
Mentions:
1: Lord Howell of Guildford (Con - Life peer) Many of us on all sides—it was not partisan—questioned whether that bright idea of Harold Wilson and - Link to Speech

Improving Public Transport
73 speeches (19,826 words)
Thursday 5th December 2024 - Commons Chamber
Department for Transport
Mentions:
1: Polly Billington (Lab - East Thanet) When she was first appointed by Harold Wilson, she turned around to the Prime Minister and said, “You - Link to Speech

Civil Service: Politicisation
60 speeches (22,913 words)
Thursday 28th November 2024 - Lords Chamber

Mentions:
1: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD - Life peer) Harold Wilson developed his own policy unit with a really good mixture of civil servants and outside - Link to Speech

Great British Energy Bill
61 speeches (40,281 words)
2nd reading
Monday 18th November 2024 - Lords Chamber
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
Mentions:
1: Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Lab - Life peer) She served in the Governments of Harold Wilson, James Callaghan, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. - Link to Speech

Universities
45 speeches (20,932 words)
Thursday 14th November 2024 - Lords Chamber
Department for Education
Mentions:
1: Lord Liddle (Lab - Life peer) I think this is a tragedy.Lancaster University was opened by Prime Minister Harold Wilson 60 years ago - Link to Speech

Educational Opportunities
57 speeches (14,047 words)
Wednesday 13th November 2024 - Westminster Hall
Department for Education
Mentions:
1: Emily Darlington (Lab - Milton Keynes Central) people in my constituency of Milton Keynes to get better jobs and have better lives.In the 1960s, Harold Wilson - Link to Speech

House of Lords Reform
180 speeches (59,124 words)
Tuesday 12th November 2024 - Lords Chamber
Leader of the House
Mentions:
1: Lord Desai (XB - Life peer) I especially remember what Harold Wilson tried to do. - Link to Speech

Income Tax (Charge)
182 speeches (37,520 words)
Monday 4th November 2024 - Commons Chamber
Department for Work and Pensions
Mentions:
1: Harpreet Uppal (Lab - Huddersfield) , temples and community buildings.Of course, we are the birthplace—shared with Colne Valley—of Harold Wilson - Link to Speech

Science and Technology: Economy
57 speeches (21,249 words)
Thursday 31st October 2024 - Lords Chamber
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
Mentions:
1: Lord Liddle (Lab - Life peer) It was born in the “white heat” era—Harold Wilson opened it in 1965—but in the late 1990s, it decided - Link to Speech

House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
358 speeches (44,527 words)
2nd reading
Tuesday 15th October 2024 - Commons Chamber
Cabinet Office
Mentions:
1: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab - Torfaen) Prime Minister Harold Wilson, putting forward a programme for change in this House in October 1968, said - Link to Speech
2: Chris Ward (Lab - Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven) I am delighted to see the Minister picking up from where Harold Wilson left off. - Link to Speech
3: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) He is an accomplished author: he has written a book on Nye Bevan, an award-winning book on Harold Wilson - Link to Speech
4: Anneliese Midgley (Lab - Knowsley) I have another illustrious predecessor: the MP for Huyton from 1950 to 1983, Harold Wilson, who served - Link to Speech

Budget Responsibility Bill
74 speeches (32,890 words)
2nd reading
Tuesday 30th July 2024 - Commons Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Matthew Patrick (Lab - Wirral West) brought up, played rugby and went to school in West Kirby and Hoylake, and former Prime Minister Harold Wilson - Link to Speech

Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill
114 speeches (37,893 words)
2nd reading
Monday 29th July 2024 - Commons Chamber
Department for Transport
Mentions:
1: Laurence Turner (Lab - Birmingham Northfield) When Barbara Castle was appointed Transport Minister, Harold Wilson told her:“Your job is to produce - Link to Speech

Education and Opportunity
125 speeches (45,348 words)
Wednesday 24th July 2024 - Commons Chamber
Department for International Development
Mentions:
1: Emily Darlington (Lab - Milton Keynes Central) We are the home of the Open University, the vision of Harold Wilson and delivered by the fantastic Jennie - Link to Speech

King’s Speech (4th Day)
161 speeches (62,658 words)
Monday 22nd July 2024 - Lords Chamber
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
Mentions:
1: Lord Razzall (LD - Life peer) In 1964, Harold Wilson put George Brown in charge of a Department of Economic Affairs, to remove what - Link to Speech

Valedictory Debate
114 speeches (57,382 words)
Friday 24th May 2024 - Commons Chamber
Department for Work and Pensions
Mentions:
1: Barry Sheerman (LAB - Huddersfield) the skills that this country needs.”I had Sir John Major in my constituency recently, giving the Harold Wilson - Link to Speech

Miners and Mining Communities
73 speeches (27,494 words)
Thursday 9th May 2024 - Commons Chamber
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Mentions:
1: Paul Howell (Con - Sedgefield) 50 years since those communities had a mine—so long ago that the Prime Minister at the time was Harold Wilson - Link to Speech

Affordable Housing: Supply
31 speeches (18,330 words)
Thursday 25th April 2024 - Lords Chamber
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Mentions:
1: Viscount Chandos (Lab - Life peer) Not the two Ronnies, but the fact that only under Harold Macmillan and Harold Wilson in recent history - Link to Speech
2: Lord Whitty (Lab - Life peer) On the other hand, in the days of Harold Macmillan and Harold Wilson, the construction sector was highly - Link to Speech

Tobacco and Vapes Bill
213 speeches (48,358 words)
2nd reading
Tuesday 16th April 2024 - Commons Chamber
Department of Health and Social Care
Mentions:
1: Maggie Throup (Con - Erewash) This was a time when leading political figures such as Harold Wilson and Tony Benn openly smoked during - Link to Speech

Higher Education
53 speeches (23,082 words)
Thursday 7th March 2024 - Lords Chamber
Department for Education
Mentions:
1: Lord Blunkett (Lab - Life peer) That understanding came on the back of what Harold Wilson used to call the “white heat of technology” - Link to Speech

Educational Attainment of Boys
38 speeches (12,947 words)
Tuesday 5th March 2024 - Westminster Hall
Department for Education
Mentions:
1: David Evennett (Con - Bexleyheath and Crayford) He was a great Harold Wilson supporter—I will not go any further with that one.There are many dedicated - Link to Speech

Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [Lords]
86 speeches (22,600 words)
2nd reading
Monday 19th February 2024 - Commons Chamber
Home Office
Mentions:
1: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con - The Cotswolds) This came about in the ’60s and ’70s when Harold Wilson, the Prime Minister of the day, gave an undertaking - Link to Speech

Industrial Strategy
44 speeches (14,018 words)
Thursday 1st February 2024 - Lords Chamber
Cabinet Office
Mentions:
1: Lord Whitty (Lab - Life peer) I remember industrial policies, or whatever they were called at the time, from Harold Wilson onwards, - Link to Speech
2: Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (Lab - Life peer) Whitty, as he is now, used to tell me about how he worked for the Ministry of Technology under Harold Wilson - Link to Speech

Cabinet Office
3 speeches (451 words)
Wednesday 6th December 2023 - Ministerial Corrections
Cabinet Office
Mentions:
1: Bernard Jenkin (Con - Harwich and North Essex) civil service has been around for 50 or 60 years, since the Fulton inquiry in the 1960s under Harold Wilson - Link to Speech

Oral Answers to Questions
125 speeches (8,042 words)
Thursday 23rd November 2023 - Commons Chamber
Cabinet Office
Mentions:
1: Bernard Jenkin (Con - Harwich and North Essex) civil service has been around for 50 or 60 years, since the Fulton inquiry in the 1960s under Harold Wilson - Link to Speech

Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [HL]
32 speeches (19,186 words)
2nd reading
Monday 20th November 2023 - Lords Chamber
Home Office
Mentions:
1: Lord Murphy of Torfaen (Lab - Life peer) of us in here, and that is how we deal with parliamentarians.The Wilson doctrine is as old as Harold Wilson - Link to Speech

King’s Speech
131 speeches (52,690 words)
Monday 13th November 2023 - Lords Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Lord Balfe (Con - Life peer) Think of Harold Wilson and the way that he stirred middle Britain into action. - Link to Speech

King’s Speech
90 speeches (46,581 words)
Thursday 9th November 2023 - Lords Chamber
Department of Health and Social Care
Mentions:
1: Baroness Twycross (Lab - Life peer) As we have seen in the past nationally—for example, under Harold Wilson in the 1960s—high levels of private - Link to Speech

Winnie Ewing
49 speeches (8,661 words)
Tuesday 4th July 2023 - Commons Chamber
Scotland Office
Mentions:
1: Ian Blackford (SNP - Ross, Skye and Lochaber) I will pay credit to Harold Wilson, who was a friend of hers, but the experiences that she had in this - Link to Speech
2: Ian Blackford (SNP - Ross, Skye and Lochaber) but we would do well constantly to remind ourselves of her words from 1974 when, in response to Harold Wilson - Link to Speech

UK Economy: Growth, Inflation and Productivity
49 speeches (22,773 words)
Thursday 29th June 2023 - Lords Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Lord Liddle (LAB - Life peer) politics started off with the Maudling boom, which led to the balance of payments difficulties that Harold Wilson - Link to Speech

Lifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Bill
41 speeches (23,294 words)
2nd reading
Monday 19th June 2023 - Lords Chamber
Department for Education
Mentions:
1: Baroness Thornton (LAB - Life peer) to be said—a mutually useful political relationship with the man who became the Labour leader, Harold Wilson - Link to Speech



Select Committee Documents
Wednesday 17th December 2025
Written Evidence - CHA1120 - Chagossian views on the Agreement with Mauritius concerning the Chagos Archipelago

Chagossian views on the Agreement with Mauritius concerning the Chagos Archipelago - International Relations and Defence Committee

Found: My belongingness to the Mauritian territory after having been rejected and betrayed by the then Harold Wilson

Tuesday 1st July 2025
Oral Evidence - Cabinet Office, and FCDO

The UK-EU reset - European Affairs Committee

Found: Mr Thomas- Symonds, can I commend your excellent biography of Harold Wilson, which I have read?

Wednesday 11th June 2025
Oral Evidence - Department for Work and Pensions, Department for Work and Pensions, and Department for Work and Pensions

Get Britain Working – Reforming Jobcentres - Work and Pensions Committee

Found: It sounds like something Harold Wilson would have thought of—this new great national public service

Friday 23rd May 2025
Written Evidence - .
SMP0008 - Social Mobility Policy

Social Mobility Policy - Social Mobility Policy Committee

Found: welfare state, together with new industries catering to increasing consumerism and fuelled by – as Harold Wilson

Monday 14th April 2025
Written Evidence - n/a
HLV0006 - Delivering 1.5 million new homes: Land Value Capture

Delivering 1.5 million new homes: Land Value Capture - Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee

Found: uplift in land value with development land taxes (introduced in 1947 by Clement Attlee, in 1967 by Harold Wilson

Wednesday 12th March 2025
Oral Evidence - 2025-03-12 09:30:00+00:00

Community Mental Health Services - Health and Social Care Committee

Found: challenges over the years, but it is great to see that happening, and great to see the statue of Harold Wilson

Wednesday 26th February 2025
Oral Evidence - John McDonnell, and Ian Byrne

Status of independent Members of Parliament - Procedure Committee

Found: It has happened in the past, Aneurin Bevan and people like that, Harold Wilson.

Wednesday 26th February 2025
Oral Evidence - Shockat Adam, and Iqbal Mohamed

Status of independent Members of Parliament - Procedure Committee

Found: It has happened in the past, Aneurin Bevan and people like that, Harold Wilson.

Tuesday 25th February 2025
Oral Evidence - Cabinet Office

Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee

Found: Chair: Harold Wilson told us that a week was a long time in politics and he was right.

Tuesday 18th February 2025
Written Evidence - Freelance
IPC0014 - The Israeli-Palestinian conflict

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - Foreign Affairs Committee

Found: Hattersley told me he could probably arrange for me to meet the prime minister, Harold Wilson but, “

Wednesday 4th December 2024
Oral Evidence - Cabinet Office

Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee

Found: Secondly—this is an old theme—is the Fulton Report commissioned by Harold Wilson that talked about how

Tuesday 12th November 2024
Oral Evidence - 2024-11-12 10:00:00+00:00

Rough Sleeping - Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee

Found: Unfortunately, some really bad Government decisions made by Harold Wilson led to enormous pressure

Tuesday 5th November 2024
Oral Evidence - Office for Budget Responsibility, Office for Budget Responsibility, and Office for Budget Responsibility

Economic inactivity: welfare and long-term sickness - Economic Affairs Committee

Found: I thought about what happened in the past when British Governments, for example under Harold Wilson

Wednesday 29th May 2024
Report - First Report - Promoting national strategy: How select committee scrutiny can improve strategic thinking in Whitehall

Liaison Committee (Commons)

Found: national strategy: How select committee scrutiny can improve strategic thinking in Whitehall 60 1967 Harold Wilson

Tuesday 30th April 2024
Oral Evidence - Department for Education

Civil Service Leadership and Reform - Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee

Found: evidence this morning there have been passing references to the Fulton report commissioned under Harold Wilson

Thursday 9th November 2023
Written Evidence - University of Liverpool
SOT0022 - The Status of the UK’s Overseas Territories in the 21st Century

The Status of the UK’s Overseas Territories in the 21 Century - Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee

Found: extent that the new Colonial Secretary in 1964, Anthony Greenwood, was told by Prime Minister Harold Wilson

Thursday 9th November 2023
Written Evidence - Representation in Westminster Movement (Gibraltar)
SOT0013 - The Status of the UK’s Overseas Territories in the 21st Century

The Status of the UK’s Overseas Territories in the 21 Century - Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee

Found: This was precisely the reason why Prime Minister, Sir Harold Wilson, proposed Integration for Gibraltar

Tuesday 17th October 2023
Written Evidence - Representation in Westminster Movement (Gibraltar)
TTC0036 - The procedure of the House of Commons and the territorial constitution

The procedure of the House of Commons and the territorial constitution - Procedure Committee

Found: This was precisely the reason why Prime Minister, Sir Harold Wilson, proposed Integration for Gibraltar

Tuesday 4th July 2023
Written Evidence - The Coalition for a Digital Economy (Coadec)
TER0008 - The Edinburgh Reforms

The Edinburgh Reforms - Treasury Committee

Found: a.Background to the CCA The Consumer Credit Act (CCA) was originally passed in 1974, when Harold Wilson

Tuesday 13th June 2023
Written Evidence - School of Law, Cyprus Campus, University of Central Lancashire, and Neapolis University
AFR0005 - Armed Forces Readiness

Armed Forces Readiness - Defence Committee

Found: abject failings of the UK during the Summer of 1974 were products of the policy pursued by Harold Wilson

Wednesday 15th July 2020
Written Evidence - Professor Robert Beveridge
CVD0443 - Impact of Covid-19 on DCMS sectors

Impact of Covid-19 on DCMS sectors - Culture, Media and Sport Committee

Found: taken on board the value, artistically, socially, commercially of British cinema and that’s Harold Wilson



Written Answers
Lord Wilson of Rievaulx
Asked by: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Labour - Life peer)
Wednesday 30th July 2025

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what criteria they will use in the review, due in 2026, to decide whether to publish retained papers relating to allegations of a security service plot against Harold Wilson.

Answered by Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)

Records relating to the above matter will be reviewed in accordance with the requirements of the Public Records Act 1958.

Lord Wilson of Rievaulx
Asked by: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Labour - Life peer)
Wednesday 3rd May 2023

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will publish the results of the inquiry by Lord Hunt of Tanworth in 1996 into allegations of a security service plot against Harold Wilson.

Answered by Baroness Neville-Rolfe - Shadow Minister (Treasury)

I refer the Noble Lord to the previous answer (HL1897) on 27 July 2021. To reiterate, official papers relating to these allegations are retained by the Cabinet Office. Retained papers are reviewed regularly to decide whether they can be released.



Parliamentary Research
The United Kingdom constitution - a mapping exercise - CBP-9384
Nov. 26 2024

Found: three years of dissolution (Erskine May, para 8.3 ). 428 For the most recent example, see Harold Wilson

The office and functions of the Prime Minister - CBP-9880
Mar. 15 2024

Found: In 1964 Harold Wilson was told to “stand by”, 60 while James Callaghan recall ed being asked when

Finances of the Monarchy - CBP-9807
Nov. 27 2023

Found: have to give up polo fairly soon, things like that.80 In response the resulting media reports, Harold Wilson

The royal prerogative and ministerial advice - CBP-9877
Oct. 24 2023

Found: writing, that he follows that advi ce with misgiving and reluctance.67 When, in November 1965, Harold Wilson



Bill Documents
Mar. 07 2024
Written evidence submitted by Big Brother Watch (IPAB02)
Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Act 2024
Written evidence

Found: On the 17th November 1966 the then Prime Minister, Mr Harold Wilson, said in a statement in

Jul. 20 2023
Mr Peter Careless Evidence [1/2]
Bishop’s Stortford Cemetery Act 2024
Written evidence

Found: Council was consigned to history as the result of the Local Government Act1972 introduced by Harold Wilson



APPG Publications

Science and Technology in Agriculture APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025


Document: Just in Case: 7 steps to narrow the UK civil food resilience gap

Found: markets, distorting them. 1975 To address dissent in his party, the new Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson

Financial Technology APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025


Document: Summary of the discussion

Found: Charlie Mercer ● The CCA was passed when Harold Wilson was prime minister and it was still legal for



Department Publications - News and Communications
Friday 23rd January 2026
Cabinet Office
Source Page: Renowned sculptor Karen Newman joins the national Queen Elizabeth II Memorial project
Document: Renowned sculptor Karen Newman joins the national Queen Elizabeth II Memorial project (webpage)

Found: Madame Tussauds, where she sculpted wax portrait figures of Prince Philip, former Prime Ministers Harold Wilson

Tuesday 16th September 2025
Cabinet Office
Source Page: Minister for European Union Relations speech at College of Europe
Document: Minister for European Union Relations speech at College of Europe (webpage)

Found: Harold Wilson wanted the discussion to be a sober one, where the facts were plainly put -  The Brexit

Wednesday 27th August 2025
Cabinet Office
Source Page: Speech on the UK's Future Relationship with the European Union
Document: Speech on the UK's Future Relationship with the European Union (webpage)

Found: But the Prime Minister Harold Wilson approached it soberly.

Saturday 12th July 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Source Page: Foreign Secretary Speech: Diplomacy in the Digital Age
Document: Foreign Secretary Speech: Diplomacy in the Digital Age (webpage)

Found: Sixty years ago, Prime Minister Harold Wilson talked of the “white heat of technology” transforming British

Friday 14th March 2025
Cabinet Office
Source Page: Minister for European Union Relations Mackenzie Stuart Lecture
Document: Minister for European Union Relations Mackenzie Stuart Lecture (webpage)

Found: think is desirable”… he went on to say: “I would much rather work for the world organisation”   Harold Wilson

Thursday 9th January 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Source Page: The Locarno Speech by the Foreign Secretary: 9 January 2025
Document: The Locarno Speech by the Foreign Secretary: 9 January 2025 (webpage)

Found: In the 1960s, Harold Wilson embraced the white heat of technology.

Thursday 28th November 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Source Page: Presentation by Chairs of the Three OSCE Committees: UK response, November 2024
Document: Presentation by Chairs of the Three OSCE Committees: UK response, November 2024 (webpage)

Found: Harold Wilson, then British Prime Minister, said in his speech to the 1975 Helsinki Conference that the

Saturday 15th June 2024
Department for Business and Trade
Source Page: Alan Bates, top business executives and leading innovators honoured for King’s Birthday
Document: Alan Bates, top business executives and leading innovators honoured for King’s Birthday (webpage)

Found: For services to Business and to Exports  Harold Wilson, Owner and Group Chair, UK Docks Marine Services

Thursday 25th April 2024
Northern Ireland Office
Source Page: Troubles ‘Public History’ project established
Document: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a79a123e5274a684690af21/future-plans-government.pdf (PDF)

Found: In 1966 the then Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, announced that the range of o fficial history was to

Friday 13th October 2023
Ministry of Defence
Source Page: PM accelerates military support to Northern Europe following visit to Sweden
Document: PM accelerates military support to Northern Europe following visit to Sweden (webpage)

Found: is the first Prime Minister to overnight on a Royal Navy warship since the late Prime Minister Harold Wilson



Department Publications - Statistics
Monday 30th June 2025
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
Source Page: A year in metascience (2025)
Document: (PDF)

Found: examination of science with the methods of science itself. ”16 Published a few months after PM Harold Wilson

Thursday 26th September 2024
Home Office
Source Page: The Historical Roots of the Windrush Scandal
Document: (PDF)

Found: Labour governments under Harold Wilson passed three ‘Race Relations Acts’ (RRAs) in 1965, 1968 and



Department Publications - Transparency
Friday 14th June 2024
Cabinet Office
Source Page: The King's Birthday Honours List 2024
Document: (webpage)

Found: British Empire Members of the Order of the British Empire Member of the Order of the British Empire Harold WILSON

Friday 14th June 2024
Cabinet Office
Source Page: The King's Birthday Honours List 2024
Document: (PDF)

Found: For services to Conservation and to Natural Flood Management (Exeter, Devon) Harold WILSON Owner and



Non-Departmental Publications - Guidance and Regulation
Jan. 08 2026
HM Revenue & Customs
Source Page: Romania: tax treaties
Document: (PDF)
Guidance and Regulation

Found: FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND Harold Wilson FOR THE



Non-Departmental Publications - Statistics
Jun. 30 2025
UK Research and Innovation
Source Page: A year in metascience (2025)
Document: (PDF)
Statistics

Found: examination of science with the methods of science itself. ”16 Published a few months after PM Harold Wilson



Non-Departmental Publications - Transparency
Jul. 18 2024
Advisory Committee on Business Appointments
Source Page: Advisory Committee on Business Appointments – Report 2020-24
Document: (PDF)
Transparency

Found: ACOBA was first established by the then Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, in 1975.



Non-Departmental Publications - News and Communications
Nov. 14 2023
Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
Source Page: British Prime Ministers who returned to government
Document: British Prime Ministers who returned to government (webpage)
News and Communications

Found: Alec Douglas-Home  After his four-seat defeat to Harold Wilson at the 1964 general election, Douglas-Home

Oct. 13 2023
Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
Source Page: PM accelerates military support to Northern Europe following visit to Sweden
Document: PM accelerates military support to Northern Europe following visit to Sweden (webpage)
News and Communications

Found: is the first Prime Minister to overnight on a Royal Navy warship since the late Prime Minister Harold Wilson




Harold Wilson mentioned in Scottish results


Scottish Parliamentary Debates
Great British Energy Bill
49 speeches (31,775 words)
Thursday 6th February 2025 - Main Chamber
Mentions:
1: Lumsden, Douglas (Con - North East Scotland) Just as Harold Wilson closed more coal mines than any other Prime Minister, Keir Starmer will be the - Link to Speech

Public Service Investment
107 speeches (106,160 words)
Thursday 13th June 2024 - Main Chamber
Mentions:
1: Thomson, Michelle (SNP - Falkirk East) Rather than Clement Attlee, who oversaw the creation of the NHS, or Harold Wilson, who introduced the - Link to Speech




Harold Wilson mentioned in Welsh results


Welsh Government Publications
Thursday 5th March 2020

Source Page: Brave New Wales
Document: Brave New Wales (webpage)

Found: celebrating the Open University’s half-century to take inspiration from: The Isles of Scilly, where Harold Wilson



Welsh Senedd Research
Constitutional Quick Guides: Research Briefing - 2024 update
Friday 20th September 2024
research.senedd.wales/ Welsh Parliament Senedd Research Constitutional Quick Guides Research Briefing September 2024 http://research.senedd.wales/ The Welsh Parliament is the democratically elected body that represents the interests of Wales and...

Found: Harold Wilson MP. The incumbent Secretary of State is the Rt.Hon.

The Senedd and Devolution in Wales: a bibliography: January 2023
Tuesday 17th January 2023
www.research.senedd.wales Welsh Parliament Senedd Research The Senedd and Devolution in Wales A bibliography The Senedd and Devolution in Wales: a bibliography 1 Contents The Senedd and Devolution in Wales: a bibliography ...........................

Found: the Welsh Office, 1964, Contemporary Wales 16, p39-52  Tanner, D. (2006) Richard Crossman, Harold Wilson

Constitutional Quick Guides: Research Briefing
Friday 12th November 2021
research.senedd.wales/ Welsh Parliament Senedd Research Constitutional Quick Guides Research Briefing November 2021 Title part 1: Title part 2 or single titles Month Year Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru Y Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd, Amgylchedd a Materi...

Found: Harold Wilson MP. The incumbent Secretary of State is the Rt.Hon.

Senedd and Devolution in Wales: a bibliography
Monday 6th September 2021
www.research.senedd.wales Welsh Parliament Senedd Research The Senedd and Devolution in Wales A bibliography The Senedd and Devolution in Wales: a bibliography 1 Contents Background to Devolution in Wales ............................................

Found: the Welsh Office, 1964, Contemporary Wales 16, p39-52  Tanner, D. (2006) Richard Crossman, Harold Wilson

The Secretary of State for Wales - Quick guide
Wednesday 11th June 2014
Research Service Quick Guide Q u i c k G u i d e H y s b y s i a d H w y l u s | 1 The Secretary of State for Wales Quick Guide September 2012 Introduction The Secretary of State for Wales is a member of the UK cabinet and is supported by Wales O...

Found: Harold Wilson MP. There have been 16 Secretaries of State for Wales:  Rt. Hon.



Welsh Senedd Debates
1. Questions to the First Minister

Tuesday 15th October 2024
Mentions:
1: Rhys ab Owen (Independent Member - South Wales Central)   Aberfan was betrayed by George Thomas, it was betrayed by the Harold Wilson Government. - Link to Speech

2. Business Statement and Announcement

Tuesday 2nd July 2024
Mentions:
1: Gareth Davies (Welsh Conservative Party - Vale of Clwyd) very much starting to look like the scenes from the late 1970s during the three-day week under Harold Wilson - Link to Speech

4. 90-second Statements

Wednesday 7th June 2023
Mentions:
1: David Rees (Welsh Labour - Aberavon) in the Government in the 1960s, 1970s and 1990s, under three different Labour Prime Ministers—Harold Wilson - Link to Speech

1. Questions to the First Minister

Tuesday 27th September 2022
Mentions:
1: Adam Price (Plaid Cymru - Carmarthen East and Dinefwr) Harold Wilson, again, did it when Labour was elected in 1974. - Link to Speech

1. Motion of condolence and tributes to Her Majesty The Queen

Sunday 11th September 2022
Mentions:
1: Jenny Rathbone (Welsh Labour - Cardiff Central) And, when in 1966 Harold Wilson wanted to appoint Shirley Williams as a Minister in the Department of - Link to Speech

6. Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: Mabon ap Gwynfor (Dwyfor Meirionnydd)—Rent control

Wednesday 9th February 2022
Mentions:
1: Mike Hedges (Welsh Labour and Co-operative Party - Swansea East) The Rent Act in 1965, introduced by the Labour Government led by Harold Wilson, regulated tenancies, - Link to Speech

3. Legislative Consent Motion on the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill

Tuesday 21st January 2020
Mentions:
1: Mark Drakeford (Welsh Labour - Cardiff West) Having served as Secretary of State for Wales under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan, and Attorney-General - Link to Speech