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Good afternoon. Chancellor George Osborne is calling for more | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
international action to tackle loopholes that allow companies to | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
avoid paying tax. At the G20 meeting of Finance Ministers in | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
Moscow, Mr Osborne said a coordinated, international | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
agreement could be the only way to police global businesses. Our | :00:29. | :00:39. | |
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business correspondent Ben Thompson The money you spend here doesn't | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
always stay here. In a global economy, many well-known firms are | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
international with most operating online too. That means it's more | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
difficult to determine what tax they should pay, and crucially | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
where it's due. At the G20 meeting in Moscow today, Chancellor George | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
Osbourne says those tax rules must be reformed to prevent firms | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
shifting their profits around the world from countries with higher | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
tax to ones with lower tax, a practise that means the Treasury | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
loses millions of pounds a year. Then it's a loophole that allowed | :01:20. | :01:27. | |
the online retailer Amazon to make revenues of �3.4 billion but pay | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
just �1.8 million in tax. The internet firm Google earned �386 | :01:31. | :01:39. | |
million but paid tax of just �6 million. The coffee giant Starbucks | :01:39. | :01:45. | |
made �398 million in the UK but paid nothing in UK tax. Following a | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
public backlash, Starbucks says it will now pay �10 million in tax | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
next year, but the Chancellor says there needs to be greater | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
transparency. What we want is a set of international rules so those | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
businesses come and do business in Britain, and Britain is now one of | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
the most competitive, one of the best places in the world to come | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
and do business, but when they come they also pay their taxes. The only | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
way you can do that is not by passing a law in Britain but | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
getting an international agreement with the rest of the world. | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
Countries may agree something needs to be done, but bringing together | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
so many complex tax systems won't be a simple process, and agreeing | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
where profit is made and where the tax is due won't be easy. | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
The Health Secretary has written to NHS managers in England urging them | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
not to prevent staff from speaking out about issues affecting patient | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
care. It comes after a former chief executive of a hospital trust in | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
Lincolnshire broke a gagging order to speak to the BBC about his | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
concerns. Tom Barton is with me now. Tom, what does Jeremy Hunt's letter | :02:46. | :02:56. | |
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say? I've got a copy of the letter here. What he's saying is he wants | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
hospitals to stop using these gagging orders, warning them taking | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
legalistic approaches to whistle- blowing stops management from | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
identifying and fixing problems this. All comes after the Chief | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
Executive of a Lincolnshire hospital spoke to the BBC, breaking | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
a gagging order put on him after he was dismissed he says for putting | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
safety ahead of Whitehall targets. I have spoken to him this morning. | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
He's welcomed the letter from Jeremy Hunt, but he's also calling | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
for an independent investigation, claiming the Department of Health | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
can't adequately investigate itself. Tom, thank you. | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
Three men who were arrested by police on suspicion of passing | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
horsemeat off as beef have been released on bail as officials | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
continued to examine evidence from three more plants. Meanwhile, Tesco | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
today said it was reviewing its supply chain after horse DNA was | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
found in some of its processed beef. Laura Yates has been to Otley in | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
west Yorkshire to see how the scandal's affected consumer | :03:52. | :04:02. | |
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confidence. Inside and outside this butcher's this morning, a queue of | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
people - each and every one determined to buy local meat. | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
know where it's come from and how - I used to work here years ago, so I | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
know what goes into everything, the pies, and you can't beat it. Would | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
you buy a ready meal from a supermarket? Not at the moment, no. | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
In the corner of the shop, a supplier's board. Most of their | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
meat comes from Yorkshire or from somewhere in Britain. People are | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
concerned about what we do. We trace ours from local farmers, and | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
we have a full chain of suppliers in place. Here and at another | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
butcher's down the road they have seen a 30% increase in trade in the | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
last week. I think you get better quality. You know what's in the | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
product. It doesn't surprise me. It concerns me that people are being | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
fed stuff that we're not aware of. Always a local butcher. Thank you. | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
As investigations continue, for now, at least, many people here say | :05:02. | :05:10. | |
they're thinking twice about their shopping habits. | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
Ireland's Prime Minister, Enda Kenny, will meet more than a dozen | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
survivors of the country's notorious Magdalene Laundries in | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
London this afternoon. 10,000 women and girls were forced to do unpaid | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
manual work in the laundries. The survivors have been demanding a | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
formal apology from the Irish Government for their treatment. | :05:26. | :05:33. | |
Nick Higham reports. They have been described as Ireland's gulag, the | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
laundries run by nuns where some 10,000 women and girls were sent to | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
work unpaid, supposedly charitable institutions. In reality, they were | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
harsh place, inmates, unmarried mothers, women guilty of petty | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
crimes or simply girls from broken homes. The last laundry in this | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
Dublin convent close as late as 1996. Earlier this month a | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
Government report showed the Irish state had been complicit in the | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
running of these institutions. Former inmates wanted compensation, | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
instead they got this - an expression of regret. The stigma of | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
the branding together of all the residents, all 10,000, in the | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
Magdalene Laundries, needs to be removed and should have been | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
removed long before this, and I really am sorry that never happened. | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
But earlier this week, survivors' representatives met the Taoiseach | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
in dublin. They spent three hours with them and believe he's now | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
ready to issue a full apology on behalf of the Government. He was | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
very nice and kind. We had to go over our stories again, so that was | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
quite tearful, but he said that was important that he could put a face | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
to the stories that's in the report. The Taoiseach's coming to London | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
especially to meet and here the stories of over a dozen survivors | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
living in the UK. Some women spent their whole lives in the laundries | :07:02. | :07:06. |