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to investments. Business for next week please. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
The business for next week. On Monday the 9th of May we will have a | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
debate on a motion related to the Sheffield proposal and Government | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
departments outside London. Subject for the debate chosen by the | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
backbench business committee. Following that, we will have | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
consideration of Lords amendments to the energy Bill, consideration of | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
Lords amendments to the housing and planning Bill, and followed by that | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
we will have consideration of Lords amendments to the immigration bill. | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
On Tuesday, if necessary, we will have consideration of Lords | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
amendments followed by business to be recommended by the backbench | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
business committee. On Wednesday, we will have consideration of Lords | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
amendments, followed by consideration of Lords amendments to | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
the Armed Forces Bill, followed again if necessary by further | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
consideration of Lords amendments and after that we will add further | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
business to be recommended by the backbench business committee. And | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
then again if necessary later in the day we will have further | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
consideration of Lords amendments. On Thursday, we will again have | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
consideration of Lords amendments, once those are done, Mr Speaker, the | :01:09. | :01:16. | |
house will continue. I shall inform the house that ministers will bring | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
forward a quarterly update on Syria before prorogation. | :01:20. | :01:27. | |
Talk of the fag end of a parliamentary session. The Smiths | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
just announced as these sludgy, slimy foul smelling trashy drags of | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
politics. Yesterday's prime ministers questions showed to me, to | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
nobody else, that the reins now got a low enough for the Prime Minister | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
to slop around in. That's kind of despicable smear ring of 1's | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
opponents I think degrades the whole of politics. And I would say gently | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
to the Government that those who live by the gutter, die in the | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
gutter. I am absolutely certain that kind of politics is not welcome to | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
the British voters. What a year it has been. Every single economic | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
target missed. Great forecast chasm we downgraded. Get up, homelessness | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
art, the use of food bags up by 19%. Absolute tile property set to rise. | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
NHS waiting lists up, libraries closed. Might migration up higher | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
than it has been before. One Budget in which the Chancellor attacked | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
working tax credits and another in which he attacked welfare payments. | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
Morale at rock bottom. In the NHS, in the teaching profession and in | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
the police. Election rules bent develop that the Tories in marginal | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
seats. Financial rules rigged to give more cash to the richest | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
councils. Standing orders change to benefit the Tories in this house. | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
Was it just a cruel joke last year to make Her Majesty say, my | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
Government will adopt a one nation approach? Come bit. This is not a | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
one nation Government. It is a nasty, vindictive Tory Government, | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
balancing the books on the back of the poor and vulnerable and I hope | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
voters today will say, enough now. Go. And they will vote Labour in | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
London, Wales, England and across the whole of the United Kingdom. And | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
Northern Ireland is in the United Kingdom. You can tell that the State | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
opening is coming. The warnings are going up. Outside the Lords. The | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
doorkeepers have been bubbling up their brasses. Countess is up and | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
brushing of 30 RS, the clerk had a haircut. You can't star but | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
underneath the wiki is that a haircut. And I gather you have even | :03:39. | :03:46. | |
had your annual Bath. So, Mr Speaker, should we introduce... | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
Don't do that mock outrage look, it doesn't suit you. Could be | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
introduced in innovation this year in the state opening? I know the | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
leader of the house doesn't want to listen to the president of the dates | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
of America, but could we have a roll call of all the ambassadors High | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
Commissioner is just to check which of our allies want us to stay in the | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
European Union. As far as I can see, it includes not just our oldest | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
ally, Portugal, and every other EU country, but the Commonwealth | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
countries', Canada, New Zealand, as Africa and doubtless many more. | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
Perhaps they will be adding Japan later on today and of course Norway. | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
So the Norway model is that we should stay in. The only | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
international bigger but wants us to leave as Donald Trump. Grayling with | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
a hairpiece. So how on earth can the leader of the house argue that we | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
would increase includes in the world by leaving the European Union? Can | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
we have a debate on the BBC? The culture secretary says that he | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
relishes the demise of the BBC. He wants to ban strictly and the boys | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
and force the BBC to make deliberately unpopular programmes. | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
He is even said that if he does not review the charter by the end of | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
this year, it may well be that the BBC will cease to exist. Those are | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
his words. Something he calls a tempting prospect. I don't want to | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
get into the cauldron secretary's temptations at all at when will | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
ministers get it into their fat heads that the British people love | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
the BBC. They are proud of both and they don't want some right-wing | :05:23. | :05:24. | |
minister pursuing a personal agenda and handing British broadcasting | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
over to his charm, Murdoch. Will they published a White Paper next | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
week? Will they stand by the financial deal they signed with the | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
BBC last year and will they guarantee that there will indeed be | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
a new 11 year BBC charter in place this autumn? In recent years some of | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
the most destructive in powerful people in the land have done their | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
level best to avoid appearing before select committees of this house. The | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
Maxwells, Rebecca Brooks, Rupert and James Murdoch, Philip Green, Matthew | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
Elliott, they all English and a refused to attend and had the | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
formally summoned persuaded to attend. Rosenfeld, the Chief | :06:06. | :06:13. | |
Executive 's of Kraft Foods, refused to appear to discuss the takeover of | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
Cadbury and got away with it. That not the clear contempt of Parliament | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
but a contempt of the British public as well. Our constituents want them | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
to hold the powerful to account and we should not be shy of doing so. | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
Some people think our powers are unclear and witnesses are beginning | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
to call our bluff so we have to do something. In 2013 the joint | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
committee on parliamentary privilege recommended changes to standing | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
orders to make it absolutely clear that Parliament can arrest publish | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
and buying offenders and said that, if the problems we have identified | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
not resolved, todayParliament should stand ready to legislate. The | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
committee said, doing nothing was not an option. But that is | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
effectively what the comment has done. Absolutely nothing. So surely | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
it is time to make it a criminal offence to bail to appear refused to | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
appear without reasonable excuse before a committee of this house? | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
And finally, the male role collection and is today. So will be | :07:12. | :07:19. | |
fined a decision on Heathrow? In the words of boxes, in their epic | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
Eurovision winning number, making your mind up, before they memorably | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
tore off their scars, don't let your indecision take you from behind. | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
Trust your inner vision. Don't let others change your mind. And | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
incidentally, good luck to Joe and Jake next week. Let's hope the UK | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
agrees with them that you are not alone in the European referendum on | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
the 23rd of. Can I start by congratulating you on | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
your indulgence and patience? I am sure you have powers to take much | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
moral bust action. What a load of twaddle just heard from the shadow | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
leader. Let's be clear. What we spent the last 12 months doing this | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
are filling the trust public prisoners at the general election | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
last year when we defeated the Labour Party. Mr Speaker, if you | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
look at that thing is that this Government has actually done, we've | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
introduced new powers to turn around failing schools, we have paved the | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
way that this Government has actually done, we've introduced new | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
powers to turn around failing schools, we have paved the way for | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
the Northern powerhouse, we had passed the EU referendum out, we | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
have provided substantial new powers of devolution to Scotland, we have | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
paved the way for the national living wage. We passed English votes | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
for English laws. We had passed a childcare act which doubles the | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
amount of free childcare each week and taking further important steps | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
to consolidate peace in Northern Ireland. These are real | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
achievements. This part of the house is proud of them. And he talks about | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
a one nation party. I am proud to be part of the Government that has seen | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
unemployment fortress lowest levels since the 1970s and is worth | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
remembering there is never yet been a Labour Government laptop is with | :09:01. | :09:02. | |
unemployment lower than it was and it started. We are living in a | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
nation where we now have more than half a million fewer children | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
growing up in workless households than there were in 2010. A legacy of | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
poverty we inherited from the last Government in which we are turning | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
around. Mr Speaker I wait with interest to see. He talks about the | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
language of politics. I hear the lemon to politics on that side of | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
the houses they fight desperately working out to do with a leadership | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
crisis and to do with the endemic problem of anti-Semitism in their | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
party. It is worth saying today, that this week marks the dirty | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
seventh anniversary of a great step forward in our society. The moment | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
we elected a first woman Prime Minister. Ensure everyone would | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
agree it was a really crucial moment in our political history and one | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
that we should mark unreservedly. He mentioned the BBC. Once again he is | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
making the mistake that I'm surprised he does make, always | :10:04. | :10:05. | |
bleeding of the new beats in the papers. You need to wait for the | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
White Paper on the BBC. It will be brought forward shortly. He and his | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
colleagues will have the opportunity to question that paper when it comes | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
as I would say simply, we on the side of the house expect the BBC dab | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
a strong future in this country. He made a serious point about attending | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
select committees and on this point he and I do agree. It is essential | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
for the workings of this house that if people are summoned to appear | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
before a Select Committee that they do so. I'm very happy in session we | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
have cross-party discussions on how we ensure that happens. He asked the | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
question about Heathrow. I am surprised, people are raising | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
questions about air quality. The time we're taking over this is | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
precisely to address error quality, emissions around Heathrow, they were | :10:54. | :10:55. | |
in Government they would be doing exactly the same thing. As the | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
honourable gentleman said, it is local elections day. I think with | :11:03. | :11:10. | |
this send our thanks to everyone involved in those elections, the | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
officials, the counting agents and police, and everybody is regardless | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
of their political persuasions. Without them standing for election | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
we would not have a democracy in this country. Obviously, I want | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
Conservatives to win. I will watch with great interest after the Labour | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
leader said he was going to lose no seats at all of these local | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
election. We will see if his forecast is fulfilled. Mr Speaker, I | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
think the next few days are big ones for the shadow leader. Because we | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
know how much disquiet there is on those benches about their leader. We | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
know that members of the shadow frontbencher seriously considering | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
quitting ever next few days the cause of their despair about their | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
leader. Mr Speaker, we know that the shadow leader has other targets in | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
mind. You know he has a campaign group set up. We know he has been | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
courting support on our side of the house for his planning due course | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
when you decide to hang up your hat to take over from you. If the other | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
different goal, if his front bench position does not matter and if he | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
really does approve of his party leader, will you join those people | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
looking to be principal before career over the next few days and | :12:21. | :12:22. | |
resign after these elections? I wonder if he were consider a short | :12:23. | :12:34. | |
debate on the Government's 2014 review section 135 and 136 of the | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
Mental Health Act? I am concerned that the application of section 136 | :12:41. | :12:48. | |
in private places, the police intervening, even in an emergency, | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
is pitifully limited? He makes an important point. The issue of mental | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
health causes concern on both sides. I will make sure the Health | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
Secretary is aware of the comments he has made. We have health | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
questions next week, I would be happy to make sure the secretary is | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
aware. It is also a matter for the Home Secretary. I will make sure she | :13:13. | :13:22. | |
is aware. I wish to thank him for what is left of next week's | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
business. It is great to have support for my colleagues who have | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
in Scotland fought to ensure we get this third term of SNP Government | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
and a majority SNP Government in a parliament designed to ensure it | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
would not happen. I wish to thank everybody involved in today's | :13:43. | :13:44. | |
elections and congratulate them on their efforts. And attention turns | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
to what happens now they are good clue did, because it is hard to | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
believe the Conservatives have been quite constrained thus far to try to | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
ensure they have the best possible result today. After today, I see the | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
prospect of them tearing lumps out of each other, friendships forged in | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
the playgrounds of eating well and that for nothing as they get riled | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
up into this gladiatorial contest, it will be the greatest show on | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
earth, and we should look at the peacekeepers coming, as Labour ten | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
lumps out of each other as well. We need a statement on what is going on | :14:24. | :14:33. | |
with the campaign spending rule break from the Conservative Party. | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
The claims are extraordinary and centre around Conservative | :14:40. | :14:41. | |
candidates, 28 of them, failing to register the use of a battlebus for | :14:42. | :14:49. | |
local campaigning, ?38,000 of accommodation for local campaigns. | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
If anybody is found guilty of such a charge it could result in one year | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
in prison and an unlimited fine. We must now hear what the Government | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
view is Tom and there must emote suggestion that this Government | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
cheated its way to power. We welcome the apparent U-turn by the Prime | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
Minister yesterday around child refugees in response to the | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
questioning from the member for Murray. It would be useful to know | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
what the Government's intention is from Monday, whether they will | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
accept the amendment without any amendment of its own, and it would | :15:26. | :15:27. | |
be good if the leader could announce that today so the nation knows. It | :15:28. | :15:37. | |
would be worthwhile to acknowledge what has happened in terms of | :15:38. | :15:39. | |
business. The biggest innovation that we have had has been English | :15:40. | :15:46. | |
votes for English laws. Something so divisive and useless and in | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
compensable has to find the parliament in the last session. I | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
think our urgent review is required and I hope that English votes for | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
English lords is hopelessly consigned to the dustbin of history | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
and we become one member of this has again. I wish to echo the comments | :16:08. | :16:16. | |
around the elections, they extend to my comment about today's elections, | :16:17. | :16:24. | |
they extend to those in Scotland, I am grateful to everybody who makes | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
these elections a success. I suspect we have a shared interest in today's | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
elections in Scotland, because we both want to see the Labour Party do | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
badly. I am confident that in the leadership of Ruth Davidson we have | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
every chance of consigning the Labour Party to third place in | :16:44. | :16:51. | |
Scotland, where they belong. He talked about Civil War in political | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
parties. He is looking in the wrong direction, because even though the | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
shadow leader is not going to put principle before career, many of his | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
front bench colleagues are profoundly unhappy with their party | :17:04. | :17:11. | |
leader. I expect to see all kinds of trouble in that party, we will both | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
watch with interest, but he will not see anything like it on our benches, | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
because the hostility will be on that side. On the subject of issues | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
related to electoral and other activities, it is for proper | :17:29. | :17:30. | |
authorities to address issues whenever they arise. I have been | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
careful to say that that is the case where those issues affect the SNP as | :17:36. | :17:43. | |
well. On the subject of child refugees, the Prime Minister has set | :17:44. | :17:45. | |
out our position carefully yesterday. On the subject of English | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
votes for English laws, we have had this debate. Today in Scotland | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
people are electing a new administration that will have more | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
power to govern Scotland than ever before. It is for the SNP to decide | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
how to use those powers if they are successful to date. They will find | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
it is much tougher than they expect to take decisions, rather than | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
talking about things. We stand by our view that England should have a | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
share in the devolution settlement, and that is what we did. Can we have | :18:17. | :18:24. | |
a debate so we can be of noxious and rude about connecting Devon and | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
Somerset with broadband? It has been a fiasco. The two people that have | :18:32. | :18:39. | |
caused more trouble are John Hart and Peter Doyle, it is beyond a | :18:40. | :18:41. | |
joke, they are not connecting the counties. Could we then our spleen | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
in this place to make sure they get the message that they should just go | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
and let somebody get on with it who can get Devon and Somerset | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
connected? He made his points are singly. As he does in customary | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
style when he faces challenges in his constituency, he brings panache | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
to his role as MP for Bridgwater, and I commend him for it. | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
I thank the leader of the house for the business and at the next week. | :19:13. | :19:19. | |
Members will have noted there is time allocated for backbench | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
business committee debates on both Tuesday and Wednesday. Because of | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
the uncertainty of the timing of business for next week, the | :19:30. | :19:31. | |
backbench committee had to make some contingency plans, so we have | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
prioritised outstanding applications for the remainder of this session | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
for the 10th and 11th, and we hope to secure debates on the effect of | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
the implementation of Universal Credit on children and on frozen | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
pensions of UK pension recipients residing abroad. Which debate will | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
be on which day is a matter for negotiation with the primary | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
sponsors of those applications, so we will hopefully be able to inform | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
the house as early as possible will stop --. I add my thanks to the | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
support staff of the backbench committee for their professionalism, | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
patience and humour in terms of our dealings. Thank you. It is | :20:14. | :20:23. | |
appropriate to thank the chair of the backbench committee for the work | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
he has done over the last few months and to thank the other members of | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
that committee for the work they have done. And express my good | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
wishes. It is a nervous time for him. A few days before he learns the | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
truth, we keep our fingers crossed he is --. He is just above the | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
relegation zone, he will be keeping his third and -- his fingers | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
crossed, but not in the same way as the former Shadow Chancellor in | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
Norwich. I would echo the points he has made, and I would say that I | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
hope very much that over the coming session he will see greater | :21:03. | :21:04. | |
participation from members of this house, bringing forward more | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
thoughtful debate. There has not been as many subjects brought | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
forward as they would wish, and my message would be, this is a large | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
slice of parliamentary time, and members should try to use it as well | :21:17. | :21:23. | |
as possible. I echo the words of other members about the elections | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
today. I have -- I hope people will vote Conservative, but the amount of | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
effort that has been put in, there will be far more losers than winners | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
today, and we should have a statement next week on how our | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
parliamentary democracy and our local Government elections are | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
working so well. I wish to take the opportunity to thank both the leader | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
of the house and the Shadow leader for how they have conducted business | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
questions in this session. I wish the Shadow leader all the best for | :21:55. | :21:56. | |
the future. That does not refer to his alleged | :21:57. | :22:11. | |
effort to take your place, which I hope you will be there for a very | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
long time to come! I was thinking in other directions. Could we have a | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
statement next week on whether we are going to go forward with changes | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
to the relationship tween this house and the other place's if we are, can | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
we make sure we have Robert and lengthy consultation first, because | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
it is clearly a constitutional matter. I thank him for his kind | :22:36. | :22:45. | |
words. I did not say, because next Thursday is when we are to break, | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
but I am grateful to him for his comments today and for being such an | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
assiduous attender of these sessions. And bringing colour to the | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
occasion, if nothing else. The Shadow leader says he has not been | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
here for weeks, you and I will remember his tie has been a regular | :23:06. | :23:13. | |
attender. We could not miss him. In terms of changes that have a | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
constitutional impact, I would always assure him they would never | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
be brought before this house without proper time for consideration about | :23:21. | :23:27. | |
the imprecations and purpose. In defence of the Shadow leader, unlike | :23:28. | :23:34. | |
other members in this place, he is going to be safe in his constituency | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
for as long as he wishes to stay there. Time after time, he has one | :23:38. | :23:45. | |
of the largest majorities in Britain. I have been here over 30 | :23:46. | :23:56. | |
years. I have never felt so devalued as I was in the vote earlier this | :23:57. | :24:04. | |
week will stop --. My vote on the housing bill was not counted in the | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
total votes. I think it is outrageous, and I would hope that | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
the House of Commons will look at this again, because we have always | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
believed we are of equal value, wherever we come from, England, | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
Scotland, Northern Ireland or Wales, and it appears we no longer are. If | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
I may stretch your patients a moment longer, can I also say to the | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
leader, on the subject of the child refugees, I do not think the Prime | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
Minister made the situation clear. All the commentators are saying it | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
was much too vague. Who are they, when are they coming, in what | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
numbers, where are they going to go, what preparation is going to be made | :24:52. | :25:04. | |
on their behalf? I already feel... We have felt over the months to be | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
totally distressed by the failure to deal with these child refugees, in | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
fact, all refugees, in the way we should have done. This country has | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
always had a proud tradition, but the present Government has devalued | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
that. She wants a statement on the matter. I am slightly surprised, | :25:27. | :25:34. | |
although I don't doubt, with his popularity in Wales, it is secure | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
for the future, but she is cancelling other Labour MPs about | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
not being here in the near future. In terms of the counting of | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
vote, it is never acceptable for any vote not to be counted, mistakes | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
sometimes happen, but I am sure you will have listened to the point she | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
is making. Within the rules of the house, everybody participates in all | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
divisions that take place, except in English grand committee. In terms of | :26:07. | :26:15. | |
child refugees, I not only disagree, but her comments are the be | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
disparaging to those who are working in the camps in and around Syria, | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
supported by British money, helping bring refugees from those camps to | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
the UK. We are doing more than virtually any other country in the | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
world to provide support to those refugees. She should be proud of | :26:34. | :26:41. | |
that. A criminal in Bradford, somebody who was on licence from a | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
four under half year prison sentence, who evaded arrest by | :26:47. | :26:49. | |
throwing acid in the face of a police officer, was given just a 20 | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
month sentence for the assault. To the disgust of the Police | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
Federation. This was not actually the fault of the judge, who was | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
doing his best within the sentencing guidelines. Assaults on police | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
officers and other public servants is an aggravating factor when | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
sentencing, there is no guidance given as to how much longer a | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
sentence should be given for such an assault. Can we have a debate on | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
this so we can consider the length of sentence which should be added as | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
an aggravating factor on assaults on police officers and other public | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
servants so that they can be treated in the court as seriously as they | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
should be, and make sure those public servants are given the | :27:35. | :27:35. | |
protection they deserve? Are you a burner I legislated to -- | :27:36. | :27:53. | |
you will remember I instigated a proposition. I'm sure the Justice | :27:54. | :27:56. | |
Secretary will have heard the comments he has made. We should | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
always work to providing maximum possible support for our public | :28:02. | :28:04. | |
servants and give judges the power that they need to do with appalling | :28:05. | :28:07. | |
situations like the one he describes. | :28:08. | :28:13. | |
Can I add my voice to the many members who have already | :28:14. | :28:16. | |
congratulated Leicester City on their Premier League win? To bring | :28:17. | :28:23. | |
the title is truly remarkable. I am a regular member of the parliament | :28:24. | :28:27. | |
to football team and I'm sorry to say, also about 5000-1 Arbeit fires | :28:28. | :28:31. | |
to just win a match. But members are welcome to come around and watch our | :28:32. | :28:40. | |
next game on the 23rd of May for we will... Can raise the question of | :28:41. | :28:49. | |
football supporters? The average age is now well into the 40s of a ticket | :28:50. | :28:53. | |
holder and young people are being priced out of the game. Can we have | :28:54. | :28:57. | |
a debate please what more can be done to enable the next veneration | :28:58. | :29:02. | |
of football fans to be able to regularly attend Premier League | :29:03. | :29:05. | |
football matches? Can I echo his comments about | :29:06. | :29:08. | |
Leicester City? Extraordinary achievements. One that will live in | :29:09. | :29:12. | |
the annals of sporting history in this country for a long time to | :29:13. | :29:16. | |
come. We will cheer them on in the Champions League next year. Can I | :29:17. | :29:19. | |
also say, think would be appropriate to say, we have also expressed our | :29:20. | :29:25. | |
congratulations and condolences to Tottenham Hotspur. No one would | :29:26. | :29:30. | |
expected them to be the top two and I think it is worth marking that as | :29:31. | :29:34. | |
well. He makes a very important point about Premier League prices. I | :29:35. | :29:38. | |
would commend those clubs that are doing work to try and make cheaper | :29:39. | :29:42. | |
tickets available to young people. It is of paramount Porton 's that | :29:43. | :29:48. | |
footballers are family occasion and today's work. If we look back to the | :29:49. | :29:51. | |
terrible events of Hillsborough, that was described in this house a | :29:52. | :29:55. | |
few days ago, it was a different world then. Football has become a | :29:56. | :29:58. | |
much more family friendly place. A much more open place. We would not | :29:59. | :30:08. | |
want that to change to high prices. Can we have a debate on the future | :30:09. | :30:15. | |
of the UK's military partnerships? Nato has been the cornerstone of our | :30:16. | :30:19. | |
defence since 1949 and has helped keep the peace in Europe and yet now | :30:20. | :30:24. | |
Germany and other members of the European Union wants to see an EU | :30:25. | :30:28. | |
army. This gives me an opportunity to | :30:29. | :30:31. | |
speak to the Government and for the leave campaign. It is everyone's | :30:32. | :30:37. | |
view on both sides in the Government and I would hope in the other side | :30:38. | :30:40. | |
as well that we absolutely do not want to seem the creation of a | :30:41. | :30:44. | |
European army and I were Armed Forces subsumed into a European | :30:45. | :30:49. | |
army. That is something that is a uniting factor in our side of the | :30:50. | :30:54. | |
house. To ask the leader of the house that | :30:55. | :30:58. | |
given the seriousness of the election fraud allegations, made by | :30:59. | :31:02. | |
Channel 4, that the response to my honourable friend was sadly not good | :31:03. | :31:07. | |
enough. Does he not agree that it is incumbent upon this Government to | :31:08. | :31:11. | |
take action to work with any investigation, police or otherwise, | :31:12. | :31:14. | |
or to instigate one, especially given that the allegations were made | :31:15. | :31:19. | |
against the party in Government? I repeat my point earlier. When | :31:20. | :31:24. | |
allegations are made there are proper authorities to investigate | :31:25. | :31:26. | |
them. There seems to be some confusion out | :31:27. | :31:31. | |
of the country regarding people needing to reregister to vote in the | :31:32. | :31:35. | |
EU referendum on the 23rd of June. I would never seek to pass comment on | :31:36. | :31:39. | |
these matters of course, but I'm being led to believe that some of | :31:40. | :31:43. | |
this confusion is emanating from the Government's pro-EU propaganda. Can | :31:44. | :31:48. | |
we have a statement next week to set this matter beyond doubt and to | :31:49. | :31:52. | |
clarify the situation? Let me set the matter to break the | :31:53. | :31:55. | |
straight today. Anyone who is currently on the electoral roll does | :31:56. | :31:58. | |
not need to reregister for the referendum. | :31:59. | :32:08. | |
A Kent burners bought the football community pub in Rochdale and IB | :32:09. | :32:11. | |
backs of the landlord, landlady and big Les is now time to turn it into | :32:12. | :32:16. | |
a veterinary surgery. I accept the Government has done some good work | :32:17. | :32:20. | |
in terms of protecting pubs, perhaps we need a debate on whether planning | :32:21. | :32:22. | |
powers need strengthening further to protect excellent pubs like The | :32:23. | :32:28. | |
Bill's Head? Do the changes to planning tools we | :32:29. | :32:31. | |
have given local authorities greater control. I understand the point he | :32:32. | :32:35. | |
makes. We've seen a distressingly large number pubs disappear around | :32:36. | :32:39. | |
the country. Of course, local communities do have greater powers | :32:40. | :32:42. | |
than they did. And I would share his view. It is a great shame of a much | :32:43. | :32:46. | |
loved local pub disappears and I hope that that does not continue in | :32:47. | :32:54. | |
this country. Lost too many already. The SNP manifesto for today's | :32:55. | :32:58. | |
Scottish Parliament elections commits to examining the feasibility | :32:59. | :33:02. | |
of extending the Borders railway which was opened last year and is | :33:03. | :33:06. | |
proved to be a huge success and I supported extension to Carlisle. | :33:07. | :33:11. | |
Will the leader of the house agreed to hold a debate on there so we can | :33:12. | :33:15. | |
hear and discuss how the UK Government would propose to support | :33:16. | :33:20. | |
such a significant and exciting national infrastructure project? | :33:21. | :33:25. | |
Of course, one of the things that the new administration in Scotland | :33:26. | :33:29. | |
will be able to do, which ever political persuasion it is, is to | :33:30. | :33:34. | |
pursue matters like transport, which are double. Crosses the border into | :33:35. | :33:39. | |
England I have no doubt that my honourable friend the Secretary of | :33:40. | :33:41. | |
State for Transport will wish to discuss carefully and constructively | :33:42. | :33:45. | |
with the new Scottish administration how we can ensure that was | :33:46. | :33:48. | |
completed. And we have a debate on the future | :33:49. | :33:53. | |
of the Crown Post Office network, the Post Office Limited that is | :33:54. | :33:56. | |
looking to franchise Betty nine of the Crown post offices including | :33:57. | :34:00. | |
Lancaster in my constituency? The that MPs have with the Post Office | :34:01. | :34:05. | |
Limited too many MPs will agree have found them very difficult work with | :34:06. | :34:10. | |
and get clear answers from. I'm sure comments will be noted by | :34:11. | :34:14. | |
the Post Office. I would simply say to her that although we have been | :34:15. | :34:17. | |
through big changes to the post office in this parliament we have | :34:18. | :34:21. | |
now finally reached a point where it is much less of a drain on the | :34:22. | :34:25. | |
public purse and we can spend the money on other priorities. It is in | :34:26. | :34:28. | |
all of our interest in today's world that we spend money where it is best | :34:29. | :34:32. | |
useful. Last week we had a 60 minute debate | :34:33. | :34:36. | |
on Westminster wall on East Anglia and evolution. It was massively | :34:37. | :34:40. | |
oversubscribed, reflecting the unhappiness that members across the | :34:41. | :34:43. | |
house have about what was going on and I suspect would find similar | :34:44. | :34:46. | |
disquiet in other members of the country. We thousand people standing | :34:47. | :34:50. | |
for election to local councils today. A complete mess in terms of | :34:51. | :34:56. | |
what is being created in this country. Can the leader allow proper | :34:57. | :35:01. | |
discussion in this house as to what reactionary doing? | :35:02. | :35:06. | |
And what we're actually doing? We just heard from the backbench | :35:07. | :35:09. | |
business committee that they've not necessarily got enough applications | :35:10. | :35:12. | |
for business at the moment and that will carry through into new session. | :35:13. | :35:16. | |
Weather will be more time available in the start of the new session. You | :35:17. | :35:22. | |
will find a central body is therefore such a debate. | :35:23. | :35:29. | |
We now come to the debate on the contribution of faith organisations | :35:30. | :35:34. | |
to the voluntary sector in local communities. To move the motion our | :35:35. | :35:38. | |
call Fiona Bruce. Thank you, Mr Speaker. Christians | :35:39. | :35:46. | |
possess a rich heritage of social reform and charitable care. Which is | :35:47. | :35:50. | |
alive today. In the 19th century William Wilberforce led a campaign | :35:51. | :35:55. | |
for the abolition of slavery and child Labour. And other such as | :35:56. | :36:00. | |
Bernardo and booth where involved in funding charitable organisations | :36:01. | :36:05. | |
covering every conceivable form of human need is an expression of human | :36:06. | :36:09. | |
love and those Christian principles that drove them are still very much | :36:10. | :36:15. | |
alive in Britain today and as relevant as ever. The Evangelical | :36:16. | :36:18. | |
Alliance, the largest and oldest | :36:19. | :36:19. |