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concern. I sincerely hope there are no other points of order, as there | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
should not be, their father will not be! We will come to a business | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
question. Deputy Leader of the House. Monday 6th of June, the | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
remaining stages of the investor the word matter -- investigatory Powers | :00:20. | :00:29. | |
Bill. 8th of June, opposition day, first allotted day, and there will | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
be a debate on a motion to be announced. Thursday, General debate | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
on carers, and the subject was determined by the backbench business | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
committee. Friday, the House will not be sitting. Monday 13th June, | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
remaining stages of the policing and crime Bill des two. The business in | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
Westminster Hall for the 13th of June will be the debate on a | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
petition relating to foreign aid spending. I am sure the House will | :00:58. | :01:08. | |
wish to join me in wishing many happy returns of the day to the | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
Leader of the Opposition, and my honourable friend the Member -- my | :01:13. | :01:23. | |
honourable friend, happy birthday. I think we have all reached the same | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
conclusion, this government is completely hamstrung by Europe. The | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
government has nothing to do, nothing to say, and thinks nothing. | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
Those are not my words, that is according to the sad man on a train, | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
Michael Portillo, and the British public are paying the price for this | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
paralysis. Can the Deputy Leader tell us why the government dropped | :01:49. | :01:57. | |
plans for the bill... Society has moved on, and please support the | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
move in principle, so what is stopping them? Can we have a | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
statement on how the government plans to meet its manifesto | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
commitment to cut in half the disability employment gap, as there | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
was no mention of this in its speech. The Prime Minister said he | :02:14. | :02:21. | |
would ban animals in circuses, but did not. They promised it in the | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
manifesto in 2015, but nothing so far. There are only two travelling | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
circuses in Britain that still use this cruel practice. It really | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
cannot be that difficult. I wonder if it has anything at all to do with | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
a company which trains the animals for the circuses being based on | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
Whitney. -- in Whitney. Can we have a statement on NHS recruitment, | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
regarding the Unison union advice that showed that scrapping civvies | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
for student nurses will deter 2000 people from training in careers in | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
the NHS. The NHS has a different problem already. Nursing remains on | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
the occupational shortfall list, so why does the government insist on | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
making it worse? There has been much debate about Bates this week, | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
specifically the television debates for the EU referendum. What should | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
the format B, who should the speakers be, and for the sake of the | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
viewers I think we should it the most entertaining advocate for each | :03:25. | :03:35. | |
side. So for Brexit, the honourable member for Ruislip. And four remain, | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
the former Conservative Mayor of London. And for those who complain | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
it would not be a fear debate, imagine how it would play out. On | :03:43. | :03:44. | |
the -- Boris Johnson may say What are we seeing if we keep Turkey | :03:45. | :04:03. | |
out of the European Union because it is Muslim? Brexit Boris Johnson | :04:04. | :04:17. | |
could... I will get there. On America, he could point out his | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
joint citizenship, and stressed the importance of our special | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
relationship, where Brexit Boris says we | :04:29. | :04:56. | |
The serious point is that the next Prime Minister will not be chosen by | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
the public. It will be Conservative Party members who will have the | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
final say on our country's leader, and what I would like to say to them | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
is that they should look across the Atlantic, where party is trying to | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
put into office populace populist who is completely without principle, | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
inciting violence against journalists, and is willing to say | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
anything no matter how offensive or false, as long as it takes an closer | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
to powerful stop they should ask themselves whether they want to do | :05:32. | :05:40. | |
the same. I extend my birthday wishes to the people she mentioned. | :05:41. | :05:49. | |
I want to congratulate the 20 members who won the ballot today, | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
particularly the honourable member for East and Barton sure, but I feel | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
sorry for the staff because they are probably fielding hundreds of | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
e-mails already. We look forward to interesting legislation that we will | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
debate in due course. She talks about Europe. We are united on this | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
matter, we believe Britain will be better off staying in a reformed EU. | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
. I think that she rather overestimates what is happening. We | :06:17. | :06:36. | |
are united one Nation government. I know the SNP voted against the | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
British people to have their say, but we agree that this important | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
issue will be settled for regeneration on the 23rd of June, | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
and I look forward to having the result because it means | :06:48. | :07:00. | |
that... We have got important bills to finish as we will do next week, | :07:01. | :07:08. | |
with the conclusion of our consideration of investigatory | :07:09. | :07:19. | |
Powers. This is going to be taking us further on the progress we have | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
done. In the last six years, 31 million people have received tax | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
cuts. Millions of people getting into skilled work. The national | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
living wage benefiting 3 million workers and giving people the chance | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
to build their own -- own their own home. We will have had a chance to | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
debate measures including giving every household a legal right to a | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
fast broadband connection if they want it. Reforming and speeding up | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
the planning process to build more homes. Helping young people save for | :07:52. | :07:59. | |
their future. Speeding up adoptions. Making prisons places of education. | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
Tackling extremism. Someone said that we discussed this last week, | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
but we are still debating the gracious speech, and we have the | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
next session to discuss 21 bills. My right honourable friend is in the | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
USA as part of a cross-party delegation cementing our | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
relationship between the two countries, but I was also web | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
cross-party parliamentary group this week visiting the Chelsea Flower | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
Show. I visited a garden which provided world-class -- which was | :08:35. | :08:44. | |
sponsored by a company which provides world class education in | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
music. One of the flowers was pregnant with pale pink fleshy | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
flowers, very apt for the honourable lady. She referred to a number of | :08:57. | :09:10. | |
important pieces of legislation. I would suggest to her to be patient. | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
We won the election last year. There are still four years of this | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
government, and in response to some of the measures she mentioned, I am | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
sure the government will fulfil those in due course. We do need more | :09:24. | :09:33. | |
nurses. The debate last week was an interesting approach on how we have | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
a joint outcome but different solutions of how we get that will | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
stop I think the bursary that has limited the number of people who can | :09:42. | :09:53. | |
become nurses. We are proposing... -- how we will get that. I think the | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
bursary that has limited the number of people who can become nurses. It | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
is challenging to in on the business question, given that there is a | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
statement to follow, and no fewer than 49 members are seeking to catch | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
my eye in the main debate. Therefore there is a premium on single short | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
supplementary questions without preamble. The seminar which can be | :10:21. | :10:28. | |
led today by Rebecca Powell. I am deeply honoured! | :10:29. | :10:42. | |
LAUGHTER Sorry, could we have a debate on Micro plastics? | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
Evidence suggests that Micro plastics found in cosmetics and | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
personal care products, which we all use, in shower gels and shampoo, | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
even toothpaste, they are damaging the watercourse and damaging marine | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
life and are potentially a hazard to human health. She raises an | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
important matter. I know the government is looking at this | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
carefully. The vitality of oceans and rivers is important for nature | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
and our country. In terms of businesses, they are working to try | :11:21. | :11:22. | |
and eradicate these things from production. The government is | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
encouraging them to do so. Some people could say this could be a | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
good example to work with European neighbours so we have action that | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
goes across many more markets to eradicate these potential measures, | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
and I am sure the government is leading on that matter. Can I thank | :11:38. | :11:45. | |
the Deputy Leader of the House for announcing the business for next | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
week, and the leader's office for the note to tell me the Leader of | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
the House would not be here this morning. That is a failure of the | :11:54. | :12:02. | |
Leader of the House answering these questions. We need an urgent debate | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
on the representation of the people act. The Prime Minister admitted | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
that the Conservative Party have broken electoral law. To be fair, | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
according to him, it was an honest mistake, as if the electoral laws | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
were some sort of optional extra. Our electoral laws are in place to | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
secure the integrity of our democracy, and any transgression | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
must be viewed as a very serious matter. That is why this week I have | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
reported the Conservative Party to the Metropolitan Police to ensure | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
this is properly investigated. Now was the time for this government to | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
date these issues seriously. We need a debate to consider this. I am | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
pretty certain the Leader of the House will be thrilled to learn the | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
Scottish parliament will today formally back EU membership. Only a | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
couple of Tories will be voting against. Can we have a debate about | :13:05. | :13:12. | |
the impact of devolved legislature and the consequences of a leave | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
vote, particularly when yesterday it was said that there are no | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
contingency plans in place of Scotland is dragged out of the | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
European Union against a collective thought. We need to know what the | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
consequences after Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, particularly | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
if we do not vote be taken out. -- to be taken out. There must be the | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
opportunity to have an amendment so that this House can vote on the | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
abolition of the House of Lords, where labour reformers can join | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
Conservative members who are happy with the place. | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
I'm afraid the honourable gentleman wasn't listening because the Leader | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
of the House announced this last week. I am sorry we will not hear | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
from his honourable friend. At the Chelsea flower show, I spotted a | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
flower known as the golden button which I thought was appropriate. I | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
know the S very happy to get their choppers out and about a the | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
country. -- SNP. They really need to think about how they want to | :14:29. | :14:35. | |
continue that particular debate. It is not actually a matter of the | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
Government and my Prime Minister made no particular assertions to | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
which he referred. In terms of the House of Lords, I recognise the | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
Scottish National Party's long-standing opposition to that and | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
I respect their views. I appreciate it is part of their Amendment on | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
which we will vote today and I'm sure there will continue to be | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
opportunities in the future and indeed, given that the SNP had no | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
private members bills in the last session, now have three out of the | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
top seven slots so who knows? They may have the chance to bring forward | :15:11. | :15:18. | |
legislation of their own. At the heart of the referendum is the | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
question of democracy and the democratic deficit. May I draw | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
attention to the European report which has come out this morning on | :15:28. | :15:35. | |
the lack of this democratic system. Voters are clamouring for facts on | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
the referendum. 55% of our laws come from the European Union, the bulk | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
are made by officials and nodded through by ministers. There is no | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
information as to how 50% of our decisions are reached at Heinz | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
closed doors. This is a unanimous report by the European scrutiny | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
committee. Will the Minister give us a debate on this matter? There was a | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
debate on this matter in February, shortly after the Prime Minister | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
announced the referendum and there is a national debate right now which | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
is important, that people participate in and use the | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
opportunity to vote. UK ministers work very hard to further the | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
interests of the United Kingdom within the European Union and long | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
may that continue. Nevertheless, in terms of the information given out, | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
may I recommend the House of Commons library website, Parliament .uk/ EU/ | :16:36. | :16:45. | |
referendum, where briefings can be read by the members of the public. | :16:46. | :16:53. | |
Can I thank the deputy Leader of the House for the business statement. | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
The House will have noted that the deputy Leader of the House announced | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
an ninth June, that there will be a debate on carers. That is the legacy | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
of the last session. We cannot now meet as a committee until party | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
managers on both sides reappoint their members. Could I ask party | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
managers to expedite this so we can meet as soon as possible? I would | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
like to congratulate him on his re-election. I'm sure he will have | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
another year of providing leadership for many interesting debates. I echo | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
his word and am looking forward to the committee being back in business | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
so many of the questions I will get today can queue up and get debated | :17:41. | :17:48. | |
in time. In Potters bar, proposals for more than 750 new houses to be | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
built on the edge of town but in the neighbouring local authority. Will | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
you find time for us to debate the importance of the duty to cooperate | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
in local planning processes so planning decisions properly taken | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
into account the needs of residents in places like this? This is an | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
important issue and housing often is important to deliver but there is | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
almost an element of duty to cooperate between councils and I am | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
sure he will be able to referred further to that when we discuss it | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
in due course. Can we have a statement on why the Government do | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
not adopt my nifty, ready-made, private members bill on adding | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
mother's names to marriage... The Queen's Speech was a bit light so | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
there is plenty of room and the deputy leader has just said there | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
are 21 new bills, please make it 22. I know she has been campaigning on | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
this issue for some time and she is not alone. She will have heard the | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
Prime Minister in the past acknowledge in the importance of | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
this issue. We have several years still to go in this Parliament but I | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
will say that she should just continue to be patient. Statement by | :19:03. | :19:10. | |
the Business Secretary on the demise yesterday of the last... | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
Manufacturer in the country, throwing 320 men and women out of | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
work. Can we have a statement to say what the Government can do to help | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
such a company? She is right to bring up this issue and I'm sure it | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
is a devastating blow the local economy in Belper and I hope | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
administrators will be able to help at least keep some of those jobs. | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
The Secretary of State will be here shortly to give another statement | :19:41. | :19:42. | |
and I will make him aware of her request. Mr Matthews and Mr | :19:43. | :19:52. | |
southward have been in touch with regards to family members in | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
hospital. Extending communication between staff seems to have | :19:57. | :19:58. | |
contributed to poor levels of patient care. Can we have a debate | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
on how we can ensure we have a very best standard of care in hospitals? | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
She is right to raise this sombre half of patients and it is | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
ultimately something we have to be champions of patients in our | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
constituency. There are not health questions for some time and it would | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
be a topical debate to bring forward for the backbench business | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
committee. I would like to thank the CQC because I think they have been | :20:27. | :20:28. | |
leading the way with their inspections in trying to highlight | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
these issues and making hospital boards come together in order to | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
ensure the patient always comes first. Many people benefit from | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
lower airfares and lower mobile roaming charges as a result of being | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
in the EU but research this week has shown the average cost of holidays | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
could increase if we left. Could we find time for a debate to discuss | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
the impact on tourism, domestic inland and should we leave the EU? | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
The tourism Minister will be here the first week we are back. He is | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
absolutely right to highlight the potential increase in costs | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
connected to potentially leaving the EU. I wish to encourage domestic | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
touring as well, I'm sure there will be a lot of people coming to | :21:15. | :21:26. | |
campaign. He raises an important issue which I hope the country will | :21:27. | :21:33. | |
take notice of. We have an urgent debate on the Registry. Many people | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
opposed to the privatisation. Could I have an assurance that it is not | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
sneaked into the planning and infrastructure bill and out of the | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
ownership of the British public? The honourable lady talks about the | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
Government sneaking things in and it is not a case of that. We have a | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
transparent process and we have set out our agenda for the next year and | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
she will have the time to debate that issue as and when it arises. | :21:59. | :22:10. | |
Could the deputy Leader of the House tell us, are there any plans for the | :22:11. | :22:20. | |
House to sit on Saturday 25th of June, in case the country votes to | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
leave the EU? In case there are changes in the Government and we | :22:26. | :22:33. | |
have to introduce a bill about airfares and in case plague has | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
broken out? Will we sit on that date? I am not aware there are any | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
plans. The country has an important decision to make on the 23rd and | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
this dogma down Parliament will listen to the decision of the people | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
and act in due course. We are on different sides of the argument in | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
that but I'm sure he will come back on the 27th and work alongside us on | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
this side to progress the important measures in the Queen's Speech which | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
will help this country in the future. Can we have a statement on | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
the responsibilities of local councils to protect green open | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
spaces in their ownership like that on the X Crombie cost of site in | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
Scunthorpe when they develop their own land-holdings? He raises an | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
important point, there are guidelines within the national | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
planning policy framework and it is important those are enforced. The | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
communities and local Government ministers will answer questions, the | :23:33. | :23:40. | |
first OBR back after the recess. The closure of a power station was | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
confirmed last week and will mean that the leisure facilities will | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
also close. Will the deputy Leader of the House join me in calling for | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
other local facilities and groups to come forward to support those | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
affected and to be re-homed and can we have a debate about local | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
community and leisure facilities? I know my friend has been working hard | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
on this matter for her constituents and obviously, the decision will be | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
disappointed for those affected. She is right to try to engage the | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
community to provide facilities for those activities that were ongoing. | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
I wonder is she has considered looking at the asset of community | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
value process in order to try and potentially protect some important | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
facilities there? This is children's Hospice week and a fabulous charity | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
in my constituency supporting families with children with life | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
limiting conditions, is funding to create a facility in Aberdeen. Will | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
you make time for debate on charities like Charlie House that | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
provide vital support to children with complex discipline at his and | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
their families? I am delighted to hear of the progress in fundraising | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
for Charlie House and she is right to raise this, as an important way | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
to advertise that. Many members across this chamber will be doing | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
similar. I think she raises an important matter and I would hope | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
she would be able to secure a debate which will be very well attended. | :25:14. | :25:22. | |
This weekend in Plymouth and the rest of the country, there will be | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
commemoration of the battle of jocund. Last night, the member for | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
Portsmouth South hosted a debate in this place on this great event. -- | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
this very important event, rather. Will she paid tribute to all of | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
those who participated in this battle, including my own grandfather | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
and the contribution that they have made to European and world peace. I | :25:47. | :25:55. | |
certainly do echo that and I am sure he will have heard the Minister | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
responsible is going to attend the ceremony and the Minister's own | :26:02. | :26:04. | |
grandfather was involved in that battle. We must pay tribute to the | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
people who fought in order to keep peace and I think that being part of | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
the European Union is a way to try and make sure we have trade and | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
prosperity, rather than destructive war. Given that we are now a few | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
weeks away from the Conor O'Shea of the 100th commemoration of the | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
Battle of the Somme, will there be a debate in this place their members | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
from every corner of the country have the opportunity to reflect on | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
that most traumatic but momentous moment in our country's history. He | :26:39. | :26:46. | |
is right to raise this important centenary. I'm not aware the | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
Government has planned set aside its time to debate that. When the | :26:52. | :26:59. | |
reforms went through, it was to be put in the hands of the backbench | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
business committee and I am sure many people would co-sponsor such a | :27:04. | :27:05. | |
debate and it would be one of the finest in this session. Yesterday, | :27:06. | :27:14. | |
the other place appointed a Select Committee to consider long-term NHS | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
sustainability. Given pressures on our National Health Service, and we | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
consider whether such a committee might be established in the elected | :27:24. | :27:30. | |
House? This is the first time I have heard a request for a new Select | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
Committee on this. I think it would be more appropriate for the health | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
Select Committee to investigate this further and I'm sure I will get that | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
passed onto our honourable friend. I apologise for labouring this point. | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
Following the difficulties some MPs seem to have landed themselves in | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
over election expenses, will the Government invite the electoral | :27:53. | :27:55. | |
commission to produce updated regulations covering local and | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
national election expenses. This would tell clear up some of the | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
uncertainties regarding accounting for election expenses and would she | :28:04. | :28:06. | |
make Gottman time available to debate them? The electoral | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
commission is independent of the Government and rightly so. I think | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
that he raises an interesting point and I am sure the electoral | :28:17. | :28:20. | |
commission will not be shy in coming forward with potential for | :28:21. | :28:23. | |
discussion but it is important that no Government interferes in any | :28:24. | :28:25. | |
potential investigation that is happening now. Can we have an urgent | :28:26. | :28:33. | |
debate for assessing if legislation is needed for stopping management | :28:34. | :28:37. | |
companies are taking hold of freeholders? Some freeholders are | :28:38. | :28:45. | |
being taken advantage by companies for their communal areas. The list | :28:46. | :28:47. | |
is so long that it would cause distress if I read it out! | :28:48. | :28:55. | |
I understand what he is referring to. It is an interesting part of the | :28:56. | :29:02. | |
law. People better placed to answer his queries will be here on Monday | :29:03. | :29:18. | |
the 6th of June. Constituents of mine trying to get in touch with the | :29:19. | :29:24. | |
HMRC will not be surprised that the call times being troubled according | :29:25. | :29:28. | |
to a report this week. Many of us have spent many frustrating hours | :29:29. | :29:34. | |
trying to get through. It is frustrating to have to wait a | :29:35. | :29:40. | |
considerable time. HMRC civil servants are dedicated, and are | :29:41. | :29:46. | |
trying to do that. The civil service are focused on ensuring that people | :29:47. | :29:53. | |
pay the correct tax in the first place, and that is an important | :29:54. | :29:58. | |
matter preventing frustration later. I will make sure the Treasury is | :29:59. | :30:03. | |
aware of the points. Yesterday 100 guide dog owners visited Westminster | :30:04. | :30:07. | |
Hall to highlight the issue of discrimination. Their campaign | :30:08. | :30:13. | |
raised awareness of discrimination against the partially sighted | :30:14. | :30:18. | |
because of their dogs. Can we have a debate on disability equality | :30:19. | :30:20. | |
training to ensure this issue is addressed? Yesterday was a wonderful | :30:21. | :30:27. | |
day to see so many assistants dogs in Westminster Hall, and seeing how | :30:28. | :30:31. | |
beautiful animals can help people live fulfilling lives. The terrible | :30:32. | :30:36. | |
frustration is when people who do not seem to be god-macro I will | :30:37. | :30:45. | |
ensure that this is referred to the DDB P, and I want to thank Simon and | :30:46. | :30:53. | |
Joel who came from my constituency to see me. Could I ask the Deputy | :30:54. | :31:01. | |
Leader of the House if we could have a debate on Cyber-bully in, in | :31:02. | :31:06. | |
particular the impact of it on young people? I have instances of this | :31:07. | :31:10. | |
where are those outside the UK who perpetrate such crime and use | :31:11. | :31:15. | |
jurisdictional issues to evade the law. Cyber bullying is completely | :31:16. | :31:22. | |
unacceptable, and I think we agree on that. It may be worthwhile | :31:23. | :31:26. | |
pursuing this matter with the Minister regarding understanding | :31:27. | :31:32. | |
how, if there are loopholes within the law preventing positive action, | :31:33. | :31:35. | |
then we can try and close those of possible. I will refer her question | :31:36. | :31:44. | |
to that minister. Does my honourable friend consider, as we see another | :31:45. | :31:54. | |
costly consultation from IPSA, it is time to have another cross-party | :31:55. | :31:59. | |
debate? Particularly as it is noticed that they have no | :32:00. | :32:04. | |
representatives from the 2010 intake. As shocking oversight that | :32:05. | :32:11. | |
colleagues will be relieved to hear I am happy to help remedy and | :32:12. | :32:17. | |
volunteer for. He has had a long interest in IPSA, as indeed we all | :32:18. | :32:26. | |
do. Here is a consultation happening. It is important that | :32:27. | :32:30. | |
members respond. Ultimately we know why it was set up, but that does not | :32:31. | :32:35. | |
mean we cannot but across our views on how we need to have a regime that | :32:36. | :32:41. | |
best helps us in order to help the people we represent and not be | :32:42. | :32:51. | |
curtailed in that. As the shadow Leader of the House will be aware, I | :32:52. | :32:54. | |
have been asking since November four in meeting with the energy minister. | :32:55. | :33:03. | |
I have an opencast coal mine in my constituency that needs proper | :33:04. | :33:09. | |
restoration. Because of financial shenanigans by the company that | :33:10. | :33:18. | |
owned it. The Minister has given me a reply to see her diary is too full | :33:19. | :33:22. | |
and busy to meet me. Can we have a debate on how much time ministers | :33:23. | :33:28. | |
are spending campaigning for Brexit instead of doing honourable work? | :33:29. | :33:33. | |
She mentioned this last summer, which I replied to. I will take this | :33:34. | :33:40. | |
up with the Minister to see what she can do to do that. I am not going to | :33:41. | :33:44. | |
make promises before the 23rd of June, but I will do my best. | :33:45. | :33:52. | |
Ceramics, including big -- bricks and tiles are important in the | :33:53. | :34:01. | |
economy. Could we have a debate in government time on the strategic | :34:02. | :34:06. | |
importance of ceramics, and how best we can support the industry so they | :34:07. | :34:11. | |
can meet the ongoing and future demand for bricks and House | :34:12. | :34:17. | |
building? It is an important point. It is an important industry to make | :34:18. | :34:23. | |
sure that UK plc keeps motoring and people have homes in which to live. | :34:24. | :34:29. | |
I would encourage her to apply to the backbench business committee, | :34:30. | :34:32. | |
because I'm sure it will be a debate in which many people would be | :34:33. | :34:37. | |
interested. Last week it was announced that a printing works in | :34:38. | :34:42. | |
my constituency would be closing with a loss of 650 jobs. That is on | :34:43. | :34:52. | |
top of 600 jobs being lost at HMRC, 700 at HSBC, all coming in a short | :34:53. | :34:57. | |
period of time. As well as immediate help for the workers, could we have | :34:58. | :35:02. | |
a debate in where the government can help areas when that is a | :35:03. | :35:05. | |
multiplicity of redundancies in a short period of time in one area? I | :35:06. | :35:16. | |
am sure any job losses will have a blow to the local economy, I | :35:17. | :35:21. | |
recognise that, but the government is committed to the Northern | :35:22. | :35:23. | |
Powerhouse, it is committed to Sheffield. We have been working | :35:24. | :35:29. | |
closely with the local council and enterprise partnership to produce an | :35:30. | :35:32. | |
enhanced devolution deal. The landmark deal has got ?320 million | :35:33. | :35:38. | |
in gross deal resources for the next five years, and I hope he can work | :35:39. | :35:45. | |
with them in order to try to create new jobs for the future. In view of | :35:46. | :35:51. | |
the ludicrous claims that holidays will increase of the X it the EU, | :35:52. | :35:55. | |
could the government find time for a debate on how to boost tourism to | :35:56. | :36:04. | |
seaside resort to replace the lost holidays abroad? And if my | :36:05. | :36:10. | |
honourable friend wishes to make representations to the Prime | :36:11. | :36:14. | |
Minister, he will be in Cleethorpes to mark the celebration for Armed | :36:15. | :36:24. | |
Forces Day. Another reason to visit Cleethorpes. We want to encourage | :36:25. | :36:31. | |
people to be able to relax and enjoy that. Serious parties we have to | :36:32. | :36:35. | |
have a strong economy where people have higher increasing wages and | :36:36. | :36:41. | |
they can enjoy that domestic tourism as well as foreign tourism. If the | :36:42. | :36:47. | |
British people choose to leave the European Union, which will be their | :36:48. | :36:51. | |
choice, that they are aware of the consequences that could have the | :36:52. | :37:00. | |
economy -- on the economy and jobs. I hope they choose to remain. Can I | :37:01. | :37:05. | |
draw her attention to early day motion 47, blacklisting compensation | :37:06. | :37:11. | |
payments where eight multinational companies have settled cases with | :37:12. | :37:14. | |
workers who find themselves lack listed. -- blacklisted. Could we | :37:15. | :37:20. | |
have a debate on the scandal and have a full public enquiry into | :37:21. | :37:27. | |
blacklisting? He will know that it is illegal, and appropriate things | :37:28. | :37:33. | |
can be pursued if that is shown to be the case. I suggest he tries to | :37:34. | :37:37. | |
secure the debate in order to raise these matters in more detail, and | :37:38. | :37:42. | |
I'm sure any government minister will respond in due course. The | :37:43. | :37:48. | |
Prime Minister once said that immigration placed pressure on | :37:49. | :37:51. | |
communities up and down the country, not just on schools, houses and | :37:52. | :37:56. | |
health care, but social pressures as well. Can we have a debate on how | :37:57. | :38:02. | |
the government's approach to get immigration out of tens of thousands | :38:03. | :38:05. | |
is going, because we will realise the only way to control immigration | :38:06. | :38:09. | |
as the Prime Minister wanted is to leave the European Union. The clue | :38:10. | :38:15. | |
is in the table, free movement of people. The Prime Minister in | :38:16. | :38:19. | |
government is still committed to reducing net migration. We have | :38:20. | :38:24. | |
strengthened measures through the immigration act, and the United | :38:25. | :38:32. | |
Kingdom has created more than the rest of the European Union put | :38:33. | :38:41. | |
together in six years. Nevertheless, the pledge still stands and I'm sure | :38:42. | :38:45. | |
he will work alongside us to make it happen. The Times published the | :38:46. | :38:52. | |
headline am beaten to death in six criminal town in February. The | :38:53. | :38:55. | |
editor could not be bothered to respond to concerns. It was clearly | :38:56. | :39:02. | |
Islamophobic, disrespectful to the Vic and the rubber tree to the town | :39:03. | :39:06. | |
I represent. Can we have a statement on when we will have a press | :39:07. | :39:12. | |
regulator with teeth? -- disrespectful to the big them and | :39:13. | :39:18. | |
derogatory to the town I represent. He may want to pose that question | :39:19. | :39:30. | |
directly. We're on the sixth Acting chief constables. We have a PCC who | :39:31. | :39:35. | |
is completely out of control. The Chief Constable is under | :39:36. | :39:37. | |
investigation for historical sex problem, which has been | :39:38. | :39:45. | |
investigated. Do we have the keystone cops and even in Somerset | :39:46. | :39:51. | |
police force, with nothing in between? -- even in Somerset police | :39:52. | :39:58. | |
force. It is important that people have confidence in the police. A new | :39:59. | :40:09. | |
boss of the PCC has been elect had. Will she joined me in congratulating | :40:10. | :40:16. | |
Halifax town football club in their victory on the FA Trophy at Wembley | :40:17. | :40:20. | |
on Sunday? Would she also allow for a debate where we can discuss how to | :40:21. | :40:26. | |
best engage people at all levels in participation in sport? I certainly | :40:27. | :40:36. | |
do want to congratulate FC Halifax. She will be aware of the sport | :40:37. | :40:38. | |
strategy launched by the government, which specifically tackles how we | :40:39. | :40:45. | |
increase participation. The ministers will be here on the first | :40:46. | :40:49. | |
Thursday, and she can raise that question again. Can we have a | :40:50. | :41:03. | |
statement from the government god-macro what measures are being | :41:04. | :41:04. | |
put in place to ensure that purdah rules are properly enforced during | :41:05. | :41:14. | |
the last few weeks of the referendum? -- before the | :41:15. | :41:22. | |
referendum? The government has laid down the information and analysis, | :41:23. | :41:29. | |
which it did. It is doing it online, through its documents, but also | :41:30. | :41:32. | |
through the booklet sent to households across the country. | :41:33. | :41:36. | |
Purdah starts tomorrow, and the Cabinet Secretary is writing to | :41:37. | :41:41. | |
secretaries to ensure appropriate steps are taken. In Pakistan Muslim | :41:42. | :41:51. | |
was murdered on Monday night on a target killing. Not a single | :41:52. | :42:05. | |
attacker has been brought to justice on these killings. What is the | :42:06. | :42:10. | |
government doing to tackle intolerance and extremism? I was not | :42:11. | :42:15. | |
aware of the details of that particular situation. Best I can do | :42:16. | :42:19. | |
is to ensure that the appropriate Minister replies to the honourable | :42:20. | :42:26. | |
gentleman directly. That the deputy lead on notice that the UK | :42:27. | :42:30. | |
representative in lonely planet's top six places for travellers to | :42:31. | :42:36. | |
visit in Europe is not London or the Lake District, but Warwickshire. | :42:37. | :42:47. | |
Maybe have a debate to consider how investment in tourism can stimulate | :42:48. | :42:55. | |
local economy? Going to Warwickshire is always quite wonderful, and | :42:56. | :42:59. | |
especially to celebrate rugby, at the new museum that is opening. Can | :43:00. | :43:14. | |
we debate by the government want 50 fewer elected MPs but keep creating | :43:15. | :43:23. | |
more unelected Tory peers? Her party got 36% of votes at the general | :43:24. | :43:27. | |
election, but 43.7% of party political Tory peers already. The | :43:28. | :43:39. | |
bill passed in the last Parliament was to ensure that we have equal | :43:40. | :43:45. | |
sized constituencies. I thought that is frankly very fearful stop I'd | :43:46. | :43:53. | |
find it extraordinary that he -- there are 40 MPs in Wales | :43:54. | :43:59. | |
representing smaller constituencies. For someone | :44:00. | :44:04. | |
This week I was pleased to welcome news that the West of England | :44:05. | :44:13. | |
including Bath has received ?2.2 million of Government funding to | :44:14. | :44:17. | |
increase access to walking and cycling. Does she agree that this | :44:18. | :44:21. | |
certainly will end up benefiting health but also would she agreed it | :44:22. | :44:24. | |
should form part of the infrastructure builder baits? We | :44:25. | :44:32. | |
have set a cycling and walking strategy and there will be | :44:33. | :44:36. | |
appropriate times during transport questions to potentially debate that | :44:37. | :44:40. | |
further, about their effectiveness, but I am sure cycling around Bath is | :44:41. | :44:44. | |
a very pleasurable experience indeed. The United Nations committee | :44:45. | :44:54. | |
on the rights of the child has been this week grilling the Government on | :44:55. | :44:58. | |
whether or not they meet the Convention rights. Could we have a | :44:59. | :45:02. | |
debate in Government time on whether this Government actually needs its | :45:03. | :45:06. | |
obligations under the conventions of the rights of the child,? I know she | :45:07. | :45:14. | |
has been pursuing particular issue in regard to this matter and I think | :45:15. | :45:22. | |
the Government can be confident it is supporting children. I think it | :45:23. | :45:27. | |
can be confident it is particularly... We will see some new | :45:28. | :45:30. | |
measures in the Queen's Speech which will do more to help children in | :45:31. | :45:35. | |
care. Given the increasingly shocking performance... 150 | :45:36. | :45:43. | |
cancellations on Monday and 208 on Sunday, affecting passengers across | :45:44. | :45:48. | |
Surrey, Sussex and London, could we have an urgent statement to see how | :45:49. | :45:51. | |
we can deal with this shocking situation? No commuter likes to | :45:52. | :45:57. | |
belay to work because of errors on which they have no control. There | :45:58. | :46:05. | |
are no transport questions due for a while. Two members for Newport and | :46:06. | :46:14. | |
the local trade union and workforce say with one voice that privatising | :46:15. | :46:18. | |
the then profitable shared services in the town would be a terrible | :46:19. | :46:23. | |
mistake. The National Audit Office announced last week that privatising | :46:24. | :46:29. | |
it, handing it over to the failing Syria- French company has cost the | :46:30. | :46:36. | |
country ?504 million. When can we debate the cost to the nation of | :46:37. | :46:43. | |
ministers following their own political doctrinaire belief that | :46:44. | :46:46. | |
everything public is bad and everything private is good? I don't | :46:47. | :46:51. | |
think the Government shares that view, which is why we continue to | :46:52. | :46:56. | |
ensure the NHS is in public hands and will continue to be so. I'm not | :46:57. | :47:01. | |
aware to this specific case but ministers are at the dispatch box in | :47:02. | :47:06. | |
a daily basis to answer questions. Today marks the start of the worldly | :47:07. | :47:10. | |
renowned hay festival in my constituency. Over the years, many | :47:11. | :47:15. | |
members have attended the hay literally festival this sell their | :47:16. | :47:21. | |
books, whether they be crime, fiction, autobiographies or perhaps | :47:22. | :47:26. | |
a commendation of all three! Would my honourable friend allow time for | :47:27. | :47:30. | |
debate supporting the literary industry in this country. I'm sure | :47:31. | :47:40. | |
that would be a popular debate. Haye Festival is an important | :47:41. | :47:44. | |
international festival and I know the sketch writer for the Daily Mail | :47:45. | :47:47. | |
lives nearby and I'm sure we will see him there as well. We hope not! | :47:48. | :47:57. | |
I'm sure the Leader of the House will join me in welcoming the launch | :47:58. | :48:04. | |
of just training Scotland... Which will be stocked in branches of the | :48:05. | :48:10. | |
Co-op across Scotland. Only two different question sessions between | :48:11. | :48:14. | |
now and the end of September, will she looked at questions to make sure | :48:15. | :48:20. | |
members get a crack at the whip? The rotor is fairly well-established and | :48:21. | :48:26. | |
it is important every Government department is brought to the highest | :48:27. | :48:29. | |
answer questions so it is just one of those timing things. I'm sure you | :48:30. | :48:33. | |
will find time through Westminster hall or other debates in order to | :48:34. | :48:38. | |
hold the Government to account on these matters. Last week, the | :48:39. | :48:45. | |
Government won a high-cost case against tobacco, introducing | :48:46. | :48:50. | |
standardised packaging of tobacco products. There has been withdrawal | :48:51. | :48:58. | |
of ?1.2 billion from the tobacco industry today. Could we have a | :48:59. | :49:02. | |
debate on the new tobacco control strategy so members across the House | :49:03. | :49:06. | |
could input to that strategy before the Government publish it? I know | :49:07. | :49:14. | |
this issue always generates a lot of interest and I'm sure the health | :49:15. | :49:17. | |
Minister will come to respond to a debate and he has made his case so | :49:18. | :49:22. | |
eloquently, I'm sure he will not be time to do that. Time is becoming | :49:23. | :49:28. | |
constrained, some people won't get in but brevity will help. The lead | :49:29. | :49:33. | |
indicated whether we can have a statement or debate on the rationale | :49:34. | :49:39. | |
of detail of the UK, Sudan strategic dialogue and the cartoon process of | :49:40. | :49:43. | |
the EU horn of Africa migration process, which could tell that Sudan | :49:44. | :49:49. | |
is a transit route for refugees, where in fact it is a significant | :49:50. | :49:57. | |
source country of refugees... It has now been indulged by these | :49:58. | :50:02. | |
processes. There are no plans for a statement or debate as of now. The | :50:03. | :50:11. | |
river games fast approaches as well as the sum of sport, can we debate | :50:12. | :50:16. | |
the many volunteers keeping our sports clubs alive and after-school | :50:17. | :50:22. | |
activities and how we can help them balance their worklife balance | :50:23. | :50:25. | |
alongside their contribution to the development of future athletes? She | :50:26. | :50:30. | |
makes an important case, I think she should join up with the honourable | :50:31. | :50:36. | |
lady for Halifax and Bath in order to secure a debate on the benefits | :50:37. | :50:44. | |
of sport. Within the last hour, the business department, ignoring the | :50:45. | :50:49. | |
concerns of the Public Accounts Committee, and this House, have | :50:50. | :50:51. | |
announced they are pressing ahead with plans to close the policy | :50:52. | :50:56. | |
office in Sheffield. Can ministers come to this House to explain why | :50:57. | :51:01. | |
they have signed off a decision which adds to the operational costs | :51:02. | :51:08. | |
for the department and fatally undermined claims about the northern | :51:09. | :51:15. | |
powerhouse? The department I understand has issued a written | :51:16. | :51:17. | |
ministerial statement today or is due to. The decision was reached | :51:18. | :51:22. | |
after consultation with staff and trade unions and it has been a | :51:23. | :51:27. | |
difficult decision but it has chosen to base all policy roles in London | :51:28. | :51:32. | |
by 2018. The Secretary of State is on the front bench and I'm sure he | :51:33. | :51:39. | |
will have heard the concerns. Residents in Grix. Are fighting an | :51:40. | :51:43. | |
unwelcome and unwanted speculative planning application and many | :51:44. | :51:49. | |
villages in my constituency are being targeted by them in recent | :51:50. | :51:54. | |
years. The council stood up for them. Could we have a debate on | :51:55. | :52:01. | |
developers getting the message? The Government has put forward the | :52:02. | :52:04. | |
national planning policy framework and the local plan has to take | :52:05. | :52:09. | |
account of appropriate future development, but I would say the | :52:10. | :52:13. | |
ministers will Beer the first day we are back after the recess. You will | :52:14. | :52:20. | |
be aware of the ropey employment practices emerging from the | :52:21. | :52:24. | |
so-called national living wage. Can we have an urgent debate to make | :52:25. | :52:28. | |
sure employers are complying with the spirit of the law, not just the | :52:29. | :52:34. | |
letter? She is right to make this point, it does matter that employers | :52:35. | :52:37. | |
play their part. The Secretary of State is on the front edge and will | :52:38. | :52:42. | |
have heard her comments and the Chancellor has also supported those | :52:43. | :52:44. | |
views and he will be here the Tuesday we get back as well. In my | :52:45. | :52:51. | |
constituency, the only international aid agency in Glasgow will close its | :52:52. | :52:54. | |
doors this week because of a decision by the shambolic... | :52:55. | :52:59. | |
Controlled by the Labour Party to hike its rent. Can we have a debate | :53:00. | :53:07. | |
on the unaccountability across the EU and the treatment of charities? | :53:08. | :53:13. | |
I'm not aware that is a matter for the Government. It sounds like a | :53:14. | :53:16. | |
local issue but of course, he is right to use the House to raise the | :53:17. | :53:24. | |
point. Again, in the last hour, the Government, the Justice Secretary | :53:25. | :53:27. | |
has announced the closure of HM Prison tenet in my constituency. Can | :53:28. | :53:32. | |
the Shadow leader tell me why this was done by a written statement not | :53:33. | :53:39. | |
an oral statement and why was it rushed out and should the Justice | :53:40. | :53:43. | |
Secretary have been here so that MPs on all sides can scrutinise this | :53:44. | :53:46. | |
decision, its impact on staff and the community? Also, crucially at a | :53:47. | :53:52. | |
time of an overcrowding crisis in our prisons? It is no secret the | :53:53. | :53:56. | |
Government has been seeking out a programme of prisoners form -- | :53:57. | :54:03. | |
prison reform. The plan is to build new prisons that are fit and | :54:04. | :54:11. | |
effective for the 21st century it is fairly standard practice to issue | :54:12. | :54:13. | |
these things through written statements. | :54:14. | :54:22. | |
The Government shows no sign of genuinely listening about proposals | :54:23. | :54:29. | |
for changing the NHS. I want a statement the Government will reject | :54:30. | :54:35. | |
any treaty that puts their interests over hours. She is right to say we | :54:36. | :54:46. | |
are concluding the debate today. The treaty poses no threat to the | :54:47. | :54:50. | |
National Health Service. I recognise she may have a different view on | :54:51. | :54:53. | |
that but the Government is confident of that and there is no need to be | :54:54. | :54:58. | |
concerned on the matter. The European Commission is also aware of | :54:59. | :55:06. | |
this in their negotiations. It costs over ?3000 to create... Driver. | :55:07. | :55:19. | |
Can I ask to rattle together the heads, the secretary for transport, | :55:20. | :55:30. | |
DWP and see common sense? This issue affects my constituency as well and | :55:31. | :55:33. | |
I have been lobbying fellow ministers. It is important to say | :55:34. | :55:40. | |
there are due to be some plans, I believe,... I am very clear the | :55:41. | :55:45. | |
advanced career loans apply to these courses. Approaching 12 years since | :55:46. | :55:54. | |
Gary Campbell was killed in a road traffic accident in India and his | :55:55. | :55:59. | |
brother, since then has been seeking justice for this tragic incident. | :56:00. | :56:02. | |
Despite his best efforts, he has been given no updates about criminal | :56:03. | :56:08. | |
proceedings in the legal system in India. Can we have a debate on how | :56:09. | :56:14. | |
people like my constituent can get the support they should be in title | :56:15. | :56:18. | |
to? 12 years is far too long Ashton Mark I can understand why the | :56:19. | :56:21. | |
honourable gentleman and family are concerned. | :56:22. | :56:28. | |
I welcome the commitment to making access to broadband and I wonder if | :56:29. | :56:35. | |
the deputy Leader of the House is aware of the Scottish Government's | :56:36. | :56:39. | |
objective that delivering 100% access by 2021. I ask whether we can | :56:40. | :56:44. | |
have a statement on whether this Government will match that ambition | :56:45. | :56:48. | |
and ensure quality in funding across the UK? We are ahead of them, we | :56:49. | :56:54. | |
already have universal access. Two megabits available now. Our | :56:55. | :56:58. | |
universal service obligation is due to come into place by 2020. NHS | :56:59. | :57:07. | |
protect is supposed to investigate fraud in the NHS. It has been | :57:08. | :57:12. | |
investigating a senior manager in the NHS for over two years now | :57:13. | :57:16. | |
without reaching a conclusion. Can we please have a debate in | :57:17. | :57:19. | |
Government time about how this organisation which was set up under | :57:20. | :57:23. | |
the previous Coalition Government is not as fit for purpose? I'm not | :57:24. | :57:30. | |
aware of the individual details and it probably wouldn't be appropriate | :57:31. | :57:33. | |
to comment but I will ask the health Minister to follow up with her. A | :57:34. | :57:44. | |
high school in my constituency was not using the... Scheme. The | :57:45. | :57:50. | |
sterling taxpayer will pay... It has now been discovered they have been | :57:51. | :58:00. | |
defects with children are having to be driven to school in Stirling, | :58:01. | :58:06. | |
almost 30 miles. PFI has been debated in this House before. I'm | :58:07. | :58:15. | |
very conscious of the disruption it is having on children at the | :58:16. | :58:20. | |
supplier should be bearing the risk of that. Can we have an urgent | :58:21. | :58:29. | |
debate on the progress of the greater Manchester further education | :58:30. | :58:32. | |
area review which the Chief Executive of Trafford council has | :58:33. | :58:39. | |
warned would lead to a fragmentation of the colleges in greater | :58:40. | :58:40. | |
Manchester? she raises an interesting point. | :58:41. | :58:56. | |
Given that I will not be here for some time, I will ask a colleague to | :58:57. | :59:06. | |
look into this. Could the secretary for work and Persians bring forward | :59:07. | :59:11. | |
a debate to allow the whole House to consider helping and supporting | :59:12. | :59:17. | |
disabled people into work. If the honourable gentleman brought this | :59:18. | :59:20. | |
foreword through the backbench business debate, I am sure it would | :59:21. | :59:24. | |
be popular to have it. It is important that the government | :59:25. | :59:28. | |
continues to press on with reforms to get people into work. Can we have | :59:29. | :59:37. | |
a statement on the recommendation of the review on the EMR, | :59:38. | :59:52. | |
anti-microbial resistance. This is a high priority for the NHS. Work is | :59:53. | :59:57. | |
being done to have more appropriate prescriptions on this, and will make | :59:58. | :00:07. | |
sure this is carefully looked at, raising it with health ministers. | :00:08. | :00:18. | |
I'll is trading at $50 a barrel, but yesterday we saw the announcement of | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
475 job losses from Shell, an Aberdeen and offices in my | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
constituency. From this alliance meant it is clear more needs than. | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
Can we have a statement from the Secretary of State about what can be | :00:32. | :00:40. | |
done to support this industry? He will be aware of the support that | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
the Chancellor and Secretary of State for energy have given the | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
industry. I'm sure he will be able to apply for a debate when we can | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
discuss those policies in more detail. Given reports of recent | :00:52. | :01:03. | |
reasons -- racist attract god-macro attacks in -- racist attack is. I am | :01:04. | :01:23. | |
sure this will be raised on the 13th of June in more detail. | :01:24. | :01:37. | |
Can the deputy lead give the DMS secretary in nudge to have a written | :01:38. | :01:46. | |
statement indicating dates on the UK city of culture, because Paisley at | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
eager to get on and put in their bid. I will merge the Secretary of | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
State, but if he has not done by the 9th of June, he will be here to | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
answer questions. I was grateful of the birthday wishes earlier. | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
Tomorrow I am attending an event in my constituency designed to look at | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
combating feelings of loneliness, particularly amongst retired | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
veterans and older people. Can we have a debate on this issue on | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
people who are isolated from society? Here's right to raise this. | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
Tackling isolation is important, and one that I am sure all parties will | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
agree on. Perhaps he can put a more detailed question on local | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
strategies. In light of the criticisms against the government in | :02:44. | :02:51. | |
the European scrutiny report, can we hold a debate so the government can | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
be helped to account regarding proper parliamentary scrutiny over | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
European legislation? I thought our Parliament had very robust | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
procedures on scrutinising European matters. The biggest question will | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
be decided by the British people on the 23rd of June, when I hope we | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
will continue to have the European scrutiny on which we can debate | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
matters further after then. Can we have an urgent debate on times like | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
at Huddersfield that uniquely combine a strong manufacturing base | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
with the thriving university, because if we don't stay in the | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
European Union, times like ours will be devastated. Even I would not go | :03:35. | :03:43. | |
that far. I know that the people will be devastated as and when the | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
honourable member announces his resignation, but the four then he | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
will continue to champion their interests and I'm sure the House | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
supports him in doing so. Order. Statement, the Secretary of State | :04:01. | :04:09. | |
for business, innovation and skills. -- Business, Innovation and Skills. | :04:10. | :04:17. | |
I would like to make a statement on Britain's steel industry. Yesterday | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
Tata Steel board met and reviewed progress in the sale of their UK | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
steel-making assets. Ahead of that meeting our travel to India to | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
discuss this with their leadership. I arrived in London a few hours ago. | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
I use the opportunity to stress the importance of the strong and | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
effective sales process that Tata have done so far. I raised issues | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
that had been flagged to me by potential buyers, and reiterated the | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
government's willingness to support orders who can deliver a sustainable | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
and successful future for British steel making. Tata understandably | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
wants the | :04:58. | :04:59. |