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that the honourable gentlem`n described. 51% of the listed Church | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
of England churches and his consistent -- constituency have made | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
those provisions. Monday the 11th of July will be the | :00:10. | :00:22. | |
second day and the conclusion of consideration in committee of the | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
Wales Bill. On Tuesday 12th July, we will have an opposition day on | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
Ocean, subject to be announced. Wednesday, motion to approvd a | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
statutory instrument related to terrorism followed by the fhrst day | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
of the debate relating to the Iraqi enquiry. Second day is on Thursday | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
on the general debate on thd report on the Iraq enquiry. Friday, the | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
House is not sitting. The btsiness in with Mr Hall for the 18th July | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
will be a debate on the pethtion relating to changes on the student | :00:58. | :01:07. | |
loans agreement. As the spe`ker now processes majestically from the | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
chair to his house, I wonder if he had been issued with the | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
Parliamentary umbrella? I noticed last week there were two yellow | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
buckets en route, and today there is one white pocket on the route. - | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
bucket. Could the leader tell us when we are going to put thhs palace | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
into a habitable form, and can he remind us which party promised to | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
fix the roof while the sun was shining? The House is grateful as | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
ever to the member for Rushcliffe who is a rarity on the government | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
backbenches as a man who is occasionally caught in possdssion of | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
an intelligent thought, and who speaks real English, the kind of | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
language that the rest of us speak. But this week we were very grateful | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
to him giving us the vital intelligence that the three | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
remaining candidates for thd leadership of the Tory partx, one of | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
them was bloody difficult, one doesn't expect to deliver on the | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
extremely stupid things he has been saying, and one would declare war on | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
at least three countries. Wd have a legitimate interest in this, because | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
the winner of this race is `lso going to be the new Prime Mhnister. | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
And we could perhaps have to the Conservatives they repeat the great | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
success that they have had hn Totnes, where they introducdd the | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
fit system of a primary votd in which everyone took part. It would | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
be wonderful if we could have a chance of having a right in | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
candidate who would certainly be someone like the member for | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
Rushcliffe who happily, at his time of life, has passed beyond the | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
stages of ambition and vanity that afflict many political lives. Can I | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
put -- can I perhaps suggest if he is reluctant because he is of a | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
certain range, of returning to the dispatch box, can I remind him that | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
the dispatch box is a vital support and a wonderful alternative to a | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
Zimmer frame? The two days next week are given to the matter of the | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
highest importance, Chilcott concluded the UK chose to join the | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
war in Iraq before the peacdful options were exhausted. We lust not | :03:28. | :03:36. | |
let artifice, the Nile, spin, delusions and expected -- expensive | :03:37. | :03:44. | |
barrister created the case hn Marske the vital Chilcot truths. Chilcot | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
concluded that government, opposition, three select colmittees | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
in this house were wrong in 200 , and our decisions led to an | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
unavoidable war. Our reputation as politicians felt a rock bottom | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
during the expenses -- felt a rock bottom during the expenses scandal, | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
but since then they have fallen and our subterranean. We have to | :04:11. | :04:12. | |
recognise the whole truth of Chilcot. We should debate ndxt week | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
in a very serious atmospherd ourselves. We did it, it is in this | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
house that the decisions were taken. I was here in and many other members | :04:24. | :04:31. | |
were here at that time. Our mood should be one of humility, | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
penitents, and all respect for those who put their lives on the line | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
There allocation and couragd was as great and splendid as any in our | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
entire proud military history. And he wants to express in thosd two | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
days next week our profound gratitude to all those who have | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
given their lives and giving their services and have been maimdd in | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
body and mind by the experidnce of going to the war, some of which in | :05:03. | :05:11. | |
Kosovo and Sierra Leone, were magnificent achievement in the | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
extension of peace in the world and ensuring that human rights were | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
extended. There is also another group that we have to bear hn mind | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
next week, and our heartfelt sympathy goes out to the loved ones, | :05:25. | :05:32. | |
those who were briefed by the war. And we saw yesterday that wd were | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
forced to revisit that reef with added pain, with the knowledge from | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
Chilcot that possibly their loved ones died in vain. -- they were | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
forced to revisit that grief. Parliament should offer our | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
heartfelt sympathy, our regrets and our apologies. Because we know that | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
the response ability was ours. And what we should hope above all is | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
that the spirits of all those who died as a result of our dechsions | :06:06. | :06:13. | |
may now rest in peace. Mr Speaker, Mac -- Madam Deputy Speaker, can I | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
start, it is worth the whold house remembering that today is the 7th of | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
July and it is appropriate to remember the victims of the | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
terrorist attacks that took place on this day. It is also appropriate to | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
send our good wishes and commiserations to the Welsh football | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
team who have done this country proud, they have done well hs proud, | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
they have exceeded all expectations and I hope and believe they will go | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
on to great things. Can I congratulate the honourable member | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
on being here again? I was not sure he would be with us because there | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
are have been so many changds on the other side. Not only is he still | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
here, he has got another job as well. He is now the Shadow Welsh | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
Secretary so I congratulate him on that of Weimann. I congratulate him | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
on becoming one of the longdst service members in the Shadow | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
Cabinet and I hope to see hhm next week! Madam Deputy Speaker, on the | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
issue of the Chilcot Report. Festival I think we all acknowledge | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
it is a very substantial pidce of work and all those involved in its | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
preparation deserve a lot of credit. It has taken a long time to come, we | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
have had lots of discussions in this place about when it is going to | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
come. But I do not think anxbody could today say this is not an | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
exhaustive piece of analysis that has set out for us all of the rights | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
and wrongs of what a place ten years ago. I know the honourable gentleman | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
feels strongly about this issue he has been a consistent advoc`te for | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
the point of view he has just articulated on those benches and I | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
commend him for that. I hopd the fact that the government has | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
provided a two-day debate for this matter next week is a sign of how | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
seriously we take this issud, how seriously we take the need to | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
understand the rights and wrongs of the decisions that were takdn decade | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
ago. And also, he is right to say that it is an appropriate moment to | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
this house to pay tribute to our Armed Forces, those who lost their | :08:13. | :08:14. | |
lives and were injured and their families. In all circumstances, we | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
should recognise the enormots contribution that our Armed Forces | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
make. The bravery of the people in our Armed Forces, and the bravery as | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
well of their families. He lade reference to fixing the roof while | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
the sun was shining, I would simply say that first of all, therd is a | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
large programme taking placd at the moment to restore some of the | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
Victorian roofing. The commhttee looking at the Restoration `nd | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
renewal project is heading towards the conclusion of its work `nd we | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
will all have to come together over the coming years to make sure this | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
building can be put in a st`te which makes it fit for purpose. It is the | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
heart of our democracy, there are many things wrong with it today but | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
we have a duty to sustain it as the heart of our democracy and protected | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
for future generations. He lentioned the comments of the Right honourable | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
member for Rushcliffe. I suspect that the Home Secretary will not be | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
distressed to be likened to Margaret Thatcher. Can I also say th`t I | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
understand his enthusiasm for taking part in this election campahgn, for | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
being able to express a view on who our next Prime Minister will be and | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
to be honest, if I was on their benches, I would want to take part | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
in our leadership contest as well because try as they may, however | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
hard they struggle, they do not seem to be able to have one for | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
themselves. Can we have a ddbate on flooding? It seems a long thme ago | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
since my constituency and m`ny others were affected by the terrible | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
floods over Christmas, but H do not think we should forget thosd people | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
who were affected because the weather is better and we ard in | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
summer. Many of those peopld are still not in their homes. M`ny of | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
the flood defences which ard required to make sure this does not | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
happen again I have not been put in place. Perhaps we could either have | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
a debate or the leader of the House can ask the Secretary of St`te to | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
make a statement on the progress that has been made on helping those | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
affected and the work that hs carried out so people in future do | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
not have to suffer the same distress again? My honourable friend will be | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
aware that I was there at jtst after the floods in the area and H am | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
acutely aware of the impact that the heavy rain had on homes and | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
businesses around West Yorkshire as well as in other parts of the | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
country. I know this is a m`tter of great concern for the Secretary of | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
State, I will make sure she is aware that those concerns have bedn raised | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
again today. We want to do the right thing for those affected by flooding | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
and we have since 2010 conthnues to spend money on flood defencds and | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
will continue to do so. Can I thank the leader of the House for | :10:57. | :10:58. | |
announcing business for next week, and he is right that we shotld | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
remember the victims of 7/7, particularly today, and it hs also | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
right and proper that it is is dominated next week by the Chilcot | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
Report and we are all grateful that they will have a two-day debate so | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
we can hear from all members of the House. We have to start hinting | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
about what happens beyond that, particularly what is available to | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
hold those responsible for this disaster to account. The only people | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
who have so far lost their jobs in this whole disastrous calamhty two | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
BBC journalists. I am sure the public are appalled second ,- and | :11:39. | :11:48. | |
sickened listening to Tony Blair and his cowardly apology. Can the House | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
explain how we can hold those to account in the House? The l`st | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
government's era defining dhsaster, there has still not been a debate in | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
this government's one. Therd has still been no debate on EE | :12:08. | :12:14. | |
referendum Brexit. It is allost a dereliction of duty and I do not | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
know if it is a case of denhal or if they genuinely do not have ` clue. I | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
suspect it is both. This morning, we have had rumours on social ledia | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
about a decision for Trident. Can the leader of the House described | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
and explain when we are going to have that vote, and not leave it to | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
rumour and hearsay? And also can we have a debate on the overthrow of | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
elites, particularly in polhtical parties? This morning I looked up | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
the definition of coup, and apparently is the sudden | :12:49. | :12:50. | |
appropriation of leadership and power and the replacement of other | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
elites in the state apparatts. What we have got today is almost a | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
physical boundary between the two sides in the party. We can see the | :12:58. | :13:09. | |
boundary. The chicken coolers in the Labour Party must be the most inapt | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
ever. No strategy... Let's have a debate and let's steal it from and | :13:17. | :13:18. | |
destiny. On the Chilcot report, it's right | :13:19. | :13:35. | |
and proper we have a two-dax debate. That is the job of this house, it is | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
not for this house to consider whether there are specific leasures | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
that can be taken against individuals, that is a mattdr for | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
the relevant authorities and it s not for us as a Parliament to debate | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
those matters. There will bd plenty of opportunity by this housd to | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
express its opinions about the role played by individuals, organisations | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
in that process about decision-making, and I think what | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
Sir John Chilcot has providdd for everyone in this house is a detailed | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
range of information that c`n be drawn upon for that debate. I have | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
no doubt he and his colleagtes will play an active part in that debate. | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
In terms of the EU referendtm, I would point out we have just had of | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
four months to beat in this country, we've had a ruling from the United | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
Kingdom... I know you can't get a grip of a fight we are part of the | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
United Kingdom together. I value being part of the United Kingdom, it | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
adds something extra to this institution and long may it | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
continue. It has had a very lengthy debate, there are plenty of | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
opportunities to debate, we have had statements on the outcome, we have | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
had opposition day debates `nd we'll be talking about it for somd months | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
to come. On Trident, we will have a debate on the future of Trident and | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
I can assure you that when we're ready to announce the date for that, | :15:00. | :15:12. | |
we will do so to this house. I hadn't spotted the completely empty | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
row there, but it is a bit surreal. This is if the whole thing has | :15:16. | :15:32. | |
turned upside down. It is lhke. . CHEERING | :15:33. | :15:40. | |
it is like Alice Through Thd Looking Glass. The front benches moved to | :15:41. | :15:49. | |
the backbenches in the backbenches moved to the front. Who would've | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
imagined those people in such a predicament. He's absolutelx right, | :15:57. | :15:58. | |
can't even organise their own can't even organise their own | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
leadership contest. If they cannot do that, they are utterly unfit ever | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
to run the country. On behalf of the honourable member for Gateshead who | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
is attending the opening of a section of the new road, | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
unfortunately they have built it over the disused mine shaft and a 30 | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
foot single has appeared, so don't worry, officials are looking into | :16:24. | :16:33. | |
it. The consequence of the two-day debate on the Chilcot reports does | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
has been lost. Equally, I would ask has been lost. Equally, I would ask | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
on behalf of the Backbench Business Committee, that the leader of the | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
house confirm as soon as possible that the 21st of July, the last day | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
before we rise, will be locked into the Back And Business Committee so | :16:51. | :16:57. | |
that we can reassess the debate This week, there was an excdllent | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
report published by the Roy`l Commonwealth Society on introducing | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
two year visas for India. So could the leader of the house arr`nged for | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
a debate in government time on the Visa requirements for India and | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
other countries outside the EU, so we can grasp the opportunithes of | :17:19. | :17:20. | |
setting and controlling our own borders? Of course, we will do | :17:21. | :17:28. | |
everything we can to make stre that we provide information about | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
allocated days and we make provision for the Backbench Business | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
Committee, he will not be strprised to learn that the government felt | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
next week it is important to have as debate on the Chilcot report and | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
have that over two days. I hope the committee will understand that. With | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
regard to visas, I'm sure the Home Secretary will have noted it is | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
really important, now that the country has taken the decishon to | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
leave the EU, that we maximhse the opportunities to forge free trade | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
links around the world. There are number of Commonwealth friends in | :18:06. | :18:07. | |
particular who have already come forward and said that free trade | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
arrangements and Sheen as something they believe will be beneficial in | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
the future. Can I thank the government for producing thhs | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
cremations and baby Ashes and paid cremations and baby Ashes and paid | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
tribute to the Minister, thd Parliamentary under Secretary of | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
State, for her work on this and also the work of Action For Ashes and | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
constituents of mine who ard constituents of mine who ard | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
involved with this matter. Could I school asked the leader of the house | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
of the could have a word with the three Cabinet ministers who wrote to | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
our city council, asking thdm to have a local enquiry about baby | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
Ashes in the whole area. Thd chief executive of the council wrote back, | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
asking for clarification as to the terms of reference and whether any | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
financial support was avail`ble to pave the local enquiry. We haven't | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
had a response yet and obviously, families want to this matter and | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
away as soon as possible. This is obviously a deeply sensitivd issue, | :19:06. | :19:07. | |
and those families who have been brave enough to campaign for an | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
improved situation, I pay tribute to them, given the difficulties they | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
have been through. I will cdrtainly chase up that response by hdr and | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
quickly as possible. One of the quickly as possible. One of the | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
things that unites this house is the app warns of slavery, modern | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
slavery, and we know that. The CPA, of which I am chairman, is working | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
on a report for this. At thd moment, the funding they need is behng held | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
up by the Home Office. The work done by the Right Honourable member for | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
Birkenhead has been superb. Could we have access to that money so that we | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
could have space in governmdnt time to discuss what I now brings a house | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
together, something we could put a united voice out across the world | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
that we do not approve of modern slavery and that this entird house | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
says it must stop now. I thhnk we should all, on both sides of the | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
house, be proud that we are the country that passed the Moddrn | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
Slavery Act and that we havd taken a lead on this. He has given ht an | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
example, of him working with the member for Birkenhead, this is | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
something that unites us politically and as an example of this house at | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
its best. We are often only seen debating loudly with each other but | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
this house does great work `nd long may that continue. I posed the | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
question to all the governmdnt departments, asking, in the light of | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
Brexit, what steps they werd taking to make sure the departments' | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
purchasing policy were supporting British industry and agriculture | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
will stop the replies gener`ted will stop the replies gener`ted | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
centrally from the government said, departments purchasing policies | :20:59. | :21:00. | |
support the government commhtment to do all it can to make sure TK | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
suppliers can compete effectively for public sector contracts, in line | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
with our current international obligations. That is a totally in | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
adequate response to the situation we are facing. Clearly, the civil | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
service still don't get it. Can we have a debate where we can `ctually | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
explore how we're going to back British industry, British | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
agriculture and British workers Of course, what the government has | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
given him there is a legallx accurate response of the current | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
situation, but when we have left the EU, of course, we will be more free | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
to take decisions about procurement within the United Kingdom, `bout the | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
services, the goods, the products produced within the United Kingdom. | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
I'm a great believer that wd should do everything we can to procure | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
locally, but we are subject to procurement laws we have to conform | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
to. Whether it's in the west of Africa, the East of Africa `nd the | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
southern states, sub-Saharan Africa, Commonwealth or Norman Commonwealth, | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
the fastest-growing economids in the the fastest-growing economids in the | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
world are currently on the continent of Africa. Can we have a debate on | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
what more the government can do to reach out to these growing | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
economies? He makes a reallx important point. One of the things I | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
think we should all be pleased to see is the way in which the African | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
continent is now developing, it s moving away from poverty, more and | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
more people are being lifted out of poverty, that is more and more | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
economic development in that continent. Many of these cotntries | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
are ones which we have economic ties with and we should be looking to | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
strengthen those ties, incltding developing free trade with them in | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
the future. Maybe have a debate on a statement on justice for all war | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
widows? That is an anomaly whereby those who are widowed, their | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
partners died in service between 1973 and 2005, are now able to | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
reclaim war widow pension if they remarry. A member of recently hosted | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
a protest at which this was highlighted. This is especi`lly | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
important in a week where wd have had the Chilcot report. I al sure we | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
would all want to be supportive to our war widows. He makes an | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
important point. I'm make stre his concerns are raised in the Linistry | :23:24. | :23:25. | |
of Defence after session thhs morning. The EU, including the | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
United Kingdom, recognises the United Kingdom, recognises the | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
difference between the political and military winner of Hezbollah, but | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
this distinction does not sdem to be recognised by the organisathon | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
itself. In light of the confusion over the galaxy of protesters | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
displaying flags in the protest last Sunday, can we have a statelent on | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
the legality of the display of Hezbollah flags or indeed any flags | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
associated with terrorist organisations? I agree, if `n | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
organisation is prescribed hn the UK, it should be able to publicise | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
itself in the UK, whether it's through flags and placards. I will | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
raise his concerns. If an organisation is illegal in the UK, | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
it should not manifest itself in the UK. For too long, social media has | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
been more and more like the wild West, where people think thdy can | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
say anything. My honourable friend Ron Redcar has a Private melbers | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
Bill coming up, but what we need is the government to take more drastic | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
action, because it is spillhng out into the wider world, as has been | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
raised previously. Can we h`ve a statement debate on governmdnt time | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
about what the government whll do to tackle social media, but also to | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
really clamp down on what is happening in the public realm as | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
well? This is an issue for lembers on all sides of the house. H | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
absolutely sure his view. It's not simply that members of Parlhament | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
for it affects everyone. I think it is simple. I think of members of | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
this house and other people received threats that they're going to be | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
raped or murdered whatever, I think the police should ever rest of the | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
perpetrators and put them in court, and that might send a message to | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
those who carry out that kind of disgrace or behaviour on th`t there | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
are consequences. My messagd to our police would be, if this happens, so | :25:20. | :25:26. | |
constituency is best known for its constituency is best known for its | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
association with the oval b`ll, but we have got a rugby junior team have | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
just had grant from Sport England to get a new pitch. The reader has | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
already praised the achievelents of the Welsh team, but I wonder we | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
might be able to get a debate over how investment in grassroots sport | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
can inspire our national te`m at a higher level. I do think anx of us | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
who are in English and in any doubt this week that we need a strong | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
grassroots youth development system for the future. Having been outshone | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
by the Welsh, we would kind of like to get our own back at some point, | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
but we definitely need some new young players to come through. What | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
we now is that from our strongest local clubs can come some of the | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
stars of the future, and let's hope some of them come from rugbx. May I | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
thank him for his warm tribttes to the achievements of the Welsh | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
national football team? I s`id last night, I will now die a happy man, | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
having had the privilege of having had the privilege of | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
supporting that great Welsh national side. Last week, the people of the | :26:38. | :26:47. | |
UK took one of the most polhtical decisions -- most important | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
political decisions. I had some conversations and have been debates | :26:55. | :26:56. | |
about the implications of Brexit. When will we also have a ch`nce to | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
debate the implications of Brexit? The fact that that is no pl`n, is no | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
reason to sweep it under thd carpet. I can assure you that there will be | :27:07. | :27:13. | |
plenty of opportunity in thd coming months to debate these mattdrs. We | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
need to elect a new Prime Mhnister, we need to complete the preparatory | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
work, we need to start becatse Asians and we need to make sure this | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
house has plenty of opportunity to debate. On the football front, I | :27:25. | :27:31. | |
have just one regret, and that's as, as a Manchester United supporter, I | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
wish Gareth Bale would come home and join the Reds. | :27:35. | :27:47. | |
I am proud that this governlent has been supporting those fighthng | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
against terrorism in northern Iraq. against terrorism in northern Iraq. | :27:53. | :27:55. | |
Can we have a debate about the medical support that is needed for | :27:56. | :27:58. | |
fighters against the Irish? -- Daesh. I will make sure they are | :27:59. | :28:19. | |
aware of the concern he has raised, so that candy addressed as well We | :28:20. | :28:28. | |
have reached the end of the track in terms of my constituents' | :28:29. | :28:30. | |
in terms of one of the worst train in terms of one of the worst train | :28:31. | :28:32. | |
operating services in the world In operating services in the world In | :28:33. | :28:38. | |
their latest attempt to redtce disruption on the Server line, they | :28:39. | :28:44. | |
will be cancelling up to 350 trains. This is simply unacceptable, is | :28:45. | :28:51. | |
causing people to lose their jobs, students to miss exams and tntold | :28:52. | :28:56. | |
stress. Will the leader of the house arrange for the Transport Sdcretary | :28:57. | :28:58. | |
to come and give an urgent statement on this and for goodness sake, strip | :28:59. | :29:03. | |
this company of this franchhse and do so now! | :29:04. | :29:08. | |
Can I say first of all that as someone who also shares GDR roots, I | :29:09. | :29:16. | |
am well aware of the issue. I have every sympathy with what he has | :29:17. | :29:20. | |
said. I have constituents who share his anger. The is a debate on this | :29:21. | :29:23. | |
matter in Westminster Hall next week. I have already spoken to the | :29:24. | :29:29. | |
rail minister who is acutelx aware of the issue. What is happening at | :29:30. | :29:33. | |
the moment is unacceptable `nd it has to be sorted. Part of mx | :29:34. | :29:37. | |
constituency are being blighted by young men driving high-performance | :29:38. | :29:41. | |
luxury vehicles often at high speeds. There have been a sdries of | :29:42. | :29:45. | |
accidents, near misses and hit-and-run in recent months. As | :29:46. | :29:49. | |
most of these vehicles are hired for a day at the time, like all | :29:50. | :29:52. | |
residents and the council are calling for action to prevent hire | :29:53. | :29:56. | |
car companies putting high-performance supercars hn the | :29:57. | :30:00. | |
hands of young drivers. Would he make time for a debate on this | :30:01. | :30:04. | |
issue? I am very surprised that those higher companies want to do | :30:05. | :30:08. | |
that because higher perform`nce cars tend to be higher value and I assume | :30:09. | :30:12. | |
they would want to get them back intact afterwards. It is a bizarre | :30:13. | :30:17. | |
situation, I do not underst`nd why the businesses are taking those | :30:18. | :30:21. | |
choices and he should put pressure on them locally. I will makd sure | :30:22. | :30:25. | |
that these concerns are put to the Transport Secretary. Those of us who | :30:26. | :30:30. | |
are regular backbenchers, proper backbenchers, and the value these | :30:31. | :30:38. | |
business questions, I hope xou will have a word with the other front | :30:39. | :30:42. | |
benches and bring it back to what it should be, about business qtestions. | :30:43. | :30:46. | |
We had the Welsh shadow leader of the House who could not even mention | :30:47. | :30:49. | |
the Welsh team today which H think you should have done. This hs for | :30:50. | :30:54. | |
imported future business. Mx constituents are deeply worried | :30:55. | :30:59. | |
about the closure of the accident and emergency at Huddersfield Royal | :31:00. | :31:02. | |
in farming. That is of primd importance. They are worried about | :31:03. | :31:06. | |
the quality of management, of GPs who become managers in clinhcal | :31:07. | :31:09. | |
commissioning groups. That hs the sort of thing we want a deb`te on | :31:10. | :31:14. | |
and we want it soon. I am not sure whether to congratulate him | :31:15. | :31:17. | |
commiserate him for the fact that he is still on the backbenches, only he | :31:18. | :31:20. | |
will be able to tell us whether he has been offered a job, for example | :31:21. | :31:27. | |
in Shadow Education Secretary, I understand there has been a | :31:28. | :31:29. | |
difficulty filling that job. That is a bit of a snob! -- that is a snob! | :31:30. | :31:44. | |
I have been a champion of accident and emergency in my constittency, I | :31:45. | :31:49. | |
hope we will be able to get the minister here. The changing face of | :31:50. | :31:58. | |
retailing is having a major impact on the vibrancy of our town centres. | :31:59. | :32:03. | |
We don't want at situation where our provincial towns of falling into | :32:04. | :32:06. | |
more dereliction with empty shopping units. Could the leader finds time | :32:07. | :32:14. | |
for a debate on how the govdrnment will support local authorithes in | :32:15. | :32:18. | |
regenerating town centres? We have had a change to business rates which | :32:19. | :32:23. | |
I hope will make a difference. He and I have walked up the mahn Street | :32:24. | :32:27. | |
on Cleethorpes on many occasions, it is a great town, a really ilportant | :32:28. | :32:31. | |
part of the community and area he represents. And I hope the changes | :32:32. | :32:37. | |
we made to business rates whll help strengthen businesses in thd high | :32:38. | :32:40. | |
street and I hope we get sole good weather so that people go to | :32:41. | :32:43. | |
Cleethorpes in that come in six weeks. -- in the coming six weeks. | :32:44. | :32:56. | |
Yet again, defending the rights -- he has defended the rights of the | :32:57. | :33:00. | |
unelected people in the place next door, and this morning he t`lked | :33:01. | :33:03. | |
about making this place suitable for the modern democracy. In thd vein of | :33:04. | :33:07. | |
Norwich -- modern democracy, I will narrow it down. Can he make a | :33:08. | :33:13. | |
statement to say why he thinks it is appropriate to have 26 Church of | :33:14. | :33:21. | |
England bishops having a go -- at place in democracy and that they are | :33:22. | :33:25. | |
able to vote on Scottish issues The Scottish nationalist party has had a | :33:26. | :33:33. | |
lot of opportunity to introduce bills to the private member 's bill, | :33:34. | :33:36. | |
and there have not been any talking about changing the House of Lords. | :33:37. | :33:41. | |
On Tuesday evening, Kerry P`rkinson was travelling home and was hit in | :33:42. | :33:49. | |
the face after confronting ` passenger who told them to shut up, | :33:50. | :33:56. | |
or they will send him back to Israel -- Istanbul with Muslims and the -- | :33:57. | :34:10. | |
with Isis. Can we condemn this and look at these incidents in the | :34:11. | :34:17. | |
House? That is shocking, we send all our good wishes to his constituent. | :34:18. | :34:21. | |
The Muslim community in this country plays a valuable role in our | :34:22. | :34:25. | |
communities up and down the country. It is full of people who have made a | :34:26. | :34:29. | |
real difference to this sochety and we should support them. The fact | :34:30. | :34:33. | |
that there are a small numbdr of people in the Islamic world who | :34:34. | :34:37. | |
pursue an ideology that is one of hate and one we all stand up against | :34:38. | :34:41. | |
should not in any way tarnish the good, hard-working, decent Luslims | :34:42. | :34:47. | |
of this country. Insults and attacks against them are things we should | :34:48. | :34:53. | |
poor and and prosecute. -- we should and prosecute. 5% of students and | :34:54. | :35:01. | |
15% of staff in British universities come from other countries, `long | :35:02. | :35:06. | |
with ?1 billion in research grants. Our universities are deeply worried | :35:07. | :35:09. | |
about the impact of Brexit on their future academic effectiveness and in | :35:10. | :35:13. | |
cities like Nottingham, our universities play a vital role in | :35:14. | :35:16. | |
the success of the local economy. Will he ensure that the Bushness | :35:17. | :35:19. | |
Secretary makes an urgent statement on how he intends to protect our | :35:20. | :35:23. | |
higher education sector within the gauche editions on that macro within | :35:24. | :35:28. | |
that negotiations on withdr`wing from the EU? I will make sure that | :35:29. | :35:32. | |
is drawn to the attention of the Business Secretary. The first point, | :35:33. | :35:37. | |
in science where these issuds have been raised, the European science | :35:38. | :35:42. | |
network which is a partnership of academic institutions across Europe, | :35:43. | :35:45. | |
includes countries like Isr`el which are not part of the European Union. | :35:46. | :35:49. | |
There is no reason why our universities cannot continud to play | :35:50. | :35:53. | |
the part they do today enjoxing international research projdct. It | :35:54. | :35:59. | |
is also worth saying that wd pay a substantial amount of money in the | :36:00. | :36:02. | |
EU, that will not be paid in future, there is no reason why we c`nnot | :36:03. | :36:07. | |
provide that money directly and cut out the middleman. Can we h`ve the | :36:08. | :36:13. | |
opportunity, when we discuss Brexit, some sectional debates so that we | :36:14. | :36:19. | |
can look at how now the powdr exists for Parliament to vote throtgh | :36:20. | :36:25. | |
renationalising the rail industries, and why, as well, for example, to | :36:26. | :36:30. | |
rejuvenate the English, not just the English football team, the Bosman | :36:31. | :36:35. | |
ruling will be abolished. That allows the ability in England and | :36:36. | :36:41. | |
Scotland for local football clubs to rejuvenate themselves rather than | :36:42. | :36:43. | |
lose all their best player to the Premier League. The honourable | :36:44. | :36:50. | |
gentleman comes to the issud of written's future outside thd | :36:51. | :36:54. | |
European Union from a different perspective to me, but once he | :36:55. | :36:57. | |
highlights once we have left, there are things that we are constrained | :36:58. | :37:01. | |
from doing now that we will be able to do in the future. On the point of | :37:02. | :37:04. | |
view of Bosman and English football, we want to see a new generation of | :37:05. | :37:07. | |
bright young players coming through, possibly from rugby as we hdard | :37:08. | :37:15. | |
earlier. We learned yesterd`y that there have been five walk-otts from | :37:16. | :37:18. | |
five separate prisons in thd last five months by prison officdrs who | :37:19. | :37:22. | |
do not feel safe at work. 30% increase this year on seriots | :37:23. | :37:26. | |
assaults on staff. It is easy to ignore that with so much gohng on | :37:27. | :37:30. | |
but I know the leader of thd House will not ignore it because he | :37:31. | :37:33. | |
largely caused the problem. Will he get the Justice Secretary, who | :37:34. | :37:38. | |
should have more time on his hands after today, try and make a | :37:39. | :37:42. | |
statement to this house on why we cannot get this fundamental thing | :37:43. | :37:46. | |
right, security in our prisons and prisoners and prison staff being | :37:47. | :37:51. | |
protected from harm? I would think him that the current structtre to | :37:52. | :37:57. | |
staffing in prisons was deshgned by the prison officers Association and | :37:58. | :38:00. | |
the Prison Governors Associ`tion, three years ago. It was thehr advice | :38:01. | :38:04. | |
about how we should proceed to staff our present and that is why it - | :38:05. | :38:10. | |
staff our prisons and that hs what we incremented. Last week Aberdeen | :38:11. | :38:13. | |
City Council held a summit on the problems in the oil and gas | :38:14. | :38:17. | |
industry. The government managed to spare a peer to peer by 30 linutes | :38:18. | :38:24. | |
by oil links, they did not ,- video link, they did not send a mhnister, | :38:25. | :38:29. | |
they are busy chasing ambithons can the government give a commitment | :38:30. | :38:31. | |
that somebody in the governlent will give more than passing attention to | :38:32. | :38:36. | |
the oil industry at the momdnt given the current climate? It is ` really | :38:37. | :38:40. | |
important industry for us, H know the Chancellor in particular has | :38:41. | :38:43. | |
taken an active interest into how best to be eased the pressure is on | :38:44. | :38:46. | |
it. When the oil price has fallen to the degree it has, there ard not | :38:47. | :38:50. | |
easy solutions. Could we have an urgent statement on care data? The | :38:51. | :38:56. | |
government have announced they are sapping the scheme, we need to know | :38:57. | :39:00. | |
how much it cost the public purse and whether all of our constituents | :39:01. | :39:04. | |
information will be shredded. I will get a response from the Dep`rtment. | :39:05. | :39:12. | |
Sorry, I Pollard not being responsive to right away. -, | :39:13. | :39:18. | |
apologise to you being not ` shrug and not being responsive right away. | :39:19. | :39:23. | |
Those who have been jailed for campaigning for Civil Liberties | :39:24. | :39:29. | |
those who have been jailed for being Christians and threatening their | :39:30. | :39:37. | |
religion, those who follow the mediation of truce, compasshon and | :39:38. | :39:43. | |
tolerance, will the leader of the House agreed to a debate in this | :39:44. | :39:51. | |
chamber or Westminster Hall from -- about the removal of organs from | :39:52. | :39:57. | |
those who are prisoners, and people who travel from the UK to China to | :39:58. | :40:06. | |
receive those organs? He rahses a very serious issue, the Fordign | :40:07. | :40:10. | |
Secretary will be here on Ttesday and he can raise that directly with | :40:11. | :40:13. | |
the Foreign Secretary. I wotld also say that whilst we seek to dngage | :40:14. | :40:17. | |
with China, strengthen our partnerships with China, we always | :40:18. | :40:20. | |
take the opportunity to raise the question of human rights and we want | :40:21. | :40:24. | |
to see standards of human rhghts in China improved. Further to the | :40:25. | :40:32. | |
question from my honourable friend about yesterday puzzling decision to | :40:33. | :40:37. | |
scrap the care data scheme, experts say that access to patient data is | :40:38. | :40:41. | |
vital to better understand the causes of disease. Getting data | :40:42. | :40:46. | |
security right should be possible. We need to discuss this. I will make | :40:47. | :40:51. | |
sure that the Health Secret`ry is aware of these concerns. It is | :40:52. | :40:54. | |
important that we protect individual data and that has always bedn the | :40:55. | :40:58. | |
case but I will get ministers to provide a proper response to him and | :40:59. | :41:05. | |
other honourable members. I have had several constituents contact me in | :41:06. | :41:09. | |
the last month about ridiculous delays for ESI assessments, not | :41:10. | :41:16. | |
waiting 13 weeks but in excdss of eight or 11 months. Can we have | :41:17. | :41:21. | |
debate in government time ghven the importance of this issue on the | :41:22. | :41:24. | |
lives of my constituents in and their ability to feed themsdlves | :41:25. | :41:27. | |
about how long this is taken and what is going on with government | :41:28. | :41:30. | |
departments? The Secretary of State is here on Monday for oral | :41:31. | :41:35. | |
questions, I will alert him about this issue and if you want to bring | :41:36. | :41:39. | |
it to the House again, I will ask you to provide her with a proper | :41:40. | :41:44. | |
response. On this very poignant anniversary, I'm sure the whole | :41:45. | :41:47. | |
house would wish to join me in offering gratitude to our incredible | :41:48. | :41:52. | |
emergency services who are frankly simply the best in the world. | :41:53. | :41:56. | |
However I am alarmed to unddrstand that cuts to our Fire Services art | :41:57. | :42:03. | |
causing a threat to public safety with response times at the highest | :42:04. | :42:09. | |
for 30 years. Can we have an urgent debate on this issue? Of cotrse I | :42:10. | :42:15. | |
join her in paying tribute to our emergency services, there h`ve been | :42:16. | :42:19. | |
changes and improvements and one of the changes taking place at the | :42:20. | :42:22. | |
moment is bringing the Fire Services together with local police services | :42:23. | :42:26. | |
and of the umbrellas of the police and crime Commissioners, because we | :42:27. | :42:32. | |
think there are deficiencies to be gained by -- there are efficiencies | :42:33. | :42:38. | |
to be gained by doing that. She might bring a minister to this house | :42:39. | :42:41. | |
for an end of day adjournment debate to deal with this directive. Will | :42:42. | :42:47. | |
the leader of the House join me in graduating the Whitgift Academy for | :42:48. | :42:51. | |
securing a lottery grant to lead and inspire young people through Dame | :42:52. | :42:54. | |
Kelly Holmes on track to achieve programme. It will give an hmportant | :42:55. | :43:00. | |
boost to pupils and teachers in a school which has recently bden rated | :43:01. | :43:05. | |
by Ofsted as inadequate. Can we have an urgent debate on the importance | :43:06. | :43:09. | |
of sports and sports men totring in the House? -- men touring? We pay | :43:10. | :43:18. | |
tribute to her, we are so to see her move back three rows, I'm stre she | :43:19. | :43:22. | |
will not be there forever unless things carry on as they are. I would | :43:23. | :43:28. | |
pay tribute to her constitudnts doing so much work for young people | :43:29. | :43:32. | |
and sporting achievement, it makes such a difference and the work she | :43:33. | :43:35. | |
has described is enormously valuable. Recent NHS figures show | :43:36. | :43:45. | |
that 142 people per 100,000 in Manchester die prematurely from | :43:46. | :43:48. | |
cardiovascular diseases. Yot are more likely to die provisionally | :43:49. | :43:51. | |
from a heart attack or stroke in Manchester than anywhere else in the | :43:52. | :43:55. | |
country. Can we have a debate on how to address high rates of | :43:56. | :43:56. | |
cardiovascular disease in chties? I think this is a very good | :43:57. | :44:06. | |
explanation of why I think Manchester will benefit frol having | :44:07. | :44:10. | |
greater control over health care services in the area, as a result of | :44:11. | :44:15. | |
clearly individual problems that you clearly individual problems that you | :44:16. | :44:19. | |
find in some of our great chties and I think devolution or responsibility | :44:20. | :44:23. | |
to those cities will enable local solutions to be put in placd that | :44:24. | :44:26. | |
will a difference. I think this is a very good explanation of whx I think | :44:27. | :44:28. | |
Manchester will benefit frol having greater control over health care | :44:29. | :44:31. | |
services in the area, as a result of our devolution package. There are | :44:32. | :44:33. | |
clearly individual problems that you find in some of our great chties and | :44:34. | :44:35. | |
I think devolution or responsibility to those cities will enable local | :44:36. | :44:38. | |
solutions to be put in placd that will make a difference. The European | :44:39. | :44:40. | |
Commission this week announced the European Commission this wedk | :44:41. | :44:42. | |
announced this week that national parliaments will begin from the | :44:43. | :44:44. | |
chance to vote this week th`t national parliaments will bdgin the | :44:45. | :44:46. | |
chance to vote on on the comprehensive economic and trade | :44:47. | :44:48. | |
agreement with Canada. Can xou give any further detail on what lembers | :44:49. | :44:51. | |
of this place can expect thd comprehensive economic and trade | :44:52. | :44:53. | |
agreement with Canada. Can xou give any further detail on what lembers | :44:54. | :44:55. | |
of this place can expect to debate, scrutinise and vote on this | :44:56. | :44:57. | |
important to debate, scrutinise and vote on this important deal? Deal? I | :44:58. | :45:00. | |
would say is that this is a long and would say is that this is a long and | :45:01. | :45:03. | |
convoluted I cannot do that as yet, but what I would say is that this is | :45:04. | :45:07. | |
a long and convoluted law s`ys and I very much hope that in future, we'll | :45:08. | :45:09. | |
in a much quicker time framd law in a much quicker time framd law | :45:10. | :45:12. | |
says and I very much hope that in future, we'll be able to conclude | :45:13. | :45:15. | |
trade agreements in a much puicker time frame, in a way that bdnefits | :45:16. | :45:18. | |
our economy. , in a way that benefits our economy. It has come to | :45:19. | :45:20. | |
my attention that a Private memo has been sent by the DWP it has come to | :45:21. | :45:24. | |
my attention that a private memo has been sent by the DWP to work to work | :45:25. | :45:26. | |
direct claimants providers, warning direct claimants providers, warning | :45:27. | :45:28. | |
appeal to appeal decisions lade appeal to appeal decisions | :45:29. | :45:30. | |
about their entitlements. Ddcisions about their entitlements. Ddcisions | :45:31. | :45:31. | |
made about their entitlements. It's it's clear that benefit clahmants | :45:32. | :45:33. | |
can clear that benefit clailants can appeal where they are entitled. May | :45:34. | :45:36. | |
we have a debate on this important issue to make sure these restrictive | :45:37. | :45:38. | |
policies are not being enforced by the DWP? Appeal where they `re | :45:39. | :45:41. | |
entitled. May we have a deb`te on this important issue to makd | :45:42. | :45:42. | |
these restrictive policies `re not these restrictive policies `re not | :45:43. | :45:45. | |
being enforced by the DWP? He raises he raises concern concern which I | :45:46. | :45:47. | |
understand. The Secretary of State will be here on Monday and H | :45:48. | :45:49. | |
suggested that sat by directly to ministers at that session. Which I | :45:50. | :45:52. | |
understand. The Secretary of State will be here on Monday and H | :45:53. | :45:54. | |
suggested that sat by directly to ministers at that session. Can I ask | :45:55. | :45:57. | |
possible for him to organisd an possible for him to organisd an | :45:58. | :45:59. | |
urgent debate in government time can I ask the leader of the house, is it | :46:00. | :46:02. | |
possible for him to organisd an urgent debate in government time on | :46:03. | :46:05. | |
prosecution policy. Over thd last few weeks, we have seen the | :46:06. | :46:07. | |
disgraceful rise on prosecution policy. Over the last few wdeks we | :46:08. | :46:09. | |
have seen the disgraceful rhse in the numbers of race hate crhme | :46:10. | :46:10. | |
incidents, as we had in the numbers incidents, as we had in the numbers | :46:11. | :46:13. | |
of race hate crime incidents, as we had from our friend earlier. It is | :46:14. | :46:16. | |
quite right that we all are poor at that, but isn't it the case that in | :46:17. | :46:20. | |
the end, we also need to take a stand as a society and prosdcute | :46:21. | :46:22. | |
people from our friend earlher. It is quite right that we all tp or | :46:23. | :46:25. | |
the end, we also need to take a the end, we also need to take a | :46:26. | :46:28. | |
stand as a society and prosdcute people who display these sorts of | :46:29. | :46:30. | |
traits? It's not enough to be angry, it's not enough to say we are poorer | :46:31. | :46:33. | |
before the courts and prosecuted, before the courts and prosecuted, | :46:34. | :46:36. | |
and that will help who display these sorts of traits? It's not enough to | :46:37. | :46:39. | |
be angry, it's not enough to say we are poorer it, these people need to | :46:40. | :46:41. | |
be brought before the courts and prosecuted, and that will hdlp stop | :46:42. | :46:44. | |
it. Stop it. I wholly agree I wholly agree. One of the most extr`ordinary | :46:45. | :46:47. | |
extraordinary things is that British extraordinary things is that British | :46:48. | :46:49. | |
Asians, who have had nothing to do with the debates in recent weeks | :46:50. | :46:52. | |
should be singled out in thhs way. I believe we are as tolerant society | :46:53. | :46:55. | |
as any in the world, but we nonetheless have a core of people | :46:56. | :46:59. | |
whose beliefs are disgraceftl, whose actions are disgraceful, and | :47:00. | :47:00. | |
the acting the way we have seen in the acting the way we have seen in | :47:01. | :47:02. | |
recent weeks, there is absolutely lead no excuse but authorithes not | :47:03. | :47:07. | |
to put them in court where they | :47:08. | :47:08. |