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Good morning and welcome to BBC Parliament live coverage of the | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
Commons. In half an hour, Theresa May will once again be facing the | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn plus an assortment of backbencher MPs. After | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
that, there are two general labour lead debates, the first is on | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
community pharmacies and thd second is on the safety of police officers. | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
This afternoon at 2:45pm we go live to the Liaison Committee. So John | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
Chilcot will be giving eviddnce on his report. You can continud to | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
watch the Commons live on otr website. Let's class life ott of the | :02:47. | :02:59. | |
Commons. Online registration to vote has made it easier. That is a very | :03:00. | :03:10. | |
interesting and Sarah. How can it be building a democracy but it is | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
excluding nearly 2 million voters allowed to vote in the referendum | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
and is well affect young people in particular in universities. We are | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
absolutely committed to enstring that when it comes to young people | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
with that at the issues that mattered to them. When it comes to | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
boundary changes, it is right that we ensure every seat is of value. | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
Any situation where some sedds are 95,000 people and some seats out of | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
8000 people. We want to enstre every vote is equal and that incltdes | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
young people. Next week the youth Parliament sets in your place. Do | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
18-year-olds, there growing interest 18-year-olds, there growing interest | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
in public affairs and what we do in this place. Dewey agree that these | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
initiatives would help youth registration. My right honotrable | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
friend is right. The youth Parliament will be sitting hn this | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
the 11th of November. And I am sure the 11th of November. And I am sure | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
we look forward to listening to the issues that matter to young people. | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
Young people are interested in issues of mental health, curriculum | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
in the work and other issues being debated in this Chamber. We look | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
forward to working with young people to make sure their voices are heard. | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
I hope it will be undermining courage in chairmanship rather than | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
my command. The minister will be aware that in Scotland 16-ydar-olds | :04:43. | :04:53. | |
are able to vote and Wales has plans to change their system in this way | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
also. Can you respond posithvely to 16-year-olds being able to vote for | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
it MPs in this House and we have full democracy. We will not be | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
lowing the parliamentary voting age. We have debated this question on a | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
number of times and repeatedly voted against it. It is important to | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
recognise that most democracies recognised eight years old `s the | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
great age of some other reason is the agent had be the set on a jury. | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
We referred to making sure dvery is equal earlier and in rate of the | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
police commissioners, would you look again at first past the post being | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
introduced by elections and England's? We need a clear `nd | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
secure democracy in order to have confidence going for it. Around 8 | :05:42. | :05:49. | |
million people voted their work 300,000 spoiled ballot papers. | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
Comparing that to the EU referendum, just 20,000 spoiled ballot papers. | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
There is clearly an issue. Has the Minister considered that thd | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
Government weren't so aggressively making it so difficult for lillions | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
of people to be on the register ended the previous Prime Minister | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
hasn't arrogantly dismissed the case for in franchising 16 and 17 old | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
Sony referendum result would be different and you would still be | :06:17. | :06:24. | |
Minister glove LAUGHTER It is important to recognisd that | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
when it came to the referendum we had erected number of peopld voting | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
on one side. We also had a record 46.5 mhllion | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
people registered to vote of which 3 million people registered using the | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
online system, which shows people have full confidence in our new | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
system going forward. Does the Minister agree with me that more | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
young people might register to vote if those are the positive dhfference | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
it made in their lives and ` decision such as travelling tuition | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
fees and restricting housing benefits for young people only acts | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
as a disincentive for young people to get involved in politics? She is | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
correct that there is an issue with registration when it comes to young | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
people. We allow registered to vote and only 37% of them choose to do | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
full. We need to look at issues that matter to young people. Nond of | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
agenda. I shall have this qtestion agenda. I shall have this | :07:25. | :07:36. | |
in question ten together. On October in question ten together. On October | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
the 7th, the Government published detailed proposals for your votes | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
for life. It states how we plan to scrap the 15 year time-limit on | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
voting for overseas. We intdnd to be in place ahead of the next general | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
election. 24 that reply which is encouraging. Can we go back to when | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
the Government can say when they will equalise the size | :08:06. | :08:07. | |
constituencies? We are determined constituencies? We are determined | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
that by the time of the next 20 0 general election, we will in syrup | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
that the historic principle of equal seats is put in place. If wd do not | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
have this reform, we will ensure that we fight our seats and it is | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
completely unacceptable and that is why we must press forward whth | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
boundary reform. Thank you. Will you also agree that by enabling British | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
citizens who live abroad to vote who have previously been a resident and | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
have been registered previotsly this Government is enabling more | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
people to participate in our politics and living a democracy that | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
really works for everyone. H entirely agree. Our proposal to | :08:55. | :09:02. | |
scrap the end proposal, it will mean even more Brits abroad can vote if | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
they so choose. How the Minhster ensure that UK citizens livhng | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
overseas in the EU have not only the right to vote, but also the right to | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
remain in EU countries? We will ensure that when it comes to our | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
democracy, we have a democr`cy that works for everyone, which is why we | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
are determined to ensure th`t when it comes to Britain's living abroad | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
regardless of which country, they will be able to participate in our | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
democracy, particulars lead those who have lived abroad for more than | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
15 years. Let a Labour voters who fought in World War II who hs unable | :09:41. | :09:48. | |
to vote right now. Alongsidd extending suffrage to UK citizens | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
living abroad, what consideration of the Cabinet office given to | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
extending suffrage in gener`l elections to all EU and | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
non-Commonwealth immigrants permanently living in Great Britain | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
and Northern Ireland? We know that when it comes to the local | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
government, EU citizens can already vote. When it comes to the | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
parliamentary suffrage, we `re extending the franchise as ly | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
honourable friend rightly s`ys to an extra 3.7 million Brits abroad. When | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
it comes to looking at thosd living in this country that is subject to | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
future negotiations. At a thme when the improvement or failure to | :10:31. | :10:40. | |
improve the democracy in thd UK the plans to remove the 15 year | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
time-limit for overseas votdrs handing able to relate to an | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
estimated 1 million expats, will the Minister expert in how this might | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
guidelines on permissible donors and guidelines on permissible donors and | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
will he assure the house th`t under no circumstances will the proposed | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
changes allowed unlimited political changes allowed unlimited political | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
financial donations from non-UK taxpayers are brought to be | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
political party? I would like to political party? I would like to | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
start by welcoming the honotrable member to his place, it is great to | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
see him across the dispatch box When it comes to the issue of | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
overseas collectors and instring that those living abroad for more | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
than 15 years have able votd for life, the principle is clear. We | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
must ensure that those people who were born in those countries who | :11:30. | :11:31. | |
have paid tax in this country and have paid tax in this country and | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
moved abroad are given a right to participate in our democracx. These | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
are people such as the Labotr voter who has fought in World War II. We | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
want to ensure that these pdople who have given something to our country | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
are allowed to participate hn our democracy. I shall add to this | :11:48. | :12:00. | |
question and question five together. The has a virus can grow | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
indefinitely, however comprdhensive reform is not a priority in this | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
Parliament given a growing number of pressing parodies elsewhere. Where | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
there are measures that can command consensus, we would welcome working | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
with peers to take them forward A simpler answer would have bden no, | :12:19. | :12:25. | |
we will kick that in the long grass. The House of Lords needs radical | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
reform and we should listen to the new Speaker who said only l`st week, | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
I don't think we can justifx a situation. We have over 800 peers at | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
the same time as you're bringing down the comments to 600 MPs. Does | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
the Minister agree? This was raised at an important debate on the 2 th | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
of October in which the has agreed with the Government that actually | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
this is not a priority. The Government agrees when it comes to | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
the priorities of the British people has a voice reform is not one of | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
those. The recent study by xou got shows that does 18% of the public | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
think the house of Lords reform is a priority and I am amazed th`t the | :13:04. | :13:04. | |
SNP think this is the easy that they SNP think this is the easy that they | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
want to campaign on. When a campaign on education, health, the issues | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
that matter to the Scottish people? What an outrage for a democracy was | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
that answer. We have the ridiculous situation that there are more | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
unelected members from the has a florid living in the Highlands of | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
Scotland and there are MPs, yet this Government wants to cut the | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
Democratic representation. We will be left with three Members of | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
Parliament in the Highlands, that is not democratic accountability. Cut | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
the Lords, not MPs. Difficult to detect a questionnaire. The | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
intellectual dexterity of the Minister will allow him to `nswer | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
it. We currently have proposals on boundary changes in hot Scotland | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
consultation and encouraging all consultation and encouraging all | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
members to consider. There `re a few than Scotland out twice the size of | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
another and historic injusthce must be rectified. | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
The minister is absolutely right that it's not a priority to reduce | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
the House of Lords, but neither is it a priority to reduce the size of | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
the House of Commons. As we are abolishing goodness knows | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
how many MEPs and taking on they will appeal should we not look again | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
at equalising seats and keeping the same number of members of | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
Parliament? The law was passed by the previous | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
Parliament to ensure the reduce seats from 652 600. The del`y | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
occurred because members op. Cit. Decided to kick the can Darnley | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
Road. The reduction in seats will save ?66 million across the course | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
of a parliament. It is right that going forward we make savings and | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
keep our own house order. Mr Speaker, while it's absolutely | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
right that they should be epual votes and they should cut the cost | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
of politics in the House of Commons, do you not agree that it is absurd | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
that there are no SMTP is a House of Lords. There are hundreds of Liberal | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
Democrat peers who have no representation here. We need to | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
balance representation in the House of Lords. | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
My honourable friend is absolutely right. When it comes to resolution | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
of seeds this has been a historic campaign called for by the Chartist | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
and the people's manifesto back in 1830. This government is determined | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
to deliver to ensure that wd have that historical wrong rightdd. | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
There has been much speculation that a certain Nigel Farage will be | :15:41. | :15:49. | |
joining a House of Lords. H`s the Government not done enough damage | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
already? When it comes to appointments to the | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
House of Lords everything is scrutinised by an independent | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
committee. It is right that that process is followed. Will mx | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
honourable friend recall thd words of Sir Winston Churchill talking | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
about democracy when he said not a particularly good system, btt the | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
best one we've got. Perhaps, just perhaps, until someone comes up with | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
a bad idea of a House of Lords is not that bad. | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
As I've said before this is not a priority for House of Lords reform. | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
It's a priority for the gendral public. We want to ensure going | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
forward we work to establish a consensus with the House of Lords | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
and it must be for the Housd of Lords to come up with that | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
consensus. Couldn't we at least get it off the | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
by-elections for hereditary peers? After all, when the House of Lords, | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
earlier this year, decided to remove the second Baron Bridges because he | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
hadn't turned up for five ydars without permission there was a | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
by-election and the 15th Earl of Cork defeated the trust Lord of | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
Harrington and the eighth Vhscount heard. Bottom of the list, `nd | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
alternative vote system was the Earl of Limerick. Doesn't this jtst bring | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
the whole system into disrepute Is this Blackadder or Gilbert `nd | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
Sullivan? When it comes to Blackadder this was | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
a Labour policy introduced by a Labour government. Yet another | :17:16. | :17:23. | |
U-turn from their Corbyn supporters. Thank you, Mr Speaker. I can | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
scarcely hear the honourabld gentleman. He must be heard. Thank | :17:28. | :17:35. | |
you Mr Speaker. I think people watching will be terrified le the | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
complacency of this governmdnt. Does the Minister not realise th`t the | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
twin actions of increasing the limit of elected members of Parli`ment | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
whilst at the same time redtcing the number of elected lawmakers is | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
seriously damaging this institution in the eyes of our own electorate, | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
and also law was the esteem with which we are held abroad. The | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
Government agrees with the privacy of the House of Commons. He made | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
those points on the 26th of October. The house agreed with the Government | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
that this is not a priority going forward. Our priority must be | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
equalising seats and ensuring that historic principle of bound`ry | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
reform occurs. Number four, please Mr Speaker. The | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
Government is striving towards its manifesto commitment to achheve ?20 | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
billion of annual efficiencx savings by 2020, cutting functions by | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
providing expert support and advice in all areas in commercial property, | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
infrastructure and debt. In addition I shall be leading a review with the | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
Chief Secretary of the Treasury to see a further savings are possible. | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
The house will want to join me in congratulating the Minister on the | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
recent arrival of his second child, a brother for Wilfred. Can H add my | :18:52. | :19:00. | |
congratulations as wrong. I thank him for his answer. Can I ask how | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
the Government has delivered efficiency savings in the l`st term, | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
and how much is to come? Thank you to my honourable friend. | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
We saved ?18.6 billion in the last Parliament, we hope to do bdtter | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
than that in this Parliament. We've made a good start with over ?1. | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
billion saved in transforming our government works. There is lore to | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
do. We wish to completed. Mr Speaker, can I congratul`te you | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
for your energy efficiency saving this morning on the bicycle in | :19:32. | :19:39. | |
portcullis house. Can I ask the Minister if there is a posshbility | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
of tracking what honourable members can do to track savings in various | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
departments and the public, the wider public as well can sed the | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
practical benefits of the s`vings in each department was macro the | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
honourable gentleman makes ` sensible suggestion. | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
I hope will be able to give more transparency to the savings being | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
made in individual departments. He is right to touch on it. Thank | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
you, Mr Speaker. Efficiency savings can be achieved by new technology. | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
With the Minister in Couragd greater use of them by other departlents? | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
I will. There are excellent products and we are putting more mondy into | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
the GDS. We are using it across government and I hope that will be | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
one of many applications brought forward as a result of this success. | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
Thank you, Mr Speaker. Given the cost of the use of special `dvisers | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
has doubled in ten years and the Tory government spends more on | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
special advisers than the ndw Labour government is that not a silple | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
cost-cutting measure that could be implemented? To the contrarx | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
actually. We've kept the cost of special advisers under revidw. The | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
responsibilities being recently he'll see that the cost is being | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
kept down. Number six, Mr Speaker. The | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
Government is committed to tackling fraud in UK DW cables. We'vd already | :21:07. | :21:14. | |
introduced latter registrathon, we are currently considering the | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
findings set out in a report by the Sir Eric pickles review into | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
electoral fraud. We will publish a response in due course. | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
We want to get as many people to vote and dredged as possibld, but in | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
some constituencies there are still too much fraud. What more c`n be | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
Minister and government do `bout this? | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
In order to ensure a democr`cy that works for everyone we need ` clear, | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
secure democracy. We are determined to ensure the electoral reghster is | :21:43. | :21:49. | |
as complete and Abbott as possible. We have called for recommendations | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
for ID in polling stations. We will report back in due course. Does the | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
Minister believe that there are any lessons to be learned from the | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
additional measures in placd in Northern Ireland to tackle voter | :22:04. | :22:12. | |
fraud? The electoral system in Northern Ireland is separatd and has | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
advances when it comes to looking at security around polling stations and | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
electoral process. The Government is interested in looking at all | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
processes. We look at all examples and are happy to report back in due | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
course when we publish findhngs Topical questions. Topical one, Mr | :22:29. | :22:38. | |
Speaker. The Cabinet Office is responsible for delivering ` | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
democracy that works for evdryone, supporting the design and ddlivery | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
of government policy on driving efficiencies and reforms to make | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
government work better. Thank you, Mr Speaker. Will my right | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
honourable friend join me to welcome the Minister of constitutions to | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
work with my constituents and be domestic violence charity strvives | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
to reform an anonymous registration to ensure that women's silenced by | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
current registration process were no longer be denied the chance to | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
express their democratic will. I will indeed join with my | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
honourable friend. His commhtment to this cause is well known as is the | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
commitment to my honourable friend who has taken this as one of the | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
things he wants to achieve hn his post. The survivors of domestic | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
abuse, being able to vote is more than just a cross on a ballot paper. | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
It is a renewed statement of the Freedom that is rightfully theirs. | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
Let's take the Minister back to the boundary review. It's interdsting | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
that the Government payroll isn t being kept in this process. They | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
should listen to the members sitting behind them like the honour`ble | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
member for Shipley when he says we are talking about reducing the | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
number of people we are left at the ballot box, while stuffing the House | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
of Lords with yet more people. If this isn't a partisan process, and | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
given Brexit and the fact that we are removing 73 MEPs, isn't it now | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
time to have a fresh review based on 650 seats in this place. | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
I wonder whether the honour`ble gentleman would start as he means to | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
go on. He has five members of the opposition front bench to vdry | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
modest two. That shows how we can cut the cost of politics just by | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
being in power. After the referendum the public | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
administration select committee wrote to the Government suggesting | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
that the Government should conduct a review of civil service cap`city in | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
view of the extra workload being piled on Whitehall. Can my right | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
honourable friend give any indication as to whether such a | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
review is being conducted, `nd would he give consideration to conducting | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
such a review? It is going on at the moment. I am leading the review | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
myself and we have started with looking at senior civil service | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
capacity. It will go through the entire civil service. I'm m`king | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
sure I'm talking to all the ministers leading Brexit effective | :25:11. | :25:12. | |
departments to make sure thdy are happy with the capacity of their | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
officers. Thank you, Mr Spe`ker I don't disagree with the Minhster on | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
equalisation of constituenches but if we want equal constituencies | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
based on proper data, surelx the 2 million registered voters should be | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
taken into account in that equalisation. He talks about data. | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
Let's go back to the fact that if we delay bound to reform even further | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
we will be drying up a seat on data England and Wales from the xear | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
2000. 20 years ago. That is clearly unacceptable which is why wd must | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
assure boundary reform takes place. There are four are too many noisy | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
Private conversations taking place. It's very unfair on members who want | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
to ask questions and ministdrs who want to answer them. Let's hear the | :26:01. | :26:08. | |
voice of the Vale of Clwyd. One of the benefits of devolution was that | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
it was meant to allow the comparison of different policy approaches. | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
Would the Minister look at legislation to allow compathble data | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
across the United Kingdom? Ly honourable friend makes a sdnsible | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
point. We are learning a lot from devolved administrations as they | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
learn from us. His point is well made. We signed a concordat of | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
statistical evidence a few lonths ago. Thank you, Mr Speaker. Instead | :26:34. | :26:43. | |
of using a single example of how an ex-war veteran could justifx | :26:44. | :26:51. | |
extending the franchise abroad, could we not include those who live | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
here and pay their taxes, ET citizens. 16 and 17-year-olds. When | :26:58. | :27:04. | |
it comes to votes for life for Britons who've lived abroad more | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
than 15 years this is a manhfesto commitment that will be delhvered | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
for this government. We are determined to ensure that those | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
people who live abroad who `re British are given the right to | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
participate in our democracx. That is absolutely the right thing to do. | :27:18. | :27:25. | |
Thank you, Mr Speaker. Can H welcome the Minister for the Cabinet Office. | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
He made a powerful case for public service reform to make it more | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
tailored to individual needs. Can I urge my right arm of friends to be | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
careful when delivering it that he doesn't end up exposing or | :27:37. | :27:39. | |
misplacing personal data whhch is something we've seen in the past. I | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
will. I thank my honourable friend for his comments. It is important | :27:46. | :27:48. | |
that we take people with less onerous. We need to remember that | :27:49. | :27:51. | |
the state is to serve peopld and not the other way around. This hs why | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
this administration is putthng itself at the service of thd British | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
people. I intend public services to reflect fact. It is estimatdd that | :28:00. | :28:06. | |
cutting the number of MPs to 60 will save ?30 million a year. The | :28:07. | :28:13. | |
House of Lords allowances alone cost ?20 million a year. Does he not | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
accept that the cuts and savings to be made should be applied to the | :28:18. | :28:21. | |
unelected house is not the dlected chamber? This government is proud of | :28:22. | :28:29. | |
the fact that when it comes to the cost of the House of Lords ht has | :28:30. | :28:35. | |
been reduced by 14% since 2010. Mr Speaker, it's good to see the | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in his place. Perhaps he can set out | :28:41. | :28:49. | |
what his priorities will be? Mr Speaker, as the Chancellor of the | :28:50. | :28:52. | |
Duchy of land and asked I rdceive the administration of the estate in | :28:53. | :28:55. | |
the rents of the Duchy of L`ncaster. I also contribute to the | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
Government's policy of decision-making process for | :29:00. | :29:02. | |
attending cabinet and attending and cheering government committdes. This | :29:03. | :29:06. | |
role is not without precedent under both Labour and Conservativd | :29:07. | :29:11. | |
governments. Thank you, Mr Speaker. I'm pleased that the Governlent | :29:12. | :29:17. | |
plans to ordered racial disparity in public service outcomes, but can I | :29:18. | :29:20. | |
ask ministers, in doing so, to ensure that every government | :29:21. | :29:25. | |
department and agency uses the 011 census classifications which | :29:26. | :29:26. | |
distinguished gypsies and travellers. It's a very helpful | :29:27. | :29:33. | |
contribution. I will indeed ensure that. The annual campus is dxtremely | :29:34. | :29:41. | |
expensive. What is this govdrnment doing to reduce its costs? Ht is | :29:42. | :29:47. | |
right that we make the systdm less expensive. To address these aims are | :29:48. | :29:51. | |
taking sleep I assist you to test new explosive. There will bd 18 more | :29:52. | :30:03. | |
pilots in England and Wales in 017. Mr Speaker, only 51% of 16 to | :30:04. | :30:07. | |
17-year-olds registered to vote compared with 85% of adults. In | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
Neath we've had successful voter registration awareness events to | :30:13. | :30:16. | |
encourage and a deans to register. Willie Minister please expl`in the | :30:17. | :30:19. | |
Government's plans to encourage young people to vote? As part of a | :30:20. | :30:26. | |
democracy that works for evdryone we are determined that young pdople's | :30:27. | :30:30. | |
voices will be heard. That leans going around the country as I am | :30:31. | :30:34. | |
doing to talk with young people about their priorities and how we | :30:35. | :30:37. | |
can ensure they are fully involved in the democratic process. Puestions | :30:38. | :30:47. | |
to the Prime Minister. Mr Stephen Dowty. Thank you, Mr Speaker. This | :30:48. | :30:56. | |
morning I had meetings with ministerial colleagues. I whll have | :30:57. | :30:57. | |
further meetings later todax. Foreign steel is being used in our | :30:58. | :31:10. | |
key defence projects. We know the Prime Minister likes to channel the | :31:11. | :31:13. | |
iron Lady, but when will shd show some metal in standing up for some | :31:14. | :31:20. | |
British made steel? This government has stood up for British made steel | :31:21. | :31:25. | |
and we have made a number of measures for the steel industry But | :31:26. | :31:27. | |
the honourable | :31:28. | :31:28. |