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Later in the programme we can reveal that fewer than 800 people | :01:30. | :01:40. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 2128 seconds | :01:40. | :37:09. | |
found jobs through a back to work Hello. The latest on the Welsh | :37:09. | :37:14. | |
Government scheme designed to get people back to work. And the red | :37:14. | :37:18. | |
trouser wearing mayor of Bristol wants to extend a hand of | :37:18. | :37:26. | |
friendship across the Severn estuary. Let's begin with some | :37:26. | :37:31. | |
comments this morning from the chief-executive of the Welsh | :37:31. | :37:37. | |
supermarket Iceland. He has been commenting on the horsemeat scandal. | :37:37. | :37:43. | |
He has blamed local authorities for driving down the cost of food. He | :37:43. | :37:47. | |
says supermarkets should not be blamed. There might be an element | :37:47. | :37:53. | |
that he would say that but what do you think? I have not seen the | :37:53. | :37:59. | |
comments until this morning but I think we do need a wider look at | :37:59. | :38:06. | |
the whole system. It requires a whole scale looked, not just | :38:06. | :38:14. | |
pointing the finger at one park. is not going away, is it? It is not. | :38:14. | :38:19. | |
There was some complacency from ministers at first but it is now a | :38:19. | :38:29. | |
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much wider than that. Owen Paterson has had several summits with the | :38:30. | :38:33. | |
retailers and farming representatives. I think he is | :38:33. | :38:38. | |
trying to get some control on it but what troubles me more than | :38:38. | :38:43. | |
anything is the fact that criminal activity has undermined the | :38:43. | :38:47. | |
confidence in the industry. When we think about the changes that | :38:47. | :38:53. | |
farmers have had to make for traceability since B S E. If this | :38:53. | :38:58. | |
criminal activity or or local authorities are allowing criminal | :38:59. | :39:04. | |
activity to take place it is all displacing the hard work done by | :39:04. | :39:10. | |
farmers over many years. 800 people find jobs do aback to Work scheme | :39:10. | :39:17. | |
that looks like being wind up one year early. A new scheme should | :39:17. | :39:23. | |
help 20,000 people find work or get qualifications. Ollie have that | :39:23. | :39:32. | |
many took part and formally 800 found work. It has been supported | :39:32. | :39:40. | |
by public money. Our reporter has more. This woman started in | :39:40. | :39:48. | |
business thanks to the organisation. She works as a child minder at her | :39:48. | :39:55. | |
home. I always wanted to work from home and be a child minder. They | :39:55. | :40:00. | |
gave me funding and have always been at the end of the phone if I | :40:00. | :40:09. | |
needed any more training courses. It was launched to help people get | :40:10. | :40:16. | |
into the working world. It was hoped 20,000 people, especially | :40:16. | :40:25. | |
single parents would be as successful as this woman. Around | :40:25. | :40:32. | |
3,000 got qualification a bought fewer than 800 found work. Each of | :40:32. | :40:41. | |
those people cost on average �44,000. Income are they sure they | :40:41. | :40:47. | |
say that the women we spoke to was not a one-off. What has gone wrong | :40:47. | :40:55. | |
with the system? They are looking at winding up the scheme in the | :40:55. | :41:05. | |
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June. �23 million of EU funding is being clawed back. This is simply | :41:07. | :41:13. | |
the tip of a very big iceberg. We know that a lot of arrangements | :41:13. | :41:17. | |
have been made using funding from the European budget which have not | :41:17. | :41:22. | |
achieved the sort of outcomes you would have wanted. The you wanted | :41:22. | :41:27. | |
to improve the economy through schemes such as this one. Another | :41:27. | :41:37. | |
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round of funding starts next year. This man says Wales must get a bang | :41:39. | :41:47. | |
for its bulk. We will learn from this experience. We are very | :41:47. | :41:53. | |
anxious to make the most of whatever level of European funding | :41:53. | :41:59. | |
we get. The deputies Gills minister expects the officials to report | :41:59. | :42:04. | |
back on the scheme next month. He declined to be interviewed saying | :42:04. | :42:10. | |
he did not want to prejudice the outcome. He will make an | :42:10. | :42:15. | |
announcement on whether the Government will close the book on | :42:15. | :42:25. | |
this scheme. 44,000 to keep one job, the Orly created 800 jobs when they | :42:25. | :42:31. | |
hoped to create 20,000, at a time when people are looking for jobs? | :42:31. | :42:39. | |
It is alarming. These inward investment projects were criticised | :42:39. | :42:47. | |
but this really out scores them all. It has not delivered. If we think I | :42:47. | :42:52. | |
there are a whole host of problems that the Labour Party have a run. | :42:52. | :42:59. | |
They had a quango for training. Then New Deal, that was so | :43:00. | :43:04. | |
expensive in comparison. Now this one. It is really alarming the way | :43:05. | :43:09. | |
they throw public money at these projects when there are so many | :43:09. | :43:14. | |
people who need help and support out there. Something like the work | :43:14. | :43:21. | |
programme would be much more effective. The Welsh Government me | :43:21. | :43:24. | |
say they are doing something about this. It is not working but do you | :43:25. | :43:29. | |
think there is enough co-operation between the Government in Cardiff | :43:29. | :43:35. | |
and in Westminster in terms of job creation? Clearly this is about | :43:35. | :43:39. | |
disappointing results. There is no getting away from that. The project | :43:39. | :43:49. | |
is being stopped before it got to its end. I do not think the work | :43:49. | :43:53. | |
programme can be compared. There is another one brought in which is | :43:53. | :44:03. | |
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seven times more effective. Without question the Work Programme has had | :44:04. | :44:09. | |
great success. But this one has not. We are hearing the phrase lessons | :44:09. | :44:13. | |
will be learned but there is a whole host of failures in this | :44:13. | :44:21. | |
field when money has been thrown at a projects. We could look at | :44:21. | :44:26. | |
Communities First again. European money is being thrown at projects | :44:26. | :44:31. | |
in many areas that have not worked out. In my area it has been | :44:31. | :44:40. | |
successful but in other areas it has not. I would defend the Work | :44:40. | :44:47. | |
Programme. When it ties in with the universal credit it will be | :44:47. | :44:50. | |
transformational, getting people into work, getting them Experience, | :44:50. | :44:56. | |
many do not have the discipline of going to work, all looking forward. | :44:56. | :45:02. | |
You cannot get away from the fact that �40,000 per job could have | :45:02. | :45:07. | |
been spent on helping families into work. This is one job-creation | :45:08. | :45:15. | |
scheme which perhaps has not been very effective. The jobs fund, I | :45:15. | :45:23. | |
think that is �95 million. It is already ahead of target. I have had | :45:23. | :45:27. | |
very positive reports about how the scheme works and that people are | :45:27. | :45:33. | |
now in jobs. Staff have been taken on that would not have been taken | :45:33. | :45:39. | |
on without this programme. these jobs going to be sustainable? | :45:39. | :45:47. | |
I hope so. One factor is that many of the participants have received | :45:47. | :45:54. | |
training and qualifications. One in four have received that. A fraction | :45:54. | :45:57. | |
of those who received qualifications have been able to | :45:57. | :46:04. | |
gain employment. That is the important thing about this. Clearly | :46:04. | :46:12. | |
this project at �40,000 per job has not contributed any way to success. | :46:12. | :46:17. | |
This scheme has not been able to create jobs at a time when people | :46:17. | :46:23. | |
want jobs? There have been failings and that is why it is coming to an | :46:23. | :46:33. | |
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end. You cannot see it is coming to an end so where does not matter. | :46:34. | :46:39. | |
There are lower growth rates all- over come in Germany, everywhere. | :46:39. | :46:44. | |
Now time for some more devolution talk, not Scottish or Welsh, but | :46:44. | :46:54. | |
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English. The first electric -- elected mayor of Bristol is showing | :46:56. | :47:02. | |
quite a bit of interest in Wales so we thought we would return the | :47:02. | :47:09. | |
gesture. Bristol is England's 8th largest city. It has a population | :47:09. | :47:17. | |
of 80,000 more than Cardiff. Nearly 6 million passengers took to these | :47:17. | :47:23. | |
guys from Bristol airport last year. In the first half of 2012, 18% of | :47:23. | :47:29. | |
these passengers were travelling to or from Wales. It is more a than | :47:29. | :47:39. | |
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use the Cardiff airport. The city boasts Britain's biggest deep-sea | :47:41. | :47:49. | |
port. Business rate discounts, simpler planning rules and super- | :47:49. | :47:56. | |
fast broadband have been enticing firms in. Bristol market itself has | :47:56. | :48:01. | |
more highly skilled workers than any comparable English city. This | :48:01. | :48:09. | |
man became the first directly elected mayor last November. | :48:09. | :48:13. | |
Despite the cross-border rivalry he told me he was keen to work with | :48:13. | :48:21. | |
Wales. We are in effect a single region. Maybe that is a difficult | :48:21. | :48:29. | |
argument to make from England to Wales. If you compare us with our | :48:29. | :48:35. | |
region shared between Copenhagen and southern Sweden, there is a | :48:35. | :48:40. | |
region that works really well together, connected by Abridge, I | :48:40. | :48:46. | |
see a lot of similarities. That is an incredibly successful region in | :48:46. | :48:51. | |
northern Europe. I would like us to share a lot of our common | :48:51. | :48:57. | |
challenges and see whether we can prosper together. Have you had any | :48:57. | :49:04. | |
discussions with the Welsh Government? I am certainly looking | :49:04. | :49:12. | |
to do that. Within three months. I have been having lots of | :49:12. | :49:16. | |
consultation and meetings with Government ministers in London but | :49:16. | :49:22. | |
I am hoping to extend those conversations. There is some common | :49:22. | :49:27. | |
ground, some differing views might come when we discuss the barrage, | :49:27. | :49:35. | |
you are not a fan of that, are you? It is a regional issue. I think it | :49:35. | :49:39. | |
is in the interests of the whole region that we have a really | :49:39. | :49:48. | |
successful port in the Severn. A report is as successful port. It is | :49:48. | :49:53. | |
close to Wales. I think if the trade at that port is damaged it | :49:53. | :50:02. | |
damages us all. No barrage across the Severn as fun as you are | :50:02. | :50:07. | |
concerned? No, I think there are much better ways of using the tidal | :50:07. | :50:12. | |
power of the Severn estuary. There are much better ways in terms of | :50:12. | :50:17. | |
the technology. We could develop technology within the Severn | :50:17. | :50:23. | |
Estuary that we can export to the rest of the world. We cannot export | :50:23. | :50:30. | |
are badges, they are a pretty basic technology. If we develop lagoons, | :50:30. | :50:36. | |
other forms of tidal and wave and other ways of extracting be energy | :50:36. | :50:46. | |
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from the water and wind, then we have got a great potential export. | :50:46. | :50:53. | |
The private owners at Bristol airport are not keen on the | :50:53. | :50:58. | |
Government buying Cardiff airport. I am all for competition. I do not | :50:58. | :51:03. | |
have a complaint about competition but we like to feel it is | :51:03. | :51:08. | |
competition on an even playing field. The danger is that Wales | :51:08. | :51:14. | |
gets special deals on taxation in which case it would not be on a | :51:14. | :51:19. | |
level playing field. I think that is the fear of Bristol Airport. | :51:19. | :51:29. | |
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Nevertheless, we have got two was slightly unsatisfactory airports. I | :51:32. | :51:39. | |
think it would be great if we combine forces. The problem is we | :51:39. | :51:42. | |
have one in private ownership and one that is going to be in public | :51:42. | :51:48. | |
ownership, that would make that more difficult. I am keen on | :51:49. | :51:57. | |
finding more environmental ways of travelling. We should invest in | :51:57. | :52:03. | |
real trouble. That is the obvious choice for domestic travel. Flying | :52:03. | :52:08. | |
between cities in the UK would become a rather silly option. You | :52:08. | :52:16. | |
are given more hassle of travel and the fact it does not take you into | :52:16. | :52:25. | |
the heart of our cities. Rail is ideal, even as a link to Europe. | :52:25. | :52:29. | |
Now let's talk about something that affects both your constituencies, | :52:29. | :52:33. | |
the barrage, what do you think of the view of the Mayor that he does | :52:33. | :52:39. | |
not think a barrage across the estuary is a way to go? I have | :52:39. | :52:44. | |
stated my opinion publicly already. There are a lot of serious | :52:44. | :52:48. | |
unanswered questions about the bad Ryeish, in terms of the Engineering | :52:49. | :52:56. | |
and impact on ports. It would affect Cardiff port as well. I | :52:56. | :53:00. | |
think those things have to be answered before we can move on any | :53:00. | :53:06. | |
further in that debate. It would affect your constituency as well? | :53:06. | :53:14. | |
It would. There would be a huge sub-station cited in Barry. That is | :53:14. | :53:19. | |
a major issue that has to be overcome. We do not know if the | :53:19. | :53:27. | |
money is available yet. We do not know anything about the timescale. | :53:27. | :53:32. | |
Let us not dismiss it out of hand but I think there are some pretty | :53:32. | :53:38. | |
big hurdles in the way of development. It is natural Bristol | :53:38. | :53:42. | |
would oppose it because it would close it off to the three access it | :53:42. | :53:48. | |
has at the moment. The mayor does raise some interesting discussions | :53:48. | :53:58. | |
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about partnership. PCs the area as one big region. -- he sees the area. | :54:01. | :54:06. | |
Sometimes it becomes an obsession to do things differently in Wales | :54:06. | :54:13. | |
simply because we could. There is a example of devolution in England. I | :54:13. | :54:19. | |
would hope there could be a warm relationship between Wales and | :54:19. | :54:26. | |
Bristol. Some people have more in common with him than they have with | :54:26. | :54:33. | |
different parts of Wales. I had a debate on cancer care and the | :54:33. | :54:39. | |
differences between Wales and England and one MP from the south- | :54:39. | :54:43. | |
west called for more co-operation between South Wales and south-west | :54:43. | :54:49. | |
for treatment. That can deliver better outcomes both for people in | :54:49. | :54:57. | |
Wales and in England. He has appoint. Absolutely. I am very | :54:57. | :55:07. | |
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happy to be Bristol at football as we did yesterday! But we have got | :55:12. | :55:18. | |
facilities end Cardiff and in Bristol, people commute between the | :55:18. | :55:23. | |
two. We have the potential to build this region up for creative | :55:23. | :55:31. | |
industries. Your welcome what he was saying? I certainly do. We have | :55:32. | :55:36. | |
to discuss the possibilities. underlines the need for better | :55:36. | :55:46. | |
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communication links between Wales and the south-west. That damages | :55:47. | :55:52. | |
west Wales, south-west Wales as well as East Wales. There has to be | :55:53. | :56:02. | |
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a better opportunity for her creating better transportation. | :56:06. | :56:14. | |
is something I think we would all be in agreement about. The airport | :56:14. | :56:24. | |
is one area where I think the competition will remain. Hopefully | :56:24. | :56:34. | |
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we can bring people from Bristol for a certain journeys. You might | :56:34. | :56:39. | |
disagree on that part. Now we have time for a quick look back to some | :56:39. | :56:49. | |
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of the political stories of the week. A conservative rural affairs | :56:53. | :56:57. | |
spokesperson wants councils to test all meat entering the public sector | :56:57. | :57:06. | |
food chain. It follows the horsemeat scandal. The Welsh | :57:06. | :57:10. | |
Secretary David Jones has been criticised for suggesting same-sex | :57:10. | :57:15. | |
partners cannot provide a safe environment for bringing up | :57:15. | :57:21. | |
children. He says his comments had been taken out of context and he | :57:21. | :57:28. | |
was fully supportive of same-sex relationships. The possibility of a | :57:28. | :57:36. | |
so-called super prison. It emerged the most borrowed book from be a | :57:36. | :57:45. | |
House of Commons library is how to be an MP. Mr Flynn's guide was | :57:45. | :57:55. | |
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This man tells me he has actually bought the book! Now the Welsh | :58:03. | :58:09. | |
Secretary has clarified his position from the comment seat made | :58:09. | :58:16. | |
on gay marriage. Labour wanted a public apology from him. He has not | :58:16. | :58:21. | |
had a great week really. He was accused of driving 100 yards across | :58:21. | :58:28. | |
the road to Downing Street. He has made inappropriate comments about | :58:28. | :58:33. | |
safety of children in same-sex partnerships. I hang glad he has | :58:33. | :58:36. | |
made a clarification but there should have been serious questions | :58:36. | :58:41. | |
over him making such comments in the first place. I respect those | :58:41. | :58:51. | |
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who oppose the same-sex marriage built but they should not be -- | :58:57. | :59:02. | |
politician should not be telling people that it is not safe and | :59:02. | :59:10. | |
secure. We have got to be careful. These are very serious issues. When | :59:10. | :59:15. | |
comments are taken out of context, this was recorded on Tuesday, it | :59:15. | :59:22. | |
was not reported until Thursday. If it was such a valid story it would | :59:22. | :59:29. | |
have hit the media immediately at the time. There has been a specific | :59:29. | :59:32. | |
angle taken on this by the Labour Party because they want to cause | :59:32. | :59:38. | |
damage. That is part of their role. Independent journalists would have | :59:38. | :59:42. | |
picked up on this if it was the sort of story They are trying to | :59:43. | :59:48. | |
portray it at. We need to take it in context of what he intended to | :59:49. | :59:52. |