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Hello and welcome to Tuesday in Parliament, our look at the best | 0:00:13 | 0:00:17 | |
of the day in the Commons and the Lords. | 0:00:17 | 0:00:19 | |
On this programme: | 0:00:19 | 0:00:21 | |
The Government promises improvements to an NHS | 0:00:21 | 0:00:25 | |
helpline following the death of a one-year-old boy | 0:00:25 | 0:00:27 | |
when his parents were told there was nothing to worry about. | 0:00:27 | 0:00:30 | |
The report says they need to be trained to appreciate | 0:00:30 | 0:00:34 | |
when there is a need to probe further, how to recognise a complex | 0:00:34 | 0:00:38 | |
call and when to call in clinical advice earlier. | 0:00:38 | 0:00:43 | |
The Chairman of UK Athletics suggests British athletes guilty | 0:00:43 | 0:00:45 | |
of serious doping should be banned for life. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:48 | |
Athletes guilty of serious doping offences should never in future | 0:00:48 | 0:00:53 | |
represent Great Britain in athletics. | 0:00:53 | 0:00:57 | |
And how liberal a politician is the Justice Secretary? | 0:00:57 | 0:01:02 | |
I'm not sure members on the opposite benches would agree | 0:01:02 | 0:01:05 | |
that I have become a sandal-wearing, | 0:01:05 | 0:01:07 | |
muesli-munching vegan vaguester. | 0:01:07 | 0:01:13 | |
But first, MPs have spoken of the "shocking failings" | 0:01:13 | 0:01:15 | |
in the case of William Mead. | 0:01:15 | 0:01:16 | |
12-month-old William, from Cornwall, died | 0:01:16 | 0:01:18 | |
in December 2014. | 0:01:18 | 0:01:21 | |
An inquest found that William died from the inflammatory condition, | 0:01:21 | 0:01:23 | |
sepsis, as a result of a chest infection. | 0:01:23 | 0:01:27 | |
A report for NHS England said GPs failed to diagnose him. | 0:01:27 | 0:01:31 | |
But it also said that the youngster might have lived if call handlers | 0:01:31 | 0:01:36 | |
on the out-of-hours NHS helpline 111 had realised the seriousness | 0:01:36 | 0:01:38 | |
of his condition. | 0:01:39 | 0:01:41 | |
In the Commons, the Health Secretary said he was determined | 0:01:41 | 0:01:43 | |
that the Health Service learn lessons from the case. | 0:01:43 | 0:01:50 | |
I've met William's mother, Melissa, who has spoken movingly | 0:01:50 | 0:01:52 | |
about the loss of her son. | 0:01:52 | 0:01:56 | |
Quite simply, we let her, her family and William down | 0:01:56 | 0:02:00 | |
in the worst possible way through serious failings | 0:02:00 | 0:02:02 | |
in the NHS care offered. | 0:02:02 | 0:02:06 | |
I would like to apologise to them on behalf of the Government | 0:02:06 | 0:02:08 | |
and the NHS for what happened. | 0:02:08 | 0:02:10 | |
He said the report's recommendations were far-reaching. | 0:02:10 | 0:02:14 | |
The report concludes that there were four areas of missed | 0:02:14 | 0:02:19 | |
opportunity by the local health services, when a different course | 0:02:19 | 0:02:22 | |
of action should have been taken. | 0:02:22 | 0:02:26 | |
These include primary care and general practice | 0:02:26 | 0:02:30 | |
appointments by William's family, out of hours calls with their GP | 0:02:30 | 0:02:33 | |
and the NHS 111 service. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:35 | |
Although the report concluded these did not constitute | 0:02:35 | 0:02:38 | |
direct, serious failings by the individuals involved, | 0:02:38 | 0:02:40 | |
had different action been taken at these points, | 0:02:40 | 0:02:44 | |
William would probably have survived. | 0:02:44 | 0:02:51 | |
There were specific recommendations in relation to NHS 111, | 0:02:51 | 0:02:55 | |
which should be treated as a national and not a local issue. | 0:02:55 | 0:02:58 | |
Call advisers are trained not to deviate from the script, | 0:02:58 | 0:03:02 | |
but the report said they need to be trained to appreciate | 0:03:02 | 0:03:05 | |
when there is a need to probe further, how to recognise a complex | 0:03:05 | 0:03:10 | |
call and when to call in clinical advice earlier. | 0:03:10 | 0:03:15 | |
It also cites limited sensitivity in the algorithms used | 0:03:15 | 0:03:19 | |
by call handlers to red flag signs related to sepsis. | 0:03:19 | 0:03:25 | |
The replacement of NHS Direct, predominantly a nurse-led service | 0:03:25 | 0:03:32 | |
with NHS 111, means the service relies on call handlers who receive | 0:03:32 | 0:03:34 | |
as little as six weeks of training. | 0:03:34 | 0:03:37 | |
So when will the Health Secretary review the training call | 0:03:37 | 0:03:40 | |
handlers receive and will he consider increasing the number | 0:03:40 | 0:03:43 | |
of clinically trained staff available | 0:03:43 | 0:03:44 | |
to respond to calls? | 0:03:44 | 0:03:48 | |
Does the Health Secretary have confidence that the 111 service | 0:03:48 | 0:03:51 | |
is fit to diagnose patients with complex | 0:03:51 | 0:03:53 | |
life-threatening problems, who may not always fit the computer | 0:03:53 | 0:03:56 | |
algorithm call handlers have to rely on? | 0:03:56 | 0:04:06 | |
I was one of the ministers to set up NHS direct. | 0:04:09 | 0:04:11 | |
One of the first cases where we had to review the algorithms | 0:04:11 | 0:04:18 | |
was in a case of meningitis. | 0:04:18 | 0:04:19 | |
Can I therefore say to the Secretary of | 0:04:19 | 0:04:21 | |
State that just looking at algorithms with just call | 0:04:21 | 0:04:24 | |
handlers will not be sufficient. | 0:04:24 | 0:04:25 | |
It is clinically exceptionally difficult | 0:04:25 | 0:04:26 | |
and this review is too limited to address the problem. | 0:04:26 | 0:04:28 | |
Like many deaths in the NHS, it is always sad | 0:04:28 | 0:04:34 | |
to look and see it was catalogue of missed opportunities, or errors. | 0:04:34 | 0:04:37 | |
One thing I would like to pick up is young children are very | 0:04:37 | 0:04:40 | |
hard to assess. | 0:04:40 | 0:04:46 | |
They are quite hard to assess when you are seeing them. | 0:04:46 | 0:04:48 | |
They can be running around and then keel over half an hour later. | 0:04:48 | 0:04:51 | |
I think it would be particularly hard | 0:04:51 | 0:04:53 | |
to pick up clues over the phone. | 0:04:53 | 0:04:55 | |
When the NHS Direct services throughout the UK started | 0:04:55 | 0:04:57 | |
they were based in local out of hours GP centres. | 0:04:57 | 0:04:59 | |
It meant the nurse could pass the phone and say, can you come | 0:04:59 | 0:05:02 | |
and chat, I'm not sure. | 0:05:02 | 0:05:05 | |
We had rules in our local one that if it was a | 0:05:05 | 0:05:08 | |
young child, they got a visit from the mobile car. | 0:05:08 | 0:05:10 | |
The Secretary of State said he felt the public had | 0:05:10 | 0:05:17 | |
confidence in 111 because of the high call volumes | 0:05:17 | 0:05:19 | |
and they had increased. | 0:05:19 | 0:05:20 | |
I do not think that is the case. | 0:05:20 | 0:05:25 | |
I think the confidence is shaky at best and this case could well | 0:05:25 | 0:05:28 | |
shatter that confidence even further. | 0:05:28 | 0:05:29 | |
Unlike the confidence we all felt when we had the NHS Direct. | 0:05:29 | 0:05:39 | |
He will know that we are pressing for a campaign similar to the Fast | 0:05:39 | 0:05:43 | |
Campaign for Stroke so that early diagnosis can save lives. | 0:05:43 | 0:05:47 | |
Will the Secretary of State now consider very seriously | 0:05:47 | 0:05:50 | |
funding a campaign such as the Fast Campaign for sepsis, | 0:05:50 | 0:05:53 | |
because there are thousands of preventable deaths | 0:05:53 | 0:05:59 | |
which could now be brought about by some simple funding | 0:05:59 | 0:06:01 | |
so everyone is aware of the signs of sepsis? | 0:06:01 | 0:06:08 | |
One of the reasons that the number of calls to 111 have trebled | 0:06:08 | 0:06:12 | |
of course is people find it impossible to get to see the GP. | 0:06:12 | 0:06:15 | |
As well as the shocking failings of this | 0:06:15 | 0:06:17 | |
family's GPs in this case, is it not the case the Government | 0:06:17 | 0:06:20 | |
was warned when it abolished the popular and successful NHS | 0:06:20 | 0:06:23 | |
Direct of the consequences of that action and | 0:06:23 | 0:06:29 | |
replacing it with a non-clinician led service? | 0:06:29 | 0:06:39 | |
Will he look personally at the performance of 111 | 0:06:39 | 0:06:41 | |
in the south-west, which has been bedevilled by failings ever | 0:06:41 | 0:06:44 | |
since it was set up? | 0:06:44 | 0:06:45 | |
I would gently say to the honourable gentleman that when it was set up, | 0:06:46 | 0:06:50 | |
it was set up with the support of the opposition. | 0:06:50 | 0:06:52 | |
Jeremy Hunt. | 0:06:52 | 0:06:53 | |
The boss of the company caught up in a row over allegations that | 0:06:53 | 0:06:56 | |
asylum seekers' houses in Middlesbrough had their front | 0:06:56 | 0:06:58 | |
doors painted red has said many of the doors were painted 20 | 0:06:58 | 0:07:01 | |
years ago, when the properties were occupied by private tenants. | 0:07:01 | 0:07:04 | |
Stuart Monk, the owner of housing firm Jomast, told a committee of MPs | 0:07:04 | 0:07:09 | |
that no asylum seeker had complained to his company about the colour | 0:07:09 | 0:07:12 | |
of his front door. | 0:07:12 | 0:07:13 | |
If it is true that your company has painted the doors of asylum seekers | 0:07:20 | 0:07:24 | |
in red, that of course would be despicable, | 0:07:24 | 0:07:26 | |
would it not? | 0:07:26 | 0:07:27 | |
Well, those doors were painted red probably 20 years ago. | 0:07:27 | 0:07:32 | |
20 years ago, or probably older, over 20 years, | 0:07:32 | 0:07:37 | |
before the advent of asylum accommodation, in actual fact. | 0:07:37 | 0:07:43 | |
There was a practice for us to paint the properties those colours | 0:07:43 | 0:07:46 | |
in those days and when we began to transfer | 0:07:46 | 0:07:53 | |
the use of those properties by private tenants, we did not | 0:07:53 | 0:07:56 | |
change the colours. | 0:07:56 | 0:08:00 | |
If they indeed were painted on the doors of those | 0:08:00 | 0:08:10 | |
seekers, this would point to perhaps a dark page in history, | 0:08:14 | 0:08:17 | |
where we would somehow | 0:08:17 | 0:08:19 | |
identify the doors of certain types of people with a certain colour. | 0:08:19 | 0:08:22 | |
That is the point I was making. | 0:08:22 | 0:08:24 | |
If indeed that was the case, that would | 0:08:24 | 0:08:26 | |
be unacceptable, would it not? | 0:08:26 | 0:08:27 | |
It would be if that was the case. | 0:08:27 | 0:08:29 | |
You are telling the committee there was no deliberate decision | 0:08:29 | 0:08:31 | |
to paint those properties in red? | 0:08:31 | 0:08:33 | |
Exactly. | 0:08:33 | 0:08:34 | |
Contrary to what we have seen in the newspapers and contrary | 0:08:34 | 0:08:37 | |
to what the minister told the House in the | 0:08:37 | 0:08:39 | |
Commons last week? | 0:08:39 | 0:08:40 | |
Exactly. | 0:08:40 | 0:08:41 | |
The Home Office have been inspecting these properties for 20 years. | 0:08:41 | 0:08:43 | |
They have been well aware that they have been painted red. | 0:08:43 | 0:08:48 | |
They knew the doors of asylum seekers were being painted red? | 0:08:48 | 0:08:50 | |
They had been inspecting the properties, yes. | 0:08:50 | 0:08:52 | |
The Home Office was aware? | 0:08:52 | 0:08:53 | |
Yes. | 0:08:53 | 0:08:58 | |
That is very odd because I was speaking to one of your former | 0:08:58 | 0:09:01 | |
tenants, who was an asylum seeker. | 0:09:01 | 0:09:08 | |
He told me he had gone to your staff and told you specifically over | 0:09:08 | 0:09:11 | |
the years, this was two years ago, that he was | 0:09:11 | 0:09:13 | |
suffering from abuse because the door of his house | 0:09:13 | 0:09:17 | |
was red and the door of other asylum seekers was also red. | 0:09:17 | 0:09:21 | |
He then went with a pot of paint and he painted his door white, | 0:09:21 | 0:09:27 | |
because he was fed up of having people abusing him | 0:09:27 | 0:09:31 | |
because they identified the property as being the property | 0:09:31 | 0:09:33 | |
of an asylum seeker. | 0:09:33 | 0:09:35 | |
Your officers then went round and repainted | 0:09:35 | 0:09:39 | |
the front door red. | 0:09:39 | 0:09:40 | |
That is not acceptable behaviour, is it? | 0:09:40 | 0:09:49 | |
We are not aware of any reported incident regarding giving rise | 0:09:49 | 0:09:52 | |
to any issues regarding that red door. | 0:09:52 | 0:09:54 | |
There was no reported incident. | 0:09:54 | 0:09:57 | |
There has not been a reported incident regarding a red door | 0:09:57 | 0:10:00 | |
issue received by my company or by G4S in all the time | 0:10:00 | 0:10:03 | |
that we been providing this service. | 0:10:03 | 0:10:04 | |
You are in receipt of many millions of pounds | 0:10:04 | 0:10:06 | |
from the taxpayer, indirectly from G4S. | 0:10:06 | 0:10:10 | |
Should you not have taken it upon yourself, knowing that this | 0:10:10 | 0:10:20 | |
contract is one you value, to make sure that you act | 0:10:21 | 0:10:24 | |
in a humane way and being notified of this you | 0:10:24 | 0:10:26 | |
should have acted immediately to try and see what was going wrong? | 0:10:26 | 0:10:29 | |
You are telling us very Pontius Pilate like, | 0:10:29 | 0:10:31 | |
you had nothing to do with this and you did not | 0:10:31 | 0:10:34 | |
know about it? | 0:10:34 | 0:10:35 | |
We have had no reported incidents from any asylum seekers | 0:10:35 | 0:10:37 | |
regarding doors at all. | 0:10:37 | 0:10:38 | |
Ever? | 0:10:38 | 0:10:39 | |
Ever. | 0:10:39 | 0:10:40 | |
And you have looked at your files? | 0:10:40 | 0:10:46 | |
Correct. | 0:10:46 | 0:10:50 | |
You know in giving evidence to committees, if it suddenly turns | 0:10:50 | 0:10:53 | |
out the committee has been misled, you | 0:10:53 | 0:10:54 | |
know it is very serious? | 0:10:55 | 0:10:56 | |
Indeed I do. | 0:10:56 | 0:10:57 | |
But I'm not aware of any reported issues from asylum seekers | 0:10:57 | 0:11:01 | |
regarding the issue of red doors. | 0:11:01 | 0:11:02 | |
A Justice Minister given the job of looking at curbing legal claims | 0:11:02 | 0:11:05 | |
against British troops return from war has condemned some | 0:11:05 | 0:11:07 | |
solicitors as "parasitic" and "ambulance chasers". | 0:11:07 | 0:11:09 | |
Dominic Raab's comments came after the Prime Minister said | 0:11:09 | 0:11:11 | |
he wanted to "stamp out" what he called "spurious" legal | 0:11:11 | 0:11:13 | |
claims against British troops. | 0:11:13 | 0:11:18 | |
Does my right honourable friend share my anger and that | 0:11:18 | 0:11:20 | |
of my constituent Carol Valentine, whose | 0:11:20 | 0:11:24 | |
son Simon was tragically killed while serving his country | 0:11:24 | 0:11:32 | |
in Afghanistan at law firms | 0:11:32 | 0:11:34 | |
heavily involved in actions against members and serving | 0:11:34 | 0:11:36 | |
members of our armed forces? | 0:11:36 | 0:11:37 | |
What action can the Government take to take down this industry, | 0:11:37 | 0:11:40 | |
which is causing unnecessary distress to our armed forces | 0:11:40 | 0:11:42 | |
and their families? | 0:11:42 | 0:11:43 | |
We do share my honourable friend's concerns. | 0:11:43 | 0:11:45 | |
He will be aware of the announcement on Friday, the professionalism | 0:11:45 | 0:11:48 | |
of the Armed Forces is second to none, but we cannot | 0:11:48 | 0:11:58 | |
have returning troops hounded by lawyers pursuing | 0:12:01 | 0:12:03 | |
spurious claims. | 0:12:03 | 0:12:04 | |
The Justice Secretary has asked me to chair a working group looking | 0:12:04 | 0:12:07 | |
at all aspects of this, no-win, no fee, time it's | 0:12:07 | 0:12:14 | |
claims and the disciplinary sanctions against law firms | 0:12:14 | 0:12:16 | |
who are bound to be abusing the system so | 0:12:16 | 0:12:19 | |
that we prevent any malicious or parasitic litigation | 0:12:19 | 0:12:21 | |
against our brave armed forces. | 0:12:21 | 0:12:22 | |
Does my right honourable friend agree that people | 0:12:22 | 0:12:24 | |
in this House will find it despicable that two firms | 0:12:24 | 0:12:26 | |
and possibly more are actively seeking, | 0:12:26 | 0:12:28 | |
soliciting in fact, people in Iraq to make spurious and bogus claims | 0:12:28 | 0:12:31 | |
against our servicemen overseas? | 0:12:31 | 0:12:36 | |
Will he reject reports in newspapers that we still intend to give legal | 0:12:36 | 0:12:39 | |
aid to these appalling claims? | 0:12:39 | 0:12:44 | |
I thank the honourable gentleman. | 0:12:44 | 0:12:49 | |
He will have heard the remarks I made earlier. | 0:12:49 | 0:12:52 | |
I am concerned about how the system operates. | 0:12:52 | 0:12:53 | |
It is important that there is accountability for | 0:12:53 | 0:12:56 | |
wrongdoing but that does not mean giving lawyers a licence to harass | 0:12:56 | 0:12:59 | |
our Armed Forces. | 0:12:59 | 0:13:00 | |
We will look at every angle, including the legal aid | 0:13:00 | 0:13:06 | |
point he has made as well as no-win and and disciplinary powers | 0:13:06 | 0:13:08 | |
against lawyers who try to abuse the system. | 0:13:08 | 0:13:10 | |
Later the Justice Secretary came under fire, from his own side, | 0:13:10 | 0:13:13 | |
after confirming the appointment of the outgoing Chief Inspector | 0:13:13 | 0:13:15 | |
of Prisons, Nick Hardwick, as the new head of the Parole Board. | 0:13:15 | 0:13:24 | |
The Secretary of State made his name as someone who would take on vested | 0:13:24 | 0:13:28 | |
interests and yet he has gone native in record time and the Secretary | 0:13:28 | 0:13:32 | |
of State for Justice, including hanging | 0:13:32 | 0:13:39 | |
off every word of the Howard League for Penal Reform says, | 0:13:39 | 0:13:43 | |
the NUT of the justice system and reappointed | 0:13:43 | 0:13:45 | |
Nick Hardwick. | 0:13:45 | 0:13:46 | |
When will he get back his Mojo and put the victims of crime | 0:13:46 | 0:13:49 | |
at the heart of what he is doing? | 0:13:50 | 0:13:51 | |
Come back Ken Clarke, all is forgiven. | 0:13:51 | 0:13:53 | |
I'm grateful to the member for Shipley. | 0:13:53 | 0:13:58 | |
I'm not sure members on the opposite benches would agree | 0:13:58 | 0:14:01 | |
that I have become a sandal-wearing, | 0:14:01 | 0:14:02 | |
muesli-munching vegan and vaguester. | 0:14:02 | 0:14:07 | |
I think people will think I was the same blue Tory that | 0:14:07 | 0:14:10 | |
I always have been. | 0:14:10 | 0:14:11 | |
It is because I am a conservative that I believe in the rule of law | 0:14:11 | 0:14:14 | |
as the foundation stone of civilisation. | 0:14:14 | 0:14:16 | |
Because I am a Conservative I believe evil must be punished. | 0:14:16 | 0:14:18 | |
It is also because I am a Conservative and a Christian that | 0:14:18 | 0:14:21 | |
I believe in redemption and I think the purpose of our prison system | 0:14:21 | 0:14:24 | |
is to keep people safe by making people better. | 0:14:24 | 0:14:27 | |
Michael Gove. | 0:14:30 | 0:14:31 | |
You're watching our run-down of the day in the Commons | 0:14:31 | 0:14:33 | |
Still to come: A possible way forward for the crisis-hit steel | 0:14:34 | 0:14:36 | |
industry. | 0:14:36 | 0:14:38 | |
It was one year ago that the scandal of widespread doping by Russian | 0:14:39 | 0:14:42 | |
athletes was first revealed. | 0:14:42 | 0:14:44 | |
Since then, there's been reports of cover-ups of doping practices | 0:14:44 | 0:14:48 | |
by the sport's governing body. | 0:14:48 | 0:14:50 | |
A parliamentary committee is now investigating the scandal. | 0:14:50 | 0:14:54 | |
The chairman of UK Athletics has suggested that British athletes | 0:14:54 | 0:14:57 | |
found guilty of serious doping should be banned | 0:14:57 | 0:15:00 | |
from competing for life. | 0:15:00 | 0:15:02 | |
He said it was a measure that the UK could take on its own. | 0:15:02 | 0:15:05 | |
Which is attempting to ensure that athletes who are guilty of serious | 0:15:06 | 0:15:10 | |
doping offences never in future represent | 0:15:10 | 0:15:13 | |
Great Britain in athletics. | 0:15:13 | 0:15:16 | |
It's not necessarily easy to implement but we're talking | 0:15:16 | 0:15:20 | |
with our lawyers to do so. | 0:15:20 | 0:15:21 | |
We've got some announcements quite shortly we'll be able to make that | 0:15:21 | 0:15:24 | |
show we're moving forward on that one. | 0:15:24 | 0:15:26 | |
He called for a rethink of some existing athletics world records. | 0:15:26 | 0:15:30 | |
If you look at a number of world records, they're very old and some | 0:15:30 | 0:15:33 | |
of them don't have a lot of credibility. | 0:15:33 | 0:15:36 | |
I'll give you an example. | 0:15:36 | 0:15:38 | |
The men's shotput record was set in 1990 by an American called | 0:15:38 | 0:15:41 | |
Randy Barnes and today's athletes can't get within about half a metre | 0:15:41 | 0:15:45 | |
of his distance. | 0:15:45 | 0:15:48 | |
He was banned for life from the sport but his record stands | 0:15:48 | 0:15:51 | |
because the ban came subsequent of setting the record. | 0:15:51 | 0:15:55 | |
I'll give you another example. | 0:15:55 | 0:15:56 | |
The women's 400 metre world record from 1985, | 0:15:56 | 0:16:01 | |
today's athletes can't get within seven metres of that record, | 0:16:01 | 0:16:04 | |
set by Marita Koch. | 0:16:04 | 0:16:07 | |
Stasi papers that were subsequently released show that she was | 0:16:07 | 0:16:10 | |
probably using steroids. | 0:16:10 | 0:16:15 | |
Today, there's very little incentive for female 400m runners to break | 0:16:15 | 0:16:19 | |
the world record because it's 50 metres away from them. | 0:16:19 | 0:16:22 | |
What we would like to do is have a debate about ways | 0:16:22 | 0:16:26 | |
in which iniquitous records could be expunged and/or event regulations | 0:16:26 | 0:16:32 | |
could be changed so these records are real again. | 0:16:32 | 0:16:36 | |
He said European athletics is taking it seriously. | 0:16:36 | 0:16:40 | |
The issue for me is the watching public at a major event | 0:16:40 | 0:16:47 | |
and the athletes lining up on the start line or in the field | 0:16:47 | 0:16:52 | |
have to believe that the records that are standing out there that | 0:16:52 | 0:16:57 | |
they're chasing as well as chasing victory are credible | 0:16:57 | 0:17:00 | |
and ultimately beatable. | 0:17:00 | 0:17:05 | |
Maybe not for 10 years or 20 years, but they were set fairly | 0:17:05 | 0:17:08 | |
and if in certain events that just isn't the case then it is hugely | 0:17:08 | 0:17:13 | |
unhealthy for the sport and it's been the sort of sin that that | 0:17:13 | 0:17:21 | |
hasn't spoken its name for so long. | 0:17:21 | 0:17:22 | |
So if you go to the throwing events now, some of the big throws | 0:17:22 | 0:17:26 | |
in the discus, the hammer, they mark out in the V the distance | 0:17:26 | 0:17:32 | |
and they have blocks with the championship record, | 0:17:32 | 0:17:35 | |
the European record, whatever it might be, | 0:17:35 | 0:17:39 | |
and often you see the world record is this tiny little flag way out, | 0:17:39 | 0:17:43 | |
almost as if the sport is too embarrassed to admit that's | 0:17:43 | 0:17:46 | |
the world record and if you take a young child and they ask | 0:17:46 | 0:17:50 | |
what that's about, you start to feel very grubby. | 0:17:50 | 0:17:55 | |
It's been a bad few months for the steel industry. | 0:17:55 | 0:17:58 | |
More than 4,000 jobs have been lost at steelmaking plants in Redcar, | 0:17:58 | 0:18:01 | |
Port Talbot, Scunthorpe, Cambuslang and Motherwell. | 0:18:01 | 0:18:05 | |
The blame has been put on high energy prices, | 0:18:05 | 0:18:07 | |
the strength of pound and competition from China. | 0:18:07 | 0:18:11 | |
So how can the crisis in steel be overcome? | 0:18:11 | 0:18:14 | |
A South Yorkshire Labour MP thinks one solution might lie | 0:18:14 | 0:18:17 | |
in the shale gas industry. | 0:18:17 | 0:18:19 | |
In essence, we need to understand that the shale industry offers one | 0:18:20 | 0:18:24 | |
of those rare opportunities to create a new demand for steel, | 0:18:24 | 0:18:28 | |
something that we badly need at the moment, a new sense of hope | 0:18:28 | 0:18:32 | |
therefore for a positive future for what it is one | 0:18:32 | 0:18:34 | |
of our foundation industries. | 0:18:34 | 0:18:37 | |
The opportunities for steel as part of the shale gas supply chain focus | 0:18:37 | 0:18:40 | |
on two main capabilities. | 0:18:40 | 0:18:43 | |
First of all, the industry could need over 12,000km of high | 0:18:43 | 0:18:48 | |
quality steel casing costing ?2.3 million, | 0:18:48 | 0:18:52 | |
as was pointed out earlier. | 0:18:52 | 0:18:54 | |
The industry could need 50 drilling rigs, costing 1.6 | 0:18:54 | 0:18:57 | |
billion to manufacture. | 0:18:57 | 0:19:00 | |
As long as fracking is conducted in a balanced and measured way, | 0:19:00 | 0:19:04 | |
I believe the advantages for our local and national economies | 0:19:04 | 0:19:08 | |
far outweigh the disadvantages. | 0:19:08 | 0:19:12 | |
Shale would offer significant opportunities for many UK | 0:19:12 | 0:19:14 | |
industries. | 0:19:15 | 0:19:16 | |
It is estimated that it will require ?2.3 billion worth and 12,000 | 0:19:16 | 0:19:21 | |
kilometres of steel. | 0:19:21 | 0:19:24 | |
Recycling and waste water by domestic businesses will also be | 0:19:24 | 0:19:27 | |
required and would be a ?4.1 billion opportunity. | 0:19:27 | 0:19:32 | |
The government policy on shale is that it can make a significant | 0:19:32 | 0:19:35 | |
contribution to our energy security, environmental protection | 0:19:35 | 0:19:38 | |
and to economic growth if it is managed carefully | 0:19:38 | 0:19:44 | |
and regulated responsibly. | 0:19:44 | 0:19:47 | |
I think that we heard from all sides the House the desire to arrive | 0:19:47 | 0:19:50 | |
at just that balance between recognising the opportunity | 0:19:50 | 0:19:53 | |
but dealing with the risks and with legitimate concerns. | 0:19:53 | 0:19:58 | |
Nick Bowles. | 0:19:59 | 0:20:00 | |
The government has defended its family test, the measure | 0:20:00 | 0:20:02 | |
by which every new policy is examined for its impact | 0:20:02 | 0:20:05 | |
on the family. | 0:20:05 | 0:20:07 | |
The test is designed to make sure that laws support stable families. | 0:20:07 | 0:20:11 | |
The Labour peer Lady Lister asked whether changes to welfare limiting | 0:20:11 | 0:20:15 | |
financial support to two children actually passed that test | 0:20:15 | 0:20:18 | |
and if the government could provide its reasoning. | 0:20:18 | 0:20:22 | |
The family test is part of the policy-making process. | 0:20:22 | 0:20:27 | |
There is a cross-party commitment to embed the family test | 0:20:27 | 0:20:31 | |
in all domestic policy considerations. | 0:20:31 | 0:20:34 | |
The Department for Work and Pensions has established a dedicated team | 0:20:34 | 0:20:39 | |
to support government departments in ensuring the family test | 0:20:39 | 0:20:41 | |
is applied in a meaningful way. | 0:20:41 | 0:20:44 | |
The DWP in its guidance to other departments on the family test | 0:20:44 | 0:20:48 | |
recommends they consider publication of any assessment, | 0:20:48 | 0:20:53 | |
yet it has rejected calls from family organisations and faith | 0:20:53 | 0:20:58 | |
groups that it should do so itself on the policy to limit financial | 0:20:58 | 0:21:05 | |
support to two children under the Welfare Reform and Work Bill. | 0:21:05 | 0:21:11 | |
Can the noble lady explain why? | 0:21:11 | 0:21:14 | |
The family test is included and incorporated into advice | 0:21:14 | 0:21:17 | |
to ministers on new policy. | 0:21:17 | 0:21:20 | |
It isn't a pass or fail exercise. | 0:21:20 | 0:21:24 | |
It's about helping make informed decisions about how to support | 0:21:24 | 0:21:27 | |
strong and stable families. | 0:21:28 | 0:21:31 | |
It is much broader than a tick box exercise which seems to be | 0:21:31 | 0:21:34 | |
the thrust of the question. | 0:21:34 | 0:21:37 | |
She'd adopted three children and the only reason the children | 0:21:37 | 0:21:41 | |
were placed with her was because she agreed to stay home | 0:21:41 | 0:21:45 | |
in their early years because the children were damaged. | 0:21:45 | 0:21:47 | |
Her husband was a vicar and the only way she could afford to give up work | 0:21:47 | 0:21:51 | |
completely for the children was because of tax credits | 0:21:51 | 0:21:53 | |
and she got in touch to say, if the government pushes | 0:21:53 | 0:21:55 | |
through tomorrow the plan to limit child benefit and tax credit | 0:21:55 | 0:21:59 | |
for the first two children in any family, she would not be able | 0:21:59 | 0:22:02 | |
to adopt the children in future. | 0:22:02 | 0:22:03 | |
They would stay in care at the cost of ?40,000 per child per year. | 0:22:03 | 0:22:07 | |
And Lady Altman replied that this is not a tick box exercise | 0:22:08 | 0:22:11 | |
and making policy had to include what she called trade-offs. | 0:22:11 | 0:22:17 | |
So what difference would it have made if Sir Philip Lily, | 0:22:17 | 0:22:19 | |
the ex-chair of the Environment Agency, had come back early | 0:22:19 | 0:22:22 | |
from the Caribbean and gone to the scene of serious flooding | 0:22:22 | 0:22:25 | |
in northern England? | 0:22:25 | 0:22:27 | |
Sir Philip has now left his top job at the agency after the adverse | 0:22:27 | 0:22:30 | |
publicity that followed his stay in Barbados at the same time | 0:22:30 | 0:22:34 | |
as thousands of homes in York and Leeds had been flooded | 0:22:34 | 0:22:37 | |
amid heavy storms at the end of December. | 0:22:37 | 0:22:41 | |
The Environment Secretary faced questions about the episode | 0:22:41 | 0:22:44 | |
at a committee session. | 0:22:44 | 0:22:46 | |
Frankly, what action could he take? | 0:22:47 | 0:22:49 | |
There's a cluster of the people going hell for leather trying | 0:22:49 | 0:22:52 | |
to sort it. | 0:22:52 | 0:22:54 | |
The last thing you want is the chairman getting | 0:22:54 | 0:22:56 | |
under your feet. | 0:22:56 | 0:22:59 | |
Should we be expecting people in his position to drop... | 0:22:59 | 0:23:04 | |
The reservation was more about the ways in which he handled | 0:23:04 | 0:23:07 | |
his absence than his absence. | 0:23:07 | 0:23:11 | |
I do think that the public expect that the leader of an organisation, | 0:23:11 | 0:23:17 | |
the chairman, to be available. | 0:23:17 | 0:23:20 | |
That's what Sir Philip felt which is why he stood down | 0:23:20 | 0:23:24 | |
from the position so I don't see a significant change in that | 0:23:24 | 0:23:27 | |
expectation if that's what you're asking. | 0:23:27 | 0:23:30 | |
I'm not completely sure I understand you in terms | 0:23:30 | 0:23:32 | |
of the level of expectation. | 0:23:33 | 0:23:35 | |
If Sir Philip had come back 24 hours earlier, | 0:23:35 | 0:23:39 | |
36 hours earlier, what difference would it have made? | 0:23:39 | 0:23:44 | |
Would it have made the activity the Environment Agency was involved | 0:23:44 | 0:23:50 | |
with run smoother or was it actually about presentation? | 0:23:50 | 0:23:55 | |
Purely the fact that he is in the UK, not the Caribbean. | 0:23:55 | 0:23:58 | |
He said he should have come back earlier. | 0:23:58 | 0:24:01 | |
He made that clear. | 0:24:01 | 0:24:02 | |
He felt that that was an expectation of the role. | 0:24:02 | 0:24:06 | |
I think it is the expectation of that role. | 0:24:06 | 0:24:11 | |
It's a public facing role where people expect to see chairmen. | 0:24:11 | 0:24:19 | |
In terms of the operational response, James Bevan, | 0:24:19 | 0:24:22 | |
the chief executive, was there with me in Yorkshire | 0:24:22 | 0:24:26 | |
on Boxing Day and Lancashire as well on Boxing Day and the 27th. | 0:24:26 | 0:24:31 | |
He was providing excellent leadership on the ground | 0:24:31 | 0:24:33 | |
on operational issues. | 0:24:33 | 0:24:35 | |
I think Sir Philip felt himself that that was the expectation of the role | 0:24:35 | 0:24:41 | |
and that he could not and he has stepped down on that basis. | 0:24:41 | 0:24:48 | |
Have you made quite clear when you advertise | 0:24:48 | 0:24:51 | |
for a new chairman that that is part of the role? | 0:24:51 | 0:24:54 | |
The public face? | 0:24:54 | 0:24:56 | |
Because I agree with you but I think it needs to be made abundantly clear | 0:24:56 | 0:24:59 | |
to the new chairman. | 0:24:59 | 0:25:00 | |
I would suggest that it is clear. | 0:25:00 | 0:25:05 | |
I think everybody is clear on that. | 0:25:05 | 0:25:07 | |
Lis Truss. | 0:25:07 | 0:25:09 | |
Another female Church of England bishop has been introduced | 0:25:09 | 0:25:11 | |
into the House of Lords. | 0:25:11 | 0:25:13 | |
The Right Reverend Christine Hardmann becomes only the second | 0:25:13 | 0:25:16 | |
woman bishop to sit in the Lords. | 0:25:16 | 0:25:18 | |
She is the Bishop of Newcastle. | 0:25:18 | 0:25:20 | |
She swore her oath of allegiance in the traditional way. | 0:25:20 | 0:25:25 | |
I, Christine, Lord Bishop of Newcastle, do swear | 0:25:26 | 0:25:29 | |
by Almighty God that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance | 0:25:29 | 0:25:35 | |
to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, her heirs and successors according | 0:25:35 | 0:25:39 | |
to law, so help me God. | 0:25:39 | 0:25:43 | |
The other female bishop in the House of Lords is the Bishop | 0:25:43 | 0:25:46 | |
of Gloucester, the Right Reverend Rachel Treweek. | 0:25:46 | 0:25:49 | |
That's all for this programme. | 0:25:49 | 0:25:50 | |
Join me for our next daily round-up. | 0:25:50 | 0:25:53 | |
Until then, from me, goodbye. | 0:25:53 | 0:25:55 |