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Hello and welcome to Tuesday in Parliament. | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
Condemnation of Russia's role in the Syria conflict. | :00:15. | :00:23. | |
Now is not the time to talk about weakening EU sanctions against the | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
Vladimir Putin regime. There's another row in the Commons | :00:30. | :00:29. | |
over just how much money is paid A minister announces a new name | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
for a new rail line. From December 2018 the across a | :00:34. | :00:43. | |
route will be known as the Elizabeth line. | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
The Foreign Secretary has told MPs that a ceasefire in Syria will not | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
hold unless the level of Russian airstrikes falls dramatically. | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
Philip Hammond's comment came at Foreign Office Questions, | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
where there was some fierce criticism of the Russia's role | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
The US and Russia have announced that a planned cessation | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
of hostilities in Syria will come into effect at midnight | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
Their statement said the truce did not include so-called | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
Islamic State and the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
but scepticism remains over the plan. | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
More than 250,000 Syrians have been killed in the conflict which began | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
Some 11 million others have been forced from their homes, | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
of whom four million have fled abroad. | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
A Labour MP took up the questioning with the Foreign Secretary. | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
The bombing of two hospitals and other health facilities in northern | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
Syria is completely unacceptable and a clear breach of international | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
humanitarian law. Does the Minister agree that those responsible must be | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
brought to justice and that this reinforces the need for a United | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
Nations Security Council to refer this situation to the International | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
criminal Court? The honourable lady of course identifies an incident | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
that has caused widespread outrage across the world but in her question | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
she has put her finger on the problem, a referral to the | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
International criminal Court requires a resolution of the United | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
Nations Security Council one feet to holding member of whom is the | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
Russian Federation so I think it is unlikely that we went to succeed | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
going down that route. The American Secretary of State has a close | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
working relationship with the Russian Foreign Minister talking to | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
him nearly every week. When did the Foreign Secretary does talk to the | :02:34. | :02:35. | |
Russian Foreign Secretary and what is he doing to improve the personal | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
relationship with them? Our relationships are difficult with our | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
Russian counterparts. I just spoke to him on the 11th of February | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
during the Munich ISS G where he and I had some prolonged and robust | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
exchanges around the table during that evening but I do speak very | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
regularly to the US Secretary of State most recently on Saturday | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
morning so I am very much aware of the discussion that he is having | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
with our mutual Russian counterpart. The problem is that Russian policy | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
on Syria is not made in the Russian Foreign Ministry but inside a tiny | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
cabal around President Putin at the heart of the Kremlin. With the | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
Russian indiscriminate bombing of civilians in Syria driving the | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
refugee crisis and deliver it foreign policy tool to destabilise | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
and weaken Europe, will he agree with me that now was not the time to | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
even talk about weakening the EU sanctions against the Vladimir Putin | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
regime? I very strongly agree with him that now is not the time to send | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
Russia any signals of compromise or pulling back. The only language he | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
understands is the language of strength and I am afraid the line | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
which a confrontation. The report of the UN commission on Syria on human | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
rights published earlier this month found that, fragrant violations of | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
human rights and in a humanitarian law continue unabated. Ceasefire due | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
to come into effect this Saturday is desperately needed but will only | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
relieve suffering if it is adhered to. What does he says are the | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
prospects for ensuring that response respects it is fire by ending its | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
attacks on the Syrian people and office does not, further pressure | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
can be put on President Putin to do so? As I have already said, the | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
issue is going to be this, the Russians will say that they are | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
complying with the ceasefire and they will say that continued attacks | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
and air strikes are justified by the terms of the ceasefire and there | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
will be a necessity to pore over individual attacks between the US | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
and Russia in the coordination cell to identify exactly what happened | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
but whatever the technicalities of the thing the big picture is this, | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
unless the level of Russian air strikes dramatically decreases, the | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
ceasefire will not hold because the moderate armed opposition cannot lay | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
down their weapons and will not lay down their weapons while they are | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
being annihilated from the error by Russian aircraft. -- from the error. | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
The head of the Metropolitan Police has told MPs he won't be "bullied" | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
into apologising to high profile people investigated over allegations | :05:17. | :05:18. | |
Sir Bernard Hogan Howe was questioned about | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
the investigation of the former head of the army Lord Bramall. | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
His home was searched in April 2015, but it was only last month | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
that he was told the case was being dropped. | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
Sir Bernard was also asked about the investigation | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
into the former Home Secretary Lord Brittan. | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
Were you able to see Lady Brittan? I was. What this Committee recommended | :05:43. | :05:50. | |
was one of the things, whether to apologise and we would have a little | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
earlier but I am afraid we couldn't arrange it any earlier. I think we | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
started to try it in November and it has only been possible the last two | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
weeks. That took place last week. But was it a full apology? I think | :06:05. | :06:13. | |
she and her family expect it. It was certain a full apology from the fact | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
that we hadn't advised Lady Brittan early enough that her husband. We | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
prosecuted. At the very least in April 2015 that was possible. We | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
still hadn't done it until I think September 2015, so for that delay I | :06:27. | :06:27. | |
apologise. Moving on to the Lord Bramall case - | :06:28. | :06:28. | |
the committee chair asked if the investigation | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
was heavy-handed. Do you think that over the last few | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
months there has been an attempt by the Metropolitan Police to in some | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
way compensate for their failure to investigate more thoroughly it Jimmy | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
Savile case and as a result you have had a number of high-profile cases | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
where perhaps in the past they wouldn't have done the kinds of | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
things that they had done, for example in the Bramall case, sending | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
22 police officers to be very small village in Hampshire to go into his | :07:03. | :07:10. | |
property, move his very ill wife from room to room and started to | :07:11. | :07:19. | |
investigate in such a public way a case against a man of 90 foot stop | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
were subsequently there was time to -- weather was found to be no true | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
evidence to support it. The idea is not to warn the local people or | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
anybody that a search is carried out. It is the complexity of the | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
search, first of all we wanted it quickly and once you have if you | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
search as it will take longer. At the property is large then it will | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
take longer and if you're looking for a very small things which we | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
often do, disks, digital data, documents, any house contains a lot | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
of it. If he did incompletely, we don't look in the silver and you put | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
it back together in disrepair, we are criticised for that also. The | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
number of searches was not to do was trying to alert anybody to the event | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
but it was to do with doing something thoroughly and | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
efficiently. Many feel that the Metropolitan Police do oh my | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
constituent and apology for the heavy-handed approach, that was | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
taken towards him during the investigation. Over 20 officers | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
searching his home. The length of time that it took to notify him that | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
he faced no charges and everything in between, what is your response to | :08:38. | :08:45. | |
that? I express regret. That is not an apology. I was going to go on to | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
say... I think there are differences, in making an apology to | :08:51. | :08:58. | |
a suspect which I will differentiate from the number of apologies I have | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
used in the last 4.5 years. It is not that we are arrogant and don't | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
apologise for failure. We intend to apologise to Lord Bramall? Say any | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
more. But I am not acting one. You're not intending to? I have said | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
that at least four times today and I have said it publicly. So why did | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
Lady Brittan Merit and apology? I thought I had explained that | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
earlier, but it is because there is something to apologise for an | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
orderly in telling her about the outcome of the enquiry and in Lord | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
Bramall's case we will see what the review finds but at the moment there | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
is nothing clearly to apologise for. Throughout all the media circus | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
there has been around this... Are, the media circus! If you want me to | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
be bullied into apologising, that won't happen. | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
You're watching Tuesday in Parliament here on BBC Parliament | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said policymakers are "not making | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
a judgment" on the outcome or consequences of the | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
Mr Carney told the Treasury Committee that the Bank was treating | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
the June vote as it would "every other political event." The Governor | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
faced questions about the impact of the referendum on the pound, | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
after Sterling fell to its lowest level against the dollar | :10:24. | :10:25. | |
since Spring 2009 at the start of the week. | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
Were not making a judgment about the potential outcome of the referendum. | :10:33. | :10:43. | |
Which side will win, or an assessment or of the potential | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
consequences of a leave vote. We are this felt exactly how we treat any | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
other political event which is not to make a judgment on the outcome | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
and assume status quo continues. It appears that recent moves had been | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
influenced by the upcoming vote. Secondly that what matters for | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
monetary policy is not just a move in the exchange rate but the | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
persistence of that move and the reasons behind it. We don't think | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
about it as just the isolated effect of a weaker exchange rate. Obviously | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
everything else equal the weaker exchange rate boosts growth and | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
inflation but we have to think of the governor said about why the | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
exchange rate fell and in this case we think the exchange rate is | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
falling because of increased uncertainty about what is going to | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
happen in the period leading up to or following the referendum. It is | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
possible that at some point increased uncertainty from foreign | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
exchange investors also ends up manifesting itself in increased | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
uncertainty by households and businesses which may or may not do | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
they were their spending. -- reduce their spending. | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
There was renewed anger in the Commons over Government plans | :12:00. | :12:01. | |
The funding is an annual payment made to opposition parties | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
at Westminster to help them with the costs of carrying | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
It takes its name from former Labour MP Ted Short who was instrumental | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
In November, the Chancellor proposed reducing the payments by 19% - | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
in line with the average savings in unprotected | :12:17. | :12:18. | |
Whitehall departments - then freezing the sum in cash terms | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
Answering an urgent question, a Cabinet Office minister | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
The cost of short money has gone up by 50% since 2010. | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
And by a whopping 68% by the end of this Parliament | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
At a time when everybody else outside of | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
Westminster has had to tighten their belts, | :12:41. | :12:42. | |
why should politicians expect to be treated differently? | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
Feathering their own nests at taxpayers' expense? | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
Short money is also notably un-transparent. | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
It is taxpayers' money after all, but | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
there is no requirement to publish details of how it's spent. | :12:57. | :12:58. | |
There are, rightly, requirements on the parallel policy development | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
grants and on pretty much every other area | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
How can it be right, in the modern age, for politicians | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
to be expect to be bunged a load of taxpayers' hard earned cash, | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
more than ?35 million in total since 2010 for the Labour Party, | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
for example, without at least explaining how it gets spent? | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
But the opposition was furious with the proposals. | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
This is the shoddiest so-called consultation | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
It deliberately forgets to mention that short money is linked to how | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
many seats and how many votes all the opposition parties got | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
So the main reason that short money has increased in 2015 | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
is because this Government has a much smaller majority | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
than the Labour Government or the Coalition Government | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
and the opposition parties got more seats and more | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
Fair-minded people will conclude that this Government is developing | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
a nasty authoritarian streak, and its | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
overweening executive wants to crush all opposition because they're | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
There's nothing wrong in principle with reducing the cost of politics. | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
Therefore, can we get some assurances in the reducing | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
the number and cost of special advisors, and indeed | :14:20. | :14:21. | |
This is actually about gagging the opposition. | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
Will the Minister scrap this rushed consultation, | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
abandon the attack on the scrutiny of Government, and look again at how | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
the cost of politics can be reduced, including, for instance, | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
by dropping the budget for special advisers? | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
This needs to be reconsidered, This decision for such | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
It does seem to be unacceptable that it's being introduced in one year. | :14:42. | :14:50. | |
Everybody understands the need for financial stringency | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
and the need for this House to take its share | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
But could the Minister at least look to whether | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
And could the Minister also pick up carefully the point that's been made | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
Could the Minister tell the House what effect he supposes a cut | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
in short money would have on scrutiny and the comfort | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
or discomfort that the executive feels as it goes | :15:18. | :15:19. | |
Mr Speaker, as I mentioned before, the amount of short money has | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
So opposition parties have a great deal more money with which to do | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
But there was one opposition party that gave the proposed | :15:32. | :15:45. | |
Can I urge ministers to stick to your guns, don't retreat. | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
The sight of special pleading from political parties wanting | :15:50. | :15:51. | |
to get their hands on taxpayers' cash is disgraceful. | :15:52. | :15:53. | |
Can I urge ministers not only to slash short money, | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
but to insist that all political parties publish fully audited | :15:57. | :15:58. | |
accounts on what they spend that short money on, | :15:59. | :16:00. | |
as my party will be doing at the end of this year. | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
So we can see the hotel bills and what it is they spent taxpayer | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
Douglas Carswell giving his full backing to Government plans | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
Later in the day, ministers set about trying | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
to reverse two defeats inflicted on the | :16:15. | :16:16. | |
Welfare Reform And Work Bill by peers. | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
The Lords voted to keep targets aimed at reducing child poverty, | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
forcing the Government to reconsider its plan | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
Peers also threw out plans to cut ?30 a week | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
from the benefits of sick and disabled people who have been | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
But when the Bill return to the Commons, the Employment Minister | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
argued those cuts to the Employment Support Allowance - | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
I want to stress that this Government is fully focused | :16:43. | :16:51. | |
on getting people who can work into work. | :16:52. | :16:53. | |
We want to end a broken system that is patently failing those it | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
And to ensure that a good proportion of the savings are recycled | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
into practical support, long-term practical support that | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
will have a transformation affects on people's lives. | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
Some charities we that are working with agree | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
that work can be right for some people after a diagnosis. | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
And that improved employment support is crucial to helping people | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
with health conditions and disability | :17:20. | :17:21. | |
move into work, to get closer to the labour market. | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
People in ESA group have gone through the capability assessment | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
This includes 5000 people with progressive conditions, | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
A survey conducted by the charity MacMillan Cancer Support | :17:37. | :17:46. | |
found that one in ten cancer patients would struggle | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
to pay their rent or mortgage if ESA was cut. | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
The key issue is that they are not fit for work. | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
So suggesting that removing financial incentives | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
will somehow make them fit for work is quite frankly ridiculous. | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
We must remember at this stage that the Prime Minister commited | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
before the election last year not to cut benefits to disabled people. | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
Politics Home website quotes an interview with the Prime Minister | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
that he gave to BBC Breakfast where he said that his Government | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
would protect disabled people from welfare cuts. | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
This cut to ESA, affecting nearly 500,000 disabled recipients, | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
makes an absolute mockery of that pre-election pledge. | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
But there was a warning shot for the Government | :18:32. | :18:33. | |
From 2017, in the region of 270 disabled | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
people in my constituency alone in South Cambridgeshire will stand | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
to lose ?30, or 29% of their weekly income, if we accept this Bill | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
in its original form and ignore the Lords. | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
For these people, I need to see more detail of the contents of the White | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
Paper, and hear about the financial support too that will be made | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
available before I can fully support the Government. | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
Let's be a Government of sweeping strategic change, | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
but also lets be one with the compassion | :19:14. | :19:15. | |
and the dexterity to look after the little man too. | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
An extra ?1 billion to plug gaps in mental health services in England | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
has been confirmed in the Commons by the Health Minister. | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
Last week, an independent review by a Ttskforce concluded that | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
"under-funded and inadequate care" had led to thousands | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
It found that three quarters of people with mental health | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
problems had received no help at all. | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
We'll spend an extra ?1 billion on mental health by 2021 | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
to improve access to services, so that people receive the right | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
care in the right place when they need it most. | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
This will mean increasing the number of people completing talking | :19:55. | :19:56. | |
therapies by nearly three quarters, from 468,000 to 800,000. | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
More than doubling the number of pregnant | :20:02. | :20:03. | |
women or new mothers receiving mental health support, | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
Training around 1700 new therapists, and helping 29,000 more people | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
to find or stay in work through individual placement support | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
Given that mental health receives just | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
under 10% of the total NHS budget, surely mental health services | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
would have been expecting to receive much of this additional money | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
as part of the NHS settlement anyway? | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
Therefore, can the Minister explain how this money can be expected | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
to deliver the transformation in our mental health | :20:36. | :20:37. | |
services that the task force says is urgently required? | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
What was said by the Prime Minister in relation to the task force | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
report represents new money that will be available for the NHS | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
I think we also need to also focus on children. | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
One in ten of our children are suffering from mental health | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
problems between the age of five and 16. | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
And they're waiting a very long time to get help. | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
We have the same challenge in Scotland, we measure that, | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
we know how difficult that is, and we've managed to improve it | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
With depression being one of the most terrible | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
diseases someone can suffer, not only because of the disease, | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
but also because of the stigma attached. | :21:20. | :21:21. | |
Can I also congratulate the writers of Coronation Street | :21:22. | :21:23. | |
for their storyline which was dealt with sensitively and which addressed | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
some of the stigmas and stereotypes that come with that. | :21:28. | :21:29. | |
So can I urge my Right Honourable friend to make sure that as much | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
effort is also put into tackling the stigma of mental health, | :21:34. | :21:35. | |
as well as the practical investment in services that can | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
What did you do last time you had to get rid of an outdated mobile | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
In the Lords, there were calls for the Government to do more | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
to stop electronic goods ending up in landfill sites. | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
Couldn't the Government be doing more to set | :21:54. | :21:55. | |
minimum standards and incentives to business so that product | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
longevity and reuse cecome the norm rather than the exception | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
which is what is the case at the moment? | :22:05. | :22:06. | |
The Government supports the Electrical and Electronic | :22:07. | :22:16. | |
Equipment Sustainablity Action Plan, esap. | :22:17. | :22:17. | |
This agreement has 74 signatories, including | :22:18. | :22:19. | |
global manufacturers who represent 66% of UK TV sales, | :22:20. | :22:21. | |
55% of washing machines and 49% of fridge freezers. | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
We believe that esap will have a significant impact | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
Is the Minister aware that there are people who recycle | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
Some years ago I went to see a man who had set up a business at that | :22:37. | :22:44. | |
time, very successfully, and the equipment, when recycled | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
was sent to Africa and countries who were | :22:50. | :22:51. | |
Why is there not more encouragement for | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
providing these bits of equipment that are still valuable to other | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
My Lords, I think my noble friend is right. | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
That not only are they valued around the world, but also | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
The whole point of esap is to ensure that the products last longer | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
This is the whole thrust of what we want to do. | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
I think these are early beginnings, but there is a great potential, | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
not only for the environment, but for the economy too. | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
Nothing exemplifies our society's throwaway attitude | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
more than modern smartphones which are almost impossible to get | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
repaired at a reasonable cost, with batteries that are fixed | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
in them and processers which are designed to not | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
In contrast, there now are some social | :23:38. | :23:45. | |
enterprises which are producing phones, such as Fairphone, | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
Where they are using ethically sourced materials, | :23:50. | :23:57. | |
where every part can be replaced or upgraded when necessary. | :23:58. | :24:00. | |
I wonder if the noble lord and Minister would | :24:01. | :24:02. | |
agree with me that this sort of initiative needs to be held up | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
to the technology industry as a good example of a way forward to find | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
My Lords, I endorse all that the right reverend | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
The whole thrust of what we want to achieve is better | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
design for waste prevention, reuse and recycling. | :24:20. | :24:21. | |
I think Fairphone is in good example, and if the Dutch can | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
Finally, a new railway line to run under London is to be named | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
Crossrail will be known as the Elizabeth Line once it opens | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
The announcement was made as the Queen visited | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
the under-construction Bond Street station. | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
She unveiled the purple Elizabeth line logo which will feature | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, said that as well as radically | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
improving travel right across the city, | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
the Elizabeth line will provide a lasting tribute to our | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
The new name was officially announced to MPs in the Commons. | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
Our Queen opened the Victoria line service in 1969. | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
The Fleet line which we named the Jubilee line in honour | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
of her first 25 years on the throne in 1979. | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
And she is the first reigning monarch, | :25:20. | :25:21. | |
Mr Speaker, to travel on the London Underground. | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
I am told that trains are her Majesty's favourite | :25:26. | :25:27. | |
And she is a frequent user of both the royal train, | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
And I hope that Her Majesty would consider an | :25:33. | :25:42. | |
invitation to travel on the first passenger train that will pass | :25:43. | :25:44. | |
through the Elizabeth line's tunnels in December 2018. | :25:45. | :25:46. | |
And that invitation from Claire Perry brings us | :25:47. | :25:48. | |
to the end of this edition of the programme, but do join me | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
at the same time tomorrow, when among other things we'll | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
have the highlights from Prime Minister's Questions. | :25:55. | :25:58. |