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Hello and welcome to Tuesday in Parliament. | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
Coming up in the next half hour... | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
for a Cambridge tech firm taken over by a Japanese | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
MPs express their concerns for democracy in Turkey | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
And Vauxhall finds itself in the hot seat over its response | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
You knew the car wasn't safd, and you sat on your | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
And the responses we have h`d this morning are wholly | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
But first - the new Chancellor, Philip Hammond, says he's h`d firm | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
guarantees that British jobs will be protected in the Cambridge | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
It's being bought by Softbank of Japan for ?24 billion. | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
But there's some concern at the sale. | :00:55. | :01:07. | |
ARM Holdings is considered `n iconic British company with its microchip | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
designs used in a range of devices, including many mobile phones. | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
Recently, Theresa May questhoned whether foreign takeovers | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
were in the best interests of the UK. | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
But she and Philip Hammond reckoned this sale showed the British | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
economy could be successful after the country voted to leave | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
In the Commons, Labour's Kevin Brennan argued that | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
that was not a view shared by the company's founder. | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
Who said it meant that, and I quote, "The determination of what comes | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
next for technology will not be decided in Britain any | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
Why does the Chancellor think that the founder of | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
Well, Mr Speaker, I suspect that the founder of the company has | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
not had the benefit of disctssions with the acquiring company. | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
I have met the leader of the current management tdam, | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
who are wholeheartedly supporting the purchase by Softbank and we have | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
achieved, were volunteered, without having to extract them, | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
some very, very hard guarantees about the future | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
autonomy of the company, headquartered here in the UK, | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
about its commitment to double the number of UK employees over | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
And what became very clear from a discussion | :02:11. | :02:18. | |
with the founder and CEO of Softbank is that they firmly believe that | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
Cambridge will be the global centre for developing the internet | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
of things and ARM will play a key role in developing that indtstry. | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
It's a great opportunity through Brexit, a ?24 billion | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
purchase of Softbank is a sign of this. | :02:37. | :02:38. | |
The trade deals that are being offered are a sign of this | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
and will my right honourabld friend grasp this fantastic | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
opportunity and lead us through to the broad sunlit uplands? | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
My honourable friend rightlx points to the fundamental | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
Britain is still one of the most attractive placds | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
in the world to do business, to start a business, | :02:58. | :02:59. | |
And it's right that we should focus on those positive aspects. | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
But it is also right that we are conscious | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
of the short-term turbulencd that we will inevitably expdrience | :03:08. | :03:09. | |
and the need to manage that carefully over the next 18 lonths. | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
Analysts this week has predhcted a raft of foreign takeovers linked | :03:16. | :03:17. | |
to the fall in the value of the pound following Brexht | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
and the Chancellor in fact stated this week that Britain is open | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
to foreign investment, barely a week after the Prime Minister wanted | :03:24. | :03:25. | |
So has the government's approach to securing new investment been | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
reduced, in the matter of a week, from an ambiguous industrial policy | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
to maybe slashing corporation tax and hoping for the best? | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
No, Mr Speaker, the UK remahns very much open to foreign investlent | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
but we are very clear that we want investors who will invest | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
in British technology, British jobs and businesses | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
headquartered, based and directed from the UK. | :03:56. | :03:56. | |
It was the first encounter between Philip Hammond | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
and his Labour shadow, John McDonnell. | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
Mr Mcdonnell turned his attention to a new report | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
The Chancellor will, I hope, have seen research | :04:10. | :04:19. | |
published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies this morning | :04:20. | :04:21. | |
It shows that young people hn work are still earning 7% less | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
than before the crisis whild older workers have seen no | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
improvement in their earnings for seven years now. | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
Will the Chancellor now takd this opportunity to put an end | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
to what is becoming a lost decade of austerity and deliver | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
the public investment that can provide the well-paid, | :04:37. | :04:38. | |
secure jobs across the country and scrap | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
Well, Mr Speaker, since this is our first outing together, | :04:43. | :04:51. | |
let me take this opportunitx of making clear to the honotrable | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
gentleman that I do not believe in the money tree. | :04:55. | :04:56. | |
I am clear that we have to pay our way in the world. | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
We have a very large fiscal deficit that we have to address, | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
but while doing it, we also have to ensure that we maximise | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
Targeting our investment in key skills, infrastructure and private | :05:08. | :05:24. | |
businesses. Foreign Office Minister, | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
Sir Alan Duncan is to visit Turkey following the attempted coup | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
on Friday night. Bridges over the Bosphorus | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
strait in Istanbul were blocked by troops late | :05:38. | :05:39. | |
on Friday evening A faction of the army said, | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
that it had seized power to protect democracy | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Meanwhile Mr Erdogan, | :05:45. | :05:45. | |
called on his supporters to take to the streets in protest Opposition | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
parties also condemned the coup and in the early hours of S`turday | :05:49. | :05:50. | |
morning, groups of soldiers Since then President Erdogan has | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
ordered the arrest of thous`nds of members of the military, | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
judiciary and police -- of members of the military, | :05:58. | :06:05. | |
judiciary and police, and he has not ruled out rehnstating | :06:06. | :06:07. | |
the death penalty. Sir Alan set out the | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
government's response. The Turkish government has the | :06:10. | :06:21. | |
virginity to build on the domestic and international response to the | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
coup. That will sustain the unity of purpose that has sustained so far, | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
and was evident on the stredts of Istanbul and Ankara. They nded to | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
take forward reforms to which they have committed themselves, `nd Colby | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
democratically elected government to restore order in a way that reflects | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
and supports the rule of law. Can take this opportunity to welcome him | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
to his new position. Unforttnately in his team had to be brought to | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
this house and didn't sit rhght to make a statement themselves. I hope | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
his boss's emergency landing in Luton is not a bad omen. We wish is | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
all-male team whether this time Turkey is of strategic and lilitary | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
importers to the world, str`ddling the east and West divide of eight | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
countries. It has important minorities, in particular Ktrds and | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
Armenians. Half a million pdople are Turkish and Kurdish dissent live in | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
the UK, they are desperatelx worried about their families. On Frhday we | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
saw Turkish people, whether they supported the government or not | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
supporting Chrissy, and pledging that military coups have no part in | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
Turkish democracy. Will President Erdogan strengthen democracx all | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
week and it? Police officers dismissed, General dismissed, 7 05 | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
people arrested, including the most serious judges in the country. The | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
death penalty being reproduced. What assurances as he had that they'll be | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
fair trials for those accusdd of complicity in the coup? How big is | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
the Turkish team in the Fordign Office? Does he have plans to expand | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
it? What will happen to these vital ally? What will happen next? His | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
partner, this friend? Mayor thanked the honourable lady for her warm | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
welcome to me, at least. I would respectfully point out, Baroness | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
Emily, who was Secretary of State for the Foreign Office, when I last | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
spoke to her, she was a wom`n. From a personal point of view, I am also | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
able to add to the spectrum of choice that she would like to see in | :08:38. | :08:45. | |
the ministerial team. In answer to the straightforward question, will | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
be taken by surprise? Yes. H'm not sure there was anyone who w`s not. | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
The SNPs international affairs spokesman called | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
for an unambiguous message to be sent. | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
While no responsible governlent can support a coup against the | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
democratically elected government mode gunmen can support the | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
reproduction of the death pdnalty, arresting of those in the mhlitary, | :09:16. | :09:28. | |
police and judiciary. President Erdogan use social media in a | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
difficult hours after the coup attempt to rally support of the | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
Turkish people against this illegal attempt to seize power. In the past, | :09:35. | :09:42. | |
the Erdogan government has been restrictive social media by its | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
people and critical press freedom. Will my right honourable frhend take | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
this opportunity to point ott that President Erdogan and his friends | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
realise that press freedom `nd freedom of speech when one of the | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
reasons he was able to suppress this coup? | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
Executives from the car-makdr Vauxhall have revealed | :10:06. | :10:07. | |
they were aware of a potenthal problem with one of its moddls, | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
More than 230,000 Zafira B cars have now been recalled following cases | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
Appearing before the Commons' Transport Committee, | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
they apologised to customers and said things could have | :10:18. | :10:25. | |
a pattern, did you immediatdly cease trading that vehicle? | :10:26. | :10:33. | |
The vehicle was no longer on sale by the time we were aware | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
You were aware of the pattern, the vehicles were continually sold on | :10:38. | :10:48. | |
the second-hand market, without any notification. Which could'vd been by | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
the DVLA. To be clear, the `wareness of the issue, and subsequent | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
understanding what the causd of the fire, taking action of that, that | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
was the next step in that. Sorry to interrupt, there must be a pointer | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
which she realised there was a serious fault with your vehhcle you | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
don't know what it is yet, but you know there are families driving this | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
car up and down the country, at risk, and you did not notifx? At | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
that stage, we were still investigating what the causd of the | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
fire was. You know the causd was down to the vehicle? At that stage | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
we did not know what the catse of the fire was. You did not know it | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
was the cause, but you knew it was the fault of the vehicle, the | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
pattern was clearly there? Xou were looking for the individual fault, | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
but you knew there was a fatlt with the vehicle? At the time, wd did not | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
know, but we had a responsibility to understand. When we see those | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
patterns. To understand what? What Mr Quincey is saying, you m`y not | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
have identified the reason for the files, but you knew there w`s a fire | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
in that model. You knew that was the case. Why did you not react to that? | :12:07. | :12:21. | |
No reason? Certainly from mx understanding, until we had really | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
understood what the nature of the fire was, saying... Would you not | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
think it was a responsible for a Manufacturer, if there was ` pattern | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
of fires in one of their models that requires investigation, you | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
don't wait to find out the reason, you know there is a phenomenon | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
called a fire in the car, that families use. Certainly, I | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
understand the points you m`ke. I concur, if we had notify customers, | :12:51. | :12:57. | |
that would have been ideal. Our stamps at that stage, we did not | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
know what we were dealing whth. We investigated the nature of that | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
fire, to make sure whatever advice we were given, whatever steps we | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
were taking were appropriatd. How would you describe a typical voxel | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
customer? Pretty loyal to the brand, I would have thought? You h`ve said | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
you would not change anything about the way you handled this. How do you | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
think the people sitting behind you feel about that? I did not say that. | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
Do except you have handled ht badly? I certainly wish we would h`ve given | :13:33. | :13:40. | |
customers early advice, basdd on the handling of the fires. Our `dvice | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
was even not aware of what the issue was, and what advice to givd. This | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
is not good enough, you knew the car was not safe, you sat in yotr hands | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
for so long. Responses are wholly inadequate. What is it with the car | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
industry? Treats customers with complete contempt. You know people | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
will keep on buying cars, bdcause they need them. Your response to | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
this has been wholly inadeqtate and contemptuous to people you have just | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
said a loyal to your brand. Why is that? I certainly don't, spdaking as | :14:12. | :14:22. | |
a customer director, who has work to voxel for a long period, I don't | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
treat my customers with contempt. I wish you could see what I sde behind | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
you right now. I can only answer the question you are giving me. There | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
has never been a stage withhn this investigation that there has been | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
any casualness, contempt, l`ck of concern. That is absolutely been | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
what has been part of the investigation that we have been part | :14:47. | :14:48. | |
of. You're watching Tuesday in | :14:49. | :14:50. | |
Parliament with me, Alicia LcCarthy. Lessons have to be learned , | :14:51. | :14:57. | |
a phrase repeated many times since Sir John Chilcot | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
delivered his long-awaited report Among its findings, his inqtiry said | :15:01. | :15:02. | |
military action was based on flawed intelligence which was not | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
challenged, the Army was not properly prepared | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
and planning for what followed So the Defence Committee sotght | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
to find out from the current We're not at all | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
complacent about this. We believe the ministry has improved | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
since those days, but I suspect A unit, he said, had been sdt up | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
to look at the report in detail Would you say that this | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
new machinery would be adeqtate in relation to post-conflict | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
planning and delivery, seeing as one of the main fhndings | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
of Chilcot is the hopeless inadequacy of preparing | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
for what would take place after the military phase, | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
the initial military phase, One of the lessons of Chilcot, | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
which we have already implelented, is that stabilisation plannhng has | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
to be in the overall plan We have a cross-government | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
stabilisation unit. We see officials from the unit | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
participating now in our exdrcises and in our training and I think | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
that is one lesson that has been learned from the experience of Iraq | :16:15. | :16:22. | |
- that this has to be If this machinery is so fit | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
for purpose, the new machindry, The initial action in Libya, | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
which was fully authorised by the international communhty, | :16:33. | :16:39. | |
and was at the request of the Arab League, the initial | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
action in Libya was successful. It prevented the massacre that | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
would otherwise have Thereafter, we needed to respect | :16:49. | :16:50. | |
the position of the new polhtical authorities in Libya who had little | :16:51. | :16:57. | |
appetite for foreign assist`nce didn't require it, they didn't | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
request it and I think that led the West to overestimate | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
their capacity for establishing I think the only thing that | :17:09. | :17:16. | |
I would add to that is that we must be quite careful about imaghning | :17:17. | :17:24. | |
that there is some sort of set of lessons or a precise sort | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
of playbook which you can ldarn and apply in every | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
circumstance, because each Afghanistan was different | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
from Iraq, Libya was Can you confirm to the commhttee | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
that there is absolutely no reticence whatsoever to do | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
what is required to We will deploy where we need | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
to deploy to keep our citizdns safe and there is no reticence on behalf | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
of government about that. There may be situations | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
where we intervened at at the wrong way, | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
but equally, we need to avoid a position where | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
we don't intervene again. And that means we have to work | :18:12. | :18:13. | |
harder at explaining the nedd for intervention and to get over | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
to the public that many of the issues we face, | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
although these areas may sedm far away from our shores, can bdcome, | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
unless they're tackled, To that extent, whether it's | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
peacekeeping operations -- that extends, whether its | :18:35. | :18:47. | |
peacekeeping operations in Somalia or South Sudan, | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
to our continuing presence in Afghanistan, where you h`ve | :18:51. | :18:52. | |
transnational terrorist grotps that, if they aren't held in check, | :18:53. | :18:54. | |
can bring terror to our own streets. It would be "madness" for the UK not | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
to take its turn holding the Presidency of the Counchl | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
of the European Union The Council is made up of the heads | :19:02. | :19:03. | |
of government of all member states and the presidency rotates | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
between EU countries When a country holds the prdsidency, | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
it's in charge of chairing summits The UK is due to do the job | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
at the end of 2017 but given the vote to leave the EU, | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
peers wanted to know if that Is it not true that we are ` full | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
member of the European Union Would a man who announced | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
he was going to retire at the age And if he did, wouldn't he be | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
roundly criticised for so doing My Lords, we must accept | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
all the obligations, meet all the challenges, and indeed, | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
accept all the privileges that membership brings, | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
until we cease to be a membdr. I entirely agree that we will | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
continue, and we must continue, to play our full role | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
in the EU and as I said, exercise the rights and obsdrve | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
the responsibilities that our membership brings, | :20:04. | :20:05. | |
and as your Lordships will notice, we played an active role | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
in the Foreign Affairs Council. As I said yesterday, we will clarify | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
our position in due course. I'm very mindful of what my noble | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
friend has just said and I'l also mindful of the wish | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
for clarity which some membdr And as I say, we are considdring | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
the options but we have not had I wonder whether the noble Lord | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
Lord Bridges, would accept that while taking his time in a timely | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
manner, it would be extremely difficult for the United Kingdom | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
to conduct a presidency while under Article 50 it is banned | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
from being part of certain leetings that would inevitably have to happen | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
during the time of the preshdency? Will he also accept that thd House | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
authorities, Parliamentary authorities, need to make | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
arrangements, catering arrangements, venues, functions and a whole load | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
of other arrangements if we are going to carry | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
out the presidency. Will the government commit | :21:01. | :21:02. | |
to refunding the House if it makes a late decision and contracts have | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
to be cancelled? Well, I thank the noble | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
lady for those points. And that is exactly the kind | :21:13. | :21:14. | |
of thing we need to be My Lords, why would | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
the United Kingdom not want to take up the presidency, | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
not just of the whole of the European Union, | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
but the presidency of each This would give us signific`nt | :21:26. | :21:27. | |
influence in those council discussions over a six-month period, | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
a period which will be cruchal to the negotiations for Britain | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
to leave the European union. It would be madness not to take | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
up this opportunity. Well, the noble Lord speaks | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
with a great amount of experience, far more than I have had in only | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
36 hours in the job. So I absolutely heed what hd says, | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
but as I say, this is exactly why we are taking our time, | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
considering these matters. The new Education Secretary has | :22:02. | :22:03. | |
spoken about the pivotal role going to university played | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
in her life as she unveiled the government's Higher Education | :22:07. | :22:08. | |
and Research Bill. The bill aims to make it | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
simpler, quicker and easier for new innovative and spechalist | :22:12. | :22:13. | |
institutions to set up, award degrees and compete alongside | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
existing institutions in England. For me, the chance to be able to go | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
to university was absolutelx pivotal to being able to make | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
something of myself. And I can still today point | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
to the telephone box in Kingsbridge, Devon, | :22:31. | :22:32. | |
where I rang through to get my A-level results whilst | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
we were on holiday that year. And in that moment, my whold future | :22:37. | :22:38. | |
changed for the better. I was the first person in mx family | :22:39. | :22:46. | |
to be able to go to univershty. And I remember after that c`ll, | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
us going to the pub across the road None of us really knew | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
what going to university wotld be But we all knew it was going to be | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
the best thing and it Opportunity is about giving our | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
young people the freedom to fly And universities are absolutely | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
central to that. Recent research by the London School | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
of Economics showed that dotbling the number of universities | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
per capita could mean a 4% rise in future GDP | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
per capita, too. But the current system | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
for creating universities c`n feel highly restricted, | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
with new providers requiring the backing of an incumbent | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
institution to become eligible So this bill levels the plaxing | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
field by laying the foundathons for a new system, where it will be | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
clearer, simpler and quicker to establish high | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
quality new providers. But an SNP MP thought | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
there was a crucial difference between the proposed expanshon | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
and that which had But would she not agree that one | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
aspect of the new polytechnhc universities in 1992 and post war | :23:56. | :24:03. | |
was that students were not being asked to contribute fdes | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
in order to progress or take their university | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
education forward? Well, I recognise that the SNP take | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
a very different view on thhs and the reality is that the choice | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
that her party has made is to have fewer students able to go | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
to university in Scotland. One in five students in Scotland | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
who apply for a place and have the grades to get ` place | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
can't go, because the funding isn't there to have the places | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
available for them. Now, that is a choice | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
that her government in Scotland can make but it is not a choice | :24:41. | :24:42. | |
that this government wants to make. We have to make sure that places | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
are there for students with the potential and talent to be | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
able to make their way in lhfe. This is a bill which too often | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
produces 20th-century answers to 21st-century challenges | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
and which is laced with an obsession for market-led ideology which does | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
not reflect the realities in higher education or thosd | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
of the post-Brexit world. He said the government's | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
obsession with untried, unnamed and untested | :25:09. | :25:10. | |
providers could undermine, This is not the bill | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
this Parliament needs. It is not the bill that universities | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
or our HE institutions need. It is not the bill, our country | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
our countries need. It is a bill which currentlx | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
is not fit for purpose, and most especially post-Brdxit | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
to provide direction and structure to tackle and settle the nedds | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
of a crucial part of our national And that's it for now but do join me | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
at the same time tomorrow when, among other things, we'll h`ve | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
highlights from Theresa May's first But until then, from me, | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
Alicia McCarthy, goodbye. | :25:48. | :25:52. |