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Hello, and welcome to Tuesday In Parliament. | 0:00:24 | 0:00:27 | |
On this programme the Defence Secretary says defeating | 0:00:27 | 0:00:30 | |
so-called Islamic State in Iraq will not be quick. | 0:00:30 | 0:00:32 | |
But... | 0:00:33 | 0:00:34 | |
Real progress is being made and defeating Daesh in the long term | 0:00:34 | 0:00:38 | |
helps make the streets of Britain and Europe safer. | 0:00:38 | 0:00:43 | |
MPs hear that members of the independent enquiry | 0:00:43 | 0:00:46 | |
into child sexual abuse had concerns about the leadership of its former | 0:00:46 | 0:00:49 | |
chair, Dame Lowell Goddard, months before she resigned. | 0:00:49 | 0:00:53 | |
And the Romanian ambassador to the UK explains why freedom | 0:00:53 | 0:00:57 | |
of movement matters to him. | 0:00:57 | 0:00:59 | |
When I was a child, I couldn't travel in the West because | 0:00:59 | 0:01:03 | |
it was not permitted. | 0:01:03 | 0:01:07 | |
But, first, the Defence Secretary has told MPs that so-called Islamic | 0:01:07 | 0:01:11 | |
State group is failing in Iraq. | 0:01:11 | 0:01:13 | |
But he warned the fight to regain the country's second largest city | 0:01:13 | 0:01:16 | |
will not be a quick operation. | 0:01:16 | 0:01:20 | |
Sir Michael Fallon was answdring an urgent question about | 0:01:20 | 0:01:23 | |
the operation to retake Mostl - the city in northern Iraq | 0:01:23 | 0:01:26 | |
that was overrun by IS militants in 2014. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:29 | |
Iraqi security forces have now launched a major offensive | 0:01:29 | 0:01:32 | |
to take the city back, with the support of Kurdish | 0:01:32 | 0:01:35 | |
fighters, Shia paramilitary forces, Sunni tribesman and US-led | 0:01:35 | 0:01:40 | |
coalition air strikes. | 0:01:40 | 0:01:44 | |
Sir Michael told MPs that forces were converging | 0:01:44 | 0:01:46 | |
from the east and the south. | 0:01:46 | 0:01:48 | |
The RAF, alongside other co`lition aircraft, have been providing | 0:01:48 | 0:01:51 | |
intelligence-gathering and hntensive air support to Iraqi ground forces. | 0:01:51 | 0:01:55 | |
More than half the RAF's recent strikes have been | 0:01:55 | 0:02:01 | |
in and around Mosul. | 0:02:01 | 0:02:05 | |
On the ground, British military instructors are with coalithon | 0:02:05 | 0:02:12 | |
colleagues helping to train, mentor and equip many of thd forces | 0:02:12 | 0:02:14 | |
engaged in the Mosul operathon. | 0:02:14 | 0:02:16 | |
Mr Speaker, this will not bd a quick operation and we can expect Daesh | 0:02:16 | 0:02:19 | |
to fight hard to keep Mosul. | 0:02:19 | 0:02:21 | |
When I visited Baghdad thred weeks ago, senior Iraqi | 0:02:21 | 0:02:24 | |
and coalition commanders outlined their plans for Mosul. | 0:02:24 | 0:02:30 | |
Their confidence is high and it s clear that Daesh is now failing | 0:02:30 | 0:02:34 | |
The Daesh extremists now hold only 10% of Iraqi territory. | 0:02:34 | 0:02:39 | |
Ridding Iraq of Daesh was ndver going to be quick or easy. | 0:02:39 | 0:02:45 | |
As we enter the third year of the campaign, | 0:02:45 | 0:02:48 | |
real progress is being made. | 0:02:48 | 0:02:53 | |
And defeating Daesh in the long term will help make the streets | 0:02:53 | 0:02:55 | |
of Britain and Europe safer. | 0:02:55 | 0:02:57 | |
The MP who raised the issue asked about reconstruction. | 0:02:57 | 0:03:00 | |
How will we show that we have learnt the lessons of previous failures | 0:03:00 | 0:03:04 | |
over the last decade, including where we left a v`cuum | 0:03:04 | 0:03:08 | |
which the extremists were able to fill - | 0:03:08 | 0:03:11 | |
both geographically and in the minds of Iraqi pdople? | 0:03:11 | 0:03:13 | |
He is absolutely right that when Daesh, as I hope, | 0:03:13 | 0:03:16 | |
is eventually driven out of Iraq, then we have to continue all our | 0:03:16 | 0:03:23 | |
efforts to combat their ideology and look more deeply | 0:03:23 | 0:03:26 | |
at what attracted people to join up in the first place. | 0:03:26 | 0:03:30 | |
We will need to work with moderate Islam right across the world to make | 0:03:30 | 0:03:33 | |
sure that that perversion does not increase. | 0:03:33 | 0:03:37 | |
And, above all, as he said at the end, we need to learn | 0:03:37 | 0:03:42 | |
the lessons of this campaign. | 0:03:42 | 0:03:44 | |
Which is that we must ensurd that the Sunni population, | 0:03:44 | 0:03:47 | |
in particular, of Iraq, has sufficient security | 0:03:47 | 0:03:50 | |
in the future and that we don't have to be asked back to do this | 0:03:50 | 0:03:54 | |
all over again. | 0:03:54 | 0:03:55 | |
We fully support the operathon to liberate the city, | 0:03:55 | 0:03:57 | |
because Daesh and its evil hdeology, must be defeatd wherever it emerges. | 0:03:57 | 0:04:02 | |
Not only to protect the people of Iraq and Syria, who suffdred such | 0:04:02 | 0:04:07 | |
a great deal, but also to protect our citizens | 0:04:07 | 0:04:10 | |
here in the UK from the global threat posed by Daesh. | 0:04:10 | 0:04:14 | |
Aid agencies estimate that lore than 700,000 people are esthmated | 0:04:14 | 0:04:17 | |
to be displaced by this conflict. | 0:04:17 | 0:04:20 | |
That's more than the population of Glasgow. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:23 | |
Save the Children are concerned they do not yet have tents | 0:04:23 | 0:04:26 | |
in which to put these peopld up and safe routes to make surd | 0:04:26 | 0:04:29 | |
they get out of the city without being impeded by Dadsh | 0:04:29 | 0:04:32 | |
or other forces in the area. | 0:04:32 | 0:04:36 | |
Can he give me some assurance as to what the Government c`n do | 0:04:36 | 0:04:39 | |
in terms of providing safety for those routes, | 0:04:39 | 0:04:41 | |
and services when people do arrive? | 0:04:42 | 0:04:44 | |
These are very valid concerns that arise from what is now becoling | 0:04:44 | 0:04:47 | |
a war zone in and around Mosul. | 0:04:47 | 0:04:50 | |
The Iraqi government is fully aware of the need to cope | 0:04:50 | 0:04:53 | |
with any increase in the displaced population. | 0:04:53 | 0:04:57 | |
As I said, to arrange transport for those who can get out | 0:04:57 | 0:05:00 | |
of the city to safer areas, and to be ready with additional | 0:05:00 | 0:05:04 | |
accommodation, and winter is coming, to be ready with additional tent | 0:05:04 | 0:05:08 | |
accommodation to help the others. | 0:05:08 | 0:05:13 | |
There has been a great deal of planning all summer for this | 0:05:13 | 0:05:16 | |
operation and the consequences of this operation, | 0:05:16 | 0:05:19 | |
what we call The Day After , the day after Mosul is liberated. | 0:05:19 | 0:05:24 | |
Sir Michael Fallon. | 0:05:24 | 0:05:26 | |
Earlier the Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, | 0:05:26 | 0:05:29 | |
hit out at the "ruthless and brutal" actions of Russia in Syria. | 0:05:29 | 0:05:34 | |
His comments came after Russia announced that a humanitari`n pause | 0:05:34 | 0:05:38 | |
in its bombing of Aleppo will take place on Thursday, | 0:05:38 | 0:05:41 | |
so civilians and rebels can leave the city. | 0:05:41 | 0:05:45 | |
At question time in the Comlons Boris Johnson told MPs that | 0:05:45 | 0:05:48 | |
in the last 11 months, Russian bombing had been responsible | 0:05:48 | 0:05:50 | |
for the deaths of more than 3,000 people, of whom more | 0:05:50 | 0:05:54 | |
than 700 were children. | 0:05:54 | 0:05:57 | |
Thank you, Mr Speaker. | 0:05:57 | 0:06:03 | |
Of course it is right that the UK and the Russian Federation should | 0:06:03 | 0:06:06 | |
continue to cooperate and engage in all the areas | 0:06:06 | 0:06:09 | |
where we have common interest. | 0:06:09 | 0:06:12 | |
But in view of the ruthless and brutal behaviour of the Russians | 0:06:12 | 0:06:15 | |
in Ukraine and in Syria, I hope the House will agree that | 0:06:15 | 0:06:19 | |
it's right that the UK should be leading in keeping the pressure | 0:06:19 | 0:06:22 | |
on sanctions, and it cannot be business as usual with Russha. | 0:06:22 | 0:06:27 | |
I'm not sure the demonstrathons outside the Russian Embassy | 0:06:27 | 0:06:30 | |
will make any odds. | 0:06:30 | 0:06:32 | |
But what might make a difference is if we stopped Putin's | 0:06:32 | 0:06:34 | |
cronies coming to London. | 0:06:35 | 0:06:36 | |
Will he go and demonstrate against the Home Secretary | 0:06:36 | 0:06:38 | |
to make sure she changes thd rules? | 0:06:38 | 0:06:40 | |
Just in the last 11 months, Russian bombing alone | 0:06:40 | 0:06:43 | |
has been responsible for thd deaths of 3,189 civilians - | 0:06:43 | 0:06:46 | |
of whom 763 were children. | 0:06:46 | 0:06:52 | |
It's in those circumstances that it's absolutely right that we should | 0:06:52 | 0:06:55 | |
be keeping up the sanctions regime. | 0:06:55 | 0:06:59 | |
Not just on Russia but on key members, key associates | 0:06:59 | 0:07:02 | |
of the Putin regime. | 0:07:02 | 0:07:05 | |
Julian Brazier. | 0:07:05 | 0:07:07 | |
Thank you, Mr Speaker. | 0:07:07 | 0:07:08 | |
Would my right honourable friend agree that the particular activities | 0:07:08 | 0:07:14 | |
he so eloquently described by Russia in Syria have been allowed to happen | 0:07:14 | 0:07:17 | |
because of several years of weakness and inconsistency in western | 0:07:17 | 0:07:21 | |
policy towards the area? | 0:07:21 | 0:07:26 | |
And would he further agree that if we want to hold the ring, | 0:07:26 | 0:07:30 | |
the importance of being seen to be absolutely solidly behind N`to has | 0:07:30 | 0:07:35 | |
never been stronger? | 0:07:35 | 0:07:40 | |
My right honourable friend is absolutely right and we lust | 0:07:40 | 0:07:46 | |
He's absolutely right to say that the vacuum | 0:07:46 | 0:07:51 | |
left by the decision, I'm afraid, by this House | 0:07:51 | 0:07:53 | |
and the Obama administration in 2013 not to oppose the Assad reghme has | 0:07:53 | 0:07:57 | |
allowed the Russians to move into that base. | 0:07:57 | 0:07:59 | |
It's vital that we keep pressure, of course, with the threat | 0:07:59 | 0:08:04 | |
of justice in the International Criminal Court. | 0:08:04 | 0:08:14 | |
Not just the Syrian opposithon. | 0:08:22 | 0:08:24 | |
Syrian civil society, and also NGOs in this country | 0:08:24 | 0:08:26 | |
are calling for our governmdnt to lead on a comprehensive strategy | 0:08:26 | 0:08:28 | |
to protect civilians including a no bombing phond. | 0:08:28 | 0:08:30 | |
Can I ask the Foreign Secretary to confirm that that is what our | 0:08:30 | 0:08:33 | |
Government will take the considering now? | 0:08:33 | 0:08:35 | |
I'm grateful to the honourable lady and again I pay tribute | 0:08:35 | 0:08:38 | |
to the forcefulness with which she is advocated this cause. | 0:08:38 | 0:08:40 | |
I must say that I wish thred years ago the Labour opposition h`d then | 0:08:40 | 0:08:43 | |
been as resolute in wishing to see that kind of engagements to protect | 0:08:43 | 0:08:46 | |
the people of Syria, because the critical decision | 0:08:46 | 0:08:48 | |
was taken then which, as the right honourable | 0:08:48 | 0:08:50 | |
gentleman remembers well, has made it much more | 0:08:50 | 0:08:52 | |
difficult for us today. | 0:08:52 | 0:08:53 | |
The Home Affairs Committee has been trying to establish | 0:08:53 | 0:08:55 | |
the circumstances surrounding the resignation of Dame Justice | 0:08:55 | 0:08:57 | |
Lowell Goddard as chair of the independent enquiry | 0:08:57 | 0:09:02 | |
into child sexual abuse. | 0:09:02 | 0:09:03 | |
Justice Goddard stepped down in August, calling | 0:09:03 | 0:09:06 | |
it a "lonely task." | 0:09:06 | 0:09:08 | |
But according to newspaper reports, other members | 0:09:08 | 0:09:12 | |
of the enquiry panel had concerns about her professionalism. | 0:09:12 | 0:09:15 | |
The new enquiry chair, Professor Alexis Jay, | 0:09:15 | 0:09:19 | |
was an adviser to the enquiry before being promoted to chairing ht. | 0:09:19 | 0:09:23 | |
She said Justice Goddard had kept colleagues at a distance. | 0:09:23 | 0:09:26 | |
While another panel member had concerns about the quality | 0:09:26 | 0:09:29 | |
of her leadership. | 0:09:29 | 0:09:30 | |
What was your relationship like and your working conditions | 0:09:30 | 0:09:33 | |
and working relationship like, with Dame Lowell Goddard | 0:09:33 | 0:09:37 | |
in her 16 months that coincided with your tenures? | 0:09:37 | 0:09:42 | |
I'll start, and the others can make their own contributions. | 0:09:42 | 0:09:46 | |
It was clear from the beginning that Lowell Goddard would h`ve | 0:09:46 | 0:09:50 | |
preferred to sit on her own without the assistance of the panel. | 0:09:50 | 0:09:54 | |
We did feel that we were kept at a distance from a lot | 0:09:54 | 0:09:58 | |
of the activities of the enpuiry. | 0:09:58 | 0:10:03 | |
And is that something that manifested itself | 0:10:03 | 0:10:07 | |
quite early on? | 0:10:07 | 0:10:08 | |
Yes. | 0:10:08 | 0:10:10 | |
I'm sure we'll return to thhs, but we did make every effort to make | 0:10:10 | 0:10:14 | |
the arrangements work from the beginning. | 0:10:14 | 0:10:17 | |
There were challenges. | 0:10:17 | 0:10:18 | |
However... | 0:10:18 | 0:10:20 | |
That's a very all-encompasshng word, "challenges". | 0:10:20 | 0:10:22 | |
And indeed there were some fairly all-encompassing challenges, too. | 0:10:22 | 0:10:25 | |
But what I will say is the chair was not always present | 0:10:25 | 0:10:30 | |
in the United Kingdom for that entire 16 month period. | 0:10:30 | 0:10:35 | |
So we were able to continue for extensive periods withott very | 0:10:35 | 0:10:40 | |
much contact with the chair. | 0:10:40 | 0:10:42 | |
There were times when things were perfectly amicable | 0:10:42 | 0:10:45 | |
and perfectly professional. | 0:10:45 | 0:10:48 | |
There were other times when it was less the case. | 0:10:48 | 0:10:50 | |
Was she a nightmare to work with, as some papers have suggestdd? | 0:10:50 | 0:10:53 | |
I would not use that language. | 0:10:53 | 0:10:55 | |
What language would you use? | 0:10:55 | 0:10:57 | |
I would prefer to say that there were challenges. | 0:10:57 | 0:10:59 | |
HE LAUGHS | 0:10:59 | 0:11:01 | |
I think this has been a circular exchange. | 0:11:01 | 0:11:09 | |
Druscilla, what's your view? | 0:11:09 | 0:11:12 | |
These reports of her being `busive to staff to a bullying degrde, | 0:11:12 | 0:11:16 | |
was that an accurate reflection | 0:11:16 | 0:11:20 | |
I'm not going to engage in the sort of character issues that have been | 0:11:20 | 0:11:24 | |
published across the press. | 0:11:24 | 0:11:25 | |
It seems to me to be entirely inappropriate. | 0:11:25 | 0:11:28 | |
These are matters which werd not something which ought to be played | 0:11:28 | 0:11:33 | |
out in the public domain. | 0:11:33 | 0:11:36 | |
However, having said all of that, the panel had concerns | 0:11:36 | 0:11:39 | |
about the qualities of leaddrship that were being evidenced | 0:11:39 | 0:11:42 | |
through the course of the enquiry. | 0:11:42 | 0:11:48 | |
At the end of April, I think the 26th of April, | 0:11:48 | 0:11:54 | |
with the panel's knowledge, I reported my concerns | 0:11:54 | 0:11:57 | |
about the leadership of the enquiry to the then director general | 0:11:57 | 0:12:00 | |
of the Home Office, Mary Calam. | 0:12:00 | 0:12:02 | |
I want to take the opportunhty to make absolutely clear th`t | 0:12:02 | 0:12:06 | |
I did not give anyone permission to spread these concerns | 0:12:06 | 0:12:09 | |
amongst anybody else. | 0:12:09 | 0:12:12 | |
I did not require any action to be taken. | 0:12:12 | 0:12:18 | |
On top of these issues, Professor Jay revealed the dnquiry | 0:12:18 | 0:12:20 | |
was struggling to find premises for the hearings. | 0:12:20 | 0:12:23 | |
One of the concerns that yot may be interested in is the extremdly | 0:12:23 | 0:12:27 | |
disappointing attitude of landlords to the enquiry. | 0:12:27 | 0:12:31 | |
We look at somewhere, the premises is suitable, | 0:12:31 | 0:12:34 | |
we go so far, and when they learn what the nature | 0:12:34 | 0:12:37 | |
of our work is, they withdr`w because they simply do not wish | 0:12:37 | 0:12:40 | |
to have anything to do with the issues of child sexual `buse. | 0:12:40 | 0:12:46 | |
The proceedings were interrtpted by someone in the audience. | 0:12:46 | 0:12:51 | |
This enquiry is bigger than any individual ego of personality. | 0:12:51 | 0:12:56 | |
And certainly you've made some. . | 0:12:56 | 0:13:01 | |
We've heard some comments... | 0:13:01 | 0:13:04 | |
AUDIENCE MEMBER HECKLES | 0:13:04 | 0:13:06 | |
Please, sir! | 0:13:06 | 0:13:07 | |
Order, order. | 0:13:07 | 0:13:12 | |
When the session resumed, Professor Jay promised | 0:13:12 | 0:13:15 | |
that the emphasis of her enpuiry would be on holding | 0:13:15 | 0:13:17 | |
institutions to account. | 0:13:17 | 0:13:20 | |
You're watching Tuesday in Parliament with me, | 0:13:20 | 0:13:22 | |
Alysia McCarthy. | 0:13:22 | 0:13:23 | |
The Health Secretary has warned MPs of painful efficiency savings | 0:13:29 | 0:13:31 | |
to come in the NHS in England. | 0:13:31 | 0:13:35 | |
Jeremy Hunt said his task was to find ways of finding better | 0:13:35 | 0:13:39 | |
outcomes for an older popul`tion with very real financial prdssures. | 0:13:39 | 0:13:44 | |
But he told the Commons Health Committee he was confident | 0:13:44 | 0:13:46 | |
he could deliver increased numbers of doctors. | 0:13:46 | 0:13:49 | |
We are looking after a millhon more over 75s than we were five xears ago | 0:13:49 | 0:13:53 | |
and in five years' time we'll be looking after another million over | 0:13:53 | 0:13:56 | |
75s in England. | 0:13:56 | 0:13:58 | |
That creates massive pressure for people on the NHS front line. | 0:13:58 | 0:14:03 | |
I completely understand that people working in hospitals recognhse | 0:14:03 | 0:14:08 | |
that they have never been btsier, people working in GP surgerhes, | 0:14:08 | 0:14:12 | |
in the social care sector, the same. | 0:14:12 | 0:14:15 | |
For year one and year five, yes, I think you can say | 0:14:15 | 0:14:18 | |
we were in the zone, but for the next three years, | 0:14:18 | 0:14:21 | |
we didn't get the funding that the NHS requested. | 0:14:21 | 0:14:26 | |
That's not a controversial statement, it's what I've already | 0:14:26 | 0:14:28 | |
said to the Public Accounts Committee, it's not a new statement. | 0:14:28 | 0:14:31 | |
As a result we've got a bigger hill to climb. | 0:14:31 | 0:14:34 | |
It's going to be more challdnging, 2017, 2018, 2019-20. | 0:14:34 | 0:14:39 | |
I just wondered what your vhew overall is of the picture, | 0:14:39 | 0:14:43 | |
the state of the NHS, and how accurate is this | 0:14:43 | 0:14:46 | |
narrative of crisis, or could there be a different | 0:14:46 | 0:14:49 | |
way of setting out what's really going on? | 0:14:49 | 0:14:53 | |
Well, as you say, I think it is a mixed picture | 0:14:53 | 0:14:56 | |
across the country. | 0:14:56 | 0:14:59 | |
However, I believe that for any of the serious conditions | 0:14:59 | 0:15:02 | |
that the NHS treats, I would not choose, | 0:15:02 | 0:15:05 | |
for me and my family, to have been treated three xears | 0:15:05 | 0:15:08 | |
ago, five years ago or ten xears ago, I'd rather be treated now. | 0:15:08 | 0:15:11 | |
That's certainly true for c`ncer services, it is true for he`rt | 0:15:11 | 0:15:14 | |
disease and stroke services. | 0:15:14 | 0:15:16 | |
On any of the measures for which we've got outcomes data, | 0:15:16 | 0:15:18 | |
outcomes are better. | 0:15:18 | 0:15:20 | |
Can you confirm that the Prhme Minister did tell you there will be | 0:15:20 | 0:15:23 | |
no more money for the NHS when you saw her last week? | 0:15:23 | 0:15:26 | |
First of all, the meeting wasn't last week. | 0:15:26 | 0:15:28 | |
Or in the last few days. | 0:15:28 | 0:15:29 | |
Secondly, it was a private leeting. | 0:15:29 | 0:15:33 | |
What about social care? | 0:15:33 | 0:15:34 | |
Any hope for social care? | 0:15:34 | 0:15:35 | |
As you will well know, Mr Bradshaw, from your time in government, | 0:15:35 | 0:15:39 | |
discussions between Cabinet ministers, the Treasury | 0:15:39 | 0:15:42 | |
and Number Ten about the future contents of budgets | 0:15:42 | 0:15:45 | |
and Autumn Statements are confidential matters. | 0:15:45 | 0:15:48 | |
We have an Autumn Statement coming up - are you fighting | 0:15:48 | 0:15:51 | |
for your department? | 0:15:51 | 0:15:52 | |
Are you fighting for the NHS? | 0:15:52 | 0:15:54 | |
All I would say is that I stand by my record as Health Secrdtary | 0:15:54 | 0:15:57 | |
in fighting for budgets for the NHS. | 0:15:57 | 0:16:02 | |
Everybody seems to agree, from Simon Stevens | 0:16:02 | 0:16:04 | |
to the Care Quality Commisshon, whose report last week the Secretary | 0:16:04 | 0:16:07 | |
of State described the health and social care system | 0:16:07 | 0:16:12 | |
as at a tipping point, that were there to be any extra | 0:16:12 | 0:16:16 | |
money found by the Chancellor in the Autumn Statement, he should | 0:16:16 | 0:16:18 | |
prioritise it to social card. | 0:16:18 | 0:16:19 | |
Do you agree with that? | 0:16:19 | 0:16:23 | |
Yeah... | 0:16:23 | 0:16:24 | |
As we've discussed earlier, I'm not going to make any comments | 0:16:24 | 0:16:27 | |
about the contents of the Autumn Statement. | 0:16:27 | 0:16:31 | |
But I do accept the broad point that the financial pressures, | 0:16:31 | 0:16:34 | |
high though they seem in thd NHS, are even more acute | 0:16:34 | 0:16:37 | |
in the social care system. | 0:16:37 | 0:16:40 | |
The committee chair asked about the government's pledge | 0:16:40 | 0:16:42 | |
to pay for extra doctors. | 0:16:42 | 0:16:45 | |
There is a very significant cost attached to the number of doctors | 0:16:45 | 0:16:48 | |
you're proposing to train at a time when Health Education England | 0:16:48 | 0:16:53 | |
budgets are being cut and of course there are implications for the NHS | 0:16:53 | 0:16:56 | |
as well in terms of the timd and the placements, | 0:16:56 | 0:17:00 | |
where are those placements, where are the staff to carrx out | 0:17:00 | 0:17:03 | |
the training? | 0:17:03 | 0:17:04 | |
And so forth. | 0:17:04 | 0:17:05 | |
I'm just wondering if you sdt a cost to this and where that's | 0:17:05 | 0:17:08 | |
going to come from. | 0:17:08 | 0:17:09 | |
Yes, sorry... | 0:17:09 | 0:17:10 | |
That's an important question to ask. | 0:17:10 | 0:17:14 | |
The answer is that we think in this spending review period betwden now | 0:17:14 | 0:17:18 | |
and the end of the Parliament, the cost will be less | 0:17:18 | 0:17:24 | |
than ?100 million for that commitment because when you're | 0:17:24 | 0:17:28 | |
training up to 1,500 medical students, the cost | 0:17:28 | 0:17:32 | |
training up to 1,500 more medical students, the cost | 0:17:32 | 0:17:35 | |
to Health Education England and the NHS, coming towards the end | 0:17:35 | 0:17:38 | |
of that period of training when they are doing their placements | 0:17:38 | 0:17:40 | |
in hospitals, so we think it is possible to absorb, | 0:17:40 | 0:17:43 | |
within the ?116 billion anntal budget, which of course will be | 0:17:43 | 0:17:45 | |
going up as well between now and the end of the Parliament. | 0:17:45 | 0:17:50 | |
The Health Secretary, Jeremx Hunt. | 0:17:50 | 0:17:53 | |
The EU referendum campaign was a pretty feisty affair `t times | 0:17:53 | 0:17:56 | |
with both sides making predhctions about the financial fallout | 0:17:56 | 0:18:00 | |
of either staying in or leaving | 0:18:00 | 0:18:03 | |
In the Lords, one peer asked if the government stood by forecasts | 0:18:03 | 0:18:07 | |
from the Treasury ahead of the vote about what Brexit | 0:18:07 | 0:18:09 | |
would mean for growth. | 0:18:09 | 0:18:11 | |
Lord Hannay reminded peers of what the predictions had been. | 0:18:11 | 0:18:15 | |
A loss of GDP in the event of us leaving the European Union | 0:18:15 | 0:18:19 | |
and having a single market outcome of 3.8%. | 0:18:19 | 0:18:23 | |
6.2% if we merely had a free trade agreement. | 0:18:23 | 0:18:27 | |
And 7.5% if we fell back on the default option | 0:18:27 | 0:18:30 | |
of the WTO membership. | 0:18:30 | 0:18:35 | |
Now, those are significant figures and there are | 0:18:35 | 0:18:37 | |
significant gaps between thdm. | 0:18:37 | 0:18:39 | |
Isn't it about time the govdrnment told us a bit more about thdm | 0:18:39 | 0:18:42 | |
and isn't it about time that they identified | 0:18:42 | 0:18:44 | |
the impact on individual sectors of the economy, | 0:18:44 | 0:18:48 | |
some of which, as is the nature of all averages, will be hurt much | 0:18:48 | 0:18:52 | |
more by these changes than others? | 0:18:52 | 0:18:57 | |
This was taking as a baseline continued membership of the EU | 0:18:57 | 0:19:01 | |
and then trying to predict the impact on GDP of | 0:19:01 | 0:19:03 | |
three scenarios. | 0:19:03 | 0:19:05 | |
One, the Norway solution, EDA. | 0:19:05 | 0:19:08 | |
Second, the Canada option. | 0:19:08 | 0:19:10 | |
And thirdly, WTO. | 0:19:10 | 0:19:13 | |
The government has subsequently made it clear that it is not | 0:19:13 | 0:19:15 | |
going for any of those thred options, it is going for a bespoke | 0:19:15 | 0:19:22 | |
option which won't necessarhly carol any of those. | 0:19:22 | 0:19:24 | |
And for that reason, there is no particular advantage | 0:19:24 | 0:19:26 | |
in updating the analysis that the Noble Lord referred to | 0:19:26 | 0:19:31 | |
What happened to the emergency budget which the dodgy dossher | 0:19:31 | 0:19:37 | |
to which the Noble Lord Hannay referred said would be immediately | 0:19:37 | 0:19:40 | |
needed if the electorate would so unwise as | 0:19:40 | 0:19:43 | |
to vote for Brexit? | 0:19:43 | 0:19:49 | |
What's happened to it? | 0:19:49 | 0:19:50 | |
Why hasn't it been produced? | 0:19:50 | 0:19:51 | |
The Chancellor and the Primd Minister have made it clear | 0:19:51 | 0:19:53 | |
that they are no longer seeking a surplus in the government's | 0:19:53 | 0:19:56 | |
accounts by the end of this Parliament. | 0:19:56 | 0:19:57 | |
That target has been postponed. | 0:19:57 | 0:19:59 | |
Therefore some of the imper`tives that my noble friend has just | 0:19:59 | 0:20:01 | |
referred to are not as essential as they were under | 0:20:01 | 0:20:04 | |
the previous Chancellor. | 0:20:04 | 0:20:06 | |
Lord Young. | 0:20:06 | 0:20:07 | |
Well, staying with Brexit, the Romanian ambassador to the UK | 0:20:07 | 0:20:11 | |
has told peers why freedom of movement is so important | 0:20:11 | 0:20:13 | |
to people from his country. | 0:20:13 | 0:20:17 | |
He said Romanians treasured the idea because of the years Romani` spent | 0:20:17 | 0:20:20 | |
behind the Iron Curtain with its citizens barred from | 0:20:20 | 0:20:22 | |
travelling anywhere in the West | 0:20:22 | 0:20:26 | |
When I was a child, I couldn't travel in the West because | 0:20:26 | 0:20:29 | |
it was not permitted. | 0:20:29 | 0:20:35 | |
The only permission I and mx parents had was to travel | 0:20:35 | 0:20:39 | |
in the socialist... | 0:20:39 | 0:20:44 | |
I could travel to Poland, for instance, or the Czech | 0:20:44 | 0:20:46 | |
Republic, or Hungary. | 0:20:46 | 0:20:49 | |
So we feel much more this freedom of movement. | 0:20:49 | 0:20:56 | |
Probably as you do not feel it because we had these restrictions. | 0:20:56 | 0:21:00 | |
I come back... | 0:21:00 | 0:21:04 | |
Figures, numbers are import`nt, but the sense of moving fredly | 0:21:04 | 0:21:10 | |
around, working, changing your workplace, everywhere. | 0:21:10 | 0:21:14 | |
The sense of freedom that comes from having had the lid | 0:21:14 | 0:21:17 | |
of totalitarianism lifted from your lives? | 0:21:17 | 0:21:22 | |
This was one of the main driving forces. | 0:21:22 | 0:21:27 | |
And does that make you feel that, to some extent, we may, | 0:21:27 | 0:21:32 | |
in the fullness of time, see a lessening of that bec`use it's | 0:21:32 | 0:21:35 | |
taken for granted? | 0:21:35 | 0:21:39 | |
Because people have burst ott and know what it's like to travel | 0:21:39 | 0:21:42 | |
that they're perhaps will bd a more settled sense within Romani` itself? | 0:21:42 | 0:21:49 | |
Well, this was my... | 0:21:49 | 0:21:53 | |
I think this should be presdrved. | 0:21:53 | 0:21:59 | |
Figures of registration are important. | 0:21:59 | 0:22:02 | |
Figures are important. | 0:22:02 | 0:22:04 | |
Protection of the labour force is important. | 0:22:04 | 0:22:08 | |
Our values as a democracy, our basic values as a democracy | 0:22:08 | 0:22:12 | |
is the free world. | 0:22:12 | 0:22:16 | |
The freedom of working, travelling everywhere. | 0:22:16 | 0:22:21 | |
Labour has accused ministers of effectively placing a gun | 0:22:21 | 0:22:25 | |
to the head of the BBC by ddmanding it fund free TV licences | 0:22:25 | 0:22:29 | |
for the over 75s while negotiating charter renewal. | 0:22:29 | 0:22:35 | |
The deal has an estimated cost of ?700 million a year. | 0:22:35 | 0:22:39 | |
The Shadow Culture Secretarx, Tom Watson, said it amounted | 0:22:39 | 0:22:41 | |
to a smash and grab raid on the BBC. | 0:22:41 | 0:22:45 | |
This was done without meaningful public consultation and little | 0:22:45 | 0:22:48 | |
parliamentary debate. | 0:22:48 | 0:22:51 | |
And it was part of a deal that was made behind | 0:22:51 | 0:22:54 | |
closed doors. | 0:22:54 | 0:22:56 | |
I will do. | 0:22:56 | 0:22:58 | |
When it comes to this imposhtion of the cost of over-75 licences | 0:22:58 | 0:23:04 | |
that was negotiated at the same time as the charter was being negotiated. | 0:23:04 | 0:23:09 | |
Does that not imply there was a degree of duress in m`king | 0:23:09 | 0:23:12 | |
the BBC accept the decision? | 0:23:12 | 0:23:15 | |
It's certainly not the most ideal circumstances when you're | 0:23:15 | 0:23:18 | |
negotiating for your survival, is it? | 0:23:18 | 0:23:23 | |
We are concerned about it. | 0:23:23 | 0:23:24 | |
We don't think there was a meaningful public consult`tion. | 0:23:24 | 0:23:28 | |
I hoped those days were behhnd us. | 0:23:28 | 0:23:31 | |
We feel very strongly that those arrangements cannot be allowed | 0:23:31 | 0:23:33 | |
to happen again. | 0:23:33 | 0:23:36 | |
Tony Hall, when he appeared before us in the select committee, | 0:23:36 | 0:23:38 | |
told us that he thought his staff were delighted with the deal. | 0:23:38 | 0:23:44 | |
I had to pinch myself. | 0:23:44 | 0:23:46 | |
Anybody who spends a nanosecond talking to any of his staff knows | 0:23:46 | 0:23:50 | |
that the staff thought the deal was absolutely disastrous bdcause, | 0:23:50 | 0:23:54 | |
of course, it will have an dffect on programme making budgets. | 0:23:54 | 0:23:59 | |
Also, importantly, it's not the role of the BBC | 0:23:59 | 0:24:01 | |
to deliver social provision. | 0:24:01 | 0:24:04 | |
The BBC is a broadcaster, it's the government's role | 0:24:04 | 0:24:06 | |
to deliver social provision. | 0:24:06 | 0:24:10 | |
They've now got an increase in the licence fee, | 0:24:10 | 0:24:12 | |
they have a five-year review, which probably means nothing. | 0:24:12 | 0:24:16 | |
This year they've had enough money to increase their wage | 0:24:16 | 0:24:18 | |
bill by ?21 million. | 0:24:18 | 0:24:21 | |
One of the biggest issues that we did have to look | 0:24:21 | 0:24:23 | |
at was whether or not the lhcence fee was sustainable. | 0:24:23 | 0:24:26 | |
A perfectly rational thing to look at and I think it became prdtty | 0:24:26 | 0:24:29 | |
clear that the licence fee, like democracy, was the least worst | 0:24:29 | 0:24:32 | |
of the options in front of ts. | 0:24:32 | 0:24:36 | |
Nevertheless, my right honotrable friend has introduced | 0:24:36 | 0:24:39 | |
the opportunity for the BBC to trial subscription services. | 0:24:39 | 0:24:43 | |
He's quite right to have done that because the BBC, | 0:24:43 | 0:24:46 | |
as has been mentioned already, will face extraordinary competition, | 0:24:46 | 0:24:50 | |
not from its terrestrial broadcast rivals, but from the likes | 0:24:50 | 0:24:52 | |
of Netflix, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Google. | 0:24:52 | 0:24:57 | |
It's quite right in a digit`l age it should start to look at how best | 0:24:57 | 0:25:01 | |
to raise its income and indded how to distribute its content. | 0:25:01 | 0:25:06 | |
The new Royal Charter will make the BBC stronger | 0:25:06 | 0:25:08 | |
in a number of ways. | 0:25:08 | 0:25:11 | |
It will increase the BBC's independence, improve | 0:25:11 | 0:25:14 | |
its regulation, make it mord transparent and accountable | 0:25:14 | 0:25:18 | |
to licence fee payers, and make it better reflect the whole | 0:25:18 | 0:25:20 | |
of the United Kingdom. | 0:25:20 | 0:25:23 | |
I believe that this funding settlement is a strong fundhng | 0:25:23 | 0:25:27 | |
settlement that puts the BBC on a sustainable footing | 0:25:27 | 0:25:31 | |
within inflationary increasd in the licence fee. | 0:25:31 | 0:25:38 | |
with an inflationary increase in the licence fee. | 0:25:38 | 0:25:39 | |
Karen Bradley. | 0:25:39 | 0:25:40 | |
And that's it for now. | 0:25:40 | 0:25:42 | |
Do join me at the same time tomorrow for another round-up of the best | 0:25:42 | 0:25:45 | |
of the day here at Westminster, including the highlights | 0:25:45 | 0:25:47 | |
from Prime Minister's Questhons | 0:25:47 | 0:25:48 | |
Until then, from me, Alysia McCarthy, goodbye. | 0:25:48 | 0:25:48 |