:00:20. > :00:22.Good afternoon. Chancellor George Osborne is calling for more
:00:22. > :00:24.international action to tackle loopholes that allow companies to
:00:25. > :00:26.avoid paying tax. At the G20 meeting of Finance Ministers in
:00:26. > :00:29.Moscow, Mr Osborne said a coordinated, international
:00:29. > :00:39.agreement could be the only way to police global businesses. Our
:00:39. > :00:45.
:00:45. > :00:51.business correspondent Ben Thompson The money you spend here doesn't
:00:51. > :00:54.always stay here. In a global economy, many well-known firms are
:00:54. > :00:58.international with most operating online too. That means it's more
:00:58. > :01:03.difficult to determine what tax they should pay, and crucially
:01:03. > :01:07.where it's due. At the G20 meeting in Moscow today, Chancellor George
:01:07. > :01:11.Osbourne says those tax rules must be reformed to prevent firms
:01:11. > :01:15.shifting their profits around the world from countries with higher
:01:15. > :01:20.tax to ones with lower tax, a practise that means the Treasury
:01:20. > :01:27.loses millions of pounds a year. Then it's a loophole that allowed
:01:27. > :01:31.the online retailer Amazon to make revenues of �3.4 billion but pay
:01:31. > :01:39.just �1.8 million in tax. The internet firm Google earned �386
:01:39. > :01:45.million but paid tax of just �6 million. The coffee giant Starbucks
:01:45. > :01:48.made �398 million in the UK but paid nothing in UK tax. Following a
:01:48. > :01:54.public backlash, Starbucks says it will now pay �10 million in tax
:01:54. > :01:57.next year, but the Chancellor says there needs to be greater
:01:57. > :02:01.transparency. What we want is a set of international rules so those
:02:01. > :02:04.businesses come and do business in Britain, and Britain is now one of
:02:05. > :02:08.the most competitive, one of the best places in the world to come
:02:08. > :02:13.and do business, but when they come they also pay their taxes. The only
:02:13. > :02:15.way you can do that is not by passing a law in Britain but
:02:15. > :02:20.getting an international agreement with the rest of the world.
:02:20. > :02:25.Countries may agree something needs to be done, but bringing together
:02:25. > :02:30.so many complex tax systems won't be a simple process, and agreeing
:02:30. > :02:33.where profit is made and where the tax is due won't be easy.
:02:33. > :02:36.The Health Secretary has written to NHS managers in England urging them
:02:36. > :02:39.not to prevent staff from speaking out about issues affecting patient
:02:39. > :02:42.care. It comes after a former chief executive of a hospital trust in
:02:42. > :02:46.Lincolnshire broke a gagging order to speak to the BBC about his
:02:46. > :02:56.concerns. Tom Barton is with me now. Tom, what does Jeremy Hunt's letter
:02:56. > :02:56.
:02:56. > :03:01.say? I've got a copy of the letter here. What he's saying is he wants
:03:01. > :03:04.hospitals to stop using these gagging orders, warning them taking
:03:04. > :03:09.legalistic approaches to whistle- blowing stops management from
:03:09. > :03:14.identifying and fixing problems this. All comes after the Chief
:03:14. > :03:19.Executive of a Lincolnshire hospital spoke to the BBC, breaking
:03:19. > :03:23.a gagging order put on him after he was dismissed he says for putting
:03:23. > :03:25.safety ahead of Whitehall targets. I have spoken to him this morning.
:03:25. > :03:29.He's welcomed the letter from Jeremy Hunt, but he's also calling
:03:29. > :03:35.for an independent investigation, claiming the Department of Health
:03:35. > :03:38.can't adequately investigate itself. Tom, thank you.
:03:38. > :03:41.Three men who were arrested by police on suspicion of passing
:03:41. > :03:43.horsemeat off as beef have been released on bail as officials
:03:43. > :03:46.continued to examine evidence from three more plants. Meanwhile, Tesco
:03:46. > :03:50.today said it was reviewing its supply chain after horse DNA was
:03:50. > :03:52.found in some of its processed beef. Laura Yates has been to Otley in
:03:52. > :04:02.west Yorkshire to see how the scandal's affected consumer
:04:02. > :04:04.
:04:04. > :04:08.confidence. Inside and outside this butcher's this morning, a queue of
:04:08. > :04:13.people - each and every one determined to buy local meat.
:04:13. > :04:18.know where it's come from and how - I used to work here years ago, so I
:04:18. > :04:22.know what goes into everything, the pies, and you can't beat it. Would
:04:22. > :04:26.you buy a ready meal from a supermarket? Not at the moment, no.
:04:26. > :04:31.In the corner of the shop, a supplier's board. Most of their
:04:31. > :04:35.meat comes from Yorkshire or from somewhere in Britain. People are
:04:35. > :04:41.concerned about what we do. We trace ours from local farmers, and
:04:41. > :04:46.we have a full chain of suppliers in place. Here and at another
:04:46. > :04:49.butcher's down the road they have seen a 30% increase in trade in the
:04:49. > :04:54.last week. I think you get better quality. You know what's in the
:04:54. > :04:58.product. It doesn't surprise me. It concerns me that people are being
:04:58. > :05:02.fed stuff that we're not aware of. Always a local butcher. Thank you.
:05:02. > :05:10.As investigations continue, for now, at least, many people here say
:05:10. > :05:13.they're thinking twice about their shopping habits.
:05:13. > :05:15.Ireland's Prime Minister, Enda Kenny, will meet more than a dozen
:05:15. > :05:18.survivors of the country's notorious Magdalene Laundries in
:05:18. > :05:21.London this afternoon. 10,000 women and girls were forced to do unpaid
:05:21. > :05:26.manual work in the laundries. The survivors have been demanding a
:05:26. > :05:33.formal apology from the Irish Government for their treatment.
:05:33. > :05:38.Nick Higham reports. They have been described as Ireland's gulag, the
:05:38. > :05:42.laundries run by nuns where some 10,000 women and girls were sent to
:05:42. > :05:47.work unpaid, supposedly charitable institutions. In reality, they were
:05:47. > :05:53.harsh place, inmates, unmarried mothers, women guilty of petty
:05:53. > :05:59.crimes or simply girls from broken homes. The last laundry in this
:05:59. > :06:03.Dublin convent close as late as 1996. Earlier this month a
:06:03. > :06:08.Government report showed the Irish state had been complicit in the
:06:08. > :06:13.running of these institutions. Former inmates wanted compensation,
:06:13. > :06:17.instead they got this - an expression of regret. The stigma of
:06:17. > :06:19.the branding together of all the residents, all 10,000, in the
:06:19. > :06:23.Magdalene Laundries, needs to be removed and should have been
:06:23. > :06:28.removed long before this, and I really am sorry that never happened.
:06:28. > :06:32.But earlier this week, survivors' representatives met the Taoiseach
:06:32. > :06:37.in dublin. They spent three hours with them and believe he's now
:06:37. > :06:41.ready to issue a full apology on behalf of the Government. He was
:06:41. > :06:45.very nice and kind. We had to go over our stories again, so that was
:06:46. > :06:53.quite tearful, but he said that was important that he could put a face
:06:53. > :06:57.to the stories that's in the report. The Taoiseach's coming to London
:06:57. > :07:02.especially to meet and here the stories of over a dozen survivors
:07:02. > :07:06.living in the UK. Some women spent their whole lives in the laundries