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Order. Business question. Chris Bryant. Will the Leader of the House | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
give us the forthcoming business, please? Mr Speaker, the business for | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
next week on Monday the 25th of April, we will have consideration of | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
Lords amendments to the Immigration Bill, followed by a debate on | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
education funding in London determined by the Backbench Business | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
Committee. On Tuesday 26 of April, that'll be the first day of the | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
remaining stages of the policing and crime Bill. On Wednesday the 27th, | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
we will consider Lords amendments to the Trade Union Bill. On Thursday | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
the 28th of April, two further backbench business debates. The | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
first on the subject of World Autism Awareness Week Than Double. On | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
Friday The 29th, The House Is Not Sitting. On Monday the 22nd of May, | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
it is a bank holiday and the House will not be sitting. On Tuesday the | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
3rd of May, we will consider Lords amendments to the housing and | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
planning Bill. I remember how is that that Tuesday will be sitting | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
according to the normal Monday that go. -- timetable. | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
Today is the birthday of a towering figure in British public life who | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
has served the country for decades and is a pillar of the Constitution. | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
So can I wish the chairman of the Backbench Business Committee and | :01:19. | :01:25. | |
very happy birthday? And can I also pay one tribute to Victoria Wood. I | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
don't know what your favourite line was, Mr Speaker. Mine was her | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
definition of middle age. It is when you walk past a Dr Schole shop and | :01:33. | :01:54. | |
say, those look comfy. I had expected that when the leader | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
arrived today, he would have had some kind of musical complement. | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
After all, when he bounced up at the Leaves rally in Stoke on Tuesday, | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
they pump out the theme tune from a Hollywood Western. I must confess | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
that I thought it was The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, but it was Ray-ban | :02:13. | :02:24. | |
Bettison Seven. -- The Magnificent Seven. I can just imagine the two of | :02:25. | :02:34. | |
them, the only remaining ones alive at the end, sitting on their horses | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
on the day after the E referendum on to into 4th of June, acting out the | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
final scene of The Magnificent seven. Chris gets the magnificent | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
words, we lost, we always lose. I hope that will be the case. Did you | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
hear the sound of silence that evening, which was a great silence | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
descending on the Leaves campaign when they asked to describe what | :03:03. | :03:15. | |
Brexit will look like. The Lord Chancellor seems to think you can | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
have free trade with the EU without free movement. Let me just point out | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
that in the 500 years since the former Lord Chancellor Sir Thomas | :03:25. | :03:36. | |
mirror Moore published utopia, no-one has found it. -- Moore. We | :03:37. | :03:45. | |
think this is as buzz than the chancellors and last Chancellor on. | :03:46. | :03:46. | |
I noticed the comments from the Deputy Leader who seemed hesitant | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
about reform and a leader who seemed more towards reform. Will the leader | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
guaranteed a house will get a proper chance to debate changes to standing | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
orders? I don't just mean some insubstantial debate but a proper | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
debate that can lead to change. The leader announced that we should | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
consider Lords amendments to the Trade Union Bill and Wednesday. You | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
will know that the Lords committee on Trade Union Bill tickle funds, | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
which is a cross-party committee, has made important suggestions. Can | :04:17. | :04:24. | |
I have the Government to act on these? Otherwise, people may | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
conclude the Government is engaged in a nasty, partisan attempt to | :04:28. | :04:29. | |
hobble anyone who disagrees with them. Can the leader clarify the | :04:30. | :04:37. | |
Government's position on genocide... ? The deliberate massacre of | :04:38. | :04:47. | |
thousands is barbarity. An honourable member carried the vote | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
unanimously yesterday with 270 votes but surely the Government should act | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
upon it. The Government satellites and mysteriously last night and has | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
a habit of ignoring anonymous motions. -- the Government sat on | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
its hands mysteriously. Just this once, can the Government take the | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
House of Lords reform seriously and that? The bizarre Lib Dem hereditary | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
by-election on Tuesday brought back by Kent Thurso -- Viscount Thurso. | :05:20. | :05:29. | |
He was a member of the House of Lords, collected in essays, then | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
thrown out, and will now be an elected hereditary peer for life. We | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
have had 29 elected period by-elections. My favourite was | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
Lassad timbre, when the ninth get of Wellington one. There are no four | :05:43. | :05:51. | |
times as many Dukes in Parliament under Queen Elizabeth II than 450 | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
years ago under Queen Elizabeth the force. Wellington defeated the Earl | :05:55. | :06:10. | |
of Limerick. Mr Speaker, I am particularly disappointed in the | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
Leader of the House because the Saturday is the 400th anniversary of | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
Shakespeare's death. Apart from a production of Richard the second and | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
members' dining room the other night, this is building knowledge is | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
it. Or St George's Day. This is profoundly unpatriotic and she | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
should hang her head in shame. -- he should hang his head. To those | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
strange bedfellows, Boris and Nigel, on the European Union. This is not a | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
foregone conclusion and I don't want to let on the trial. If we leave the | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
EU we will be in a pickle and all your... I say this in sorrow rather | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
than anger but your pomp and circumstance offers a full's | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
paradise because that way madness lies. More fool you. No-one wants | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
the UK to leave the EU more than President Putin of Russia. Brexit | :07:09. | :07:22. | |
Burr sued by a bear. -- Burr. Can I start on this occasion by expressing | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
my own wishes. The Prime Minister will be here shortly to speak on | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
behalf of the Government on this occasion of the Queen's 90th | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
birthday. But what I would like to see today, as a lot of President of | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
the Kent is a comedy person who provides although the Privy Council | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
previously Lord Chancellor, I have had extensive dealings with her mad | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
is the last few years. She is fantastic and an example to us all. | :07:49. | :07:58. | |
-- Her Majesty. I am sure I will be joined by the whole house in wishing | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
her a very happy birthday. And also happy birthday to the chairman of | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
the Backbench Business Committee. And to everybody this weekend, a | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
happy St George's Day. And it is appropriate wish to say all the very | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
best of the Members of the House doing the London Marathon this | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
weekend. It is a feat of injuries and we should be proud of all of | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
them on all sides of the House. -- endurance. On the points he raised | :08:26. | :08:33. | |
specifically on private members bills, as I said earlier, this is a | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
thoughtful report. It is a welcome report with a lot of food for | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
thought and we will respond in due course. I want to read it carefully | :08:41. | :08:48. | |
and site how best to respond. My honourable friend, I have mentioned | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
I am sympathetic to many things in it. We don't want to raise false | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
expectations and the public but I will respond in due course. It is | :08:58. | :09:05. | |
worth reminding people of two things. This is about protecting | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
workers who find lives disrupted by strikes... It is right and proper | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
that we should not allow citizens' lives to be disrupted by | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
inappropriate shrike action. Dissolves about choice and making | :09:20. | :09:21. | |
contributions to political parties on our side of the House, people who | :09:22. | :09:32. | |
want to contribute do so willingly. All others in the South would | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
recognise the offence... Events in northern Iraq have been horrendous. | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
Scenes of brutality that are inexplicable, indefensible and | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
should be condemned. I am certain I right or will friend would look | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
carefully at what was said yes in the end of use of the size. -- this | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
House. And endangered minorities, the | :09:53. | :10:03. | |
Liberal Democrats, that I would remind him that is the Labour Party | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
that brought in elected peers back in the late 1990s when they reformed | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
House of Lords. They were in Government with a majority of about | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
250. They are the ones who took the decisions they did about the reforms | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
that are in place. On the European issue, I will never take seriously | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
the views of a man who a few years ago was expressing himself with such | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
dismay about the fact that Britain has not joined the euro. I will | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
never take his views seriously having listened to what he said | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
then. Mrs Baker, the shadow leader also gave an interview a few days | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
ago when he accused me of making the same joke five weeks in a row. I can | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
only say that when I kept asking why he was on that front bench, I was | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
not joking. He sits to represent a party that wants nothing to do with | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
the largest producer of conditions. He and our Paoli wants to support | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
out group that wants to dismantle our nation's defences led by a man | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
who believes we haven't had enough immigration into this country | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
already and despite his own wise words and I pay tribute to him, he | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
still represented a party that is clearly bundled with anti-Semitism. | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
The people of the... The people of principle in his party are now | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
sitting on his backbenchers. The fact that he is to all the front | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
bench himself speaks volumes. But, Mr Speaker, there is good news for | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
those people of principle on the Labour backbenchers because you may | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
not have seen the adverts that appeared yesterday for a position in | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
the office as his media spokesperson and it said, duration, and I quote, | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
fixed term contract for the period only that Jeremy Corbyn is the | :11:49. | :11:56. | |
member leader of the Labour Party or until a date in 2016, whichever is | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
sooner. Will our right honourable friend find time for a debate on the | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
status of politicians with coming to this country. I am not referring to | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
Barrett glamour. The Moldovan High Commissioner told a that members of | :12:12. | :12:21. | |
the NDP party are visiting this country who are facing high level | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
criminal proceedings at home and I don't understand what they are doing | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
here. I will make sure these concerns are drawn to the attention | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
of the Home Office and Foreign Office. When we admit people to this | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
country, we must understand the context of their arrival here, who | :12:37. | :12:44. | |
they are and what doing. Can I also thank the four announcement the | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
business for next week. I also want to bring up the Queen's Macy's | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
birthday. There can be nothing more significance than her birthday. I | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
know it will have an debate following the session but I would | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
like to recognise her lifetime of duty and service. It's good to see | :13:03. | :13:11. | |
the Leader of the House back following his jokes with most of a | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
rash. It was not the two robberies but the two cronies. I'm sure when | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
the referendum is over it will be good night from him. The debate | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
about the referendum has been utterly appalling. I think for most | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
people in Scotland, it seems like two old Tories fighting over a cold. | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
As we go forward, can we drop project fear, the UK running of the | :13:34. | :13:44. | |
league campaign and and how we take forward this agenda the future. Can | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
I also welcome our newest parliamentarian, the noble Lords, | :13:48. | :13:57. | |
Viscount Thurso who managed to get three votes from the Labour | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
aristocracy. May I suggest to the Labour Party that they do something | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
about your Labour appears. The second biggest group down there and | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
they are Aristocats too. Do not forget about that. The moment you | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
join asked in trying to address this, that when progress will be | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
made. Thurso was Bridget out of that place, out of this place but he's | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
still here as an elected parliamentarian. Is there no way to | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
get rid of these people? I appeal to the Tories, join us in reading this | :14:29. | :14:35. | |
place of these are Aristocats, Church of England bishops, donors | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
and cronies, unless corrected and liberals and let's get rid of that | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
embarrassing surplus and bring democracy to this country. -- | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
aristocrats. Cat we have a debate about ambition in this protein | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
country. Two weeks today, the Scottish will go to the polls to | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
elect a new Scottish parliament and there is a fight to the death going | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
on amongst the UK parties, not to win, but to see who could become the | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
best placed loser. Such is their ambition in this election. That is | :15:08. | :15:14. | |
their acknowledgement of the impressive SNP record who are | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
battling and doubt about who can be opposition. Can I appeal to the | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
Blairites and Corbyn nights and the Tories, come to Scotland, add some | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
fortification to your colleagues and perhaps encourage them to take this | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
context seriously. Can I start by thanking him for his kind words | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
about the Queen and I think notwithstanding the fact that we | :15:41. | :15:42. | |
have different views about the future of the United Kingdom, we | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
share the view on the importance of Her Majesty over 90 years and all of | :15:49. | :15:56. | |
us celebrate today's happy occasion. He talked about platforms, me | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
earlier in the week. I also shared a platform on Monday night in | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
Stoke-on-Trent with someone who the party opposite would regard as a | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
dangerous right-wing extremist, the Labour member for Vauxhall, who also | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
stood alongside me and made an impassioned speech. On the issue of | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
the election in the House of Lords, I think we have two Liberal Democrat | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
colleagues there who are sitting in diminished numbers and I think we | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
should not be unduly unkind about them about the election that has | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
taken place in the House of Lords. The reality is that the House of | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
lords overwhelmingly is made up by people who have made a significant | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
contribution to public life in this country or have developed great | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
expertise in their fields and I'm afraid I am a defender of the House | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
of Lords and I think it adds something to our democratic process | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
even though I know he does not agree and neither does the shadow leader. | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
On political ambition in Scotland, can I say, yes, we have clear | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
political ambition is gone. Ruth Davidson would be the best First | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
Minister in Scotland and what the interesting is to see how if the SNP | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
are successful in May, how they adapt to having actual pal is that | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
they have two wheeled and decisions to wield. So far, they have avoided | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
taking tough decisions in Scotland but have demanded more powers that | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
they hardly ever use and have tried to convince us that they can rise | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
above the practicalities of Government were you have to do tough | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
things. If they are successful in May, we will see whether they are up | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
to governing and I think we may find them wanting. This week, yon signed | :17:28. | :17:43. | |
up to work for my constituents campaign to prevent the unfair | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
dismissal of terminally ill workers. What can we do to make people sign | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
up to this much-needed work change? This is an important point. She has | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
reasons issue before. The Secretary of State for business is going to be | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
in the House in ten days' time. I will vote on to the fact that she | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
has raised the issue today and she might want to bring it up with him | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
as it is a matter for his department. Could we have an urgent | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
debate on the junior doctors' contract. On Monday, two legal cases | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
against him that he is defending, this would be a time to suspend the | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
implication of the contract after all, the Secretary of State is not | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
above the law. Of course, this was a matter that was discussed in this | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
House on Monday. It was an urgent question but the secretary of the | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
was here and do take questions and I have no doubt that he will be back | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
in this House to address this issue in due course. It is my hope that a | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
resolution can be reached. He and his colleagues in the department | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
have put in extensive efforts and had 75 meetings with junior doctors' | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
representatives. None of us want to see a strike that involves emergency | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
services. I would call upon all doctors not to take industrial | :18:58. | :18:59. | |
action next week and I hope a resolution can be reached quickly. | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
Just weeks after the co-chairman of the chair and union club stepped | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
down after he said both large numbers the students left have some | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
kind of problem with Jews, I assure you find it incredulous that | :19:16. | :19:23. | |
students who attended the NUS conference debate is boycotting | :19:24. | :19:25. | |
Holocaust Memorial Day and then went on to elect a leader who describes | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
the whole cousin resume as a Zionist outpost. Can we have the Minister | :19:33. | :19:40. | |
come to the box and address this rise in anti-Semitism that is found | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
in university campuses? It is unacceptable in our society. The | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
views expressed yesterday are not acceptable. The shadow leader was | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
absently right when he talked about anti-Semitism in his own party. It | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
is something that Alsop sight of Parliament we should start out in | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
our society. It is unacceptable. With the leader of the housemates | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
I'm available for a debate in which we can hear the views of those who | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
have decided to support our nebbish above the EU such as Barack Obama | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
and those who have decided is a port the view to come out such as | :20:15. | :20:22. | |
marrying a pan of beef Front National in France. We could secure | :20:23. | :20:24. | |
the views of the Scottish National party who as far as I can tell want | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
Scotland to stay in the European Union but not the United Kingdom. | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
Well, she and I will have the opportunity to debate these matters | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
in my constituency shortly and I'm glad for his taking part in that | :20:38. | :20:44. | |
debate. It is a lively debate and the people will bestow decision on | :20:45. | :20:53. | |
June 23. Local parish councils our invaluable to bringing together | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
communities and representing communities at that very local | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
issues. Can I ask the reader if we can have a debate on the rear but | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
concerning occasions when one person sits on multiple parish councils as | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
well as district or borough councils, therefore reducing fraud | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
and effective participation and those local parish councils? Mr | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
Speaker, this is an important point as ever and I am aware of the | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
situation in her constituency. I pay tribute to her work in Eastleigh. Of | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
course, she is right to say that those who enter public life should | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
take their response abilities seriously and should commit to the | :21:32. | :21:33. | |
organisation that they are part of. They should be active in the | :21:34. | :21:40. | |
community according to their part parish for essential local matters | :21:41. | :21:48. | |
are not the full list of their work. I am very grateful, Mr Speaker and | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
can I ask thank everyone for birthday wishes. I share a birthday | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
with Her Majesty every year! I'm afraid to say, I'm getting to a | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
state of play where the candles are costing more than the cake so we | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
will be going down that road. Can I point out to the Leader of the House | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
that on occasions, members from these benches from around the House | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
as Kim and request him for a debate in Government time and almost always | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
refers that member to the backbench business committee but some of those | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
requests come from members who are not backbenchers. That makes life | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
rather difficult for the backbench business committee to deal with | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
those requests so can I ask him to bear that in mind for future | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
business and I think on a personal note, I represent the constituency | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
of Gateshead and I live in the heart of the community there where there | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
is a very orthodox and Bernard Jewish community and I'm very proud | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
to represent that community. -- learn it. -- learned. I would | :22:54. | :23:02. | |
support what he is just said. The allocation of time, of course the | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
challenge for the Government is that we have now allocated to the | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
opposition and to the backbench committee have the time in a | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
particular week and it is about ensuring that the Government can | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
also push its business so of course, opposition frontbenchers would | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
typically have is central block of time each stop the backbench | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
committee has time each year. So we do at attempt to achieve the right | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
balance according to the standing orders are agreed by this House. | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
Could my right honourable friend arrange a statement about the | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
efficiency and speed with which leases are granted particularly to | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
business people from African countries? We are trying to expand | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
business in those areas and often find that they are delayed for weeks | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
particularly when embassies in their own countries give us visas in an | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
matter of days. I'm sure at the Home Secretary will of been heard. There | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
are exciting economic development happening across the common wealth | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
and it is important is that we are able to maximise those opportunities | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
to trade, do business, invest. I will make sure she is aware of the | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
concerns raised. Can we have a debate on the importance of teaching | :24:22. | :24:31. | |
STEM subjects in schools? At a pro-Israel in my constituency they | :24:32. | :24:38. | |
have a Formula 1 team. -- at a primary school. These children have | :24:39. | :24:47. | |
designed a car and won second place in South Wales and are going forward | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
to a large competition across the UK. Is it is not absolutely creative | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
work that creates possibilities of us having the scientists at | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
mathematicians and technicians of the country that this country so | :25:01. | :25:01. | |
desperately needs? She makes an important point, and | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
what a great project. Congratulations to the young people | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
involved, who will no doubt go on to great things and season great | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
innovations for the future as well as possibly competing in the near | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
future as well. But the point I would make to her is that they are | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
absolutely agree on STEM subjects. It is of paramount importance to us. | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
I am proud of the work this Government has done to increase the | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
teaching of STEM subjects. It is something we should encourage for | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
the future on both sides of the House. On Tuesday, I will be | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
coasting an event with my honourable friend, along with Brian May from | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
Queen, to promote the Amazing Grace Hedgehog Challenge. This, along with | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
Mike petition to save the hedgehog, will go a long way to solving the | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
plight of Mr and Mrs Mizen Tiggywinkle. I would like the | :26:00. | :26:07. | |
members to join us at ten o'clock on Tuesday. Unfortunate, I will be in | :26:08. | :26:15. | |
the Cabinet at the time. But all the Best wishes for this event. The work | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
he has done is tremendous. The petition has passed the 30,000 | :26:20. | :26:28. | |
point. One slight concern - he might just remind Brian May that | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
occasionally badgers do kill hedgehogs. | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
The Government has recently opened a consultation which aims to reform | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
the Civil Service compensation scheme. Proposed changes would see | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
the average compensation payment drop by over 16,000 and compulsory | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
redundancy dropped by nearly ?7,000. It will affect every single civil | :26:53. | :26:59. | |
servant and has yet to be subjected to an impact assessment. Will the | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
Leader of the House please encourage and stills from both the Treasury | :27:04. | :27:06. | |
and Cabinet Office to conduct these assessments and allow time for it to | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
be debated with these very worrying reforms? Mr Speaker, the situation | :27:11. | :27:19. | |
be inherited in 2010 was civil servants' severance agreement was 1 | :27:20. | :27:22. | |
million miles away from what would be the norm. What we inherited from | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
the party opposite was enormous payoffs, sometimes people taking | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
those payoffs and coming back soon afterwards. We have tried to put in | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
place a system that is realistic for the taxpayer, consistent in the | :27:36. | :27:42. | |
private sector. I think that is better the country. In view of the | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
anticipated intervention by the American president into the EU | :27:47. | :27:53. | |
referendum, could the leader arrange for a statement for our Government | :27:54. | :27:59. | |
setting it who would be the preferred candidate for the US | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
presidency and who they would like to win in November? Well, Mr | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
Speaker, my honourable friend tempts me but it is my view that this | :28:08. | :28:14. | |
country should and will work with whoever becomes President of the | :28:15. | :28:16. | |
United States. They are closest allies. Our longest standing allies. | :28:17. | :28:24. | |
I am absolutely certain that we will work with them regardless of who is | :28:25. | :28:27. | |
president and they will work with us regardless of whether we are inside | :28:28. | :28:35. | |
and outside the European Union. The civil servants of the Cabinet Office | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
do our very -- took a very unusual decision last year and they publicly | :28:41. | :28:45. | |
published their advice, saying that ministers should not give a grant to | :28:46. | :29:00. | |
kids company, run by Kamal about -- run by its figurehead. As the money | :29:01. | :29:06. | |
has been lost presumably irretrievably, shouldn't this matter | :29:07. | :29:12. | |
be reported to the adviser of ministerial conduct responsible for | :29:13. | :29:17. | |
dealing with the egregious breaches of ministerial conduct of this kind. | :29:18. | :29:24. | |
Mr Speaker, this matter is being investigated in detail by the | :29:25. | :29:26. | |
appropriate select committee. Any member of this House and any member | :29:27. | :29:30. | |
of the public can lodge any complaint they wish to lodge. | :29:31. | :29:39. | |
Can we please have a field day's debate on Government time on the | :29:40. | :29:45. | |
Treasury's analysis of the effect of the UK leaving the European Union? | :29:46. | :29:50. | |
This will give all members the opportunity to explore the various | :29:51. | :29:53. | |
forecasts made in this document and the opportunity, for example, to | :29:54. | :29:58. | |
explore how likely it is that the prediction as to how well the UK | :29:59. | :30:02. | |
economy will be doing in 15 years' time is likely to be accurate. Well, | :30:03. | :30:10. | |
Mr Speaker, as you will know, there is a debate in Westminster Hall on | :30:11. | :30:13. | |
the issue of Government communications around the referendum | :30:14. | :30:17. | |
on me the ninth. And I am sure that the chairperson of that debate will | :30:18. | :30:21. | |
be happy to allow my honourable friend to debate those matters as | :30:22. | :30:30. | |
well. Can we have a statement or the | :30:31. | :30:33. | |
debate on life changing drugs availability to members of the | :30:34. | :30:39. | |
public? I have constituents who have great difficulties in getting those | :30:40. | :30:42. | |
drugs because of lack of funding. Can we have a debate or statement on | :30:43. | :30:50. | |
that? Through the National as of clinical excellence, we provide | :30:51. | :30:54. | |
access to new drugs. -- the nationalistic of clinical evidence. | :30:55. | :30:59. | |
It is right and proper the Health Service considers the merits of new | :31:00. | :31:03. | |
drugs coming onto the market and forms of you as to whether it can | :31:04. | :31:06. | |
actually make a difference, which is originators would claim. Thank you, | :31:07. | :31:16. | |
Mr Speaker. To the question for the honourable member for play fort, the | :31:17. | :31:20. | |
United States would rightly never cede its sovereignty to a | :31:21. | :31:27. | |
supranational body, so can we have a debate on the protocol that | :31:28. | :31:29. | |
international leaders should not involve themselves in commenting on | :31:30. | :31:35. | |
domestic elections? Your Mac well, Mr Speaker, I respect that whatever | :31:36. | :31:38. | |
else around its current debate, President Obama will have picked up | :31:39. | :31:42. | |
the size of this item before your eyes and be always with interest to | :31:43. | :31:47. | |
see what he says. Before Christmas in the last debate, this House | :31:48. | :31:53. | |
debated and agreed a nuclear agreement with Iran. One of those | :31:54. | :32:00. | |
conditions was human rights would be protected and those of religious | :32:01. | :32:04. | |
persuasion as well. In January 2016, a court in Iran reportedly sentenced | :32:05. | :32:13. | |
people to 140 years in prison. Another 80 people reported detained | :32:14. | :32:19. | |
in December 20 15. The Government said that people should enjoy | :32:20. | :32:27. | |
citizen's rights pursuant to laws that is quite clearly, that is not | :32:28. | :32:31. | |
the case will stop with the Leader of the House agreed to a statement | :32:32. | :32:35. | |
or debate on this issue? The engagement we have had with Iran, | :32:36. | :32:41. | |
the agreement was reached, it was the view of the Government was | :32:42. | :32:44. | |
better to engage with Iran to address the nuclear issue. But by | :32:45. | :32:47. | |
engaging with them, we can try and influence them on human rights | :32:48. | :32:50. | |
issues as well. Of course there are human rights concerns. The Foreign | :32:51. | :32:54. | |
Secretary would always raise concerns about this with countries | :32:55. | :32:59. | |
where such concerns existed. But it is better to engage and stand away | :33:00. | :33:04. | |
from a rant, in a hope we can influence improvement there. -- | :33:05. | :33:10. | |
rather than stand away from Iran. It is ironic that the Holocaust | :33:11. | :33:17. | |
Educational Trust And Ogle Our Holding An Educational Session In | :33:18. | :33:29. | |
This Place At The Same Time As... Speakers were applauded for saying | :33:30. | :33:32. | |
that Holocaust Memorial Day was not inclusive enough. Clearly there is a | :33:33. | :33:37. | |
great you have work to be done on education to combat the scourge of | :33:38. | :33:43. | |
anti-says in -- anti-Semitism. Can we have a debate on what action we | :33:44. | :33:49. | |
will take to route this out once and for almost all political parties and | :33:50. | :33:55. | |
all sections of society? My friend is absolutely right. We see this | :33:56. | :33:58. | |
happen time and time again. Statements about the Jewish | :33:59. | :34:03. | |
population in this country, statements about Israel that is | :34:04. | :34:06. | |
simply unacceptable in a democratic society. Of course, there are | :34:07. | :34:10. | |
legitimate debate is to be had about the future of Israel and Palestine | :34:11. | :34:14. | |
and the peace process, but some of the anti-Semitic views appearing in | :34:15. | :34:18. | |
our society are simply unacceptable. The party opposite mentions | :34:19. | :34:24. | |
Islamophobia. I have stood your again and again and condemned | :34:25. | :34:25. | |
Islamophobia in this country but that is not a reason for not any | :34:26. | :34:29. | |
attention to the issue of anti-Semitism, which is becoming | :34:30. | :34:32. | |
more and more of a problem and has to be addressed head-on now by all | :34:33. | :34:35. | |
those in public life, including the party opposite. | :34:36. | :34:46. | |
My constituent arrived in the UK 40 years ago -- 48 years ago in 1968 as | :34:47. | :34:50. | |
an eight-year-old child with his parents and siblings. He has lived | :34:51. | :34:56. | |
his whole life in the UK, been educated year, has married and has | :34:57. | :35:01. | |
two grown-up children. When applying for a new job last year, he was | :35:02. | :35:04. | |
asked to produce a passport, something he had never had before. | :35:05. | :35:09. | |
And here's been told he is here illegally. I have written to the | :35:10. | :35:17. | |
Home Secretary about this. I am yet to receive a response. The Home | :35:18. | :35:22. | |
Office response seems to centre around his parents' marriage | :35:23. | :35:29. | |
certificate in rural tenure in the late 1950s. -- rural Kenya. All the | :35:30. | :35:42. | |
siblings have passports. My constituent cannot apply to any | :35:43. | :35:43. | |
benefits because he's here illegally. I see very generously | :35:44. | :35:49. | |
that I realise this is it grimly serious, but this is by way of a tip | :35:50. | :35:54. | |
to her and other members. It is or was a good idea, whatever the matter | :35:55. | :35:59. | |
at hand, to get in the request for a debate or statement early in one's | :36:00. | :36:04. | |
enquiry. In any case, I feel modestly optimistic that the | :36:05. | :36:10. | |
question mark is on its way. Thank you for your tip, Mr Speaker. Will | :36:11. | :36:16. | |
the Leader of the House agree to a debate on the residential status of | :36:17. | :36:22. | |
historical immigrants? I clearly can't give details now about the | :36:23. | :36:25. | |
case concerned. But she would like to write to me with more details | :36:26. | :36:30. | |
about her constituent, I will make sure that is passed directly to the | :36:31. | :36:33. | |
Home Secretary. I understand the concern she is raising and I'm sure | :36:34. | :36:37. | |
this is a matter we would want to resolve quickly. Can I associate | :36:38. | :36:43. | |
myself with the birthday congratulations to Her Majesty The | :36:44. | :36:46. | |
Queen, on my behalf and my constituents. I was going to have | :36:47. | :36:50. | |
fought a debate on manufacturing in this House after silly remarks on | :36:51. | :36:55. | |
the today programme saying that manufacturing in our country is | :36:56. | :36:59. | |
finished. But after his unfortunate remarks about the Labour Party being | :37:00. | :37:03. | |
riddled with that is Senator is, as someone who has fought anti-Semitism | :37:04. | :37:08. | |
all my life in this country, could we have an early debate on this? It | :37:09. | :37:14. | |
is so important, on a day when Marie le pen has been invited to come here | :37:15. | :37:19. | |
speak. I would encourage the Labour Party | :37:20. | :37:25. | |
to have that debate. The shadow leader is right to have written the | :37:26. | :37:28. | |
article he did, saying that it is not acceptable. But his words have | :37:29. | :37:31. | |
to be actioned by the party opposite. | :37:32. | :37:37. | |
Mr Speaker, one of my constituents would be delighted to become | :37:38. | :37:44. | |
unemployed from his current job. Your Scotland's Network Manager for | :37:45. | :37:48. | |
the Trussell Trust and has published the latest figures... Thousands of | :37:49. | :37:53. | |
people depending on food banks. Twice filling Murrayfield Stadium. | :37:54. | :38:00. | |
In my constituency, we are seen a 20% increase in the last year alone | :38:01. | :38:06. | |
where one constituent has just been sanctioned for an appalling three | :38:07. | :38:10. | |
whole years, depending on ?36 per week. Can we have an urgent debate | :38:11. | :38:15. | |
in this House to discuss his Dickensian situation, to make food | :38:16. | :38:20. | |
banks of thing of the past, so that my constituent can move on to new | :38:21. | :38:23. | |
employment? His constituent can only have been sanctioned for a | :38:24. | :38:31. | |
periodicity is tongued and reasonable job offers. He has | :38:32. | :38:35. | |
refused to work. In a society that is compassionate but bullies Google | :38:36. | :38:38. | |
should get back to work, that is unacceptable. On the subject of food | :38:39. | :38:41. | |
banks, there are fantastic project around the country in food banks | :38:42. | :38:45. | |
lend to churches where people are doing really good working committee. | :38:46. | :38:49. | |
It is worth seeing that the use of food banks in this country is much | :38:50. | :38:51. | |
lower than other countries like Germany. Of course, I pay tribute to | :38:52. | :38:56. | |
those who work on behalf of those going through things and allies. It | :38:57. | :39:01. | |
is like that we have a strong voluntary sector to do that. -- | :39:02. | :39:09. | |
things in their lives. Could we have a debate about the length of time at | :39:10. | :39:12. | |
the stake in the Department of work and is to determine whether to | :39:13. | :39:22. | |
include a specific disease... There was a recommendation on the 14th of | :39:23. | :39:28. | |
May nearly two years ago and the ministering correspondent said a | :39:29. | :39:31. | |
decision would be forthcoming with an idea. It is now April. Can the | :39:32. | :39:39. | |
Leader of the House and -- see if he can speed up the decision and give | :39:40. | :39:43. | |
support to the necessary former miners of my I will happily give a | :39:44. | :39:48. | |
nudge to the new Secretary of State on that subject. I'm sure that he | :39:49. | :39:49. | |
will not want to a promise made. An determine the birdies in these | :39:50. | :40:01. | |
matters. If someone wants to contribute to the next series of | :40:02. | :40:05. | |
exchanges, who was aboard apparently meant to be serving on an SIs | :40:06. | :40:10. | |
committee. BSI committee can wait if you want to contribute. There is | :40:11. | :40:18. | |
huge excitement in your sure that local hero and world champion Lizzie | :40:19. | :40:23. | |
Armistead is lining up in the women's tour of Yorkshire week on | :40:24. | :40:26. | |
Saturday. Just as significant, this will be the most lucrative women's | :40:27. | :40:29. | |
cycling race in the calendar and the whole event will be set televised. | :40:30. | :40:36. | |
Can we have a debate on how we do more to support the women's sport, | :40:37. | :40:40. | |
give it the same parity of coverage and financial reward as men sport? | :40:41. | :40:48. | |
Well, this is an important point. Of course, we would congratulate her on | :40:49. | :40:52. | |
her extraordinary success in the sport. She has been a pride of our | :40:53. | :40:56. | |
nation and a pride of Yorkshire and I hope will go on to success in the | :40:57. | :41:01. | |
Olympics this summer. I think what we have learnt from the last few | :41:02. | :41:04. | |
years is the extraordinary impact that cycling has had across our | :41:05. | :41:09. | |
society and I speak as someone who represents the constituency next | :41:10. | :41:11. | |
door to the cycle course for the Olympics which is now every weekend | :41:12. | :41:15. | |
full of cyclists going across the same route that the Olympic cyclists | :41:16. | :41:19. | |
followed. It's a sport that is contribute into fitness to in this | :41:20. | :41:23. | |
country and bring in money and that we should all be proud of. Something | :41:24. | :41:28. | |
wrong with them microphone. I could not hear the honourable gentleman as | :41:29. | :41:32. | |
much as I want to. He was banging on about cycling I just wish I could | :41:33. | :41:39. | |
have heard it properly! My constituents have to pay over ?13 | :41:40. | :41:44. | |
return fare to Southport when they live just down the road they play | :41:45. | :41:50. | |
have of that for a superior service. Can we have a debate to how to | :41:51. | :41:58. | |
create a more fair system of real fears? The Transport Secretary will | :41:59. | :42:07. | |
be here next week and he is very concerned about real fears and wants | :42:08. | :42:20. | |
a transparent system. -- rail fares. In January I asked why disability | :42:21. | :42:23. | |
discrimination had been allowed to take hold in civil service. Recent | :42:24. | :42:29. | |
analysis has found that in all departments, disabled staff were | :42:30. | :42:32. | |
less likely to exceed performance ratings than the norm to fit tables | :42:33. | :42:39. | |
colleagues meaning disabled workers are 74% more likely to be in the | :42:40. | :42:42. | |
bottom performance management category which puts their jobs at | :42:43. | :42:47. | |
risk. Can a Leader of the House please now push for a statement to | :42:48. | :42:51. | |
explain why his Government is content to allow disability | :42:52. | :42:55. | |
discrimination to continue? Whatever the research may show, I do not | :42:56. | :42:59. | |
accept that. I have been Secretary of State in one Department and my | :43:00. | :43:04. | |
experience of the way that we work with people with disabilities and | :43:05. | :43:08. | |
the role they play in our department is nothing but positive. We have | :43:09. | :43:11. | |
some find a stable civil servants who are role models to others with | :43:12. | :43:15. | |
disabilities and to make a real service to this Government of hope | :43:16. | :43:19. | |
they will continue to do so in the years ahead. We now come to the | :43:20. | :43:25. | |
motion for an address to Her Majesty on the occasion of her 90th | :43:26. | :43:28. | |
birthday. To move | :43:29. | :43:29. |