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his constituents. We're working to make sure that these schemes are | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
delivered as soon as possible. I will keep them informed of progress. | :00:00. | :00:15. | |
Business question, Paul Flynn. World leader given a House the business | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
for next week? -- world leader. The Leader of the House of Commons Chris | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
Grayling. The business for next week, on Monday fourth July we'll | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
have the first awarded estimates day when they debate important tribunal | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
fee is followed by a debate on impacts on investors and consumers. | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
Details will be given in the official report. At 10pm the House | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
will be asked to agree all outstanding estimates. On Tuesday | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
fifth July, we will have proceedings on the supply and probation Main | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
estimates Bill followed by consideration in committee, the | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
first day of consideration. Wednesday 6th of July, opposition | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
day on a motion to be announced and decided by the opposition. On | :01:02. | :01:09. | |
Thursday seventh, a statement on a publication of the defence | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
committee, Russia, implications for UK defence and security, followed by | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
a debate on a motion on online abuse, followed by a general debate | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
on support for the UK creative industries and their contribution to | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
the economy. All decided by the backbench business committee. Friday | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
in July, we are not sitting. The provisional business for the week | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
commencing the 11th July will be on the final day of consideration of | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
committee of the Wales Bill. I would like to inform the House the | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
business in Westminster Hall on the 11th and 14th of July will be on the | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
debate on the new petition relating to school penalty fines and | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
authorised absence from schools and on 14th July a debate on the | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
consultation of cooperatives to the economy forward by a debate in | :01:57. | :02:04. | |
general terms on dissemination. You may be a tad surprised to see me in | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
this position. Because the past 26 years I've been backbencher by | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
choice. That wasn't just my choice. It was the choice of the past five | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
leaders of my party! Today, for very positive reasons as part of our | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
diversity project in my party, of which we have done splendidly, we | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
have far more women in the front bench and in Parliament than ever | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
before. Far more ethnic minorities and an absence in the front bench of | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
octogenarians. And I believe that my appointment to this post will be a | :02:42. | :02:51. | |
trailblazer one. It will lead to all octogenarians in the party and the | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
experience and wisdom amongst my fellow octogenarians being available | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
to the House. It is important that we have people in the House who can | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
remember life before there was a health service. The Wales Bill is | :03:05. | :03:13. | |
back on Tuesday. I hope that the leader of the has lost his | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
curmudgeonly attitude to it, because to dismiss the idea that both the | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
beautiful languages of the House should be allowed to be spoken here | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
also Welsh has the same status as spitting on the carpet. It is | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
disorderly behaviour. Welsh has been used in committees of the House when | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
they are held in Wales. And it can be done here at little cost. There | :03:38. | :03:48. | |
is no reason to oppose the will of the Welsh Conservative Labour MPs. | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
We have a total number of frontbenchers of Conservative Party, | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
party, nor Welsh speaking now and it is a sign of the great health of the | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
language and it is marvellous to recall that Welsh was an ancient, | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
sophisticated language, centuries before English existed. In fact it | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
was spoken as was Gaelic at the time when the ancestors of those who | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
created English were pagan barbarians who dressed in woad, | :04:20. | :04:30. | |
painting themselves blue, and went on top of mountains howling at the | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
moon! Desperately must be taken seriously. There is also lessons | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
from the football field about leaving Europe, that the government | :04:40. | :04:47. | |
would well he'd. The English team Brexited swiftly and ignominiously. | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
Wales and domains with honour. I would appeal to the leader of the | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
for his party not to dismiss the very sensible idea of having a | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
second referendum supported by one of the candidates in the election in | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
his party. They are good precedents for this. In the European Union, | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
which has a splendid tradition of keeping voting until you reach the | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
right decision. It happened in Denmark and in two other countries | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
where they held a referendum and one year later reversed that decision | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
and the reason is, people voted on false agendas, and were is the ?365 | :05:31. | :05:39. | |
million for the health service? Where is the emergency budget? And | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
the public are rightly outraged by the mysteries that they were told by | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
the propagandists on both sides. It's not a surprise that we have a | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
position -- petition of historic by mentions, as big as the petitions | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
for the chartists and the suffragettes, 4 million signatures | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
and counting people who said that they were deceived by the boat, by | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
the propaganda which was largely determined by the proprietors of the | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
daily newspapers rather than by a sensible realisation of the horrors | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
to come. So it is quite reasonable that, after the issue has settled | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
down, when, we are told that it is going to take five years, that the | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
public should have the right to consider on that. It is timely, now, | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
to look at the role of the independent adviser on ministerial | :06:37. | :06:38. | |
interests. This man is virtually unemployed. He has only looked at | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
one case in the last five years. That involved a baroness who | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
confessed to a minor misdemeanour. There have been six other cases | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
since that have not been reported to the adviser. Because the only person | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
who had been reported is the Prime Minister. Two of them occurred a | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
year ago. The involve the Cabinet Office ministers who gave ?3 million | :07:04. | :07:12. | |
to kids company in spite of the advice of civil servants not to do | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
it, published advice and in fact kids company went bankrupt three | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
days later. There is another far more serious matter, which is of | :07:27. | :07:35. | |
current concern. And it is one case in some five years ago when the | :07:36. | :07:43. | |
Secretary of State for Defence stood down and the adviser on ministerial | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
interest recommended, he recommended that the case should be heard by | :07:50. | :07:57. | |
him. And the minister involved achieved absolution by resignation. | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
He got out of a job and nobody knows what he did, what was so serious | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
that occurred, that meant he had to leave office. The problem is that | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
now that person is offering himself not only as leader of the | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
Conservative Party but as Prime Minister. It is a matter of concern | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
to all of us that we know what happened and why he left that job. | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
The first question you would ask anyone applying for the job of Prime | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
Minister is why do you leave your last job, and we don't know. This | :08:32. | :08:40. | |
week is going to be dominated by one event, and that is the publication | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
of the children report. There was no information available yesterday. And | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
the answer given by the Prime Minister to the member for Gordon. | :08:51. | :08:58. | |
And we must remember that when this report is coming out, Parliament is | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
on trial. It wasn't just one man. It was hundreds of MPs. Because the | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
three Select Committees of this House, the military and the press | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
were in favour of joining a war in pursuit of nonexistent weapons of | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
mass destruction. Those who saw the very moving programme on BBC Two, | :09:20. | :09:28. | |
which featured Reg Keyes will understand the true costs of war. | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
Here was a man who for the last seven years has not been able to... | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
Let me just very gently say to the honourable gentleman, who is an | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
immensely experienced parliamentarian, I know that he is | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
beginning his apprenticeship in this role, and I always enjoy listening | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
to him, because he speaks with great experience. He has exceeded his | :09:50. | :09:57. | |
time. It is the first time he is at the box and I don't wish to cut him | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
off. He must now bring his remarks toward a conclusion, maybe with a | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
couple of pithy questions. And we will have had our dose for today. Mr | :10:07. | :10:14. | |
Paul Flynn. I am grateful to Mr Speaker. The question is, what is a | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
programme that will allow the loved ones of the 179 soldiers who died | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
the opportunity to present their case? We know that those who are | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
likely to be accused by the Chilcott report have employed lawyers to go | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
over their defences. We want to make sure that Parliament takes | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
responsibility for a decision taken in This Place in 2003, that resulted | :10:41. | :10:49. | |
in the deaths of 179 of our brave soldiers, probably in vain, and an | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
uncounted number of deaths from other people. The Chilcott report | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
must be debated fairly. What are the arrangements for doing it? Gary Stal | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
by welcoming the honourable gentleman to his place on the | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
opposition front bench and congratulate him on an extraordinary | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
comeback. It is 26 years since he last sat than those benches. What he | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
has in common with his immediate predecessor, indeed, quite a lot of | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
people on those benches is that the last time he sat on that seat he | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
also resign. Since then he has become a distinct backbencher. So | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
much so, writing books on how to be a backbencher, which contain some | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
substantial words of wisdom. For example, his advice to the Minister | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
and waiting. Cultivate the virtues of dullness and safety. And... And, | :11:39. | :11:52. | |
Mr Speaker, some advice for a job title called the Speaker in waiting | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
which, of course, is something that may be entirely appropriate. The | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
honourable gentleman who has now got time to concentrate on preparing his | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
campaign, he's got plenty of time, although we know he is already | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
getting his campaign team together. Mr Speaker, at one point, I | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
absolutely agree with the honourable gentleman. I suspect even our good | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
friends of the SNP benches, where all, this week, Welsh. With regret | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
for the result last week and the Scottish side for the qualification | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
period, we are all gunning for Wales to get to the final and do us all | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
proud as a nation. We wish the team well and we are all keeping our | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
fingers crossed. We are all absolutely the iron them. -- behind | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
them. I take his point about the history and traditions of the Welsh | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
language, but I have to say to them, the language of This Place has | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
decided over the years many times that it is English and I do not | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
propose to make any changes as I indicated previously. About the | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
second referendum, it just does not work like that. Any more than I am | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
going to ask for a rematch between Iceland and England. The people have | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
spoken. We have had a referendum and the result. That is democracy. If we | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
have a general election and our side loses we don't get another about a | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
month later. We had arguments put on both sides. Huge amount of | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
information set before the nations of the public decide one way or the | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
other and they have reached their decision and it is our job to follow | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
that and deliver the will of the people. It is nice, after four | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
months of hedging my bets on these benches, and not always speaking to | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
the government, to be back in a clear way speaking for the whole | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
government and saying that we, now, need to get on with the job that the | :13:41. | :13:42. | |
British people have given us. Now, they could be that there has | :13:43. | :13:52. | |
not been the basis for investigations. If Members of the | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
House have concerns about the conduct of other members, ways and | :13:57. | :13:58. | |
means are available within procedures of this House. If the | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
honourable gentleman has concern about what has happened, you can use | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
those channels. They should only be used when it is a genuine matter to | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
investigate. It is for the Prime Minister and advisers to decide what | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
should happen. On the Chilcot report... Of course this is a matter | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
of great seriousness and of course we understand how important it is we | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
understand what happened and what went on. I don't think anyone can | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
set the stage this has not been an exhaustive process. I wish it had | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
been published years ago. Angry with the honourable member that I have | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
wanted to see this report published for a long time. It is now | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
happening, not before time. Not a single person on these benches does | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
not wish it could not have happened a long time ago. It will come next | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
week. We will have a plan file will be debated in this House. It is | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
right and proper that lesson should be learned and what happened should | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
be considered and this should be fully debated. I am proud to have | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
written the preface and hosted the launch of the most recent | :14:59. | :15:00. | |
publication by the honourable gentleman, the member for Newport | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
West. That was a very happy occasion indeed. The chairman of the | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
Backbench Business Committee is unfortunately unable to be here. He | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
has asked me to convey the message to the Leader of the House that | :15:15. | :15:22. | |
through our great queue of backbench business, we now have sufficient | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
debates, including the one has announced, for six days before | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
recess. I trust that the leader will allocate more time to the Backbench | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
Business Committee. For my side, Mr Speaker, this weekend sees the | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
demonstration, the annual demonstration ending in London which | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
has increasingly become anti-Semitic with slogans which are absolutely | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
disgraceful. With flags of terrorist organisations shown on British | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
streets, on the streets of London. And I do think it is paramount and | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
the Government to actually make sure that if anyone commits hate crime in | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
this way, if anyone is guilty of that, those people should be | :16:09. | :16:10. | |
arrested and face the thought force of the law. And they would seek the | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
Leader of the House to ensure that that happens this weekend. Can I | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
start by saying that we will do our best for the Backbench Business | :16:22. | :16:23. | |
Committee. It seems like they are quite ambitious but we will see what | :16:24. | :16:31. | |
we can do. I echo the words of my honourable friend about hate crime | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
in this country. It is really important to say that. As someone | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
who campaigned for Britain to leave the European Union, I did not | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
campaign for Britain to become an intolerant, racist nation. Any | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
comments that are racist or intolerant are utterly unacceptable. | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
I deplore them and they should be dealt with with the full force of | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
the war. Can I also finally to the House for announcing the business | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
for next week. We sought for the cameras are now ago, and there was a | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
whole nation hoping and praying he would throw his hat into the ring | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
instead of becoming just a cheerleader for the Home Secretary | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
with a friend winning message of divisive nationalists. Wish it was | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
as referring to me and my honourable friends. I congratulate the | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
honourable member... I am very fond of the honourable gentleman. Can I | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
say ever so charitably to him, he wasn't exactly the first choice for | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
this post and I know that Labour have been scrambling around all week | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
to try and get this sorted, so regardless with what happens in this | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
awful, raging civil war, Parliamentary Party versus | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
membership, I'll things turn out well when this is all finished. To | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
the Leader of the House, well done. Well done. This is as much his Leave | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
the victory as it is the right honourable gentleman, Nigel Farage | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
and Ukip's to the victor belongs the spoils. And what a spoils he has. A | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
divided economy, ugly, racist attacks on the streets, a nation | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
baffled and confused about this result and a Government without an | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
idea or plan. The nation has every right to feel internally grateful to | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
the right honourable gentleman in his stunning victory last week. So | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
when do we get the debate which clarifies when this free and ?50 | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
million come back to the NHS, as promised by the honourable gentleman | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
and his friends? When do we get the debate about control over the | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
borders, again missed by the honourable gentleman friends? When | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
we get the debate that this is a Government that has no clue about | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
this to take it forward. We need a debate about the nations of the | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
nation 's of the UK and how they will fit in with this. Scotland will | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
not be getting out of the European Union against our collective will. | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
We were forced to choose in a referendum that we did not want, we | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
were forced to make a decision, we have given that decision. It is | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
abundantly clear what Scotland once. When will he now respect the | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
decision of the Scottish people? -- Scotland wants. Well, Mr Speaker, I | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
see the honourable gentleman is back on form. We didn't have the | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
opportunity of forming the dream ticket to leave this country, since | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
he is so determined to not be part of it. I would simply say that | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
Scotland voted to be part of the mighty kingdom. The United Kingdom | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
voted to leave the European Union. That, I am afraid, is democracy. And | :19:45. | :19:52. | |
we as a Government are Democrats, we listen to the will of the people | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
across Great Britain and Northern Ireland, as supported in that | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
Scottish referendum, and I simply say to them that we will carry on | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
Government for the whole United Kingdom and listen to the people of | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
the whole United Kingdom. We will do the right thing for the whole United | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
Kingdom and Scotland is a part of the United Kingdom. Thank you, Mr | :20:13. | :20:23. | |
Speaker. If you indulge me, I would like to congratulate the honourable | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
member for Newport West on his position in front bench. There is | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
clearly hold for us all, Mr Speaker, if the honourable gentleman can make | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
it onto the front bench. It seems anyone can make it on a front bench. | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
He is an inspiration to us all. Could the Leader of the House... Can | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
we have a debate on the status of the referendum result so that we can | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
find out who in this House our are true Democrats and who are not? On | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
the Government website, it said the result of the referendum on the UK's | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
membership in the European Union will be final. The Government will | :20:59. | :21:07. | |
have a democratic duty to implement the result. The BBC's hysterical | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
coverage since their referendum has been nothing short of a disgrace. | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
But we should reassure people that the have had the result, there is | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
money for any more campaigning, and we must get together to implement | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
the will of the public. Does you except that every member of the | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
Government should accept the result of the referendum and implement the | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
will of the people? It is very simple. We are democracy. We | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
thought. The result stands. If we have a general election, and we have | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
experienced years when we have not been successful, we sit on the | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
opposition benches and do our best to oppose. We don't demand another | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
general election one month later. That is a the democracy works. The | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
people are spoken, the Government will act. The contribution of my | :21:55. | :22:03. | |
Parliamentary colleague is an illustration of how we are willing | :22:04. | :22:15. | |
to give assistance when necessary, when firm leadership is needed on | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
both sides. We do not be more useful, arising from the various | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
exchanges since the referendum result, to have a debate on the | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
alienation and resentment felt on so many parts of the country. Certainly | :22:33. | :22:40. | |
in the Black Country Boroughs, which voted to a slight majority to leave | :22:41. | :22:49. | |
the EU. The House of Commons is not understood sufficiently in the past | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
few months, perhaps longer, that feeling of resentment and | :22:53. | :22:59. | |
alienation. I ought really to congratulate, somewhat belatedly, | :23:00. | :23:01. | |
the honourable gentleman on his recent birthday. Off the top of my | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
head, and if I am wrong, you will tell me, I think his birthday was | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
last Sunday. The Leader of the House. The honourable gentleman was | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
perhaps a bit too pessimistic about his prospects. It looks like there | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
could be a Labour leadership contest shortly. And judging by the | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
commitment coming from the octogenarian is on the benches | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
opposite, maybe one of them should put their hats in the ring. On the | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
subject of the impact of changes in recent years on the economy of the | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
country and individual communities up and down the country, what I | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
would say to him is that one of the things I'm proudest of that this | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
Government has achieved is the huge fall, more than 500,000, growing up | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
in workers' councils. That'll make a transformational difference to the | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
lives of children. Parents getting up in the morning and going to work | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
with a sense of purpose and direction. It is something I am | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
proud that my party has contributed to achieving in Government. Mr | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
Speaker, I thank the leader in the House for announcing that we will | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
have a debate on online abuse next week. Does he agree that we all need | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
to view the result of the referendum with respect and good grace? We all | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
may need to work together to get the best result for Britain and we must | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
all stand up against racism, extremism and abuse from all sides | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
of the political divide and referendum divides. | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
I will reiterate that, I am absolutely condemn any racist | :24:40. | :24:48. | |
attacks and abuse, any xenophobic abuse in this country. It is not | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
acceptable and should not be permitted. It is illegal and should | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
be dealt with accordingly. I did not make reference in my remarks to | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
security for members. Just to say two things. The first is that since | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
the tragic loss of Jo Cox, work is taking place on this important issue | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
and I and the chairman of ways and Means will bring back further. The | :25:13. | :25:14. | |
House shortly but I want to reassure members that that is very much a | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
matter of concern and attention. Particularly given the point from My | :25:21. | :25:23. | |
Honourable Friend, it is a matter of concern that members continue to be | :25:24. | :25:25. | |
subject to some pretty unpleasant abuse on social media. But that is | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
also something being discussed by the police and where I want to see | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
firm action. It is not acceptable in any shape or form, particularly that | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
female colleagues get the kind of abuse that they have been. It must | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
stop and we must deal with appropriately. Another aspect of the | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
league campaign that of the leader allows was part of force to wrongly | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
state that decisions of the EU are taken by unelected bureaucrats. When | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
will the leader of the commit to get rid of the more than 800 lifelong | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
peers who are unelected bureaucrats next door? Mr Speaker, I know the | :26:03. | :26:12. | |
SNP feel deeply committed to abolishing the House of Lords but | :26:13. | :26:15. | |
right now I'm afraid we have other priorities as a nation. As the only | :26:16. | :26:27. | |
Welsh member currently sitting in This Place at the moment, may I | :26:28. | :26:35. | |
offer on this side of the House, may I, my congratulations for the | :26:36. | :26:42. | |
honourable member for Newport West on his great elevation and I wish | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
many long hours and years ahead and many happy years ahead in that role. | :26:49. | :26:59. | |
Mr Speaker, areas such as mine which has had large numbers of tourists to | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
the Hay literary festival and the Royal wish show our hotbeds for the | :27:07. | :27:09. | |
industry but this industry is being held back by high VAT rates. Can we | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
have a debate about what can be done about lowering VAT for the tourism | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
ministry to make sure that the British tourist industry is among | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
the most competitive in the world? Regardless of 1's views on the | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
random, we will ask that the government be able to make | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
modifications to Reg Keyes race in ways not previously permissible so | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
the future of the tourism industry is something that the government | :27:37. | :27:39. | |
will be able to focus on to a greater degree than has been a case | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
in the past. My constituent has a severely disabled mother and works | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
16 hours a week. Due to the increase in the minimum wage and the trees on | :27:50. | :27:57. | |
the early threshold, he's now ?3200 a year worse off. Many thousands are | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
in the same position. The government claims to get the most vulnerable in | :28:03. | :28:05. | |
society and say that they want to make work pay but this clearly | :28:06. | :28:09. | |
isn't. Can we have an urgent debate on this issue? This is the purpose | :28:10. | :28:16. | |
of Universal Credit. There have been some extraordinary cliff edges in | :28:17. | :28:19. | |
the welfare system. We are now implementing Universal Credit being | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
rolled out in geographic areas and different categories of claimants. | :28:25. | :28:28. | |
When it is pennies, it will make a transformation difference to the | :28:29. | :28:32. | |
type of site stands she has described. -- when it is finished. | :28:33. | :28:39. | |
In a week that has seen the start of the Hennelly regards, can we have a | :28:40. | :28:43. | |
debate on the important role that growing plays in national life and | :28:44. | :28:47. | |
contrary to the image that is created, the contribution that it | :28:48. | :28:50. | |
makes to young people's sporting activities? Meilleroux will friend | :28:51. | :28:56. | |
makes an important point. I commend everyone in his constituency for the | :28:57. | :29:00. | |
work they put in to make the Henley Regatta such a successful event. It | :29:01. | :29:04. | |
is a sport we should be proud of. We have excelled at it and you'll have | :29:05. | :29:07. | |
the games. I hope that when the Rio games start, again, be successful | :29:08. | :29:13. | |
and win large numbers of medals and be proud of the athletes to make a | :29:14. | :29:16. | |
difference to our country and our sport. I commend those in Henley | :29:17. | :29:20. | |
because that regard is part of the success that this sport has enjoyed | :29:21. | :29:26. | |
in recent years. It is with regret that we learned of yet another | :29:27. | :29:30. | |
deferral on the decision about capacity in the South-East of | :29:31. | :29:36. | |
England. We understand the context in which this is happening. Surely | :29:37. | :29:39. | |
decisions about the security and events of the country cannot be | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
deferred. Can the leader of the syndicate when we are likely to get | :29:45. | :29:51. | |
a vote on the renewal of Triton? -- the Leader of the House indicate. -- | :29:52. | :29:59. | |
Trident. I understand the concern. That many members want to have that | :30:00. | :30:05. | |
vote. It is certainly on the government 's mind. The crisis | :30:06. | :30:13. | |
facing North Middlesex Hospital is aggravated by a tale of two health | :30:14. | :30:17. | |
cities within London. Borrowers like Camden and Islington received the | :30:18. | :30:24. | |
lion share whilst government support for Enfield continues to go. We in | :30:25. | :30:28. | |
Enfield need fair funding and we need it now. My Honourable Friend is | :30:29. | :30:33. | |
a fierce advocate for his constituency. The Secretary of State | :30:34. | :30:36. | |
will be taking questions on Tuesday and will be happy to respond to that | :30:37. | :30:40. | |
issue. I understand it as a matter of concern to him. Mr Speaker, may I | :30:41. | :30:46. | |
follow the unanswered question from my friend for Perth and North | :30:47. | :30:50. | |
Perthshire, and can we have a debate on the Scotland will get the Barnett | :30:51. | :30:56. | |
Consequentials of the three ?50 million promised to the English NHS | :30:57. | :30:59. | |
and it is not coming to Scotland as promised on the side of the league | :31:00. | :31:04. | |
campaign bus, would My Honourable Friend like to apologise to the | :31:05. | :31:08. | |
country now? Two points to make. First of all, can I express my good | :31:09. | :31:12. | |
wishes do the honourable gentleman after his change of role this week? | :31:13. | :31:16. | |
I'm sure that he will return to his position as shadow Scottish | :31:17. | :31:19. | |
secretary, but I pay tribute to him for the bravery he has shown. What I | :31:20. | :31:25. | |
would say is two things, first, the government position is that we have | :31:26. | :31:31. | |
to negotiate carefully now that we're out of the European Union, and | :31:32. | :31:35. | |
until we have done so, we carry on making contributions as normal. Can | :31:36. | :31:43. | |
we have a debate in government time on the involvement of celebrities | :31:44. | :31:46. | |
and politics? On referendum night a week ago, the pro-remain American | :31:47. | :31:53. | |
actress Lindsay Lohan, in a series of bizarre cleats, slapped off areas | :31:54. | :31:58. | |
of this country that voted to leave the European Union. At one point she | :31:59. | :32:03. | |
directed a fierce, offensive to at Kettering, claiming she had never | :32:04. | :32:08. | |
heard of it and implying that no one knew where it was. Apart from the | :32:09. | :32:11. | |
fact that it might be the most average down in the country, | :32:12. | :32:15. | |
everybody knows where Kettering is. It is famous as the home of Weetabix | :32:16. | :32:22. | |
breakfast cereal, and Loakes shoes and Kettering town football club has | :32:23. | :32:28. | |
scored more goals in the FA Cup on any other team in history the | :32:29. | :32:34. | |
country, so would he support my invitation to Lindsay Lohan to come | :32:35. | :32:37. | |
and switch on the Christmas lights Kettering thus redeeming her | :32:38. | :32:42. | |
political reputation and raising money for good causes? And Kettering | :32:43. | :32:46. | |
is principally famous for the honourable gentleman. Mr Speaker, as | :32:47. | :32:53. | |
those of us who have children will know, over the years, Lindsay Lohan | :32:54. | :32:59. | |
has been a star child and the movies, a very entertaining actress | :33:00. | :33:05. | |
of the time, but she has not necessarily fulfil the professional | :33:06. | :33:08. | |
potential. That's now we know the reason why. As she visited | :33:09. | :33:13. | |
Kettering, she might have seen her career turnaround, and I think the | :33:14. | :33:16. | |
invitation My Honourable Friend has made to her today is one she should | :33:17. | :33:21. | |
accept that she should visit the fine town of Kettering and find | :33:22. | :33:25. | |
herself return to stardom. Mr Alex Salmond. Can we have a week-long | :33:26. | :33:29. | |
debate on the political backstabbing? We're going to need a | :33:30. | :33:36. | |
week, because all of the PLP will want to take part, but they are like | :33:37. | :33:41. | |
amateurs compared to the right on all member for Surrey Heath, the | :33:42. | :33:47. | |
Lord Macbeth of this Chamber, who, having dispatched the Prime | :33:48. | :33:49. | |
Minister, today is despatching the Prime Minister 's greatest rival. | :33:50. | :33:58. | |
What makes the leader of the Houston that Lord Macbeth 's draggable not | :33:59. | :34:01. | |
soon be turned to him and I'm secretary? The honourable member for | :34:02. | :34:07. | |
Surrey Heath has been, in my view, an excellent Education Secretary, | :34:08. | :34:09. | |
excellent Chief Whip and is now doing an excellent job in the role I | :34:10. | :34:15. | |
used to perform as Lord Chancellor. He has friends on the side of the | :34:16. | :34:18. | |
House and he is for the Scottish National Party... Woodville leader | :34:19. | :34:29. | |
about reassure us that two strands of particular interest to the | :34:30. | :34:32. | |
business community will be discussed at some length? Firstly something | :34:33. | :34:35. | |
that has been brought up, that the rover will be a confirmation that | :34:36. | :34:39. | |
you will carry on with correctness to large-scale infrastructure | :34:40. | :34:42. | |
projects up and down the country to ensure that stability, calmness and | :34:43. | :34:46. | |
jobs continue, and then secondly that a special Cabinet department | :34:47. | :34:50. | |
for the EU is making full use of industry experts and leaders outside | :34:51. | :34:55. | |
of government in key areas in order to ensure that our negotiators will | :34:56. | :34:59. | |
be fully briefed, have clear objectives and be good to go when | :35:00. | :35:05. | |
required? Let's be absolutely clear. We may be electing a new leader and | :35:06. | :35:13. | |
the new Prime Minister but quite apart from containing to pursue a | :35:14. | :35:16. | |
one nation agenda, this government will continue the modernisation of | :35:17. | :35:20. | |
infrastructure, where we have made a real difference. I remember when I | :35:21. | :35:24. | |
was Shadow Transport Secretary a decade ago, campaigning around the | :35:25. | :35:28. | |
country for infrastructure improvements they said were | :35:29. | :35:34. | |
desperately needed. Now when I drive round the country, those projects | :35:35. | :35:36. | |
are finished or are being built at the moment. I am proud of what we're | :35:37. | :35:41. | |
doing for infrastructure. In terms of team negotiating for the future | :35:42. | :35:45. | |
outside the EU, it is the government view that we should draw from the | :35:46. | :35:49. | |
broadest possible expertise to make sure that the strategy we have is | :35:50. | :35:54. | |
the right one for this country. Mr Speaker, the leader of that is said | :35:55. | :36:00. | |
huge amount of information was sent before the country in the Europe in | :36:01. | :36:05. | |
them. This is one piece of that information, about league campaign | :36:06. | :36:08. | |
leaflet that says the EU costs us ?350 million bill week, we could | :36:09. | :36:14. | |
spend that on the NHS instead. Isn't the truth that there was a huge | :36:15. | :36:17. | |
amount of misinformation placed before the country? When can we | :36:18. | :36:21. | |
debate when we are getting that ?350 million? Let's be clear. The | :36:22. | :36:26. | |
government has this week set out in this House the first steps we are | :36:27. | :36:29. | |
taking towards negotiating our exit from the EU. He will know that | :36:30. | :36:33. | |
whilst we remain members of the EU, and we are today, normal | :36:34. | :36:37. | |
contributions will continue. When we leave, we will no longer make | :36:38. | :36:40. | |
attributions in the way that we do now. Given the recess periods we | :36:41. | :36:47. | |
have had in the last two weeks, can we have a statement next week from | :36:48. | :36:54. | |
ministers about the situation in relation to the steel industry? It | :36:55. | :36:58. | |
is important, as steelworkers and MPs know that exactly what is | :36:59. | :37:05. | |
happening in those situations. I understand My Honourable Friend 's | :37:06. | :37:08. | |
concerns and they will make sure that they are past the Business | :37:09. | :37:13. | |
Secretary today. It is helpful for MPs representing steel producing | :37:14. | :37:16. | |
areas to get updates and I will see if that can be done. We should | :37:17. | :37:23. | |
provide closure of the families of Armed Forces personnel on a and | :37:24. | :37:30. | |
murky passage in our history. Am convinced hundreds of members will | :37:31. | :37:32. | |
want an extended debate on this report. Will the Leader of the House | :37:33. | :37:37. | |
ensure that two consecutive days are made available to debate the | :37:38. | :37:41. | |
Chilcott report before the summer recess? I understand the desire to | :37:42. | :37:45. | |
debate the Chilcott report. We are discussing that and we will set out | :37:46. | :37:50. | |
plans shortly. I have only a nice business on till Monday week. I am | :37:51. | :37:54. | |
very aware of the issues he raises. -- announced business. Last weekend | :37:55. | :38:02. | |
was a 130,000 people visited Cleethorpes for events connected | :38:03. | :38:05. | |
with the national Armed Forces event. It clearly demonstrates the | :38:06. | :38:09. | |
commitment and support of our local communities for those who serve in | :38:10. | :38:11. | |
the military past and present. Could we have a debate to look at further | :38:12. | :38:16. | |
developments of the military covenant and how we support the | :38:17. | :38:23. | |
welfare of those concerned? I absolutely agree with my aunt will | :38:24. | :38:27. | |
friend. I pay tribute to the people of Cleethorpes for organising such | :38:28. | :38:30. | |
an important event last week. I pay tribute to all of those who are this | :38:31. | :38:36. | |
week celebrating commemorating, with poignancy, the anniversary of the | :38:37. | :38:40. | |
Battle of the Somme. We should always value the people who serve | :38:41. | :38:44. | |
this country in Armed Forces. We should always continue to do so. I | :38:45. | :38:48. | |
have to say also, it is my hope that the weather brightens up and the | :38:49. | :38:55. | |
prospects for Cleethorpes this summer grows rather than diminishes. | :38:56. | :38:59. | |
Now that we know according to what he has just said that the National | :39:00. | :39:02. | |
Health Service will get no money, will he tell the Hardwicke | :39:03. | :39:08. | |
commissioning group, make a statement, till the Secretary of | :39:09. | :39:10. | |
State for Health, that the Hardwicke commissioning group in Derbyshire | :39:11. | :39:15. | |
that proposes to close the Bolsover and Bakewell hospitals should now | :39:16. | :39:21. | |
keep them open, because we have got the money? It would be a bold person | :39:22. | :39:31. | |
who try to make changes in his constituency. I don't know about the | :39:32. | :39:35. | |
local circumstances. I can say to him, regardless of the process for | :39:36. | :39:40. | |
negotiation of our exit for the EU, we will continue to spend more money | :39:41. | :39:42. | |
on the National Health Service. Can we please have a debate on what | :39:43. | :39:52. | |
we can do to improve the understanding of the way that | :39:53. | :39:56. | |
democracy works? Including, it seems, even amongst some members of | :39:57. | :40:00. | |
this House. It really is quite simple. In a referendum, when one | :40:01. | :40:05. | |
side gets more than 1 million votes more than the other, that site has | :40:06. | :40:15. | |
one. -- that side has won the referendum. We shouldn't pursue the | :40:16. | :40:19. | |
illusion that you simply rewrite democracy because you simply Almagro | :40:20. | :40:25. | |
not like the result. The right thing for the country is negotiating a | :40:26. | :40:28. | |
Brexit, planning it for the best interest of the country, but taking | :40:29. | :40:32. | |
advantage of the opportunity this now brings to the country. Forging | :40:33. | :40:36. | |
new free-trade partnerships around the world. I am very encouraged that | :40:37. | :40:40. | |
only this week, the Speaker of Representatives, all Ryan, has said | :40:41. | :40:46. | |
very clearly he wants to take an early step to agreeing a free-trade | :40:47. | :40:49. | |
agreement with the United Kingdom from the United States. That is the | :40:50. | :40:54. | |
kind of opportunity available. The Care Quality Commission has ordered | :40:55. | :40:56. | |
not in a --... Care Quality Commission has ordered | :40:57. | :41:11. | |
not in a We have a shortage of doctors, and in an unprecedented | :41:12. | :41:18. | |
move, the general health Council are threatening to withdraw junior | :41:19. | :41:20. | |
doctors from the hospital due to inadequate support. This is a | :41:21. | :41:24. | |
disaster for that hospital and everyone who uses it. It is one of | :41:25. | :41:28. | |
the busiest emergency departments in London and probably nationally. It | :41:29. | :41:36. | |
would have a domino effect on also endings hospitals should accord. -- | :41:37. | :41:42. | |
also endings hospitals should it close. Can we have an early debate | :41:43. | :41:49. | |
on this crisis? I actually underpins that the -- understand our concerns. | :41:50. | :41:56. | |
The care of constituents is of paramount importance. But hospitals | :41:57. | :42:02. | |
are not doing well in these cases, and if they are not, it is not | :42:03. | :42:06. | |
simply national policy issue, it is about making sure that best | :42:07. | :42:09. | |
practices spread across the whole the Health Service. Even though we | :42:10. | :42:16. | |
were on different sides of the referendum debate, I am sure that we | :42:17. | :42:20. | |
both want to move forward in the right way, and in a way that gets | :42:21. | :42:23. | |
the detail right. Once the Government has agreed terms of | :42:24. | :42:27. | |
negotiation, is that not the point where the Leader of the House will | :42:28. | :42:30. | |
give enough time for this chamber to debate those terms, compelling to | :42:31. | :42:34. | |
the promises made by the League campaign, and make sure that what | :42:35. | :42:38. | |
the public voted on was the right thing? Mr Speaker, I am absolute | :42:39. | :42:45. | |
certain that as we go through the next few months, as we prepare our | :42:46. | :42:48. | |
strategy for negotiation and begin negotiations, the Government will | :42:49. | :42:55. | |
wish to provide ample occasion for what is being done to debate this | :42:56. | :43:01. | |
issue in this House. The oh that is why we need -- that is why we need | :43:02. | :43:11. | |
and a statement after this referendum to find out if there are | :43:12. | :43:18. | |
sufficient expats and expertise. We will keep the House informed but we | :43:19. | :43:22. | |
are assembling the team at the moment. The Government will keep | :43:23. | :43:30. | |
this House informed as we move forward. The premise to made a very | :43:31. | :43:34. | |
full statement on Monday, three days ago. He will be back and assess next | :43:35. | :43:38. | |
week and will want to make sure that members every opportunity to | :43:39. | :43:46. | |
question about what we're doing. The Leader of the House has clearly been | :43:47. | :43:49. | |
very busy with his reading, not only reading my boyfriend's book, but he | :43:50. | :43:53. | |
has also been reading The Darling Buds Of May. If we can have added | :43:54. | :44:04. | |
data in all seriousness, a lengthy debate about many constituents it is | :44:05. | :44:10. | |
mine overwhelmingly voted to leave, even though it was not my view, but | :44:11. | :44:15. | |
I respect that. But we should leave properly and in good order. But can | :44:16. | :44:22. | |
we have debate about concerns and get them out there before the units | :44:23. | :44:30. | |
Tasers what? -- the unit starts its work. It is very important. But we | :44:31. | :44:39. | |
had a debate yesterday as well. We will make sure there are plenty of | :44:40. | :44:43. | |
opportunities and we will consult extensively. It is really important | :44:44. | :44:45. | |
that we get this right. Yes, it is important that we listen to | :44:46. | :44:49. | |
industries like the ceramics industry to understand how best to | :44:50. | :44:52. | |
look after their interests in the negotiations that lie ahead. And I | :44:53. | :44:57. | |
can give an absolute assurance to this House that every single member | :44:58. | :45:00. | |
of the Government and indeed many people outside Government, and we | :45:01. | :45:04. | |
will want to take part of this, will work absolutely assiduously to make | :45:05. | :45:07. | |
sure that we do the right thing for Britain. I acknowledge the leader's | :45:08. | :45:18. | |
inadvertent honesty in telling the chamber that we now have carry on | :45:19. | :45:23. | |
Government. The leaders of the sea proud of his role in a referendum. | :45:24. | :45:27. | |
He is also proud of his role in giving us English votes for English | :45:28. | :45:36. | |
laws. Could he marry those positions with English votes for English | :45:37. | :45:41. | |
excellence? I know he takes readers. We're one United Kingdom and we | :45:42. | :45:49. | |
remain so. -- English votes for English X it's. I would be deeply | :45:50. | :46:01. | |
disappointed that if we were forging these new trade ties, I would hate | :46:02. | :46:05. | |
to see any part of the United Kingdom losing out on those deals. | :46:06. | :46:12. | |
After this momentous and tragic decision that the British people | :46:13. | :46:19. | |
made last birthday, are we in the business efficiently to hold the | :46:20. | :46:23. | |
people who championed Brexit to account? The effects of people in my | :46:24. | :46:27. | |
constituency, people working in universities and the textile | :46:28. | :46:31. | |
industry, the manufacturers, all their lives are going to be | :46:32. | :46:35. | |
threatened in a serious way. Is this House of Commons, in its present | :46:36. | :46:40. | |
make up, able to assess what the damage is, how we can put it right | :46:41. | :46:43. | |
and hold those who make false promises to account? Mr Speaker, I | :46:44. | :46:50. | |
really don't think that over the last four months anyone can say that | :46:51. | :46:53. | |
inadequate arguments have been made to the United Kingdom. People had | :46:54. | :46:57. | |
the opportunity to set out their views and analysis statistics and | :46:58. | :47:01. | |
reports exhaustively. The British public have not been short of | :47:02. | :47:05. | |
information on which to base their decision. They have decided. It is | :47:06. | :47:10. | |
now our job to make sure the decision they had taken for our | :47:11. | :47:12. | |
country is implemented in the best possible way for all our futures. | :47:13. | :47:20. | |
Can we please have a debate on Government time on the impact of | :47:21. | :47:25. | |
leaving the EU on important infrastructure investment in the | :47:26. | :47:30. | |
north, particularly around the concept of the Northern Powerhouse | :47:31. | :47:33. | |
and the devolution agenda? I think a lot of us on this side of the House | :47:34. | :47:38. | |
are very concerned that our northern constituencies that voted to come | :47:39. | :47:43. | |
out of the EU, now we're faced, where there will be large gaps in | :47:44. | :47:49. | |
funding, particularly for electrification in the North. We | :47:50. | :47:53. | |
remain committed to the Northern Powerhouse and investing in it. That | :47:54. | :47:57. | |
is immensely important for those politically, for this country and | :47:58. | :48:03. | |
the committees she and others representing them. -- represent in | :48:04. | :48:12. | |
the North. Today is the deadline for the great exhibition in the North in | :48:13. | :48:17. | |
division and 18. My home city of Bradford has already submitted a bid | :48:18. | :48:21. | |
which, with an excellent vision and venue, I believe is a strong | :48:22. | :48:25. | |
contender. The great exhibition will celebrate the huge cultural and | :48:26. | :48:27. | |
economic contributions that the North of England has made to the | :48:28. | :48:31. | |
rest of the UK in both the past and present. So can I please urge the | :48:32. | :48:34. | |
Leader of the House to allocate time for a debate on this very important | :48:35. | :48:41. | |
subject? I wish everyone in Bradford well with this bid. Bradford is a | :48:42. | :48:44. | |
city that feels transformed and it has changed in the sense that things | :48:45. | :48:49. | |
are happening in Bradford to take the city forward. Everyone in | :48:50. | :48:52. | |
Bradford is pleased and proud of that. I wish them well for this bid. | :48:53. | :48:56. | |
I hope it is not just celebrating the past and present, but setting up | :48:57. | :49:01. | |
after the future, as the country that his stitches and other | :49:02. | :49:04. | |
committees in Yorkshire can make to the country. Could I asked the | :49:05. | :49:11. | |
leader of the host range for an statement regarding significant | :49:12. | :49:15. | |
changes that the DWP has introduced regarding how he deals with MPs' | :49:16. | :49:22. | |
Klizan Universal Credit? East Lothian is one of the silken -- | :49:23. | :49:27. | |
first constituencies to have a full roll-out. There are lots of | :49:28. | :49:32. | |
problems. Unfortunately, the DWP's hotline no longer takes queries on | :49:33. | :49:40. | |
the full-service roll-out. And be -- I am being redirected to Bolton, | :49:41. | :49:46. | |
which will handle the queries, which is insufficient. I was speed my | :49:47. | :49:51. | |
colleague, the Secretary of State and say we can get a proper | :49:52. | :49:54. | |
response. -- I will speak to my colleague. Yesterday the Prime | :49:55. | :50:01. | |
Minister claimed yet again that the Smiths are his favourite band, and | :50:02. | :50:04. | |
I'm sure he will hear from Johnny Martyn, if he hasn't already. His | :50:05. | :50:12. | |
management of this has been much less of Charming Man and much more | :50:13. | :50:24. | |
of Big Mistakes Again. I can't comment on the Smiths, but I | :50:25. | :50:37. | |
was a fan of Pink Floyd. Indeed, I spent many happy hours, even 30 | :50:38. | :50:40. | |
years later, listening to the dark side of the moon. I know the subject | :50:41. | :50:50. | |
on voting for six D and 17-year-olds is alive one, but it remains of your | :50:51. | :50:55. | |
Government that the right age is 18. It will continue to be a debate and | :50:56. | :50:58. | |
those who wish to bring that before the British people can put it in the | :50:59. | :51:02. | |
next manifesto, if they are bright enough to have a next Manifesto. Can | :51:03. | :51:13. | |
we have a debate on Palace -- palliative care? I visited the | :51:14. | :51:19. | |
hospice newly opened in my constituency to see the great work | :51:20. | :51:22. | |
they do. It is a dream important that those in the latter stages of | :51:23. | :51:26. | |
their life have this ability to have their cases heard in Parliament and | :51:27. | :51:29. | |
that we take for this debate swiftly. Mr Speaker, I welcome the | :51:30. | :51:35. | |
opening of the new hospice in her constituency. I think we all owe | :51:36. | :51:41. | |
huge amount to those who work in palliative care. It is an enormously | :51:42. | :51:47. | |
challenging area but an enormously compassionate, kind, caring area of | :51:48. | :51:52. | |
our society. I am sure we would all pay tribute to all of those who work | :51:53. | :51:55. | |
to make the last days of those suffering from serious illness happy | :51:56. | :52:03. | |
ones, rather than difficult ones. Get a Government misunderstanding of | :52:04. | :52:06. | |
supported accommodation, it is set to watch a review of its own policy | :52:07. | :52:10. | |
on the issue. That is being led by a minister in the other house. Whilst | :52:11. | :52:14. | |
the review is under way, councils, housing associations and thousands | :52:15. | :52:17. | |
of my constituents are left in limbo. When all members of the | :52:18. | :52:21. | |
Southgate chancing Government time to debate that view and when is it | :52:22. | :52:25. | |
expected to report? I don't know when it will report. It is right and | :52:26. | :52:31. | |
proper that Members of the House will listen if there is pleased we | :52:32. | :52:36. | |
have got something wrong. That is something we need to look at in more | :52:37. | :52:39. | |
detail. We will bring that report back to the House in due course and | :52:40. | :52:42. | |
there will be an opportunity to question ministers about it. In | :52:43. | :52:49. | |
order to ensure proper Parliamentary scrutiny, can the leader of the | :52:50. | :52:54. | |
suits is best officers to ensure there is no Article 50 invocation of | :52:55. | :53:03. | |
the Lisbon Treaty unless the full proposals of the issue are debated | :53:04. | :53:11. | |
filly in Parliament? We will have plenty of opportunities in autumn to | :53:12. | :53:15. | |
discuss and debate what is planned. That'll be for the new Government | :53:16. | :53:20. | |
and new parameter to decide. May I congratulate Wales on getting | :53:21. | :53:37. | |
through in the Euros, and may I congratulate the Northern Irish and | :53:38. | :53:41. | |
Irish fans who have been given an award by the mayor of Paris for | :53:42. | :53:43. | |
their behaviour and their humour. When the fines started singing away | :53:44. | :53:49. | |
in a Manger, and we wondered what it was going until it gets to the | :53:50. | :53:56. | |
words, look down where he lay" and it all say here, you realise there's | :53:57. | :54:01. | |
terrific humour in that and we congratulate all of the fans from | :54:02. | :54:05. | |
everywhere who have behaved themselves. The Northern Irish and | :54:06. | :54:12. | |
Irish teams played very well. Whilst we're all Welsh, now, I must say | :54:13. | :54:19. | |
that the Northern Irish as was common said at the end of the match, | :54:20. | :54:23. | |
didn't really deserve the result they got. Wales have played | :54:24. | :54:26. | |
brilliantly and made it through to the quarterfinals and we hope they | :54:27. | :54:30. | |
go much further, but we think Northern Ireland did the whole | :54:31. | :54:37. | |
United Kingdom proud as well. Much of the anti-immigration rhetoric in | :54:38. | :54:41. | |
the Brexit debate was driven by a lack of availability of housing. | :54:42. | :54:48. | |
Particularly secure social housing tenancies that gave family security | :54:49. | :54:52. | |
and stability. Can we expect a statement from the government in | :54:53. | :54:55. | |
which they will join the Welsh Assembly government in removing the | :54:56. | :55:00. | |
right to buy and the right to acquire and will we have a statement | :55:01. | :55:06. | |
to ensure an appropriate level of new investment in social housing for | :55:07. | :55:13. | |
the United Kingdom? There's two set of points here. We believe in home | :55:14. | :55:16. | |
ownership, that people should have the right to own their homes. One of | :55:17. | :55:20. | |
the reasons it has been for a long time government policy to reduce | :55:21. | :55:23. | |
levels of immigration is because it puts pressure on public services and | :55:24. | :55:28. | |
infrastructure and housing. And B, first and foremost have to make sure | :55:29. | :55:31. | |
that we can make the provision that we need to for the next generation | :55:32. | :55:41. | |
here. A constituent of mine was one of my earliest cases over a year | :55:42. | :55:44. | |
ago, despite my best efforts is due to be aborted on Tuesday morning. | :55:45. | :55:50. | |
This removal did not go ahead and she's now back at Yarlswood having | :55:51. | :56:01. | |
suffered injury. This alleged brutality was so severe that Alec | :56:02. | :56:05. | |
passengers on the plane allegedly tried to intervene. Can be have a | :56:06. | :56:11. | |
debate to discuss that treatment of those who claim asylum in this | :56:12. | :56:15. | |
country? I can't comment on the detail of a case like that. I simply | :56:16. | :56:18. | |
say that it is right and appropriate that anyone in the asylum system is | :56:19. | :56:23. | |
treated with decency. It is also the case that the people don't have the | :56:24. | :56:27. | |
legal right to be here, it is appropriate that we should take them | :56:28. | :56:34. | |
and bought them. -- deport them. Does the government really believe | :56:35. | :56:37. | |
the current Private Members' Bill system is perfect? Slap down the | :56:38. | :56:41. | |
procedure committee recommendations, but will he make government time | :56:42. | :56:46. | |
available on the floor of the House so the House can have a vote on the | :56:47. | :56:52. | |
recommendations? My response said precisely that. It is right and | :56:53. | :56:54. | |
proper order should be back edge debate, because this is about | :56:55. | :56:59. | |
private members bills and backbench activity and then this committee can | :57:00. | :57:04. | |
organise such a debate any time it wishes. My recommendation was that | :57:05. | :57:08. | |
before we can assess how broadly the proposals were supported, that | :57:09. | :57:14. | |
debate should take place. Between This Place, the Other Place and the | :57:15. | :57:19. | |
European Parliament, around 52.5% of our lawmakers are currently | :57:20. | :57:25. | |
unelected. When the UK leaves the EU, that rises to 55% and after the | :57:26. | :57:31. | |
boundary review it will rise again to 57% stock can be have a debate on | :57:32. | :57:37. | |
potential reform of our democratic process and to reopen discussion on | :57:38. | :57:39. | |
plans for a reduction in constituencies, before we climb | :57:40. | :57:45. | |
further into this severe democratic deficit? The Scottish National Party | :57:46. | :57:51. | |
have a number of days will do it for debate. It is dogma to bring forward | :57:52. | :57:55. | |
those subjects for debate if it chooses to do so. My view is that | :57:56. | :57:59. | |
reform of the House of Lords is something that is not something | :58:00. | :58:04. | |
among the priorities of this country. Point of order, Ardron. We | :58:05. | :58:24. | |
have had no update on any UK citizens affected by the estimable | :58:25. | :58:27. | |
airport attack or if there have been any UK citizens affected and what it | :58:28. | :58:31. | |
is for security in the region | :58:32. | :58:32. |