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and hear what they have to say? I will be delighted to do so. Can the | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
Leader of the House please give us the forthcoming business. The | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
business for next week will be as follows, Monday the 24th of October, | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
second reading of the health services medical supplies -, | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
supplies costs bill, 25th of October, second reader of the | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
criminal finances Bill, 26, opposition day, ten allotted day, a | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
debate on concentric Spall `nd by a debate on Yemen. 27th of October, | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
motion to approve the first report from the committee of privileges | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
followed by a debate selectdd by the Backbench Business Committed on a | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
motion for the youth Parlialent Select Committee report on xoung | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
people's mental health. 28th of October, private members' bhlls The | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
provisional business for thd week commencing the 31st will include, | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
Monday the 31st, second reading of the cultural property armed | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
conflicts Lords Bill, Tuesd`y the first Obama, consideration of Lords | :01:13. | :01:19. | |
and is -- amendments, 2nd of November, dates on opposition | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
motions to subject to be announced, 3rd of November, business to be | :01:23. | :01:30. | |
announced by the backbench business committee, for the November, | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
backbench spills. The busindss in Westminster Hall for the 17th and | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
24th of November will be as follows, Thursday the 17th of Novembdr, a | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
debate on the first report from the environmental audit committde on | :01:44. | :01:52. | |
soil health on Thursday the 24th, a debate on the first report from the | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
International development committee on UK implementation of the | :01:57. | :02:04. | |
sustainable development goals. When I was first appointed to thhs job | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
they said to me, there is no power, so I am quite pleased that having | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
raised Marmite last week we got a result by the end of the dax. Bob | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
Dylan has been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature and he hasn't | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
contacted the academy so we said to Bob Dylan, please contact the | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
academy. For the honourable member for Perth and North Perthshhre, | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
thanks for the kind comments last week, maybe he can spot the | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
subliminal messages Willett references to Bob Dylan. We are | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
bombarded with statements and now we have a statement on the crisis in | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
the funding for farming. It took an urgent question before the Linister | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
comes to the House today. Why a statement and not a debate? The | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
Minister said the government proposed ways to propose a reduction | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
to the 2.8 billion currentlx paid to the sector but it has been rejected | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
by. The Health Secretary sahd pharmacists have an important part | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
in the future of the NHS so why the cuts? He commended the important | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
role pharmacists can play in solving any problem the NHS faces so why the | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
cuts? In July this year he said it is the right time to rethink the | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
role of pharmacies and conshder whether we can be better at tapping | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
into the incredible skills pharmacists have, which I do not | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
think we make the most of. So why the cuts? The Health Secret`ry says | :03:39. | :03:51. | |
it is all good so why is he cutting funds to the sector? For thd second | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
time this week it is governlent by urgent question. Only last week I | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
mentioned the reversal of the Member for Tatton's economic policx and | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
here comes another. Can we have a full debate, not just a statement, | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
on the sale of annuities, dragged to the House on a U-turn so spdctacular | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
we can't see round the bend. The poor minister said, through | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
extensive research, a secondary market would not be able to offer | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
this. There were many unanswered questions like when the full -- when | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
the government first did extensive research, but the former Ch`ncellor | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
not look at the evidence in March 20 15th where was it just a me`ns to | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
stimulate the economy using people's hard earned savings? -- the March of | :04:39. | :04:47. | |
2015. The answer is blowing in the win. Can I ask him to make ` | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
statement on what the honourable member for Britain meant by saying | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
the government can't reveal their hands on negotiations to exht the EU | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
because you don't win you play poker. Is this gambling with the | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
British people's lives? Even Margaret Thatcher had a negotiation | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
position, no, no, no, or I want to rebate. They said we can't reveal a | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
position, we say this is basic accountability. The only answer is | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
that a hard Brexit is going to fall. The statement on airport expansion | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
in the south-east scheduled for next week has been postponed yet again. | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
Instead the Prime Minister lade her intentions clear, only in rdsponse | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
to the honourable member for the Bedford at PMQs, this government | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
would take a decision and then a formal process has to be undertaken, | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
the government will identifx their preferred site and that will go to a | :05:45. | :05:54. | |
consultation and the governlent will consider the results of that. What | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
about the timetable for implementation, the further work on | :05:59. | :06:06. | |
noise pollution nation -- pollution, environmental impacts. I want to | :06:07. | :06:16. | |
place on record my thanks to the former Prime Minister and hhs wife | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
Samantha for the I'm eating support for epilepsy charity. -- for their | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
unstinting support. We remelber next week the ABBA van disaster. -- we | :06:26. | :06:40. | |
disaster. Jo Cox gave her a great disaster. Jo Cox gave her a great | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
service to the country so rhghtly deserves a plaque in this chamber. | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
Her family should not have had to bury their daughter, sister and wife | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
and their adored children should not have had to grow up without their | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
mother. Our love to them all, may she rest in peace. Can I first deal | :07:01. | :07:12. | |
with the two very serious point of the honourable lady raised `t the | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
end? I am sure every single member of the House will want to m`rk the | :07:17. | :07:25. | |
appalling tragedy in Aberfan when the anniversary is commemor`ted | :07:26. | :07:33. | |
tomorrow. None of us who ard alive, even if we were very young `t the | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
time, can ever forget the sdaring impact of the photographs and the | :07:39. | :07:48. | |
news coverage of what happened there and the images and the visible grief | :07:49. | :07:56. | |
of the families is something that is still very clear in the memory. As | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
to, as the Prime Minister s`id yesterday, is the fact that those | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
who might have been able to prevent the tragedy did not act in | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
fulfilment of their responshbilities until forced -- and did not until | :08:18. | :08:28. | |
forced to do so actually own up to their responsibilities. Solhdarity | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
with Aberfan and sympathy whth the family of our late colleagud Jo Cox. | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
I know that the matter of the commemorative shield is somdthing | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
you have high on your agend`, Mr Speaker, and I would also lhke to | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
pay tribute to the fact that the parliament choir, which is `n | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
all-party, has with the agrdement both Jo Cox's family commissioned a | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
new choral composition that will be performed in her memory at ` | :08:58. | :08:58. | |
forthcoming concert. If I can turn to the political | :08:59. | :09:09. | |
points and I wasn't sure if the honourable lady was complaining | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
about there having been too many urgent questions. I mean, I did feel | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
that there was a certain retro, sort of retrospective character tore to | :09:21. | :09:29. | |
comments that she said earlher. On pharmacists, as she knows, there is | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
going to be a statement by ly Right Honourable friend after bushness | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
questions this morning. At which he will set out in detail the | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
Government's approach to colmunity pharmacists. I would make this | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
point, that it is very important that we ensure not just that the | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
money going to the National Health Service is suss saned and increased, | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
as this -- sustained as this Government is doing, but we ensure | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
that every single last pennx of money which goes to the NHS is spent | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
to give the best possible v`lue to patients. We need to look at | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
community pharmacy as at prhmary and secondary health care to ensure that | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
we get the best possible value out of every penny of precious NHS | :10:21. | :10:28. | |
funding that is spent. On hdr point about the sale of annuity, `s my | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
honourable friend, the minister said yesterday, the Government m`de a | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
therer and honest assessment of the prospects for a genuine market in | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
secondary annuities and we reluctantly came to conclaugs that | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
to have that gone a-- concltsion that to have gone ahead with the | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
measures would not have been of benefit to the very group of | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
consumers who were looking to a secondary anunties market in order | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
to ride them with some relidf because the products were shmply not | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
going to be available to give them the additional safeguards and | :11:07. | :11:07. | |
opportunities that they werd seeking. | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
Now I have to say, I really struggle to understand the opposition's | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
position on the negotiated position the Government is adopting over the | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
forthcoming European Union negotiations. I would have thought | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
that whether we're talking `bout politics or about business or any | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
other walk of life, that if you are about to start a very important and | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
wide-ranging negotiation, the last thing that you do is to advdrtise | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
the detail of your negotiathng position so that the people with | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
whom you are negotiating can see everything spread out in front of | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
them. I think, I just think that the opposition needs to wake up and | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
realise that the people who would be most delighted if they got their way | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
would be the people with whom we will be negotiating across the | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
table. Can I last turn to hdr point about airports? The Governmdnt will, | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
as the Prime Minister said, be making an they announcement in the - | :12:10. | :12:17. | |
near future about which of the options in the Davis's report we | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
will adopt. The Davis report has said that any of the three options | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
that they have proposed would be deliverable. And sustainabld. | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
The Government will of course comply with the requirements for stat Tory | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
consultation following that announcement that the Labour | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
Government actually put in place. That actually accounts for the delay | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
about which he is now compl`ining. I have to say, Mr Speaker, th`t if | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
there's one thing that's blowing in the wind this morning, it is the | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
co-her rens of the Labour P`rty s ideas about policy and I don't know | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
whether they are sleeping wdll at night, but it is very clear to me | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
there's no place they are going to. THE SPEAKER: As usual a large number | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
of members are seeking to c`tch my eye. My normal practise is to call | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
everybody on this occasion. But there are exceptions. Today, there | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
is a statement on community pharmacy to follow and two very heavhly | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
subscribed debate to take place under the auspices of the b`ckbench | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
committee. It may not be possible to call everybody today. If I `m to | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
have any chance of doing so, there is a premium upon briefty, which | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
will be brilliantly ex-acceptlified by Mr Phillip Davis. Can we have a | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
statement urgently from the Government about the farce of | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
allowing the child referees into the -- refugees into the countrx. The | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
Home Office have admitted that two-thirds of successful applicants | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
as child refugees are actually adults. Jack Straw today has said we | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
need to do better on age chdcks as does the member for Hodge Hhll. This | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
is a serious concern to manx of our constituents. Can we have an urgent | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
statement what the Government is going to make sure to do th`t the | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
children? We work closely whth the children? We work closely whth the | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
French authorities to ensurd all the cases applying to the UK do actually | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
qualify under the Dublin amdnts which include -- arrangements which | :14:26. | :14:27. | |
include the requirement for children to be under 18. We have to carry out | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
the checks in a way that ard come plient with High Court judglents | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
upon this matter. As my honourable friends knows the British Ddntal | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
Association has taken the vhew that to carry out x-rays of clailants' | :14:43. | :14:52. | |
teeth would not be a relike indicator of age as well, as in | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
their view, of being unethical. May I join him in the house to the | :14:59. | :15:07. | |
tributes of Aberfan. And the horrific events surrounding | :15:08. | :15:08. | |
the murder of Jo Cox. Can I suggest the debates wd get our | :15:09. | :15:25. | |
terms right for Brexit. We have hard Brexit, soft Brexit. I want to | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
suggest soggy Brexit, maybe, I can't believe it's not Brexit! A serious | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
point on this is we still h`ve not had a debate in Government time on | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
its plans to leave the European Union. We've had one since H was an | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
SNP, we heard the Lord's colmittee saying it must be properly debated | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
and suggesting we have a debate in advance of the Article 50 bding | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
triggered. Can we know have a solid plan and proposal about when this | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
House gets to debate about what this House is intending to do with this. | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
Mr Speaker, three drawn boundaries for Scottish Members of Parliament | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
and in reducing the number of MPs to 53. We would like to is havd that to | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
serve row when we begin our sovereignty. | :16:19. | :16:20. | |
I was in the debate briefly yesterday. How can it possibly be | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
right to in these Houses of Parliament, we now have mord | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
parliamentarians appointed by a Prime Minister than elected be I the | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
people? He is making that worse Lastly, Mr Speaker, tomorrow we have | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
the... The member on an isste, the bill which seeks to posthumously | :16:42. | :16:50. | |
pardon gay men in this legislation. We hear the Government drawhng up | :16:51. | :17:07. | |
support for that in an amendment in the House of Lords. It should be | :17:08. | :17:09. | |
here that it is properly considered and properly considered by dlected | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
members. All that does is whthdraw support and further undermine the | :17:13. | :17:14. | |
Private Member's Bill. Will he think that and make sure that support of | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
that bill tomorrow? Mr Speaker, I really think there has alre`dy been | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
many opportunities to hold linisters to account for the Government's | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
approach to the European negotiations. We had questions to my | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
Right Honourable friend the Secretary of State for exithng the | :17:33. | :17:34. | |
European Union, who has madd a number of oral statements to the | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
House about this since the referendum. I'm slightly surprised | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
that the honourable gentlem`n should appear to denigrate the importance | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
of Select Committees, in both this House and the other place. Ht is | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
simply wrong to belief that it is only a -- believe that it is only a | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
debate in session that qualhfies as scrutiny. In my experience, having | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
served as a minister for thd last sort of, more than six years, it is | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
often Select Committees that can be much more demanding on ministers, in | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
terms of preparation and thhnking through your policy and we should | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
respect the importance of those committee hearings. I can s`y to him | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
that my Right Honourable frhend the Prime Minister, will of course be | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
giving an oral statement next week about the European Council. That | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
will apply another opportunhty for such questioning. On his pohnt about | :18:31. | :18:40. | |
his honourable friend's bill, I mean, the Government very mtch | :18:41. | :18:42. | |
shares the honourable gentldman s wish to see the pardons givdn to | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
people who were convicted of conaccept sue homosexual | :18:50. | :19:07. | |
acts when they were criminal offences. What the Government is | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
proposing is we should legislate both to provide posthumous pardons | :19:11. | :19:12. | |
for people who are now dekedzed and main it clear those who are living, | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
so they could then qualify for a pardon. The reason we can not | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
support the bill is it does not take account the need of people who are | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
living to check the offence for which they were convicted w`s | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
genuinely consen sue and to check that the offence was not covered by | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
a sex against a minor which would still be a breach of the crhminal | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
law today. What is now requhred in each case a short question without | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
preamble and a short reply from the front bench. | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
To mark this occasion they held an event where I got to meet 14 now | :19:53. | :20:02. | |
apprentices. Will my friend join me to congratulate Brigs and whsh the | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
new apprentices good luck whth their new career and have a discussion on | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
the three million apprenticdship target? I am delighted to hdar the | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
news from my honourable fridnd's constituency. The three million | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
apprenticeship's target is ` key element in increasing the skills and | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
productivity of our nation. As the evidence from her constituency shows | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
sensible businesses realise that to develop apprenticeship scheles is in | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
their own commercial interest as well. | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
Mr Speaker, last year, the TK received 5.6 billion from the | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
European investment bank, investing in skills and infrastructurd across | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
the country. With the UK languishing at the bottom of the G7 productivity | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
league table. Can we have a debate on the impact of leaving thd | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
European Union and potentially leaving our stake on the investment | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
bank on pro-ducktity and wh`t the Government's plans are to address | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
this? These are all things which will be one element in the | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
negotiations. It is that Government has made it clear its industrial | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
strategy is intended to address the very deep-seated, long-runnhng | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
problem we have over productivity. Would my Right Honourable friend | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
find time on returning veterans with mental health issues? I met | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
represents from care after combat thapd have a very successful -- and | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
they have a very successful rate in turning people's lives around who | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
unfortunately end up in prison. Mr Speaker, I think that everybody and | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
certainly the Government wants to do all within our power to makd sure | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
that those who have served hn the armed forces and those who kurptdly | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
do have the best -- currently do have the best possible access to | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
treatment for mental health and appropriate action is taken to | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
prevent people from develophng mental health problems in the first | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
place. I can assure assure him of this. | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
Can I thank the leader for the confirmation of the time allocation | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
for the backbench committee on the 3rd November. Can I ask for time on | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
27th for the youth Parliament, on young people's mental health, is | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
there any element of protection of that time on that particular day? | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
Can I ask for an indication for any time allocation on Tuesday, Monday | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
or Tuesday, 8th or 9th Novelber I am surprised by the way the member | :22:33. | :22:40. | |
for Perth and North Perthshhre didn't mention readily-Brexht! But | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
not to worry. The time next week will be protected. I shall write to | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
him about the other dates. Lr Speaker, I can remember the days on | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
the other side used to complain about how much time we spent on | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
Europe. Isn't it time we stopped banging on about Europe and just got | :23:00. | :23:08. | |
on? Well, I note my honourable friend's | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
advice that we should stop banging on about this subject. Now H think | :23:13. | :23:26. | |
that if that is a belated edition to his birthday wish list, then I will | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
be happy to oblige. What we will have to do as a Government hs | :23:30. | :23:31. | |
prepare our negotiating poshtion thoroughly and then get the most | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
ambitious deal on behalf of all of the people in the United Kingdom. | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
A literary journal but requdsts submissions at the University of | :23:43. | :23:53. | |
Nottingham is normally publhshed as a downloadable PDF but it is due to | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
appear in print as a limited edition box set. Ahead of next Tuesday's | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
Nottingham in Parliament thdy will he congratulate me on -- will he | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
join me in congratulating The Letters Page? I am delighted to hear | :24:12. | :24:21. | |
about the literary creativity of her constituents and the people of | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
Nottingham and it is good to see that the great literary tradition of | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
DH Lawrence has not been extinguished but is alive and | :24:30. | :24:37. | |
flourishing. Sepsis claims `round 40,000 lives per year in thd UK | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
Could we have a statement on the government's newly announced public | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
awareness campaign so we can establish how Public Health England | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
plans to work with experts to make sure that this campaign is `s | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
successful as possible? I think that we would all in this House want to | :24:56. | :25:03. | |
take note of recent shocking cases where people have not had sdpsis | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
diagnosed early enough for dffective treatment to begin. It is clearly | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
deeply unsatisfactory that there should be any case where th`t | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
happens. Health ministers whll certainly want to make sure that | :25:19. | :25:26. | |
there are improvements were those can be achieved and I will draw | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
attention to my honourable friend's request for a debate. May wd have a | :25:32. | :25:39. | |
debate on palliative care? @ hospice in my constituency is a crucial | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
resource for those most in need at the end of their lives and such | :25:45. | :25:46. | |
facilities should be supported across the UK. I, like her, tried to | :25:47. | :25:56. | |
demonstrate support when I can for the palliative care services in my | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
constituency. I think that this is one of the important improvdments in | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
attitudes towards health care that we have seen in recent years, to | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
accept that people who are hn the final stages of their life `re | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
entitled to be treated not just in respect of their physical sxmptoms | :26:17. | :26:19. | |
but with the respect and dignity that is due to the whole person | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
There was a meeting of my constituents in Peterborough, many | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
of whom are going to be evicted shortly as the result of a deal | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
between Peterborough Council and the North London estate agent Stefan | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
Phillips. Can we have a deb`te on this, as they are due to be replaced | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
with homeless people. Can wd have a debate that looks at housing benefit | :26:45. | :26:53. | |
regulations and this repugn`nt basis that prioritises housing benefit for | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
these people rather than my constituents over long standing If | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
he would care to provide me with the details I will draw that to the | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
attention of the Minister. The total number of deaths caused in @merica | :27:10. | :27:18. | |
by the side-effects of drugs have grown to a figure that more people | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
are killed by these drugs them all people killed by road traffhc | :27:24. | :27:32. | |
accidents, guns and terrorism. We use a third of such drugs in Europe | :27:33. | :27:42. | |
and can we debate the terrible result of medicines that ard more | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
deadly than the maladies. Hd has been somebody who has looked at | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
drugs use and drugs policy for many years so I listened with sole | :27:54. | :27:56. | |
respect to what he says. Thdre will be the opportunity to questhon Home | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
Office ministers on the 31st of October about this and I wotld | :28:02. | :28:07. | |
suggest he takes advantage of that opportunity. Can we have tile to | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
have a debate on the rural dconomy? There is never enough time on the | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
back bench or in Westminster Hall to discuss something that will be vital | :28:17. | :28:20. | |
to the UK when we leave the EU, so can we have time here in thhs | :28:21. | :28:26. | |
chamber? I think that while there will be opportunities to qudstion | :28:27. | :28:33. | |
the Secretary of State for DEFRA and her ministers, my advice in the | :28:34. | :28:42. | |
short time, and given the ntmber of ministers who represent rur`l or | :28:43. | :28:47. | |
partly rural constituencies, would be to make an application to the | :28:48. | :28:50. | |
backbench business committed, because there should be strdngth in | :28:51. | :28:55. | |
numbers. Can we have a debate on the international freedom of thd press, | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
just in case the BBC faces the closure of its Moscow bureat bank | :29:00. | :29:04. | |
accounts by a state owned b`nk in Russia, something that happdns in | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
authoritarian states and wotld never happen in a liberal democracy like | :29:10. | :29:18. | |
the UK. I think we all want to keep a close eye on action that the | :29:19. | :29:22. | |
Russian authorities may takd towards free media and civil societx | :29:23. | :29:29. | |
organisations inside their own territory. I am afraid therd is a | :29:30. | :29:33. | |
history of the Russian authorities causing difficulties for jotrnalists | :29:34. | :29:38. | |
and broadcasters, civil sochety organisations and the British | :29:39. | :29:44. | |
Council, which is to be deplored. Following my debate in Westlinster | :29:45. | :29:50. | |
Hall yesterday on the Ministry of Defence future accommodation model I | :29:51. | :29:53. | |
have been inundated with messages from military families overnight. | :29:54. | :29:57. | |
Will he support my request for a wider debate to support the future | :29:58. | :30:08. | |
of accommodation as part of the covenant? I know she spoke `s always | :30:09. | :30:16. | |
with great vigour and on thd basis of significant knowledge in the | :30:17. | :30:20. | |
debate yesterday. She would have had an answer from the veterans Minister | :30:21. | :30:24. | |
at the end of that debate. The government will of course bd | :30:25. | :30:31. | |
publishing its proposals for defence estate later this year and that I am | :30:32. | :30:35. | |
sure will provide members of the House with further opportunhties to | :30:36. | :30:39. | |
debate this. The Swansea Bax tidal lagoon project would pave the way | :30:40. | :30:46. | |
for ?15 billion worth of investment in tidal lagoons, including one | :30:47. | :30:49. | |
planned in my constituency which could provide electricity for a | :30:50. | :30:53. | |
million homes. We need tidal power as part of the future of cldan | :30:54. | :30:58. | |
energy. When the government review reports next month, can we have a | :30:59. | :31:02. | |
statement from the Minister supporting this technology? As she | :31:03. | :31:08. | |
said, the results of that rdview are due to be reported within the next | :31:09. | :31:12. | |
few weeks. I will make sure that the Secretary of State is aware of her | :31:13. | :31:18. | |
request for a statement on that matter, I am sure there will be | :31:19. | :31:23. | |
opportunities in the House to debate these matters and for her to raise | :31:24. | :31:27. | |
concerns. Can we have a deb`te on the process used to review the green | :31:28. | :31:34. | |
belt? In Greater Manchester the process of expressing an interest | :31:35. | :31:39. | |
has led to vast swathes of green belt land being the subject of | :31:40. | :31:43. | |
speculation and it has causdd huge anxiety for residents. The | :31:44. | :31:48. | |
government National Pollock -- planning policy framework m`kes it | :31:49. | :31:51. | |
clear that green belt land should only be used for development in | :31:52. | :31:55. | |
exceptional circumstances. Hf a local authority wants to make such a | :31:56. | :32:02. | |
case for exceptionalism, it has to provide the justification when it | :32:03. | :32:07. | |
submits its draft local plan for examination in public, at which | :32:08. | :32:11. | |
point an independent expect -- inspector tests rigorously the | :32:12. | :32:15. | |
argument is that the local `uthority has made so these are matters that | :32:16. | :32:20. | |
rightly are dealt with at arm's-length from central government | :32:21. | :32:24. | |
ministers but that is the procedure that my honourable friend and his | :32:25. | :32:28. | |
constituents might want to look at. Will the Leader of the Housd find | :32:29. | :32:32. | |
time for a debate or a ministerial correction on the subject of how | :32:33. | :32:38. | |
difficult it is for EU countries to export to Norway? In the early | :32:39. | :32:42. | |
exchange the Secretary of State for Brexit said that it was verx easy | :32:43. | :32:45. | |
for Sweden to export to Norway. There was a conference in Sweden | :32:46. | :32:49. | |
earlier this week and I am hndebted to Alan Winters professor of | :32:50. | :32:57. | |
economic 's who said that Swedish exporters find exporting to Norway | :32:58. | :33:00. | |
for more troublesome than exporting within the EU. He will have | :33:01. | :33:08. | |
opportunities to challenge the Secretary of State for Brexht. I | :33:09. | :33:12. | |
have to say that I may be responsible for many things but | :33:13. | :33:15. | |
commercial relations between Sweden and Norway are not my area. Can the | :33:16. | :33:20. | |
Leader of the House in his tnique role review the approach of the | :33:21. | :33:24. | |
government to Select Committee responses and seed it up? Bd women | :33:25. | :33:30. | |
and equality is Minister has been waiting months for his report on the | :33:31. | :33:36. | |
gender pay gap and the report on transgender people. I am gr`teful to | :33:37. | :33:42. | |
my honourable friend for letting me have some notice of this qudstion | :33:43. | :33:45. | |
and I have looked into this. The report that she mentions did of | :33:46. | :33:53. | |
course involve responsibilities of a number of government apart `t - | :33:54. | :33:58. | |
departments and I think she did get a letter earlier from the Sdcretary | :33:59. | :34:01. | |
of State to alert her to thd fact that there probably would bd a delay | :34:02. | :34:05. | |
in response. But I do share her disquiet and I certainly do not | :34:06. | :34:12. | |
regard it as satisfactory that heard department should have waitdd so | :34:13. | :34:16. | |
much longer than the normal period. I will draw her concern to the | :34:17. | :34:21. | |
attention of the ministers responsible and I hope we c`n | :34:22. | :34:25. | |
provide her committee with the government responds that it is | :34:26. | :34:30. | |
entitled to as rapidly as possible. 50 years ago I was a newly `ppointed | :34:31. | :34:33. | |
young lecturer at Swansea University. I remember that deep, | :34:34. | :34:39. | |
dark wet day of Aberfan and the death of those children and I | :34:40. | :34:43. | |
associate myself with the thoughts today and can we have a discussion | :34:44. | :34:49. | |
perhaps about how we look after the people, the families, the | :34:50. | :34:55. | |
communities when tragedies like that happen? It took a long time to | :34:56. | :34:57. | |
respond positively to that terrible tragedy. I think the honour`ble | :34:58. | :35:03. | |
gentleman makes a very fair and reasonable point and as he rightly | :35:04. | :35:08. | |
says it is often sometime after the immediate period of shock and grief | :35:09. | :35:15. | |
that the full traumatic imp`ct of what people have lived throtgh and | :35:16. | :35:22. | |
lost bears down upon them. @n effective response has to you | :35:23. | :35:25. | |
involve not just statutory services but often most effectively friends | :35:26. | :35:33. | |
and neighbours in the neighbourhoods where the people themselves live | :35:34. | :35:37. | |
Tommaso Allan expect there `re lessons that can be learned from | :35:38. | :35:44. | |
successes and failures over the years. -- themselves live, so I | :35:45. | :35:49. | |
expect. I am sure he will h`ve the opportunity to debate this hn | :35:50. | :35:53. | |
future. Can we have a debatd on endangered species on government | :35:54. | :36:00. | |
time? I have tried Westminster Hall and not been successful. It is an | :36:01. | :36:06. | |
important debate for the future of the world and my grandchildren's | :36:07. | :36:10. | |
generation, I want them to see the animals that are in danger `nd it is | :36:11. | :36:14. | |
an important subject. I agrde with her and the government is whth DEFRA | :36:15. | :36:20. | |
ministers and foreign officds - Foreign Office Minister is hn the | :36:21. | :36:26. | |
league, taking on the role of being one of the foremost international | :36:27. | :36:32. | |
champions of better arrangelents to protect not just in danger `nd | :36:33. | :36:35. | |
species but the habitat is necessary for their survival is. -- is in the | :36:36. | :36:42. | |
lead. Effective agreements do require a degree of international | :36:43. | :36:46. | |
consensus in order to work. That is what we seek to do through | :36:47. | :36:49. | |
international organisations that have a role here. After the | :36:50. | :36:57. | |
concentric stir Baco with the tax credit office, the tax credht office | :36:58. | :37:01. | |
have called me on four cases saying they are taking up complaints on | :37:02. | :37:10. | |
those cases. Can we have a debate on this? There is a debate next week on | :37:11. | :37:19. | |
concentric spurt on the particular case if he would like to get the | :37:20. | :37:23. | |
details to me later today I will get into the financial the Secrdtary of | :37:24. | :37:30. | |
State. UK financial services employed 2000 people. Could the | :37:31. | :37:33. | |
leader find time in this ch`mber to have a debate on the import`nce of | :37:34. | :37:39. | |
the debate to the UK economx and the government framework for | :37:40. | :37:42. | |
transitional arrangements so we can thrive post Brexit? -- employees | :37:43. | :37:48. | |
200,000 people. It may be something he is able to raise in the | :37:49. | :37:52. | |
forthcoming debate on industrial strategy but I am very happx to join | :37:53. | :37:57. | |
him in recognising the importance of the sector to the UK upon md -- | :37:58. | :38:07. | |
economy and I hope there's `n opportunity debate this, to | :38:08. | :38:16. | |
reinforce the importance of the sector. Can we have a debatd on | :38:17. | :38:24. | |
government time on the government response to the consultation on | :38:25. | :38:27. | |
reforms to the civil servicd compensation scheme? With over 000 | :38:28. | :38:33. | |
responses and 98% against, can I press on him concerns that lany | :38:34. | :38:37. | |
members have about having constituents who have delivdred | :38:38. | :38:39. | |
public services throughout their working life. | :38:40. | :39:09. | |
I want to put on record the public ser haven'ts in all parts of the | :39:10. | :39:12. | |
public service go about thehr duties. We have to recognisd that. | :39:13. | :39:15. | |
We also have to recognise the fact that pension schemes, like dvery | :39:16. | :39:17. | |
other aspect of public expenditure have to be paid for by taxp`yers out | :39:18. | :39:19. | |
of money taken by Government from their earnings. There is a | :39:20. | :39:21. | |
consultation which has been going on. Ministers will consider that | :39:22. | :39:23. | |
consultation and make their response in due course. | :39:24. | :39:25. | |
Can we have a debate about vulnerable women services which are | :39:26. | :39:28. | |
being cut. Women's charities made the point to me the biggest risk | :39:29. | :39:33. | |
factor of domestic factor is of being a woman W the leader `nd the | :39:34. | :39:38. | |
Government recognise it is not about access to toilets or trousers but | :39:39. | :39:42. | |
vulnerable women's access to services. | :39:43. | :39:48. | |
Well, if he will perhaps let me have some of the details of which he s | :39:49. | :39:53. | |
based his question, I will draw them to the attention of my Right | :39:54. | :39:57. | |
Honourable friend the Secretary of State for education, who has | :39:58. | :40:01. | |
responsibilities for the wolen's equalities office. What is needed is | :40:02. | :40:04. | |
a single -- THE SPEAKER: What is needed is a | :40:05. | :40:09. | |
single short question. If they are heard they will be and if not they | :40:10. | :40:17. | |
won't be. Can I associate mxself with the comments about Aberfan and | :40:18. | :40:25. | |
the comments about Jo Cox.lx attend a ball for Emily Clark, who died | :40:26. | :40:29. | |
sadly of cancer this year. Can we have a debate on the needs that | :40:30. | :40:34. | |
young cancer patients have when they suffer from this terrible dhsease? I | :40:35. | :40:40. | |
would want to associate mysdlf with expressions of sympathy and support | :40:41. | :40:44. | |
for Emily's family and friends at an appalling loss. We need to lake | :40:45. | :40:50. | |
sure, as a Government, that the NHS works hard on policies that are more | :40:51. | :40:58. | |
effective in preventing, iddntifying and diagnosing and treating cancer | :40:59. | :41:02. | |
in children and young peopld. As with all cancers we should be aware | :41:03. | :41:07. | |
of how heartbreaking the cases are. . Is the Government preparing for a | :41:08. | :41:15. | |
division or are the whips gdtting backbenchers to talk it out? Mr | :41:16. | :41:21. | |
Speaker, on all of subjects private members' business, I have no idea | :41:22. | :41:25. | |
whether people will seek to divide the House or not. Whether tdllers | :41:26. | :41:29. | |
will be appointed. This is something on which the honourable gentleman | :41:30. | :41:35. | |
will have to indulge in the pressures of -- pleasures of delayed | :41:36. | :41:39. | |
anticipation. Farmers are bding forced to deal with antisochal | :41:40. | :41:43. | |
behaviour from packs of offroad bikers. May we have a debatd on the | :41:44. | :41:49. | |
impact of offroad biking and people riding rough shot over our | :41:50. | :41:54. | |
countryside? I would deplord the behaviour that the honourable | :41:55. | :42:01. | |
gentleman has described. Thdre are many offroad bikers who do observe | :42:02. | :42:07. | |
the law and accept that thex have responsibilities in enjoying their | :42:08. | :42:13. | |
pastime to respect the rights and the economic interests of the people | :42:14. | :42:17. | |
who manage the countryside `nd people who live in the countryside. | :42:18. | :42:21. | |
I hope that this, the particular problem he's described can be sorted | :42:22. | :42:25. | |
out locally we fekive work by the police and the local authorhties. I | :42:26. | :42:29. | |
am sure he will find opporttnities to raise this further in thd House | :42:30. | :42:35. | |
if that is not possible. Yesterday myself and colleagues met | :42:36. | :42:38. | |
with Immigration Ministers to discuss plans to build a short-term | :42:39. | :42:45. | |
immigration centre in my locality. This will mean de... I didn't want a | :42:46. | :42:49. | |
speech. I wanted a one answdr question. Can we have a deb`te on | :42:50. | :42:54. | |
the UK's detention policy, which results in the UK detaining more | :42:55. | :42:59. | |
people than... There'll be Home Office questions on Monday 31st He | :43:00. | :43:04. | |
may have the opportunity to raise his concern then. Boka Harel | :43:05. | :43:16. | |
continue to kidnap young girls would the House have a debate on this | :43:17. | :43:23. | |
matter? Mr Speaker, the British Government is going all it can to | :43:24. | :43:28. | |
support the Nigerian authorhties both in getting the return of those | :43:29. | :43:35. | |
girls who have been abducted and in showing there is effective `ction | :43:36. | :43:47. | |
against Bok, oh. There is a rise in hate crimes against foreign | :43:48. | :43:51. | |
nationals and homophobic attacks since the referendum. Can I ask for | :43:52. | :43:55. | |
a debate to not only discuss the problem but the action requhred to | :43:56. | :44:00. | |
address this? Well, this has been raised with me at the last two | :44:01. | :44:05. | |
business questions. I again say I condemn, as I think all members of | :44:06. | :44:09. | |
all sides of the House and both sides on the referendum do the type | :44:10. | :44:13. | |
of attack and abuse that shd has described. It has no place | :44:14. | :44:17. | |
whatsoever in our politics. The Government has committed to | :44:18. | :44:20. | |
produce a national ship building strategy by the term of the Autumn | :44:21. | :44:23. | |
Statement. Will the House h`ve an opportunity to debate that, given | :44:24. | :44:30. | |
the disgraceful delay in orders the type 26 frigates? Well, the type 26 | :44:31. | :44:36. | |
frigates are being built because there is a United Kingdom Royal Navy | :44:37. | :44:40. | |
which is placing those orders in Scottish shipyards. Something that a | :44:41. | :44:45. | |
separate Scotland would be tnable to promise. There will of course be | :44:46. | :44:51. | |
many opportunities in this House to debate industrial strategy `nd to | :44:52. | :44:55. | |
look at ship building as ond element in that. Thank you Mr Speakdr. Can | :44:56. | :45:00. | |
the Leader of the House tell us when he intends to schedule the trgent | :45:01. | :45:08. | |
debate of the House on the Canada EU trade deal? In due course. | :45:09. | :45:21. | |
Thank you. Convicted crimin`l Lord Harringfield left jail and for a job | :45:22. | :45:27. | |
for life in oh the other pl`ce. Why did the parliamentary authorities | :45:28. | :45:29. | |
tell the court it was a matter for them to address rather than the | :45:30. | :45:32. | |
court and will the leader of the House commit to reform? | :45:33. | :45:37. | |
Well, this was all debated xesterday when we had a debate on the House of | :45:38. | :45:42. | |
Lords. I don't think I have anything further to add to what my honourable | :45:43. | :45:44. | |
friend said | :45:45. | :45:45. |