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Morning folks - welcome
to the Daily Politics. | 0:00:38 | 0:00:42 | |
Unemployment in the UK has
fallen again this morning, | 0:00:42 | 0:00:45 | |
it's good news for Theresa May -
and she probably needs it | 0:00:45 | 0:00:49 | |
after a bout of cabinet infighting
over whether to spend more public | 0:00:49 | 0:00:52 | |
money on the NHS. | 0:00:52 | 0:00:58 | |
Brexit secretary David Davis has
been talking to MPs this morning, | 0:00:58 | 0:01:01 | |
where it's been claimed the UK
will remain a 'vassal state' | 0:01:01 | 0:01:04 | |
of the EU for a further
two years, or longer. | 0:01:04 | 0:01:09 | |
The use of public funds to pay
private sector companies | 0:01:09 | 0:01:12 | |
like Carillion is still exercising
Labour, it says the party | 0:01:12 | 0:01:14 | |
is over for outsourcing -
we'll look at what that really | 0:01:14 | 0:01:17 | |
means. | 0:01:17 | 0:01:18 | |
All of which and more could come up
when the two party leaders face off | 0:01:18 | 0:01:21 | |
at Prime Minister's Questions,
we'll bring you all | 0:01:21 | 0:01:23 | |
the action live from noon. | 0:01:23 | 0:01:30 | |
All that still to come in the next
90 minutes of public sector | 0:01:34 | 0:01:37 | |
broadcasting that is so important
to the proper functioning | 0:01:37 | 0:01:39 | |
of the nation that we expect
all of our viewers to observe | 0:01:39 | 0:01:42 | |
the strictest cabinet
confidentiality. | 0:01:42 | 0:01:46 | |
By which of course I mean you should
tell everyone about it | 0:01:46 | 0:01:49 | |
at every opportunity. | 0:01:49 | 0:01:51 | |
And joining me for all of it,
two MPs who haven't | 0:01:51 | 0:01:55 | |
yet made the cabinet -
and so should feel free to keep | 0:01:55 | 0:01:58 | |
absolutely nothing secret. | 0:01:58 | 0:01:59 | |
It's the Brexit minister
Robin Walker and the shadow Treasury | 0:01:59 | 0:02:01 | |
minister Anneliese Dodds. | 0:02:01 | 0:02:03 | |
Welcome. | 0:02:03 | 0:02:05 | |
Theresa May is preparing
for Prime Minister's Questions | 0:02:05 | 0:02:07 | |
in about half-an-hour's time,
and after that she'll fly | 0:02:07 | 0:02:10 | |
to the Swiss resort of Davos
for the annual gathering | 0:02:10 | 0:02:13 | |
of the global business
and political elite - | 0:02:13 | 0:02:15 | |
including this year well-known
establishment types | 0:02:15 | 0:02:19 | |
like Donald Trump and shadow
chancellor John McDonnell. | 0:02:19 | 0:02:22 | |
The theme is finding a 'shared
future in a fractured world', | 0:02:22 | 0:02:30 | |
I have no idea what that means
either. | 0:02:32 | 0:02:37 | |
So perhaps she's hoping for tips
on dealing with her cabinet, | 0:02:37 | 0:02:39 | |
which yesterday became the latest
example of a challenge | 0:02:39 | 0:02:42 | |
to her authority thanks to her
foreign secretary Boris Johnson. | 0:02:42 | 0:02:44 | |
Lizzie is here to tell us
about the obstacles facing the PM. | 0:02:44 | 0:02:47 | |
Thanks Andrew and who knows,
Theresa May might even get a little | 0:02:47 | 0:02:50 | |
'down time' to have some fun
on the slopes. | 0:02:50 | 0:02:52 | |
After all she does
have some good news, | 0:02:52 | 0:02:55 | |
figures out this morning show
a fall in unemployment. | 0:02:55 | 0:03:00 | |
However, there are quite a few
tricky issues that the PM needs | 0:03:00 | 0:03:02 | |
to navigate if she's to avoid
a 'wipe out'. | 0:03:02 | 0:03:07 | |
We're now into the second phase
of the Brexit negotiations | 0:03:07 | 0:03:10 | |
and Mrs May will soon have
to show her hand and outline her | 0:03:10 | 0:03:13 | |
vision of the transition,
before we finally leave the EU. | 0:03:13 | 0:03:16 | |
Then of course there's the final
deal, will we mirror the EU's rules | 0:03:16 | 0:03:19 | |
and regulations to get full access
to their single market? | 0:03:19 | 0:03:23 | |
Or break away so we can
negotiate our own trade deals? | 0:03:23 | 0:03:28 | |
The Prime Minister has
a tough course to navigate. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:31 | |
Away from Brexit, Mrs May is also
facing criticism from | 0:03:31 | 0:03:36 | |
a number of senior back benchers
with the likes of Nick Boles, | 0:03:36 | 0:03:39 | |
Grant Shapps and Nicholas Soames
all publicly bemoaning | 0:03:39 | 0:03:41 | |
what they see as a | 0:03:41 | 0:03:43 | |
lack of ideas and direction
emanating from the government. | 0:03:43 | 0:03:47 | |
Then there's the
financial pressures on | 0:03:47 | 0:03:52 | |
the NHS with a constant stream
of reports of hospitals struggling | 0:03:52 | 0:03:54 | |
to cope over the winter period. | 0:03:54 | 0:03:56 | |
One man who claims
to have an answer is | 0:03:56 | 0:03:58 | |
Boris Johnson, who was planning
to demand spending an extra | 0:03:58 | 0:04:02 | |
£100 million a week on health
after we leave the EU. | 0:04:02 | 0:04:06 | |
The Foreign Secretary was slapped
down for going 'off piste' | 0:04:06 | 0:04:09 | |
in yesterday's cabinet meeting,
but there are rumours that | 0:04:09 | 0:04:12 | |
Mr Johnson may be on manoeuvres. | 0:04:12 | 0:04:16 | |
We're not sure whether
that's down hill or not. | 0:04:16 | 0:04:23 | |
Thank you for that. Let's now have a
look, before we go through some of | 0:04:23 | 0:04:29 | |
these things, at what the Brexit
secretary David Davis, he is Robin | 0:04:29 | 0:04:35 | |
Walker's boss, had to say in an
exchange with Jacob Reese-Mogg at | 0:04:35 | 0:04:39 | |
the Brexit select committee hearing
a little earlier. Transition is | 0:04:39 | 0:04:46 | |
different because transition means
we are de facto inside the European | 0:04:46 | 0:04:50 | |
Union for that period. We are only
out at the end of the transition. | 0:04:50 | 0:04:54 | |
That's a big shift in government
policy and a big move away from the | 0:04:54 | 0:04:58 | |
vote in June. | 0:04:58 | 0:05:03 | |
vote in June. We don't have
representation on the council and | 0:05:04 | 0:05:06 | |
the court and so on, we will debate
how we manage that. But I do not | 0:05:06 | 0:05:14 | |
accept your description. Will we
accept EU rules? That is an area of | 0:05:14 | 0:05:21 | |
some interest. The time it takes to
put a rule into effect, regulation | 0:05:21 | 0:05:26 | |
into effect in the European Union,
the average is 22 months. The | 0:05:26 | 0:05:33 | |
proposal we are having is we leave
in 21 months. Lets start on Europe | 0:05:33 | 0:05:38 | |
Robin Walker, it is your department,
before we come onto some of the | 0:05:38 | 0:05:42 | |
other matters raised. If we leave in
March 2019 there is going to be a | 0:05:42 | 0:05:50 | |
transition period of perhaps up to
two years. Throughout that two years | 0:05:50 | 0:05:55 | |
we will remain subject to the
rulings of the European Court of | 0:05:55 | 0:05:57 | |
Justice? What we said clearly is we
want to have access to the European | 0:05:57 | 0:06:03 | |
market on the same terms which we
think is in the mutual interest... I | 0:06:03 | 0:06:07 | |
will come onto the single market, I
am asking about the European Court | 0:06:07 | 0:06:11 | |
of Justice. It will remain the
Supreme Court over that and where it | 0:06:11 | 0:06:19 | |
rules on the rules of that market we
will have to take account of that. | 0:06:19 | 0:06:24 | |
We take account of the rulings of
the Supreme Court in the United | 0:06:24 | 0:06:27 | |
States but we do not follow them
unless we want to. So let me | 0:06:27 | 0:06:33 | |
clarify, we will remain subject to
the jurisdiction of the European | 0:06:33 | 0:06:38 | |
Court until 2021? The implementation
period we would seek to agree would | 0:06:38 | 0:06:44 | |
say and the same rules, under the
same basis as our current membership | 0:06:44 | 0:06:47 | |
so yes. But we would be out of our
membership of the European Union, we | 0:06:47 | 0:06:54 | |
would be doing that for an agreed
time on it. You say we would be out | 0:06:54 | 0:06:59 | |
of it but for most people it would
still feel like in. We would still | 0:06:59 | 0:07:03 | |
remain a member of the customs
union. We would continue to access | 0:07:03 | 0:07:07 | |
the customs union on the same basis,
you have to be careful with your | 0:07:07 | 0:07:12 | |
definitions. If you talk to the EU
we have left... We would still be | 0:07:12 | 0:07:17 | |
subject to the external tariffs of
the customs union for two years. The | 0:07:17 | 0:07:23 | |
Prime Minister has been clear that's
the case. And we would remain a | 0:07:23 | 0:07:27 | |
member of the single market for
another two years? We would maintain | 0:07:27 | 0:07:32 | |
our access under the same rules and
regulations. So we would have all | 0:07:32 | 0:07:37 | |
the obligations of being in the
single market, the customs union, | 0:07:37 | 0:07:43 | |
and the ECJ for another two years
without any representation on the | 0:07:43 | 0:07:48 | |
bodies which run these institutions?
We want to make sure we exit with | 0:07:48 | 0:07:55 | |
certainty and stability of how
things stand, that businesses and | 0:07:55 | 0:07:59 | |
government have time to prepare.
That is what the Prime Minister sent | 0:07:59 | 0:08:03 | |
out to achieve. Its continuity,
nothing really changes. You're in | 0:08:03 | 0:08:08 | |
the single market, customs union, do
we continue with the free movement | 0:08:08 | 0:08:16 | |
of people? People will be able to
come here to live and work and | 0:08:16 | 0:08:19 | |
contribute. Robber still be free
movement? We will want to introduce | 0:08:19 | 0:08:25 | |
a registration process... Wilber
still be free movement? People will | 0:08:25 | 0:08:31 | |
be able to come here but they will
need to register to prepare for our | 0:08:31 | 0:08:36 | |
new immigration system. If Angela
Merkel and Emmanuel Macron | 0:08:36 | 0:08:42 | |
get-together and introduce a
transactions tax on financial | 0:08:42 | 0:08:46 | |
dealings, something Emanuel Macron
is very keen on, say that is | 0:08:46 | 0:08:50 | |
introduced in the summer of 2019, do
we have to introduce it? I don't | 0:08:50 | 0:08:56 | |
think it's possible to get something
that significant through the | 0:08:56 | 0:08:58 | |
European system, I don't think
realistically... If they could would | 0:08:58 | 0:09:04 | |
we have to implement it? We have to
be clear that the UK has played a | 0:09:04 | 0:09:10 | |
role and will continue to play a
role in making these decisions right | 0:09:10 | 0:09:13 | |
up until our exit. If they introduce
something like a transactions tax | 0:09:13 | 0:09:19 | |
during the transition period do we
have to implement it? I don't | 0:09:19 | 0:09:24 | |
believe that is likely to be the
case, it's a theoretical. Two years | 0:09:24 | 0:09:30 | |
is a long while, they could do lots
of things. Labour agrees, want to | 0:09:30 | 0:09:35 | |
stay in the customs union and single
market and you like the ECJ. What we | 0:09:35 | 0:09:40 | |
find frustrating is that Labour has
been saying for a long time that | 0:09:40 | 0:09:43 | |
until the government gets its act
together we would have two as a | 0:09:43 | 0:09:48 | |
country accept the reality of
needing a transition period because | 0:09:48 | 0:09:50 | |
we're not going to be ready. Finally
the government has caught up with it | 0:09:50 | 0:09:55 | |
but we still have all this
conclusion. The government is now | 0:09:55 | 0:09:58 | |
doing what you wanted to do. Yes but
it is still confused. We are all | 0:09:58 | 0:10:05 | |
confused! Do you want to stay in the
customs union after the transition? | 0:10:05 | 0:10:12 | |
We don't want the government to rule
out options like staying in... Do | 0:10:12 | 0:10:16 | |
you think we should stay? We want
the benefits we currently have | 0:10:16 | 0:10:23 | |
because we recognise if we were in
the driving seat for negotiations we | 0:10:23 | 0:10:26 | |
would have to be talking to the
other 27 countries. There are a lot | 0:10:26 | 0:10:30 | |
of benefits of that union. Relating
to the comment about how the | 0:10:30 | 0:10:34 | |
government is trying to keep things
on an even keel during this process, | 0:10:34 | 0:10:38 | |
I have been in the customs bill
committee hearing from businesses | 0:10:38 | 0:10:41 | |
about how the government is not
taking on the union customs code | 0:10:41 | 0:10:45 | |
which is not something people
mentioned to me when I was | 0:10:45 | 0:10:48 | |
campaigning in the referendum. It is
adopting a different process making | 0:10:48 | 0:10:51 | |
huge disruption for business when it
should have said we will continue | 0:10:51 | 0:10:55 | |
with the current system. We have
just passed EU withdrawal bill to | 0:10:55 | 0:11:00 | |
provide continuity which Labour
proposed. Because of the power grab. | 0:11:00 | 0:11:06 | |
Let's come onto the issue which
dominated Cabinet yesterday. We were | 0:11:06 | 0:11:12 | |
promised by the Leave side there
would be more money for the NHS | 0:11:12 | 0:11:15 | |
after breakfast, Brexit! After
breakfast as well! We know the NHS | 0:11:15 | 0:11:23 | |
is currently under severe financial
pressure, so why not make it down | 0:11:23 | 0:11:31 | |
payment? Why not put more money into
the NHS now? I fully support | 0:11:31 | 0:11:37 | |
increasing funding and the NHS and
we are delivering on that. What we | 0:11:37 | 0:11:41 | |
have seen in 2010 is an increase of
about 12 and a half billion. We saw | 0:11:41 | 0:11:46 | |
extra money for winter pressures
last year which was vital. I have | 0:11:46 | 0:11:50 | |
seen the biggest investment in my
hospital since it was built in the | 0:11:50 | 0:11:53 | |
90s. I think we need to keep up with
investment. If you are keen on | 0:11:53 | 0:12:00 | |
investment the last Labour
government run 1987-2010 on average | 0:12:00 | 0:12:04 | |
in real terms increased NHS spending
by £5 billion a year over that | 0:12:04 | 0:12:12 | |
period. On average how much have you
increased NHS spending? We have | 0:12:12 | 0:12:16 | |
increased it every year. By how
much? Billions more going on. About | 0:12:16 | 0:12:22 | |
2 billion per year. So you put into
billion per year since 2010 the last | 0:12:22 | 0:12:30 | |
Labour government put in 5 billion a
year. That was in the context of the | 0:12:30 | 0:12:36 | |
government losing control of the
country's debts and running a huge | 0:12:36 | 0:12:41 | |
deficit... We had a financial crisis
and you took support of the measures | 0:12:41 | 0:12:46 | |
we took. Do you not see the hard of
a problem that under the last Labour | 0:12:46 | 0:12:51 | |
government spending rose by 5
billion per year on average. Under | 0:12:51 | 0:12:55 | |
you, just under 2 billion per year
which is the problem because the | 0:12:55 | 0:13:01 | |
demands on the NHS are ever rising
but the rises in cash you are giving | 0:13:01 | 0:13:06 | |
it are falling. I think it's also
about how we invest the money and | 0:13:06 | 0:13:10 | |
make sure it makes the most
difference, increasing spending on | 0:13:10 | 0:13:13 | |
mental health which is at the
highest it has ever been can save | 0:13:13 | 0:13:17 | |
money elsewhere in the system. It is
clear your 2 billion per year is not | 0:13:17 | 0:13:22 | |
enough, just look at the NHS, there
might be other things you have to | 0:13:22 | 0:13:27 | |
do, I'm not saying it's on money,
but it's clear your 2 billion per | 0:13:27 | 0:13:32 | |
year which is only 40% of what
Labour was putting in terms of the | 0:13:32 | 0:13:37 | |
increase not enough. I stood on a
manifesto last election offering a | 0:13:37 | 0:13:43 | |
more substantial increase to the
NHS, meeting the terms the NHS had | 0:13:43 | 0:13:47 | |
asked for. You have not matched the
Labour Party's record. We are in a | 0:13:47 | 0:13:55 | |
different context. We had to pick up
the pieces after the financial | 0:13:55 | 0:13:58 | |
price. We have made the NHS a top
priority. Except you are still going | 0:13:58 | 0:14:06 | |
to increase its only by about 2
billion per year. I do not recognise | 0:14:06 | 0:14:12 | |
that. What we are seeing will take
us up to about 16 billion... Let's | 0:14:12 | 0:14:17 | |
go to 2018-19, on real terms you
will be 126 billion which is 14 | 0:14:17 | 0:14:24 | |
billion more than 2010-11 when he
came to power, that, divided by six | 0:14:24 | 0:14:31 | |
is less than 2 billion per year. So
you're not increasing it in real | 0:14:31 | 0:14:38 | |
terms by much at all. We are every
year and we are taking steps to | 0:14:38 | 0:14:43 | |
increase the number of front line
staff in the NHS, to make sure we | 0:14:43 | 0:14:47 | |
have less dependence on the very
expensive agency workers. 10% of | 0:14:47 | 0:14:53 | |
nursing posts are unfilled. Nurses
are leaving the NHS at a higher rate | 0:14:53 | 0:14:58 | |
than ever. We had the biggest
increase in medical training going | 0:14:58 | 0:15:03 | |
on... Even in young nurses are
leaving. I'm sorry, in my local | 0:15:03 | 0:15:08 | |
trust the number of vacancies is
declining. That is very unusual. I | 0:15:08 | 0:15:13 | |
am sure it is Shangri-La at your
local trust but across the country, | 0:15:13 | 0:15:18 | |
is this what Nick Boles meant about
your inability to rise to the | 0:15:18 | 0:15:23 | |
challenge when he called the
government tenet and lacking in | 0:15:23 | 0:15:27 | |
ambition and what Nicholas Soames
called dull, dull, dull, one Cabinet | 0:15:27 | 0:15:33 | |
minister said we are governed by
visionless mediocrity that is what | 0:15:33 | 0:15:36 | |
your government has come to.
Visionless mediocrity. | 0:15:36 | 0:15:43 | |
I don't think there is anything
visionless. Meeting the demands of | 0:15:43 | 0:15:51 | |
the NHS, 10 billion more funding in
this government, raising the | 0:15:51 | 0:15:55 | |
priority on mental health. Why are
you timid and lacking ambition, | 0:15:55 | 0:16:03 | |
dull, dull, dull and visionless. We
had to make sure people see an | 0:16:03 | 0:16:12 | |
increase in their wages through a
significant increase in the national | 0:16:12 | 0:16:16 | |
living wage, which we will see this
April. This is not meeting its, | 0:16:16 | 0:16:23 | |
these are Conservatives saying it.
It is always good for the | 0:16:23 | 0:16:29 | |
backbenchers to challenge the
government to do more. We are seeing | 0:16:29 | 0:16:32 | |
fairer funding for our schools. What
have you done for the just about | 0:16:32 | 0:16:38 | |
managing? We have increased the
national living wage. That was done | 0:16:38 | 0:16:44 | |
by George Osborne, what has Theresa
May done? | 0:16:44 | 0:16:53 | |
May done? Continuing to drive this,
focusing on productivity, which | 0:16:53 | 0:16:57 | |
Labour said for many years we
couldn't turn around... That is one | 0:16:57 | 0:17:01 | |
quarter's figures. It is beginning
to show real improvement and that | 0:17:01 | 0:17:07 | |
means higher wages. We want to
combine that with the lowest paid | 0:17:07 | 0:17:11 | |
paying less tax. The figures this
morning show wages are lacking | 0:17:11 | 0:17:17 | |
behind prices and in real terms,
wages are still falling. | 0:17:17 | 0:17:21 | |
Productivity is the key... You said
wages were rising. | 0:17:21 | 0:17:30 | |
wages were rising. Would Labour
increase NHS spending by £5 billion | 0:17:30 | 0:17:32 | |
a year? Yes we would and we set out
how we would do it at the general | 0:17:32 | 0:17:39 | |
election. We would also | 0:17:39 | 0:17:45 | |
election. We would also lift the PEI
cap, which is having an impact on | 0:17:45 | 0:17:50 | |
recruitment. What was the main
source of the 5 billion a year? It | 0:17:50 | 0:17:56 | |
is all set out, for example,
reversing some of the changes to the | 0:17:56 | 0:18:02 | |
top rate of tax the government said
it wanted to prioritise. It could | 0:18:02 | 0:18:07 | |
cost you money? It could, but we had
many different funding sources. My | 0:18:07 | 0:18:22 | |
trust is struggling because we
cannot get enough people in and the | 0:18:22 | 0:18:26 | |
number one reason they cannot work
in my city is because the wages | 0:18:26 | 0:18:29 | |
cannot keep track of costs. Let's
move on. | 0:18:29 | 0:18:35 | |
This time last week we were talking
about the impact of the collapse | 0:18:35 | 0:18:38 | |
of the construction firm Carillion
and today Labour is trying to force | 0:18:38 | 0:18:41 | |
a binding vote in the Commons
which would make ministers hand | 0:18:41 | 0:18:44 | |
over their risk assessments
for the company before it went bust, | 0:18:44 | 0:18:46 | |
hoping to prove they knew
it was in trouble before | 0:18:46 | 0:18:49 | |
handing over big contracts. | 0:18:49 | 0:18:50 | |
Well we know Labour believes this
is a watershed moment in the way | 0:18:50 | 0:18:53 | |
the public views the use of private
companies to provide public | 0:18:53 | 0:18:55 | |
services, and this week they set out
more of their thinking. | 0:18:55 | 0:18:58 | |
Shadow cabinet minister Jon Trickett
said on Monday Labour would change | 0:18:58 | 0:19:01 | |
the way procurement works
"within hours" of taking office. | 0:19:01 | 0:19:03 | |
He said on Twitter: "Let me be
clear to the outsourcing | 0:19:03 | 0:19:05 | |
firms: the party is over. | 0:19:05 | 0:19:07 | |
A Corbyn Government will
reverse the presumption | 0:19:07 | 0:19:08 | |
in favour of outsourcing." | 0:19:08 | 0:19:13 | |
Under a Labour government,
firms will only be be able to bid | 0:19:13 | 0:19:16 | |
for a public contract if it
meets rules including: | 0:19:16 | 0:19:18 | |
Giving full union recognition
for their workforce and comply | 0:19:18 | 0:19:20 | |
with collective
bargaining agreements. | 0:19:20 | 0:19:23 | |
Move towards a pay ratio of 20-1,
meaning the highest paid employee | 0:19:23 | 0:19:26 | |
could earn no more than
20 times the lowest. | 0:19:26 | 0:19:29 | |
And firms would have to agree
to maintain high environmental | 0:19:29 | 0:19:33 | |
standards and adopt best practices
in equal opportunities. | 0:19:33 | 0:19:41 | |
Let's have a look at this. Can you
name any FTSE company where the boss | 0:19:41 | 0:19:47 | |
is paid only 20 times the lowest
paid? I cannot say to you I know | 0:19:47 | 0:19:53 | |
exactly what the ratio is for every
FTSE company, but I can say it is a | 0:19:53 | 0:19:58 | |
mainstream opinion. I saw in the
recent submission, that the | 0:19:58 | 0:20:06 | |
government hasn't fulfilled its
promise... Let's look at how it | 0:20:06 | 0:20:09 | |
would work. You wouldn't get a
government contract unless the | 0:20:09 | 0:20:14 | |
average pay of the boss was no more
than 20-1. Lockheed and British | 0:20:14 | 0:20:20 | |
Aerospace are building our new
fighters for the aircraft carriers. | 0:20:20 | 0:20:24 | |
Neither meets the 20-1 criteria, who
would build our fighters? We think | 0:20:24 | 0:20:31 | |
this could change behaviour in the
private sector. When you look at | 0:20:31 | 0:20:34 | |
other countries who have adopted
similar, that is what happened. | 0:20:34 | 0:20:39 | |
Really? You are telling me the boss
of Lockheed would take a massive pay | 0:20:39 | 0:20:44 | |
cut in order to continue to supply
30 firefighters? We don't think | 0:20:44 | 0:20:49 | |
essentially government should be
paying for these massive pay | 0:20:49 | 0:20:52 | |
packets. If the boss of Lockheed and
Bae, it is bigger in America than | 0:20:52 | 0:21:02 | |
here now, if these two company say
sorry, we're not cutting executive | 0:21:02 | 0:21:09 | |
pay. It wouldn't just be the boss it
would be all executives, but they | 0:21:09 | 0:21:13 | |
wouldn't do it, who would supply the
fighters? We would have to change | 0:21:13 | 0:21:18 | |
that business behaviour. If they
don't change, who would supply them. | 0:21:18 | 0:21:23 | |
Who is going to innovate new F35
fighter which has been 15 years in | 0:21:23 | 0:21:28 | |
development and still not ready for
our carriers? We need to look at | 0:21:28 | 0:21:33 | |
this system from start to end,
because we're not talking about pay | 0:21:33 | 0:21:39 | |
issues, but also export credit
guarantees... But Bae, it is the one | 0:21:39 | 0:21:45 | |
that jumps out. The NHS, it is a
huge success story of this country, | 0:21:45 | 0:21:50 | |
we have some of the biggest
pharmaceutical companies in the | 0:21:50 | 0:21:54 | |
world and they supplied drugs to the
NHS. Their executives are paid more | 0:21:54 | 0:22:01 | |
than 20-1, who would supply our
drugs if they didn't change the PEI | 0:22:01 | 0:22:06 | |
ratio? Labour isn't saying we want
every single company in the whole | 0:22:06 | 0:22:12 | |
country to change. You have said it
would be a condition of getting a | 0:22:12 | 0:22:17 | |
public contract that the pay ratio
is 20-1, so who would provide the | 0:22:17 | 0:22:24 | |
drugs? You are not outsourcing
services, you are purchasing the | 0:22:24 | 0:22:30 | |
drugs from them. The NHS has done
that. We're looking at things like | 0:22:30 | 0:22:34 | |
cleaning and catering. IT, you
outsource massively. Hewlett | 0:22:34 | 0:22:41 | |
Packard, IBM and the French company
have been named as part of the top | 0:22:41 | 0:22:47 | |
20 companies you outsource to.
Hewlett Packard is a massive | 0:22:47 | 0:22:50 | |
American company. Who do you go to
if they will not cut their American | 0:22:50 | 0:22:58 | |
executive pay? We need to look at
how we would do with multinational | 0:22:58 | 0:23:02 | |
companies like that. How would you
deal with that? I accept it is | 0:23:02 | 0:23:09 | |
something the Labour government
wasn't always perfect act, but we | 0:23:09 | 0:23:12 | |
have many problems at the moment and
we need more accountability for that | 0:23:12 | 0:23:17 | |
process. If that means potentially
more firms coming in who don't have | 0:23:17 | 0:23:21 | |
that... What British company could
do that Hewlett Packard does for the | 0:23:21 | 0:23:28 | |
government? We have these contracts
going to these huge firms that | 0:23:28 | 0:23:32 | |
haven't delivered. It might mean
smaller portions of these contracts | 0:23:32 | 0:23:37 | |
going to different firms. | 0:23:37 | 0:23:43 | |
going to different firms. The French
company, is massive, what if they | 0:23:43 | 0:23:48 | |
say we don't want British contracts
any more, where do you go? At this | 0:23:48 | 0:23:55 | |
point, I cannot say off the top of
my head, but the public are fed up | 0:23:55 | 0:24:01 | |
with the system where taxpayers are
supporting very, very high pay | 0:24:01 | 0:24:05 | |
packets. Through that public purse
and that has got to end. Government | 0:24:05 | 0:24:11 | |
activity can change these issues.
Theresa May herself for saying she | 0:24:11 | 0:24:14 | |
was thinking of looking at this
issue of pay ratios, not just for | 0:24:14 | 0:24:20 | |
outsourcing, but for the whole
economy. She hasn't done that. It is | 0:24:20 | 0:24:27 | |
your policy, the Spanish
construction company, key to the | 0:24:27 | 0:24:31 | |
Crossrail programme going on, could
be key to the new Crossrail going | 0:24:31 | 0:24:35 | |
from north to south. Its boss is
paid £3.7 million. Unless he cuts | 0:24:35 | 0:24:43 | |
his pay on your ratio, to around
£400,000, he couldn't bid for these | 0:24:43 | 0:24:50 | |
contracts? We believe there should
be a change in that kind of pay | 0:24:50 | 0:24:53 | |
system and we have been upfront
about that. No major international | 0:24:53 | 0:25:00 | |
construction company would not be
able to bid for a contract? That is | 0:25:00 | 0:25:05 | |
not the case. We think people would
cut their pay, potentially. You | 0:25:05 | 0:25:10 | |
think they would cut their pay to
get a British contract? When we are | 0:25:10 | 0:25:17 | |
looking at international firms, we
need to focus on the national | 0:25:17 | 0:25:21 | |
leadership and management. So in
international company could get a | 0:25:21 | 0:25:24 | |
construction contract with the boss
being paid millions, but a British | 0:25:24 | 0:25:28 | |
company wouldn't get it unless the
boss wasn't paid very much? That is | 0:25:28 | 0:25:34 | |
not what I said, I said about the
leadership within the country so we | 0:25:34 | 0:25:39 | |
would compare like with like. You
haven't thought this idea through, | 0:25:39 | 0:25:46 | |
have you? We have. The government
said itself it would look at these | 0:25:46 | 0:25:51 | |
pay ratios but it has abandoned
that. You name one company that | 0:25:51 | 0:25:59 | |
would fall in with that. It would be
an infrastructure programme that | 0:25:59 | 0:26:02 | |
would be dead on arrival because
nobody would be around to do it | 0:26:02 | 0:26:06 | |
because they wouldn't have you
fixing their executive's pay. Unless | 0:26:06 | 0:26:12 | |
we grasp this nettle of high pay at
the top end as we have seen falling | 0:26:12 | 0:26:17 | |
wages at the bottom end, we will
have continued public anger around | 0:26:17 | 0:26:22 | |
this problem. Labour is trying to do
something about it. I understand | 0:26:22 | 0:26:27 | |
that and that is why I am
questioning you. But I think we have | 0:26:27 | 0:26:30 | |
gone as far as we can today. | 0:26:30 | 0:26:35 | |
The United States experienced
another government shutdown | 0:26:35 | 0:26:37 | |
at the weekend, which means many
government agencies stopped working | 0:26:37 | 0:26:39 | |
and thousands of federal employees
are placed on temporary unpaid leave | 0:26:39 | 0:26:42 | |
because of a disagreement over
the Budget in Congress. | 0:26:42 | 0:26:44 | |
The White House released a series
of photographs of president | 0:26:44 | 0:26:49 | |
Donald Trump to show he at least
was hard at work | 0:26:49 | 0:26:52 | |
to end the shutdown. | 0:26:52 | 0:26:54 | |
Here he is in the Oval Office. | 0:26:54 | 0:26:55 | |
Critics of the president,
of which there are many, | 0:26:55 | 0:26:57 | |
were quick to claim that it looked
perhaps a teensy bit staged. | 0:26:57 | 0:27:03 | |
I don't think so, it is always like
that. | 0:27:03 | 0:27:08 | |
Certainly the desk looks a bit
empty, although he's previously been | 0:27:08 | 0:27:11 | |
criticised for having a busy desk
so perhaps that just shows | 0:27:11 | 0:27:14 | |
you can't win them all. | 0:27:14 | 0:27:15 | |
Sadly the White House didn't relate
who exactly the president | 0:27:15 | 0:27:17 | |
was calling although we understand
it was a matter of | 0:27:17 | 0:27:20 | |
national importance. | 0:27:20 | 0:27:26 | |
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Excuse me. | 0:27:27 | 0:27:28 | |
Hello? | 0:27:28 | 0:27:29 | |
Mr President? | 0:27:29 | 0:27:30 | |
What's that? | 0:27:30 | 0:27:31 | |
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I'm sorry but you'll just have
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Stop watching Fox and watch the BBC.
Then you might have a chance. | 0:27:39 | 0:27:46 | |
Remember to wrap up warm at Davos. | 0:27:46 | 0:27:50 | |
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It's coming up to midday,
just take a look at Big Ben. | 0:30:14 | 0:30:17 | |
That means Prime Minister's
Questions is on its way | 0:30:17 | 0:30:19 | |
and Laura Kuenssberg is here. | 0:30:19 | 0:30:27 | |
It is the Elisabeth Tower. I know
that. It is for our viewers. Sorry. | 0:30:30 | 0:30:40 | |
We talked earlier in the programme
about David Davis and the European | 0:30:40 | 0:30:44 | |
Court of Justice continuing to have
jurisdiction over us through the | 0:30:44 | 0:30:50 | |
transition period. How has that gone
down? Use a transition period but | 0:30:50 | 0:30:58 | |
many Brexiteers would rather see
implementation phase. The Prime | 0:30:58 | 0:31:05 | |
Minister has been using that phrase
but we know it is transition. It's | 0:31:05 | 0:31:13 | |
absolutely vital that it is an
implementation phase for some loud | 0:31:13 | 0:31:17 | |
voices on the Tory backbenches. The
viewers want to throw their | 0:31:17 | 0:31:22 | |
dictionary at the TV, the important
distinction and white Brexiteers are | 0:31:22 | 0:31:24 | |
worried about people talking about
transition as David Davis did this | 0:31:24 | 0:31:31 | |
morning is that an implementation
phase as set out by the Prime | 0:31:31 | 0:31:34 | |
Minister, the whole idea is that
both sides... I'm going to up to | 0:31:34 | 0:31:39 | |
stop you, we will come back to this
but for the moment I apologise we go | 0:31:39 | 0:31:42 | |
straight to the House of Commons. | 0:31:42 | 0:31:44 | |
This morning I had meetings with
ministerial colleagues and others in | 0:31:51 | 0:31:55 | |
addition to my duties in this house
I shall have other such meetings | 0:31:55 | 0:31:58 | |
later today and later I will travel
to Switzerland to attend the World | 0:31:58 | 0:32:04 | |
Economic Forum and I might even bump
into the Shadow Chancellor why I am | 0:32:04 | 0:32:07 | |
near! | 0:32:07 | 0:32:12 | |
As you know, last week was the very
successful launch of the engineering | 0:32:13 | 0:32:20 | |
campaign aimed at changing the
perception of engineering and | 0:32:20 | 0:32:23 | |
inspiring the next generation of
engineers, I know the Prime Minister | 0:32:23 | 0:32:27 | |
is personally committed to this
campaign so can I invite her to join | 0:32:27 | 0:32:30 | |
me and 80,000 young people at this
year 's Big Bang fair to reinforce | 0:32:30 | 0:32:35 | |
the message that engineering is a
great career and open to anyone | 0:32:35 | 0:32:39 | |
regardless of background, ethnicity
and gender. My honourable friend | 0:32:39 | 0:32:45 | |
makes an important point, this issue
of engineering particularly for more | 0:32:45 | 0:32:50 | |
women seeing engineering as a career
is something I have promoted for | 0:32:50 | 0:32:54 | |
many years now. Engineers are vital
to our economy and that is why we | 0:32:54 | 0:32:57 | |
want to see everyone and it's not
just about gender, it is background | 0:32:57 | 0:33:02 | |
and ethnicity, everybody whatever
their background having the chance | 0:33:02 | 0:33:05 | |
to build a career in engineering and
the year of engineering gives us a | 0:33:05 | 0:33:09 | |
great opportunity to work with
business to do exactly that. If I | 0:33:09 | 0:33:14 | |
have the opportunity, if my daddy
allows, I would be happy to attend | 0:33:14 | 0:33:18 | |
what he refers to. -- if my diary
allies. I join in the Prime Minister | 0:33:18 | 0:33:27 | |
in commemorating Holocaust Memorial
Day, many members will attend the | 0:33:27 | 0:33:31 | |
events tomorrow, we have to teach
all generations that the descent | 0:33:31 | 0:33:36 | |
into Nazism and the Holocaust must
never, ever be repeated. Anywhere on | 0:33:36 | 0:33:40 | |
this planet. Does the Mr mac agree
with the Foreign Secretary that the | 0:33:40 | 0:33:46 | |
National Health Service needs an
extra £5 billion? | 0:33:46 | 0:33:53 | |
extra £5 billion? I think the right
honourable gentleman, as I recall | 0:33:56 | 0:33:59 | |
was here in the chamber for the
autumn budget given by my right | 0:33:59 | 0:34:04 | |
honourable friend the Chancellor of
the Exchequer where he announced we | 0:34:04 | 0:34:06 | |
would be putting £6 billion more
into the National Health Service. | 0:34:06 | 0:34:12 | |
The only problem with that Mr
Speaker is that it was 2.8 billion | 0:34:12 | 0:34:16 | |
spread like thin gruel over two
years. Two weeks ago the Prime | 0:34:16 | 0:34:21 | |
Minister told the house and I quote
it is indeed the case that the NHS | 0:34:21 | 0:34:25 | |
was better prepared this winter than
ever before. 68 senior accident and | 0:34:25 | 0:34:31 | |
emergency doctors have written to
the Prime Minister about what they | 0:34:31 | 0:34:35 | |
describe as serious concerns for the
safety of our patients, they say | 0:34:35 | 0:34:40 | |
patients are being treated in
corridors and they are dying | 0:34:40 | 0:34:43 | |
prematurely. Who should the public
believe, the Prime Minister or the | 0:34:43 | 0:34:48 | |
doctors? It is right that the NHS
was better prepared for this winter | 0:34:48 | 0:34:55 | |
than it ever has been before. We saw
3000 more beds being brought into | 0:34:55 | 0:35:02 | |
use over the winter period. We
sought the use of the one-on-one | 0:35:02 | 0:35:08 | |
call system leading to the
significant reduction in the number | 0:35:08 | 0:35:14 | |
of call-outs. We have seen changes
made in accident and emergency with | 0:35:14 | 0:35:19 | |
GP streamlining helping to ensure
that people who do not need to go | 0:35:19 | 0:35:23 | |
into hospital went into hospital.
Overall, overall we have seen 2.8 | 0:35:23 | 0:35:28 | |
million more people last year
visiting accident and emergency than | 0:35:28 | 0:35:36 | |
did so in 2010. Our NHS is indeed
providing for patients. There are | 0:35:36 | 0:35:41 | |
winter pressures, we were prepared
for those winter pressures and we | 0:35:41 | 0:35:45 | |
will ensure, as we have done every
year under this Conservative | 0:35:45 | 0:35:50 | |
government that the NHS receives
more funding. Mr Speaker since 2010 | 0:35:50 | 0:35:58 | |
we have lost 14,000 NHS beds, the
King 's fund, the health foundation | 0:35:58 | 0:36:02 | |
and Nuffield trust all agreed the
NHS and needs another 4 billion. In | 0:36:02 | 0:36:08 | |
December, the month just gone, NHS
England recorded its worst ever | 0:36:08 | 0:36:13 | |
accident and emergency performances
with more patients than ever waiting | 0:36:13 | 0:36:17 | |
over four hours. Now the UK
Statistics Authority say the numbers | 0:36:17 | 0:36:21 | |
might be worse because the figures
have been fiddled. Can the Prime | 0:36:21 | 0:36:26 | |
Minister tell the house when figures
calculated in line with previous | 0:36:26 | 0:36:29 | |
years will be published? I have to
say to the right honourable | 0:36:29 | 0:36:35 | |
gentleman that the NHS is open and
publishing a whole variety of | 0:36:35 | 0:36:38 | |
figures in relation to the targets
it has. We are putting more money | 0:36:38 | 0:36:43 | |
into the NHS every year and we are
continuing to do that. If he wants | 0:36:43 | 0:36:49 | |
to talk about figures and targets
being missed... Yes the latest | 0:36:49 | 0:36:54 | |
figures show that in England 497
people were waiting more than 12 | 0:36:54 | 0:37:00 | |
hours. But the latest figures also
show that under the label government | 0:37:00 | 0:37:06 | |
in Wales -- under the Labour
government in Wales 3471 people were | 0:37:06 | 0:37:11 | |
waiting... The Prime Minister is
responsible for the underfunding of | 0:37:11 | 0:37:17 | |
the Welsh government. And despite
that, despite that, the overall | 0:37:17 | 0:37:26 | |
Welsh Labour health budget has grown
by 5% in 2016-17. It is Labour Wales | 0:37:26 | 0:37:33 | |
with the problem of underfunding
from a Conservative government based | 0:37:33 | 0:37:37 | |
on Westminster. So far Mr Speaker
this winter 100,000 patients have | 0:37:37 | 0:37:44 | |
been forced to wait more than 30
minutes in the back of an ambulance | 0:37:44 | 0:37:48 | |
in NHS England for which is she is
responsible. Yet still the Prime | 0:37:48 | 0:37:53 | |
Minister refuses to give the NHS the
money it needs. Can she tell us how | 0:37:53 | 0:37:59 | |
many more patients will face
life-threatening weights in the back | 0:37:59 | 0:38:02 | |
of ambulances this winter? I say to
the right honourable gentleman that | 0:38:02 | 0:38:08 | |
of course we want to ensure that
people are not waiting in those | 0:38:08 | 0:38:12 | |
ambulances. But the only answer he
ever comes up with is the question | 0:38:12 | 0:38:15 | |
of money. No, no, this is... The
question... The question is this, | 0:38:15 | 0:38:26 | |
the question is this, why are there
are some hospitals where the | 0:38:26 | 0:38:31 | |
percentage of patients waiting more
than 30 minutes is zero and other | 0:38:31 | 0:38:36 | |
hospitals where the percentage of
patients waiting more than 30 | 0:38:36 | 0:38:41 | |
minutes is considerably higher? If
he wants to talk about funding | 0:38:41 | 0:38:44 | |
perhaps we should look at what the
Labour Party promised that the last | 0:38:44 | 0:38:47 | |
general election last year... It's
all very well shadow ministers | 0:38:47 | 0:38:51 | |
shouting about the comparison of
money, the point is that at the last | 0:38:51 | 0:38:58 | |
election the Institute for Fiscal
Studies said this, Labour and the | 0:38:58 | 0:39:02 | |
Conservatives are pretty much on the
same page. There is not much to | 0:39:02 | 0:39:06 | |
choose between them in terms of the
money they will put into the NHS. A | 0:39:06 | 0:39:12 | |
Labour government would not be
underfunding the NHS, a Labour | 0:39:12 | 0:39:16 | |
government would not be privatising
the NHS, a Labour government would | 0:39:16 | 0:39:21 | |
not be underfunding social care, a
Labour government would be committed | 0:39:21 | 0:39:24 | |
to an NHS free at the point of use
as a human right. Mr Speaker, | 0:39:24 | 0:39:30 | |
according to the whistle-blower, as
many as... Hang on, hang on, | 0:39:30 | 0:39:38 | |
according to a whistle-blower, as
many as 80 patients were harmed or | 0:39:38 | 0:39:42 | |
died following significant ambulance
delays over a three-week period this | 0:39:42 | 0:39:48 | |
winter. This is a very serious
situation and the Prime Minister | 0:39:48 | 0:39:52 | |
must be aware of it. What
investigation is the Department of | 0:39:52 | 0:39:56 | |
Health carrying out into these
deeply alarming reports? When we | 0:39:56 | 0:40:02 | |
hear reports of that sort of course
they are very alarming. That is why | 0:40:02 | 0:40:07 | |
the Department of Health does make
sure that investigations take place. | 0:40:07 | 0:40:11 | |
That might be undertaken by the
Department of Health or by the | 0:40:11 | 0:40:15 | |
particular trust involved, the
ambulance trust or the hospital but | 0:40:15 | 0:40:19 | |
these issues are investigated
because we don't want to see that | 0:40:19 | 0:40:21 | |
happening. We want to see people
properly cared for and if there were | 0:40:21 | 0:40:25 | |
lessons to learn to them they will
be learned because we want to do is | 0:40:25 | 0:40:30 | |
that our support for the NHS is
about providing it with the funding, | 0:40:30 | 0:40:35 | |
doctors and nurses, treatment and
capabilities that it needs in order | 0:40:35 | 0:40:39 | |
to deliver for patients. That is why
we are backing the NHS with more | 0:40:39 | 0:40:43 | |
funding, that is why we ensure they
get the best treatments and survival | 0:40:43 | 0:40:47 | |
rates for cancer are higher than
they have ever been before. It is | 0:40:47 | 0:40:50 | |
why we are ensuring better joined up
services across the NHS and social | 0:40:50 | 0:40:55 | |
care so those people who do not need
to go into hospital are able to be | 0:40:55 | 0:41:03 | |
cared for at home and it is why we
are ensuring we are reducing waste | 0:41:03 | 0:41:06 | |
in the NHS so taxpayers money is
spent as effectively as may be on | 0:41:06 | 0:41:08 | |
patient care. That is a plan for the
NHS but it is a plan which put | 0:41:08 | 0:41:13 | |
patients first. Mr Speaker, the
Prime Minister must be aware of | 0:41:13 | 0:41:19 | |
ambulances backed up in hospital car
parks with nurses treating patients | 0:41:19 | 0:41:23 | |
in the back of ambulances, ambulance
drivers and paramedics desperate to | 0:41:23 | 0:41:27 | |
get on to deal with the next patient
cannot leave because the patient | 0:41:27 | 0:41:30 | |
they are dealing with at that moment
cannot get into the accident and | 0:41:30 | 0:41:35 | |
emergency department. It has been
reported a man froze to death | 0:41:35 | 0:41:39 | |
waiting 16 hours for an ambulance.
Last week a gentleman wrote to me | 0:41:39 | 0:41:43 | |
saying my friends 93-year-old father
waited four hours for an ambulance | 0:41:43 | 0:41:48 | |
after a fall. These are not isolated
cases. These are common parlance all | 0:41:48 | 0:41:55 | |
over the country. It needs money, it
needs support and it needs it now. | 0:41:55 | 0:42:02 | |
The Prime Minister is frankly in
denial about the state of the NHS, | 0:42:02 | 0:42:07 | |
even the absent Foreign Secretary
recognises it by the Prime Minister | 0:42:07 | 0:42:11 | |
is not listening. People using the
NHS can see from their own | 0:42:11 | 0:42:16 | |
experience it is being starved of
resources. People are dying | 0:42:16 | 0:42:20 | |
unnecessarily in the back of
ambulances and in hospital | 0:42:20 | 0:42:22 | |
corridors. GP numbers are down.
Nurses are leaving. The NHS is in | 0:42:22 | 0:42:30 | |
crisis. Mr Speaker, Tory MPs might
not like it but I ask this question | 0:42:30 | 0:42:39 | |
of the Prime Minister, when is she
going to face up to the reality and | 0:42:39 | 0:42:44 | |
take action to save the NHS from
death by a thousand cuts? There is | 0:42:44 | 0:42:53 | |
only one part of the NHS which has
been cut, seen a cut in its funding, | 0:42:53 | 0:42:59 | |
it is the NHS in Wales under a
Labour government. This is a | 0:42:59 | 0:43:07 | |
government, this is a government
that is backing the NHS plan, that | 0:43:07 | 0:43:11 | |
is putting more money into the NHS,
that is recruiting more doctors and | 0:43:11 | 0:43:16 | |
nurses, that is seeing new
treatments come on board which | 0:43:16 | 0:43:19 | |
ensure people are getting the best
treatment that they need. This is a | 0:43:19 | 0:43:23 | |
government that recognises the
priorities of the British people. | 0:43:23 | 0:43:27 | |
Priority is to ensure the NHS
remains a world-class health care | 0:43:27 | 0:43:32 | |
system, indeed the best health care
system in the world. Priority is to | 0:43:32 | 0:43:36 | |
build the homes people need, to make
sure our kids are in good schools. | 0:43:36 | 0:43:41 | |
This is a government which is
building a country which works for | 0:43:41 | 0:43:46 | |
everyone, a country in which... A
country in which people can look to | 0:43:46 | 0:43:51 | |
the future with optimism and hope.
Thank you Mr Speaker, the British | 0:43:51 | 0:43:58 | |
people need to be confident in the
integrity of our voting system. So | 0:43:58 | 0:44:03 | |
what is my right honourable friend
doing to follow up on Sir Eric | 0:44:03 | 0:44:06 | |
Pickles report securing the ballot
to minimise voter fraud, whether | 0:44:06 | 0:44:12 | |
this is for referenda, general
elections or local elections? My | 0:44:12 | 0:44:17 | |
honourable friend raises an
important point, can I congratulate | 0:44:17 | 0:44:22 | |
him for a very good council
by-election result, the | 0:44:22 | 0:44:26 | |
Conservatives taking a seat from the
Labour Party. But he raises an | 0:44:26 | 0:44:31 | |
important issue about strengthening
our process and enhancing the | 0:44:31 | 0:44:35 | |
confidence people have in our
democratic processes. We will | 0:44:35 | 0:44:39 | |
shortly be running pilot screams in
five local authorities to identify | 0:44:39 | 0:44:46 | |
voter ID by nationality, and in
Tower Hamlets and slow and | 0:44:46 | 0:44:49 | |
Peterborough they will pilot
measures to improve the proxy and | 0:44:49 | 0:44:54 | |
postal vote process. Democracy
matters but it's important people | 0:44:54 | 0:44:56 | |
have true faith in it. Can I wish
you a happy Burns day for tomorrow | 0:44:56 | 0:45:04 | |
Mr Speaker and can I associate
myself with the remarks of the Prime | 0:45:04 | 0:45:08 | |
Minister for Holocaust Memorial Day,
we should never forget the horrible | 0:45:08 | 0:45:12 | |
tragedy and the price people had to
pay but we should remember a | 0:45:12 | 0:45:15 | |
genocide happening in many
territories since that time as well | 0:45:15 | 0:45:18 | |
and we must work to eradicate that
scourge our society. Mr Speaker, | 0:45:18 | 0:45:25 | |
earlier this week the Royal Bank of
Scotland chief executive officer | 0:45:25 | 0:45:28 | |
admitted in a leaked memo that
closing 22 local branches would be | 0:45:28 | 0:45:36 | |
painful for customers. 13 towns are
to lose their last bank in Scotland. | 0:45:36 | 0:45:40 | |
Prime Minister I will give you one
other opportunity, as the majority | 0:45:40 | 0:45:45 | |
shareholder will you meet with RBS
and make the case to keep the | 0:45:45 | 0:45:50 | |
branches open? | 0:45:50 | 0:45:55 | |
The right honourable gentleman has
asked me this on a number of | 0:45:56 | 0:45:58 | |
occasions and I have made the point
in every answer, and that will not | 0:45:58 | 0:46:05 | |
change today. We do have a duty as a
government and we look at how the | 0:46:05 | 0:46:10 | |
market is working. That is why we
establish the access to banking | 0:46:10 | 0:46:16 | |
standard that commits banks to carry
out a certain number of steps before | 0:46:16 | 0:46:19 | |
closing a branch and that is why we
welcome the post office but welcome | 0:46:19 | 0:46:24 | |
customers to use Post Office
services. 99% of personal customers | 0:46:24 | 0:46:29 | |
can carry out their day-to-day
banking at a post office as a result | 0:46:29 | 0:46:33 | |
of a new agreement. People are
covered by the services they need. I | 0:46:33 | 0:46:39 | |
would say to the Prime Minister, we
owned RBS and it is time you took | 0:46:39 | 0:46:44 | |
responsibility. By closing these
branches and replacing some with a | 0:46:44 | 0:46:49 | |
mobile banking vans which do not
provide disability access, The Royal | 0:46:49 | 0:46:54 | |
Bank of Scotland appears to be in
breach of the UK a quality act. A | 0:46:54 | 0:47:00 | |
wheelchair user has described using
this as degrading. Does the Prime | 0:47:00 | 0:47:08 | |
Minister agree RBS has the
responsibility to deliver services | 0:47:08 | 0:47:13 | |
to disabled people and will she be
held accountable and this issue. We | 0:47:13 | 0:47:19 | |
all want to be able to see that all
customers are able to access the | 0:47:19 | 0:47:24 | |
services they need. That is
customers who are disabled and | 0:47:24 | 0:47:28 | |
customers who live in remote areas.
As I have said, this is a commercial | 0:47:28 | 0:47:33 | |
decision taken by The Royal Bank of
Scotland. Banks are closing | 0:47:33 | 0:47:39 | |
branches, other banks are closing
branches because what they see is | 0:47:39 | 0:47:43 | |
less use being made of those
branches. As the right honourable | 0:47:43 | 0:47:49 | |
gentleman has been talking about
matters financial, I am sorry he | 0:47:49 | 0:47:52 | |
wasn't able to welcome the fact the
trade figures for Scotland showed | 0:47:52 | 0:47:57 | |
their biggest export market remains
the rest of the United Kingdom. | 0:47:57 | 0:48:02 | |
Damian Green. | 0:48:02 | 0:48:07 | |
Damian Green. Thank you. It is
easier asking them than answering | 0:48:08 | 0:48:11 | |
them. It is vital for long-term
prosperity the government maintains | 0:48:11 | 0:48:16 | |
infrastructure investment. With this
in mind and especially as proposals | 0:48:16 | 0:48:23 | |
for new bridges are fashionable, can
I ask the Prime Minister to commit | 0:48:23 | 0:48:27 | |
the government to a practical idea,
which is an early start on the lower | 0:48:27 | 0:48:32 | |
Thames crossing between Kent and
Essex which would create 5000 jobs, | 0:48:32 | 0:48:36 | |
relieve pressure on the motorway
network and provide a boost to the | 0:48:36 | 0:48:40 | |
economy of the whole eastern side of
England? Prime Minister. My right | 0:48:40 | 0:48:47 | |
honourable friend is right in
drawing attention to the impact of | 0:48:47 | 0:48:50 | |
infrastructure when it is developed
in various parts of the UK. In terms | 0:48:50 | 0:48:55 | |
of the Thames crossing it will
unlock growth for the region and | 0:48:55 | 0:49:01 | |
offer new connections and better
journeys. It is the best investment | 0:49:01 | 0:49:07 | |
in the road network in a generation.
Highways England have announced the | 0:49:07 | 0:49:11 | |
preferred route last year. I
recognise this has raised concerns | 0:49:11 | 0:49:16 | |
in effect constituencies, but can I
get sure that there will be further | 0:49:16 | 0:49:21 | |
opportunities for those who both
support the proposals and those who | 0:49:21 | 0:49:25 | |
do not, they can give their views
and have their say. But he is right, | 0:49:25 | 0:49:31 | |
infrastructure developments can make
an impact, not just on jobs during | 0:49:31 | 0:49:35 | |
the infrastructure but on the
economy locally and nationally. | 0:49:35 | 0:49:43 | |
Outside the customs union, many UK
businesses would face, complex and | 0:49:43 | 0:49:48 | |
punitive rules of origin tariffs.
Given the Prime Minister's aim of | 0:49:48 | 0:49:55 | |
frictionless trade post Brexit, can
she confirm if it is her intention | 0:49:55 | 0:49:59 | |
to pursue a customs union with the
EU? I have said this on many | 0:49:59 | 0:50:04 | |
occasions and I am happy to repeat
it. Leaving the European Union means | 0:50:04 | 0:50:09 | |
we will be leaving the single
market, we will no longer be members | 0:50:09 | 0:50:13 | |
of the customs union. We want to
sign and implement trade deals with | 0:50:13 | 0:50:17 | |
other parts of the world as part of
an independent trade pussy. But in | 0:50:17 | 0:50:25 | |
the negotiations we are looking
forward to for Abbas but feel, we | 0:50:25 | 0:50:28 | |
will be looking for a tariff free
and frictionless trade agreement as | 0:50:28 | 0:50:34 | |
possible. | 0:50:34 | 0:50:39 | |
possible. Many members on both sides
of the House, myself included have | 0:50:39 | 0:50:45 | |
expressed concern over the Ministry
of Defence. The Ministry of -- this | 0:50:45 | 0:50:53 | |
government will always take longer
to protect this country. My | 0:50:53 | 0:51:00 | |
honourable friend has raised an
important subject. In July the | 0:51:00 | 0:51:05 | |
government initiated the National
security capability review, which | 0:51:05 | 0:51:08 | |
was in support of the
implementation, ongoing | 0:51:08 | 0:51:13 | |
implementation of the 2015 national
security review, to ensure we do | 0:51:13 | 0:51:20 | |
indeed, have the capabilities, the
investment in those capabilities we | 0:51:20 | 0:51:23 | |
need in our national security and
that investment, those capabilities | 0:51:23 | 0:51:28 | |
are as effective and joined up as
possible. I have agreed the | 0:51:28 | 0:51:34 | |
high-level findings with ministers
at the National Security Council and | 0:51:34 | 0:51:37 | |
have directed the work should be
finalised with a view to publishing | 0:51:37 | 0:51:41 | |
a report on this in late spring. It
has been significant and it will | 0:51:41 | 0:51:45 | |
ensure we have the right
capabilities. As part of that we | 0:51:45 | 0:51:49 | |
realise more work was needed on
defence to work on modernising | 0:51:49 | 0:51:53 | |
defence. We want to ensure the
defence budget is being spent | 0:51:53 | 0:51:58 | |
intelligently and efficiently and we
are investing in the capabilities we | 0:51:58 | 0:52:01 | |
need to keep the nation safe. And
the Defence Secretary will update | 0:52:01 | 0:52:06 | |
the House on this in due course. It
is a tragedy that in the past year | 0:52:06 | 0:52:12 | |
knife crime has risen by 26%. The
youth of Ireland's commission is | 0:52:12 | 0:52:18 | |
conducting the first National youth
survey to look at their experiences | 0:52:18 | 0:52:22 | |
of trauma and violence. Will the
Prime Minister meet with me to | 0:52:22 | 0:52:27 | |
discuss the causes of youth violence
and how we can find solutions? Can I | 0:52:27 | 0:52:33 | |
say to the honourable lady, it is an
important issue and we need to look | 0:52:33 | 0:52:37 | |
at this issue. Although she won the
crimes that are traditionally | 0:52:37 | 0:52:42 | |
measured by the National crime
survey have dropped over a third | 0:52:42 | 0:52:46 | |
since 2010, we need to consider
these issues of the root causes of | 0:52:46 | 0:52:51 | |
violence, among young people and
these knife crimes we seek among | 0:52:51 | 0:52:55 | |
young people. It is important we
remain adaptable and resilient and | 0:52:55 | 0:52:59 | |
we need to understand that. I am
sure the Home Secretary will be | 0:52:59 | 0:53:03 | |
happy to meet her to talk about
youth violence and the causes. On | 0:53:03 | 0:53:11 | |
the 28th of December, the East of
England Ambulance Service attended | 0:53:11 | 0:53:15 | |
and addressed in lower soft in which
a man was sadly confirmed of having | 0:53:15 | 0:53:19 | |
died. It followed on from a call
from the previous afternoon from the | 0:53:19 | 0:53:24 | |
police regarding the same person who
was left outside in inhospitable | 0:53:24 | 0:53:34 | |
conditions. I have spoken to the
person who made the initial call and | 0:53:34 | 0:53:38 | |
I have concerns over how the matter
was handled by the case only came to | 0:53:38 | 0:53:42 | |
light in the last few days. I would
ask the Prime Minister to endorse | 0:53:42 | 0:53:46 | |
the request I have made to the east
of England Ambulance Service and | 0:53:46 | 0:53:50 | |
Suffolk police to immediately
instigate an independent enquiry to | 0:53:50 | 0:53:55 | |
establish exactly what happened and
to then put in place measures to | 0:53:55 | 0:53:58 | |
ensure such a tragic event does not
happen again? Can I share his | 0:53:58 | 0:54:04 | |
concerns about this event, about
what happens, the tragedy that | 0:54:04 | 0:54:10 | |
happened here. We should recognise
our Ambulance Services, those | 0:54:10 | 0:54:15 | |
delivering services, work hard and
regularly go above and beyond the | 0:54:15 | 0:54:19 | |
call of duty to ensure our safety.
But there have been concerns raised | 0:54:19 | 0:54:23 | |
about the service in the East of
England ambulance trusts, including | 0:54:23 | 0:54:27 | |
this very, very worrying and tragic
case is my honourable friend has | 0:54:27 | 0:54:31 | |
raised. As I said in response to the
Leader of the Opposition earlier, we | 0:54:31 | 0:54:37 | |
take these cases very seriously. Any
claims patient safety has been put | 0:54:37 | 0:54:42 | |
at risk are taken seriously and the
Department of Health and social care | 0:54:42 | 0:54:48 | |
has received assurances these
reports are being investigated by | 0:54:48 | 0:54:50 | |
the trust as a serious incident. It
is an issue that my honourable | 0:54:50 | 0:54:56 | |
friend, the Minister of the health
has discussed with executives of NHS | 0:54:56 | 0:55:01 | |
England and NHS improvement. 3
million people in this country live | 0:55:01 | 0:55:08 | |
in homes that are unfit, posing a
threat to their health and safety. | 0:55:08 | 0:55:12 | |
It costs the NHS billions. The House
gave the secondaries into my housing | 0:55:12 | 0:55:18 | |
fitness pill which will give tenants
new legal rights to act against the | 0:55:18 | 0:55:25 | |
worst landlords. I was grateful to
have the support of the government | 0:55:25 | 0:55:29 | |
and the backing of these benches.
But time the Private member 's' | 0:55:29 | 0:55:36 | |
bills are limited and tenants cannot
wait. Canty ensure this important | 0:55:36 | 0:55:40 | |
bill will make rapid progress and
become law. The honourable lady | 0:55:40 | 0:55:46 | |
raises an important point. We have
seen, over the last six or seven | 0:55:46 | 0:55:51 | |
years, a significant number of homes
now meeting the decent homes | 0:55:51 | 0:55:56 | |
standard. The condition in which
people are living is important and I | 0:55:56 | 0:55:59 | |
will ask the Leader of the House to
look at the issues she has raised | 0:55:59 | 0:56:03 | |
about her own bill. Trudy Harrison.
Cumbria is internationally | 0:56:03 | 0:56:11 | |
celebrated for its lakes and
mountains and known for nuclear | 0:56:11 | 0:56:14 | |
excellence. This afternoon
Parliament is hosting a taste of | 0:56:14 | 0:56:20 | |
Cumbria, showcasing our final food
and rent. Can I extend a warm | 0:56:20 | 0:56:25 | |
invitation to yourself and the Prime
Minister, to come along and sample | 0:56:25 | 0:56:29 | |
some of our finest fare? Can I say
to my honourable friend, I am afraid | 0:56:29 | 0:56:37 | |
my diary does not permit me to
attend that event this afternoon, | 0:56:37 | 0:56:42 | |
but if I can drop a hint, I
understand there was a taste of | 0:56:42 | 0:56:46 | |
Lincolnshire offend recently and my
honourable friend sent me some | 0:56:46 | 0:56:52 | |
Lincolnshire products after the
event. I am not hinting at anything, | 0:56:52 | 0:56:57 | |
but... I will come along. Sarah
Jones. | 0:56:57 | 0:57:08 | |
Jones. Mr Speaker, this morning,
thousands of us across the country | 0:57:08 | 0:57:11 | |
heard my friend and former boss,
Baroness Tessa jowl talk for the | 0:57:11 | 0:57:17 | |
first time since she was diagnosed
with a high-grade brain tumour. It | 0:57:17 | 0:57:21 | |
was a joy to hear her relentless
positivity and complete commitment | 0:57:21 | 0:57:26 | |
to changing the world. In a speech
in the other place tomorrow, she | 0:57:26 | 0:57:32 | |
will call for improved cancer
diagnosis and treatment. Will the | 0:57:32 | 0:57:37 | |
Prime Minister and the Health
Secretary meet with Tessa, me and | 0:57:37 | 0:57:40 | |
other health experts to talk about
how we improve outcomes, to meet her | 0:57:40 | 0:57:45 | |
goal and ultimately save lives? I
will say to the honourable lady, I | 0:57:45 | 0:57:52 | |
am sure the whole House was saddened
to hear of the diagnosis of the | 0:57:52 | 0:58:00 | |
noble Baroness, the noble lady
baroness Abbott encouraged by the | 0:58:00 | 0:58:04 | |
approach he is taking. I told the
Home Secretary, and her speech this | 0:58:04 | 0:58:09 | |
morning was very moving in this. I
am sure everybody across this House | 0:58:09 | 0:58:14 | |
of Sand heard the very best wishes
at this time. We do want to make | 0:58:14 | 0:58:19 | |
sure cancer treatment is a priority
and we want to make sure the best | 0:58:19 | 0:58:22 | |
treatments are being provided. We
will consider investing in anything | 0:58:22 | 0:58:28 | |
that improves that and we have
accepted 96 recommendations in the | 0:58:28 | 0:58:33 | |
NHS Cancer strategy. We constantly
need to look at this. My right | 0:58:33 | 0:58:38 | |
honourable friend the Health
Secretary will be happy to meet with | 0:58:38 | 0:58:41 | |
the honourable lady and Tessa
Jowell. Tessa Jowell has been an | 0:58:41 | 0:58:49 | |
outstanding public servant. In my 20
years of this place I have never met | 0:58:49 | 0:58:52 | |
a more courteous or gracious member
of Parliament. | 0:58:52 | 0:59:02 | |
The Prime Minister will no of the | 0:59:08 | 0:59:16 | |
devastation caused by fixed odds
betting terminals. Far cry from the | 0:59:16 | 0:59:20 | |
bingo Hall, the pools coupon. Given
there is a review, will she meet me | 0:59:20 | 0:59:30 | |
and others to discuss how the
maximum bet on these terminals can | 0:59:30 | 0:59:33 | |
be reduced. And to plan how a
crackdown on the online gambling | 0:59:33 | 0:59:41 | |
sites which target young children.
Mr Speaker, the stakes are too high | 0:59:41 | 0:59:47 | |
to gamble with our children's
futures. We are clear the fixed odds | 0:59:47 | 0:59:54 | |
betting terminals stakes will be cut
to make sure we have a safe and | 0:59:54 | 0:59:59 | |
sustainable industry were vulnerable
people and children are protected. | 0:59:59 | 1:00:03 | |
As I suspect, he knows the
consultation the Department for | 1:00:03 | 1:00:08 | |
digital culture media and sports has
launched on this and a close | 1:00:08 | 1:00:10 | |
yesterday so a final decision will
be made in due course. He will know | 1:00:10 | 1:00:14 | |
with regard to the specific point on
children, there are in place, | 1:00:14 | 1:00:20 | |
controls to prevent children and
young people from accessing online | 1:00:20 | 1:00:23 | |
gambling and the gambling commission
has asked the gambling strategy | 1:00:23 | 1:00:28 | |
board to examine the wide
relationship between children and | 1:00:28 | 1:00:30 | |
gambling. It is important we
recognise the potential threats and | 1:00:30 | 1:00:35 | |
dangers but ensure we have the best
information possible to be able to | 1:00:35 | 1:00:38 | |
act. | 1:00:38 | 1:00:44 | |
My 25-year-old constituent lost her
battle with cervical cancer and died | 1:00:44 | 1:00:51 | |
in January last year. She went to
her GP around 30 times with symptoms | 1:00:51 | 1:00:57 | |
and repeatedly asked for a smear
test and was refused. She only got | 1:00:57 | 1:01:01 | |
the test when she paid to have it
done privately. Sadly the cancer had | 1:01:01 | 1:01:07 | |
spread by that point. We'll be Prime
Minister support of the family in | 1:01:07 | 1:01:13 | |
their campaign to introduce Amber's
law which would change the | 1:01:13 | 1:01:15 | |
regulations so that women under 25
can access a smear test on the | 1:01:15 | 1:01:21 | |
National Health Service when they
are symptomatic? I send my | 1:01:21 | 1:01:27 | |
condolences and I am sure the whole
house does to Amber's family for | 1:01:27 | 1:01:32 | |
this terrible thing which has
happened. The smear test is hugely | 1:01:32 | 1:01:36 | |
important. Sadly what we see even
for those who qualify today to have | 1:01:36 | 1:01:42 | |
the test is that too many women do
not take it up. I know it's not a | 1:01:42 | 1:01:49 | |
comfortable thing to do. Because I
have it as other stew. But it's so | 1:01:49 | 1:01:55 | |
important for women's health. I
first of all want to encourage women | 1:01:55 | 1:01:58 | |
to actually take the smear test.
Secondly she has raised an issue | 1:01:58 | 1:02:03 | |
about the availability of that test
and I will ask my right honourable | 1:02:03 | 1:02:08 | |
friend the Secretary of State for
Health to look at this issue. It has | 1:02:08 | 1:02:12 | |
been raised before for those under
the age of 25. Action has been taken | 1:02:12 | 1:02:16 | |
in terms of the vaccine which has
been introduced for teenagers. There | 1:02:16 | 1:02:23 | |
have been questions about that, I
have had people in my constituency | 1:02:23 | 1:02:27 | |
raising questions about that. We
need to address this issue in every | 1:02:27 | 1:02:31 | |
way possible so we will look at the
question of age qualification and my | 1:02:31 | 1:02:36 | |
overall message is, please, those
called for a smear test, go and have | 1:02:36 | 1:02:40 | |
it. | 1:02:40 | 1:02:46 | |
it. Would my right honourable friend
join me in congratulating Bexley | 1:02:46 | 1:02:51 | |
rugby club on its 60th anniversary
and agree with me that the pursuit | 1:02:51 | 1:02:54 | |
of sport is good for health and
well-being. I can see to my right | 1:02:54 | 1:03:02 | |
honourable friend that I am very
happy to endorse what he has said | 1:03:02 | 1:03:05 | |
about sport and indeed to enjoy him
in congratulating the rugby club on | 1:03:05 | 1:03:10 | |
a significant anniversary. I am sure
over all of those years it has given | 1:03:10 | 1:03:14 | |
many young people and others an
introduction to the joy of sport and | 1:03:14 | 1:03:18 | |
the way sport can be good for the
community and society and also the | 1:03:18 | 1:03:23 | |
individual. I am happy to endorse
that. This week I have been | 1:03:23 | 1:03:29 | |
approached by a constituent who is a
single mother and up until December | 1:03:29 | 1:03:34 | |
was a teacher. She has been told she
will have to wait over six weeks for | 1:03:34 | 1:03:39 | |
Universal Credit payment and been
denied hardship loans. This means | 1:03:39 | 1:03:43 | |
that she is living on £20 per week
child benefit and the charity of | 1:03:43 | 1:03:48 | |
food banks. Can the Prime Minister
tell us that is how Universal Credit | 1:03:48 | 1:03:53 | |
is supposed to work? And does she
regret that my constituent's son now | 1:03:53 | 1:03:59 | |
joins the nearly 9000 children
living in | 1:03:59 | 1:04:06 | |
living in poverty and Batley and
Spen? We made changes to the | 1:04:06 | 1:04:13 | |
Universal Credit which were
announced in the budget including | 1:04:13 | 1:04:15 | |
changes which mean the availability
of advanced payments has increased. | 1:04:15 | 1:04:20 | |
The size of those advanced payments
has increased but if she would like | 1:04:20 | 1:04:23 | |
to send the details, write in with
the particular details we can look | 1:04:23 | 1:04:27 | |
at it and make sure it is properly
considered. The latest figures from | 1:04:27 | 1:04:35 | |
the Office of National Statistics
show the government is making | 1:04:35 | 1:04:38 | |
further progress in reducing the
deficit. Would my right honourable | 1:04:38 | 1:04:42 | |
friend agree it would be reckless to
change course now in terms of a | 1:04:42 | 1:04:47 | |
policy of Reena as localisation --
of renationalisation? My honourable | 1:04:47 | 1:04:57 | |
friend raises an important point, it
has not been easy to the dues the | 1:04:57 | 1:05:01 | |
deficit in the way that we have. We
had to deal with the biggest deficit | 1:05:01 | 1:05:06 | |
in our peacetime history left to us
by the Labour Party, decisions from | 1:05:06 | 1:05:10 | |
the government... Yes. Yes. Order!
Labour might not like hearing it but | 1:05:10 | 1:05:18 | |
it is what happened. It is by the
hard work of the British people and | 1:05:18 | 1:05:24 | |
by decisions the government has
taken we have been able to produce | 1:05:24 | 1:05:28 | |
that deficit. But £170 billion extra
in order to meet the ideological | 1:05:28 | 1:05:34 | |
desires of the Leader of the
Opposition would saddle people up | 1:05:34 | 1:05:38 | |
and down this country with higher
debt and ordinary people would pay | 1:05:38 | 1:05:41 | |
the price. Will she instruct the DWP
to release the details of benefits | 1:05:41 | 1:05:49 | |
claimants with disabilities who have
taken their own lives after the | 1:05:49 | 1:05:52 | |
claims were turned down, stop
without notice or significantly | 1:05:52 | 1:05:56 | |
reduced? The DWP does not give
details of individuals with whom it | 1:05:56 | 1:06:07 | |
deals. That is absolutely right.
Absolutely right. What it does do is | 1:06:07 | 1:06:12 | |
ensure we have a welfare system
which provides support to those who | 1:06:12 | 1:06:16 | |
need it and welfare system that
increasingly encourages those who | 1:06:16 | 1:06:21 | |
can to get into the workplace
because we continue to believe work | 1:06:21 | 1:06:24 | |
is the best route out of other day.
In her December press release the | 1:06:24 | 1:06:32 | |
Bank of England described the UK
financial system as both a national | 1:06:32 | 1:06:35 | |
asset and a global public good. Does
my right honourable friend think it | 1:06:35 | 1:06:41 | |
is reasonable that the UK financial
services sector which pays billions | 1:06:41 | 1:06:44 | |
of pounds in taxes wants to hear the
government ambitions to ensure the | 1:06:44 | 1:06:50 | |
City of London remains a global
pre-eminent financial settlement in | 1:06:50 | 1:06:52 | |
the same way it set out ambitions
for other sectors in the summer? I | 1:06:52 | 1:06:59 | |
have said in this chamber we retain
that ambition for the City of London | 1:06:59 | 1:07:04 | |
to remain a global financial centre,
I have said it outside this chamber, | 1:07:04 | 1:07:08 | |
it is indeed what we are working on.
I was pleased to welcome a number of | 1:07:08 | 1:07:14 | |
senior representatives from the
financial services sector to number | 1:07:14 | 1:07:17 | |
ten Downing St only a matter of
weeks ago. To sit down and talk to | 1:07:17 | 1:07:21 | |
them about how we can ensure that we
do exactly that. London's place as | 1:07:21 | 1:07:26 | |
the financial sector for the world
is not just to benefit the United | 1:07:26 | 1:07:30 | |
Kingdom, it's a benefit to the
global financial system and the | 1:07:30 | 1:07:33 | |
European Union. It's absolutely
wonderful Mr Speaker that people are | 1:07:33 | 1:07:43 | |
top thing about building walls but
we in Britain are talking about | 1:07:43 | 1:07:46 | |
building bridges. But let me
reassure our American friends that | 1:07:46 | 1:07:52 | |
the Mexicans and the French will be
paying for it because our NHS needs | 1:07:52 | 1:07:58 | |
to be properly funded first. Can the
Prime Minister confirm that rather | 1:07:58 | 1:08:03 | |
than building 22 mile long bridges
over the English Channel or a £50 | 1:08:03 | 1:08:08 | |
billion Boris airport in the Thames
estuary, when will be Western rail | 1:08:08 | 1:08:13 | |
link to Heathrow connect in Wales,
the South and the West directly to | 1:08:13 | 1:08:20 | |
Heathrow, when more that finally be
built and will we be subjected to | 1:08:20 | 1:08:25 | |
further studies and consultations?
Can I say to the honourable | 1:08:25 | 1:08:31 | |
gentleman that I believe there is
very strong cross-party support for | 1:08:31 | 1:08:34 | |
the Western rail link for Heathrow.
The honourable gentleman has | 1:08:34 | 1:08:38 | |
expressed his support and my right
honourable friend the member for | 1:08:38 | 1:08:42 | |
Newbury has been supporting this. It
would reduce journey times for | 1:08:42 | 1:08:45 | |
passengers in the south-west and
good support the Thames Valley | 1:08:45 | 1:08:49 | |
economy. It is something I have
looked into as a Thames Valley MP | 1:08:49 | 1:08:53 | |
previously. Development funding has
been committed for the project and | 1:08:53 | 1:08:57 | |
the Department for Transport will
write further detail in due course. | 1:08:57 | 1:09:04 | |
Can I congratulate the Prime
Minister and the parties in Northern | 1:09:04 | 1:09:07 | |
Ireland for the resumption today of
talks at Stormont. What more can be | 1:09:07 | 1:09:12 | |
done to ensure the executive is
restored and the nightmare of direct | 1:09:12 | 1:09:16 | |
rule avoided? My honourable friend
is absolutely right, the people of | 1:09:16 | 1:09:23 | |
Northern Ireland need strong
devolved government and political | 1:09:23 | 1:09:26 | |
leadership and they cannot continue
to have their public services | 1:09:26 | 1:09:29 | |
suffered by lack of an executive
without ministers making key policy | 1:09:29 | 1:09:33 | |
and budget decisions. We are
determined to re-establish a fully | 1:09:33 | 1:09:36 | |
function inclusive devolved
administration which works for | 1:09:36 | 1:09:41 | |
everyone in Northern Ireland. We
believe that the basis for a deal | 1:09:41 | 1:09:45 | |
exists and that is why as my
honourable friend has said today, | 1:09:45 | 1:09:49 | |
the Northern Ireland Secretary
starting a set of political talks to | 1:09:49 | 1:09:54 | |
restore the executive. I would
encourage, strongly encourage all | 1:09:54 | 1:09:58 | |
parties to come together and focus
on the job of restoring devolved | 1:09:58 | 1:10:02 | |
government in Northern Ireland. Over
Christmas Newcastle United football | 1:10:02 | 1:10:10 | |
fans raised over £50,000 for the
Western food bank in my constituency | 1:10:10 | 1:10:16 | |
which you are soon to visit Mr
Speaker, helping to feed people like | 1:10:16 | 1:10:22 | |
John who despite having COPD,
arthritis, dyspepsia, prose that is, | 1:10:22 | 1:10:27 | |
type two diabetes and anxiety and
depression was sanctioned for not | 1:10:27 | 1:10:33 | |
working hard enough to try to find
work. We'll be Prime Minister | 1:10:33 | 1:10:39 | |
congratulate the people of Newcastle
on their generosity and will she | 1:10:39 | 1:10:44 | |
explain why it was necessary? All I
can say to the honourable lady is | 1:10:44 | 1:10:51 | |
that I applaud all those who give
their time voluntarily, raise money | 1:10:51 | 1:10:58 | |
across the board in terms of the
activities, she has raised a | 1:10:58 | 1:11:03 | |
specific example of the work of
people in Newcastle and I commend | 1:11:03 | 1:11:06 | |
people for when they do raise money
for causes. Can I just say to the | 1:11:06 | 1:11:15 | |
honourable lady, I cannot discuss an
individual case across this dispatch | 1:11:15 | 1:11:19 | |
box as she will knows. I think it's
important, it is important that we | 1:11:19 | 1:11:23 | |
do ensure we have a system which
works, does work properly and fairly | 1:11:23 | 1:11:28 | |
and I am sure if she wants to raise
the individual case with the | 1:11:28 | 1:11:33 | |
Secretary of State for Work and
Pensions it will be looked into. The | 1:11:33 | 1:11:37 | |
Prime Minister will now be very
welcome and introduction of the | 1:11:37 | 1:11:40 | |
national minimum wage has created an
as yet unresolved difficulty for the | 1:11:40 | 1:11:44 | |
care sector. Specifically for 24
hour care for those with significant | 1:11:44 | 1:11:50 | |
learning difficulties. The issue is
commonly referred to as sleeping | 1:11:50 | 1:11:56 | |
shifts and owed money to the HMRC.
Will the Prime Minister meet with me | 1:11:56 | 1:12:01 | |
and a number of concerned colleagues
to discuss the best way forward? My | 1:12:01 | 1:12:06 | |
honourable friend raises an
important issue which is of concern | 1:12:06 | 1:12:09 | |
to a number of organisations and to
others around the house. I am very | 1:12:09 | 1:12:14 | |
happy to meet her and looked into
this particular question. I would | 1:12:14 | 1:12:18 | |
say to my honourable friend this is
a matter the Cabinet Office has been | 1:12:18 | 1:12:22 | |
looking at and working with the
relative Ottoman departments -- | 1:12:22 | 1:12:28 | |
government departments to find a
solution which I know has caused | 1:12:28 | 1:12:31 | |
concern. That is why there have been
the measures taken to defer the | 1:12:31 | 1:12:36 | |
abomination of certain aspects of
this but we continue to work on it | 1:12:36 | 1:12:39 | |
and are happy to look into it.
Nobody has been charged with the | 1:12:39 | 1:12:46 | |
death of Poppi Worthington despite
the 13 month -year-old having been | 1:12:46 | 1:12:52 | |
anally penetrated in the hours
before her death at home. She was | 1:12:52 | 1:12:56 | |
not known to social services despite
a staggeringly troubled family | 1:12:56 | 1:13:01 | |
history so will she agreed to a
public enquiry so we can learn the | 1:13:01 | 1:13:07 | |
lessons from this and the children
safer across the country? I think | 1:13:07 | 1:13:13 | |
this is a case which has shocked and
appalled everybody around the | 1:13:13 | 1:13:16 | |
country when they have seen the
horrific abuse which was carried out | 1:13:16 | 1:13:24 | |
and obviously the tragic
circumstances of the death of Poppi | 1:13:24 | 1:13:30 | |
and obviously the tragic
circumstances of the death of Poppi. | 1:13:30 | 1:13:31 | |
I'm sure everyone will join me in
offering my condolences. As I | 1:13:31 | 1:13:35 | |
understand that the Crown
Prosecution Service has announced it | 1:13:35 | 1:13:38 | |
is considering the coroner 's
decision in the lesion with Cumbria | 1:13:38 | 1:13:41 | |
Constabulary and I think is right we
allow that process to continue to | 1:13:41 | 1:13:46 | |
take place and await the outcome of
it before considering any further | 1:13:46 | 1:13:51 | |
action being needed. I can assert
the honourable gentleman that I | 1:13:51 | 1:13:55 | |
think everyone across this house is
well appraised of the significance | 1:13:55 | 1:13:59 | |
of this issue and how appalling this
tragedy was and the need for us to | 1:13:59 | 1:14:05 | |
ensure there was indeed Justice but
also lessons are learned. Order. | 1:14:05 | 1:14:09 | |
ANDREW: PMQs ending on a sombre
note. As expected, Jeremy Corbyn | 1:14:19 | 1:14:25 | |
went on the NHS. The extra money the
government was putting in wasn't | 1:14:25 | 1:14:29 | |
enough. And he quoted A&E doctors
and who should we trust, them or the | 1:14:29 | 1:14:38 | |
experts. The Prime Minister quoted
statistics, showing various areas | 1:14:38 | 1:14:44 | |
how she thought the NHS was doing
well. Inevitably, we may want to | 1:14:44 | 1:14:49 | |
start betting on this. | 1:14:49 | 1:14:54 | |
start betting on this. Jeremy Corbyn
use some detail, he said 100,000 | 1:14:58 | 1:15:02 | |
patients had to wait more than 30
minutes in an ambulance. He talked | 1:15:02 | 1:15:05 | |
about the numbers waiting for how
the A&E figures, a weight of no more | 1:15:05 | 1:15:11 | |
than four hours have been regularly
breached. He said 80 patients had | 1:15:11 | 1:15:19 | |
been harmed or died over three weeks
while waiting in the ambulances. | 1:15:19 | 1:15:24 | |
That was the exchange. Whether we
got anywhere is another matter but | 1:15:24 | 1:15:28 | |
the NHS is always a powerful issue.
Labour think it is its issue and | 1:15:28 | 1:15:34 | |
that is why Jeremy Corbyn regularly
goes with it. And in the winter | 1:15:34 | 1:15:38 | |
there is plenty of material he has
to put to the government. | 1:15:38 | 1:15:42 | |
Let's discuss all this with Brexit
minister Robin Walker and Shadow | 1:15:42 | 1:15:45 | |
Treasury Minister Anneliese Dodds. | 1:15:45 | 1:15:46 | |
Laura Kuenssberg is here too. | 1:15:46 | 1:15:52 | |
Before I interrupted you, Laura. You
did, well, John Bercow bid, by | 1:15:52 | 1:15:58 | |
starting on time. I am happy to be
corrected. And finished early as | 1:15:58 | 1:16:05 | |
well. We talked about the NHS in the
first part of the programme and | 1:16:05 | 1:16:10 | |
spoke to the Minister about them. Mr
David Davis, the Brexit minister was | 1:16:10 | 1:16:15 | |
in front of a select committee and
was being asked questions, maybe it | 1:16:15 | 1:16:21 | |
was Jacob Rees Mogg that responded,
but he seemed to tell us that in | 1:16:21 | 1:16:28 | |
this transition period of two years
after we leave, the European Court | 1:16:28 | 1:16:33 | |
of Justice will still rule and have
jurisdiction in this land. Explain? | 1:16:33 | 1:16:38 | |
And in her Florence speech, the
Prime Minister said the transition | 1:16:38 | 1:16:42 | |
period will be the status quo and
the rules and regulations will stay | 1:16:42 | 1:16:47 | |
broadly the same and that will mean
the oversight of the European Court | 1:16:47 | 1:16:53 | |
of Justice. The context is, the
government is expected to set and | 1:16:53 | 1:16:57 | |
much more detail about the two years
up Brexit day by the end of this | 1:16:57 | 1:17:04 | |
week. So ears are wagging around
Westminster for any clues. The | 1:17:04 | 1:17:11 | |
second thing is, for the Tory party,
this debate around what the | 1:17:11 | 1:17:15 | |
transition period looks like is one
of the central issues of dispute | 1:17:15 | 1:17:23 | |
between the Brexiteer tendency, of
course from top to bottom in the | 1:17:23 | 1:17:26 | |
party and those who were advocates
for Remain. And David Davis, who was | 1:17:26 | 1:17:34 | |
a Brexiteer but now had to make the
thing work. We were saying before | 1:17:34 | 1:17:39 | |
PMQs, there is even a row before you
get to the actual thing, there is a | 1:17:39 | 1:17:44 | |
row over what to call it. Is it a
transition period or in | 1:17:44 | 1:17:49 | |
implementation phase, which is what
the Prime Minister said last day. | 1:17:49 | 1:17:52 | |
That matters because implementation
is basically meant to be both sides | 1:17:52 | 1:17:56 | |
getting used to the new arrangements
and transition is things preserved | 1:17:56 | 1:18:02 | |
in aspect. In your view, what is it,
implementation or transition? This | 1:18:02 | 1:18:09 | |
matters to a lot of people. If you
look at the joint report, it is | 1:18:09 | 1:18:16 | |
both, it refers to both terms. But I
think it is important to reflect the | 1:18:16 | 1:18:20 | |
fact that this is not a question of,
do we stay in the EU. It is, we are | 1:18:20 | 1:18:27 | |
leaving the EU but we are taking
time to do it in an orderly way. | 1:18:27 | 1:18:32 | |
There is a period, if you have two
years, were both sides of the EU and | 1:18:32 | 1:18:37 | |
the UK get used to set of new
arrangements... Which would be | 1:18:37 | 1:18:39 | |
agreed. Which would be agreed. Or
you have a two-year period which | 1:18:39 | 1:18:46 | |
would be the status quo and the UK
would be expected to abide by any | 1:18:46 | 1:18:52 | |
new rules. It will be interesting to
hear from the minister, people want | 1:18:52 | 1:18:56 | |
to know if the UK can set its own
rules during the two-year period? As | 1:18:56 | 1:19:03 | |
you said, the Secretary of State
will be setting out in more detail, | 1:19:03 | 1:19:07 | |
the way it will work later in the
week. But what I want to point out, | 1:19:07 | 1:19:13 | |
the UK will be able to start to go
out and prepare a new policy, | 1:19:13 | 1:19:17 | |
prepare new ground for how things
will be different in the future. The | 1:19:17 | 1:19:20 | |
Prime Minister said in her speech,
both in her Lancaster House and | 1:19:20 | 1:19:26 | |
Florence beaches, we need continuity
during the process. Will anything be | 1:19:26 | 1:19:32 | |
different in the transition period?
We will no longer be a member of the | 1:19:32 | 1:19:37 | |
European Union. Anything other than
that? That is a significant point. | 1:19:37 | 1:19:45 | |
How we prepare for trade policy, go
out and talk to countries. At the | 1:19:45 | 1:19:50 | |
moment, we can't. That is not
implementation, it is a preparation | 1:19:50 | 1:19:54 | |
period. It is both. You couldn't
implement, under what is being | 1:19:54 | 1:20:02 | |
proposed, you could not implement or
sign in new free trade deal with a | 1:20:02 | 1:20:06 | |
third party? I think that is
something obviously we are entering | 1:20:06 | 1:20:12 | |
negotiations on this implementation
period, but we want to be going out | 1:20:12 | 1:20:15 | |
and talking to the parties during
these arrangements and putting those | 1:20:15 | 1:20:20 | |
arrangements into place, so they are
ready for the point at which really. | 1:20:20 | 1:20:24 | |
There is agreement from both parties
about the benefits of having time to | 1:20:24 | 1:20:29 | |
prepare. Not just from a business
perspective, which we have heard | 1:20:29 | 1:20:32 | |
loud and clear from businesses in
all sectors, but also in respect of | 1:20:32 | 1:20:36 | |
the government being able to prepare
for new arrangements that might be | 1:20:36 | 1:20:40 | |
in place between us in the future.
There is a lot of anxiety about what | 1:20:40 | 1:20:45 | |
the actual answers to these
questions are on Tory backbenchers, | 1:20:45 | 1:20:49 | |
which was demonstrated by Mr Rhys
Marg, because he is the head of the | 1:20:49 | 1:21:00 | |
reform group, the research group,
sorry. They are a powerful grip on | 1:21:00 | 1:21:05 | |
the Tory backbenches. Quite well
informed, they | 1:21:05 | 1:21:11 | |
informed, they do their research.
Will we be able to set out our own | 1:21:12 | 1:21:18 | |
rules and regulations during the
implementation, transition period | 1:21:18 | 1:21:22 | |
and I think there may be some
rumblings on the Tory benches that | 1:21:22 | 1:21:27 | |
may become more public. You didn't
get an answer, and I didn't get an | 1:21:27 | 1:21:33 | |
answer and that would have been bad.
If the transition period goes up to | 1:21:33 | 1:21:39 | |
December 2020 or even into March of
2021, assuming this parliament runs | 1:21:39 | 1:21:47 | |
its life, that is quite a big
assumption, but assuming it does, | 1:21:47 | 1:21:51 | |
there is only a year until the next
election as well. There isn't a | 1:21:51 | 1:21:56 | |
period on which to fight an election
where people have any sense of being | 1:21:56 | 1:22:01 | |
able to say, well I am glad we did
this, or, it is turning into a | 1:22:01 | 1:22:07 | |
disaster, because there isn't enough
time? I think a lot of viewers will | 1:22:07 | 1:22:13 | |
be thinking, why are we talking
about the interests of a small | 1:22:13 | 1:22:18 | |
number of Conservative backbenchers
and why aren't we talking about the | 1:22:18 | 1:22:21 | |
interests of this country? The
message that has come across to me | 1:22:21 | 1:22:24 | |
from business, we had it again with
the custom-built committee, they | 1:22:24 | 1:22:29 | |
need to know they will be sticking
with existing rules and all of this | 1:22:29 | 1:22:33 | |
talk about whether we have got a
transition period, implementation | 1:22:33 | 1:22:36 | |
period, half in, half out, whatever
it is, it's not helping. We have | 1:22:36 | 1:22:46 | |
some evidence it is costing jobs. It
is holding up investment decisions. | 1:22:46 | 1:22:49 | |
Not showing up in this morning's
unemployment figures, is it? You are | 1:22:49 | 1:22:55 | |
right, but look at different
sectors. Not staying part of the | 1:22:55 | 1:22:59 | |
EU's trade remedies regime or not
having rules are strict is that | 1:22:59 | 1:23:06 | |
regime, we could be flooded with
Chinese imports, potentially. You | 1:23:06 | 1:23:11 | |
mean unlike now? To be fair we have
a number of trade remedies. If we | 1:23:11 | 1:23:17 | |
didn't have those and if the
government is threatening to take | 1:23:17 | 1:23:22 | |
those away, we need to have that
security. Being held to ransom by | 1:23:22 | 1:23:30 | |
somebody like Jacob Rees Mogg, I
have nothing against him personally, | 1:23:30 | 1:23:35 | |
they are not representing this
country and the government should | 1:23:35 | 1:23:38 | |
not be driven by this. It sounds
like the government is closer to you | 1:23:38 | 1:23:43 | |
on this than it does to Jacob Rees
Mogg. The government has finally | 1:23:43 | 1:23:48 | |
come up with what Lega has argued
for, for a long time, we have got to | 1:23:48 | 1:23:53 | |
accept the reality... What came from
Labour was absurd. It was in the | 1:23:53 | 1:24:01 | |
Florence speech, the Lancaster House
speech, we have been clear there | 1:24:01 | 1:24:04 | |
would need to be a period for the
implementation and move to a new | 1:24:04 | 1:24:08 | |
agreement. That is the policy we are
seeing through. You wouldn't accept | 1:24:08 | 1:24:16 | |
initially there would be any
involvement of the ECJ when it was | 1:24:16 | 1:24:19 | |
obvious it would have to happen. The
Prime Minister set that out in her | 1:24:19 | 1:24:26 | |
Florence speech, it would be under
the same rules. She didn't, there | 1:24:26 | 1:24:31 | |
would be instability and concerned
before the government accepted what | 1:24:31 | 1:24:35 | |
Labour said the whole way. It is
true a lot of Eurosceptics had | 1:24:35 | 1:24:41 | |
argued when we leave, the moment the
technically leave, that is when the | 1:24:41 | 1:24:46 | |
ECJ should no longer... There was a
residual thing in Phase one, they | 1:24:46 | 1:24:50 | |
would have a residual locus on EU
citizens. But that was meant to be | 1:24:50 | 1:24:58 | |
it. It is indeed the case the
Eurosceptics in the Tory party has | 1:24:58 | 1:25:04 | |
moved a bit about what they were
willing to accept. There is no | 1:25:04 | 1:25:08 | |
question about that and some
ministers did start off thinking | 1:25:08 | 1:25:11 | |
there didn't have to be a transition
and then they accepted that, as you | 1:25:11 | 1:25:16 | |
have been suggesting. The broader
point, the Tory party is not all | 1:25:16 | 1:25:20 | |
peace and harmony about the
transition period, which is the next | 1:25:20 | 1:25:24 | |
phase of the huge Brexit challenge
we are about to enter into | 1:25:24 | 1:25:27 | |
negotiations on. So watch this
space. We shall watch this space | 1:25:27 | 1:25:32 | |
indeed. Let me bring you back,
Anneliese Dodds, to a more domestic | 1:25:32 | 1:25:38 | |
issue. Labour's executive committee
comic called on Labour councillors | 1:25:38 | 1:25:45 | |
in Haringey to stop a controversial
housing partnership to redevelop a | 1:25:45 | 1:25:52 | |
large council housing estate. The
NEC said they should stop doing | 1:25:52 | 1:25:55 | |
this. Is it a proper role for the
NEC? I believe what they said this | 1:25:55 | 1:26:01 | |
to have a review after some members
referred it to them. It is a | 1:26:01 | 1:26:05 | |
difficult issue. There is a
mediation process and they are | 1:26:05 | 1:26:10 | |
asking the council to halt it. But
it seemed clear, the NEC is against | 1:26:10 | 1:26:17 | |
it? I am not sitting on the NEC, I
don't know what individuals on the | 1:26:17 | 1:26:25 | |
NEC is. This is a local councillor,
he thinks the NEC that Matt Prior | 1:26:25 | 1:26:30 | |
serve the people of my borough
first, not my party. Regardless of | 1:26:30 | 1:26:35 | |
what the Politburo say. Well, it is
funny, I know Joe Goldberg from a | 1:26:35 | 1:26:45 | |
long time ago. The context for this
is a situation where it is very | 1:26:45 | 1:26:53 | |
difficult for councils to do
regeneration because of a lot of the | 1:26:53 | 1:26:56 | |
rules around viability. There is a
discussion about whether this big | 1:26:56 | 1:27:01 | |
project, whether it is the right way
to go... But the elected Labour | 1:27:01 | 1:27:07 | |
councillors of Haringey, most of
them wanted to proceed. Some I read | 1:27:07 | 1:27:13 | |
in the papers, were quite excited
about what this would do for this | 1:27:13 | 1:27:17 | |
large council estate in terms of
regeneration? Do regeneration is | 1:27:17 | 1:27:22 | |
certainly needed, the question is
whether this is the right way to | 1:27:22 | 1:27:25 | |
achieve it. That is why we will have
this review. It is important we have | 1:27:25 | 1:27:30 | |
it. I hope this will raise more
generally, some of the problems we | 1:27:30 | 1:27:36 | |
have around regeneration. We are in
a difficult situation, where | 1:27:36 | 1:27:40 | |
developers hold the cards and the
government has done nothing to | 1:27:40 | 1:27:43 | |
improve that situation, in fact has
done more to make it worse. Who do | 1:27:43 | 1:27:48 | |
you side with, the Haringey
councillors or the NEC? I don't know | 1:27:48 | 1:27:53 | |
what the opinions of the individual
NEC members are. They are holding | 1:27:53 | 1:27:57 | |
the review, which is a good idea. Do
you think the NEC should turn its | 1:27:57 | 1:28:05 | |
attention to cuts in the council?
Nervous laughter. I was laughing | 1:28:05 | 1:28:12 | |
with you. There is a lot to be seen
in Oxford, let me tell you. There is | 1:28:12 | 1:28:21 | |
the issue of regeneration. Anyway, I
need to put our viewers out of their | 1:28:21 | 1:28:29 | |
misery and give them the answer to
Guess the Year. | 1:28:29 | 1:28:38 | |
Guess the Year. It was 2016, not
that long ago. Can you press the | 1:28:38 | 1:28:42 | |
buzzer. The NEC approved when it
is... | 1:28:42 | 1:28:45 | |
That's all for today. | 1:28:48 | 1:28:50 | |
The One o'clock News is starting
over on BBC One now. | 1:28:50 | 1:28:55 | |
Sarah Smith at noon tomorrow with
another Daily Politics. I hope you | 1:28:55 | 1:28:59 | |
can join her, goodbye. | 1:28:59 | 1:29:02 |