:00:11. > :00:15.Ensuring excellence in education as a teacher. We have already seen in
:00:16. > :00:22.the terms and conditions of teachers in England under a Tory government.
:00:23. > :00:28.Can they agreed that conditions such as maternity and sick pay will be
:00:29. > :00:36.guaranteed? At least Scotland has a possibility of a new and brighter
:00:37. > :00:41.future. This year's budget coincided with International Women's Day, with
:00:42. > :00:45.this year's been being women in the changing world of work but after
:00:46. > :00:49.nearly 100 years since women were granted the right to vote in the UK
:00:50. > :00:53.there is still much to do in order to achieve gender equality here and
:00:54. > :00:57.around the world. The last Labour government achieved so much for
:00:58. > :01:02.women. We introduced the minimum wage, created tax credits, increased
:01:03. > :01:05.maternity and paternity leave and pay, pension credits, expanding
:01:06. > :01:09.childcare and Equality Act, all of which have made a massive difference
:01:10. > :01:13.to women in this country. We know that gender equality means
:01:14. > :01:19.delivering long-term, tangible change for women, including securing
:01:20. > :01:22.women's economic freedom, supplying secure work and promoting women's
:01:23. > :01:26.access to innovative technologies. This budget could have taken greater
:01:27. > :01:30.steps to achieve these aims. Instead the Cory government in its seventh
:01:31. > :01:38.year has failed to -- the Tory government in its seventh year has
:01:39. > :01:41.failed. From cuts to tax credits to the crisis in social care, it is
:01:42. > :01:46.women who have been consistently hit hardest by the policies of the
:01:47. > :01:49.Tories. Because yet again this government have made no assessment
:01:50. > :01:56.to show how their policies impact upon women in the UK. As of the 2017
:01:57. > :02:00.spring budget, ?80 billion, over three quarters of all savings, have
:02:01. > :02:04.come from women, with a disproportionate impact on women
:02:05. > :02:07.from black and ethnic minorities and even the ?5 million for returning to
:02:08. > :02:16.work mums works out at a pretty useless ?10 per month, what will
:02:17. > :02:18.that buy? That is why I support the shadow secretary of state for women
:02:19. > :02:22.and equality's recent announcement to bring forward the equality Bill
:02:23. > :02:27.which will eliminate obstacles that present women from reaching their
:02:28. > :02:30.economic potential and part of this will be providing more secure work
:02:31. > :02:39.full stop those working without guaranteed hours are shut up I --
:02:40. > :02:42.has shot up. I ask how is a working mother supposed to plan childcare
:02:43. > :02:47.when they don't know the hours they will be working. Never mind the that
:02:48. > :02:50.under this government only one third of local authorities believe there
:02:51. > :02:54.will be enough childcare for families who are eligible. Women
:02:55. > :02:57.still make up the majority of part-time and non-permanent
:02:58. > :03:02.full-time and zero hours contracts. Of the 900,000 workers, nearly 1
:03:03. > :03:08.million on zero hours contracts, 55% of those, are women. In almost any
:03:09. > :03:11.labour market in the world social care work is performed by an integer
:03:12. > :03:17.will and largely female workforce. In the UK care sector companies
:03:18. > :03:21.providing social care for cash-strapped councils in a bid to
:03:22. > :03:25.remain viable are offering more zero hours contracts and ever, which
:03:26. > :03:28.means even less protection for these workers. Equality must take a higher
:03:29. > :03:31.priority than is currently being afforded under this government and
:03:32. > :03:34.one way to do this would be to provide a clear commitment from the
:03:35. > :03:38.government to play a much more active role in promoting women's
:03:39. > :03:42.access to innovative technologies, to help women to become successful
:03:43. > :03:44.entrepreneurs and leaders in innovation by courage and women to
:03:45. > :03:48.enter and thrive in the tech industry and at all levels to create
:03:49. > :03:56.conditions this terrible change and encouraging women to enter typically
:03:57. > :04:05.male dominated sectors. -- to create conditions that promote change.
:04:06. > :04:10.Government used to talk about this but though they have gone
:04:11. > :04:14.suspiciously quiet. We should also do much more than they innovate UK
:04:15. > :04:21.initiative which seeks to invest 2000 as group 200000 pounds to help
:04:22. > :04:29.women be leaders in innovation. One initiative offers the 12 men and the
:04:30. > :04:32.women support of which only a few will receive a package of ?50,000.
:04:33. > :04:36.That is not a ringing endorsement of That is not a ringing endorsement of
:04:37. > :04:39.women from this government. This was supposed to be a new start with a
:04:40. > :04:45.new Chancellor and yet we have ended up with the same shambles and same
:04:46. > :04:50.post Budget followers. Yet again Scotland did not feature. It is
:04:51. > :04:54.mentioned twice. Once to increase productivity and once on Bernard
:04:55. > :04:58.consequential. The way this Budget process works, at no time as a UK
:04:59. > :05:04.Government ever asked the Goddess government what they need is going
:05:05. > :05:08.forward. All that happens is there is panic health, education
:05:09. > :05:14.allegations in the budget and we are meant to be eternally grateful. That
:05:15. > :05:19.is not a good Budget setting. As my honourable friend said, the tax
:05:20. > :05:28.system is updated. Why should risk be tasked at 79%. White and not we
:05:29. > :05:32.tax real goods and increased taxes on the wealthy there. If the concern
:05:33. > :05:37.is alcohol harm why doesn't the Government look at minimum unit
:05:38. > :05:42.pricing instead of crippling the Scottish whiskey industry? The
:05:43. > :05:45.Chancellor may mention clamping down on tax avoidance but there is only
:05:46. > :05:52.two additional new income streams in the budget and they are projected to
:05:53. > :05:56.bring in ?200 million over five years with the paltry amount
:05:57. > :05:59.compared to budget. Meanwhile tax credit and collection is projected
:06:00. > :06:05.to bring in half ?1 billion in just over four years so we have to ask
:06:06. > :06:07.ourselves is the Government clamping down on tax avoidance or is it
:06:08. > :06:12.clamping down on hard-working families that go into tax credit
:06:13. > :06:17.debt due to failures in the tax credit system goes back it is
:06:18. > :06:21.another Concentrix waiting to happen. Also the Chancellor told us
:06:22. > :06:25.he was to leave some gas in the tank yet he has that does with all the
:06:26. > :06:34.tax giveaways and the slowing down under. ?22.5 billion in giveaways to
:06:35. > :06:41.corporation tax. Inheritance tax relief 2.8 billion. By the time I
:06:42. > :06:47.said tax, 3.7 billion. ?30 billion in tax giveaways in just a few lines
:06:48. > :06:50.and at the very same Chancellor sees fit to take ?2 billion of National
:06:51. > :06:53.Insurance contributions of the simple point. It is the
:06:54. > :06:59.self-employed that are struggling, don't get holidays and many are
:07:00. > :07:03.forced to go self-employed because of the Tory austerity measures.
:07:04. > :07:07.These are held as the new entrepreneurs that are going to take
:07:08. > :07:10.the country of the procession and yet they are getting hammered by
:07:11. > :07:14.National Insurance got abused. Meanwhile the other hard-working
:07:15. > :07:19.people ?1 billion be recouped from salary sacrifice schemes. ?1 billion
:07:20. > :07:23.from the realignment in high rate second-rate National Insurance got
:07:24. > :07:26.abused. ?1.7 billion from changes to termination payments when more
:07:27. > :07:32.people are going to have to take voluntary redundancy before the ?4
:07:33. > :07:36.billion from insurance premiums. That is ?10 billion coming from
:07:37. > :07:41.those who are just about managing, those struggling. Then ?6 billion to
:07:42. > :07:47.come from two child policies for tax credits. Not mentioned in this
:07:48. > :07:52.Budget was 2016 measures which already kicked in. ?30 billion of
:07:53. > :07:58.cuts have come because of benefits freeze and the welfare club. We have
:07:59. > :08:04.already heard there is nothing in it for women, because the proportion of
:08:05. > :08:11.the ?8 billion compared to tax giveaways is easily affordable. It
:08:12. > :08:15.is quite clear that it is an open the back of those struggling.
:08:16. > :08:23.Nothing for the Oil Gas UK nothing in renewables, investment will fall
:08:24. > :08:27.by 95% by 2020 and one in six jobs at risk. Nothing on the
:08:28. > :08:30.harmonisation in transport, nothing on Brexit, nothing for the farmers
:08:31. > :08:41.in Scotland. This is a port Budget and it does a Brexit shambles. The
:08:42. > :08:45.Chancellor made a number of errors in his Budget. Somehow he managed in
:08:46. > :08:49.one of the thinnest read books for years, Abe Budget of so little
:08:50. > :08:53.detail, so little in terms of action, the practical unite his
:08:54. > :08:56.backbenchers with the opposition and the press to call for a U-turn on
:08:57. > :09:01.his central announcement on National Insurance got regions within hours.
:09:02. > :09:03.I will be slightly kinder to the Chancellor Dundee for a Prime
:09:04. > :09:08.Minister was. I know what he was trying to do full stop I can
:09:09. > :09:12.understand it. There is a growing and worrying trend of copies
:09:13. > :09:16.outsourcing employees as self-employed contractors to save on
:09:17. > :09:20.employer NICs costs. Self-employed is a good choice for so many workers
:09:21. > :09:26.in the UK. But when the workers do not have the choice and it is the
:09:27. > :09:30.employer that is driving the change, it tends not to be in the best
:09:31. > :09:34.interests of the work. But raising employee NICs to tackle the problem
:09:35. > :09:37.is not the way to solve it so I suspect the Chancellor may well have
:09:38. > :09:42.to go back to one of his intimate spreadsheets soon. But his biggest
:09:43. > :09:49.errors are people up and down our errors of omission and I'd planned
:09:50. > :09:53.to talk about three of them, they squeezed family budgets. Nothing
:09:54. > :09:58.from the Chancellor on ESA rag, in November I brought a motion to his
:09:59. > :10:01.member was supported by MPs from nine parties in this House. It is
:10:02. > :10:08.not often that this happen. It called on the UK Government to
:10:09. > :10:15.support the allowance until the work and health green paper could be
:10:16. > :10:21.existed. People receive DSA WRAG because they had been cited as unfit
:10:22. > :10:25.for work. It slows their power to implement. It has always been
:10:26. > :10:29.considered right that given the increased cost of finding work due
:10:30. > :10:34.to the disability and health problems and the fact they need the
:10:35. > :10:37.support for longer than those on jobseeker's allowance do they should
:10:38. > :10:40.receive a higher weekly payment. On the 1st of April but extra ?30 a
:10:41. > :10:45.week will be cut away. During that debate in November the honourable
:10:46. > :10:49.member for Enfield Southgate is a very important in the Minister, that
:10:50. > :10:52.financial mitigation and new regulations to help those falling in
:10:53. > :11:00.and out of work would both be in place before the cut came in. We are
:11:01. > :11:03.less than three weeks from DSA WRAG being cut and we have heard nothing
:11:04. > :11:08.from the Government. The motion and debate I brought in November was the
:11:09. > :11:12.three consents, a last ditch to the Government act. Honourable members
:11:13. > :11:16.of all sides of the House are fast losing patient. Time is running out
:11:17. > :11:24.and the Government needs to act now. There was nothing on Waspy, on
:11:25. > :11:27.budget day I joined a huge rally to the Chancellor to act on the
:11:28. > :11:31.injustice of thousands of women born in the nations of these and who had
:11:32. > :11:36.seen the state pension increase at a faster rate than promised with
:11:37. > :11:38.little or no warning. Three of the three and a half thousand women
:11:39. > :11:44.affected were there and it was a pleasure to speak to Eileen, John
:11:45. > :11:49.and Margaret. It is not sustainable for the UK Government to keep trying
:11:50. > :11:52.to ignore these women, who have suffered workplace injustice. They
:11:53. > :11:54.should do the right thing by these women and give them a proper
:11:55. > :12:00.transitional relief. All of the women affected by these errors of
:12:01. > :12:05.omission were a victim of this Brexit Budget is the Chancellor set
:12:06. > :12:09.aside ?26 billion as a down payment for exiting the EU. And yet
:12:10. > :12:12.ironically there was barely a passing mention to the greatest
:12:13. > :12:15.economic, social and constitutional challenge facing this or any other
:12:16. > :12:21.government for decades. Inflation is expected to rise further squeezing
:12:22. > :12:25.households who are facing Social Security cuts and painfully slow
:12:26. > :12:28.wage growth. Cuts to support for sick and disabled people, cuts to
:12:29. > :12:31.women pensions, hundreds of thousands more are in child poverty,
:12:32. > :12:35.slow wage growth and poor productivity. But so much
:12:36. > :12:43.spreadsheet filled as the Dickensian Chancellor. Thank you for the
:12:44. > :12:46.opportunity to contribute to this bait on the budget but the magpies
:12:47. > :12:50.in the world. I want to speak about the budget proposals for education
:12:51. > :12:55.and the risks they present for our children, in the con sexed up Brexit
:12:56. > :13:02.and changes they will face an uncertain future. -- context of
:13:03. > :13:07.Brexit. We need the best possible outcome per all our children and
:13:08. > :13:09.young people to provide them with the skills and confidence to
:13:10. > :13:15.navigate our uncertain route -- world. I am proud of the skills in
:13:16. > :13:19.my constituency and everything they deliver for local children. The
:13:20. > :13:23.transformation of the quality of education in London was one of the
:13:24. > :13:27.powerless achievements of the last Labour government. In my
:13:28. > :13:32.constituency alone we sought new secondary schools and this record of
:13:33. > :13:35.is continued after the new secondary school that opened last year as a
:13:36. > :13:39.result of strong campaigns by parents and local councillors.
:13:40. > :13:41.Everyday teachers in our local schools are delivering brilliant
:13:42. > :13:44.imaginative lessons helping our children to be the best that they
:13:45. > :13:50.can beat and achieving excellent results. And yet, Mr Speaker, the
:13:51. > :13:54.resources that the schools in Dulwich and West Norwood need to
:13:55. > :13:57.continue their excellent work are under threat. The Government has
:13:58. > :14:04.broken its manifesto commitment to protect per-pupil funding for our
:14:05. > :14:06.schools, the national office of National Audit Office confirms that
:14:07. > :14:10.the Government overall school budget is protected in real terms but does
:14:11. > :14:15.not provide for funding per pupil to increase in line with inflation. In
:14:16. > :14:19.addition the Government has loaded additional significant costs on to
:14:20. > :14:21.other schools which are not funded through National Insurance
:14:22. > :14:26.contributions, the National Minimum Wage and the apprenticeships levied.
:14:27. > :14:29.Each of these costs, important in their own right, but it is entirely
:14:30. > :14:34.unfair of the Government to impose them without also them. Schools in
:14:35. > :14:38.my constituency are already reducing staffing numbers to cope with these
:14:39. > :14:41.additional costs. And on top of these burdens the Government is
:14:42. > :14:45.proposing to cut the funding for a London schools in order to deliver a
:14:46. > :14:49.fair funding formula for schools across the country. I support the
:14:50. > :14:52.objective of their funding for our schools, but there is nothing fair
:14:53. > :14:58.about taking vital funds away from some schools. Mr Speaker, this will
:14:59. > :15:02.have a direct impact on the quality of education or schools are able to
:15:03. > :15:06.provide and it will affect the competitiveness of the UK economy.
:15:07. > :15:10.The budget does nothing to address this. Instead of committing to
:15:11. > :15:14.increase the education budget by just 1% to ensure that all schools
:15:15. > :15:18.can access their funding without any school losing out, it commits
:15:19. > :15:22.funding to open new grammar schools, which by any measure a definition
:15:23. > :15:27.can deliver only for a small number of children. Mr Speaker, as we
:15:28. > :15:30.contemplate the future of the United Kingdom outside the European Union
:15:31. > :15:34.in a rapidly changing global economy, it is not a time from
:15:35. > :15:39.nostalgia to be the defining force in education policy. It is a time to
:15:40. > :15:43.be learning from the success story of London schools, investing in our
:15:44. > :15:46.education system to ensure that it is that of purpose to equip our
:15:47. > :15:50.children with the knowledge, skills and confidence to thrive in a
:15:51. > :15:54.challenging and uncertain world. The Foreign Secretary would mean trivial
:15:55. > :16:01.lies the challenge of global trade with boomerangs and Toblerone, I am
:16:02. > :16:03.concerned that our schools can equip all our children with the values of
:16:04. > :16:07.tolerance, diversity and internationalism and with the skills
:16:08. > :16:11.and qualifications to provide careers in science and technology,
:16:12. > :16:13.culture and the arts, green industries, Health and Social Care
:16:14. > :16:17.Board, construction and many other fields, by cutting the funding for
:16:18. > :16:24.our schools this government and the budget is failing them. Since the
:16:25. > :16:28.Budget statement last week this government has been heckled by
:16:29. > :16:31.headteachers, nobbled by National Insurance and slated by the
:16:32. > :16:37.self-employed as it blatantly breaks manifesto promises. The Chancellor
:16:38. > :16:41.appeared to have spent far too much time polishing his stand-up routine
:16:42. > :16:46.and far too little on the finer details of what his party promised
:16:47. > :16:51.in the 2015 manifesto. And the fact that the Prime Minister has now been
:16:52. > :16:54.forced to announce that the increase in National Insurance contributions
:16:55. > :16:59.for the self-employed will be pushed back to the autumn shows a
:17:00. > :17:05.government in disarray and does nothing to give security and
:17:06. > :17:06.certainty to working people. The Federation of Small Businesses are
:17:07. > :17:12.scathing about the National Insurance rise and say it should be
:17:13. > :17:17.seen for what it is, a ?1 billion tax hike on those who set themselves
:17:18. > :17:21.up in business. The Chancellor claims that the economy grew more
:17:22. > :17:26.than expected last year but this does not mean that everyone is
:17:27. > :17:30.better off. Indeed the growth in the economy is on the back of a rise in
:17:31. > :17:38.employment coupled with a shift towards lower paid jobs. With this
:17:39. > :17:41.growth largely driven by rises in self-employment and part-time jobs.
:17:42. > :17:45.And in fact, whilst in most other countries including France and
:17:46. > :17:51.Germany of the economy and wages have grown, the UK is the only big
:17:52. > :17:55.advanced economy in which wages contracted whilst the economy
:17:56. > :18:00.expanded. And for the one in five public sector workers in the UK
:18:01. > :18:06.whose average pay is now more than ?1000 lower in real terms than in
:18:07. > :18:11.2010, the Chancellor's boast of growth in the economy is cold
:18:12. > :18:15.comfort to those who are not just about managing but actually really
:18:16. > :18:19.struggling to cope with a constant fall in living standards. And the
:18:20. > :18:26.statement was remarkable more for what it didn't say rather than what
:18:27. > :18:28.it did. Earlier mention of Brexit, nothing for Waspy woman and no
:18:29. > :18:35.mention at all of the previous Chancellor's failure to deliver a
:18:36. > :18:38.promised surplus by 2020. The right honourable member per patent now
:18:39. > :18:42.seems to be devoting himself to creating his own personal surplus
:18:43. > :18:56.having failed to deliver on his promises for the UK economy.
:18:57. > :19:07.Subtitles will resume at 2300 on Monday in Parliament.