:00:12. > :00:13.Hello and welcome to Monday in Parliament, our look
:00:14. > :00:19.The Shadow Chancellor says he's not alone in questioning
:00:20. > :00:27.The Chancellor has managed to create an unlikely alliance between myself,
:00:28. > :00:30.The Sun newspaper, the Mayor of London, and according to reports
:00:31. > :00:38.But the Treasury says there was no special treatment.
:00:39. > :00:40.A senior Labour MP asks the Government to take
:00:41. > :00:46.Please will the Government agree before more children
:00:47. > :00:51.Please let us do our bit again to help child refugees.
:00:52. > :00:54.And an education minister defends restrictions on the Conservative
:00:55. > :00:58.manifesto pledge to extend free childcare to 30 hours a week.
:00:59. > :01:03.Surely she does not believe that Islington parents on ?100,000 a year
:01:04. > :01:08.should be entitled to free childcare.
:01:09. > :01:10.But first: Google has no special treatment on tax,
:01:11. > :01:19.The Shadow Chancellor put down an urgent question following news
:01:20. > :01:22.the company had agreed to pay ?130 million for taxes owed over
:01:23. > :01:35.I am proud of the work this Government has done to make tax
:01:36. > :01:40.competitors but also to make sure that tax is paid. Time and again we
:01:41. > :01:45.have taken the lead in getting international companies to pay their
:01:46. > :01:49.fair share of tax. We have competitive tax that is why we have
:01:50. > :01:54.cut the rate of corporation tax to the lowest in the G7. We are also
:01:55. > :02:03.making sure that tax is paid, reforming the rules, investing in
:02:04. > :02:10.capacity. Action taken by this Government, action sadly lacking
:02:11. > :02:14.from 13 years of Labour rule. Many will feel it is a display of this
:02:15. > :02:20.respect that this deal was confirmed with a Tweet and he refuses to come
:02:21. > :02:26.personally today to make a statement. I want to pay tribute to
:02:27. > :02:33.the former and current cheers of the Public Accounts Committee, as well
:02:34. > :02:40.as all the campaigners for tax Justice, who have forced this issue
:02:41. > :02:45.onto the agenda. The Chancellor has managed to create an unlikely
:02:46. > :02:51.alliance between myself, the mere of London, The Sun newspaper, and
:02:52. > :02:55.according to reports number ten. All of the reports say it is not the
:02:56. > :03:04.major success claimed at the weekend.
:03:05. > :03:12.Given the deal over Starbucks, and Fiat, should this deal not be put to
:03:13. > :03:21.the Commissioner to make sure that it complies with state aid rules?
:03:22. > :03:27.The UK does not engage in special deals with any taxpayer. When
:03:28. > :03:34.accusations have been made in the past to that effect, a retired High
:03:35. > :03:38.Court judge on behalf of the National Audit Office investigated
:03:39. > :03:42.those claims and concluded that in every case that he had investigated
:03:43. > :03:46.that the settlement was reasonable and the overall effect of the
:03:47. > :03:51.arrangements were that they were good. Last year in the budget before
:03:52. > :03:59.the general election the Chancellor said they would not tolerate this.
:04:00. > :04:04.Given there was ?24 billion of UK revenues over this period but people
:04:05. > :04:11.have said Google should have paid a tax Bill of ?2 billion, that's 130
:04:12. > :04:18.million really meet the test of no tolerance? I want to address this
:04:19. > :04:22.point and engage seriously with the House in terms of the cartilage is
:04:23. > :04:25.that we have seen in the press suggesting some of these large
:04:26. > :04:31.numbers. Those are calculation is that I based as far as I can see on
:04:32. > :04:44.looking at the prophets attributed to the seals in the UK.
:04:45. > :04:55.-- profits attributed to seals. What sort of message does the Chancellor
:04:56. > :05:00.think he is sending to those individuals and businesses by saying
:05:01. > :05:04.this paltry sum of money from Google can be considered a major success?
:05:05. > :05:11.Does this not sure I can present ministers are? All businesses have
:05:12. > :05:23.to pay tax under law. It is under this Government that we have seen
:05:24. > :05:26.the tax brought in, the process change the behaviour of companies.
:05:27. > :05:33.We did not see any of this from the last Labour Government.
:05:34. > :05:36.Charities have been calling on the UK to admit 3,000 child
:05:37. > :05:38.refugees who have arrived in Europe unaccompanied.
:05:39. > :05:41.There are fears many of them could be targeted by gangs
:05:42. > :05:46.The former Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper was keen to press
:05:47. > :05:49.the issue - putting down an urgent question on the matter.
:05:50. > :05:53.The Prime Minister has committed to looking again at this issue
:05:54. > :06:01.Such a serious issue potentially affecting the lives of so many must
:06:02. > :06:06.be considered thoroughly and no decisions have been taken yet.
:06:07. > :06:10.The Government is clear that any action to help and assist
:06:11. > :06:13.unaccompanied minors must be in the best interest of the child
:06:14. > :06:18.and it is right that that is our primary concern.
:06:19. > :06:21.We take our responsibilities seriously and this issue
:06:22. > :06:25.When this work is completed we will update
:06:26. > :06:32.We hear rumours that the Government will only be looking into helping
:06:33. > :06:33.child refugees from camps in the region.
:06:34. > :06:40.In Greece and Italy and in the Balkans the reception
:06:41. > :06:42.centres and children's homes are full and children
:06:43. > :06:47.The Italian authorities say they estimate 4,000 children
:06:48. > :06:52.who were alone in Italy simply disappeared last year.
:06:53. > :06:56.I met 11 and 12-year-olds in Calais who were there alone with just one
:06:57. > :06:59.British volunteer looking after them.
:07:00. > :07:04.That is a similar age to my children and they should not be there alone.
:07:05. > :07:07.Many of us will this week sign the Holocaust Memorial Day Book
:07:08. > :07:11.of Commitment and our colleague in the House of Lords,
:07:12. > :07:14.Lord Alf Dubs, was saved from the Holocaust by the Kindertransport
:07:15. > :07:22.Now he is asking us through his Lords Amendment to back
:07:23. > :07:24.Save the Children's campaign to help a new generation of
:07:25. > :07:27.Please will the Government agree before more children
:07:28. > :07:39.Please let us do our bit again to help child refugees.
:07:40. > :07:42.It is important not to stretch the analogy
:07:43. > :07:54.I think we need to remember that the last train
:07:55. > :08:02.that was disrupted by the war, only two of those children survived
:08:03. > :08:06.and many along with their families were killed.
:08:07. > :08:10.But there are some clear parallels that we need to address and we need
:08:11. > :08:12.to I think remember the enormous contribution that Kindertransport
:08:13. > :08:14.made to this country - distinguished doctors,
:08:15. > :08:15.distinguished surgeons, members of both Houses
:08:16. > :08:19.I'm pleased that the Prime Minister is re-looking at this
:08:20. > :08:22.and he is quite right to try to keep children in the region.
:08:23. > :08:26.There are children out there who are at risk.
:08:27. > :08:28.This is the biggest humanitarian crisis since the Second World War
:08:29. > :08:31.but instead of playing our full part the Prime Minister has spent recent
:08:32. > :08:34.weeks stomping around Europe with his own list of demands.
:08:35. > :08:36.Does the Minister not accept that to countries trying to deal
:08:37. > :08:40.with the enormity of this crisis that might make us look a little
:08:41. > :08:43.By doing more to help our partners in Europe might not
:08:44. > :08:46.the Prime Minister build goodwill and get a better hearing when it
:08:47. > :08:50.comes to his own renegotiation demands?
:08:51. > :08:53.No one doubts the humanity of the right honourable lady.
:08:54. > :08:56.It is very difficult to argue against it but surely the duty
:08:57. > :09:00.of Government is to balance natural emotion with hard-headed realism?
:09:01. > :09:03.That actually net migration in this country has been far bigger
:09:04. > :09:06.into this country in the last 20 years than any other country
:09:07. > :09:09.and we are at the limit of what the public will accept.
:09:10. > :09:12.That also we are spending more than the whole of the rest of Europe
:09:13. > :09:20.put together on helping people in Syria.
:09:21. > :09:25.And for every child refugee that we take from a camp in Dover
:09:26. > :09:28.and Calais you are simply going to have to take on many other
:09:29. > :09:30.people who will come as part of their family.
:09:31. > :09:33.So I urge the Government to stick to their present policy,
:09:34. > :09:36.their humane and correct policy of spending money in the region
:09:37. > :09:39.and not listening to the the leader of the Opposition with his daft
:09:40. > :09:41.policy of taking people from Dover and Calais.
:09:42. > :09:44.Can I ask the Minister not to listen to the member for Gainsborough
:09:45. > :09:46.with his separation of rationality and emotion in this issue?
:09:47. > :09:49.The member for Pontefract just laid out the facts and we are merely
:09:50. > :10:05.The member for Gainsborough has no monopoly on rationality here.
:10:06. > :10:08.If it is in fact 3000 children that the Government
:10:09. > :10:11.are considering I hope that they will not suggest