:00:14. > :00:15.Hello, and welcome to Monday in Parliament -
:00:16. > :00:20.George Osborne outlines plans to cut corporation tax -
:00:21. > :00:27.one MP asks if it will annox partners in the EU.
:00:28. > :00:32.When it comes to annoying otr European partners, I don't think
:00:33. > :00:33.this will be the thing that really tips the balance in the last couple
:00:34. > :00:35.of weeks. There are calls for clarification
:00:36. > :00:37.on the status of EU nationals living the UK -
:00:38. > :00:40.the Shadow Home Secretary phcks up "nobody necessarily stays
:00:41. > :00:50.anywhere forever". I hope the minister will go back and
:00:51. > :00:54.tell the Home Secretary that my own kids would quite like their mum to
:00:55. > :00:56.stay here forever, if that hs OK with her.
:00:57. > :00:58.And the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says anti-semhtism
:00:59. > :01:00.will not be tolerated in the Labour Party,
:01:01. > :01:02.and called remarks made by the former London
:01:03. > :01:14.He is under investigation. Hn those circumstances, it would be wholly
:01:15. > :01:19.inappropriate to be involved. But you are still a friend of hhs? I am
:01:20. > :01:20.not an enemy of Ken Livingstone I want Ken Livingstone to mend his
:01:21. > :01:23.ways. The Chancellor says his plans to cut
:01:24. > :01:26.corporation tax will show the UK is "open for business"
:01:27. > :01:28.following the vote to leave George Osborne said that nothing
:01:29. > :01:31.positive would come The Shadow Chancellor,
:01:32. > :01:34.John McDonnell, called him to the House of Commons,
:01:35. > :01:36.saying the Government was unprepared In my view, the strongest shgnal
:01:37. > :01:41.we could send the world that Britain after this referendum is opdn
:01:42. > :01:44.to the world and ready to do business would be to cut
:01:45. > :01:49.corporation tax still furthdr. We should aim for a rate of 15%
:01:50. > :01:51.and preferably lower, because if you are pro-business
:01:52. > :01:58.you are pro-jobs, poor living because if you are pro-business
:01:59. > :02:01.you are pro-jobs, pro-living The lack of planning for a Leave
:02:02. > :02:04.vote is becoming evident Instead of a clear plan of `ction,
:02:05. > :02:10.so far we have had a series of ad hoc statements and announcements,
:02:11. > :02:13.and these included, yes, the grateful abandonment
:02:14. > :02:14.of the Brexit budget, which was to increase sharply
:02:15. > :02:17.the level austerity being applied. The fiscal service target h`s been
:02:18. > :02:22.abandoned, and today the Ch`ncellor has announced planned reductions
:02:23. > :02:24.in the headline rate Rather than ad hoc announcelents,
:02:25. > :02:27.we need a framework When it comes to planning,
:02:28. > :02:31.let me say this. First of all, there have bedn
:02:32. > :02:33.extensive contingency plans in place to deal with financial
:02:34. > :02:36.market disorder The fact we are not debating that
:02:37. > :02:43.today shows that those conthngency We remain vigilant,
:02:44. > :02:47.but they were in place. The 2020 fiscal surplus target
:02:48. > :02:55.was always likely to be a casualty of the first sound
:02:56. > :02:57.of Brexit gunfire, Hence the need to take advantage
:02:58. > :03:04.of the Charter's flexibilitx. Does the Chancellor agree that
:03:05. > :03:07.what we need now at least to develop over the next few months,
:03:08. > :03:09.most effectively to bolster credibility over the coming years,
:03:10. > :03:12.is a rule that sets fiscal policy in a longer term framework,
:03:13. > :03:14.and one that is resilient to changes in the short-terl
:03:15. > :03:17.forecast by the OBR? Given that he has abandoned his
:03:18. > :03:22.fiscal rule, will he today rule out any plans to claw back the potential
:03:23. > :03:28.losses in revenue yield from the cut in corporation tax
:03:29. > :03:31.in the absence of behaviour`l change, through the mechanism
:03:32. > :03:33.of further attacks The overall message
:03:34. > :03:38.and the very clear message from the Business Council,
:03:39. > :03:42.the Prime Minister's Business Council, which met on Thursday, was,
:03:43. > :03:45.let us send a message out round the world that we are not
:03:46. > :03:47.closed for business. We are not turning our back
:03:48. > :03:49.on the world. We are open to business, and we are
:03:50. > :03:52.reaching out to the world. And that's why I think a good way
:03:53. > :03:56.of doing that is to further reduce corporation tax,
:03:57. > :03:58.and then we must make the most of those links, not just
:03:59. > :04:00.with our European friends, but with countries like China,
:04:01. > :04:03.India, the United States, where we should be seeking
:04:04. > :04:06.to strengthen our trading lhnks Cutting the corporation tax in this
:04:07. > :04:09.way is highly likely to annoy our EU partners,
:04:10. > :04:12.which is extremely foolish in the run-up
:04:13. > :04:18.to the Article 50 negotiations. Wouldn't a better way of avdrting
:04:19. > :04:23.the risk of recession be to promise to replace the EU funds
:04:24. > :04:27.which we are going to lose, and which were such
:04:28. > :04:29.an important part of Well, when it comes to annoxing
:04:30. > :04:42.our European partners, I don't think this is going to be
:04:43. > :04:45.the thing that really tips the balance in the last
:04:46. > :04:47.couple of weeks. But if you look at Ireland,
:04:48. > :04:51.a member of the European Unhon, it has of course got a 12.5$
:04:52. > :04:54.corporation tax rate. And when it comes to investlent
:04:55. > :04:56.in the North and Midlands, I am very much open
:04:57. > :05:00.to what further steps we can take. I do not pretend that we have done
:05:01. > :05:03.everything that is possible. I think there is more
:05:04. > :05:06.we are going to have to do, and all of us collectively,
:05:07. > :05:08.particularly those who reprdsent constituencies in the North
:05:09. > :05:10.and Midlands of this countrx, I think need to focus on wh`t we can
:05:11. > :05:14.do to make sure people feel more enfranchised and more
:05:15. > :05:16.connected with this With the benefit of hindsight,
:05:17. > :05:20.will the Chancellor accept that his original threat
:05:21. > :05:23.to introduce a deflationary budget in the event
:05:24. > :05:25.of a Brexit vote was both Well, what I was setting out
:05:26. > :05:36.with Alistair Darling, my immediate predecessor,
:05:37. > :05:38.was the realism that will bd required when we understand
:05:39. > :05:41.that the economy impacted by the vote will have an impact
:05:42. > :05:45.on the public finances, and that it will be up to the House
:05:46. > :05:48.of Commons to decide how we proceed. And it is important that information
:05:49. > :05:51.was in the public domain MPs have called from all sides
:05:52. > :05:59.of the House of Commons for clarity about the future of EU
:06:00. > :06:03.citizens living in the UK, as well as UK citizens living
:06:04. > :06:05.in the European Union. But the Home Office Minister James
:06:06. > :06:09.Brokenshire said it would bd unwise to make assurances bdfore
:06:10. > :06:11.striking a deal on the UK's The Urgent Question
:06:12. > :06:20.from the Leave campaigner Labour's Gisela Stuart
:06:21. > :06:21.follows similar comments from the Home Secretary
:06:22. > :06:23.and prime ministerial It has been suggested the Government
:06:24. > :06:27.could now fully guarantee ET nationals living in the UK
:06:28. > :06:30.the right to stay. This would be unwise
:06:31. > :06:32.without a parallel assurancd from European governments
:06:33. > :06:37.regarding British nationals Such a step might also
:06:38. > :06:46.have the unintended consequence of prompting EU
:06:47. > :06:49.immigration to the UK. It is in the best interests
:06:50. > :06:54.of all that the Government conducts detailed work on this issue,
:06:55. > :06:58.and that the new Prime Minister decides the best way forward
:06:59. > :07:00.as quickly as possible. It is deeply, deeply offenshve
:07:01. > :07:09.to assume that this is a cotntry that retrospectively changes
:07:10. > :07:17.the rights of its citizens. It is the duty of a Governmdnt
:07:18. > :07:20.to allow people to live and arrange their lives and be able
:07:21. > :07:22.to make predictions. We have 3 million citizens living
:07:23. > :07:25.in this country who are EU citizens. 1.2 million live in the EU
:07:26. > :07:30.at the moment. They have a right to expect
:07:31. > :07:32.from this Government What judgment has the Minister made
:07:33. > :07:39.about the best way to protect the interests of the more
:07:40. > :07:42.than 1 million British citizens living and in many cases working
:07:43. > :07:46.in other EU countries, so that at the end of this process
:07:47. > :07:54.nobody can be disadvantaged at all? I think that we need to enstre
:07:55. > :07:57.that there is an overall balance and careful consideration
:07:58. > :07:59.of all of these issues, That is why I think it would be
:08:00. > :08:05.mistaken to view this in a very narrow way and to potentially
:08:06. > :08:08.make statements now that could have an impediment on those
:08:09. > :08:10.broader discussions in relation to the position of British nationals
:08:11. > :08:13.who are in other European countries. The Shadow Home Secretary,
:08:14. > :08:17.Andy Burnham, reminded the House that his wife was a Dutch chtizen,
:08:18. > :08:19.and called Theresa May's When she adds that "Nobody
:08:20. > :08:25.necessarily stays anywhere forever," I hope the Minister will go back
:08:26. > :08:31.and tell the Home Secretary that my own kids would quitd
:08:32. > :08:34.like their mum to stay here forever, In retrospect, does he not `ccept
:08:35. > :08:38.that the Home Secretary's Is it not the case that people
:08:39. > :08:44.who have made a life here when it was perfectly legal
:08:45. > :08:48.to do so should not now havd the rug Further, isn't it entirely
:08:49. > :08:52.within the gift of the UK Government to remove this uncertainty today,
:08:53. > :08:55.and why isn't the Home Secrdtary Doesn't the very fact
:08:56. > :09:02.that we are having to hold this debate today illustrate how flawed
:09:03. > :09:05.the referendum campaign was? Didn't people have a right to know
:09:06. > :09:08.the answer to this crucial puestion Sending any EU nationals hole has
:09:09. > :09:15.enormous implications for f`milies, for public services,
:09:16. > :09:18.for the economy. So why on earth did the Govdrnment
:09:19. > :09:23.instruct civil servants not to carry out any contingency planning
:09:24. > :09:27.on the implications of Brexht? Wasn't that the very height
:09:28. > :09:31.of irresponsibility? I have been absolutely clear
:09:32. > :09:33.that there is no concept of bargaining chips or viewhng
:09:34. > :09:39.people in that way at all, and I've been absolutely cldar
:09:40. > :09:41.in terms of the contribution that I see EU citizens making to our
:09:42. > :09:44.country now and into the future too, which is why it will bd a part
:09:45. > :09:52.of that negotiation as we look towards a future, a positivd future
:09:53. > :09:55.for our country outside Any EU citizen who currentlx resides
:09:56. > :10:03.in the United Kingdom will continue to do so, as he suggested,
:10:04. > :10:08.but that once the repeal of the European Communities Act 1972
:10:09. > :10:13.has taken place, it will be a matter for domestic legislation
:10:14. > :10:17.here at Westminster to decide in our traditional, fair
:10:18. > :10:22.and reasonable manner on wh`t basis people should remain,
:10:23. > :10:25.having regard to the interests of UK The SNP pointed out that thd asker
:10:26. > :10:30.of the Urgent Question This is one of many questions
:10:31. > :10:36.to which it might have been prudent to have an answer before
:10:37. > :10:39.the honourable member for Birmingham Edgbaston
:10:40. > :10:43.and her fellow Brexiteers pdrsuaded so many of their fellow cithzens
:10:44. > :10:48.to vote to leave. Be that as it may, Mr Speakdr,
:10:49. > :10:51.Scotland voted overwhelmingly to stay within the European Union,
:10:52. > :10:54.and our fellow citizens who were born outside the UK are now
:10:55. > :11:01.and just to know what the rdferendum who were born outside the UK are now
:11:02. > :11:05.anxious to know what the referendum results mean for them,
:11:06. > :11:07.not just now, but in the future and so are EU citizens
:11:08. > :11:09.across the UK. It is wrong and irresponsible
:11:10. > :11:11.to prevaricate about this. The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has
:11:12. > :11:16.told MPs that he "will not tolerate He was being questioned
:11:17. > :11:22.by the Home Affairs Committde, which is investigating
:11:23. > :11:24.whether prejudice against Last week the Labour Party published
:11:25. > :11:27.a report into anti-semitism It was sparked by remarks m`de
:11:28. > :11:31.by the former London Mayor Mr Corbyn told the committed
:11:32. > :11:35.he wanted Ken Livingston Why do you think there is so much
:11:36. > :11:45.criticism by Jewish members of the party and by the Jewhsh
:11:46. > :11:48.community and others about the way that you have distinguished
:11:49. > :11:52.between your incredibly strong record of fighting racism in respect
:11:53. > :11:57.to black and Asians and othdrs, but your weak record in dealing
:11:58. > :12:00.with the issue of anti-Semitism I have spent my life,
:12:01. > :12:03.as you correctly say, opposing racism in any
:12:04. > :12:06.form within our society. Since I became leader of thd party,
:12:07. > :12:11.it was brought to my attenthon that there were cases
:12:12. > :12:15.of anti-Semitic behaviour being reported at Labour Party
:12:16. > :12:18.events or, indeed, in public by members of the party,
:12:19. > :12:21.and our compliance unit took appropriate action,
:12:22. > :12:24.and some members of the party In total, less than 20 were
:12:25. > :12:32.suspended, all of which are I became concerned about thhs,
:12:33. > :12:38.and so I asked Shami Chakrabarti to undertake an enquiry along
:12:39. > :12:43.with David Feldman and Jan Royall. Shami Chakrabarti, the formdr head
:12:44. > :12:46.of Liberty, was sitting Keith Vaz said his committed found
:12:47. > :12:52.it "puzzling" that she hadn't take The Chakrabarti Inquiry did not take
:12:53. > :13:00.any evidence from Mr Livingstone, Do you want to take this opportunity
:13:01. > :13:05.of condemning the words used by Ken Livingstone
:13:06. > :13:08.and distancing yourself as leader of the Labour Party
:13:09. > :13:10.from what Ken Livingstone h`s said in his reference to Hitler's
:13:11. > :13:15.support for Zionism? Ken Livingstone made
:13:16. > :13:17.remarks that are wholly They were drawn to the attention
:13:18. > :13:22.of the party compliance A decision was made within ` very
:13:23. > :13:28.few hours to suspend The remarks are now being
:13:29. > :13:34.investigated by the party, Not happy to condemn,
:13:35. > :13:44.but you do condemn what he has said? You don't believe for one moment
:13:45. > :13:47.what he said to this committee, that the crisis has been sthrred up
:13:48. > :13:56.by embittered Blairites? No, I think we have to conddmn
:13:57. > :13:59.the way in which he made thd remarks and the remarks themselves
:14:00. > :14:06.and the equation of Hitler And as I said, his case
:14:07. > :14:13.is being investigated. In 2009, you shared a platform
:14:14. > :14:19.with Hezbollah, at an event where you describe them
:14:20. > :14:21.and Hamas as your friends. The language I used at that meeting
:14:22. > :14:28.was actually here in Parlialent and it was about encouraging
:14:29. > :14:38.the meeting to go ahead, encouraging there to be a dhscussion
:14:39. > :14:40.about a peace process... It was inclusive language I used,
:14:41. > :14:48.which with hindsight I would rather So you regret using those words
:14:49. > :14:53.that they are your friends? I regret using those
:14:54. > :14:54.words, of course. Jeremy Corbyn was also questioned
:14:55. > :15:00.by Conservative MPs. Those are the words
:15:01. > :15:04.that the President of the Board of Deputies chose when asked in this
:15:05. > :15:07.committee two weeks ago abott how he felt when he heard
:15:08. > :15:09.of Mr Livingstone's There are 300,000 Jewish
:15:10. > :15:18.people in this country. Are you upset that you and xour
:15:19. > :15:22.friend have upset them in this way? Ken Livingstone has been suspended
:15:23. > :15:24.from party membership following the remarks that he made,
:15:25. > :15:27.so obviously we have Is Ken Livingstone
:15:28. > :15:36.a friend of yours? I have known Ken Livingstond
:15:37. > :15:39.since 1971 as an extremely `ctive I first met him when he was
:15:40. > :15:46.a Lambeth councillor He went on to become
:15:47. > :15:53.leader of Chelsea... He is still a friend even though
:15:54. > :15:58.he has been suspended? I took part in his
:15:59. > :16:00.suspension from the party. In those circumstances it would be
:16:01. > :16:04.wholly inappropriate to be hnvolved. I am not an enemy of
:16:05. > :16:09.Ken Livingstone and I want Ken And he said he would not
:16:10. > :16:14.tolerate anti-semitism Nobody, he said, should be
:16:15. > :16:20.discriminated against. You're watching Monday in P`rliament
:16:21. > :16:22.- our roundup of news Still to come - MPs ask
:16:23. > :16:27.about the future of arts subjects, left out of the English
:16:28. > :16:32.Baccalaureate. Britain's future role
:16:33. > :16:35.with the European Union was also Questions were asked
:16:36. > :16:41.about Britain's diplomatic role The question came ahead of ` two
:16:42. > :16:46.day debate on Brexit - due to take place on Tuesdax and
:16:47. > :16:52.Wednesday. The nature of the relationship
:16:53. > :16:55.we secure with the EU will be determined by the next Government
:16:56. > :16:58.but we must not turn our back on Europe nor
:16:59. > :17:00.on the rest of the world. While we are still a member
:17:01. > :17:04.of the EU we will continue to engage with EU business and decision-making
:17:05. > :17:06.in the usual way. We will presumably have to start
:17:07. > :17:11.talks with individual countries but also with
:17:12. > :17:13.the European Union centrallx. What is the European Union
:17:14. > :17:18.going to do in response Secondly and very importantly how
:17:19. > :17:29.are we going to ensure that all our diplomatic skills
:17:30. > :17:31.are still engaged with the European Union in order to deal
:17:32. > :17:34.with the wider world, both for the interests of
:17:35. > :17:37.the European Union, and for Britain? Both of us must end up at the end
:17:38. > :17:41.of the day being winners in this The fact that there is a formal
:17:42. > :17:44.process does not exclude Talks around Europe have already
:17:45. > :17:52.happened and will Is it not crucial that we h`ve
:17:53. > :17:56.a British Government that is effective in office
:17:57. > :17:59.as soon as possible? And should not the members
:18:00. > :18:03.of the Conservative Party Have the leaders of the Leave
:18:04. > :18:14.campaign demonstrated that now they have got no idea how
:18:15. > :18:20.to take Britain forward? It is important that we listen
:18:21. > :18:23.to the views of all and the people decided that they wished to leave
:18:24. > :18:27.the European Union. When we have our two-day debate
:18:28. > :18:29.tomorrow and Wednesday, I and my officials will be listening
:18:30. > :18:34.very carefully to the views of all peers on all sides
:18:35. > :18:40.of the arguments because it will inform our way forward just
:18:41. > :18:43.as constituents can inform ` way forward for the Members
:18:44. > :19:01.of Parliament. May I ask that in the meanthme the
:19:02. > :19:12.Government will speak out against the way that people are being spoken
:19:13. > :19:13.to? He has got the complete Agrdement of
:19:14. > :19:16.this House. The big internal problems f`cing
:19:17. > :19:20.the Labour Party came in for some gentle mockery
:19:21. > :19:22.at Education Question Last week the post of
:19:23. > :19:25.Shadow Education Secretary went from Lucy Powell to Pat Glass
:19:26. > :19:28.and then to Angela Rayner - all part of the mass
:19:29. > :19:30.resignations of Ministers from Labour's front bench,
:19:31. > :19:33.done to try to force out thd party Conservative MPs seized
:19:34. > :19:36.on the sequence of events, as the question session deb`ted
:19:37. > :19:38.the pay of teachers in acaddmies Can I first of all congratulate
:19:39. > :19:45.and welcome the member for Ashton-under-Lyne
:19:46. > :19:46.for her appointment as the Shadow Secretary of State,
:19:47. > :19:50.following in the footsteps of the long serving honourable
:19:51. > :19:56.member for North West Durhal? I suspect she was more surprised
:19:57. > :20:01.than I was by her appointment. Having worked with her in sdeking
:20:02. > :20:04.to raise standards in Oldhal schools I know how able a Shadow Secretary
:20:05. > :20:07.of State she will be. Does my honourable friend agree
:20:08. > :20:11.with me it is absolutely essential that headteachers have the `bility
:20:12. > :20:14.to flex salaries to retain the very best staff and would he comlent
:20:15. > :20:22.on whether resigning after 48 hours in the Education sector
:20:23. > :20:25.sets a new record? I am grateful to my
:20:26. > :20:27.honourable friend. I think it must be a record
:20:28. > :20:29.for the shortest serving I am particularly offended though
:20:30. > :20:33.that there is no one to shadow me and I wonder what I have done
:20:34. > :20:36.to deserve that offence. Thank you, Mr Speaker,
:20:37. > :20:39.and it is a pleasure to facd the Minister for
:20:40. > :20:41.the first time today. As he mentioned previously we have
:20:42. > :20:45.discussed issues around education in one of the are`s
:20:46. > :20:49.of my constituency in Oldhal. It has also been a very
:20:50. > :20:52.interesting week. But I am really pleased
:20:53. > :20:55.that there are still two wolen at this dispatch box overseding
:20:56. > :20:57.education so that is We do face a crisis in the teaching
:20:58. > :21:03.workforce and this has not been made any better by the potential
:21:04. > :21:05.problems with teachers' pay. Almost 50,000 teachers
:21:06. > :21:08.quit this year. More left than were recruitdd
:21:09. > :21:19.and applications are still falling. Regarding teachers leaving,
:21:20. > :21:23.43,000 teachers left in 2014 but they were replaced by 44,00
:21:24. > :21:27.coming into the profession, and I have to say talking down
:21:28. > :21:30.the profession doesn't help encourage graduates to come
:21:31. > :21:33.into the teaching profession. Wherever I go I talk
:21:34. > :21:36.up the profession. I hope she in this role
:21:37. > :21:41.will do the same. I think every single teacher does
:21:42. > :21:46.an absolute superb job and H think that the benches opposite should
:21:47. > :21:49.listen to teachers when thex talk about the issues that they face
:21:50. > :21:52.every single day in the classroom. The Secretary of State
:21:53. > :21:54.sought to ban parents She has blocked Ofsted
:21:55. > :22:02.from inspecting Academy chahns. And she refuses to have any
:22:03. > :22:04.democratic oversight of reghonal In her final days in office
:22:05. > :22:13.with school improvement stalled according to the Chief Inspdctor,
:22:14. > :22:15.has she not realised that the command and control
:22:16. > :22:19.Whitehall knows best approach to schools and education
:22:20. > :22:25.does not work? This does seem like
:22:26. > :22:27.an upside-down House. We have the front bench
:22:28. > :22:32.on the backbenches and the back But can I say to the honour`ble
:22:33. > :22:40.gentlemen, we do intend to hncrease Academies' engagement with parents
:22:41. > :22:42.by creating an expectation that every Academy puts in place
:22:43. > :22:45.arrangements for meaningful engagement with parents
:22:46. > :22:49.and to listen to their It is not what I expected today
:22:50. > :22:54.to be on the backbenches, having resigned from a job
:22:55. > :22:57.which I have relished doing over Yesterday on the television
:22:58. > :23:09.the Secretary of State again gave the illusion that school budgets
:23:10. > :23:11.have been protected over thd course of this Parliament yet
:23:12. > :23:14.she and I both know that in real terms school budgets are facing
:23:15. > :23:17.significant cuts which are having I can see how much she loved
:23:18. > :23:28.doing her job as Shadow Secretary But the point is, the truth is,
:23:29. > :23:32.that we have protected the overall This year the core schools budget
:23:33. > :23:36.will be over ?40 billion which is the highest
:23:37. > :23:39.amount on record. The description on a parlialentary
:23:40. > :23:45.petition of the decision to exclude art, music and drama
:23:46. > :23:47.from the English This is the group of core stbjects
:23:48. > :23:55.in which state school pupils in England are expected to `chieve
:23:56. > :23:58.at least a grade C at GCSE level. David Lammy, a former
:23:59. > :24:00.cathedral chorister, There I was able to express
:24:01. > :24:06.myself in the context I really learnt the rigours
:24:07. > :24:21.and discipline of music. Which is why I took umbrage
:24:22. > :24:27.to the manner in which music, the performing arts or dram`,
:24:28. > :24:30.and I will come onto those, can be sidelined as somehow less
:24:31. > :24:33.than, not as academic, I challenge anyone who has got
:24:34. > :24:41.to grade eight at any part of the musical repertoire to tell me
:24:42. > :24:44.it is not fantastically hard A highly comprehensive studx
:24:45. > :24:52.produced by the German Socioeconomic Music improves cognitive
:24:53. > :25:00.and noncognitive skills mord In addition the study found that
:25:01. > :25:07.children who take music lessons had better school grades,
:25:08. > :25:08.are more conscientious, The purpose of the EBacc
:25:09. > :25:18.is to ensure that young people, all young people, are taking
:25:19. > :25:21.the combination of GCSEs th`t young people take in the most privileged
:25:22. > :25:23.schools in our country and in the best and most high
:25:24. > :25:26.achieving schools And it concerns us that young people
:25:27. > :25:33.from deprived backgrounds who are eligible for free school
:25:34. > :25:35.meals are half as likely to take that combination
:25:36. > :25:45.as their more fortunate peers. I'll be back at the same tile
:25:46. > :25:56.tomorrow - but until then, goodbye.