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