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Ministers are called to do more to protect children | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
The lack of sanitation, the violence, | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
the threat of sexual assault - nobody should be in those conditions | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
for a minute longer than necessary, and in particular children. | :00:53. | :01:01. | |
And the Speaker grants an urgent debate on the crisis in Syrha. | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
The Government's denied Parliament is being sidelindd | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
as the plans to leave the European Union get underway | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
Labour says that while the decision to leave the EU should be rdspected, | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
the detail of what that looks like should be decided by MPs. | :01:15. | :01:24. | |
On the first day back after a break for party conferences, | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
the Brexit Secretary David Davis said the will of the people | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
The mandate for Britain to leave the European Union is clear, | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
As the Prime Minister has s`id more than once, we will make a stccess | :01:34. | :01:42. | |
No one should seek to find ways to thwart the will of the pdople, | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
expressed in a referendum on the 23rd of June. | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
We will start by bringing forward a great repeal bill which whll mean | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
the European communities act is ceasing to apply on the day | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
It was this act that put EU law above UK law, so it is right that, | :01:57. | :02:04. | |
given the clear instruction for exit given to us by the people | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
in the referendum, that we and the authority | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
We will return sovereignty to the institutions | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
That is what people voted for on June 23, for Britain to take | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
control of its own destiny and for all decisions | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
about taxpayers' money, borders and laws to be taken | :02:25. | :02:26. | |
The former director of publhc prosecutions, Sir Keir Starler, | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
made his first appearance as shadow Brexit Secretary. | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
During the referendum campahgn, which was made on the Leave side | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
In his statement, the secretary of state says, we will return | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
sovereignty to the instituthons of this United Kingdom. | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
Yet it seems that the Government wants to draw up negotiating terms, | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
negotiate and reach a deal, without any parliamentary approval. | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
We do accept and expect the result of the referendul. | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
But neither those who voted to remain, nor those who voted | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
to leave, gave the Government a mandate to take an axe | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
Throughout the process, the national interest | :03:11. | :03:21. | |
Yet by flirting with hard Brexit, the Prime Minister puts at risk | :03:22. | :03:29. | |
Britain's access to the single market, rather than doing | :03:30. | :03:31. | |
the right thing for jobs, for business and for working people | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
We want the most open, barrier free access | :03:35. | :03:44. | |
The honourable lady is shouting "What about our economy?" | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
We want the most open, barrher-free access to the European markdt. | :03:49. | :03:56. | |
We have heard lots and lots of very unhelpful, | :03:57. | :03:58. | |
misleading comments, frankly, on a hard | :03:59. | :04:00. | |
What we want are the best possible access terms, full stop. | :04:01. | :04:10. | |
I urge him to resist the telptation of advice from a second-ratd lawyer | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
who doesn't even understand the parliamentary process. | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
Can I point out to him that if he is to advise his opposite | :04:20. | :04:28. | |
number, you might remind hil that the repeal of the 72 Etropean | :04:29. | :04:30. | |
communities act will give m`ny, many opportunities to amend | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
and debate every single aspdct of the discussions around | :04:35. | :04:36. | |
With the mild exception of his rudeness about the honourable | :04:37. | :04:49. | |
gentleman's legal qualifications, I agree with everything he said | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
Can I wish the secretary of state all the best for this afternoon | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
in managing to get through this statement without getting | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
into trouble from his boss, the Prime Minister, this tile? | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
He seems to be aiming to do that by not telling us anything. | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
So, Mr Speaker, we may be no clearer if this is a soft Brexit or a hard | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
Brexit - but we do know that it is a dog's Brexit. | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
This Government is frankly irresponsible. | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
An irresponsible failure to provide any details about their plans that | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
are having an impact beyond this place. | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
Mr Speaker, there is clearlx a mandate for Brexit | :05:26. | :05:27. | |
from this referendum, but there is no mandate | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
Now, three days before he was appointed, the secretary | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
of state published an article saying it was very important to publish | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
Can he tell us, when is he going to publish that White Paper? | :05:40. | :05:47. | |
And as someone who, for manx years railed about the importance | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
of the powers of backbenchers and Parliament against | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
the executive, can he give ts now, with a straight face, | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
an answer to the question, where is the Government's m`ndate | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
Either from this house or the country? | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
I have been a great admirer of the Secretary of State | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
for his staunch defence of Civil Liberties, his statnch | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
defence of the prerogatives of this house. | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
I was a great admirer when he tabled to move the bill on parliamdntary | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
When he stirringly told us that executive decisions | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
by the Government should be subject to the scrutiny and approval | :06:26. | :06:27. | |
of parliament, so could he tell us, on the basis of one's | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
constitutional principle, does he believe the Prime Mhnister | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
can now arrogate to herself the exclusive right to interpret | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
what Brexit means, and impose it upon the country, | :06:39. | :06:40. | |
rather than protect the rightful role of scrutiny and | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
We cannot tell the difference between accountability | :06:44. | :06:51. | |
Has my right honourable fridnd observed that some seem to have | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
forgotten that the Referendtm Act gave the right to this Parlhament | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
to make the decision in the Referendum Act 2015? | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
That, furthermore, the sovereignty of the people was given | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
the opportunity to make that decision on the occasion | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
The Brexit Secretary said in his view Sir William | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
The migrant camp in Calais known as the Jungle is due to be | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
The plight of lone children there is an issue which has | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
In the Commons, the Conserv`tive MP, David Burrowes, | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
asked an urgent question of the Home Secretary Amber Rudd | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
about the progress being made to bring children with family | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
The Home Office's energy in the last few weeks has been signific`nt | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
and recognises the scale of the challenge. | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
However, that energy is not shared by the French authorities, | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
who do not provide appointmdnts do not provide interpreters, | :07:49. | :07:50. | |
and don't provide resources to make transfers in the days | :07:51. | :07:52. | |
the Home Office wants, or the weeks, rather than months. | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
Last month, the Home Secret`ry told the home affairs select comlittee | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
if she were to get all of the children to which we have a legal | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
obligation over to the UK as soon as possible, and she has | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
confirmed today, as many as possible before demolition, | :08:05. | :08:06. | |
and last week she said that, compassion does | :08:07. | :08:08. | |
And today she has also said, we look forward to saying | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
that the first 100 child refugees are coming into the UK withhn weeks. | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
So, can the Home Secretary provide assurance today that all chhldren | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
eligible for transfer to thd UK will be in a place of safetx before | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
I appreciate, particularly, his comments about the urgency hssue. | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
I share his view on this matter being urgent, as I know | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
And having been at a meeting today for nearly two hours | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
with my French counterpart, he had eight or nine people with him | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
I think it is fair to say that the bureaucratic element | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
of this will now be dealt with with the sort of urgency | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
In January of this year, I visited the Calais Jungle refugee | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
camp, and I would remind thhs House that words cannot convey thd horror | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
People sleeping under canvas in subzero temperatures, | :09:00. | :09:07. | |
the squalor, the lack of sanitation, the violence, the threat | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
Nobody should be in those conditions for a minute longer than necessary, | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
Will the Home Secretary reassure the House that these childrdn | :09:18. | :09:25. | |
who have, in the words of the amendment, either a legal | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
right to come to the UK or ht would be in their best interest | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
those children will not be scattered to all parts of France. | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
These children will be in one place, in a designated children's Centre. | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
It is clear that there is whdespread concern across this house | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
about the current lack of transparency from the Government | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
And, given the lack of meanhngful action to date to bring these | :09:49. | :09:57. | |
unaccompanied minors to the UK, will the Home Secretary agrde | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
with me that it would be a good idea for the Government to commit | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
to publishing a regular upd`te on numbers in progress, | :10:04. | :10:05. | |
and can she commit to publishing a fortnightly update? | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
We have to be careful with how much information we share publicly | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
about these numbers, and about these plans, | :10:13. | :10:14. | |
because it is not always in the best interest of the children | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
for the criminal gangs who choose to traffic them to know | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
the information about what the plans are, how many children | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
My honourable lady says, "Come on," to me. | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
She does a disservice to this Government. | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
And to the intention is that we have on this side of the House to look | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
Simply to take a higher mor`l stance as though total disclosure | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
would be the answer, she is wrong. | :10:45. | :10:46. | |
And I would ask the right honourable worded lady to work with us on this. | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
I am very happy to be compldtely frank with her and talk | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
to her about it, that in terms of public disclosure of somd of this | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
information, we do not think it is in the best interest | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
This camp will be cleared within days, and it does appear | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
there has been a huge bureatcratic confusion in France. | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
Apparently only four French officials in the camp, | :11:07. | :11:08. | |
Surely the British Government should set up a task force using British | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
officials working together with French officials to go | :11:14. | :11:14. | |
to the camp, sort it out, find out who the people aren't | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
In the last the media reported that the Home Office have announced | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
the doubling of Asylum experts in France working on the Calais | :11:25. | :11:26. | |
Does the Home Secretary really think that is enough? | :11:27. | :11:34. | |
Well, the honourable lady h`s an advantage over me. | :11:35. | :11:36. | |
I haven't seen this particular announcement. | :11:37. | :11:38. | |
It's been a great pleasure to be here for the past hour. | :11:39. | :11:46. | |
Naturally, she has seen it before I have. | :11:47. | :11:48. | |
I look forward to having a good look at it, and if she'd like me | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
do, I will certainly write to her about it. | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
Government plans to lift thd ban on new grammar schools in England | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
came under fresh challenge `s MPs returned to Westminster. | :11:59. | :12:00. | |
The proposal emerged last month and sparked fierce debate, | :12:01. | :12:02. | |
with Labour and some Conservative MPs voicing concern at the love | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
The issue of grammar schools was raised at question time | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
as ministers look at making school funding "fairer". | :12:10. | :12:11. | |
Given the mixed views on gr`mmar schools and the huge piece of work | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
that will be required to ensure that no child is left behind, | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
because certainly that is mx fear, can the Minister please explain | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
to me how that can possibly be of higher priority than fixhng | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
the flawed funding model th`t has seen thousands of children seriously | :12:28. | :12:35. | |
underfunded for decades in counties like mine? | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
Well, I very much recognise the concerns that she set ott | :12:39. | :12:40. | |
That is precisely why, shortly before the house | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
went into summer recess, I set out my determination to get | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
on with the work of bringing forward a national funding formula. | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
We will be responding to thd first age of consultation shortly, | :12:52. | :12:53. | |
and at the same time then, setting out the next stage of how | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
But we also need to challenge ourselves to have more good school | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
places, particularly in parts of the country | :13:04. | :13:05. | |
where there are still are not enough, particularly | :13:06. | :13:07. | |
So we need to get on with both of those pieces of work. | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
There is another group of schools, Mr Speaker, which offer | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
real social mobility, where the educational attainment gap | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
is most narrowed, with over 98% of them rated good or outst`nding, | :13:23. | :13:24. | |
yet they are in the areas of most high deprivation and have | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
the majority of children on free school meals. | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
These are our much-valued nursery schools. | :13:32. | :13:32. | |
Their funding is now putting their ongoing viability at risk | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
Shouldn't she be better foctsing on their continued attainment rather | :13:37. | :13:38. | |
Well, I agree with her at that early years is a vital part | :13:39. | :13:46. | |
of the education system, and it is precisely why we have been | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
consulting on how to make stre we can have a sensible approach | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
But I disagree with her characterisation | :13:53. | :14:01. | |
Is she encouraged that of those who have been canvassed | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
on the issue, two thirds ard supportive of the Prime Minhster's | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
policy of increasing social mobility for those from poorer backgrounds | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
through the provision of increased grammar schools, | :14:13. | :14:14. | |
and will she give an assurance that she will not be deterrdd | :14:15. | :14:16. | |
by the sour voices or the b`rrage of criticism of this policy | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
by those who are ideological and opposed to the policy, | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
even though they benefit from grammar school | :14:23. | :14:23. | |
Well, he sets out the situation very clearly, and as he points ott, | :14:24. | :14:34. | |
for children on free school meals in particular, grammars are able | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
to close the attainment gap because the progress that those | :14:38. | :14:39. | |
children make is double those of their better off classmates. | :14:40. | :14:49. | |
Now, the party opposite wants to close that opportunity down. | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
Perhaps she could tell us how much has been spent on trying to find any | :14:54. | :15:01. | |
factors to support their policy of segregated schools. | :15:02. | :15:03. | |
Spending public money on policy without any evidential basis | :15:04. | :15:05. | |
When the secretary of State last came to the house, | :15:06. | :15:12. | |
she could not cite a single piece of evidence that | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
Well, a lot of what she said is incorrect. | :15:16. | :15:25. | |
She will be well aware of the report by the Sutton trust that very | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
clearly set out the improved attainment of free-school-mdal | :15:29. | :15:30. | |
children, in particular in grammar schools. | :15:31. | :15:41. | |
I think it is totally unten`ble to set out her concerns on grammar | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
schools, while resolutely being opposed to having any kind | :15:45. | :15:46. | |
of consultation document th`t looks at how we should | :15:47. | :15:48. | |
We do want to look at how wd can reform grammar schools. | :15:49. | :15:56. | |
The education system has ch`nged beyond all recognition over recent | :15:57. | :15:58. | |
years, and it is right that we now look at the role grammars c`n play | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
There was also a challenge following a report on the workload | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
Today the Education Policy Hnstitute revealed that one in five tdachers | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
in England is working more than 60 hours a week. | :16:11. | :16:12. | |
What priority is given to analysing why schools are finding it | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
so difficult to retain teachers and the impact that workload | :16:16. | :16:17. | |
Well, the EPI report is basdd on a 2013 OECD tallies survdy, | :16:18. | :16:25. | |
and in response to that, in 2014, the previous | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
Secretary of State announced the workload challenge. | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
There were 44,000 responses to that that highlighted issues | :16:34. | :16:35. | |
like dialogic marking and data collection. | :16:36. | :16:37. | |
We set up review groups to look at that. | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
We have accepted their recommendations and now | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
we are acting on those recommendations to ease | :16:46. | :16:47. | |
the burden of the workload on teachers in our schools. | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
You're watching Monday in Parliament. | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
The House of Lords calls for action on debt management companies | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
Tuesday will see an urgent debate on the situation in Syria. | :16:58. | :17:08. | |
The United Nations has calldd for an end to the bombardment | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
of rebel-held eastern Aleppo by Russian backed Syrian forces | :17:12. | :17:13. | |
where more than 250,000 civilians are trapped. | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
The former Conservative Chidf Whip and International Development | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
Secretary Andrew Mitchell condemned the role of Russia in the crisis. | :17:24. | :17:33. | |
On the 19th of September, a United Nations relief convoy was ddstroyed | :17:34. | :17:41. | |
in the early evening. 31 trtcks loaded with food and medicines were | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
attacked from the air. Warehouses and medical clinics were severely | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
damaged and 18 humanitarian workers were killed. This is undoubtedly a | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
war crime and it was undoubtedly perpetrated by Russian forcds. In | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
the last three days, there have been 100 were wounded being attended to | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
in Aleppo. There have been 02 bombing runs. Many people, hncluding | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
children, very seriously injured. At lunchtime today, at least fhve | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
people died as a result of ` government rocket attack. The use of | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
incendiary munitions such as cluster bombs, the UN made clear th`t the | :18:26. | :18:32. | |
systematic use of such indiscriminate weapons in ddnsely | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
populated areas amounts to ` war crime. | :18:36. | :18:37. | |
Legislation giving Wales new powers to raise income tax, | :18:38. | :18:39. | |
without a referendum, has had its first airing in Parliament. | :18:40. | :18:41. | |
The Wales Bill will also en`ble the Welsh Assembly to call htself | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
The assembly and Welsh government have come of age. They are no mature | :18:45. | :18:57. | |
institutions and part of thd fabric of Welsh political life. Thhs bill | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
recognises this new maturitx in some key ways. Firstly, the asselbly and | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
Welsh government are recognhsed as permanent parts of the UK's | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
constitutional arrangements, not to be abolished unless the people of | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
Wales decided. This statement recognises what we all know to be | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
true, that he assembly and Welsh government are part of the TK's | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
constitutional fabric and are here to stay. This bill delivers more | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
accountable devolved governlent for Wales. With a coming-of-age I've | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
already talked about comes ` renewed responsibility and a knee for the | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
assembly and Welsh government to become truly accountable. The key | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
element of this is removing the need for a referendum in order to | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
introduce the Welsh rates of income tax. This will mean the Welsh | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
government can take on more responsibility for how it r`ises | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
money as well as how that money is spent. It gives the governmdnt and | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
interest in ensuring the economy in Wales is performing well. The reward | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
for that would be down to the Welsh government and gives it that power | :20:02. | :20:03. | |
to exercise for a purpose. Laws passed in 2014 stated | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
that there should be a referendum in Wales on any proposals | :20:07. | :20:08. | |
to devolve tax-raising powers. The former Welsh Secretary Peter - | :20:09. | :20:10. | |
now Lord - Hain wondered whx Could it be that they are frightened | :20:11. | :20:25. | |
is in invited to vote, a majority, maybe a large one in Wales, would | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
turn down the powers? I suspect so because otherwise why be afraid of | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
trusting the voters? Could ht be they wish to run income tax | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
devolution through without addressing the irrefutable dvidence | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
that the way the Barnett formula has operated has short-changed Wales by | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
at least 600 million annually, in contrast to Scotland. About a new | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
Barnett floor, the one on one of the first ministers insisted upon, and | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
without the framework he wants, it would be pure folly for Walds to | :20:59. | :21:06. | |
have income tax devolved. Wd are united in needing new legislation. | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
In a transparent and effecthve manner. That overcomes the | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
shortcomings of the tangled mishmash of existing law. Legislation which | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
has the confidence and which the government of Wales heralds as a | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
positive step to overcome ctrrent deficiencies in our constitttional | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
settlement. I fear this bill falls short of those ambitions. | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
Debt management companies who cold-call customers need to be | :21:31. | :21:32. | |
brought under control, the House of Lords has been told. | :21:33. | :21:34. | |
There were concerns companids which approach customers offering | :21:35. | :21:36. | |
debt or financial advice cotld be offering a bad deal, | :21:37. | :21:38. | |
The Lib Dem peer Lord Sharkey raised the issue. | :21:39. | :21:51. | |
Cold calling is a huge problem. The FCA acknowledges that many of the 30 | :21:52. | :22:00. | |
million cold calls selling fee paying debt management servhces were | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
misleading and damaging and affect the most financially disadv`ntaged | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
in our society. The governmdnt has promised the FCA's review of cold | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
calling will be published bdfore the end of the year. Can the Minister | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
say if this review will look at why cold calling for mortgages has long | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
been banned but not for the high-cost credit or four fed-paying | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
debt management services? The answer to the last part of the noble Lord's | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
question is in relation to what happened with right to buy hn 1 80s, | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
when there was mis-selling by mortgage brokers targeting council | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
house tenants who had the bdnefit of a huge discount. They were not | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
interested the creditworthiness of those as mortgage borrowers and | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
that's why that measure was introduced. Insofar as cold calling | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
is concerned, the government will be introducing legislation through the | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
digital bill which will place a statutory legation via the | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
information Commissioner on the code on cold calling. The governlent | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
should take action to put a finite figure on what credit card... What | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
credit organisations can ch`rge especially because it is normally | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
the poorest people in the community who are paying the highest rates of | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
interest. The noble Lord is quite right. It's why be introducdd a cap | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
on payday loans .8% which mdans if you borrow ?100 for a day, the | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
maximum amount you can pay hnterest is 80p. It isn't just cold calling. | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
It's advertising which is allegedly controlled. I watched one l`st night | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
on the TV which is highly questionable. Is it not a m`tter of | :23:43. | :23:51. | |
bringing together all the authorities, not just to have a | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
review, but an action plan to sort it out? There are many elderly | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
people who are being duped out of thousands of pounds and is ht not | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
time we took action? I understand the strong feelings held by many | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
local lords on this particular subject. Insofar as vulnerable | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
people are concerned, as I said in the budget this year, a large sum of | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
money was identified to help vulnerable people and enabld them to | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
stop these sorts of calls bding made. Would the Minister agree with | :24:22. | :24:29. | |
me that this is an area where there is very significant participation by | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
the not for profit voluntarx sector? Would he undertake to draw the | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
attention of the SCA and other authorities to their partichpation, | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
so they may be listened to `nd their role receive the recognition that | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
will help people? Of course and can I pay tribute to the initiative of | :24:51. | :24:58. | |
his setting up of life-savers, a joint project with the church and | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
unions? It's helping childrdn to develop good financial habits at a | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
young age by setting up savhngs clubs in primary schools, in | :25:09. | :25:10. | |
partnership with credit unions. I also welcome the initiative of the | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
Church of England in establhshing the just Finance foundation to | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
develop and promote the noble primate's vision of deliverhng a | :25:22. | :25:22. | |
more just system. Alicia McCarthy's here | :25:23. | :25:24. | |
for the rest of the week, | :25:25. | :25:29. |