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Hello, and welcome to Monday in Parliament, | :00:18. | :00:19. | |
The Prime Minister assesses the scale of the task ahead | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
on her first post-Brexit medting of the European Council. | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
It will require patience and some give and take. | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
But I firmly believe that if we approach this | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
in a constructive spirit, we can ensure a smooth departure. | :00:36. | :00:48. | |
The Home Secretary said Britain is determined to to help Calais | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
refugees. We will do what we can to children | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
but we have to consider a Europe-wide strategy to deal with | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
the tragedy of refugees movhng across Europe. | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
And during a less serious moment, a question on the serious issue | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
of light pollution takes an unexpected turn. | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
Britain will be a confident and outward looking country | :01:11. | :01:26. | |
after leaving the EU, the Prime Minister has | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
told the Commons - but leaving will require patience | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
Theresa May was speaking after a European Council sulmit | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
in Brussels last week, where she was reportedly given | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
around five minutes after mhdnight to set out her position on Brexit. | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
The UK is leaving the EU, but we are not leaving Europe, | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
and we are not turning our backs on our friends and allies. | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
For as long as we are members of the EU, we will continue to play | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
After we leave, we will be a confident, outward-looking | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
country, enthusiastic about trading freely with our European nehghbours | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
and co-operating on our shared security interests, | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
including on law enforcement and counter-terrorism work. | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
That is the right approach for Britain to take. | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
The Prime Minister addressed calls from some MPs for Parliament | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
to debate the terms of the TK's departure from the EU. | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
In addition to regular updates from my right honourable frhend | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
my own statements following Council meetings, and the deliberathons | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
of the new Committee on Exiting the European Union, | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
the Government will make tile available for a series of gdneral | :02:35. | :02:36. | |
debates on the UK's future relationship with the EU. | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
These will take place beford and after the Christmas recdss, | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
and I expect will include ddbate on the high-level principles | :02:45. | :02:46. | |
that the Government will pursue in the negotiations. | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
Members on all sides will rdcognise that the Government must not | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
show their hand in detail as we enter these negotiations. | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
There will be difficult momdnts ahead and, as I have said bdfore, | :02:58. | :03:07. | |
it will require patience and some give and take. | :03:08. | :03:09. | |
But I firmly believe that, if we approach this | :03:10. | :03:11. | |
in a constructive spirit, we can ensure a smooth departure. | :03:12. | :03:13. | |
We can build a powerful new relationship that works both | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
for the UK and for the countries of the EU, and we can securd | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
the deal that is right for the British people, | :03:23. | :03:24. | |
whose instruction it is our duty to deliver. | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
Funnily enough, I, too, was in Brussels last Thursd`y, | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
meeting socialist leaders and their counterparts. | :03:30. | :03:38. | |
I have to say I was given a little longer to speak | :03:39. | :03:40. | |
than the five minutes the Prime Minister had | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
at the dinner that evening, and I had it at a more reasonable | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
Indeed, I was listened to very carefully by all | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
The message that came to me, loud and clear, | :03:53. | :04:02. | |
from European leaders last | :04:03. | :04:03. | |
week was that the tone taken by this Tory Government since their Tory | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
Party Conference earlier thhs month has damaged our global reputation | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
and lost us a lot of good whll, not just in Europe but around the world. | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
Although the Prime Minister's words may have appeased the hard-line | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
they've only spread anger across Europe by the approach | :04:23. | :04:34. | |
must have raised it that the Prime Minister | :04:35. | :04:51. | |
They tell the Prime Minister that she cannot take the issues of | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
Gibraltar seriously. Either she will she won't. If she won't, Scotland is | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
absolutely right to hold an independence referendum and will | :05:04. | :05:04. | |
protect our place in Europe. The vacuum is already being felt, | :05:05. | :05:22. | |
not by the commission, but by her own Cabinet, Brexit committde | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
colleagues. Does the Prime Linister accept that, unless the current can | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
provide some clarity about hts direction soon, many financhal and | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
other businesses, which havd been in touch with me about it, will respond | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
to the uncertainty, planned for the worst and that will be at | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
considerable cost to the UK. I will continue and the Government will | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
continue to speak about these matters but we will not, and I | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
understand the point may honourable friend is making, that he knows full | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
well if the Government was to set out every single move of thhs | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
negotiation, that would be best way to get the worst deal for the UK. | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
Has the Prime Minister carrhed out any detailed analysis of thd impact | :06:04. | :06:05. | |
the harder form of Brexit she seeks will have on the economy | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
in the regions, in particular the north? | :06:09. | :06:10. | |
If she has not, will she concede that her anti-EU rhetoric, | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
and her talking up of a hard Brexit over the last month, | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
First of all, as I said in response to the right honourable | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
we are looking at the impacts on different parts of | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
He talks about the hard Brexit that the Government are going | :06:28. | :06:37. | |
There is no suggestion of that whatsoever. | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
The right honourable gentleman seems to think th`t | :06:44. | :06:45. | |
all of these matters are binary decisions between either | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
being able to control immigration or having some sort | :06:48. | :06:49. | |
As the migrant camp in Calahs, known as the Jungle, | :06:50. | :07:02. | |
is being cleared, the Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
200 children had been brought to the UK so far, | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
But the operation to process thousands more unaccompanied | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
children had to be halted at the request of the French. | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
In the Commons, Amber Rudd tpdated MPs on the latest situation | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
Looking ahead, we will bring more children, from Calais, to the UK | :07:17. | :07:24. | |
As well as the remaining chhldren with close family in the UK, | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
we will continue to transfer unaccompanied refugee children | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
from Calais under the wider criteria of the Dubs amendment. | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
We will follow three guiding principles in determining | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
who we bring to the UK from Calais under the Dubs amendment. | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
We will prioritise those likely to be granted refugee status | :07:46. | :07:47. | |
in the UK, we will also prioritise those 12 years old or under | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
and we will consider those assessed as being at a high risk | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
In doing that, we will also establish whether it is in dach | :07:54. | :08:01. | |
Through this process it is important that we do not | :08:02. | :08:09. | |
encourage more children to head to Calais, risking their lives | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
Unless we deal with the unddrlying issues of poverty, civil war | :08:13. | :08:22. | |
and ill-conceived foreign interventions, this will not be | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
the last time that this house has to debate encampments of desperate | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
people in appalling conditions in Calais. | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
I am glad that we are moving to help the child refugees. | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
I think more could have been done earlier, despite the Home | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
Secretary's attempts to hide behind the French, | :08:43. | :08:44. | |
but let us remember that all those people in that camp, which H have | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
We will do what we can do for the children, | :08:52. | :09:01. | |
but we need a more considerdd and Europe-wide strategy to deal | :09:02. | :09:03. | |
with the tragedy of refugees moving across Europe. | :09:04. | :09:16. | |
Those relatively few members of the house who have, in the past, | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
accommodated young asylum sdekers in their own homes are in a position | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
to confirm to my right honourable friend | :09:23. | :09:24. | |
that this cannot be undertaken lightly and propdr | :09:25. | :09:26. | |
If this humanitarian exercise is not to end in tears, it is vital | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
that the Home Secretary sticks to her guns. | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
Can she reassure the house that before any child is admitted, | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
every receiving family will be properly screened and, | :09:46. | :09:47. | |
in the interests of national security, every young adult admitted | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
to the United Kingdom will be screened before they are allowed | :09:51. | :09:52. | |
has housed asylum seekers in the past, | :09:53. | :10:00. | |
and I value his experience in this area. | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
I reassure him that we will always make the correct safeguarding checks | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
and will always make sure that the families are prepared. | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
We will not take any risks, either in terms of national security | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
or on behalf of the children who are moving here. | :10:16. | :10:24. | |
Can she confirm that up to 0000 children and teenagers are dxpected | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
to stay in container can ovdrnight tonight and that refugees h`ve been | :10:30. | :10:37. | |
warned there will be no youth workers are social workers `longside | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
them? Can she also make representation to the French | :10:44. | :10:45. | |
Government that there will be measures to keep them safe, and | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
additional measures for the young girls and women in the camp tonight? | :10:51. | :10:52. | |
Several MPs were concerned about the coverage the issud | :10:53. | :10:54. | |
I was pleased to hear the Home Secretary send a clear | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
message about the recent media practice of photographing mhgrants | :10:59. | :11:00. | |
who are coming into this country through Calais, | :11:01. | :11:02. | |
whether they are children or young adults. | :11:03. | :11:11. | |
Can she send that message and loud and clear, that this | :11:12. | :11:13. | |
is reckless behaviour that puts people at risk? | :11:14. | :11:15. | |
Will she also deplore the mddia practice that appears to be | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
identifying temporary reception centres for people coming | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
from Calais, thus raising both security and safeguarding rhsks | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
Will she please urge caution and care in | :11:26. | :11:27. | |
Age assessment of undocumented children is notoriously difficult | :11:28. | :11:36. | |
and not an exact science. The rise in cases in the administrathve Court | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
reflect this fact. Will my honourable friend confirm that | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
dental checks are not the appropriateness of the of age | :11:44. | :11:54. | |
assessment? Particularly in the cases of Croydon and Hillingdon | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
with suggested more in the history of observance of behaviour `nd | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
children giving light evidence is a much better indicator, rathdr than | :12:04. | :12:04. | |
physical agility. -- maturity. The Government has announced | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
a review of gambling machinds, and the potential harm | :12:11. | :12:12. | |
caused to players. The inquiry, which covers England, | :12:13. | :12:13. | |
Scotland and Wales, will ex`mine controversial fixed-odds betting | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
machines - where players can lose It will also look at | :12:17. | :12:18. | |
gambling advertising. Appearing before the committee that | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
scrutinises her department, the Culture Secretary explahned why | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
she'd included advertising It's part of looking at the whole | :12:26. | :12:39. | |
situation, with regards to gambling and its impact on vulnerabld and | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
young people. I think that's probably all of us have watched | :12:47. | :12:48. | |
football or other sporting activities and I know my chhldren | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
can recite just about every gambling habit that there is because they sit | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
and watch... I went say the name but they watched a news channel that is | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
24-hour sports and they watched TV programmes with sports on them. They | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
hear those adverts and I'm interested, as a parent, but also as | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
Secretary of State, in understanding what the impacts are on young people | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
of those adverts and adverthsing. I want the evidence so we can make a | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
decision as to what is the appropriate way that we shotld allow | :13:20. | :13:20. | |
this. The committee then turned | :13:21. | :13:21. | |
to press regulation - and the fall out from the Ldveson | :13:22. | :13:23. | |
Inquiry. A Labour MP wanted to know | :13:24. | :13:24. | |
if Karen Bradley was going to implement article 40 of the | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
Crime and Courts act. Under its provisions, | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
any newspaper that's not regulator will have to pay the costs | :13:33. | :13:34. | |
of the person suing them for libel, whether or not | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
the claimant wins their casd. The Prime Minister of the d`y said | :13:39. | :13:50. | |
that he promised the familids and that hasn't happened. I am `sking | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
you, quite straightforwardlx, when will you be putting forward this | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
position? I am looking at it very carefully. I have not made ` | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
decision about timing. I certainly do not rule out commencing section | :14:03. | :14:09. | |
40 at some point in the futtre. I do want to see press regulation that | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
meets at least the standard of the press regulation panel. You are | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
happy together against the will of Parliament, the absolute cldar | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
statement of the Prime Minister of the day of your party, your | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
Government, that there should be done as a matter of urgency. It | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
still hasn't happened and you won't say when you're going to do it. Are | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
you going to do it? In 2013, when we debated, in the past, comedx crime | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
Court act, it is a different situation. It has been put very | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
clearly to me by a number of local newspapers that lack nation`l | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
newspapers, that this could see them be out of business and cert`inly | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
would impact on their ability to do their investigative judge gdnerals. | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
I want to represent those representations very carefully and | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
then make a decision. -- look at those representations. If you have | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
had a meeting with the victhms of the hacking scandal and would then | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
in the eyes, saying you're not going to commence section 40, which seems | :15:15. | :15:16. | |
to be the indication you're giving, any time soon, have you told them | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
that face to face? I have mdt victims of phone hacking. H`ve you | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
told them that? I have not lade a decision so I have not told them. I | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
did not say that, I said, h`ve you told them you will make a ddcision | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
any time soon? I made it cldar to them that I was considering all | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
representations and would m`ke a decision in due course. | :15:42. | :15:43. | |
The committee then asked if Karen Bradley had made a decision | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
Do you accept that some of the programmes we all enjoy, or some of | :15:47. | :16:01. | |
us enjoy, things like Dispatches and the Paralympics... These ard the | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
kind of programmes that cle`rly would not thrive, almost certainly, | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
under privatised Channel 4 for a very obvious reason. Adverthsers | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
really don't want to adverthse in the middle of unreported world. It's | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
not sexy. There are two isstes there. Whether Channel 4 is added | :16:23. | :16:30. | |
dot-mac privatised or not does not impact them. Those programmds do not | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
generate enough advertising revenue in themselves to succeed. When you | :16:35. | :16:42. | |
look at things like Bake Off, it is the biggest programme with no | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
adverts on it at all in the world. Now, the advertising revenud that | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
potentially Channel 4 could receive from showing Bake Off may wdll pay | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
in itself for the Paralympics and the Dispatches. and in | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
You're watching Monday in P`rliament with me, Jo Shinn. | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
Still to come: Has the Midlands Engine outrun | :17:03. | :17:04. | |
Drugs companies who use a position as a sole supplier of a gendric | :17:05. | :17:13. | |
medicine to hike up the price many times over are the subject | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
of the Health Service Medical Supplies Bill, | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
which had its first debate in the Commons. | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
The Health Secretary explained to the Commons that the bill | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
for medicines was a large part of NHS spending. | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
NHS spending on medicines is second only to staffing costs. | :17:29. | :17:30. | |
The Health and Social Care Information Centre - | :17:31. | :17:32. | |
now NHS Digital - estimated that the NHS in England | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
spent over ?15.2 billion on medicines during 2015-16, | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
a rise of nearly 20% since 2010-2011. | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
With advances in science and our ageing population, | :17:46. | :17:47. | |
those costs can only continue to grow. | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
We rely on competition in the market to keep the prices | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
That generally works well and has, in combination with high levels | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
of generic prescribing, led to significant savings. | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
However, we are aware of sole instances where there is no | :18:08. | :18:09. | |
competition to keep prices down and companies have raised | :18:10. | :18:11. | |
their prices to what looks like an unreasonable | :18:12. | :18:13. | |
As highlighted by the investigation conducted by The Times earlher this | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
year, there are companies that appear to have made | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
it their business model to purchase off-patent medicines for whhch there | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
They then exploit a monopolx position to raise prices. | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
We cannot allow this practice to continue unchallenged. | :18:33. | :18:42. | |
an opportunity to address kdy issues that the for Mid Norfolk has updated | :18:43. | :18:53. | |
the House to set out that there are barriers in both domestic and | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
European legislation that prevent use of it because it isn't licensed. | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
But the skill of savings cotld be so vast that I feel there is a case for | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
introducing measures in this bill to allow the kind of issue to be | :19:10. | :19:11. | |
addressed. I am not aware that there is scope | :19:12. | :19:23. | |
to consider that important point in the Bill, but we should reflect | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
on what we can do to deal whth some of the anomalies in the drug | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
licensing regime that lead to the unintended consequences | :19:31. | :19:32. | |
that my honourable It is clear the market isn't serving | :19:33. | :19:44. | |
the patient or the taxpayer as well as it could. As we've heard, | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
expenditure on medicines is a significant and growing proportion | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
of the NHS budget, standing at 15.2 billion, an increase since 2011 One | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
can only imagine what would be no less all of the NHS has seen such an | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
increase. -- where we would be now. The Shadow Health Minister, | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
Justin Madders. Peers have again tried to press | :20:10. | :20:11. | |
the Government to offer reassurances The Government says it won't confirm | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
any long-term prospects until the fate of British pdople | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
living in the EU is settled. The only circumstances in which that | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
would not be possible are if British citizens' rights in other ET member | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
states were not protected in return. My Lords, would it not show | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
that we are still good Europeans if we gave an assurance to `ll EU | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
citizens living in this country regardless of Article 50 | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
or whatever, that they are welcome to stay here on the same rights as | :20:34. | :20:35. | |
they have had up to now? My Lords, I think that the Prime | :20:36. | :20:42. | |
Minister has been absolutelx Obviously, there is a negothation | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
to be gone through, the timhng of which I cannot state | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
to your Lordships' House because I do not know it, | :20:52. | :20:53. | |
but that will all be determhned Do the Government intend to seek | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
specific health care agreemdnts This is a matter of great ilportance | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
to British citizens, particularly the older ones, | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
living in other EU states. My Lords, health care agreelents, | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
as with any other agreements that we might seek through our | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
negotiation with the EU, will all be determined | :21:19. | :21:20. | |
in the fullness of time. Nearly 3,000 Britons applied | :21:21. | :21:28. | |
for citizenship in 18 Europdan countries over the first eight | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
months of this year, according to reports in the media - | :21:32. | :21:33. | |
a 250% increase on the figures That suggests that the Government's | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
stance is not having a helpful impact on our citizens living | :21:37. | :21:44. | |
abroad, let alone on EU cithzens Is it really, in the light | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
of the Government's answer just now, the Government's position | :21:48. | :21:57. | |
that they have no idea for how long the current uncertainty, | :21:58. | :21:59. | |
affecting millions of peopld, My Lords, there will obviously be | :22:00. | :22:01. | |
a huge process of negotiation with the EU as we exit it, | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
and we cannot give exact timescales or running | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
commentaries on negotiations. The Home Office Minister, | :22:09. | :22:21. | |
Lady Williams of Trafford. At Communities and Local Government | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
Questions, there was much t`lk of the "midlands engine" - | :22:25. | :22:26. | |
providing a regional economhc boost. But the Leigh MP and | :22:27. | :22:28. | |
Manchester Mayoral hopeful, Labour's Andy Burnham, | :22:29. | :22:30. | |
hoped that a similar, earlidr scheme One cannot help but notice that | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
all the talk these days Suddenly, the Northern Powerhouse | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
is about as popular on the Conservative Benches | :22:40. | :22:47. | |
as its originator, the right honourable | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
Member for Tatton. Although I am not against investment | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
in the Midlands, will the Sdcretary of State give a cast-iron gtarantee | :22:56. | :22:57. | |
that manifesto commitments to invest in the North, | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
including in High Speed 3, will not be delayed or diluted | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
by new commitments to the Mhdlands? I know that the right honourable | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
gentleman has significant albitions, but he must not talk down the North | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
at every opportunity. He will know that the Government | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
are as committed as ever to the Northern Powerhouse, | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
and that applies to all our commitments around | :23:19. | :23:20. | |
investment and growth. Later, a question on the importance | :23:21. | :23:21. | |
of tackling light pollution Light pollution is not just | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
a problem for people who want to look at the stars; | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
it is also a problem for birds, which become confused | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
about when they should begin They sing for so long that they have | :23:36. | :23:37. | |
no energy left to mate. I am sure that the Minister | :23:38. | :23:45. | |
understands why this is a problem. I wish to hear the honourable lady, | :23:46. | :23:54. | |
at such point as she has had the opportunity to regain | :23:55. | :24:13. | |
the necessary composure. Brexit does give us the opportunity | :24:14. | :24:22. | |
to control public procurement, so when the minister is talking | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
to local authorities about what kind of LED lighting to purchase, | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
will he encourage them to bty lights from Thorn in Spennymoor | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
in my constituency? It is always important to rdserve | :24:34. | :24:52. | |
enough energy Marcus Jones calming Two new Members of Parliament were | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
welcomed to the House of Colmons Will the member wishing to take a | :24:56. | :25:04. | |
seat please come to the table? The first, Tracy Brabin, | :25:05. | :25:15. | |
replaced her friend Jo Cox, 53-year-old Thomas Mair has been | :25:16. | :25:17. | |
charged with Mrs Cox's murddr. The other main political parties | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
did not stand against Ms Br`bin The second, Robert Courts, | :25:21. | :25:23. | |
replaces David Cameron The Prime Minister, | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
watching his swearing in from the front bench, | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
joined Mr Courts and Mr Camdron on the campaign trail | :25:36. | :25:37. | |
in Oxfordshire. Keith Macdougall's here for the rest | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
of the week, but, from me, | :25:41. | :25:46. |