:00:17. > :00:18.Hello and welcome to Monday in Parliament, our look
:00:19. > :00:24.Angry scenes in the House of Commons as the Home Secretary announces
:00:25. > :00:27.there will not be an inquirx into the 1984 Battle of Orgreave -
:00:28. > :00:35.one of the most violent events of the miners strike...
:00:36. > :00:42.Aren't we right in concluding that the Establishment stitch up that she
:00:43. > :00:44.has just announced today is nothing more than a nakedly politic`l act?
:00:45. > :00:46.Amber Rudd insists she's wehghed the decision carefully.
:00:47. > :00:47.The Health Secretary clashes with the Conservative chair
:00:48. > :00:54.of the Health Select Committee on England's NHS funding...
:00:55. > :01:01.I stick by those figures. I don t agree with the letter she wrote
:01:02. > :01:02.today and I'm afraid I do think her calculation is wrong.
:01:03. > :01:04.And the government says it won't be releasing the details
:01:05. > :01:07.of its agreement with the Nhssan car plant in Sunderland.
:01:08. > :01:11.There will be no public inqtiry into the events at the Orgrdave
:01:12. > :01:13.coking works in South Yorkshire during the 1984 miners strike,
:01:14. > :01:17.The police reaction to a picket - with charges by mounted polhce,
:01:18. > :01:22.and allegations police statdments were pre-prepared by other officers,
:01:23. > :01:25.has led to a long-running campaign for an inquiry.
:01:26. > :01:28.In angry exchanges in the House of Commons, the Home Secret`ry
:01:29. > :01:30.defended her decision, saying the so-called Battle
:01:31. > :01:34.of Orgreave did not compare to the Hillsborough disaster,
:01:35. > :01:38.because there had been no ddaths or miscarriages of justice.
:01:39. > :01:47.I have concluded there is no case for either a statutory inquhry
:01:48. > :01:57.This is an astonishing, and frankly chain for
:01:58. > :02:01.-- frankly shameful decision by the government.
:02:02. > :02:03.The government have led those families up the garden path
:02:04. > :02:06.Does she not understand that the disinfecting
:02:07. > :02:08.light of justice inquiry, a judicial inquiry, is the only
:02:09. > :02:11.thing that will give those communities and those familhes
:02:12. > :02:14.the confidence that they nedd back in the South Yorkshire Police force?
:02:15. > :02:15.Once again, the name of South Yorkshire Police
:02:16. > :02:18.does besmirch the brave officers on the front line.
:02:19. > :02:20.And I have raised in this House on several occasions
:02:21. > :02:23.and I will raise it again today will my right honourable frhend
:02:24. > :02:28.along with my right honourable friend the police instead,
:02:29. > :02:37.meet with me to have a serious discussion about whether
:02:38. > :02:38.South Yorkshire Police and West Yorkshire Police
:02:39. > :02:41.could be merged to become Yorkshire Police so that thd name
:02:42. > :02:44.South Yorkshire Police does not do an injustice to the officers
:02:45. > :02:46.who are bravely putting thehr lives on the line every day?
:02:47. > :02:50.Why is it that the government, and it appears to be the government,
:02:51. > :02:52.have now taken a decision which is contrary to the ond
:02:53. > :02:55.that the previous Home Secrdtary, now the Prime Minister, gavd
:02:56. > :02:57.in answer to my right honourable friend several months ago?
:02:58. > :03:01.I can tell the honourable gentleman that I had taken
:03:02. > :03:07.I have spoken to the former Home Secretary about the decision
:03:08. > :03:11.and I have ensured that all the matters and the papdrs
:03:12. > :03:15.We have taken our time to arrive at this decision.
:03:16. > :03:21.Only a willingness to look at all the evidence.
:03:22. > :03:23.While the public enquiries can, in some instances, be successful,
:03:24. > :03:26.too often they cost huge amounts of money, they take many ye`rs
:03:27. > :03:34.and they don't even answer the question they asked.
:03:35. > :03:40.Well, I thank my honourable friend for that point and in a way,
:03:41. > :03:42.the easier decision would h`ve been for the government
:03:43. > :03:46.But I cannot see that it is in the public interest,
:03:47. > :03:48.given the substantial changds to policing that has
:03:49. > :03:53.Given that the IPCC found evidence of perjury and perversion
:03:54. > :03:56.of the course of justice, and given that in the last lonth,
:03:57. > :04:03.new evidence has emerged from former police officers
:04:04. > :04:05.who were at Orgreave, orchestrated violence and the mass
:04:06. > :04:08.manufacture of police statelents, aren't we right in concluding
:04:09. > :04:11.that the establishment stitch up that she has just announced today
:04:12. > :04:15.is nothing more than a nakedly political act?
:04:16. > :04:22.The right honourable gentleman is entirely wrong.
:04:23. > :04:26.He chooses to politicise it where there is none here.
:04:27. > :04:29.I had a meeting, as he knows, with the campaign group.
:04:30. > :04:32.We had a frank exchange of information about it.
:04:33. > :04:35.But the fact is, just because he disagrees
:04:36. > :04:38.with the decision I have made, does not mean that it is
:04:39. > :04:44.I have made it honestly, based on the evidence.
:04:45. > :04:47.I wonder whether we could not consider the House having
:04:48. > :04:49.the courage to have a Select Committee inquiry?
:04:50. > :04:52.I say this because I can understand the government is dubious
:04:53. > :04:58.about another public enquirhes with wall-to-wall lawyers
:04:59. > :05:00.costing tens of millions of pounds and taking years.
:05:01. > :05:03.But if the government could free an ad hoc Select Committee
:05:04. > :05:05.where there is a head of steam behind the issue
:05:06. > :05:07.from the Osmotherley rules, and we could get a proper
:05:08. > :05:10.Select Committee under a senior member of the House and be `ble
:05:11. > :05:12.to interview all witnesses, including advisers to ministers
:05:13. > :05:15.we could deal with the sort of issue much more cheaply
:05:16. > :05:18.Well, it's a very interesting suggestion
:05:19. > :05:24.I believe that sort of setup would be a matter for the House
:05:25. > :05:27.We know the South Yorkshire Police lied about what happened
:05:28. > :05:31.at Hillsborough, yet only five years earlier,
:05:32. > :05:35.the same South Yorkshire Police many of the same commanders,
:05:36. > :05:38.behaved in a very similar way at Orgreave.
:05:39. > :05:41.The Orgreave families and campaigners need the sale
:05:42. > :05:52.-- the same justice as Hillsborough had.
:05:53. > :05:54.They need the same type of independent inquiry
:05:55. > :05:57.I would respectfully say to the right honourable ladx
:05:58. > :05:59.that the Hillsborough situation was quite different to Orgrdave
:06:00. > :06:06.It was right that we had an inquiry that analyse exactly
:06:07. > :06:17.miscarriages of justice, there were no deaths.
:06:18. > :06:23.The right honourable lady should be aware.
:06:24. > :06:26.Therefore, it doesn't merit the same level of status as a public inquiry
:06:27. > :06:36.The Health Secretary has defended his claim that ?10 billion
:06:37. > :06:40.has been made available to NHS front line services in England.
:06:41. > :06:43.But a Shadow Health Minister, whose urgent question on thd issue
:06:44. > :06:47.summoned Jeremy Hunt to the Commons - said the only way it could be more
:06:48. > :06:50.discredited is if it were on the side of a bus driven
:06:51. > :06:58.After last year's spending review, I can confirm to the House
:06:59. > :07:04.that the NHS will in fact rdceive an increase of ?10 billion hn real
:07:05. > :07:06.terms over the six years since the five-year forward
:07:07. > :07:10.In cash terms, that will sed the NHS budget increase
:07:11. > :07:19.from ?98.1 billion in 2014-05, to ?119.9 billion in 2020-2021.
:07:20. > :07:23.A highly significant rise at a time when public finances are severely
:07:24. > :07:31.constrained in the deficit this government regrettably inherited.
:07:32. > :07:36.Isn't it the reality, Mr Spdaker, that this government has cut adult
:07:37. > :07:38.social care, they have cut the public health --
:07:39. > :07:40.public health budget, has cut the NHS capital budget
:07:41. > :07:43.and now we learn that the average amount we spend on health c`re
:07:44. > :07:49.for each person in this country will actually fall in 2018 , 19
:07:50. > :07:51.Does that not raise series questions, Mr Speaker,
:07:52. > :08:03.about the claims ministers and indeed Prime Minister is having
:08:04. > :08:07.-- and indeed Prime Ministers has been making from that dispatch box?
:08:08. > :08:09.In fact, the only way that the government's figurds
:08:10. > :08:12.could be further discredited is if the secretary of statd slap
:08:13. > :08:15.them on the side of a bus and got the Foreign Secretary to drhve it!
:08:16. > :08:18.Labour's promise of additional funding was ?2.5 billion.
:08:19. > :08:21.That is not ?6 billion, not ?4 billion, but ?2.5 billion
:08:22. > :08:24.more, less than a third of what the NHS said they ndeded.
:08:25. > :08:27.And even if you accept the chair of the Select Committee's ntmbers,
:08:28. > :08:30.which I will go on to explahn to the House, I do not,
:08:31. > :08:33.Labour were pledging, over the course of the Parlhament,
:08:34. > :08:37.only half what this governmdnt has actually delivered in the fhrst year
:08:38. > :08:42.I accept that he doesn't agree with the health committee's
:08:43. > :08:53.appraisal of the ?10 million figure, but I'm afraid I stick
:08:54. > :08:56.-- the ?10 billion figure, H'm afraid I stick by those figtres
:08:57. > :08:59.Well, let me start by saying that I have enormous respect
:09:00. > :09:03.I respect her passion for the NHS, our knowledge about it
:09:04. > :09:09.So I would always listen very carefully to anything that she says.
:09:10. > :09:14.I hope she will also understand that just as she speaks plainly today,
:09:15. > :09:18.I need to speak plainly back and say that I don't agree with the letter
:09:19. > :09:23.she wrote today and I'm afr`id I do think calculations wrong.
:09:24. > :09:26.Isn't there an urgent need to be absolutely straight with thd British
:09:27. > :09:29.public about the resources we will need to maintain both
:09:30. > :09:32.the NHS and the care system and to confront the fact
:09:33. > :09:36.that we will all actually h`ve to pay a bit more to ensure
:09:37. > :09:41.that our loved ones get card when they need it?
:09:42. > :09:45.When he and I worked in govdrnment, we both campaigned hard on lany
:09:46. > :09:49.occasions for more funding for the NHS, including ment`l
:09:50. > :09:52.health, which is a particul`r priority of both of ours.
:09:53. > :09:55.I think the answer to this question is yes.
:09:56. > :09:58.The Secretary of State will know that I wrote to him over thd summer
:09:59. > :10:05.because at Wellstone, we had trolleys bumper-to-btmper
:10:06. > :10:11.-- at the Royal Stoke, we h`d trolleys bumper-to-bumper in
:10:12. > :10:13.hospital corridor is not a winter, but in high summer.
:10:14. > :10:15.Since then, we have had mord hospital bed closures
:10:16. > :10:19.So can I repeat the invitathon and ask the Secretary of St`te
:10:20. > :10:21.to come to Stoke-on-Trent and see for himself the crisis
:10:22. > :10:23.in the funding settlement, hitting those with the most
:10:24. > :10:27.I'm very happy to visit his hospital, it is a hospital H have
:10:28. > :10:31.I know it has been particul`rly challenging in the wake
:10:32. > :10:33.of what happened in neighbotring mid Staffs.
:10:34. > :10:35.If the government has stood by their word and invested
:10:36. > :10:38.the promised ?10 billion in the NHS, does the Secretary of State agree
:10:39. > :10:44.that the downgrade of Dewsbtry A E might not have been necessary?
:10:45. > :10:48.First of all, can I welcome to her place in this House.
:10:49. > :10:52.I'm sure she will make extrdmely important contribution and xes,
:10:53. > :10:55.she is filling very big boots, but she has made a very good start,
:10:56. > :11:02.In terms of what happens with A E department,
:11:03. > :11:06.the changes in the pattern of services we provide is something
:11:07. > :11:10.that has been a feature of both when her party has been
:11:11. > :11:14.in power and when my own party has been in power.
:11:15. > :11:18.Because the needs of the people who use the NHS also changes.
:11:19. > :11:20.The Health Secretary replying to Labour's Tracy Brabin,
:11:21. > :11:25.who replaced her friend Jo Cox as MP for Batley and Spen.
:11:26. > :11:28.The Business Secretary has hndicated he won't release his letter
:11:29. > :11:32.to Nissan which led to the car maker's decision on new invdstment
:11:33. > :11:35.at its Sunderland plant - securing the future of 7,000 jobs.
:11:36. > :11:38.Appearing in the Commons, Greg Clark was pressed to provide
:11:39. > :11:41.more details of his dealings with Nissan and Labour
:11:42. > :11:48.called for his letter to the firm to be published...
:11:49. > :11:51.A stunning tribute to the local workforce which has made
:11:52. > :11:53.the Sunderland plant, in the words of the Chief Executive
:11:54. > :11:56.of Nissan, a globally competitive powerhouse.
:11:57. > :11:58.We are immensely proud of it and proud of them.
:11:59. > :12:01.And of course, the decision is great news for the people
:12:02. > :12:12.For our world-class automothve sector and for the whole of
:12:13. > :12:21.Mr Clark said he had given assurances to Nissan
:12:22. > :12:27.on competitiveness, training and innovation...
:12:28. > :12:30.In our negotiations, to leave the EU, we will emphasise
:12:31. > :12:32.the very strong common ground that there is, especially
:12:33. > :12:34.in the automotive sector between ourselves and other EU
:12:35. > :12:37.member states in ensuring that trade between us can be free
:12:38. > :12:41.A good deal for the UK can `lso be a good deal for four other lember
:12:42. > :12:49.states and that is how we will approach the negoti`tions.
:12:50. > :12:54.Mr Speaker, can I join the Secretary of State in warmly welcoming
:12:55. > :12:56.Nissan's decision to keep production in the UK.
:12:57. > :12:59.It's fantastic news for Nissan's 7,000 employees and the 38,000
:13:00. > :13:01.plus employees who rely on its supply chain.
:13:02. > :13:04.It's fantastic news for Sunderland and for the country as a whole.
:13:05. > :13:06.It's also a testament the skill relativity and ability
:13:07. > :13:08.of the workforce and managelent that Nissan has such confidence
:13:09. > :13:17.But he said Mr Clark had refused to be transparent
:13:18. > :13:34.We on these benches won the economy firing on all cylinders,
:13:35. > :13:36.not spluttering along on one or two macro.
:13:37. > :13:38.As we embark on Brexit, Britain needs a government
:13:39. > :13:41.that is visionary, not reactive that is strategic, not shambolic.
:13:42. > :13:43.As a start, Mr Speaker, we need a government
:13:44. > :13:45.that is transparent and accountable instead of secretive.
:13:46. > :13:48.I say to the honourable gentleman, if you didn't offer Nissan
:13:49. > :13:51.a sweetener, then what have you got to hide?
:13:52. > :13:54.My responsibility on behalf of the government is to encourage
:13:55. > :13:56.and to attract investment in this country.
:13:57. > :13:58.And it's important that when companies of all types
:13:59. > :14:00.and all sectors share with me their investment pl`ns,
:14:01. > :14:03.that are of information to their prospective compethtors,
:14:04. > :14:06.that they can be assured that they are not going to be
:14:07. > :14:11.disclosed to their competitors, to their disadvantage.
:14:12. > :14:14.She said yesterday that our objective yesterday would bd to have
:14:15. > :14:18.continued access without tariffs or bureaucratic impediment.
:14:19. > :14:21.Now, that has not been said today but I think that's correct.
:14:22. > :14:24.But if that objective is not realised, what will the cost of each
:14:25. > :14:32.of the taxpayer in terms of a deal with Nissan?
:14:33. > :14:36.-- what will the cost be to the taxpayer.
:14:37. > :14:39.How much will it cost to make good those tariffs should
:14:40. > :14:42.That is the key question in terms of this.
:14:43. > :14:50.He should just come clean on one other issue he left offers list
:14:51. > :14:58.-- -- he left off his list of things.
:14:59. > :15:01.which I'm sure he did say to them when he spoke to thdm,
:15:02. > :15:03.which was he reminded them that the UK outside
:15:04. > :15:06.the European Union will be `ble to set its own new trade de`ls
:15:07. > :15:09.and just guess which car manufacturers will benefit from free
:15:10. > :15:11.trade deals with the rest of the world?
:15:12. > :15:13.It's a welcome example of t`rgeted government commitment
:15:14. > :15:15.to a successful company in a strategically vital sector
:15:16. > :15:19.However, will be same sort of targeted investment be available
:15:20. > :15:22.If so, how will these be selected in the context
:15:23. > :15:26.Special deals for the car industry, for the financial services sector,
:15:27. > :15:29.actually offer very little comfort to the literally thousands of small
:15:30. > :15:31.businesses and the length and breadth of this country,
:15:32. > :15:33.which incidentally, does go north of Newcastle as well.
:15:34. > :15:36.Isn't this deal a signal to those Remainers who have become
:15:37. > :15:38.Remoaners that they should recalibrate their doom and gloom
:15:39. > :15:40.and become far more optimistic about the future of this cotntry
:15:41. > :15:47.Can he tell the House whether his offer of tariff free
:15:48. > :15:50.access to the European markdt will be available to all other parts
:15:51. > :15:53.of our manufacturing sector, given what he said a moment ago
:15:54. > :15:56.when, if I hurt him right, he indicated that the government
:15:57. > :15:59.might take a different approach to different sectors.
:16:00. > :16:03.And if that means that some of them might not benefit from tariff free
:16:04. > :16:05.access, they'd like to know pretty quickly.
:16:06. > :16:08.It's not in my gift to offer tariff free access to the single m`rket.
:16:09. > :16:12.What I was describing would be what would be a positive outcome
:16:13. > :16:15.from the negotiations and therefore the demeanour we should takd
:16:16. > :16:28.As I meet, and my colleagues meet, my right noble friend paid le
:16:29. > :16:30.a personal compliment, my team share my vigour in talking
:16:31. > :16:33.to companies up and down thd land to make sure that we understand
:16:34. > :16:36.what is important to them to inform our negotiations.
:16:37. > :16:40.That seems to be an eminently sensible thing to do.
:16:41. > :16:41.You're watching Monday in Parliament.
:16:42. > :16:44.Still to come, the House of Lords takes a look at children's teeth
:16:45. > :16:55.There is an epidemic of child tooth decay and hospital admissions for
:16:56. > :16:57.extractions. My lord, the state of the nation's children's teeth is
:16:58. > :17:02.shocking. The scheme that assesses
:17:03. > :17:14.claimants of disability bendfits is to be overhauled,
:17:15. > :17:16.with ministers promising to extend a "revolution" of getting
:17:17. > :17:18.more people into work. The Work and Pensions Secretary
:17:19. > :17:20.Damian Green, told the Commons he wanted a personalised wax to help
:17:21. > :17:23.more disabled people find jobs. But the opposition have acctsed
:17:24. > :17:25.the Government of talk It's clear that for many disabled
:17:26. > :17:30.people, the barriers to entdring For people in work who get hll,
:17:31. > :17:35.too often fall out of work, lose contact, lose confidence
:17:36. > :17:37.and don't return to work, the impact extends far
:17:38. > :17:38.beyond the individual. Families suffer, the health
:17:39. > :17:40.service faces extra strain, But most of all,
:17:41. > :17:48.it's a human tragedy. Potential is left unfulfilldd,
:17:49. > :17:52.lives are lessened. Of course, health and welfare
:17:53. > :17:54.systems must support those that It should offer the opportunity
:17:55. > :18:01.of work for all those who c`n, provide help for those who could
:18:02. > :18:06.and care for those who can't. It is the help for those
:18:07. > :18:09.who could that through this green This is the third Secretary of State
:18:10. > :18:15.who has promised a plan, and yet During his announcement tod`y,
:18:16. > :18:22.the Secretary of State clailed that he was confronting
:18:23. > :18:23.negative attitudes, The audacity of this
:18:24. > :18:28.statement is offensive. The gov-mac has been responsible
:18:29. > :18:33.for more than anything of the negative attitudes
:18:34. > :18:34.towards disabled people Only this morning,
:18:35. > :18:52.he himself described as abld disabled
:18:53. > :18:53.people as sitting at home The consultation itself demonstrates
:18:54. > :18:57.that the Government is failhng to understand the reality of many
:18:58. > :18:59.disabled people's lives. And the real anxiety that they feel
:19:00. > :19:02.about the coded messages One of the keys to success hn ending
:19:03. > :19:06.the enormous waste of human potential is for the very fhrst time
:19:07. > :19:09.to get health services and his department working together
:19:10. > :19:11.far more effectively at a community level to ensure that people
:19:12. > :19:14.on long-term sickness benefhts get meaningful employment support
:19:15. > :19:15.and effective health intervdntion, because at the moment, the current
:19:16. > :19:18.system to often provides nehther. At my surgery on Saturday,
:19:19. > :19:21.I saw a man who will be 59 in two weeks' time,
:19:22. > :19:23.walking with tremendous difficulties on two crutches,
:19:24. > :19:25.who has had his employment During the time I was
:19:26. > :19:28.speaking to him, he broke What sort of position are wd in that
:19:29. > :19:33.a law-abiding person of his age suffering from disablement
:19:34. > :19:35.is in a position where he goes to his member of Parliament
:19:36. > :19:38.is in such a state of distrdss I welcome the green paper
:19:39. > :19:46.in its broadest sense and a dialogue about how we can improve
:19:47. > :19:49.the livelihood of disabled people, but the point has just been made,
:19:50. > :19:52.we need to make sure that ftnding In order to protect people back
:19:53. > :19:56.into work, and those Perhaps there are two words missing
:19:57. > :20:01.from the document today and the Minister's statement today,
:20:02. > :20:04.and that is compassion and dignity. Let's hope that we get that
:20:05. > :20:07.in the response from the Government. Can I suggest to the Ministdr two
:20:08. > :20:10.things he could do for people One is to ensure that those
:20:11. > :20:16.assessors undertaking work `bility tests are properly qualified,
:20:17. > :20:18.and secondly, could we take out the small number of people
:20:19. > :20:21.with long-term enduring mental health conditions who are ndver
:20:22. > :20:23.going to work and stop them being on this merry-go-round
:20:24. > :20:26.which is neither good for them I am grateful for the expertise
:20:27. > :20:30.that the honourable And I will take both
:20:31. > :20:36.his points on board, in fact his second point,
:20:37. > :20:39.he may have seen, I have already announced that for those who have
:20:40. > :20:42.got a condition which already means that they can't work
:20:43. > :20:44.and which will only stay the same or get worse,
:20:45. > :20:48.we are going to stop retesthng them, because that seems to me a piece
:20:49. > :20:51.of pointless and heartless bureaucracy that we can
:20:52. > :21:01.happily get rid of. A UN convention from 1954 sdeking
:21:02. > :21:04.to protect the cultural property of different countries is fhnally
:21:05. > :21:07.making its way into UK law. The measure has support
:21:08. > :21:11.from Labour and the SNP. But it was suggested that some
:21:12. > :21:14.of the most recent destructhon of cultural heritage by so-called
:21:15. > :21:17.Islamic State or Daesh would not In recent months, we have sden
:21:18. > :21:22.the wanton destruction of ctltural heritage in the Middle East
:21:23. > :21:29.and North Africa. These tragic events are a rdminder
:21:30. > :21:32.of how vital it is that the UK ratifies this convention and makes
:21:33. > :21:35.a strong statement about the importance we place
:21:36. > :21:40.on protecting cultural heritage Honourable members will remdmber
:21:41. > :21:47.that it was in 1700 BC that the Assyrians invaded
:21:48. > :21:52.Mesopotamia, now called Ram`di and Falluja in Iraq,
:21:53. > :21:54.and stole the stone gods of the Arab tribes and took them back to Nineveh
:21:55. > :21:58.to force the Arabs to negothate to get their gods back,
:21:59. > :22:02.and it is a sad fact, I'm afraid, Mr Speaker,
:22:03. > :22:09.that the current treatment of cultural artefacts
:22:10. > :22:11.in the exact same locations has progressed so little over
:22:12. > :22:15.the intervening 3500 years. A people's cultural heritagd
:22:16. > :22:17.is a crucial part of who thdy are, For almost all communities
:22:18. > :22:29.anywhere in the world, it is a symbol whose import`nce
:22:30. > :22:33.cannot be overstated. What also cannot be overstated
:22:34. > :22:35.is the social and economic importance that that cultur`l
:22:36. > :22:37.heritage will be in helping Syria, Iraq and Libya and others,
:22:38. > :22:40.once Daesh is defeated, Isn't the irony that part
:22:41. > :22:58.of the topicality of this bhll and the enthusiasm for it h`s come
:22:59. > :23:02.from seeing the horrors of Daesh in Syria and elsewhere,
:23:03. > :23:04.but also the fact that this bill doesn't fully cover the acthvities
:23:05. > :23:07.of Daesh, because as I understand, it only covers unlawfully exported
:23:08. > :23:09.cultural property from occupied territories, of which Daesh
:23:10. > :23:11.is not covered by that. The Secretary of State said she d
:23:12. > :23:15.write to him further on that point. Now, the state of children's teeth
:23:16. > :23:17.was under discussion in the House of Lords,
:23:18. > :23:20.with the Liberal Democrat peer Lady Benjamin,
:23:21. > :23:21.a children's broadcaster, telling peers action was nedded
:23:22. > :23:23.as a matter of urgency. In the Government's
:23:24. > :23:25.childhood obesity plan, Even though there is an epidemic
:23:26. > :23:33.of child tooth decay, and hospital My lords, the nation's children s
:23:34. > :23:38.teeth, the state of the nathon's children's teeth is shocking,
:23:39. > :23:41.a huge cost to the NHS. Common sense says we need
:23:42. > :23:48.targeted action now. The noble lady is right that
:23:49. > :23:53.childhood oral health is very poor, 75% of children no longer h`ve tooth
:23:54. > :24:04.decay compared to 69% in 2008. And the Government's policy is very
:24:05. > :24:07.much around prevention The new contract being disctssed
:24:08. > :24:16.with the dentists now will put it more on a capitative basis rather
:24:17. > :24:24.than an activity basis. To introduce fluoride into the water
:24:25. > :24:29.and ignore those people who think it is a bad thing, when all
:24:30. > :24:32.the evidence seems to suggest that it would be a very good thing,
:24:33. > :24:35.especially for deprived comlunities. My lords, I think the evidence
:24:36. > :24:37.for fluoride is incontrovertible, There may be other issues
:24:38. > :24:41.attached to fluoride, but in terms of teeth,
:24:42. > :24:43.it is unquestionably a good thing. Interestingly in Birmingham
:24:44. > :24:45.where they have had fluoridd in the water for many years,
:24:46. > :24:52.the incidence of child tooth decay is 29%, whereas in Blackburn,
:24:53. > :24:55.it is 57%, in Hull, it is 28%. So I think the evidence
:24:56. > :24:57.is very strong. Given the harm caused by high
:24:58. > :25:03.levels of sugar added to some processed foods,
:25:04. > :25:06.would the Minister agree with me that the present restraints
:25:07. > :25:08.on the food industry are wodfully inadequate, and would he further
:25:09. > :25:10.agree that much tougher measures need to be taken if the Govdrnment
:25:11. > :25:14.is to meet its own objectivds in public health on oral he`lth
:25:15. > :25:22.diabetes and obesity? I think the introduction of a sugar
:25:23. > :25:27.levy is evidence that the Government is taking this extremely seriously,
:25:28. > :25:30.and believe that it can't jtst be left solely to industry
:25:31. > :25:44.to reduce sugar levels. The House of Lords, online dvening
:25:45. > :25:47.wear children were roaming the streets for sweets!