:00:16. > :00:17.Hello and welcome to Monday in Parliament, our look
:00:18. > :00:23.The headlines: The Speaker of the House of Commons has told MPs
:00:24. > :00:30.he doesn't want President Trump to address the Houses of Parliament.
:00:31. > :00:40.Our opposition to racism and to sexism, and our support for equality
:00:41. > :00:44.before the law, and an independent judiciary, are hugely important
:00:45. > :00:45.considerations in the House of Commons.
:00:46. > :00:46.By comparison, slightly more measured tones
:00:47. > :00:49.from the Prime Minister on the special relationship,
:00:50. > :00:53.as she reports back from an informal EU summit in Malta.
:00:54. > :01:01.We should engage patiently and constructively with America, as a
:01:02. > :01:05.friend and ally. An ally which has helped guarantee the longest period
:01:06. > :01:05.of peace which Europe has ever known.
:01:06. > :01:09.And radically different views as MPs try to get to the bottom
:01:10. > :01:11.of what it's like to work in the "gig" economy.
:01:12. > :01:16.First: The Speaker of the House of Commons has told MPs
:01:17. > :01:18.he is strongly opposed to President Trump
:01:19. > :01:22.on his state visit to the United Kingdom.
:01:23. > :01:24.John Bercow said the migrant travel ban has made
:01:25. > :01:28.He said that an address was not an automatic right,
:01:29. > :01:40.Before the imposition of the migrant ban, I would myself have been
:01:41. > :01:46.strongly opposed to an address by President Trump in Westminster Hall.
:01:47. > :01:53.After the imposition of the migrant ban by President Trump, I am even
:01:54. > :02:00.more strongly opposed to an address by President Trump in Westminster
:02:01. > :02:08.Hall. So far as the Royal Gallery is concerned, and again, I operate on
:02:09. > :02:13.advice, I do not perhaps have as strong a say in that matter. It is
:02:14. > :02:18.in a different part of the building, although customarily an invitation
:02:19. > :02:25.to a visiting leader to deliver an address their would be issued in the
:02:26. > :02:31.names of the two speakers. I would not wish to issue an invitation to
:02:32. > :02:37.President Trump to speak in the Royal Gallery. And I conclude by
:02:38. > :02:44.saying to the honourable gentleman this. We value our relationship with
:02:45. > :02:49.the United States. If the state visit takes place that is way beyond
:02:50. > :02:58.and above the pay grade of the speaker. However, as far as this
:02:59. > :03:06.place is concerned, I feel very strongly that our opposition to
:03:07. > :03:12.racism and to sexism, and our support for equality before the law
:03:13. > :03:13.and an independent judiciary are hugely important considerations in
:03:14. > :03:16.the House of Commons. The long-standing Labour MP,
:03:17. > :03:18.Dennis Skinner, stood Clapping is not normally permitted
:03:19. > :03:40.in the chamber. No, we shouldn't have clapping. We
:03:41. > :03:44.shouldn't have clapping in the chamber, but sometimes it is easier
:03:45. > :03:46.just to let it go them to make a huge fuss about it. But there you
:03:47. > :03:46.go. In more moderate tones,
:03:47. > :03:50.earlier Theresa May told MPs the world should engage patiently
:03:51. > :03:52.with the new US administration. While reporting back
:03:53. > :03:56.on an informal EU summit in Malta, the Prime Minister said
:03:57. > :03:59.it was important other Nato members kept to their 2% defence spend,
:04:00. > :04:03.and said again that the rights of EU citizens to stay in the UK had to be
:04:04. > :04:07.part of the Brexit negotiations, because that was what
:04:08. > :04:11.other countries wanted. Labour says the uncertainty on that
:04:12. > :04:16.could be ended much sooner. Theresa May began by paying
:04:17. > :04:18.tribute to the Queen, on the occasion
:04:19. > :04:27.of her Sapphire Jubilee. Mr Speaker, before I turn to the
:04:28. > :04:32.European Council I am sure that the whole house will want to join me in
:04:33. > :04:36.sending our congratulations to Her Majesty the Queen, as she marks her
:04:37. > :04:40.Sapphire Jubilee today. It is testament to Her Majesty's selfless
:04:41. > :04:45.devotion to the nation that she is not marking being the first monarch
:04:46. > :04:48.to serve for 65 years with any celebration, but instead getting on
:04:49. > :04:51.with the job to which she has dedicated her life. Written is
:04:52. > :04:55.leaving the European Union but it is not leaving Europe and the global
:04:56. > :04:59.Britain which stands tall in the world will be a good friend and ally
:05:00. > :05:02.to all of our European partners. So at this summit which showed how
:05:03. > :05:06.Britain will continue to play a leading role in Europe, long after
:05:07. > :05:09.we have left the EU, in particular through our contribution to the
:05:10. > :05:12.challenge of managing mass migration, through our special
:05:13. > :05:15.relationship with America, and through the new and equal
:05:16. > :05:18.partnership that we want to build between the EU and independent,
:05:19. > :05:21.self-governing global Britain. Of course there are some areas where we
:05:22. > :05:24.disagree with the approach of the new Administration, and we should be
:05:25. > :05:27.clear about those disagreements and about the values that underpin our
:05:28. > :05:33.response to the global challenges that we face. But I also argue at
:05:34. > :05:36.this council that we should engage patiently and constructively with
:05:37. > :05:40.America as a friend and ally, and ally that has helped guarantee the
:05:41. > :05:44.longest period of peace that Europe has ever known. For we should be
:05:45. > :05:48.clear, Mr Speaker, that the alternative of division and
:05:49. > :05:50.confrontation would only embolden those who would do us harm, wherever
:05:51. > :05:52.they may be. But the Labour MP
:05:53. > :06:00.Jeremy Corbyn cast doubt So while the Prime Minister is
:06:01. > :06:04.lecturing other countries, can she tell the house of why the government
:06:05. > :06:11.change the accounting rules to include aspects of expenditure that
:06:12. > :06:16.were not previously included? The Defence Select Committee, in 2015,
:06:17. > :06:23.noted the government is only meeting the 2% figure by including other
:06:24. > :06:27.areas, such as pensions, which have not been included before. And goes
:06:28. > :06:33.on to say this redefinition of defence expenditure undermines, to
:06:34. > :06:37.some extent, the credibility of the government's assertion that the 2%
:06:38. > :06:42.figure represents an increase. Labour has been unequivocal that it
:06:43. > :06:50.is within this government's gift to guarantee the rights of EU citizens
:06:51. > :06:54.to remain in this country. There is no need to wait for negotiations to
:06:55. > :07:00.begin. The government could do it now. This is not a question about
:07:01. > :07:05.Brexit. It is a question about human rights, democracy, and decency,
:07:06. > :07:10.towards people who have lived and worked in these countries, and many
:07:11. > :07:16.families here have children born here, and I think we must guarantee
:07:17. > :07:21.their rights. Did the Prime Minister remind European colleagues that in
:07:22. > :07:28.Scotland we voted by 62% to remain within the European Union, and that
:07:29. > :07:32.only one, only one, Member of Parliament representing a Scottish
:07:33. > :07:38.constituency voted for her Brexit legislation? Mr Speaker, we are
:07:39. > :07:42.getting to a stage where warm words from the government are not enough.
:07:43. > :07:45.It is the member state that is supposed to negotiate on all of our
:07:46. > :07:50.behalf is within the European Union. Scotland didn't warrant a single
:07:51. > :07:54.mention in the prime Minister's statement. She now has the
:07:55. > :07:58.opportunity to tell us what Scottish priorities did she raised at the
:07:59. > :07:59.European Summit? Did she raised any at all?
:08:00. > :08:01.The Prime Minister replied that she was putting forward
:08:02. > :08:08.The issue of EU nationals living in the United Kingdom was returned
:08:09. > :08:10.to, as members of Parliament continued their scrutiny
:08:11. > :08:13.of legislation which will lead to a triggering of Article 50
:08:14. > :08:17.The Government says the fate of European Union citizens living
:08:18. > :08:21.in the UK must be decided along with that of UK citizens living
:08:22. > :08:24.But one senior Labour MP said the Prime Minister
:08:25. > :08:36.On the one hand, she says no one who is lawfully here has anything to
:08:37. > :08:40.worry about. On the other hand, she says that she can't commit to giving
:08:41. > :08:45.them residency rights, because their future must depart of the
:08:46. > :08:50.negotiations. I just cannot feel it is anyway right to use the lives of
:08:51. > :08:55.3 million people and their families as a bargaining chip. They and their
:08:56. > :09:03.families are not pawns in a game of poker with the EU. They cannot be
:09:04. > :09:08.used as a human shield, as we battle it out in Europe for our UK citizens
:09:09. > :09:13.in other countries abroad. That may well put at rest the concerns of EU
:09:14. > :09:17.nationals in Britain but it seems to me it was simply throwing overboard
:09:18. > :09:21.the interests and concerns of UK citizens living elsewhere in the
:09:22. > :09:25.European Union. We would not have secured their interest is, and would
:09:26. > :09:32.have thrown away our ability to do so. I thank the honourable gentleman
:09:33. > :09:35.for giving way, and 15% of the stuff, 5% of students and 10% of
:09:36. > :09:39.research students in Cardiff University in my constituency from
:09:40. > :09:43.the EU. Does he agree with me that there is a significant risk that the
:09:44. > :09:47.EU staff and their spouses will seek employment elsewhere, outside the
:09:48. > :09:53.UK, if they don't have certainty now from the government, and we lose all
:09:54. > :09:56.our intellectual capital? I agree with the honourable lady, which is
:09:57. > :10:00.why I'm very pleased that the prime Minister, in a statement that she
:10:01. > :10:03.made today and on a number of other occasions, has made it clear that
:10:04. > :10:08.she wants to reach an early agreement, and has been seeking to
:10:09. > :10:12.do so with our European partners. I am a member of the exiting the EU
:10:13. > :10:15.Select Committee and we heard evidence from a number of British
:10:16. > :10:19.nationals living in Spain, Germany, Italy and France a few weeks ago,
:10:20. > :10:21.and they were members of representative organisations of
:10:22. > :10:25.other British nationals. Every single one of them said that they
:10:26. > :10:30.felt if the UK government made a unilateral guarantee of the right of
:10:31. > :10:31.EU nationals living here, and the other member states would
:10:32. > :10:31.reciprocate. The Liberal Democrat Alistair
:10:32. > :10:33.Carmichael said that certainty on where people could live
:10:34. > :10:45.was very important. The challenge that faces upcountry
:10:46. > :10:50.at this point -- our country at this point is how we go forward in a way
:10:51. > :10:55.that allows us to bring the 52% in the 48% back together. This is an
:10:56. > :11:01.enormous challenge for our country. It is one that we cannot meet simply
:11:02. > :11:05.with the support of half of our population. It is something for
:11:06. > :11:10.which we need all of our people to be able to pull together. This would
:11:11. > :11:15.be one small measure that would allow the government to bring the
:11:16. > :11:18.two sides together, to get the best possible deal for all our citizens,
:11:19. > :11:25.whether they are British by birth or British by choice. It is as
:11:26. > :11:30.important to us as British parliamentarians, as the British
:11:31. > :11:33.government, to defend the rights of British citizens living overseas,
:11:34. > :11:36.and there are a lot of them and not all of them are contributing
:11:37. > :11:40.particularly to their society and a lot of them are retired, so they are
:11:41. > :11:46.even more vulnerable, in a sense, and many of those EU workers who are
:11:47. > :11:49.here, actively working. It is the first duty of this house to look
:11:50. > :11:54.after Rajesh citizens wherever they may be. But also, being aware that
:11:55. > :11:59.we have a duty to EU nationals at the same time. So I think, again, it
:12:00. > :12:03.would be completely wrong in terms of negotiating, in terms of our
:12:04. > :12:08.negotiating position, to declare your unilaterally, that all EU
:12:09. > :12:10.nationals up to a certain date can continue to live here without any
:12:11. > :12:10.fear or favour. Sir Hugo Swire, defending
:12:11. > :12:12.the Prime Minister's arguments You're listening to
:12:13. > :12:15.Monday in Parliament. Coming up: A change in headgear sets
:12:16. > :12:23.the Commons aflutter. But first: Rarely on the Committee
:12:24. > :12:26.corridor do you hear quite such contrasting opinions as those
:12:27. > :12:29.presented to the Work and Pensions The subject was the "gig" economy,
:12:30. > :12:37.where workers get paid for each job they do, rather than being fully
:12:38. > :12:40.employed or on a contract. One set of witnesses was full
:12:41. > :13:02.of praise for cab and courier firms. working as a career? I was a
:13:03. > :13:08.full-time tennis coach and I was finding it tough. I wanted another
:13:09. > :13:16.job to mix in with my coaching. The courier job just fit that bill. It
:13:17. > :13:22.fits in with my coaching so I can deliver, do tennis coaching and that
:13:23. > :13:26.was white. Dip in and out. I can go out delivering for a couple of
:13:27. > :13:32.hours, do a tennis lesson, go out and deliver, do another tennis
:13:33. > :13:37.lesson. It suits my lifestyle. It is a matter of attitude. Any other
:13:38. > :13:42.minicab company, then the view that they have one customer. The great
:13:43. > :13:49.thing about Uber, it sees it as to customers. Other companies don't,
:13:50. > :13:53.but Uber sees the driver as a customer and doing things like
:13:54. > :13:59.making life easier for us. Over four years, I've been able to have that
:14:00. > :14:08.view, they have a driving an easier experience. I always know what
:14:09. > :14:13.rounds I have. I go to the depot. I know what minimum pass as I will
:14:14. > :14:20.have. I always do well at the minimum. I do well above minimum
:14:21. > :14:26.wage. I get the hours to do when there is work out there. You are
:14:27. > :14:31.here to speak to yourselves and talk about your own stories. We are very
:14:32. > :14:35.grateful. Do you consider yourselves to be typical of the group of people
:14:36. > :14:41.that you work with in each of the areas you to work? It's difficult to
:14:42. > :14:47.say. My contact with other Uber drivers has been limited. Two of
:14:48. > :14:52.them are at Uber Christmas parties, which are very nice. All the other
:14:53. > :14:57.drivers seem happy. I occasionally use Uber as a passenger and a chat
:14:58. > :15:01.with the driver and say I am a driver. Never hurt anybody who had
:15:02. > :15:07.anything bad to say. My brother was a Uber driver in Manchester. He is
:15:08. > :15:14.happy. Contrast that with the next witnesses. It's now very expensive
:15:15. > :15:19.to me personally to work. The number of drivers now is restricting what
:15:20. > :15:25.you can earn. A year ago, there was a lot less drivers and a lot more
:15:26. > :15:29.work. Now it is a case of it is much slower. There are more drivers out
:15:30. > :15:34.there. You've got to work longer hours to earn what you weren't
:15:35. > :15:38.before. Don't get me wrong, either gets a great platform, a super
:15:39. > :15:41.platform for the public, there is no doubt about that. But for the
:15:42. > :15:45.drivers, it is the cheapest form of transport for the public so out
:15:46. > :15:53.there is the cheapest. And it's the most bookings service for any driver
:15:54. > :15:57.to use. It then becomes expensive rice and cheaper the public and
:15:58. > :16:02.those things do not match. One of the biggest expenses is your car? He
:16:03. > :16:13.actually had to buy it to get the job. And Uber don't take old cars. I
:16:14. > :16:22.was on the exact form, you need to have a certain car. You need to have
:16:23. > :16:27.a $40,000 car. I find myself is running around with an E class doing
:16:28. > :16:33.jobs that to pounds 25 and that is a nerd. Black charges ?2 for the first
:16:34. > :16:40.and they can make money. We've got all these things to do. You sit down
:16:41. > :16:44.and you talk to Uber and I have tried. I said I would like you to
:16:45. > :16:48.negotiate with me on the feed that you charge and the fees that are
:16:49. > :16:53.charged to the public. We want to charge more. They refused to do it.
:16:54. > :17:03.In July last year, my car was off the road, the morning I was supposed
:17:04. > :17:10.to go back to work, they said I haven't got any rounds any more.
:17:11. > :17:14.Basically, yes. They just sent me a text and said we have taken the
:17:15. > :17:18.rounds off you. You should have gone on holiday and that is that. Now to
:17:19. > :17:22.the Lords when peers from all sides raise concerns about the pressure
:17:23. > :17:28.facing adult social care in England. It is evident that the care homes
:17:29. > :17:32.are facing an existential problem. The costs of increased by 30% over
:17:33. > :17:37.the last year with the introduction of a national living wage and net
:17:38. > :17:41.profits reduced. 1500 homes have closed over the last six years and
:17:42. > :17:46.there is a major problem going on. It's good -- not good enough to
:17:47. > :17:50.exhort that councils pick up the gap when our funding has been curtailed
:17:51. > :17:57.and it's not helping care homes. When will the government get a grip
:17:58. > :18:00.of this serious crisis? I'm pleased this is a government that has
:18:01. > :18:05.introduced the national living wage which is supported across this house
:18:06. > :18:09.and the other place. There is an impact on social care home providers
:18:10. > :18:18.lots of the staff in which to operate and are paid at that level.
:18:19. > :18:22.There is pressure in the social sector and that is one of the
:18:23. > :18:25.reasons the precept is rising and the better care fund has been
:18:26. > :18:28.created to support more care provisions in the appropriate
:18:29. > :18:33.setting that people want to have it in. A BBC survey has found a number
:18:34. > :18:38.of patients on hospital wards in England has been at unsafe levels in
:18:39. > :18:42.nine out of ten NHS trusts this winter. Bosses have said that
:18:43. > :18:47.hospitals have major problems discharging frail patients. The
:18:48. > :18:51.Independent or crossbench peer Lady Green Cross said the government
:18:52. > :18:57.should follow the lead of other countries and provide rehabilitation
:18:58. > :19:04.centres. The Minister conceded that in many countries, people who are in
:19:05. > :19:07.acute hospitals don't need to be there if there was somewhere they
:19:08. > :19:15.could go very quickly after being admitted to hospital to
:19:16. > :19:21.rehabilitation centres? In many countries, small rehab centres which
:19:22. > :19:25.could be a lot of our smaller hospitals, are being closed down,
:19:26. > :19:29.nurse - glad, I where people go immediately part of the acute
:19:30. > :19:35.hospital sector and that if we did that, we could sell some of the
:19:36. > :19:39.problems and we would have the right sort of care for a lot of field
:19:40. > :19:44.people who at the moment are accused of blocking hospitals which they do
:19:45. > :19:50.but it's not their fault. I think the noble lady raises an incredibly
:19:51. > :19:53.important point. It's often the case that patients and up in hospitals
:19:54. > :19:58.for a variety of reasons which is not always the best setting for
:19:59. > :20:01.them. The kind of care she is describing as important. It might be
:20:02. > :20:04.rehab centres or cottage hospitals and what we are seeing food the
:20:05. > :20:09.sustainability and transformation plans are ideas for immediate care
:20:10. > :20:14.or stepdown care which provide the sort of thing she is talking about.
:20:15. > :20:18.Will she ensure -- will he ensure the number of care home places
:20:19. > :20:22.remains at a level to enable those to be discharged from hospital when
:20:23. > :20:28.they are deemed safe to do so and if there is cut the shortage of care
:20:29. > :20:30.home beds in counties such as North Yorkshire, will his department work
:20:31. > :20:34.closely with the local authorities up and down the country to ensure
:20:35. > :20:40.that people can leave hospital and go to a care home where that is
:20:41. > :20:44.appropriate? I think my noble friend from making an important point. The
:20:45. > :20:48.capacity in the care home sector is important in making sure there was a
:20:49. > :20:53.proper flow of patients out of hospitals and into a more
:20:54. > :20:59.appropriate setting. Where there is a shortage of residential or nursing
:21:00. > :21:04.home care beds, the onus of care falls on the families and would he
:21:05. > :21:09.take this opportunity to update his honourable friend in the other
:21:10. > :21:13.place, the Minister of health, who last week exhorted the nation to
:21:14. > :21:18.care for its elderly relatives. Apparently forgetting that there are
:21:19. > :21:25.6.5 million people who already do so, at great personal cost to
:21:26. > :21:29.themselves? The noble lady is quite right to highlight the work that
:21:30. > :21:33.carers do. There is a national carers strategy to support those
:21:34. > :21:37.people who are supporting the family often in very difficult
:21:38. > :21:42.circumstances. The point that my honourable friend in the other place
:21:43. > :21:46.was trying to make was that there is an important role to families to do
:21:47. > :21:50.so in the way parents would do for children, that children should do to
:21:51. > :22:00.their parents can return. The Health Minister. Before John Bercow's
:22:01. > :22:06.statement on Donald Trump, he said hearts racing on the benches. The
:22:07. > :22:10.commission endorsed a proposition reflecting the overwhelming view of
:22:11. > :22:16.his college that clerks should no longer wear wigs at the table in the
:22:17. > :22:23.chamber. They will also cease to wear court dress but they will
:22:24. > :22:27.continue to wear gallons so as to be distinguishable as experts in
:22:28. > :22:33.Parliamentary procedure, not lawyers and certainly not members. Details
:22:34. > :22:37.are in a letter from the clerk of the house to the chair of the
:22:38. > :22:41.procedure committee, available on the committee's website and in the
:22:42. > :22:44.vote office. Colleagues will be pleased to learn that this change
:22:45. > :22:49.will, in the longer term, save money, and it will I believe be
:22:50. > :22:53.welcomed by those clerks who serve all look forward to serving at the
:22:54. > :23:01.table and it will moreover in my view, which I recognise may not be
:23:02. > :23:05.universally shared, conveyed to the public a marginally less stuffy and
:23:06. > :23:11.forbidding image of this chamber at work. The new regime, colleagues,
:23:12. > :23:19.will start soon after we return from the short February recess. Order.
:23:20. > :23:24.With that, on to education but questions on that announcement won't
:23:25. > :23:28.exhausted and return to after the Prime Minister's statement. With
:23:29. > :23:32.great respect to your statement at the beginning of proceedings on
:23:33. > :23:35.behalf of the commission that the dress and composition of the clerks
:23:36. > :23:40.sitting in this house should change forthwith after the recess, can I
:23:41. > :23:45.urge you to reconsider this and consider whether the whole house or
:23:46. > :23:51.to have an opportunity to address this matter before its inactive.
:23:52. > :23:59.What I would say to the honourable gentleman is this. If he believes
:24:00. > :24:03.that the time of the house either in the chamber or in Westminster Hall,
:24:04. > :24:13.would be well spent by discussing this matter, he knows the avenues
:24:14. > :24:19.that are open to him. Sir Gerald. Further to that point of order,
:24:20. > :24:25.eyeing gree --I agree with Mike honourable friend and I was taken by
:24:26. > :24:32.surprise which had the appearance of a misunderstanding but it had the
:24:33. > :24:38.appearance of an executive order. I was slightly surprised by that. I
:24:39. > :24:42.had discussed the matter with the clerk who had done me the enormous
:24:43. > :24:48.courtesy of asking my view and I had declared informally but I thought it
:24:49. > :24:53.was sensible to continue because this, Mr Speaker, is the High Court
:24:54. > :24:59.of Parliament. And I do think that the clerks dressed as they are add
:25:00. > :25:05.to the dignity of the house. Some of us are not always capable of
:25:06. > :25:12.enhancing that. But the clerks do. It wasn't an executive order. It was
:25:13. > :25:17.a request from the clerks themselves to which I, and the members of the
:25:18. > :25:21.House of Commons commission, agreed. Now, people are entitled to their
:25:22. > :25:25.views about it but the idea this was something that I dreamt up and
:25:26. > :25:34.sought to impose against the will of the clerks is 100% wrong. The
:25:35. > :25:37.Speaker, John Bercow. That is all on me. Keith McDougall is yet to the
:25:38. > :25:49.rest of the week. But from me, goodbye.
:25:50. > :25:53.Monday turned out to be quite a day of weather across some parts
:25:54. > :25:57.of the British Isles with a combination of wind and rain
:25:58. > :25:59.and hill snow through the northern parts as well.
:26:00. > :26:01.Tuesday, a chilly start wherever you may be.
:26:02. > :26:06.There will still will be some of that Monday rain lingering,