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Hello and welcome to Monday In Parliament, our look | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
Peers start debate on the Brexit Bill - | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
with the Leader in the Lords warning them not to slow things down. | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
The government is determined to trigger Article 50 by the 31st of | :00:30. | :00:37. | |
March in order to deliver on the decision of the British people. The | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
bill before us is a procedural part of that withdrawal process. | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
MPs debate two petitions on Donald Trump - one calling | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
for his state visit to be cancelled, the other welcoming it. | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
One Labour MP said it went against everything she'd | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
By allowing Donald Trump a state visit and rolling out the red carpet | :00:55. | :01:05. | |
we are endorsing all of those views, all of those things I've fought hard | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
against, and saying, do you know what? It's OK. | :01:12. | :01:12. | |
And the Business Secretary pledges to do all he can | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
to safeguard jobs at Vauxhall, amid speculation a French motor | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
Every part of Britain has a stake in Vauxhall and so I completely agree | :01:18. | :01:26. | |
with her that we will do everything we can and my personal commitment | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
and the commitment of this government will be unbounded. | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
The House of Lords has begun considering the law | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
which would allow Brexit to go ahead. | :01:36. | :01:36. | |
The Prime Minister was in the chamber to hear | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
The Leader of the Lords, Lady Evans, warned peers not to block Brexit - | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
although some have called for the Lords to ask | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
for greater oversight in Parliament of the final deal. | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
187 peers are scheduled to speak over two days of debate. | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
The process of leaving the European Union is a complex one | :01:54. | :02:01. | |
but it is also an opportunity for your Lordships' House | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
to demonstrate the valuable role that we can play. | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
I know that the Great Repeal Bill will be of particular interest | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
but it will be only one of a number of bills brought before | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
Parliament during the process of exiting the EU. | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
From immigration to customs, this House and the Other Place | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
will have a huge number of opportunities to help shape | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
My Lords, the Government is determined to trigger Article 50 | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
by the 31st of March in order to deliver on the decision | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
The bill before us is a procedural part of that withdrawal process. | :02:33. | :02:42. | |
I welcome the constructive tone we have heard from the Opposition | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
that they will not seek to frustrate this process while of course | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
undertaking the scrutiny role we are here to perform. | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
Last June the 23rd this country held a historic referendum | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
with a straightforward direct question, should the UK remain | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
a member of the European Union or leave the European Union? | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
It required a straightforward direct answer, a single cross in either | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
The result of that referendum, although hardly overwhelming, | :03:09. | :03:18. | |
was clear in favour of leaving the EU, but although that question | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
was simple and straightforward the simplicity ended there. | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
For those charged with implementing the decision it | :03:26. | :03:27. | |
None of us know what Brexit will look like and that has created | :03:28. | :03:35. | |
and fuelled uncertainty for business, for universities, | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
for science, for environmentalists, and worrying for both EU citizens | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
living and working in the UK and UK citizens living and working | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
And it has become obvious that no thought had been given | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
to our citizens in Gibraltar or the implications | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
for Northern Ireland and the Good Friday Agreement. | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
But the Liberal Democrat Leader in the Lords said the idea | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
the second chamber should nod the bill through without amending | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
of opinion in this House which is seeking to prevent | :04:07. | :04:16. | |
the passage of this bill but there is a world of difference | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
between blocking the bill and seeking to amend it. | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
So, my Lords, if we clearly have the power to amend the bill, | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
Brexit is the most important single issue which has faced | :04:29. | :04:39. | |
For many of us the approach being adopted by the Government | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
There was a resounding majority in support of the bill | :04:47. | :04:54. | |
in the Other Place, so however much I and the many, many others who have | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
been writing to us during the past few days might have wished that it | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
were otherwise I am convinced that there is no turning back. | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
As it is, I confess to a keen desire to get on with the Article 50 | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
It has been made clear to us many times, particularly | :05:11. | :05:18. | |
by the noble lord the Minister, that the government will not | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
reveal its hand until notification is given and the process | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
My Lords, I'm speaking only for myself, as I must do from | :05:25. | :05:34. | |
this position on these benches, where all others speak | :05:35. | :05:36. | |
for themselves, when I say that I find this acutely frustrating. | :05:37. | :05:38. | |
Do we really want to remain in the EU for the next two years? | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
Even the poor old International Monetary Fund, which gets | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
practically every forecast wrong, but maybe not this time, says | :05:48. | :05:56. | |
Greece's debts are on an explosive path and the IMF appears unwilling | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
Professor Otmar Issing, the ECB first chief economist, | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
said recently, "The ECB is becoming dangerously | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
overextended and one day the house of cards will collapse." | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
The Government has lost its sense of perspective in this matter. | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
The Prime Minister is terrified of looking less than full hearted | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
Debate is discouraged in case it gives the impression | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
Critics are attacked in case their arguments catch on. | :06:27. | :06:39. | |
As is well-known, I was a Remainer, not, I might say, | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
because of my pension rights but because I am a patriot. | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
With the sound of an anti-Trump protest on the streets | :06:46. | :06:57. | |
of Westminster echoing through the walls, MPs settled down | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
to debate petition number 178844 - President Trump's state visit | :07:00. | :07:01. | |
More than 1.8 million people had signed it. | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
A counter-petition supporting the visit had mustered | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
And for three hours MPs argued the issue. | :07:09. | :07:17. | |
Only two Presidents of the US have been granted a state visit since | :07:18. | :07:27. | |
1952. It is extraordinary but here we have a position where seven days | :07:28. | :07:35. | |
into his presidency he is invited to have a full state visit, | :07:36. | :07:37. | |
extraordinary. Completely unprecedented. The fact is that | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
there were 61 million people who voted for Donald Trump and when we | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
stand up in this country and then condemn him for being racist, and I | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
have seen no evidence of that, I have seen no evidence of him being | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
racist, or that they attack him in an unseemly way they are actually | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
attacking the American people. There are many African-Americans in | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
America sitting at high in fear. They are concerned about the | :08:10. | :08:17. | |
president, who has had the support of the Ku Klux Klan. They are | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
concerned about the president, who has welcomed white supremacists, it | :08:21. | :08:28. | |
is a term which we almost hoped would fall into history, into his | :08:29. | :08:40. | |
close in a circle. It is to my mind foolish to allow our personal views | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
and assessments of an individual and some of their more grotesque | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
characteristics and behaviour to blur what is in Britain's national | :08:52. | :08:59. | |
interests. What I believe is Britain's national interest is to | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
continue that special relationship. Listen carefully and you hear the | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
thousands of people outside right now outside this House saying they | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
do not want Donald Trump to be coming into this country on a royal | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
state visit. We have a duty to listen to these people, to give them | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
a voice, and if people from the Trump administration are listening | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
this is not fake news. This is a special moment for the special | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
relationship. Mr Turner, the visit should happen, the visit will | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
happen, and when it does I trust that the UK will extend a polite and | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
generous welcome to President Arnold Trump. -- Donald. | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
Concerns about assessments for people with limited mobility | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
have been raised at Work and Pensions questions. | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
The Government's promised to look into individual cases | :09:53. | :09:54. | |
and has promised to streamline the appeals process. | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
Separately, ministers promised support to help people | :09:57. | :09:57. | |
with mental-health issues and learning disabilities | :09:58. | :09:59. | |
May I ask the Secretary of State to be personally | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
A victim of a house fire when she was 12 weeks | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
In the migration from DLA to PIP she could not open the envelope | :10:08. | :10:16. | |
On the 1st of February, all her benefits ceased. | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
On the 10th of February her Motability | :10:22. | :10:23. | |
Obviously, if the honourable lady wishes to contact me directly | :10:24. | :10:36. | |
and urgently about this case, we will take it up. | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
Yet again one of my constituents has been to see me about a PIP | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
assessment that has led to her Motability vehicle being | :10:45. | :10:46. | |
She is currently appealing and I have written to the Minister | :10:47. | :10:54. | |
about the case, but what reassurance can she give me and my constituents | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
that this vehicle that she needs will be returned to her? | :10:59. | :11:00. | |
Well, I would first of all point out that there are 70,000 more people | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
in receipt of Motability and making use of that scheme than there | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
were in 2010, but she will know that there are improvements | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
that we want to make to the Motability scheme. | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
We have been working very closely with that independent organisation. | :11:16. | :11:23. | |
We are now attending their board meetings and are able to work much | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
more strategically and I have spoken at length so I won't repeat it, | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
Mr Speaker, but those areas where we wish to see better customer | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
service and we hope to bring forward some announcements shortly. | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
Does she agree that local voluntary groups such as the Talk It | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
Out mental-health group in my constituency do invaluable | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
work helping people to be work-ready and we must do more to support them? | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
I do agree with my honourable friend that voluntary organisations have | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
huge insight and expertise that we can tap into and commend | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
the work of Talk It Out in his constituency. | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
This is one reason why we are recruiting 200 community | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
partners across the Jobcentre Plus network so we can ensure | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
we are reaching all of those organisations and benefiting | :12:06. | :12:07. | |
from the huge experience and wisdom they have. | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
Can the Minister say what consideration has been given | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
to providing tax breaks to employers who hire employees with a certified | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
mental-health illness, as proposed by the National Autistic | :12:21. | :12:22. | |
The honourable gentleman has hit on a theme of the green paper. | :12:23. | :12:31. | |
There is much work going on in this area, both for those with mental | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
illness but also those with a learning disability. | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
Just to mention one health trial, there is a trial going | :12:41. | :12:42. | |
on at the moment looking at discounting business rates | :12:43. | :12:44. | |
for employers that have good mental-health practice. | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
You're watching Monday In Parliament. | :12:50. | :12:51. | |
Still to come: the head of Volkswagen in the UK says there's | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
no need for compensation for drivers who bought a car with greater | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
The Business Secretary has promised an "unbounded commitment" | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
The French group PSA, which owns Peugeot and Citroen, | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
is in talks to buy the European arms of General Motors, | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
Greg Clark said the UK car industry was a "beacon of success" and known | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
But MPs asked what effect Brexit and the UK's less rigorous employee | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
protection would have on the future of Vauxhall production. | :13:27. | :13:28. | |
Vauxhall is one of our oldest and most valued motor manufacturers. | :13:29. | :13:41. | |
It has been making cars in Britain for 113 | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
years and has been owned for the last 92 years | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
There are over 45,000 people employed directly by | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
GM or in Vauxhall's retail or supply chain in this country. | :13:52. | :13:53. | |
Last Tuesday, news emerged that GM are in | :13:54. | :13:55. | |
discussions with the French company PSA about the | :13:56. | :13:57. | |
I spoke to be president of GM that afternoon and | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
communicated the importance we attach to Vauxhall's presence in the | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
The plant at Ellesmere Port in Luton benefit from its | :14:05. | :14:13. | |
dedicated and highly skilled staff who and are among the most efficient | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
If this takeover does go ahead, we need to get the message | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
out that risking the closure would be a retrograde step, not just from | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
the UK economy but also for the new owners. | :14:24. | :14:32. | |
Will the Secretary of State confirm that he will use all the | :14:33. | :14:34. | |
tools in his disposal to protect jobs at Vauxhall. | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
This is a worrying time for everyone affected but it is not a new | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
There have been threats to the plant in the past. | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
They have been seen off by industry collaborations | :14:47. | :14:48. | |
between unions, management and | :14:49. | :14:49. | |
Can the Secretary of State confirm he will work closely with everybody | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
Every part of Britain has a stake in Vauxhall. | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
I completely agree with him that we will do | :14:58. | :14:59. | |
everything that we can and | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
it is my personal commitment will be unbounded to make sure the future, | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
building on the success of the plant in his constituency, of the | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
I am grateful for his support for that. | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
I will of course work with all the groups, including | :15:17. | :15:27. | |
the trade unions, including the workforce, to make that case, | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
Vauxhall has been a huge name in Bedfordshire for over a | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
century and that tradition continues with IBC plant in Luton, | :15:35. | :15:36. | |
Whilst I want to see the Secretary of State do everything he can | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
to secure those jobs, can he say a bit about the pensioners in this | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
country, many of whom are in my constituency? | :15:46. | :15:47. | |
They will be worried for the future of their pensions. | :15:48. | :15:49. | |
Can he say something on that issue as well as the jobs? | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
I am grateful to my honourable friend. | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
Of course, in any prospective take over, the | :15:57. | :15:58. | |
continued welfare of pensioners is of great importance. | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
I mentioned how important that would be in my | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
discussions both with GM and with PSA. | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
Both organisations are well aware of the importance that I, | :16:10. | :16:18. | |
as well as my honourable friend, attach. | :16:19. | :16:20. | |
I do not think we can ignore the impact that | :16:21. | :16:22. | |
Brexit may have in this going forward. | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
If it is a direct competition between a German plant and a | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
UK plant, regardless of the undoubted strength of the UK plant, | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
when they have 75% of their components and 80% of their exports | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
going to the single market, they will be at a disadvantage | :16:38. | :16:39. | |
Can I take this opportunity to ask the Secretary of | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
State, given he has said he will do everything | :16:45. | :16:46. | |
he can at all times, to rule out the hard Brexit | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
that is being proposed, reassess We can leave the EU but we do not | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
have to leave the single market and doing so will protect | :16:53. | :16:59. | |
employees at Vauxhall and right We are all, as local MPs, | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
justifiably proud of the work that they have done | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
which has kept this for our efficiency and productivity | :17:06. | :17:07. | |
in the Ellesmere Port plant. But given that it is much | :17:08. | :17:23. | |
cheaper effectively to get rid of British workers | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
because of the nature of the employment rights in | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
this country compared to France and Germany, | :17:31. | :17:31. | |
what can he do to ensure that when it | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
comes to potential cost-cutting that equation is evened up, | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
so we can support British The concern will be that this | :17:42. | :17:43. | |
issue of this important company's future in Britain will | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
become collateral damage in wider negotiations and deals | :17:50. | :17:51. | |
regarding Brexit. In the face of elections in France | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
and Germany this year, does he think that nations will have | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
to engage in an ever rising bidding If so, what will he do | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
for British manufacturing? If I was on the board | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
of directors and had a very successful vehicle | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
manufacturing outlet in the fifth biggest | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
economy in the world, and that economy was about to leave | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
the EU, I think I would want to invest more in that facility | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
and make sure that I do not put In the Commons, the Government | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
accepted limits on the number of properties and land that could be | :18:26. | :18:32. | |
compulsorily purchased to make way A House of Lords Committee had | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
recommended that powers be restricted to what's needed | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
for the project - rather than the wider development | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
and regeneration opportunities. The Transport Minister, | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
Andrew Jones, said the powers had been intended as a "backstop" | :18:49. | :18:50. | |
if commercial negotiations failed. However, the Lords felt that | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
given the broad nature of the powers, and the | :18:56. | :18:57. | |
fact that local authorities had similar | :18:58. | :18:59. | |
powers, it was unnecessary for | :19:00. | :19:01. | |
the Government The Government accepts this | :19:02. | :19:02. | |
ruling and will continue to work with local | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
authorities to ensure that opportunities for regeneration | :19:08. | :19:09. | |
arising from phase one If there is then disagreement, | :19:10. | :19:11. | |
these powers would therefore give the Department for Transport | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
the power to do this by fear - to override the local | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
authority or local resident's Well, it certainly does give | :19:22. | :19:23. | |
the power to the Secretary of State, if required, | :19:24. | :19:40. | |
to make TROs himself that hinder the delivery | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
of the railway. I think an answer to the honourable | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
gentleman's question We cannot have a position | :19:49. | :19:50. | |
with a significant national project could be held up over | :19:51. | :20:00. | |
a small matter of TROs. The best thing to do | :20:01. | :20:02. | |
is to work with the highways These are some back stop powers | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
is just in case that does The government decision was welcomed | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
by a former Conservative cabinet minister and opponent of the HS2 | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
scheme, Cheryl Gillan. Such a sweeping power would have | :20:14. | :20:15. | |
been adding insult to injury with the plundering of | :20:16. | :20:17. | |
property that has resulted from this project, which is as ravenous | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
for land as it is taxpayers money. If we had not had this | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
amendment accepted, the Government would have been able | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
to buy up land for a lucrative developments, virtually | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
without control. However, I still have | :20:30. | :20:30. | |
constituents with They believe that HS2 one has | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
to give 28 days notice to enter and do what they like to | :20:38. | :20:48. | |
the land and pay no compensation until the job is finished, | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
which they believe could be MPs accepted the changes made | :20:52. | :20:53. | |
by the Lords to the HS2 Bill It will give ministers the ability | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
to begin work on the line This first phase of | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
the ?56 billion scheme, which will eventually run | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
to Manchester, is expected The head of Volkswagen in the UK | :21:06. | :21:07. | |
has told MPs there are no grounds for paying compensation | :21:08. | :21:16. | |
to the 1.2 million British drivers affected by the scandal | :21:17. | :21:18. | |
over emissions tests In 2015, the German car giant | :21:19. | :21:20. | |
was found to have installed a "defeat device" or software | :21:21. | :21:30. | |
designed to foil emissions tests in the United States, | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
and as a result has paid out The scandal also spread | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
to Europe and elsewhere, with millions of cars being recalled | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
for remedial measures the group's UK Managing Director, | :21:44. | :21:45. | |
appeared before the Commons Transport Committee, | :21:46. | :21:53. | |
he insisted in answer to questioning from a Labour MP that | :21:54. | :21:55. | |
compensation for British drivers My position on compensation | :21:56. | :21:57. | |
is absolutely consistent and clear. You cannot compare the situation in | :21:58. | :22:10. | |
Europe to what you are referring to. I think you are referring | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
to the United States. For example, after the technical | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
fixes, there is no change to the vehicles in terms | :22:21. | :22:28. | |
of fuel consumption. There is no change in | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
terms of the criteria. The vehicles are more | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
or less where they Indeed, one of the discussion points | :22:36. | :22:36. | |
we have had previously is any effect From all the data that | :22:37. | :22:45. | |
I analyse, and all the data that I see from the people who are | :22:46. | :22:54. | |
experts and independent on residual values, there is no | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
evidence that there has been any degradation | :22:58. | :22:59. | |
in What I come back to | :23:00. | :23:00. | |
is there is no loss. Compensation is a legal | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
question in the end and therefore there is no legal | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
basis for compensation. But what about those drivers who'd | :23:10. | :23:11. | |
been misled on the levels of nitrogen oxide being emitted | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
by the vehicles? Mr Efford wanted to know | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
weren't they entitled Have you made an assessment | :23:21. | :23:22. | |
of how much Volkswagen have benefited from selling vehicles | :23:23. | :23:32. | |
on the basis of people making decisions on falsified | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
emissions information? Our position is that we did not | :23:37. | :23:38. | |
falsify any information at all. We never sold cars on the basis | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
of nitrogen oxide levels. There is no falsification | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
whatsoever. So as a result of the actions | :23:45. | :23:45. | |
by people yet to be identified in Volkswagen, nobody was misled over | :23:46. | :24:04. | |
emissions from your vehicles? In Europe, our position | :24:05. | :24:06. | |
is that no one has been misled over | :24:07. | :24:08. | |
emissions in Europe. The customers that | :24:09. | :24:10. | |
bought your vehicles based on the information | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
you were supplying, that we now know was incorrect for whatever reason, | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
you do not feel any responsibility to them | :24:17. | :24:18. | |
to compensate them in any way? You bear no responsibility | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
to those customers at all? Well, first of all I have a great | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
responsibility to our customers because without responsibility | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
to our customers, we do not have a I come back and say | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
to you we have a very important responsibility to our customers | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
and that is why we are working so hard to apply the technical | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
fixes, and that is why I have | :24:43. | :24:44. | |
explained to the committee You came before us again and you're | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
opening gambit, the first thing you came and told us in 2015 was how | :24:48. | :24:55. | |
sorry you were, how awful it Today, you are sit in front of us | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
and you have done nothing wrong. I am sorry for any ambiguity or any | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
confusion that I have cost the You're sorry you have | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
been made to look daft. You are sorry that | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
you have been in a situation where Volkswagen was | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
caught red-handed doing things that I'm afraid, Mr Menzies, | :25:20. | :25:21. | |
I have to refute He then went on to describe Mr | :25:22. | :25:37. | |
Willis as an incredible witness. The chairperson told the boss that he | :25:38. | :25:39. | |
was free to go. Kristiina Cooper's here | :25:40. | :25:40. | |
for the rest of the week. | :25:41. | :25:46. |