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Hello there and welcome to Monday in Parliament. | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
Coming up: The Health Secretary comes under fire after it's revealed | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
hundreds of thousands of patient letters were put into storage | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
Two months and 2017 and the Health Secretary Bakshi is from one crisis | :00:27. | :00:40. | |
to another. There is no evidence so far that any | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
patient safety has been put at risk. Peers begin their detailed scrutiny | :00:44. | :00:44. | |
of the Brexit triggering bill. And the Speaker pays | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
tribute following the death of the Commons' longest-serving MP, | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
Sir Gerald Kaufman. It was that fidelity to principle, | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
that commitment to causes, that insistence on doing his duty | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
by his constituents, But first, the Health Secretary has | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
told MPs some 500,000 documents containing medical information, | :01:00. | :01:08. | |
including cancer test results, were mistakenly put in storage | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
rather than being sent to the GP The error occurred when a mail | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
redirection company - NHS Shared Business Services - | :01:17. | :01:24. | |
hired by the health service failed to pass on documents that had either | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
been incorrectly addressed or needed re-routing because the patient had | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
moved to a new GP surgery. Patients in the East Midlands, | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
the South West and The Health Secretary confirmed that | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
2,000 of the higher risk cases had now been reassessed by doctors - | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
at a cost of ?2.2 million - The remaining 500 are | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
still being assessed. Jeremy Hunt explained | :01:48. | :01:55. | |
in total more than 700,000 200,000 pieces were temporary | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
residence forms and further 500,000 pieces | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
assessed as low risk. A first triage identified a further | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
2,500 items which had potential risk of harm and needed | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
further investigation but follow-up by local GPs has already identified | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
nearly 2,000 of these as The remainder are | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
still being assessed but so far no patient harm | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
has been identified. He explained why he hadn't gone | :02:31. | :02:32. | |
public with the information sooner. Publicising the issue could have | :02:33. | :02:34. | |
meant GP surgeries being inundated with enquiries from | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
worried patients which would have prevented them from doing | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
the most important work, namely investigating the named | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
patients who were This is a catastrophic | :02:49. | :02:50. | |
breach of data protection. Over half a million | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
patients' data, including blood test results, | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
cancer screening results, biopsy results, even correspondence | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
relating to cases of child They were languishing | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
in a warehouse on It's an absolute | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
scandal, Mr Speaker. Time and time again, | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
this Health Secretary Well, today he stands | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
accused of a cover-up. Two months into 2017 and the | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
Health Secretary lurches from Hospitals are overcrowded, | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
waiting lists out of control, he can't deliver the | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
investment our NHS needs. He can't deliver | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
a social care solution. He can't deliver | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
patient safety and now he can't even deliver | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
the post, Mr Speaker. He has overseen a shambles that puts | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
patient safety at risk. Patients deserve answers | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
and they deserve an apology. There is no evidence so far that any | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
patient safety has been put at risk. The Secretary of State stated | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
with great authority I'd be interested to know how | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
he could be so certain, given that all of this data was missing | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
for a long time What controls are in place now that | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
weren't in place then that means he can make that statement | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
with such confidence? I don't know she's done a health | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
question before but let me say to her that we are assured | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
that the data was not lost, it was kept in secure setting | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
which means that it was safe. It wasn't breached or | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
accessed by anyone else. I used to work in a pathology lab | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
and it absolutely pains me to think that those results generated | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
by the hard-working pathology staff were languishing in a warehouse | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
somewhere unseen by anybody. I know what GPs will do | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
if they don't get lab results. They will ring the laboratory | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
and ask for them. So has the Secretary | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
of State made any estimate of the amount of time | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
wasted on phone calls Regrettably, I'm sure that | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
because of what happened extra work was created for GPs | :05:09. | :05:18. | |
but what I will say is it is because of GP's | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
commitment to their own that in the vast majority of cases | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
patient harm was avoided because, when results don't come through that | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
a GP is expecting, My constituents in Kettering will be | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
amazed that for five years no-one spotted that 700,000 | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
records had gone missing. Can I ask him how was it discovered | :05:44. | :05:51. | |
and why is it that in these three areas such | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
a large amount of data effectively disappeared | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
from public view? I wish I could give him | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
the answer to that question. I do think it is completely | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
extraordinary that for such a long period of time it wasn't | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
noticed that this data It was discovered towards the end | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
of the SBS contract. I think there are lessons in the NHS | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
which relate very closely to what the other members of said | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
about the dangers of overreliance on paper | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
rather than electronic systems, where it is much, much easier | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
to keep track of what's happening. Let me say to the gentleman opposite | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
as he continues to make comments from a sedentary position, | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
when it comes to making the NHS electronic, I think people | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
will compare his government's record In the Lords, peers were beginning | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
their detailed scrutiny of the bill paving the way for Theresa May | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
to trigger the UK's By tradition, peers don't vote | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
on amendments at committee stage, keeping their powder dry until later | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
in the legislative process. But a Labour peer and former Cabinet | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
mininster, Peter, now Lord Hain, pushed his amendment arguing | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
that the UK should stay Leaving the single market will cause | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
untold harm to the economy and people's jobs which will be felt | :07:22. | :07:29. | |
most keenly in the already disadvantaged nations | :07:30. | :07:31. | |
and regions where I live, A hard Brexit will therefore have | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
damaging consequences for the union of our United Kingdom and also | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
for the island of Ireland. What's at stake is jobs, | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
living standards and rights. Bear that in mind, we are playing | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
poker if we go down the government route with people's livelihoods | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
on a very big scale. Are we likely to get that | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
comprehensive free trade I've not met anybody yet to knows | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
anything about trade negotiation Nobody is arguing, I don't think, | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
I've never met anybody who says we shouldn't have access to do | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
business with the single market. In the same way as they will want | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
to do business with us. The question is whether we want | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
to be members of it. They've accused my right honourable | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
friend the Prime Minister The Prime Minister has not opted | :08:27. | :08:28. | |
for a hard Brexit or a soft Brexit or any sort of squishy Brexit, | :08:29. | :08:36. | |
she is merely attempting to carry out the wishes | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
of the people to leave the EU. And that automatically means | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
leaving the single market. Because if we stay in the single | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
market we are still in the EU If we believe that no deal was | :08:48. | :09:17. | |
better than a bad deal then we are gambling millions of manufacturing | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
jobs, 10% of our GDP. Of course the single | :09:21. | :09:29. | |
market is not perfect. Notably in its coverage | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
of all services. But almost half of British trade | :09:32. | :09:33. | |
in goods and services takes place And it should be an absolute | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
priority therefore for us to secure the continuity of that trade | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
we already have. But Labour's front bench said it | :09:43. | :09:57. | |
couldn't back Peter Hain's amendment, saying it had to be... | :09:58. | :10:05. | |
Our task is to persuade | :10:06. | :10:07. | |
set their sat nav for the wrong destination and that is | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
Giving people the unrealistic hope that staying in the single market, | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
despite the referendum and our exit is a possibility is, I think, | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
and unfair thing to make them think could happen. | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
We need to continue to trade as freely as possible with the EU. | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
And for that reason we are not able to support this amendment. | :10:30. | :10:37. | |
What I would ask is that those of your Lordships who, like me, | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
voted to remain stop fighting the battles of the campaign but come | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
together to help us think of ways we can continue to thrive, | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
The issue raised by this amendment are indeed worthy of debate but, | :10:48. | :10:57. | |
with the greatest of respect, this amendment has no place in this | :10:58. | :11:10. | |
bill and would undermine the expressed intent | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
Because I think he will be judged by history as being on the wrong | :11:15. | :11:25. | |
Of forcing us to do something in the Labour Party that we do not | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
actually in our hearts really believe in. | :11:30. | :11:38. | |
I do not lightly go against my party whip. | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
In my 26 years in Parliament, in the Commons and in here, | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
or twice but this for me is a matter of absolutely crucial importance | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
to this country and to the future of people, their jobs and prosperity | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
and the truth is the minister, with all due respect, | :11:54. | :11:55. | |
is doing a great job on a sticky wicket but the truth is he hasn't | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
a clue and the government hasn't a clue where we are going. | :12:00. | :12:01. | |
They have no idea where they are taking us. | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
I think for the sake of jobs, prosperity, businesses, | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
it is important to pass this amendment and I therefore wish | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
rejected the amendment to keep the rejected the amendment to keep the | :12:11. | :12:20. | |
UK in the single market. My Lords, they have voted content - | :12:21. | :12:22. | |
136, not content - 299. You're watching Monday | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
in Parliament, with me, A fund intended to ease | :12:26. | :12:35. | |
the pressures on adult social care services and hospitals in England | :12:36. | :12:45. | |
has been described by MPs as a "bit of a fraud" | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
and "window dressing". The watchdog the National Audit | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
Office has said the ?5.3 billion Better Care Fund has not succeeded | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
in keeping patients out of hospital or saved any money, | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
although the NAO said it had helped join up health and social | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
care in some areas. Appearing before the Public Accounts | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
Committee senior health figures argued that the fund was working, | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
but it was too soon In your report, | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
it says it's not working. I'm aware we have | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
limited time today. We could go round the Houses | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
on the challenges, but this report says that the Better Care Fund, | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
the integration that it was supposed to achieve, the safe admissions | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
to A that it was supposed to achieve, it hasn't delivered | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
and it has actually cost money. I agree with the NAO report | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
and I thought it set out very fairly where the Better Care Fund has made | :13:43. | :13:55. | |
progress, and it has in some important respects, | :13:56. | :13:57. | |
and where it has not... I think my answer to the question | :13:58. | :13:59. | |
was I agreed with the rather more nuanced picture | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
the National Audit Office presented of where things have improved | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
and where they have not. We think, and this is shown | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
in the National Audit Office, that local areas report | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
that the Better Care Fund, in the vast majority | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
of cases, is driving It has shown improvement | :14:26. | :14:27. | |
across two of its... Were you overoptimistic in setting | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
the targets and savings that And we talked about this back | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
in December 2014, didn't we? And I think we had quite a frank | :14:40. | :14:46. | |
exchange at that point. The Better Care Fund mark one, | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
which is what I regard this, was an initiative by the Government | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
to transfer funding from the NHS to social care, in recognition | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
of the great pressures raised on social care, so, did it | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
achieve its intended aim of increasing the funding available | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
to local authorities So, in that sense, | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
it has been a success. It didn't actually achieve | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
anything in reducing the number of emergency admissions | :15:18. | :15:19. | |
to A, did it? Well, I don't think it was ever | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
likely to, as of some sort of magic between March 31 2015, | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
and April 1 2015. In fact, I think that's what | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
I laid out for you in 2014. You laid it out rather nicely, | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
Better Care Fund maths and real-world maths, | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
I think in June last year, which we thought summed it | :15:40. | :15:41. | |
up perhaps quite well. Actually, so, really, it was | :15:42. | :15:43. | |
all a bit of a fraud, wasn't it? The money was going to go | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
from your budget to the local government budgets, but it wasn't | :15:49. | :15:50. | |
actually going to achieve anything to reducing costs to the NHS, | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
which was one of Well, it was supporting | :15:54. | :15:55. | |
social care financing. Mm-hmm, to help save | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
pounds in the NHS. Well, to help social | :15:59. | :16:00. | |
care funding pressures. I think the underlying problem | :16:01. | :16:02. | |
is the shortfall of funding The Better Care Fund is an attempt | :16:03. | :16:04. | |
to put some more money in. The new Better Care Fund | :16:05. | :16:11. | |
is an attempt to put a bit more in. Social care would have been cut | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
by more without the NHS transfer of funds, definitely, | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
because it was used to prevent cuts. So, what you're really saying is, | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
actually, this isn't really much It's just moving money | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
from pot A to pot B. The problem with always thinking | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
that by putting some money in, we'll get some improvement | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
and some better things - it's just plugging a gap of money | :16:34. | :16:35. | |
that has been taken away, so the population 65-plus has | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
gone up by 15% in the period we are talking about, | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
and, actually, over 40% of adult social care budgets isn't spent | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
on older people at all. 35% is spent on people | :16:48. | :16:49. | |
with learning disabilities alone, where the pressures are equally | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
great, so there is a huge set of issues here, | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
and, although I wouldn't dismiss BCF or improve BCF as an unwelcome | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
resource, it's not getting The question is to what budget | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
a council but to its social care services, and that's obviously tied | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
up with the whole bigger national debate about local authority | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
financing and local democracy. A short time later in the Commons, | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
MPs debated the next round of funding for health | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
and social care in England. The idea that we have an NHS | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
that is on a sustainable footing is, I ask Ministers to be realistic | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
about the current position, and I ask our Chancellor, | :17:30. | :17:37. | |
in his forthcoming Budget, to address this matter by urgently | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
giving a lifeline to social care, because that will benefit not just | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
social care, but the NHS. She called for a joined-up | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
approach for the future - a call echoed by the chair | :17:53. | :17:54. | |
of another influential committee. We do need a long-term | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
generational shift in how we are going to deal | :18:01. | :18:02. | |
with this matter. We cannot just keep lurching | :18:03. | :18:04. | |
from crisis to crisis and funding The number of assaults carried out | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
on NHS staff in England by patients The day in the Commons began | :18:08. | :18:17. | |
with tributes following the death Sir Gerald was the oldest MP, | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
and also held the title "father of the house", | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
as he had the longest unbroken service as a member of the Commons, | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
being elected in 1970. He famously called his party's | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
left-wing 1983 election manifesto "the longest suicide | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
note in history". The Speaker, John Bercow, | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
led the tributes, saying I will not pretend that he was | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
always the easiest of colleagues. If you were lauded or praised | :18:41. | :18:49. | |
by Gerald, you doubtless took If you were attacked | :18:50. | :18:51. | |
or denounced by Sir Gerald, you could be in no doubt | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
on the matter. But there was that fidelity | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
to principle, that commitment to causes, that insistence | :19:03. | :19:04. | |
on doing his duty by his constituents, by his party, | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
and by his country. Gerald will be mourned | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
very widely indeed. MPs will get the chance to pay | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
their tributes later in the week. Meanwhile, in the Lords, | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
cross-party tributes have been paid to the former Lords leader | :19:27. | :19:28. | |
and Home Secretary Lord Waddington, David Waddington served | :19:29. | :19:30. | |
in Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet during the final year | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
of her premiership from 1989-90. He was appointed as leader | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
in the Lords by John Major. A tenacious, and committed servant | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
to the British public, who are affected real change, | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
leading the charge from the backbenches on major legislation | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
such as the amendment he carried to the Criminal Justice | :19:54. | :19:55. | |
And Immigration Bill in 2008. I think it's fair to say | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
that he wasn't one of life's But my colleagues did cheer | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
when, as Home Secretary, he referred the case | :20:05. | :20:14. | |
of the Birmingham Six to the Court of Appeal, where, | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
of course, their convictions In some ways, he wrote his own | :20:18. | :20:19. | |
obituary when in an interview for the House magazine some years | :20:20. | :20:28. | |
ago he said, with disarming self-deprecation, I think | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
he was having a joke, but, I would like to be remembered | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
as a decent local buffer who wasn't all that clever but, | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
in his own way, The number of assaults carried out | :20:41. | :20:42. | |
on NHS staff in England by patients or members of the public is rising | :20:43. | :20:54. | |
and now stands at Such is the concern that a petition | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
launched by the radio DJ Nick Ferrari calling for such | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
attacks to be made a specific criminal offence has attracted | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
nearly 117,000 signatures In a debate in Westminster Hall, | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
MPs told horror stories of some of the violence NHS | :21:12. | :21:13. | |
workers had suffered. I'll draw members' attention to one | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
example I was given of a 35-year-old ambulance technician from Cornwall, | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
who was punched in the face by a drunk, aggressive woman | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
whilst at work. She sustained a broken jaw | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
and she's had at least 12 surgical procedures since then, | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
and is still suffering She had a titanium jaw implant put | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
in back in September 2016, but since then she has had to have | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
two further procedures, and cannot open her mouth wider than a finger | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
width at the moment. That's over a decade | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
of agony and suffering. We owe it to people like her, | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
and everybody else attacked just doing their job, to stand up | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
and send a message that attacks on NHS staff | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
are contemptible and we will do everything in our power | :22:01. | :22:02. | |
to stop them. One piece of testimony | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
from an NHS staff nurse describes how in her, | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
quote, 20-year nursing career, I have been spat at, punched, | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
kicked, verbally abused, and even had a cardiac | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
monitor thrown at my head. Another talks about how | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
she works, quote, in an A On a daily basis, I see | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
some sort of aggression, whether this is physical | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
or verbal, towards staff. I can't recall a day that has gone | :22:30. | :22:31. | |
by when we have not had to have security or police | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
in the department. But perhaps even more worrying | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
than this is evidence given to this Petitions Committee | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
by the Royal College of Nursing, which suggests that there | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
is a dangerous perception that some female nurses fear | :22:45. | :22:46. | |
that they are seen as, quote, Now I am quite sure that members | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
will find this quite appalling. It is undeniable that our NHS staff | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
are under a great deal of pressure at the moment, | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
with long waiting lists, patients waiting on trolleys in corridors, | :23:02. | :23:03. | |
and having to deal with angry The Government, with their current | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
handling of the NHS, appear to be creating a perfect | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
storm of unrest and discontent amongst patients and relatives, | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
which is likely to exacerbate tension and ill feeling, | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
and the Government must take some I am the daughter of a retired | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
police sergeant and a nurse, And both parents were subject | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
to abuse as part of their roles as public servants, and so this | :23:31. | :23:38. | |
is an issue that I feel If you are under time pressure, as, | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
of course, we've seen in this winter in accident and emergency, | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
actually that just pours petrol on the flames, | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
because someone is going, excuse me, excuse me, | :23:51. | :23:52. | |
can I speak to you? And people are running past | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
all the time, and then So, this is not always | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
someone who is coming in with the tattoos, | :24:01. | :24:07. | |
you know, "love, hate" or whatever, making it obvious | :24:08. | :24:09. | |
that they are troubled. It is someone who is bright and, | :24:10. | :24:11. | |
but to de-escalates It requires back-up and, | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
more than anything else, But the Minister thought | :24:15. | :24:22. | |
the penalties already available Given the current offences framework | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
and sentencing guide, which, as I say, makes provision | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
for an increase in sentence to be considered where the victim | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
of an assault is a public sector worker, I am not persuaded | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
that there is a need to create a specific offence for this | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
particular group of workers. The new MP for Stoke-on-Trent | :24:42. | :24:50. | |
Central has taken his Gareth Snell held the seat for | :24:51. | :24:52. | |
Labour in last week's by-election. He won the seat with a majority | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
of just over 2,500 - Ukip's leader Paul Nuttall came | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
second - on a turnout of 38%. I, Gareth Craig Snell, do solemnly, | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
sincerely and truly declare and affirm that I will be faithful | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
her heirs and successors The by-election was caused | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
when the previous MP Tristram Hunt decided to stand down | :25:15. | :25:23. | |
from Parliament to run And that's it from me for now, | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
but do join Keith Macdougall at the same time tomorrow | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
for another round-up of the best of the day | :25:34. | :25:35. | |
here at Westminster, but until then, from me, | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
Alicia McCarthy, goodbye. | :25:39. | :25:44. |