:00:00. > :00:09.Hello and welcome to Monday in Parliament.
:00:10. > :00:11.The main news from Westminster: After the G20 summit,
:00:12. > :00:14.the Prime Minister is confident about the UK's position in the world
:00:15. > :00:22.- but dismayed at America's position on climate change.
:00:23. > :00:28.I spoke personally to President Trump to encourage them to rejoin
:00:29. > :00:29.the Paris Agreement and I continue to hope that is exactly what he will
:00:30. > :00:30.do. Theresa May is reaching out to other
:00:31. > :00:33.parties on big policy issues - Labour says her Government has run
:00:34. > :00:42.out of steam. If the Prime Minister would like it
:00:43. > :00:47.I am very happy to furnish her with a copy of our election manifesto, or
:00:48. > :00:49.better still an early election so that the people of this country can
:00:50. > :00:51.decide. Also on the programme:
:00:52. > :00:53.The Falkland Islander who travelled 8,000 miles to raise
:00:54. > :01:04.concerns about Brexit. We may well lose the support of the
:01:05. > :01:08.rest of Europe and may well see Spain and possibly other members of
:01:09. > :01:11.Europe giving greater support to Argentina over its mistaken and a
:01:12. > :01:13.legal claim to the Falkland islands. When the leaders of
:01:14. > :01:15.the G20 countries - the world's leading economies -
:01:16. > :01:17.descended on Hamburg, in Germany, last week -
:01:18. > :01:20.there was a lot to talk about. Terrorism, internet security,
:01:21. > :01:21.international trade These events are also interesting
:01:22. > :01:25.for what they reveal about the dynamics between
:01:26. > :01:27.the world's most powerful politicians and the
:01:28. > :01:31.countries they lead. When Theresa May reported back
:01:32. > :01:34.to Parliament she expressed confidence about the UK's place
:01:35. > :01:36.in the world, saying that it made "leading
:01:37. > :01:38.contributions" on many issues - At this summit we set the agenda
:01:39. > :01:46.again calling on our G20 Calling on our G20
:01:47. > :01:52.partners to squeeze the lifeblood out of terrorist networks
:01:53. > :01:55.by making the global financial system an entirely hostile
:01:56. > :01:58.environment for terrorists. And we secured agreement
:01:59. > :02:03.on all our proposals. She was upbeat about the UK's
:02:04. > :02:08.prospects after Brexit. As we leave the
:02:09. > :02:10.European Union we will negotiate a new comprehensive,
:02:11. > :02:12.bold and ambitious free trade But we will also seize the exciting
:02:13. > :02:24.opportunities to strike deals with old friends
:02:25. > :02:33.and new partners. And at the summit I held a number
:02:34. > :02:39.of meetings with other world leaders all of whom made clear
:02:40. > :02:43.that there are strong desires to forge ambitious new bilateral
:02:44. > :02:45.trading relationships with the UK This included America,
:02:46. > :02:47.Japan, China and India. And this morning
:02:48. > :02:49.I welcomed Australian Prime Minister Turnbull
:02:50. > :02:51.to Downing Street where he also reiterated his desire for a bold
:02:52. > :02:53.new trading The US President Donald Trump
:02:54. > :02:59.has pulled the US out of the international Paris Agreement
:03:00. > :03:01.on climate change. At the end of the summit,
:03:02. > :03:03.19 countries reaffirmed Theresa May raised the issue
:03:04. > :03:11.with the President. I and my counterparts
:03:12. > :03:14.in the G20 are dismayed at America's withdrawal
:03:15. > :03:16.from this Agreement. I spoke personally to
:03:17. > :03:18.President Trump to encourage him to rejoin the Paris Agreement and I
:03:19. > :03:24.continue to hope that is exactly Theresa May is on a mission to reach
:03:25. > :03:32.out to opposition parties, saying she is amenable to ideas
:03:33. > :03:35.about the big issues of the day - Her appeal was dismissed
:03:36. > :03:38.by the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, who demanded
:03:39. > :03:40.a general election instead. This Government is apparently now
:03:41. > :03:42.asking other parties If the Prime Minister
:03:43. > :03:48.would like it I am very happy to furnish her with a copy
:03:49. > :03:51.of our election manifesto. Or better still an early
:03:52. > :03:54.election in order for the Let's face it, the Government
:03:55. > :04:04.has run out of steam, in our country and the
:04:05. > :04:08.world amid uncertainty the Gulf states, nuclear sabre
:04:09. > :04:12.rattling over North Korea, refugees continuing to flee war
:04:13. > :04:15.and destruction, ongoing pandemics, cross-border terrorism, poverty,
:04:16. > :04:19.inequality, and the impact of climate change, are the core global
:04:20. > :04:23.challenges of our time. Just when we need
:04:24. > :04:25.strong Government we This Government is
:04:26. > :04:31.the architect of these failed austerity policies
:04:32. > :04:33.and now threatens to use Brexit to turn
:04:34. > :04:38.Britain into a low wage, deregulated, tax haven
:04:39. > :04:41.on the shores of Europe. A narrow and hopeless version
:04:42. > :04:45.of the potential of this country which would only
:04:46. > :04:48.serve the few, one that would ruin industry,
:04:49. > :04:51.destroy innovation and ruin people's The SNP leader said the UK
:04:52. > :04:57.was floundering around on the world alliance formed with
:04:58. > :05:07.the American President on trade. Goodness knows what a trade deal
:05:08. > :05:15.with America right now would mean for public services,
:05:16. > :05:17.food quality or worker's rights. Indeed talk about UK-US trade
:05:18. > :05:20.deal was dealt a blow by the Prime Minister's
:05:21. > :05:21.own Justice Secretary who just hours after
:05:22. > :05:22.the summit ended said it wouldn't
:05:23. > :05:25.be enough on its own. The Prime Minister
:05:26. > :05:27.must now come to her A United Kingdom outside the single
:05:28. > :05:32.market would be ruinous. Our EU friends and
:05:33. > :05:37.partners are moving on without us, just this year alone
:05:38. > :05:41.finalising trade deals with Japan and Canada while the UK
:05:42. > :05:44.readily turns in on itself. There are only two weeks
:05:45. > :05:46.to go before Parliament It is one of the last chances MPs
:05:47. > :05:54.will get to quiz the Prime Minister. Several MPs are concerned
:05:55. > :05:56.about the UK withdrawing from the European nuclear safety
:05:57. > :06:01.and research watchdog. The Prime Minister
:06:02. > :06:03.will no doubt be aware about the growing concern
:06:04. > :06:05.across the House about her proposal to withdraw the UK from the Euratom
:06:06. > :06:07.treaty despite the concerns
:06:08. > :06:09.there are about the implications for the movement of scientists,
:06:10. > :06:12.nuclear materials and Can she explain to
:06:13. > :06:16.the House what the UK nuclear industry gains
:06:17. > :06:20.from such a policy? I am sure the right honourable
:06:21. > :06:23.gentleman will be aware, he is chairing the Select Committee,
:06:24. > :06:27.that membership of Euratom is inextricably
:06:28. > :06:28.linked with membership But what we are doing, as we
:06:29. > :06:40.signalled in the Queen's speech, with reference to a future bill
:06:41. > :06:43.on this issue, is wanting to ensure relationships, that cooperation
:06:44. > :06:46.with Euratom, which enables the exchange of scientists,
:06:47. > :06:47.the exchange of There are countries around
:06:48. > :06:51.the world that have that relationship with Euratom
:06:52. > :06:52.which are not members of the European Union,
:06:53. > :06:55.but we need to put that Bill in place and I look forward
:06:56. > :06:59.to his support for the Bill. When journalists have
:07:00. > :07:11.been murdered in Putin's Russia does the Prime
:07:12. > :07:14.Minister share my anger at the chilling sight of Presidents
:07:15. > :07:16.Trump and Putin joking And will she commit to stressing
:07:17. > :07:20.the importance of the independence of the media to both
:07:21. > :07:26.leaders when she meets them next? About this new love fest
:07:27. > :07:35.with the benches opposite, given the record of the Leader
:07:36. > :07:39.of the Opposition on the counterterrorism and security
:07:40. > :07:41.act, does she possess a very long Well, yes, I can say to my right
:07:42. > :07:52.honourable friend that I have in the past as Home Secretary
:07:53. > :07:57.welcomed the cooperation which I have had from the Labour benches,
:07:58. > :08:00.not from the right honourable gentleman who is currently
:08:01. > :08:02.Leader of the Opposition, but from others on his benches,
:08:03. > :08:04.who have seen the need to ensure that agencies have
:08:05. > :08:07.appropriate powers to deal with the Those calls for cooperation
:08:08. > :08:12.were also seized on by She wondered if Defence Ministers
:08:13. > :08:18.would agree to a pay rise After losing her
:08:19. > :08:24.majority at the general election the Prime Minister has now
:08:25. > :08:28.signalled that she is prepared to work across the House with other
:08:29. > :08:30.parties in areas of agreement. In that spirit I
:08:31. > :08:33.would like to make a The Government has just
:08:34. > :08:36.introduced an Armed Forces If they agree to amend that
:08:37. > :08:44.Bill to include a real terms pay rise for our
:08:45. > :08:46.Armed Forces personnel then they can count
:08:47. > :08:47.on Will the Government agree
:08:48. > :08:52.to work with us to give our Armed Forces the pay
:08:53. > :08:55.award they deserve? We all want to see our
:08:56. > :08:58.Armed Forces being properly remunerated for the service
:08:59. > :09:02.that they give us. But it is also incumbent
:09:03. > :09:19.on the honourable lady to make it very clear how any increase
:09:20. > :09:22.that she is favouring would be And that is something
:09:23. > :09:26.she hasn't done, her party hasn't done, and they certainly
:09:27. > :09:28.didn't do it the last election. The pay review system
:09:29. > :09:30.we have is beyond It's an independent pay
:09:31. > :09:33.review body that looks at comparability with the civilian
:09:34. > :09:36.sector, looks at the issue of retention and recruitment,
:09:37. > :09:37.and makes its recommendation. On the contrary we had
:09:38. > :09:42.our manifesto fully They know how to raise
:09:43. > :09:45.taxes if they need them. The fact of the matter is that
:09:46. > :09:50.the Armed Forces pay review body is severely constrained
:09:51. > :09:52.by the overall cap of 1% on public sector pay
:09:53. > :09:53.the If the Government will not
:09:54. > :10:01.legislate for a pay rise will the Secretary
:10:02. > :10:03.of State at least allow the pay review body
:10:04. > :10:06.to carry out a review and report
:10:07. > :10:09.on what our Armed Forces should be receiving if the cap
:10:10. > :10:14.were not in place? On the first point I
:10:15. > :10:16.am staggered to hear the honourable lady thinks
:10:17. > :10:17.that her manifesto was fully costed
:10:18. > :10:24.or indeed fully funded. There were billions
:10:25. > :10:26.and that manifesto that were due to be borrowed and paid
:10:27. > :10:29.for by future generations. So far as we have implemented
:10:30. > :10:34.the recommendation in full by the review body for this
:10:35. > :10:37.financial year, so far as next year is concerned evidence
:10:38. > :10:43.is ready being acquired I will give my own evidence later
:10:44. > :10:48.in the year and we will see what recommendation
:10:49. > :10:50.they come up with. The Defence Secretary,
:10:51. > :10:53.Sir Michael Fallon. You're watching Monday In Parliament
:10:54. > :10:58.with me, Kristiina Cooper. Coming up: fears that
:10:59. > :11:14.Brexit means piracy. There are voices that think that
:11:15. > :11:18.Brexit means Britain can hoist the Jolly Roger.
:11:19. > :11:20.The High Court has ruled that UK arms sales to
:11:21. > :11:26.The court rejected campaigners' claims that ministers were acting
:11:27. > :11:28.illegally by failing to suspend weapon sales to the kingdom,
:11:29. > :11:32.Some of the evidence was heard in secret.
:11:33. > :11:34.When the International Trade Secretary came to the Commons
:11:35. > :11:43.to brief MPs on the ruling, he faced some hostile questioning.
:11:44. > :11:45.The Government relied upon material which was brought forward
:11:46. > :11:49.evidence which was not able to be seen or heard by
:11:50. > :11:51.the Campaign Against the Arms Trade or their lawyers.
:11:52. > :11:53.As such, the court ruling that the Government's decision
:11:54. > :11:56.was a rational one given the procedures and evidence it
:11:57. > :11:57.considered was based on secret evidence,
:11:58. > :12:02.which it was impossible to challenge.
:12:03. > :12:05.Does the Secretary of State accept that the court judgment
:12:06. > :12:09.makes specific reference to the substantial body of evidence
:12:10. > :12:12.presented in open session that in fact suggests a clear risk does
:12:13. > :12:15.exist that British arms might be used in violation
:12:16. > :12:18.of international humanitarian law, will he agree to make the evidence
:12:19. > :12:22.that was available only in closed session available to members of this
:12:23. > :12:24.House on Privy Council terms, or indeed, make it available
:12:25. > :12:29.to the intelligence and security select committee?
:12:30. > :12:33.I do take exception, Mr Speaker, with the final point that he made.
:12:34. > :12:37.Because this idea that somehow, if we have closed sessions,
:12:38. > :12:40.that makes the judgment less valid, I simply don't accept.
:12:41. > :12:44.Because I don't accept this idea that we cannot have closed sessions
:12:45. > :12:48.that protect our national security, for the personnel involved
:12:49. > :12:52.in our national security, sources need be protected.
:12:53. > :12:55.I will listen to the argument that he makes, but I simply
:12:56. > :13:00.Medecins Sans Frontieres report today that Yemenis are afraid to go
:13:01. > :13:03.and to stay in the cholera treatment centre in Abs,
:13:04. > :13:09.since it was bombed by Saudi Arabia last August, killing 19 people.
:13:10. > :13:16.This atrocity was declared an unintentional mistake, along with
:13:17. > :13:18.facilities in Hayden, Razeh and Saada, among others,
:13:19. > :13:24.How many hospitals, protected by international humanitarian law,
:13:25. > :13:28.will the Secretary of State allow to be hit by Saudi Arabia before
:13:29. > :13:34.Mr Speaker, the Honourable lady talks as though there is only one
:13:35. > :13:38.party in this particular dispute in that part of the world,
:13:39. > :13:47.And as I say, we take the absolute, the clear risk criteria
:13:48. > :13:52.But I'm afraid that making the sort of rather uninformed points
:13:53. > :13:54.that she does for propaganda purposes doesn't actually help
:13:55. > :14:00.While the Secretary of State and the Government may have won
:14:01. > :14:03.this legal skirmish, they certainly haven't won the moral
:14:04. > :14:05.case and there are still many unanswered questions
:14:06. > :14:07.about the relationship here and the terrible situation
:14:08. > :14:12.The Secretary of State said that on one hand, he was confident,
:14:13. > :14:15.but on the other hand, the court judgment makes it clear
:14:16. > :14:17.that he was anxious, and in fact, as he knows,
:14:18. > :14:19.he wrote to the Foreign Secretary saying, "I am concerned
:14:20. > :14:21.that the issue continues to be finely balanced.
:14:22. > :14:24.I ask that you commission a further detailed assessment
:14:25. > :14:26.and send me updated advice, and that you seek advice
:14:27. > :14:28.from senior Government lawyers before making a recommendation."
:14:29. > :14:33.It is my job to be anxious about these things.
:14:34. > :14:36.It is my job to give the nth degree of scrutiny,
:14:37. > :14:38.because lives are potentially being lost if we make
:14:39. > :14:44.And it is the judgment of myself, the Foreign Secretary and other
:14:45. > :14:47.senior ministers that gives us such anxiety.
:14:48. > :14:49.Were we to be cavalier, the honourable gentleman
:14:50. > :14:52.would be absolutely right to command criticise us.
:14:53. > :14:55.When we take the nth degree of care about the judgments we make,
:14:56. > :14:58.as previous governments before have done, then he ought to be very
:14:59. > :15:01.grateful we are doing so in the country's interests.
:15:02. > :15:03.Eight British Overseas Territories have sent representatives to give
:15:04. > :15:05.evidence to a Lords Committee investigating the long-term
:15:06. > :15:11.Roger Edwards, a Member of the Legislative Assembly
:15:12. > :15:13.of the Falkland Islands, told peers about the potential
:15:14. > :15:21.With the UK a full member of the European Union
:15:22. > :15:24.and a signatory to the Treaty of Rome, all the rest of
:15:25. > :15:27.Europe is obliged to recognise and accept that the UK OTs
:15:28. > :15:36.Once the UK is no longer a member state, nor a signatory to
:15:37. > :15:41.the Treaty of Rome, the same obligations do not apply and we may
:15:42. > :15:46.well lose the support of the rest of Europe,
:15:47. > :15:52.and may well see Spain and possibly other members of Europe
:15:53. > :15:55.giving greater support to Argentina over its mistaken and illegal claim
:15:56. > :16:02.There are concerns, too, in Pitcairns -
:16:03. > :16:05.the UK's smallest overseas territory.
:16:06. > :16:14.We would, ideally, likely be in a position where we are no worse
:16:15. > :16:17.off than we would have been had we stayed in the EU.
:16:18. > :16:22.We have one of the purest honeys in the world,
:16:23. > :16:23.Europe is one of our biggest markets.
:16:24. > :16:26.And what will be the impact, it has to be tested each year
:16:27. > :16:30.for us to be on the EU list, will we be still be allowed to do that?
:16:31. > :16:32.It's not significant in terms of quantum,
:16:33. > :16:35.it's only 25,000 units a year, which is the maximum we can put
:16:36. > :16:40.But not being able to ship that to Europe would certainly have
:16:41. > :16:48.The wider concern, he said, was that Pitcairns would become isolated.
:16:49. > :16:52.Now, MPs are to hold an emergency debate on the infections of NHS
:16:53. > :16:57.patients by contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 1980s.
:16:58. > :17:00.The request for the debate was made by Labour's Diana Johnson, who said
:17:01. > :17:03.the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, had used his
:17:04. > :17:10.final speech as an MP to present a dossier.
:17:11. > :17:14.In his valedictory speech to this House on the 25th of April 2017,
:17:15. > :17:16.the then right honourable member for Leigh outlined a dossier
:17:17. > :17:21.amounting to criminal conduct on the part of individuals involved
:17:22. > :17:27.He said that if the Government did not commit to a public enquiry
:17:28. > :17:29.before the summer recess, he would refer this
:17:30. > :17:35.The then Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for Health
:17:36. > :17:38.asked him to submit his dossier of evidence to the Health
:17:39. > :17:44.She assured the House that this would be given the highest priority.
:17:45. > :17:48.However, we have heard nothing since then.
:17:49. > :17:50.And we now have further unanswered questions which underline the need
:17:51. > :18:07.And she referred to recent newspaper reports.
:18:08. > :18:11.the Daily Mail set out evidence that as early as 1980, officials
:18:12. > :18:13.knew that 50 people with haemophilia a year
:18:14. > :18:14.were being infected with hepatitis C.
:18:15. > :18:16.Nothing was done about this for five years.
:18:17. > :18:18.Secondly, as reported in the Sunday Times,
:18:19. > :18:21.on Friday the 7th of July, the Westminster leaders of all six
:18:22. > :18:22.non-government parties in the House of Commons,
:18:23. > :18:24.including the Democratic Unionist Party, wrote a joint letter
:18:25. > :18:26.to the Prime Minister urging her to commit
:18:27. > :18:34.the right honourable Andy Burnham reaffirmed his commitment to refer
:18:35. > :18:37.cases of alleged criminality to the police and confirmed he has
:18:38. > :18:42.an appointment with the police on the 26th of July.
:18:43. > :19:00.The Speaker granted the debate - it willl take place on Tuesday.
:19:01. > :19:07.The former head of MI5 has described the scale of the terrorist threat as
:19:08. > :19:11.unprecedented. She told the Lords that the threat has grown since the
:19:12. > :19:15.attacks in July 2007. This year, on four dates over
:19:16. > :19:18.the course of three months, our country has been
:19:19. > :19:20.attacked by terrorists. Westminster, Manchester Arena,
:19:21. > :19:21.London Bridge and Borough 36 dead and over 150 injured
:19:22. > :19:25.in these atrocious attacks. Terrorists mean to sow fear
:19:26. > :19:28.and division, but ours is a community of many faiths
:19:29. > :19:32.and many nationalities and all have come together in the face
:19:33. > :19:37.of these senseless acts. And if these attacks
:19:38. > :19:39.have shown us anything, it is that attack on one part
:19:40. > :19:42.of our community is This Government is committed
:19:43. > :19:49.to ensuring there is no safe space My right honourable friend
:19:50. > :19:55.the Home Secretary continues to lead efforts with technology companies
:19:56. > :19:58.to remove terrorist material. We continue to work closely
:19:59. > :20:02.with social media companies, to progress an industry led forum
:20:03. > :20:05.that will look to take a new, global approach to tackling
:20:06. > :20:21.terrorist use of the internet. Lord Harris was commissioned
:20:22. > :20:24.by London's Mayor Sadiq Khan to look at how prepared London would be
:20:25. > :20:26.for a terrorist attack. My lords, I remain disturbed that
:20:27. > :20:31.even now, not enough is being done We benefit from the fact that
:20:32. > :20:34.firearms are more difficult to acquire in this country
:20:35. > :20:37.than elsewhere in the world. However, there is almost
:20:38. > :20:39.a complacency about this, with an assumption that the sort
:20:40. > :20:42.of attacks that occurred in Paris But London and other cities
:20:43. > :20:49.are by no means firearms free. During July and August in my review,
:20:50. > :20:52.the Metropolitan Police recorded 202 firearms discharges,
:20:53. > :20:55.compared to 800... Compared to 87 in the same months
:20:56. > :21:00.of the previous year. I think the scale of the problem
:21:01. > :21:04.is genuinely unprecedented. But when we are told that MI5 has
:21:05. > :21:13.500 active investigations involving 3000 subjects of interest and also
:21:14. > :21:19.has a vast pool of some 20,000 people who they can't
:21:20. > :21:23.focus on at the moment, about whom there have been concerns
:21:24. > :21:26.and who they would like to go back to look at if time and resources
:21:27. > :21:31.allow, this is pretty serious. One of the things which I guess
:21:32. > :21:34.pains us most about recent incidents is the way these
:21:35. > :21:40.terrorists are home-grown. And it gives me no pleasure to say,
:21:41. > :21:44.in the diocese where I serve, which covers five east London
:21:45. > :21:47.boroughs and the whole of the county of Essex, in the work I do,
:21:48. > :21:49.visiting communities, often visiting young people,
:21:50. > :21:56.many young people do feel disenfranchised,
:21:57. > :21:58.overlooked, do not have the opportunities
:21:59. > :22:07.that we would wish them to have. Lady Lane-Fox, a high
:22:08. > :22:09.profile internet pioneer, said those writing laws
:22:10. > :22:11.about the internet first How will we ensure we make the right
:22:12. > :22:21.decisions if our parliamentarians do not have the experience
:22:22. > :22:24.from which to understand I find it hard and I have devoted my
:22:25. > :22:28.life to the technology sector. I believe the gap between
:22:29. > :22:30.innovations driving the pace of change in citizens'
:22:31. > :22:32.lives and the ability of policymakers to keep up is one
:22:33. > :22:35.of the most pressing Lady Lane-Fox suggested
:22:36. > :22:40.parliamentary education programmes. She said understanding the issues
:22:41. > :22:44.around cyber-secuirty was vital. Over a year ago, an anti-corruption
:22:45. > :22:48.summit was held in London. The Government promised a strategy
:22:49. > :22:50.to tackle corruption But along came Brexit,
:22:51. > :22:56.and then the general election. A Liberal Democrat in the House
:22:57. > :22:59.of Lords is worried that, in a Brexit world, the issue has
:23:00. > :23:11.fallen down the agenda. There are voices around that suggest
:23:12. > :23:18.that Brexit is an opportunity for Britain to hoist the Jolly Roger and
:23:19. > :23:23.to book a year its way around the world with scant regard to things
:23:24. > :23:27.like bribery or money laundering. So isn't it time the Government sent
:23:28. > :23:32.out a clear message that it's a beacon of integrity in these matters
:23:33. > :23:39.by bringing forward this strategy, by giving a vote of confidence in
:23:40. > :23:47.the Serious Fraud Office, and by finding a new anti-corruption
:23:48. > :23:53.campaign to succeed the one that has now departed the other place? Those
:23:54. > :23:58.are the challenges that would make us a beacon of integrity rather than
:23:59. > :24:02.the other way. There are a number of questions. Firstly, he is right, the
:24:03. > :24:08.deadline has been missed. We hope to publish the updated strategy by
:24:09. > :24:10.December last year. There was some turbulence in Whitehall following
:24:11. > :24:15.the outcome of the referendum... LAUGHTER
:24:16. > :24:18.And then in March, when the ministerial group met to consider
:24:19. > :24:23.the draft strategy, there was further discontinuity with the
:24:24. > :24:26.general election. However, a near final draft of the document is being
:24:27. > :24:31.prepared and we hope to publish it shortly. On the anti-corruption
:24:32. > :24:36.campaign, there have been a series of these, there was Hilary Benn,
:24:37. > :24:40.Jack Straw, Ken Clarke, Eric pickles was the last. But with the election,
:24:41. > :24:46.Sir Eric is no longer a member of Parliament. We helped appoint a new
:24:47. > :24:50.champion discourse. On the point about the Jolly Roger, I prefer the
:24:51. > :24:54.union Jack. But he is right, this country has a reputation for
:24:55. > :25:03.integrity and fairness. Throughout the world. And that helped us win
:25:04. > :25:07.export orders are helps us win investment, in a recent analysis of
:25:08. > :25:12.integrity, the UK was ranked joint tenth out of 176 on the transparency
:25:13. > :25:18.International corruption perceptions index. He's quite right, we value
:25:19. > :25:19.our reputation we are determined to maintain it and enhance after
:25:20. > :25:21.Brexit. Alicia McCarthy will be
:25:22. > :25:26.here for the rest of the week. But from me, Kristiina
:25:27. > :25:31.Cooper, goodbye!