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Outrage as three Russian musicians are jailed. Their target, Vladimir | :00:15. | :00:24. | |
Putin. Two years in his prn for singing in church, but has Putin | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
been punked? We'll asked Boris Berezovsky A former Putin adviser | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
and skisor sister, Anna Matronic. In the after glow of the Olympics, | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
the argument of selling school playing fields really the vision | :00:37. | :00:47. | |
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for 020 gold? Our long jump Throughout the cold Russian winter | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
and spring, people have been demonstrating on the streets of | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
Moscow and St Petersburg about the parliamentary elections last | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
December. The official results returned Vladimir Putin's party to | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
power, but the protesters smelled a rat. None of the protest his the | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
impact of three members of a punk band, Pussy Riot n February, they | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
performed a colour flee-worded song inside a cathedral in Moscow. Their | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
arrest, prompted widespread international outraipbl but did | :01:19. | :01:25. | |
nothing to top stoed's prison terms of two years each. As the old | :01:25. | :01:32. | |
proverb says the law is like a shaft, no matter what way you turn | :01:32. | :01:42. | |
it, you're shafted. From unknown feminist punk rockers to bonea | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
fiedglobal dissidents. Pussy Riot might look like cartoon punctuation | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
but their performances have ended up packing an unexpected punch, | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
drawing the world attention to free speech and Putin's Russia. But | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
today they are their tie raid against Putin in the main cathedral, | :02:05. | :02:13. | |
turned into a two-year sentence. Guilty, under 313 part two. | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
And give her two years of deep reservation of liberty in a penal | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
colony. Outside the court their supporters from outraged, there | :02:25. | :02:32. | |
were reports of 50 people arrested in Moscow. One of those the chess | :02:32. | :02:40. | |
player, Garry Kasparov. Free Pussy Riot. Supporters in 55 cities came | :02:40. | :02:48. | |
out in a show of solidarity when the verdict was rieched. Outside | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
people gathered outside the Russian embassy. Itch the case of Pussy | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
Riot has woken up the community of the society in the West because I | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
think it is something that concerns any three people, the inability to | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
say what you think. For the past six months these brightly coloured | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
Balaclavas have been the protest accessory of choice. These were | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
supposed to show the Pussy Rioters were an anonymous, and about their | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
ideas and not image. But few can deny it is the image that's got | :03:20. | :03:28. | |
them so much attention. Who are the women in the masks? Matter Ria, a | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
journalist student and mother. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a young | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
student, and Yekaterina Samutsevich a gay rights campaigner, and | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
computer programmeer. Are they freedom fighters or day glow | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
protesters for the Facebook generation? It was a long time to | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
take people seriously. You have three women, which will be | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
patronising, wearing silly clothes and silly name, performing not | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
confident musical performance of a punk prayer, doing the can, can in | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
a church. People didn't realise the wider significance and | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
ramifications of that. People realise it is not actually that 40- | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
second performance that matters, it is not what they did, it is what | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
they stand for, and that's why they were on trial. It is the fact | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
they're anti-establishment, they're feminists, atheists and it is all | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
those things that mean their' seen as the prosecutor said, they're a | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
threat to our values and society. The subsequent trial betrayed them | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
in the West, as victims of Putin's repressive regime. They aren't | :04:37. | :04:45. | |
short of Western supporters, a cast of musicians leapt to their defence. | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
But celebrity endorsements have done little to lessen Putin's | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
resolve. He told them they would not have survived if they pulled a | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
Muslim site in the caucuses. The case that is divided Russia, in a | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
country where the majority still say they at least, identify with | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
the church, many have seen the act as nothing more than sacrilegious | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
and deeply offensive rather than anything political. They chose one | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
of Russia's sacred sites to perform their musical prayer to the verjin | :05:18. | :05:26. | |
Mary, to rid Russia, of Putin. Today, the judge denounced them as | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
hooligans who had fueled religious hatred. But Pussy Riot's cathedral | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
stunt was one of several public protests, the group staged within | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
Putin's presidential campaign. He won a clear majority in the | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
elections, and a record third term. But many people thought the ballot | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
had been riged. Months later the Russian Parliament passed a new law, | :05:52. | :05:59. | |
curtailing the right to protest. Russian authorities you know, are | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
trying to come up with a package of legislation that is definitely | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
restricting freedom of expression and freedom of feeling, they're | :06:11. | :06:19. | |
afraid of dissent. Not all protesters are as he will went. | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
Speeches were performed to a Royal Court this morning. Even if we are | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
here in a cage, we are freer, than all those who sit opposite us on | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
the side of the prosecutor, because we can say, what we please and we | :06:33. | :06:41. | |
Pussy Riot have polarised opinion in Russia, but the challenge for | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
Putin is to make sure the two year jail sentence will prevent other | :06:46. | :06:56. | |
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protesters to follow these Add damn's blowing, animation | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
budget for the year. Alexander Nekrassky is a Putin supporters, | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
Boris Berezovsky is a Russian ol gar be, who is no fan of Putin and | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
in New York, Anna Matronic from the sisyor sisters who, is one of Pussy | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
Riot's supporters. Is it a sign of a mature democracy, that people can | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
be arrested and then ultimately jailed, for singing in church, a | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
song, that is critical of a politician? Well, the point is they | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
chose the wrong place. It is very important to understand that this | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
cathedral, was destroyed on orders of Stalin, and then was rebuilt in | :07:39. | :07:46. | |
the '90s, on the people's donations. So, it was basically a sign, a | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
symbol of Russia saying no to Stalin. Were you offended by the | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
song and what they did? I was not offended by the song. It is not a | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
great song is it? But I was offended by the fact they were | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
jumping at the altar, yes, they chose the wrong place, they should | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
have jumped out of the Muslim Liam. In that place of all places, should | :08:09. | :08:16. | |
they really have been going in and singing with the song with lyrics | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
"shit, shit, the Lord is shit". Efpb who believes in God, and who | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
goes to the Church, has his personal language, how to talk to | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
the God. And they have presented, they presented their language to | :08:31. | :08:38. | |
talk. I think, as far as I am concerned, I was not ashamed. It is | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
not my language to communicate to God. But, I was not shamed. But I | :08:43. | :08:51. | |
want to tell them, they're creative, and this exactly what destroyed any | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
dictatorship, creativity. They, because they're free, and we know a | :08:56. | :09:05. | |
lot of creative people in the Italian regime, for example, Lenny, | :09:05. | :09:15. | |
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who created this type of the wheel,. But, creativity finally wins | :09:16. | :09:23. | |
against the grain. And I think that it is a big mistake, because they | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
will be releaseed in 2014, which is the year that Russia, want to host | :09:28. | :09:35. | |
the Olympic Games. And instead of the five rings, it will be just | :09:35. | :09:43. | |
five balancea clafas, as a symbol of 2012 - Balaclavas. | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
Have you done that yourself? with my friends. Have you brought | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
in any art work? Give us thoughts. I must object to one thing, they | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
never had the proper song and never had a proper hit. So, it is a bit, | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
a sign of desperation. We might talk about the musical | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
produce wes, but you are convinced that President Putin himself, was | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
responsible for this verdict today. Where is your evidence for that? | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
wrote an open letter, not the first one, I got answer not from himself, | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
one from his crony from Duma, from Russian Parliament. Where is your | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
snefdz Sorry. Where is your evidence for the President being | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
directly involved? It is myself, I am live evidence that Putin direct | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
order to push me out from Russia, he was my friend for ten years, and | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
I know him well. And I know that Putin is the kind of major crime | :10:45. | :10:51. | |
and events in Russia, and not in Russia, but this country, when my | :10:51. | :11:00. | |
friend was poisoned, no doubts that behind status, and Putin was | :11:00. | :11:07. | |
President. What attracted you to supporting Pussy Riot? Well, for me, | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
it is always a question of democracy, and how it's expressed. | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
For me, as an American, as someone in a democratic form of Government, | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
for me the most important thing is to have disdense and discourse, be | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
address on both sides and have a proper place to be heard and | :11:27. | :11:35. | |
expressed in government. So to me, this verdict is really indicative, | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
I think, of the beginning of what could be a very large problem, not | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
just for artists and intellectuals in Russia, but people in general, | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
anyone who wants to speak their mind. And that is something that as | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
an American, as someone who feels represented by their government in | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
a democratic way, that is not that is not how we function in | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
democratic society. We must have freedom of speech. We must have | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
freedom of expression, we must have free elections and equal | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
representation under the law. do you think it says about what | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
they've done, or who they are, that, after all the weeks of protests | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
we've seen on the streets of Moscow and St Petersburg, it was this | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
action, and now, this sentencing today, that captureed the world's | :12:24. | :12:32. | |
attention? One of the quality of the Russian people that I find so | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
indeering and enduring, is their deep, deep faith. And the | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
connection to the holy images and Russian Orthodox Church. By | :12:41. | :12:48. | |
choosing the Church to stage their protest, Pussy Riot really taped | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
into the main vain - vein of the Russian people. And of course, | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
they'll start a huge conversation on both sides of the issue. And the | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
verdict is handing the opponents of the Putin Government and any person | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
who wants their voice to be heard, an instant symbol that is going to | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
fuel the fire of the opposition. And I believe that what we're | :13:15. | :13:22. | |
seeing today is a real cry for justice the world over. And Pussy | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
Riot is becoming the symbol of that. What we've done, what Russia's done | :13:28. | :13:34. | |
with this verdict is create this world of bright Balaclava symbols | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
that they are they're going to be embraceed by people all over the | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
world. Alexander Nekrassky if Vladimir Putin has had a hand in | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
this, even if he hasn't S this going to blow up in his face? | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
course not. If his popularity will grow, because this will back fire | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
on the protesters. This is a joke, to call this freedom of spaech, | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
this is a joke. Because Russian people will not respect these women | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
for so-called protests, because they chose the wrong place as I | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
mentioned already. This was a terrible, terrible site to see. | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
number of places can be seen? suspect what they did, was | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
undermine the whole idea of and a free protest in a country, if | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
people disagree with something, I think, this is a joke. Boris | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
Berezovsky there's polling evidence to suggest the President is still | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
popular, a poll in May, conducted found 7% of Russians had a | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
favourable opinion of him. Many many foreigners don't like him, but | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
they like him in Russia? First of all, I don't believe in | :14:43. | :14:51. | |
institutions today in Russia, who make public polls. And I know, | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
completely different things. The most important thing is Putin lost | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
all, without any exception, intellectual part of the society, | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
this is the biggest problem for him. How is that going to be capitalised | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
on someone like you? Everyone, every leader who is losing the | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
intellectual part of society, finally he is a loser., sorry your | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
question. Well I'm wondering if you're annoyed and so many others | :15:20. | :15:28. | |
are annoyed, how can that be taped into in future? I think that Putin | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
doesn't have any chance to survive as a leader, as the real leader. | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
And I think there are two ways how he could be collapsed. One way is | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
small internal circle of cronies, who recognise that he is dangerous | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
for them. The second way is street, and sooner and later, we will have | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
the same in Syria, and in some other countries, and Putin is | :15:55. | :16:02. | |
afraid of that. No I don't think that will happen, we can't compare | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
Syria and Russia, absolutely different situations. I think Putin | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
will last for a while at least. And I think his position is not as weak | :16:10. | :16:17. | |
as some people think. Anna, I heard you laughing earlier, what was | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
that? The history of Russia, has shown that facts and polls and | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
elections can absolutely be skewed in favour of whoever is in power. | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
And what I fear, just coming from the point of view of history, is | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
when you start silenceing and persecuting people for their | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
political opinion and their political creativity in a | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
statements they make, that is a very, very dangerous signal of | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
things to come. So, my eyes are definitely going to be on Russia, | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
in the rights of people and protesters, we've already seen | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
Putin take away some of the rights and limit the rights of protesters | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
since he's taken his third term. So I really am looking at Russia, | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
right now as is the world. And this verdict is really just going to add | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
fuel to the fire of the opposition. I wonder, finally, musically, and | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
Alexander is no fan of the music, is there something here about punk, | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
that makes this especially interesting? I think that punk | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
especially in British history is the roaring sound of the individual | :17:33. | :17:40. | |
who is rebelling against society at large. And asking questions. So, | :17:40. | :17:50. | |
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what we have is protest, is a noise, is a music that is ininherently | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
with one of the same as protesting and get ago radical point of view | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
out there. I may not agree that Pussy Riot has to say. Nor does the | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
majority of the Russian people. However, it is sparking a discourse | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
that needs to happen, I believe, and not just in Russia, but in the | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
world over. Thank you all three of you. | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
The Department of Education is having trouble counting. | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
Specifically the number of playing fields solid off since the general | :18:24. | :18:25. | |
election. The Daily Telegraph revealed the department had | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
underestimated the total, it wasn't 21 as originally claimed it was 30. | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
And tonight, another statement from Michael Gove's department says the | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
total number closed is 31. Yet the Mayor of The Olympic host city, | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
says the protection of school playing fields is vital to giving | :18:44. | :18:52. | |
young people fit and healthy. The Olympics, proved how important good | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
schools sports facilities can be. Just ask the rowers, who competed | :18:55. | :19:02. | |
on Eton's boating lake. Since the euphoria's passed the Government | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
policy on schools playing fields has come under ever closer scrutiny. | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
Last two years, 21 school playing fields has been solid, 14 is | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
because the school in question had closed, four of them was because of | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
school amalgamations, that leaves three, and the other three were go | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
getting money to invest in sports facilities. The figure of 21, that | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
has been broadcast around the airwaves doesn't stack up. | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
Embarrassing then when today the Government had to admit that 30 | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
schools had solid playing fields and had to amend that again, to 31. | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
More awkward still it emerged ministers had overruled an | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
independent advisory panel to allow five of the schools to sell land. | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
This is one of them. The primary school in Camden, north London. No | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
green fields here. It was part of the playground that the school | :19:59. | :20:05. | |
wanted to sell, playing fields it seems is a broad term. The school | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
will be entirely rebuilt. We're selling a tiny bit of this | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
school site, to be able to fund rebuilding the entire school to | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
provide a better environment for our schoolchildren. We've been | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
forced to do that, because the Government cut �2 hub hundred | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
million budget for building schools in 2010. Many local authorities, | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
are worried. What the sad reality of the current financial situation | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
is there isn't a huge amount of money for schools, other to meet | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
the basic and important priorities, such as providing school places for | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
the increasing number of places there are, in a number of parts of | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
the UK and making sure the buildings are so poor, there might | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
be a threat the school gets closed, makes sure that work is done. | :20:51. | :21:01. | |
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Some schools can sell land without the Government's permission. The | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
playing fields charity says we should know exactly what land they | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
have. I think one of the things we would really like to see, firstly | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
is a register of how many school playing fields there are now. That | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
would be a great move forward and give us a better indication of what | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
losses we're talking about, when there are disposeals of school | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
playing field, which of course will happen on occasion and be necessary. | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
But I think it would be helpful to see both sides of the picture. | :21:42. | :21:49. | |
we don't have the register now? not currently. You don't need | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
Eton's acres for excellent sports facilities. What better way to | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
encourage the Farah's of the future, than to build a running track right | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
through the middle of the school. Modern facilities don't have to be | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
a muddy field far away. This is he was Lynn Grace academy in the heart | :22:08. | :22:16. | |
of south London, designed by the arc tect, died died died, it came | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
with a price tag of �40 million, that's doubt the budget for a | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
secondary school these days, in austere times. The Olympics put | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
schools sports fields in the spotlight this summer. Whether | :22:30. | :22:37. | |
they'll stay there, once term starts is the question. Well we | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
invited the Department for Education to come to play tonight | :22:39. | :22:46. | |
but it says it is staying in to do homework. We will have gold medal | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
winning long jumper, Greg Rutherford and Graham Stuart who | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
enjoys cycling and taking part in try and the lons, he is a | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
Conservative MP who chairs the Commons education semi-. Greg, we | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
saw wonderful facilities there, what was it like at your school? | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
Very basic, we had some fields and playing area which are good n the | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
secondary, school we had Astra surface which was used for hockey. | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
But nothing you saw there. That was beautiful. What do you think of the | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
debate of school playing fields? Nifplt my opinion they have to stay. | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
For me, as a youngster, I was out on the fields all the time and | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
enjoying myself a lot. All different sports were playing, a | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
great place to be playing sports with your friends, for me, I was | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
active as a child and those were the areas where I spent most of my | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
time. We may come on to detail, but before that, Graham Stuart how | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
could you characterise the Government's handling of this, the | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
numbers which keep being corrected and the fact that the Secretary of | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
State's been overall his independence advice? Well I swoont | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
get too obobsessed about the numbers, the original answer came | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
because of the question asked specifically of the application | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
since the election. There has been 31 sales in two years, if you | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
compare that with the previous Government, it seems to be rung at | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
a lower rate. If you compare it across the whole numbers of schools, | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
more than 20,000 schools in the country, we should keep it in | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
perspective. The Government and Michael Gove is keen to say this, | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
that they brought in changes to the rules so there has to be a | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
ministerial signoff now on any sale of playing fields, that comes | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
before it. There are reason to believe there's a robust system in | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
place. Going forward, we have to ensure we improving fassailts and | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
link between schools and local clubs and provide everybody with | :24:47. | :24:54. | |
access to competitive sport and leisure activities and exercise of | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
other sports. If Michael Gove wants to say something, he is welcome to | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
come here and say it himself. What do you think the rule should be in | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
protecting and enhancing playing fields in schools? Should that be | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
done centrally or left to schools themselves? Well, my select | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
committee, a cross party committee, which supervises and vuet | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
scrutinises the Government on education matters, we'd want to | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
look in practical terms. The Government says there should be | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
less prescription, and many would say there's too much of that. We | :25:28. | :25:35. | |
have to see what happens, if it turns out reducing rules, means | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
schools will reduce the sporting facility, we have to look at it | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
again. So you want to keep an eye on it. What about that, Greg, | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
central control or leave it to the schools? Possibly a central control | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
is the only way, there's always going to be a situation where ker | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
individuals will abuse the system. And then you risk losing out for | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
many children, what is the essentially the best place to learn | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
sports and stay active and fit and healthy. It could take too long if | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
you left it up to an open committee, and then they said, now you're | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
using it, we have to look at it again. You have to centralise it, | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
and make sure that one rule fits for all. Graham Stuart it should be | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
said the Department of Education will see the capital budget fall | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
for 60% in real sterms in the course of this Parliament. Do you | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
think schools will say, we can make extra cash by selling off the | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
playing fields and rebuild the rest of the school. What will stop them? | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
Ministers have to sign on every one for a start, so you have a minister | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
answerable to Parliament, who has to sign off. And this August story, | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
which may be built on flimsy foundations but good timing after | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
the Olympics, helps that ministers will be unable to do that. Tell be | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
held to account whafplt is important is we get a strategy | :27:01. | :27:07. | |
going forward, that co-ordinates provision for young people. | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
encourages sport and capitalise on so many great clubs. If a school is | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
falling down, in a state of disrepair and the school thinks | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
well the only way we can spai is selling off playing fields, isn't | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
that a sensible thing for the school to do? The rules say you | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
have to ensure better provision, sporting provision for the young | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
people. The fact we are nae this situation, because we had a | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
Government that spent far more than it had coming in, and put it in | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
this state is a reality for everybody. We can't make money grow | :27:41. | :27:46. | |
on trees, we have to get the deficit under control. School | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
capital, as we heart in the piece, saw vaust expenditure, under the | :27:51. | :27:56. | |
last Government. This Government has had to life in austere times | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
and deliver better quality services for less money. I think we can do | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
that, and we have to ensure we have the best possible planning and not | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
get hung up on the playing fields. At the moment, I'm confident there | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
will be not a massive increase in selloffs. | :28:14. | :28:19. | |
Braefl, how important is it there are facilities on site at each | :28:19. | :28:24. | |
school? It is even more so at the moment. We've come out of a great | :28:24. | :28:27. | |
two-and-a-half weeks, and about to go into more of that. There will be | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
more inspired children and people who want to be involved in sport. | :28:30. | :28:35. | |
So, if we risk losing areas for the kids to be playing at, it is going | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
to be a detriment to the next generation. Thank you both very | :28:39. | :28:44. | |
much. The review, show starts in a few moments and Kirstie, like a | :28:44. | :28:48. | |
coiled Cobra is posed to tell us. Well in just a moment, politicians | :28:48. | :28:54. | |
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come day di that is Tommy Sheridan impersated in ice Tommy. That and | :29:01. | :29:06. | |
Pixar epic, Brave, do join us in a moment. Let's have a look at the | :29:06. | :29:11. | |
papers for tomorrow. Times leads with the Pussy Riot uproar we've | :29:11. | :29:14. | |
with the Pussy Riot uproar we've been discussing.. | :29:14. | :29:19. | |
The daily Mail, has a story about tap water being solid in | :29:19. | :29:24. | |
supermarkets. This is bottles of Tesco, every day still water and | :29:24. | :29:31. | |
Asda, smart priced water, sitting on the shelves with big brands. The | :29:31. | :29:40. | |
Guardian, they have a story about former Barclays boss. That's all | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
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