11/11/2012 Sunday Politics East

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Hello and welcome to the programme. Coming up, a fresh approach to

funding in Essex, and this week his election week across the region.

Voters will go to the polls are to select police and Crown

Commissioners will those in Corby will finally get a new MP.

Today we have the Conservative MP for Bury said Edmonds and former

shadow Policing Minister, and Labour's MEP for the east of the

region. I want to kick off with the

disappearance of the Mid Bedfordshire N P Nadine Dorries.

We'll all and this week she had jetted off to the jungle to take

part in a reality television show. This is what our constituents have

had to say. It shows the content with which she

treats the electorate. She should be dismissed.. I am ashamed of her,

really. She should not be paid well she is away. She has turned her

bridges and she has gone to Australia to try and manifest

unpopularity. Not very happy. Should we have the

power of recall here, so that voters who are unhappy with their m

he can sack them? I believe in a power of recall, it

has been talked about by both political parties in the last

Parliament. I would not just to introduce it for Nadine Dorries,

but it should be for any transgressors. Anyone the public

wants to get it, like Denis McShane who has been found guilty of

serious fiddling, he does not seek to be recalled he just resigned.

With Nadine Dorries I see what the vox pops his, she has very few

supporters. The Chief Whip was not happy, never met supporters.

Are you sympathetic to those constituents, Richard? She has led

to constituents unrepresented. David Cameron welcome to it because

she was MP who called him the bridge Tory Boy, and he has not

recovered from that. Talking about the reality TV show, on this

Remembrance Sunday, and a week when the Royal Anglians have been given

such a wonderful reception in Norwich and Ipswich in Basildon,

this is a higher calling. That is what those in politics should

reflect and Nadine Dorries very definitely has not.

Davies, will she get the whip back? I do not know. Fair enough. I think

her local party at local democracy will call her to account. That will

be the first action. Would you like her to have the whip back? I think

we should wait to see what her local party and local people think.

It should be local people wanting representation, if they want her

out they will get her out. It is not for David Cameron or anyone

else. Ambling to read that there. I will

move on to something new. This is happening in Essex. A fresh

approach to the way that local services are delivered, and set to

affect everything from the way that domestic violence, education and

even young offenders are dealt with. It is part of the Community budget,

and Essex is the largest of four areas running a trial of the scheme.

Our correspondent has looked at the way that cases of domestic violence

would be handled. In May, David talks was convicted

of the horrific double murder of his ex-partner and their two-year-

old daughter. A damning report by the IPCC said there were failings

in the communication between agencies in the lead-up to death,

including Essex County Council's social services and Essex police.

There are other problems, too. The force deals with 32,000 domestic

violence showed Kohl's paired here, but the Home Office believes this

is 12,000 fewer than it should be. Senna said it took one year from

the day she first reported been beaten from her ex-partner before

she was able to move into a refuge. -- Sarah.

She says she felt let down the social services.

I do not know my own mind. I had no peace of mind for one whole year.

They could have reported it to social services, social services

could have come around. I have had them in my life since I have been

in Refuge, and are openly welcome them. I have nothing to hide.

It is hoped that this building mind me will form part of the solution.

It will be Essex police in's new central referring units, to handle

domestic violence calls. New buyer will be a domestic violence up, the

idea is that data will be able to be shared more easily. It will also

be more simple for domestic violence victims to find The Help

they need. They will notice a quicker response, more dynamic risk

assessment. So if an incident is reported to us, it will go straight

to the sacred officers who will make a decision then and there

about what the best plan is. -- to safeguard officers. At the moment

there will be a slight delay as the officer must fill out a form before

sending the referral on to the domestic violence team.

This is part of the no -- he knew whole Essex Community budget, a

pilot scheme that will see many services in the region near her

eyes from scratch. New proposals submitted to the Government for

approval could see savings of more than �400 million within six years.

But this could lead to job losses. This is about delivering more

effective and efficient services through multi-agency work. Working

with the police, with health, with local Government bodies and the

Ministry of Justice as well. It is about making services able to

deliver continued services against increasingly difficult pressures in

these times. These proposals could affect a number of different

services, so several areas must give them the go-ahead. Essex

County Council say they must make these reforms, many people using

these services could see changes beginning next year.

We caught up with the Secretary of Communities and Local Government,

Eric Pickles, had asked him what community budgets would achieve.

The idea is to rule this out nationally, so that when people go

through the door of a local authority there is just one service

there, and completely integrated service. Essex are doing something

interesting, they have looked at things like domestic violence and

not looking at domestic violence endure isolation. They have tidied

up to school truancy and housing conditions and the like. By

bringing the various agencies together they have been able to

offer better services to the customer.

Picking up on that, the situation in Essex at the moment is that they

have 80 different organisations remain 116 different phone lines.

This community budget will hat at this kind of duplication and get

rid of it. It is good to have local services that work closely with

women's refuges and -- in Basildon and Harlow. There are so many of

them. Their close to the victims, and this is not about bureaucracy,

it is about domestic violence. This terrible case in Braintree, and

what did the Police Complaints Commission fined? A huge backlog.

And a huge shortfall of resources. Whether it is the key organisations

or one, if there is not enough money in the system the service

cannot provide protection to women in that case, including a woman who

died. They had to do a Freedom of Information request in every local

authority in the country and it shows that a and genially half-a-

million cuts already by Essex on domestic violence provision. This

is the third worst in the country, so my message is, victims of

domestic violence are not being protected because of cuts.

Moving on to that subject of cuts, efficiency and improvements at the

same time. How do you get more for less? Does the Government have a

magic wand? We must separate two things out. I

am in favour of this pulled budgets. Irrespective of what the funding is,

it is just good Government. None of us found it acceptable about the

case in London where the police were not talking to social services

and vice versa, that must stop. This model could work and we are

trying it out. It is separate from the cuts issue. We all know why all

public services, with the exception of the Health Service, are being

reduced. We have a huge deficit. It is the peacetime deficit. More with

less is something that plenty of parts of Government and plenty of

businesses do it hazels do it. He made a small armoured of money go

far further and I do not accept that less money means were more

domestic violence. Is there is separate from cuts? Is

this the way to dress it up? think the one-stop-shop approach

was pioneered by some local Government ministers when Labour

were in administration. This is not just the Conservative idea.

It was your total police initiative. I am fully in favour of the

principle, but I spoke to my colleagues in Essex County Council

and they said this is yet another Kinnock like every other one and it

will last a few months and in a few years' time they will move on. --

in yet another gimmick. They say that this is like a "big society",

this is cover for taking money out of directly provided services in

Essex. The outcome of that, is that services in Essex and have been

provided by a third party providers at people have lost between two and

�12,000 per year, so you have the poorest paid people caring for the

most voluble people in our society. But you used to run a council,

wouldn't you have liked to have more control over the money was

spent? I have worked with people with disabilities or as well as my

work in politics, and I am proud to campaign with these different

groups. We have always wanted to cut down the barriers between

health and social services and it has proved difficult to do so. It

can only happen if there is a fair bit of faith in the system. After

the long build-up, the autumn of elections reaches its peak. We will

hear from more candidates in the running for the role of police and

Crown Commissioners in. First, that final push for Corby. It is a

result that matters, because the seats being borne by the Government

at every General Election since 1983. If Labour wins Corgi it will

be their first by-election gain from the Conservatives in over 15

years. -- if Labour wins Corby. On Friday the Labour leader was

back in Corby. His fourth visit on the campaign. I take nothing for

granted, and we will fight for every vote. It is very important

that the people of Corby have a representative who will stand up

for them. Stand up against the squeeze in the living standards,

stand up for jobs for our young people and stand up for a fairer

tax system and a different direction for the country.

The Prime Minister has only been here once, and for less than 90

minutes. The Cabinet have all made brief

appearances, well away from the cameras and many other Conservative

MPs have got in to help out with campaigning. Most of my colleagues

will have wanted to get through here at some stage during a

campaign just to show support and show that the Conservative Party is

behind the candidate at whatever anybody says, whatever you read, we

are extremely proud of this Government's record.

In the hustings, as on the doorsteps, the main issue has been

jobs and the economy. You are out of touch with what a young people

want. It is clear that many people are disillusioned with all

politicians. The turnout on Thursday will be interesting.

It will also be interesting to see how much the Louise Mensch factor

plays in this election. He did not have to be here for long to realise

that many people felt their last it he was often absent and celebrity

obsessed. How will Nadine Dorries's exploits in the jungle play among

supporters? You kept are hoping to benefit

substantially from public disillusionment. First day could be

one of the main stories of the selection. We have Conservative

voters in the most shy parts of the constituency who feel very let down

by unit Cameron and Labour voters furious with the Labour Party for

opening up this region to of Eastern Europe.

The Liberal Democrat candidate has not even taking time off work to

fight this election, the party leadership knows that when you are

the junior member of a coalition you face a very big up will

struggle. They are trying their hardest. In the by-election you do

not change the Government, you elect someone to speak up for the

people of a constituency. I hope that this is what the people of

Corby that parts of Northamptonshire see and understand.

With 14 names on the ballot paper, the local council will lot could

the vote until Friday. By this time next week, one of the longest by-

election campaigns in some time will finally be over.

That is the picture in Corby, let's take a final look at the candidates

for the new role of police and crime commissioner. Voting is on

Thursday to elect the head of or eight police forces who will have

the power to hire and fire chief constables. Coming up, candidates

in Norfolk but we begin with the Thames Valley force which covers

Milton Keynes. He must make savings of �31.7

million, and those savings will be found by 2015. Managers calculates

that for and 39 people the staff and 96 officers will have to be cut

to balance the books. One of the things I want to do is

ensure that there is an a quality of service across the region, so

nobody feels bold the dog, everyone feels they have an except -- and

accessible PCC. Milton Keynes is one of our largest towns, it is

very important and I watch as I chaired the performance committee,

I watched the statistics on Milton Keynes very carefully. It is

setting local priorities. I will have to get involved because I am

conscious that in the Thames Valley area or it is a very fast area. It

will not be a case of him one rule fits all, that is not the case.

police and crime Commission will be responsible for all citizens

anywhere in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire.

That include Milton Keynes as much as Oxford and High Wycombe and

slower and anyone else. I would say that every town course City will be

St -- treated exactly the same, in full Furnace. The end result is to

be the voice of the people, two ways and link with local

communities and the local police. He I want devolved decision-making

at a local level to reflect local priorities. I have been speaking to

independent members of the current police authority about plans to set

up police boards, to ensure that local priorities are part of the

police plan. In Norfolk, savings of 25 million

are needed by 2015 and the force expect to reduce the number of

officers by hundred and 50 to 250. All five candidates are acutely

aware of the need for more for less. The Government have delayed from

November to December when they tell the police what money they will be

allocated. That is what I'm concentrating on. I would also go

and see whoever wins in Suffolk, because collaboration to save money

has been going on and still has further to go. Part of the police

role is catching criminals, the other part is preventing crime and

to do that he would have voluntary organisations. A lot of pressure

and input must be put on those lottery organisations to help as

much as possible. I am absolutely opposed to privatisation, what we

need to make sure is that policing remains accountable so the people

that -- to the people they serve not Private shareholders. I cannot

one small businesses over run by big businesses, or policing over

run by G4S. I want to make sure that doesn't happen. The Chief

Constable remains operationally responsible for his old force, and

this will be the same all for England and Wales by end of this

election. Well there is a role of the delivery of public service is a

new business model that will enable us to get the efficiencies we need,

to run up the results you want. additionally it always is old

people who will vote, but many of people have spoken up that there

are encouraged to vote. Whether it is for me of another candidate,

seeing them people active in politics is encouraging. The police

affect some people just as much as the older.

In your experience as a Shadow Minister, where these roles

welcomed? And have to tell you that I would all over the police

authority to the country and there was not one Conservative member who

supported the idea that there will be a low turnout, but you would

expect that for a new kind of election. We all know what Ineke

elections are read out he elections are, this is a new concept and we

must work with what we have. Someone can get on the phone and

speak to someone who is the police commissioner they voted for. It was

kicking often do this and it went on Saturday night, there were no

police, what will you do? There will be value to this, but they do

not pretend that it will be popular. I'll turn it is expected, but these

elections will be costly, as will the role of police and crime

commissioner. Would the money not be better spent on just better

policing? For David to openly admit that I give him credit that you

Conservatives want these elections says a lot to Conservative voters

this week. If we do not have these elections we could save money to

employ 3,000 extra police officers. Most of all for me, there have been

20% police cuts. There are 700 fewer police officers on the

streets and very sponsor authorities across the East. If

people want to say no to those cuts, noted G4S coming in and privatising

air police service, though for a Labour police commissioner who will

fight to keep funding. I want to squeeze in the political

round-up of the week. On this Remembrance Sunday, we start with

the homecoming parade of the First The First Battalion Royal Anglians

marking an end to their tours of Afghanistan. Well defence minister

Mark Francois pledged the Government will do everything it

can to help veterans in the region. I am absolutely determined when I

have this job that he will do everything we can to provide care

for our servicemen. The trial of the expenses of former MP Margaret

Moran has begun in her absence after she was ruled unfit to stand

trial. Meanwhile, a forester given rise to concern is the East is

confirmed as having the highest incidence of ash dieback cases in

the country. We know that some of these genes were found back in

March, we have destroyed 100,000 that and we know that. Young trees

are particularly susceptible. I sometimes think that the Deputy

Prime Minister would like to send me to a jumble and Australia.

-- a tumble in Australia. Let's pick up on ash dieback.

Farmers and landowners are telling us that Government action was too

little too late. Suffolk and Norfolk are particularly badly hit,

I was speaking to one Paterson about this but the disease is now a

mature trees and eradicating it will not happen. We must now make -

- see what we can do to make sure we do not decimate trees in this

region. Friday's Cobra meeting came out saying that we must improve by

low-security. Are our hands not tied when it comes to that, because

you part of your? We now know that this disease came through imports

from the Netherlands in February. I know that the British exports told

a committee in March that this was an outbreak in Britain. Yet

ministers say they were not told by those same officials until April.

This cannot be right. It has taken him a further six months to bring

in the measures they have. They should have been taking those

measures six months earlier in Norfolk and Suffolk in particularly.

Very briefly to reply. I didn't think that Owen is a man of

business, he will do what he can to save this industry. So six months