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And in the South East. Another blow for jobs on the Isle of Sheppey as | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
a wind power company walks away but that making a single turbine. Is | :01:41. | :01:51. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 1680 seconds | :01:52. | :29:52. | |
He I and Julia George and this is the Sunday Politics in the South | :29:52. | :29:57. | |
East. Coming up. Chris a sack and Gatwick runway becoming more | :29:57. | :30:01. | |
likely? Anew report says it is a better idea than a whole new | :30:01. | :30:06. | |
airport on the North Kent coast. John in the in the studio, the | :30:06. | :30:10. | |
Conservative MP Tracey Crouch and for Labour, the Sussex-based | :30:10. | :30:14. | |
columnist and commentator Paul Richards. Thank you for coming in. | :30:14. | :30:18. | |
The Prime Minister started the week in Kent promising no benefit cuts | :30:18. | :30:22. | |
for pensioners. John Simpson for the BBC this were to lead the | :30:22. | :30:25. | |
debate about dementia when he said he would rather pop a pill than | :30:25. | :30:30. | |
live in misery and be a nuisance. As Sussex in he says it is time for | :30:30. | :30:34. | |
a Grey Pride Minister, looking out for the needs of older people. | :30:34. | :30:38. | |
Tracey Crouch, the Institute for Fiscal Studies says that pensioners | :30:38. | :30:43. | |
are doing quite well in terms of finances. The the to need their own | :30:43. | :30:45. | |
Minister and I think the Labour Party were quite right in | :30:45. | :30:50. | |
appointing a spokesman for it all to people. We made many decisions | :30:50. | :30:54. | |
every day over transport, housing and health care that affect older | :30:54. | :30:58. | |
people, but there is no joined-up approach. We could do with the | :30:58. | :31:02. | |
Minister for older people. Do you think that older people are getting | :31:02. | :31:06. | |
a tougher time work are younger people the ones who need looking | :31:06. | :31:11. | |
out for? Part of this is about having an approach across | :31:11. | :31:14. | |
government like Tracey said, but also having a single Minister would | :31:14. | :31:19. | |
be a good idea. A 65 you will's needs are different from someone of | :31:19. | :31:26. | |
the age of 100. You cannot refer to old people? People in the 60s are | :31:27. | :31:32. | |
going skiing and surfing and are being active. People in their | :31:32. | :31:39. | |
hundreds of are entirely different. You cannot lump them all together. | :31:39. | :31:42. | |
Expand Gatwick and Heathrow, make Manston into a proper airport and | :31:42. | :31:47. | |
just forget about Boris app Island. The latest report says a new hub | :31:47. | :31:50. | |
airport on the North Kent coast would be too expensive and take too | :31:50. | :31:55. | |
long to build. Helen Drew has been exploring the arguments for a | :31:55. | :32:05. | |
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bigger Gatwick. Gatwick Airport will soon be publishing its | :32:07. | :32:09. | |
masterplan for the next few years which will include the possibility | :32:09. | :32:13. | |
of the second runway. The airport told us that surrounding land will | :32:13. | :32:17. | |
continue to be safeguarded to give the option to expand. There is | :32:17. | :32:22. | |
local opposition, not least because the medieval village of Charlwood | :32:22. | :32:26. | |
which lies close to the airport and has around 2000 residents could | :32:26. | :32:30. | |
find itself sandwiched between the two runways. But the expansion to | :32:30. | :32:34. | |
take place, but we need to be a good case for it. Aviation bosses | :32:34. | :32:37. | |
have said that the UK needs more capacity it it does not want to be | :32:37. | :32:43. | |
left behind. As we stagnate, our counterparts in Europe and around | :32:43. | :32:47. | |
the world rub their hands with glee. Some, if not all have the capacity, | :32:47. | :32:50. | |
will need to come from the South East. There is the ongoing debate | :32:50. | :32:54. | |
over a third runway at Heathrow as well as the possibility of night | :32:54. | :32:59. | |
flights at Manston and an extended run way here. There is also the | :32:59. | :33:04. | |
proposal for a new airport in the Thames estuary, but this week a | :33:04. | :33:07. | |
report said that this is not the right solution and we take too long | :33:07. | :33:12. | |
to build. Gatwick cannot expand until after 2019 because of the | :33:12. | :33:15. | |
legal ruling, but could still be the strongest contender. Doing | :33:16. | :33:19. | |
nothing is not an option. If you were to talk about expanding | :33:19. | :33:23. | |
Gatwick you would get away from the idea of building an airport in the | :33:23. | :33:26. | |
Thames estuary which has been around for ten years and is frankly | :33:26. | :33:30. | |
something we would seek sooner see the end of. It would cause | :33:30. | :33:33. | |
environmental damage and we do not think the numbers stack up and it | :33:33. | :33:37. | |
could be built in the crucial time frame that we need if we are going | :33:37. | :33:42. | |
to be a player in the aviation hub of business. There is an awful lot | :33:42. | :33:46. | |
of jobs resting on the back of this and we cannot afford to lose out. | :33:47. | :33:51. | |
The Gatwick area has been helped in terms of employment. The airport is | :33:51. | :33:56. | |
responsible for the to 6,000 direct or related jobs and Crawley has | :33:56. | :33:59. | |
cure people claiming jobseeker's allowance and the national average. | :33:59. | :34:05. | |
The local MP has been hosting a debate this week. The Crawley area | :34:05. | :34:10. | |
has benefited from the existence of Gatwick Airport and that is why a | :34:10. | :34:13. | |
lot of Global Connect the -- companies base their UK and | :34:13. | :34:18. | |
European headquarters there. It is why we benefit from their | :34:18. | :34:21. | |
headquarters of the British Crowan companies like Virgin Atlantic and | :34:21. | :34:26. | |
many others that I could mention. We need to be mindful of future | :34:26. | :34:30. | |
economic expansion. We are a trading nation and we rely heavily | :34:30. | :34:34. | |
on the aviation industry. We are leaders in the aviation industry. | :34:34. | :34:39. | |
To deny that would be foolish. I do not think we should rule out the | :34:39. | :34:42. | |
expansion of Gatwick Airport in the future. Looking to the future, | :34:42. | :34:46. | |
Gatwick is investing �20 million per month in its facilities. It | :34:46. | :34:51. | |
recently won new routes are eight, including direct flights to China | :34:51. | :34:54. | |
and South Korea and passenger numbers have risen to 34 million | :34:54. | :35:01. | |
per year. A second runway would bring it further investment. | :35:01. | :35:06. | |
obviously, there is the direct investment in the runway. Hopefully, | :35:06. | :35:12. | |
a large UK company will get that work. The multiplier behind it, | :35:12. | :35:20. | |
they would be five to 10 jobs behind every single shop at Gatwick. | :35:20. | :35:25. | |
I know people commute up from the south coast us. People commute from | :35:25. | :35:30. | |
Kent. It will help the local area and it will expand what we do took | :35:30. | :35:34. | |
a further area. This summer, the Government will publish its | :35:34. | :35:38. | |
document on the long-term future of aviation. Alongside that, it will | :35:38. | :35:42. | |
be looking for suggestions on how to address the need for extra | :35:42. | :35:45. | |
capacity. With ongoing investment in that with's facilities and the | :35:45. | :35:50. | |
surrounding area that has been helped by the job opportunities, we | :35:50. | :35:54. | |
are expanding Gatwick be just the lift that the nation he -- the | :35:54. | :35:59. | |
region needs's John Innes now from our Westminster studio is the | :35:59. | :36:03. | |
former Mayor of Medway Dai Liyanage and he is also the director of | :36:03. | :36:07. | |
demand regeneration in North Kent. A second runway at Gatwick, it | :36:07. | :36:13. | |
would be a quicker solution? will be. It will not happen for | :36:13. | :36:21. | |
another seven years. If we start building up a longer-term solution | :36:21. | :36:26. | |
on the estuary, then in about 10 years' time, we can have that | :36:27. | :36:32. | |
airport. It is a better thing for a longer term solution rather than a | :36:32. | :36:38. | |
short term, short-sighted solution. You are in a minority in Kent, | :36:38. | :36:43. | |
calling for a new hub airport. Here is another report saying it is not | :36:43. | :36:48. | |
the right solution. Are you losing confidence in the hub airport? | :36:48. | :36:52. | |
If you look at the report and terms of reference it is looking for a | :36:52. | :36:56. | |
short-term solution. We are looking for a long-term solution. That is | :36:56. | :37:00. | |
the difference. People do not understand what a hub airport means. | :37:00. | :37:10. | |
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It means it is like a bus station, whereas other airports are like | :37:11. | :37:19. | |
bus-stops. You need a bus station. Having at four runways, like other | :37:19. | :37:24. | |
airports, look at China. They are building 50 airports in the next | :37:24. | :37:32. | |
ten years. The UK will be left behind. You mention inconvenience | :37:32. | :37:36. | |
for residents if Gatwick expanse, what about the inconvenience and | :37:36. | :37:41. | |
the environmental damage that would be caused by a massive new | :37:41. | :37:46. | |
development of the North Kent coast? How about the jobs. How | :37:46. | :37:50. | |
about the regeneration for the area? That is the most important | :37:50. | :37:53. | |
thing. There are a lot of young people who are unemployed in those | :37:53. | :37:59. | |
areas. There is no hope for them for the future. Here is something | :37:59. | :38:03. | |
that within 10 years' time, we did have a new airport, new jobs and a | :38:03. | :38:09. | |
career and a future for the people of the area. Are you convincing | :38:09. | :38:13. | |
anyone? The council had been opposed to this as have local MPs. | :38:13. | :38:18. | |
Is anyone coming on side and is anyone listening to those voices? | :38:18. | :38:25. | |
Absolutely. A lot of business people are supporting this campaign. | :38:25. | :38:32. | |
We need to ask the people, without asking anyone spending �50,000 of | :38:32. | :38:42. | |
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my money, on propaganda. I do not understand the logic of the council. | :38:42. | :38:46. | |
I do not know what their hidden agenda is. Let us bring in the | :38:46. | :38:53. | |
studio guests in. Is there a hidden agenda here? Why would any MP say | :38:53. | :38:57. | |
yes to a massive infrastructure project and a massive number of new | :38:57. | :39:03. | |
jobs? I a whole variety of reasons. The man until impact is one of | :39:03. | :39:07. | |
those reasons. This is a 50 billion pound project and it would take | :39:07. | :39:11. | |
decades to get planning permission and to start up. Boris has made it | :39:11. | :39:15. | |
clear that he sees this as an opportunity for Londoners to have | :39:15. | :39:18. | |
jobs. He has made it clear that quite a few of the jobs would | :39:18. | :39:22. | |
transfer from Heathrow directly, so any suggestion that there would be | :39:22. | :39:27. | |
new jobs for local people is misguided. A youngsters need jobs | :39:27. | :39:34. | |
today, not in 20 years' time. is a big opportunity for jobs that | :39:34. | :39:39. | |
has disappeared in Kent recently the investment in the | :39:39. | :39:43. | |
infrastructure is just an available to us at the moment. There is | :39:43. | :39:48. | |
another point as well, in that Medway in particular is a highly | :39:48. | :39:53. | |
populated and to suddenly find thousands of new homes and all the | :39:53. | :40:00. | |
infrastructure at that could go with that, I do not think this is | :40:00. | :40:05. | |
appropriate to build a brand-new airport off the Kent coast. | :40:05. | :40:10. | |
Sussex they think it is a brilliant idea to have investment in their | :40:10. | :40:14. | |
existing airport. If there was a simple choice for you, expand | :40:14. | :40:18. | |
Gatwick or a new airport? You have got a perfectly good word class | :40:18. | :40:22. | |
airport at Gatwick. The pain has been taken already in the council, | :40:22. | :40:27. | |
now it has a world-class airport, so you expand what you have. The | :40:27. | :40:33. | |
economy is flatlining and we cannot wait for that two decades. Does it | :40:33. | :40:40. | |
have to take that long? The even the ones that have been referred to | :40:40. | :40:47. | |
as being built in China and should by, the still take time to be built. | :40:47. | :40:51. | |
With the economy flatlining and jobs needed now, with the airport | :40:51. | :40:56. | |
already there, let us build in Gatwick. | :40:56. | :41:00. | |
Another blow for jobs on the Isle of Sheppey. Vestas has abandoned | :41:00. | :41:04. | |
plans to build wind turbines in a huge factory in Sheerness. No one | :41:04. | :41:08. | |
knows exactly why, but could government policy be to blame? | :41:08. | :41:13. | |
There are mixed messages about cuts in subsidies for wind energy. At | :41:13. | :41:17. | |
least 10% and it could be 25% and according to one Cabinet Minister, | :41:17. | :41:23. | |
subsidies could be gone altogether by 2020. You are one of the MPs who | :41:23. | :41:27. | |
wrote to the Prime Minister earlier this year St you wanted to limit | :41:27. | :41:31. | |
the growth of onshore wind production. Investors need long- | :41:31. | :41:34. | |
term certainty. You are part of the reason that investors say they will | :41:34. | :41:39. | |
not be part of the future in Kent. I think the decision by the company | :41:40. | :41:44. | |
is a bit of a red herring. They closed a site on Tyne met on | :41:44. | :41:48. | |
exactly the same day that the announce the decision on the Isle | :41:48. | :41:52. | |
of Sheppey. The closed five sites in Scandinavia last year. It is a | :41:52. | :41:59. | |
commercial decision. Why did one of your colleagues say that their | :41:59. | :42:02. | |
decisions suggests a lack of confidence within the industry over | :42:02. | :42:06. | |
the government's commitment to green energy? I heard her interview | :42:06. | :42:13. | |
and she made clear that all energy has been subsidised at some point | :42:13. | :42:17. | |
and the subsidies decline over time. We need to ensure that people do | :42:17. | :42:20. | |
have an understanding about the government's commitment to | :42:20. | :42:23. | |
renewable energy and in the next few weeks the government will be | :42:23. | :42:28. | |
making announcements on the banding review. The taxpayer subsidises the | :42:28. | :42:31. | |
energy and it has to subsidise the right energy that is getting the | :42:31. | :42:36. | |
right results. You are shaking your head. How long to be go on | :42:36. | :42:42. | |
subsidising wind energy? How long before we say it has to stand on | :42:42. | :42:47. | |
his own two ft? We need a low- carbon economy, and we need jobs as | :42:47. | :42:52. | |
well. This plant would have given 2000 high skilled jobs in the south. | :42:52. | :42:57. | |
These are the kind of jobs we need in the low-carbon economy that the | :42:57. | :43:02. | |
government claims to want to support. It seems to be closing its | :43:02. | :43:06. | |
doors to Green Investment and those jobs are going elsewhere. You | :43:06. | :43:09. | |
cannot say there is cause-and- effect between a government that | :43:09. | :43:13. | |
signals it is not interested in subsidising the industry and a big | :43:13. | :43:21. | |
supplier like Vestas at St forget it. To think that Tracey's decision | :43:21. | :43:28. | |
is part of the recent Vestas is not here in Kent? It is. It is based on | :43:28. | :43:31. | |
the framework of the government who does not seem to be serious about | :43:31. | :43:40. | |
wind energy. Ed Davey said that we have to be green and been green it | :43:40. | :43:43. | |
means being straight with investors and companies and not messing them | :43:43. | :43:46. | |
around. We need a clear message so that people understand what the | :43:46. | :43:50. | |
subsidies will be and whether this government backs renewable energy. | :43:50. | :43:54. | |
I absolutely. We will see an announcement from Ed Davey over the | :43:54. | :43:58. | |
next few weeks. It will set out the banding rebuke and what the subsidy | :43:58. | :44:05. | |
will be for certain energies. what shook the level be? I favour | :44:05. | :44:11. | |
offshore wind. It is more consistent. I would have less | :44:11. | :44:17. | |
subsidy for onshore wind. We have to see the industry and -- | :44:17. | :44:25. | |
demonstrate it is what the tax payers money. We wanted jobs, but | :44:25. | :44:29. | |
millions of households are believed to be in fuel Prof pretty. They are | :44:29. | :44:36. | |
clamouring for cheaper electricity. The need MX-. You need a nuclear to | :44:36. | :44:41. | |
blend slowly into types of low- carbon energy. You need action on | :44:41. | :44:47. | |
fuel prices particularly. In the longer term, we need those green | :44:47. | :44:54. | |
jobs in the south. We need a high skilled engineering jobs. Is there | :44:54. | :44:58. | |
a prospect that and other renewable energy firm and they come along? Is | :44:58. | :45:07. | |
anyone making positive noises? side that Vestas were going to use | :45:07. | :45:13. | |
is perfect for renewable Engineering. Why aren't there any | :45:13. | :45:21. | |
other companies coming? Vestas made a commercial decision. It has been | :45:21. | :45:25. | |
closing sites all over the world for the last few years. They have | :45:25. | :45:34. | |
not had a single order for a wind turbine. If the site was perfect | :45:34. | :45:39. | |
and they decide not to come, you do not need to be a genius to work out | :45:39. | :45:43. | |
because unaffected do you? Or lover let when this has suggested that | :45:43. | :45:51. | |
all subsidies should go for renewable energy by 2020. There is | :45:51. | :45:55. | |
a strain of thought in the Conservative Party that is quite | :45:55. | :45:59. | |
anti- low-carbon the energy. They do not see it as the way forward. | :45:59. | :46:04. | |
You can see that there is a strain of thought coming from the likes of | :46:04. | :46:08. | |
those people, but that is not the way we will get the economic | :46:08. | :46:15. | |
recovery that we need. Lookout for a camera you roll by | :46:15. | :46:25. | |
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Tracy in this week's political round-up. Tracey Crouch claimed a | :46:26. | :46:30. | |
victory over the government's U- turn on petrol prices. Fuel prices | :46:30. | :46:33. | |
have been increasing and they had been putting pressure on household | :46:33. | :46:38. | |
budgets and business budgets. I think this is a good news and | :46:38. | :46:42. | |
asthma. The Green Party leader urged the government to look at the | :46:42. | :46:47. | |
extradition treaty between the UK and US under which this man was | :46:47. | :46:51. | |
sent to the States to await trial. House of Lords reform has been | :46:51. | :46:55. | |
dominating procedures in Parliament and MPs will debate the issue next | :46:55. | :47:02. | |
week and a number are expected to rebel. This MP asked. Is it a bit | :47:02. | :47:06. | |
stupid to ask for House of Lords reform, but against the programme | :47:06. | :47:12. | |
motion? Do you recognise this man. Security guards at the Olympic site | :47:12. | :47:17. | |
didn't and refused entry to him. He was apparently rather upset, giving | :47:17. | :47:21. | |
that he is the Olympics Minister. With the game's less than a month | :47:21. | :47:31. | |
away, it will help raise his profile. Everybody loves the story | :47:31. | :47:34. | |
and we will come on to that in a moment. There you were at the | :47:34. | :47:39. | |
beginning talking about a cut in the fuel duty rise. Is she right? A | :47:39. | :47:45. | |
year us. It is good that the cut is taking place. The problem was the | :47:45. | :47:49. | |
shambles that it led up to. Ministers at the Treasury and the | :47:49. | :47:52. | |
Cabinet did not know about it and it seems unfunded. We do not know | :47:52. | :47:59. | |
whether money is coming from to match the cuts. You were not the MP | :47:59. | :48:04. | |
who was put up during the week, defending that decision. A I signed | :48:04. | :48:09. | |
the pledge, so I would not have been put off to defend the position. | :48:09. | :48:14. | |
At the that was the right decision to make. We have saved �500 million | :48:14. | :48:24. | |
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on the Olympics, so we can ring- fence that for the cut. A bit MP | :48:32. | :48:36. | |
with the whole do you know here a moment. Are those words that any | :48:36. | :48:42. | |
politician should ever utter? No. I feel slightly sorry for the | :48:42. | :48:45. | |
Private Office and the civil servants whose job it is to make | :48:45. | :48:50. | |
sure that they have passes. You cannot blame the Minister. A two | :48:50. | :48:58. | |
you get recognised? I do. Sometimes in embarrassing circumstances. In | :48:58. | :49:03. | |
the supermarket -- in the supermarket sometimes. It is fine | :49:03. | :49:07. | |
and it comes at the job. The would she ever uttered those words? | :49:07. | :49:15. | |
no! I am regularly not recognised and I'm comfortable with that. | :49:15. | :49:21. | |
Thank you. That is set for Sunday Politics in the South East. My | :49:21. | :49:31. |