:01:50. > :02:00.Prizes of off-duty police march on London about their cash mac. They
:02:00. > :02:00.
:02:00. > :35:33.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 2013 seconds
:35:33. > :35:42.are joined by the Chief Constable 1000 local officers joined the
:35:42. > :35:45.match en London will stop be. Well helping us with our inquiries today
:35:45. > :35:47.- two MPs - locked up in our little cell.
:35:47. > :35:54.They are James Gray - a Conservative MP in Wiltshire.And
:35:54. > :35:57.Tessa Munt - the Lib Dem MP from Somerset. Welcome to you both.
:35:57. > :36:01.Before we get stuck into crime - you are both united in your
:36:01. > :36:11.determination to make cuts, but the reform of the House of Lords looks
:36:11. > :36:11.
:36:11. > :36:18.like being the issue that could prise you apart. When the caution
:36:18. > :36:22.was put together instead of focusing on benefits like plague or
:36:22. > :36:25.Tote alternative voting and House of Lords report. In my 30 years of
:36:25. > :36:29.knocking on doors and not one person has ever said the war to see
:36:29. > :36:38.the House of Lords reformed. Let us leave it as it as. The are doing a
:36:38. > :36:43.good job. Genes ought to look at the caution again. We wanted lower
:36:43. > :36:48.taxes. We wanted more money put into schools. Yes, we wanted a
:36:48. > :36:54.change to the voting system. We want to be sure they had been
:36:54. > :36:59.unsustainable as this. For why are you saw hang up on Lords reform?
:36:59. > :37:04.is not just as. All three parties have said they would like House of
:37:04. > :37:07.Lords reform. This has been on the agenda for 100 years. It is
:37:07. > :37:12.ludicrous that the party leader should be able to choose who sits
:37:12. > :37:20.in the chamber. I would rebel strongly against that. I will be
:37:20. > :37:28.campaigning against that. Even efforts but the caution? The House
:37:28. > :37:34.of Lords does a first-class job. It holds as guys back. The Lords to
:37:34. > :37:44.enjoy good job. Let us read them on. You could not care less about the
:37:44. > :37:49.
:37:49. > :37:56.collision? But has not quite what I said. You did not win the election.
:37:56. > :38:00.This is something that has been on the agenda of 100 years. We will
:38:00. > :38:03.not occur whetted for 100 years. Now 'ello 'ello 'ello - what's
:38:03. > :38:06.going on here. A thousand off duty officers went to London this week
:38:06. > :38:09.to protest about 20 per cent cuts to the police. They were even
:38:09. > :38:12.joined by the chief constable of Gloucestershire - although his
:38:12. > :38:15.office denied that he was taking part. He was just there. Paul
:38:15. > :38:19.Barltrop has been watching the protestors on the beat and has
:38:19. > :38:22.taken a few statements. It was the day when the thin blue
:38:22. > :38:27.line became a long blue line, as police officers gathered in London
:38:27. > :38:37.to protest. A thousand came from the West - the biggest contingent
:38:37. > :38:38.
:38:38. > :38:42.from the Avon and Somerset force. am upset about this then that the
:38:42. > :38:48.current bid on our terms and conditions. They have betrayed us
:38:48. > :38:58.as being all repeats. It is wrong. We are looking within the next four
:38:58. > :39:03.years as queen back to the figures we were ended in the 1980s. That
:39:03. > :39:06.has got to affect frontline policing. All those who protested
:39:06. > :39:16.in London were off-duty. They insist it's not their actions which
:39:16. > :39:25.
:39:25. > :39:29.threaten public safety - it's the cuts. We are very concerned. At the
:39:29. > :39:32.end of it did it means less police officers will stop when you pick at
:39:32. > :39:37.the form on occasions you'll have to wait longer than you should have
:39:37. > :39:47.an. Police numbers reached a record high towards their end of the
:39:47. > :39:52.
:39:52. > :40:02.Labour governments. The number of losses now is the laws for one day
:40:02. > :40:12.it. This police officer is quitting in protest at Fox the Government is
:40:12. > :40:15.
:40:15. > :40:25.doing. The Police Federation will not relent.
:40:25. > :40:29.
:40:29. > :40:36.I have a cash mac to deep and too fast? Numbers are not everything.
:40:36. > :40:46.We want to get policemen eight of the back of this dash mac out of
:40:46. > :40:50.
:40:50. > :40:58.the Back Office. When serving police officers say they will have
:40:58. > :41:01.to wait longer they have got it wrong and you have got it right?
:41:01. > :41:08.Last autumn the same people were marching because they were
:41:08. > :41:12.concerned about their pensions. They are doing better than other
:41:12. > :41:22.armed services. Why should the police to that much better than
:41:22. > :41:23.
:41:24. > :41:29.anybody else? The police commissioner is a one-off. Can you
:41:29. > :41:38.justify its queer they are seeing officers call time from 3,400
:41:38. > :41:48.stitches 1,700? One of the problems and even and Somerset is that any
:41:48. > :41:51.
:41:51. > :42:01.cut the cake up we are �20 million pay you down. Avon and Somerset as
:42:01. > :42:03.
:42:03. > :42:11.badly off. Over the last five years they have been in partnership. They
:42:11. > :42:21.have cut their back office. Candy cut more without affecting those of
:42:21. > :42:24.
:42:24. > :42:29.us who love in it this year? They want to provide acute service. But
:42:29. > :42:33.this what they do. They have cut their VAT office. It is people like
:42:33. > :42:43.me that needs to persuade the Government to cut the cake in a
:42:43. > :42:51.
:42:51. > :43:00.different way. The question is are at the cuts necessary? In Avon and
:43:00. > :43:10.Somerset they half-cut already. He's says he is in favour of the
:43:10. > :43:19.cats, are you? I would sit let as cut the cake Feely and then make
:43:19. > :43:26.cuts. I do not think the cuts are fair. But as the conversation I
:43:26. > :43:31.have. It was Labour to build up police numbers. Ngaio a
:43:31. > :43:36.Conservative lead caution is cutting them. It is a question of
:43:36. > :43:45.whether or not you get better law and order through lower numbers. We
:43:45. > :43:52.are reducing their army numbers. I am not certain that more means
:43:52. > :44:00.better. We want better delivery of services at the streets. At the
:44:00. > :44:07.moment be have borne the 11 % of the police on the streets. And a
:44:07. > :44:11.place like this will be are more people this bowl dash mac does have
:44:12. > :44:14.a West Now I hope you're sitting down to a
:44:15. > :44:23.nice Sunday lunch after this programme. But go easy on the roast
:44:23. > :44:25.potatoes though eh! Obesity is still a huge problem in the west -
:44:26. > :44:28.and some are criticising the Government for letting schools off
:44:28. > :44:32.the hook when it comes to school dinners. Our Health Correspondent
:44:32. > :44:39.Matthew Hill has the story. Last- minute preparations for dinner.
:44:39. > :44:49.Things have changed a lot with school meals. They can call me Sir
:44:49. > :44:51.
:44:51. > :44:55.Chips on a Friday. Bat has because of strict nutritional guidelines.
:44:55. > :45:02.Academies are free from these regulations. This academy sticks to
:45:02. > :45:06.them at its head fears others do not. If it would be better if the
:45:06. > :45:16.guidelines had stayed. It takes away that temptation that could be
:45:16. > :45:26.the year in a couple of years' time if we are short of money. White as
:45:26. > :45:37.
:45:37. > :45:47.Sale and healthy products. I hope we never are. That is what happens
:45:47. > :45:51.
:45:51. > :46:01.in France. Fright feed his lizards to one day per week. The Government
:46:01. > :46:09.
:46:09. > :46:19.has tightened up a nutritional standards. It already works. Beyond
:46:19. > :46:21.
:46:21. > :46:30.the strict control of obesity we can also observed great progress
:46:30. > :46:39.regarding the social aspects of the meal. Back in Britain there
:46:39. > :46:44.Education Secretary will not be moved. Without the state did it
:46:44. > :46:50.intervene people automatically be wickets - do we believe it? Schools
:46:50. > :46:58.which become academies already have strong leadership. We believe it
:46:58. > :47:01.will demonstrate that leadership. I am not leaving it to chance. The
:47:01. > :47:07.School Fruits Trust has looked at improvements that have been made in
:47:07. > :47:14.school food and they will be publishing a report shortly. I am
:47:14. > :47:24.going back to desert. Nor sticky toffee pudding. Bat may be a good
:47:24. > :47:24.
:47:24. > :47:29.thing. Joining the is a chef who is
:47:29. > :47:38.advising the Government on school meals. Which academies are floating
:47:39. > :47:47.the Government suggestions? I am the chairman of the Children's Food
:47:47. > :47:52.Trust. We have anecdotal evidence that standards are being flouted.
:47:52. > :47:59.have looked on the websites of up some academies. Some of those menus
:47:59. > :48:08.look stunning. The are stunning. That his great work by crooks,
:48:08. > :48:12.caterers. Great standards in place. The danger is that these new
:48:12. > :48:22.academies will not need to conform to the laws in the future. That
:48:22. > :48:22.
:48:22. > :48:29.will mean we will call back to it having foods higher in fat, sugar
:48:29. > :48:37.and salt. There is a �5 billion costs to be the economy at the
:48:37. > :48:45.moment in terms of obesity. Headteachers will nor that an army
:48:45. > :48:55.marches on its stomach. As it also down its uses it parents? Everybody
:48:55. > :49:01.has an responsibility. For 190 days of the year, 12 years of their
:49:01. > :49:05.lives, the under the leadership of a head teacher. I want them to see
:49:06. > :49:12.the value that good food springs to their school. That his behaviour,
:49:12. > :49:17.attainments, public health issues. Public health and education
:49:17. > :49:24.officials meets to get in a room together and sort the problem out.
:49:25. > :49:31.Is it up to schools to make sure that people eat healthily?
:49:31. > :49:37.whole idea behind the academy process as we are seeing to their
:49:37. > :49:42.heads, parents, and chair of governors, that you are intelligent
:49:42. > :49:48.and we will give you freedom to do the right thing. What if the Tudor
:49:48. > :49:58.wrong thing? Fees and seduce their right thing. Socialists like Sissy
:49:58. > :50:00.
:50:00. > :50:03.we know best. We would not let them buy cigarettes. People die to Ali
:50:03. > :50:10.because the eat food that is bad for them. This is not being
:50:10. > :50:17.socialist. This is common sense. You can also do badly if you are
:50:17. > :50:27.top the wrong things. If you feed them better they can do better in
:50:27. > :50:28.
:50:28. > :50:33.the school setting. She did the state interfering? Jimmy had the
:50:33. > :50:42.good points when he intervened. Children were not being fed the
:50:42. > :50:48.rate feeds. The more that children have school dinners, but more of
:50:48. > :50:54.the line to be sociable, are lining table manners, and not wasting food.
:50:54. > :50:59.En France the all-clear off for two hours. Our culture is different.
:50:59. > :51:03.There are lots of solutions. Lots of schools have been doing that.
:51:03. > :51:10.This policy allows that to be undone. We have examples of
:51:10. > :51:15.extended lunch hours. Lots of children bring their all and packed
:51:15. > :51:22.lunches. An arid year there are lots of schools that do not have
:51:22. > :51:26.kitchens. We have worked hard to get the numbers up. Year upon year
:51:26. > :51:29.for the last the use we have seen school meals going in the right
:51:29. > :51:33.direction. Not only are the increasing that they are also
:51:33. > :51:40.better than they have been before. It is still a job that needs to
:51:40. > :51:48.continue. We have faxed 20 years of under-investment. We have only had
:51:48. > :51:51.five years of investment. A windy you report? It will be soon.
:51:51. > :51:53.Time now to take a look at some of the other political stories making
:51:53. > :51:57.the headlines this week in just 60 seconds.
:51:57. > :52:03.The Lib Dems in Bristol have picked the man they want to run the
:52:03. > :52:06.council until the city gets an elected mayor. Simon Cook has been
:52:06. > :52:09.a councillor in the city for over ten years and is also an actor
:52:09. > :52:19.who's stared in programmes such as Casualty as well as many stage
:52:19. > :52:19.
:52:20. > :52:23.productions. I am delighted to be leader.
:52:23. > :52:25.The speed limit is being slashed in all residential areas in Bath and
:52:26. > :52:28.North East Somerset. The council has decided to introduce the new
:52:28. > :52:30.20mph limit across the city and surrounding villages this summer.
:52:31. > :52:33.Labour have selected their candidate to run for the elected
:52:33. > :52:35.Police Commissioner job in Gloucestershire. Rupi Dhanda is a
:52:36. > :52:40.lawyer and wife of the former Labour MP for Gloucester Parmjit
:52:40. > :52:43.Dhanda. Caravan park owners from Somerset
:52:43. > :52:47.have been in Westminster to campaign against plans to raise the
:52:47. > :52:50.tax on static caravans. Ministers say the 20% rate will raise �45
:52:50. > :53:00.million pounds in the next five years, but campaigners say it'll
:53:00. > :53:11.
:53:11. > :53:16.ruin the industry. Let us talk about the tax on a static caravans
:53:16. > :53:26.stock is there nothing you will not tax? But as the last thing I would
:53:26. > :53:29.
:53:29. > :53:34.tax. This will increase costs to the state. There are 36,000 people
:53:34. > :53:44.in Somerset who are dependent on tourism related jobs. There are
:53:44. > :53:50.
:53:50. > :54:00.fires Inns of caravans. The town is dependent. These caravans are made
:54:00. > :54:03.
:54:03. > :54:13.in the north. Is this another version of the pass the tax? I are
:54:13. > :54:13.
:54:14. > :54:22.rebelling on the church tax. That is affecting my constituency quite
:54:22. > :54:32.badly. That is one tax too far. Caravans you call with? I have some
:54:32. > :54:33.
:54:33. > :54:42.sympathy. These are ordinary people. Very often due off fee family's
:54:42. > :54:46.gets together to buy a caravan. It cannot downgrade. You are talking
:54:46. > :54:56.as if it says nothing to do with you. That is my part of being in