:01:40. > :01:43.Olympic legacy is on a knife edge. Teachers say youngsters like these
:01:43. > :01:53.are not getting the sporting chances they deserve because of cuts to
:01:53. > :01:53.
:01:53. > :37:37.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 2144 seconds
:37:37. > :37:44.the programme here in the West. Some teachers have claimed that the
:37:44. > :37:51.legacy of the Olympic Games is on a life-support machine. Our young
:37:51. > :38:00.people like these being shortchanged by sports provision at school?
:38:00. > :38:07.We have to good sports as guests who are on the opposite debate -- the
:38:07. > :38:17.opposite side of the debate. Looking at the reaction to the
:38:17. > :38:21.
:38:21. > :38:25.Public Accounts Committee about the spending cuts, Adi squeezing it dry?
:38:25. > :38:29.There is inevitably going to be a squeeze on the budgets and we are
:38:29. > :38:35.going to find ways of helping them transform the way they deliver their
:38:35. > :38:40.services. We have got examples already the country of councils who
:38:40. > :38:46.have worked more efficiently by sharing back offices and linking
:38:46. > :38:52.health services with adult social care. They are being able to deliver
:38:52. > :39:02.better services for less money so there are ways of dealing with the
:39:02. > :39:03.
:39:03. > :39:11.problem but it is tough. Do you buy into that? Of course making things
:39:11. > :39:20.more efficient is but on the front line, things like teaching English
:39:20. > :39:29.as a foreign language, are the things that are being cut. It isn't
:39:29. > :39:36.just cuts, isn't it, local authorities are also going to the
:39:36. > :39:42.wall. Some local councils are in every guilty and we provide
:39:42. > :39:50.additional support to them. But it is worth reflecting that there is �2
:39:50. > :39:54.million worth of council tax that is currently not collected. At the
:39:54. > :40:01.councils could just collect the tax that they are entitled to, things
:40:01. > :40:11.would improve. But I do not want to deny that things are tough. Tanks
:40:11. > :40:12.
:40:12. > :40:16.for the moment. Everybody agrees we should tackle world hunger but how?
:40:17. > :40:24.Campaigners demanding change have been out in London as well as pistol
:40:24. > :40:30.and stride. They say that what happens here matters.
:40:30. > :40:38.It is not the sort of classroom she is used to. This bar schoolteacher
:40:38. > :40:48.has recently been to Tanzania and was shocked that so many have so
:40:48. > :40:55.
:40:55. > :41:05.little to each. To eat. Some of them are surviving on a bowl
:41:05. > :41:06.
:41:06. > :41:10.of rice a day. They are not growing properly. It is time that we said
:41:10. > :41:19.that the world can provide enough food and wine in eight people should
:41:20. > :41:29.not go to bed hungry. Among the concerns is the land being diverted
:41:29. > :41:37.to promote biofuels. They are growing this plant which can be used
:41:37. > :41:42.to fuel engines. What happens here will give an
:41:43. > :41:49.indication of the government's stands. This site is lined up to
:41:49. > :41:58.become a big biofuels plant. Bringing in crops imported from the
:41:58. > :42:05.developing world. It was approved on appeal after initially being
:42:05. > :42:14.rejected by Bristol City Council. The government subsidy which
:42:14. > :42:18.biofuels get is more significant. Something that is wrong. It is a
:42:18. > :42:22.great shame that we have got this development is taking place in
:42:22. > :42:28.Avonmouth but in terms of government policy, we ought to make it
:42:28. > :42:37.financially unattractive to any energy producer in Britain to source
:42:37. > :42:43.biofuels. The attended this briefing for MPs. Britain contrasts with
:42:43. > :42:49.countries like Holland and Germany which have cut money for biofuels.
:42:49. > :42:58.The government subsidises things which seem rain on a piece of paper
:42:58. > :43:01.but on further inspection isn't as rain as it first seems. It destroys
:43:01. > :43:06.communities and contributes to deforestation. That is not what you
:43:06. > :43:16.want to be supporting. Lindsay Atkin has taken her campaign to Downing
:43:16. > :43:16.
:43:17. > :43:22.Street. If we really want to feed the world, they say, the government
:43:22. > :43:30.must change its attitude to biofuels. It seems that it has
:43:30. > :43:38.turned into a bit of a shambles. This is something that looks like
:43:38. > :43:48.and sounds like it should be a good idea but when you look into it it is
:43:48. > :43:52.
:43:52. > :44:01.not. I am behind the campaign that is for supporting starving children.
:44:01. > :44:10.One in eight people will go to bed hungry tonight. It is too late
:44:10. > :44:14.though, isn't it? How a back the clock on the biofuels industry?
:44:14. > :44:24.think we will have to but let's remember that not all biofuel is
:44:24. > :44:24.
:44:24. > :44:31.bad. Last year there was 50,000 tonnes of biofuel was Burns and only
:44:31. > :44:39.250 tonnes was from virgin oil and not palm oil and the majority was
:44:39. > :44:44.from waste oil. Unless we have got a mechanism that shows that we have
:44:44. > :44:49.truly sustainable crops, in other words that you're not denying people
:44:49. > :44:56.food, that you replace what has been taken away in terms of wetland, that
:44:56. > :45:03.we are not using palm oil that destroys the rainforest, then it
:45:03. > :45:07.should be getting the various support that is on offer. The local
:45:07. > :45:17.council rejected the proposal and was overruled by the government but
:45:17. > :45:18.
:45:18. > :45:25.it seems they were right all along. The issue is what fuel is used. If
:45:25. > :45:29.they were using waste fuel nobody would say the planning was wrong.
:45:29. > :45:36.The EU are already working on a more sustainable policy for what is
:45:36. > :45:40.acceptable and what is not and our government is working hard on that.
:45:40. > :45:50.We have got the irony of the big companies actually lecturing the
:45:50. > :45:53.
:45:53. > :46:02.government. I know and I think it is as strawberry -- it is extraordinary
:46:02. > :46:12.that government overruled the local council. This fuel is going to take
:46:12. > :46:14.
:46:14. > :46:24.away land for cute -- for food for hungry children. The issue as the
:46:24. > :46:25.
:46:25. > :46:35.type of fuel that is being used. us look to the future. F so much
:46:35. > :46:38.
:46:38. > :46:48.money has been invested in this, weather we from here? -- where do we
:46:48. > :46:49.
:46:49. > :46:52.go from here? It can be done and the other thing we should take into
:46:52. > :47:00.account as the cost of transportation and the greenhouse
:47:01. > :47:05.gases. But your own colleagues both said they were against it. The three
:47:05. > :47:14.of us are in agreement and it is extraordinary that this has been
:47:14. > :47:24.allied to happen and I hope that the G8 are going to take a stand.
:47:24. > :47:31.planning application is a separate matter. We will leave it there.
:47:31. > :47:34.The Olympic legacy is on a life-support machine according to
:47:34. > :47:44.teachers who claim that the government has failed to deliver on
:47:44. > :47:51.the promises. Cuts in funding will mean schools can provide good
:47:51. > :47:59.physical education opportunities. The Games captured the imagination
:47:59. > :48:03.of a generation, at the time at least. But London 2012 wasn't all
:48:03. > :48:13.about winning medals. The politicians said the Games were also
:48:13. > :48:16.about this. Inspiring young people to take part in sport. Here at
:48:16. > :48:26.Springfield School, many of the children have been excluded from
:48:26. > :48:32.other mainstream schools. They use sport to teach the children and the
:48:32. > :48:40.children love it. But the principal says the Olympic legacy is hanging
:48:40. > :48:50.in the balance. 2012 was a special year but because there is no
:48:50. > :48:52.
:48:52. > :49:02.national framework, I am concerned that there will be pockets where the
:49:02. > :49:03.
:49:03. > :49:08.legacy is happening but it would take place elsewhere. The thing I am
:49:08. > :49:18.really fighting to get recognised is that sport is at solidly fundamental
:49:18. > :49:21.
:49:21. > :49:30.to a old's development. government cut funding for sports
:49:30. > :49:35.development. Nothing has really come from that brilliant atmosphere that
:49:35. > :49:42.we had last summer and it is really dependent on the schools themselves.
:49:42. > :49:46.That is a view shared by this sailing regatta in Bristol. State
:49:46. > :49:52.educated children sailing competitively but the first time in
:49:52. > :49:59.the South West. But that's no thanks to the government, according to its
:49:59. > :50:09.organiser. And fortunately they have failed our children in terms of
:50:09. > :50:09.
:50:09. > :50:13.billing the purse strings at the wrong time. The Education Secretary
:50:13. > :50:18.Michael Gove has also promised more money for primary schools to improve
:50:18. > :50:25.sport. What does the legacy have to be driven by money and central
:50:25. > :50:31.government? Here they know a thing or two about
:50:31. > :50:36.sporting success. They have Olympic gold medallists as former pupils.
:50:36. > :50:46.They say that the success is down to teachers being prepared to go the
:50:46. > :50:49.
:50:49. > :50:52.extra mile. It is about finding opportunities to train and play.
:50:52. > :51:02.Olympic rings are still proudly on display as the youngsters gather
:51:02. > :51:05.
:51:05. > :51:15.ahead of the Games. I think my most important focus is that people are
:51:15. > :51:18.
:51:18. > :51:24.enjoying it. If in a few years time the situation is the same then that
:51:24. > :51:33.is a problem. We may not know what it any legacy has been left until
:51:34. > :51:43.the Games in Brazil in 2016. It has all gone terribly flat
:51:44. > :51:45.
:51:45. > :51:55.according to those teachers. Where as the legacy? First of all, the
:51:55. > :51:55.
:51:55. > :51:59.legacy is not just about sports, it is about business and so on. If you
:51:59. > :52:05.link sports clubs with schools, you give young children and opportunity
:52:05. > :52:15.to find a sport that they are really interested in. That is having a real
:52:15. > :52:17.
:52:17. > :52:27.benefit. We have invested �150 million more in schools sports.
:52:27. > :52:27.
:52:27. > :52:34.There is fabulous work being done locally and we are putting in �70
:52:34. > :52:37.million to give additional training for primary school teachers. And yet
:52:37. > :52:45.people are saying that nothing is happening here and we have to do it
:52:45. > :52:51.for ourselves. I know someone who got new equipment for the school and
:52:51. > :52:56.that helped people get into sport but now it is not being replaced.
:52:56. > :53:02.She has to get on a bus to go to a playing field because playing fields
:53:02. > :53:08.are no longer available. The money is actually not there and that means
:53:08. > :53:18.that I Jessica Ennis of the future is having to get on a bus to go and
:53:18. > :53:20.
:53:20. > :53:30.play somewhere. We have a medal winning Paralympians with us. What
:53:30. > :53:31.
:53:32. > :53:38.can you tell us about the legacy? is amazing the kind of reception
:53:38. > :53:43.people like me get in schools. What I relies is that if we can inspire
:53:43. > :53:53.these people know, if we can get them involved now, they are more
:53:53. > :53:56.likely to stick with it. When I was a student, the school was what got
:53:56. > :54:03.me involved in sport. If it wasn't for my teacher, I wouldn't be here
:54:03. > :54:13.now. What about this great promise from the government of all the money
:54:13. > :54:18.being spent, I use saying anything come from that? I think it is early
:54:18. > :54:24.days and we cannot tell what is happening. It does seem to me that
:54:25. > :54:34.we have done not a bad job. If you look at previous cities that hosted
:54:34. > :54:43.the Games, some of them like Beijing are still not utilising their
:54:43. > :54:53.stadiums. That is not the case in London. And they had gets four years
:54:53. > :55:05.
:55:05. > :55:10.to come. -- they had debt for many years. They have been given a stash
:55:10. > :55:14.of extra money and a clear requirement that they have to work
:55:14. > :55:24.with young people. We are saying that enthusiasm in the sports
:55:24. > :55:30.
:55:30. > :55:39.clubs. I was one of the first to criticise the government and they
:55:40. > :55:45.have reversed the decision and funding is no there. The Labour
:55:45. > :55:53.government, who got the Olympics to Britain, showed the value and the
:55:54. > :55:58.benefit of the government investing. The government investing in the
:55:58. > :56:08.Olympics meant that we had thousands of new jobs. They were all over the
:56:08. > :56:09.
:56:09. > :56:13.country. You are listening to politicians talking away. We hear
:56:13. > :56:23.all these figures being bandied about about how much it cost. Was it
:56:23. > :56:26.
:56:26. > :56:32.worth it? Absolutely. Maybe I'm biased! I was one of the people
:56:32. > :56:40.benefiting most from that expenditure but it was an amazing
:56:40. > :56:44.experience. The Paralympics were almost more for a full because
:56:44. > :56:50.people weren't expecting it to be so good. In many ways what happened was
:56:50. > :56:54.that people just couldn't turn off their televisions. It was powerful
:56:54. > :56:58.memories as well as a lot of money spent.
:56:58. > :57:07.Let us have a look at the other political stories happening around
:57:07. > :57:13.the West. Just 143 Labour activists have
:57:13. > :57:19.chosen who could be the Bristol South MP for decades to come. Karin
:57:19. > :57:28.Smyth will contest the safest seat in the West and Dawn Primarolo will
:57:28. > :57:36.stand down after the next election. 25,000 more jobs are to be created
:57:36. > :57:39.in the south-west after lobbying from energy firms. Plans to call up
:57:39. > :57:45.to 100,000 badgers have been shelved.
:57:45. > :57:55.The policy to tackle bovine TB hasn't been backed by scientists.
:57:55. > :57:55.
:57:55. > :58:00.The ayes to the left - 250, the noes to the right - 299. Jack Lopresti
:58:00. > :58:09.has announced he is battling bowel cancer. He is having chemotherapy
:58:09. > :58:14.and doctors are aiming for a complete cure by the autumn.
:58:14. > :58:24.I would suggest you are probably a great exponent of the women- only
:58:24. > :58:25.
:58:25. > :58:30.shortlist. Is it fair? Is it fair that we have a minority of women and
:58:30. > :58:40.the House of Commons? That is not something I want to see. And all
:58:40. > :58:42.
:58:42. > :58:52.women shortlist is the thing that we need to get more women in politics.
:58:52. > :58:53.
:58:53. > :58:58.There are only 127 MPs -- women MPs and that is a disgrace and there are
:58:58. > :59:08.not enough ethnic minorities. The Liberal Democrats have a scheme to
:59:08. > :59:11.
:59:11. > :59:15.bring in different people and to the constituency shortlists. I am not in
:59:15. > :59:23.favour of all women shortlists but I am in favour of positive
:59:23. > :59:32.discrimination. There are plenty of open shortlists and for centuries
:59:32. > :59:36.women have been kept out of the House of Commons for many reasons.
:59:36. > :59:42.There are many good women candidates. I was proud to be
:59:42. > :59:48.selected and I don't think anybody said it wasn't there that I want.
:59:48. > :59:54.am not going to say good luck but I think it is really important that we
:59:54. > :00:00.have more women, disabled, black and ethnic minorities candidates. But
:00:00. > :00:06.I'm not sure as single restricted shortlist is the way to do it.
:00:06. > :00:10.is all we have time for so thank you for joining us.