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and Lincolnshire, claims that flood hit neighbourhoods could be | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
abandoned if the government fails to reach a deal with the insurance | :01:49. | :01:59. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 2135 seconds | :01:59. | :37:34. | |
for Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Coming up. We look at claims that | :37:34. | :37:38. | |
flood hit neighbourhoods could be abandoned if the government fails to | :37:38. | :37:44. | |
reach a deal with the insurance industry. Plus, an influential | :37:44. | :37:49. | |
minister tells us that no should mean no for those who do not want | :37:49. | :37:59. | |
wind turbines near their homes. Let us speak to our guests. And | :37:59. | :38:09. | |
Macintosh and Mary Cray. You caused a bit of a stir during the week when | :38:09. | :38:14. | |
you suggested that women doctors who have children and go part-time place | :38:14. | :38:20. | |
a burden on the NHS. Do you stand by those comments? Can I put it into | :38:21. | :38:30. | |
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context. In the week my father died, I called the NHS helpline and could | :38:31. | :38:34. | |
not raise any body through the television at -- the telephone | :38:34. | :38:39. | |
response system and then I contacted an ambulance and he was attended to | :38:39. | :38:43. | |
four hours later. There was a serious issue. In response to a | :38:43. | :38:48. | |
question from a Labour colleague who said there appeared to be huge | :38:48. | :38:53. | |
queues forming outside GP surgeries in her area, a potential shortage of | :38:53. | :38:58. | |
GPs, I stated what was in the public domain, the Royal College of | :38:58. | :39:02. | |
physicians, the General medical Council and the Royal College of | :39:02. | :39:10. | |
General practitioners is alert to the fact that we need to train more | :39:10. | :39:12. | |
doctors going forward for a very good reason, a very happy reason, | :39:12. | :39:15. | |
that there are more now GPs coming through who are women, who choose to | :39:15. | :39:21. | |
work part-time for part of their career. Wattage you make of this? | :39:21. | :39:31. | |
do not think having children should be a barrier to any of this. It is | :39:31. | :39:33. | |
unfortunate that women are blaming other women for the crisis in | :39:33. | :39:39. | |
casualty departments. That was how it was read in some areas. It is | :39:39. | :39:46. | |
unfortunate, because there have only ever been 369 MPs, we are | :39:46. | :39:49. | |
celebrating suffragettes, we need more women in public life and it | :39:49. | :39:57. | |
gives the impression that you cannot have a career and a family. | :39:57. | :40:05. | |
apologised for her comments. I was simply repeating what she said as | :40:05. | :40:10. | |
recently as Friday of last week. That is entirely what I did. I think | :40:10. | :40:14. | |
all parties applaud that there are more women going into professions, | :40:14. | :40:17. | |
but the medical profession is acutely aware of the fact that if | :40:17. | :40:23. | |
women are working up to 25% of their working lives part-time, then we | :40:23. | :40:27. | |
have to adapt to these new realities. We want to talk about | :40:27. | :40:32. | |
flooding. I Yorkshire Council leader claims that whole neighbourhoods | :40:32. | :40:36. | |
could crumble if householders can no longer afford flood insurance. A | :40:36. | :40:46. | |
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deal between the industry and the government which guarantees cover | :40:53. | :40:56. | |
for flood hit areas is due to expire at the end of next month. Some fear | :40:56. | :40:58. | |
they could be forced to abandon their homes. It is a scenario of | :40:58. | :41:01. | |
dereliction which may be a long way off, but it is concerning some | :41:01. | :41:03. | |
political leaders now. Property could be left to crumble and houses | :41:03. | :41:07. | |
become impossible to sell, without insurance no building society will | :41:07. | :41:13. | |
offer a mortgage on a property. there is no scheme in place, the | :41:13. | :41:17. | |
risk is that there will be areas of towns in the upper valley where | :41:17. | :41:21. | |
people cannot get insurance, world will be almost impossible for people | :41:21. | :41:31. | |
to buy and sell those properties. They will be abandoned or become an | :41:31. | :41:34. | |
increasingly poorer conditions. failure to reach an agreement | :41:34. | :41:39. | |
between British insurers and the government is worrying building | :41:39. | :41:43. | |
societies. This document reveals, if a resolution is not reached to | :41:43. | :41:47. | |
ensure the provision of all UK homeowners, the consequences of | :41:47. | :41:51. | |
moving to an open market could be grave for both consumers and | :41:51. | :41:55. | |
mortgage lenders. Consumers could be left with a house they cannot sell | :41:55. | :42:00. | |
and mortgage lenders will be saddled with tens of thousands of them on | :42:00. | :42:05. | |
their books. People told me that their access has gone from �100 to | :42:05. | :42:09. | |
�10,000 and businesses are reporting the same. In the worst case, a | :42:09. | :42:19. | |
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business that was affected, the XS increased from a few hundred pounds | :42:24. | :42:27. | |
to a quarter of �1 million. This couple live in North Yorkshire and | :42:27. | :42:29. | |
they were flooded repeatedly last winter and an insured and unable to | :42:29. | :42:32. | |
afford the XS they were quoted. They want the government to act now. | :42:32. | :42:36. | |
have been ignorant to people. We are aware of the problem. There are | :42:36. | :42:40. | |
thousands of people in this situation, were we cannot afford | :42:40. | :42:47. | |
insurance premiums and we are being left with nothing and have to rely | :42:47. | :42:51. | |
on charities and people who are doing things of their own back, if | :42:51. | :42:55. | |
official governing bodies, who should be coming in at a time of | :42:55. | :43:00. | |
need, have completely ignored us. have the talks stalled? What help | :43:00. | :43:06. | |
does the industry want from ministers? There are concerns if the | :43:06. | :43:10. | |
deal is not done, it could mean high premiums are people unable to get | :43:10. | :43:16. | |
insurance at all. You get a lot of flooding happening in big events, | :43:16. | :43:20. | |
which are pretty difficult for insurers. Equally, those events are | :43:20. | :43:24. | |
not easy for the government to get involved in and leads to quite | :43:24. | :43:31. | |
difficult issues around who takes on responsibility for managing flood | :43:31. | :43:36. | |
claims when you have very big flood events. This community has already | :43:36. | :43:41. | |
seen XS is quoted of more than �10,000 and homes for sale not | :43:41. | :43:47. | |
reaching more than their asking prices. In 2007, up to five feet of | :43:47. | :43:51. | |
water poured into homes near Barnsley forcing the fire service to | :43:51. | :43:56. | |
rescue people by boat. The Environment Agency carried out work | :43:56. | :44:01. | |
close to the nearby river and installed protection equipment. The | :44:01. | :44:05. | |
community was so concerned, they started their own flood water group | :44:05. | :44:10. | |
and got themselves their own boat. People want to move in and people | :44:10. | :44:17. | |
want to move out, it is impossible. Only two houses have been sold, but | :44:17. | :44:22. | |
they can only go to cash buyers. They are only prepared to pay half | :44:22. | :44:26. | |
the value and in one case, a third of the value of the property. You | :44:26. | :44:32. | |
cannot afford to lose that amount. The government has until the end of | :44:32. | :44:37. | |
July to agree a deal and surely for ministers, the warning from Tim | :44:37. | :44:46. | |
Swift is the starkest of all, homes left abandoned because they are on | :44:46. | :44:50. | |
insurable and unsellable. How seriously should we take those | :44:50. | :44:54. | |
claims that whole neighbourhoods could be abandoned if people can no | :44:54. | :45:00. | |
longer afford flood insurance? seriously. I saw the devastation | :45:00. | :45:06. | |
that floods can cause in 2007. 1000 homes were flooded. We have had | :45:06. | :45:10. | |
flood defences put in, �13 million invested in the city, but the fact | :45:10. | :45:16. | |
that this government chose to cut investment on flood defences by | :45:16. | :45:19. | |
28%, it meant that the insurance industry has said it will walk away | :45:19. | :45:24. | |
from the deal that we did back in 2007 with them. That could mean | :45:24. | :45:29. | |
areas will be left blighted, people will be paying higher mortgage rates | :45:29. | :45:33. | |
and it could be real effect on the economy as the banks need to hold | :45:33. | :45:37. | |
more capital against those higher risk houses if people cannot get | :45:37. | :45:42. | |
insurance. You saw that couple in your constituency, they have had to | :45:42. | :45:50. | |
turn to charities to pay for repairs to the property. I have met the | :45:50. | :45:54. | |
couple. My heart goes out to them. They only rent that property and | :45:54. | :45:59. | |
they were offered to be rehoused. For personal reasons, the chose not | :45:59. | :46:04. | |
to move at that time, which is understandable. The house does need | :46:04. | :46:10. | |
to be completely refurbished. The area does have flood defences. What | :46:10. | :46:15. | |
we are seeing is that the Labour government changed the points system | :46:15. | :46:20. | |
so it is really only urban areas, like Wakefield and leads that are | :46:20. | :46:26. | |
qualifying for the big projects. The way we can help test is by looking | :46:26. | :46:29. | |
for affordable insurance, not just for building, but for contents as | :46:29. | :46:35. | |
well. On many of the visits I have made, this is worried the system has | :46:35. | :46:39. | |
broken down. We are not getting the insurance companies to offer | :46:39. | :46:44. | |
affordable insurance. One of the difficulties that we have faced over | :46:44. | :46:51. | |
the last three years is the economic deficit that we are trying to reduce | :46:51. | :46:54. | |
the debt and which if the other government was in power, you would | :46:54. | :46:57. | |
not have had the same amount. What is happening now is revolutionary | :46:57. | :47:00. | |
and I am delighted to say it is happening in my constituency, that | :47:00. | :47:05. | |
we are seeing a partnership funding in rural areas which is really | :47:05. | :47:09. | |
working. We have got a pilot project that will go ahead and it will | :47:09. | :47:13. | |
retain water upstream, there will be a mini reservoir and it will save | :47:13. | :47:19. | |
the areas from future flooding. That is one way around the system. | :47:19. | :47:24. | |
claims they are working. Not at all. The fact that in the last autumn | :47:24. | :47:28. | |
statement they said they were putting another �120 million into | :47:28. | :47:36. | |
flood defences show that they realise they cut too far and too | :47:36. | :47:39. | |
fast. Police are planning approved ready to go construction projects, | :47:39. | :47:44. | |
these are jobs, this is tax income, these are sensible infrastructure | :47:44. | :47:49. | |
spending for the government. If we get to a situation where there is a | :47:49. | :47:59. | |
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free market, which will happen on August if there is no deal done, we | :47:59. | :48:01. | |
will end up with over 140,000 people paying more than �1000 a year just | :48:01. | :48:04. | |
for the flood element of their insurance. There is a briefing that | :48:04. | :48:10. | |
came out, up those people in the high flood risk areas will pay more | :48:10. | :48:14. | |
than �1000 and 1 million could be paying more than �500. That is a | :48:14. | :48:21. | |
disaster. This statement was going to expire no matter who was in | :48:21. | :48:26. | |
power. Your government has done nothing! Insurance companies are | :48:26. | :48:30. | |
being tough. I would like to see more money being allocated to | :48:30. | :48:36. | |
maintenance. At the moment, everything goes into capital. We | :48:36. | :48:42. | |
have got to maintain... You cut maintenance! Same macro she has not | :48:42. | :48:48. | |
mentioned that the insurance industry are proposing to things. | :48:48. | :48:52. | |
The main proposal is a subsidy that all of us would pay, a levy, an | :48:52. | :48:57. | |
additional levy of �8 on our insurance policy and on top of | :48:57. | :49:01. | |
that, they want the government to underwrite the policy. We have taken | :49:01. | :49:06. | |
evidence and we hope we will be in the position to report to the House | :49:06. | :49:11. | |
with some positive recommendations, looking at alternative schemes, for | :49:11. | :49:15. | |
example, looking at the insurance industry, rather than asking the | :49:15. | :49:18. | |
government, what we have no funds, whoever is in power in two years | :49:18. | :49:22. | |
time, will have this problem, so whether it should be the insurance | :49:22. | :49:29. | |
industry picking up what will be a shortfall... It will mean higher | :49:29. | :49:32. | |
insurance bills. Climate change will mean this weather volatility will | :49:32. | :49:37. | |
become more frequent. If we do not get something underwritten by | :49:37. | :49:41. | |
government, people will end up being an insured and government is the | :49:41. | :49:51. | |
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insurer of last resort if people are homeless. Talking about climate | :50:02. | :50:05. | |
change, note should mean no for those who do not want wind turbines | :50:05. | :50:07. | |
in their backyard. That is according to an influential Tory minister who | :50:07. | :50:10. | |
is said to have had a major influence on proposals that will | :50:10. | :50:12. | |
give rural communities more power to back wind farm applications. John | :50:12. | :50:14. | |
Prescott has described the move as a victory for NIMBYs. In the leafy | :50:14. | :50:19. | |
lanes of North Lincolnshire, campaigners have been fighting plans | :50:19. | :50:24. | |
to build a new wind farm. The application has been rejected by the | :50:24. | :50:28. | |
local planning committee. Residents fear that the odds remain stacked in | :50:28. | :50:35. | |
favour of the wind industry. I cannot help being cynical about the | :50:35. | :50:39. | |
announcements. It is hard work fighting multinational corporations. | :50:39. | :50:44. | |
We have to do it part-time, and paid with very little funds, so we need a | :50:44. | :50:52. | |
more level playing field. -- unpaid. Ministers say too many rural | :50:52. | :50:55. | |
communities are being railroaded into accepting wind farm | :50:55. | :50:58. | |
developments against their will. However, under new proposals | :50:58. | :51:03. | |
announced by the government, energy firms would be forced to offer | :51:03. | :51:07. | |
greater incentives, such as cheaper electricity for residents or money | :51:07. | :51:12. | |
for new facilities, such as the lead halls. No means no and the reason | :51:12. | :51:16. | |
for that is that we are issuing new guidance which allows councils to | :51:16. | :51:21. | |
take into account Joomla! To give impact, below compartment, local | :51:21. | :51:31. | |
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amenities and we are saying that if the development goes to appeal, the | :51:31. | :51:33. | |
planning Inspectorate cannot use policy to trump local opinion. | :51:33. | :51:37. | |
man who is not impressed with the government's proposals is the former | :51:37. | :51:40. | |
Deputy Prime Minister, Lord Prescott. The man who was in charge | :51:40. | :51:45. | |
of Labour's policy on the environment says ministers are | :51:45. | :51:52. | |
pandering to a named the agenda. What they are trying to do is build | :51:52. | :51:57. | |
them in urban areas, not in rural areas, because in the rural areas, | :51:57. | :52:03. | |
the old bank managers who worked in the city, come out into the rural | :52:03. | :52:08. | |
areas and do not like their view being spoiled. They do not mind the | :52:08. | :52:13. | |
towers for electricity being somewhere else, they don't mind the | :52:13. | :52:17. | |
TV masts, but it is their quality-of-life. It is the view from | :52:17. | :52:21. | |
the back window that these people have. It is a victory for them in | :52:21. | :52:31. | |
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these, nothing to do with energy policy. Not for the first time, the | :52:31. | :52:34. | |
government is caught between those who see wind power as the problem | :52:35. | :52:42. | |
and those who see it as the solution to our energy needs. Is John | :52:42. | :52:47. | |
Prescott right, by the wind farm proposals a victory for those who do | :52:47. | :52:53. | |
not want them in their back garden? I welcome the announcement. It is | :52:53. | :52:57. | |
great news for the countryside, great news for the environment and | :52:57. | :53:00. | |
local communities in rural areas. What has not been realised, it also | :53:00. | :53:07. | |
includes, which is a great benefit to my constituency, we had a line of | :53:07. | :53:12. | |
pylons added and we were told that the first line would be taken down. | :53:12. | :53:15. | |
We have now got an announcement from the government that if there are any | :53:15. | :53:20. | |
new pylons to be built, there will be a moratorium until the first line | :53:20. | :53:26. | |
has been brought down. I personally believe that successive governments | :53:26. | :53:30. | |
have been too obsessed by wind power and I think that in North Yorkshire | :53:30. | :53:39. | |
we should look at other renewables like growing crops. It is quite | :53:39. | :53:45. | |
wrong to take imported woodchip, when we can grow crops locally. | :53:45. | :53:49. | |
you accept that too many communities have had wind farm is foisted upon | :53:49. | :53:53. | |
them? We are not saying that that should be wind farms across the | :53:53. | :53:57. | |
country, but the figures are that the number of planning applications | :53:57. | :54:02. | |
being approved has dropped from 75% to just 30% today. The announcement | :54:02. | :54:06. | |
also said that the energy companies have to give more money to local | :54:06. | :54:10. | |
communities, that is good news for the communities, but the more | :54:10. | :54:20. | |
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expensive that you make this energy generation, you will end up losing | :54:28. | :54:31. | |
out to the old, dirty industries like coal and shale gas. Will this | :54:31. | :54:33. | |
apply to Shell gas as well? Nobody wants nuclear, power stations... | :54:33. | :54:36. | |
They have nuclear in Hartlepool and everyone accepts it. It is also in | :54:36. | :54:38. | |
Cumbria. We have got to have a broader discussion on what the | :54:38. | :54:41. | |
implications are for our energy policy going forward. Renewables | :54:41. | :54:47. | |
should be a local choice and if it is good for local farmers to | :54:47. | :54:54. | |
actually supply the staff, that will help local farmers. We should not be | :54:54. | :55:00. | |
obsessed with one type of energy. need all sorts of clean energy, but | :55:00. | :55:04. | |
my concern is that this will price wind turbines out and do nothing to | :55:04. | :55:11. | |
get the green jobs and growth that we need. Siemens will decide to | :55:11. | :55:21. | |
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build in Denmark rather than here. believe that there are just as many | :55:22. | :55:30. | |
jobs in other forms of renewables such as biomass and nuclear. Let us | :55:30. | :55:35. | |
pause, there will be some who wish to take wind farms, but some who | :55:35. | :55:41. | |
don't, I do not see her being first in the queue, let us have a | :55:41. | :55:45. | |
discussion now, on what is the best source of energy for each community. | :55:45. | :55:50. | |
Let us get more of the political news. We have our round-up in 60 | :55:50. | :56:00. | |
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seconds. Claims of a north-south divide came with the news that the | :56:02. | :56:06. | |
National Media Museum in Bradford is one of three facing the possibility | :56:06. | :56:11. | |
of charging visitors or closing. Also hit by the cuts is the National | :56:11. | :56:17. | |
Railway Museum in York. The director said he was not crying wolf when he | :56:17. | :56:21. | |
claimed closure was a possibility. Only a fool would make such a | :56:21. | :56:25. | |
terrible threat and cause such anxiety to all my staff and the | :56:25. | :56:29. | |
people in the cities. Fresh calls have been made in Parliament for the | :56:29. | :56:34. | |
ease culls mainline to remain in public ownership. The government is | :56:34. | :56:37. | |
planning to re-privatise it but some say the service has improved while | :56:37. | :56:44. | |
it has been owned by the taxpayers and it should stay in public hands. | :56:44. | :56:47. | |
And most Yorkshire Labour MPs were backing a Commons revolt over | :56:47. | :56:52. | |
coalition plans to help protect the UK from bovine TB. The move however | :56:52. | :57:02. | |
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failed on Thursday when MPs voted in favour of culling badgers. If it is | :57:03. | :57:07. | |
proven that the badger cull, the pilot, reduces the number of | :57:07. | :57:13. | |
incidence of TB, will you accept you were wrong? It will not be proven. | :57:13. | :57:17. | |
These pilot culls are not measuring that. They are just trying to see if | :57:17. | :57:25. | |
it is a humane way to do it. Labour's culls showed that culling | :57:25. | :57:29. | |
badgers could reduce bovine TB in cattle by 16% over nine years. We do | :57:29. | :57:32. | |
not think that reduction is acceptable in terms of going forward | :57:32. | :57:36. | |
with the cull and also, you have got to look at the cost of policing | :57:36. | :57:43. | |
these culls. It is �500,000 per year. We should remember that the | :57:43. | :57:47. | |
pilots are happening in Somerset and Gloucestershire. It has caused a | :57:47. | :57:53. | |
very bitter taste with many people across the country. We reported this | :57:53. | :58:03. | |
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week on the availability of vaccines and it is quite shocking how long it | :58:16. | :58:18. | |
will take before any vaccine is available. It is broadly -- there | :58:18. | :58:21. | |
are broadly three types of vaccine. The one we would like to see is the | :58:21. | :58:24. | |
vaccination for cattle. We are going to have field trials, we will have | :58:24. | :58:26. | |
to negotiate whether made that has been vaccinated can enter into the | :58:26. | :58:29. | |
food chain. Only in Ireland and Australia and New Zealand, have they | :58:29. | :58:31. | |
tackled and reduced, not only the incidence of TB, but the spread of | :58:31. | :58:36. | |
TB, both in wildlife and other wildlife, badgers as well, have been | :58:36. | :58:41. | |
able to achieve that reduction, by having both limited and | :58:41. | :58:46. | |
vaccinations, because we still do not know how often you need to | :58:46. | :58:52. | |
administer the vaccine, but also by a limited coal and editors -- but it | :58:52. | :58:56. | |
is only by increasing bio-security, limiting cattle movements, tackling | :58:56. | :59:02. | |
the wildlife through a coal, regrettably, and through the use of | :59:02. | :59:12. | |
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vaccine that it will work. So there is no alternative? No one is saying | :59:16. | :59:21. | |
that the cull will get rid of every badger. If you did, I am sure bovine | :59:21. | :59:25. | |
TB would fall. It is a cattle disease, it is spreading across the | :59:25. | :59:30. | |
country, out of the hotspot areas and into Derbyshire. Not because the | :59:30. | :59:34. | |
badgers are moving, they move no more than four miles, it is because | :59:34. | :59:38. | |
of cattle movements. If we do not get a grip on this disease, it will | :59:38. | :59:45. | |
continue costing money. The vaccine has been ready for three years. | :59:45. | :59:55. | |
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Yellow macro what we say... You have to wait and see, how often it has to | :59:56. | :00:06. | |
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be administered. Just read the report. We have a strategy going | :00:09. | :00:14. |