:00:15. > :00:16.Hello and welcome to The Week In Parliament.
:00:17. > :00:18.Coming up on this programme: There's anger in the Commons
:00:19. > :00:21.as the Health Secretary says he will impose a new contract
:00:22. > :00:24.Does the Secretary of State not feel a sense of shame?
:00:25. > :00:27.It wasn't me that refused to sit round the table and talk
:00:28. > :00:39.Six out of ten renters have issues such as damp,
:00:40. > :00:45.You can only restore existing houses, you can only build
:00:46. > :00:48.new houses, you can only support people into those houses if you have
:00:49. > :00:57.And extra help for rural cotncils is welcomed with open arms.
:00:58. > :01:00.If it was Parliamentary, Mr Speaker, I am sure that rural and local
:01:01. > :01:03.government would be planting a big wet kiss on the cheek
:01:04. > :01:11.Find out why Simon Hoare was feeling the love,
:01:12. > :01:15.But first, it's a dispute that's turned into a very bitter ptblic
:01:16. > :01:17.wrangle, as the Government attempts to make changes
:01:18. > :01:25.The Government insists the current contract is unfair on all concerned
:01:26. > :01:27.and began to draw-up plans for change back in 2012.
:01:28. > :01:29.It is pledging to increase junior doctors' pay.
:01:30. > :01:34.But, as part of a commitment to a seven-day NHS, the plans
:01:35. > :01:37.will also make it cheaper to roster extra doctors on at weekends.
:01:38. > :01:40.Therefore, medics are likelx to find they are working more weekends,
:01:41. > :01:42.which, under the existing contract, would have led to extra pay.
:01:43. > :01:44.After a final take-it-or-le`ve-it offer was rejected by the doctors
:01:45. > :01:47.union, the BMA, Jeremy Hunt, said he would impose
:01:48. > :01:57.Under the existing contract, doctors can receive the samd pay
:01:58. > :02:01.for working quite different amounts of unsocial hours.
:02:02. > :02:06.Doctors not working nights can be paid the same as those who do.
:02:07. > :02:09.And if one doctor works just one hour over the maximum shift length
:02:10. > :02:17.it can trigger a 66% pay rise for all doctors on that rot`.
:02:18. > :02:20.Tired doctors risk patient safety, so in the new contract,
:02:21. > :02:23.the maximum number of hours that can be worked in one week will be
:02:24. > :02:30.The maximum number of consecutive nights doctors can be asked to work
:02:31. > :02:36.The maximum number of consecutive long days will be reduced from seven
:02:37. > :02:41.to five, and no doctor will ever be rostered consecutive weekends.
:02:42. > :02:46.Because we do not want take,home pay to go down for junior doctors,
:02:47. > :02:50.after updated modelling I c`n tell the House these changes will allow
:02:51. > :02:54.an increase in basic salary of not 11% as previously
:02:55. > :03:02.Three-quarters of doctors whll see a take-home pay rise and no trainee
:03:03. > :03:07.working within contracted hours will have their pay cut.
:03:08. > :03:09.Jeremy Hunt also announced a review into ways to
:03:10. > :03:21.Mr Speaker, this whole dispute could have been
:03:22. > :03:24.The Health Secretary's failtre to listen to junior doctors,
:03:25. > :03:28.his deeply dubious misrepresentation of research about care at wdekends
:03:29. > :03:31.and his desire to make thesd contract negotiations
:03:32. > :03:36.into a symbolic fight for ddlivery of seven-day services has ldd
:03:37. > :03:41.to a situation which has bedn unprecedented in my lifetimd.
:03:42. > :03:44.Can the Health Secretary not see that imposing a new contract
:03:45. > :03:49.which does not enjoy the confidence of junior doctors will destroy
:03:50. > :03:54.morale, which is already at rock bottom?
:03:55. > :03:57.She feared many doctors would head for countries like Australi`.
:03:58. > :04:02.A poll earlier this week fotnd that nearly 90% of junior doctors
:04:03. > :04:07.are prepared to leave the NHS if the contract is imposed.
:04:08. > :04:09.How does the Health Secretary propose to develop seven-dax
:04:10. > :04:17.services with one tenth of the current junior doctor workforce?
:04:18. > :04:20.How can it possibly be right for us to be training junior doctors
:04:21. > :04:23.and the consultants of tomorrow only to be exporting them en masse
:04:24. > :04:31.It is quite obvious that after three years that the BMA were prepared
:04:32. > :04:34.just to let the whole thing drag on, with talks and days of action
:04:35. > :04:37.until he either abandoned the seven-day service or gave them
:04:38. > :04:43.an enormous pay settlements in order to buy them to do it.
:04:44. > :04:46.The problem around recognithon of unsocial hours may incre`se
:04:47. > :04:51.the difficulty we already h`ve in recruiting people for actte
:04:52. > :04:55.specialties - A, Maternitx and Acute Medicine.
:04:56. > :05:03.What we now need is to move forward in a positive spirit that actually
:05:04. > :05:06.brings this dispute to an end, takes the temperature down
:05:07. > :05:09.and actually recognises that we all want the same thing
:05:10. > :05:15.Will he entertain the idea of a commission, as advocatdd
:05:16. > :05:17.by my right honourable friend the Member for North Norfolk,
:05:18. > :05:19.and indeed others on both sides of this House,
:05:20. > :05:22.to find a long-term consenstal solution to the growing health
:05:23. > :05:29.I think the trouble with colmissions is they tend to take rather a long
:05:30. > :05:32.time to come up with their conclusions and we need to sort out
:05:33. > :05:35.I spent 30 years in the world of work representing employdes,
:05:36. > :05:37.conducting negotiations and solving disputes.
:05:38. > :05:43.I have seldom seen a sense of grievance so grotesquely
:05:44. > :05:46.mishandled, insulting the intelligence of junior doctors
:05:47. > :05:51.by telling them that they do not understand what is on offer.
:05:52. > :05:57.Does the Secretary of State not feel a sense of shame that his h`ndling
:05:58. > :06:02.of this dispute should have so poisoned relationships
:06:03. > :06:04.with junior doctors - the backbone of the National Health
:06:05. > :06:09.Mr Speaker, he can do a lot better than that.
:06:10. > :06:13.We have been willing to negotiate since June.
:06:14. > :06:16.It wasn't me that refused to sit round the table and talk
:06:17. > :06:18.until December, it was the BMA, who before even talking
:06:19. > :06:22.to the Government balloted for industrial action.
:06:23. > :06:24.What totally irresponsible behaviour.
:06:25. > :06:26.And if Labour were responsible they would be condemning
:06:27. > :06:32.A day earlier at Prime Minister's Questions,
:06:33. > :06:36.the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, raised not health, but houshng,
:06:37. > :06:40.accusing David Cameron of presiding over a crisis.
:06:41. > :06:44.Jeremy Corbyn began, as usu`l, by asking the Prime Minister
:06:45. > :06:46.a question from a member of the public.
:06:47. > :06:55.MPs cheered and laughed because the Labour Chief Whhp,
:06:56. > :06:58.Rosie Winterton, was sitting on the front bench just a fdw places
:06:59. > :07:06.written to me is in her 20s and she says...
:07:07. > :07:13."I work incredibly hard at ly job, yet I'm still having to livd
:07:14. > :07:19.The lack of housing options, Mr Speaker, are forcing
:07:20. > :07:23.her to consider moving, even leaving the country.
:07:24. > :07:27.She asked the Prime Minister what action he is going to take
:07:28. > :07:31.to help young people and falilies suffering from unrealistic house
:07:32. > :07:37.prices and uncapped rents to get somewhere safe and secure to live?
:07:38. > :07:43.First of all, let me say to the Right Honourable Gentleman,
:07:44. > :07:45.when you get a letter from the Chief Whip,
:07:46. > :07:50.What I would say to Rosie, the Rosie who wrote to him,
:07:51. > :07:53.is we want to do everything we can to help young people
:07:54. > :08:00.That is why we have these help to save ISAs and I hopd
:08:01. > :08:04.We are cutting Rosie's taxes, so this year she will be able
:08:05. > :08:11.to earn ?11,000 before she starts paying any taxes.
:08:12. > :08:13.If Rosie is a tenant in a Housing Association hole
:08:14. > :08:16.she will be able to buy that home because we are introducing
:08:17. > :08:29.With Help To Buy she will bd able to register for help with getthng a
:08:30. > :08:36.smaller deposit on a winning her own home. Shelter found that six out of
:08:37. > :08:39.ten renters have issues such as damp, mould, leaking roofs `nd
:08:40. > :08:46.Windows. It is simply not good enough. Millions are struggling to
:08:47. > :08:50.get the home they deserve, lore families are slipping into temporary
:08:51. > :08:54.accommodation, homelessness rising, too few homes being built, social
:08:55. > :09:02.housing under pressure, famhlies forced into a low standard private
:09:03. > :09:07.housing. When is the Prime Linister point to realise that there is a
:09:08. > :09:11.housing crisis in Britain and his government needs to address it now
:09:12. > :09:17.so we do not continue with this dreadful situation in this country?
:09:18. > :09:21.Let me just take one of the figures that he mentions about homelessness.
:09:22. > :09:26.Homelessness is less than h`lf the peak today as it was under the last
:09:27. > :09:32.Labour government. There is a simple point here, you can only invest in
:09:33. > :09:36.new houses, only restore exhsting houses, only build new housds, only
:09:37. > :09:41.support people into those shtes is if you have a strong economx. A
:09:42. > :09:45.Conservative MP comment app`rently made at the Shadow Defence
:09:46. > :09:50.Secretary, Emily Thornbury, during a lively meeting of the Parli`mentary
:09:51. > :09:55.Labour Party. Reporters outside the room were tortured said the UK's
:09:56. > :10:01.nuclear weapons system, Trident could soon be as obsolete as
:10:02. > :10:05.Spitfire fighter aircraft after the Second World War. Spitfire were
:10:06. > :10:08.vital in us winning the Battle of Britain 75 years ago and kedping our
:10:09. > :10:14.country free from tyranny. However, there are some who fear that are
:10:15. > :10:21.independent nuclear deterrent could be as obsolete as the Spitfhre. Can
:10:22. > :10:26.my right honourable friend hs assure the house and the country that this
:10:27. > :10:31.is not the case. In reply, David Cameron quoted the Labour MP for
:10:32. > :10:35.Bridge End, Madeleine Moon. Another week, another completely ludicrous
:10:36. > :10:43.Labour position on defence. The last word should go to the honourable
:10:44. > :10:49.member for Bridge End to twdet did this, oh dear, oh dear, oh need to
:10:50. > :10:51.go to rest in a darkened room. I think the rest of party will be with
:10:52. > :10:56.Well down the corridor in the Lords, Labour's Defence Spokesman trged
:10:57. > :10:59.the Prime Minister to pull his finger out and get on with it
:11:00. > :11:03.The last government gave thd go ahead for initial work to start
:11:04. > :11:05.on replacing the UK's ageing Vanguard submarines,
:11:06. > :11:09.which are due to end their working lives in the late 20-20s.
:11:10. > :11:11.But this parliament is due to hold the final vote on replacing
:11:12. > :11:17.A Labour peer and former First Sea Lord began the qudstioning
:11:18. > :11:19.by urging the Government not to exploit Labour's anguish
:11:20. > :11:31.the crucially important the the crucially important the
:11:32. > :11:36.replacement of the sub Marines and the maintenance of the deterrent are
:11:37. > :11:40.to the security of our nation, yet the decision which has to bd made in
:11:41. > :11:44.the other places being delaxed and delayed. It could have been made at
:11:45. > :11:49.any time since last November. I know is fun to watch Labour wriggling in
:11:50. > :12:00.anguish and having cartoons such as in The Times with pictures of
:12:01. > :12:05.Spitfires, that is very amusing that actually this is too ilportant
:12:06. > :12:10.to score a party political points. I have no wish to score party
:12:11. > :12:15.political points on a matter as important as this one. Parlhament
:12:16. > :12:20.voted in 2007 to support thd programme to replace the Vanguard
:12:21. > :12:24.class submarines. That authorise the investment in the programme,
:12:25. > :12:28.including the design work and the longer lead. That is the st`ge we
:12:29. > :12:32.are at the moment. We had not meant there were only did it would not
:12:33. > :12:36.have been possible to design the successor submarines before the
:12:37. > :12:41.Vanguard class leads servicd -- leads service. We are moving ahead
:12:42. > :12:45.with all speed on this. I c`n say to him that the Parliamentary vote
:12:46. > :12:51.which we are committed to, hs only right and proper because it is right
:12:52. > :12:53.to give the democratically dlected chamber of parliament the
:12:54. > :12:58.opportunity to endorse the principle of the deterrent. Under this
:12:59. > :13:02.government we have seen a rdduction in the size of the Armed Forces we
:13:03. > :13:07.have no aircraft carriers any longer. At the time when thd
:13:08. > :13:11.Russians are increasing sublarine patrols by 50% we have no m`ritime
:13:12. > :13:16.patrol aircraft and on top of this the government wants to extdnd the
:13:17. > :13:20.most life of the Vanguard ntclear submarines. I would be less than
:13:21. > :13:25.honest if I didn't stand here and say my party has some probldms with
:13:26. > :13:28.defence, too. Noble Lords mhght have been reading about it in thd
:13:29. > :13:33.newspapers but there is one policy that does unite the two front
:13:34. > :13:37.ventures at least in this house so can I ask the noble Earl thd
:13:38. > :13:40.Minister if he will put a shmple question to his right honourable
:13:41. > :13:48.friend, the prime minister? It is this, Dave, pull your finger out and
:13:49. > :13:52.down well get on with committing ourselves to replacing the Trident
:13:53. > :13:59.programme because it is the first duty of any government to protect
:14:00. > :14:02.our country. I think the noble Lord is being less than generous to the
:14:03. > :14:09.government, which for the fhrst time in a long time, has increasdd the
:14:10. > :14:14.defence budget with an extensive programme of equipment.
:14:15. > :14:17.Now, as ever, it has been a busy week.
:14:18. > :14:20.Let's take a look at some of the other stories from around
:14:21. > :14:23.MPs have decided to end the practice of
:14:24. > :14:26.automatically naming any MP who is arrested.
:14:27. > :14:28.The decision followed a report from the Commons procedural
:14:29. > :14:32.The procedure committee is not asking for members of Parli`ment
:14:33. > :14:35.to receive special treatment in the eyes of the law.
:14:36. > :14:38.Such a request, if made, would be alien to the values
:14:39. > :14:40.of our committee and alien to the wishes of our
:14:41. > :14:45.All of us on the committee believe that the law
:14:46. > :14:54.should be applied equally to all citizens of the United Kingdom.
:14:55. > :14:57.But this presently is not the case in this House.
:14:58. > :15:00.In this House, in matters of policing and public
:15:01. > :15:03.order, the point of public notification occurs not at the point
:15:04. > :15:07.of charge, as is the case with our constituents
:15:08. > :15:13.If people wish to change thd law in relation to what happens
:15:14. > :15:16.when people are arrested, change the law.
:15:17. > :15:20.There is plenty of time on the parliamentary agenda
:15:21. > :15:22.for people to change the law and plenty of
:15:23. > :15:24.opportunities for the government to change the law.
:15:25. > :15:27.This is not the way to change it for manners of Parliament
:15:28. > :15:33.and therefore we should oppose this proposal.
:15:34. > :15:37.What we are doing is bringing members of
:15:38. > :15:38.Parliament in line with the law, the law that
:15:39. > :15:43.The Volkswagen diesel emisshons scandal was one of the reasons why
:15:44. > :15:46.the decision on the future of Heathrow Airport was del`yed
:15:47. > :15:48.according to the Transport Secretary.
:15:49. > :15:50.Patrick McLaughlin told the transport committee
:15:51. > :15:52.that the final decision wasn't put off
:15:53. > :15:54.because of the looming elections for London mayor.
:15:55. > :15:58.The third runway at Heathrow would cost ?17.5 billion
:15:59. > :16:03.and would increase capacity at the airport by 220,000
:16:04. > :16:09.As a result of what came out of the VW scandal and the use
:16:10. > :16:15.of those devices which gave us readings on cars which we wdre not
:16:16. > :16:20.expecting to have, that has caused more work to be done,
:16:21. > :16:25.as far as engine and exhaust pollution by the Department,
:16:26. > :16:29.that work is presently undergoing at the moment.
:16:30. > :16:32.English schools should be ghven the right to challenge the timings
:16:33. > :16:35.of visits by Ofsted inspectors and appeal against their findings.
:16:36. > :16:39.That was the demand of the Liberal Democrat MP who said
:16:40. > :16:42.the decisions of the school inspector
:16:43. > :16:46.had far reaching implications which could impact on a school's
:16:47. > :16:49.reputation, its funding, and even its very survival.
:16:50. > :16:55.Good teachers and heads are either diverted or stressed or leave
:16:56. > :16:59.the profession early or in worse cases, pass up
:17:00. > :17:04.We don't actually have in this country
:17:05. > :17:09.a collegial peer reviewed models on school improvement.
:17:10. > :17:11.Instead of that, we have, what can become at its
:17:12. > :17:15.worst, the equivalent of the Spanish Inquisition.
:17:16. > :17:20.It takes 15 minutes every thme they do it and now there ard calls
:17:21. > :17:25.The committee is suggesting that instead of being counted
:17:26. > :17:27.through, MPs could go into the lobby and vote electronically,
:17:28. > :17:30.saving time, and getting the results online
:17:31. > :17:35.In the last session of parlhament, there were 544 divisions
:17:36. > :17:38.in the Commons and even if three minutes had been saved from each
:17:39. > :17:40.one, even honest improvement on our current practice,
:17:41. > :17:43.this would have added up to a time saving of 27
:17:44. > :17:48.There was a warm welcome in the Commons on Wednesday
:17:49. > :17:52.Kamal El-Hajji was selected why a panel of MPs, headed
:17:53. > :17:57.The Serjeant at Arms is responsible for
:17:58. > :18:00.keeping order in the Commons chamber and is the only official
:18:01. > :18:02.in Parliament allowed to carry weapons,
:18:03. > :18:05.including the gilt, fine-bladed sword.
:18:06. > :18:08.Now to the committee corridor where Google executives told
:18:09. > :18:11.the Public Accounts Committde they understood public
:18:12. > :18:15.and at the firm's ?130 million UK tax bill.
:18:16. > :18:19.However, the witnesses maintain it was a fair
:18:20. > :18:22.amount of money, reached after an audit by Her Majesty
:18:23. > :18:27.The sessions started with enquiries about the salaries of senior
:18:28. > :18:31.Can you confirm reports that your Chief Executive
:18:32. > :18:37.I don't have an exact figure in front
:18:38. > :18:44.In the last few days, the new stock -based
:18:45. > :18:46.compensation was announced for our recently appointed Chief
:18:47. > :18:51.That is an amount which is based on the value of stocks and depends
:18:52. > :19:00.And your tax settlement that you announced a few weeks ago
:19:01. > :19:02.with HMRC, covering a ten year period,
:19:03. > :19:09.I'm just here, we are here for taxpayers in Britain.
:19:10. > :19:14.Do you hear the anger and frustration out there
:19:15. > :19:19.that with those huge figures, you settled for a feature of ?1 0
:19:20. > :19:26.And I welcome the chance to come and talk to you
:19:27. > :19:35.If that is relevant, I will happily disclose
:19:36. > :19:40.No, I'm asking you what you get paid.
:19:41. > :19:42.I will happily disclose that it it is a relevant
:19:43. > :19:45.I'm asking you so it is a relevant matter.
:19:46. > :19:47.Can you tell me what you get paid, please?
:19:48. > :19:50.I don't have the figure but I will happily
:19:51. > :19:54.You don't know what you get paid? LAUGHTER.
:19:55. > :19:56.Why did it take you six years, which is as long
:19:57. > :19:58.as the Second World War, to explain your
:19:59. > :20:05.One of the things they did hn that process was vague did take
:20:06. > :20:08.an extended period of time to put in the nature
:20:09. > :20:13.So, one of the things they did was slow down the processing,
:20:14. > :20:16.to ask us and other tax authorities to look at the nature
:20:17. > :20:20.So, they went back and look in the detail of how our
:20:21. > :20:23.But the timetable of the process is driven by HMRC,
:20:24. > :20:25.according to their published and fairly detailed standards.
:20:26. > :20:28.Tom 's team was fully involved in answering
:20:29. > :20:30.all the questions throughout that period.
:20:31. > :20:32.So, it was basically, you are saying, HMRC's fault
:20:33. > :20:35.They run the process, according to their published
:20:36. > :20:38.standards and requirements the government puts on them
:20:39. > :20:44.If it takes six years to investigate something,
:20:45. > :20:48.either you are very bad at explaining all they are very
:20:49. > :20:53.Next up was senior tax officials from HMRC,
:20:54. > :20:56.who were confident they had got the full tax
:20:57. > :21:02.What I hope the public will see is that HMRC has
:21:03. > :21:05.done a thorough, profession`l job and got the amount of tax
:21:06. > :21:07.that they can get from Google, under the law,
:21:08. > :21:10.and indeed, over the period of 010 to 2015, large businesses gdnerally,
:21:11. > :21:13.we got ?38 billion addition`l tax from large businesses.
:21:14. > :21:17.It is impossible to get that amount of
:21:18. > :21:20.money from large businesses without doing a thorough
:21:21. > :21:25.That is what I want the British public to believe.
:21:26. > :21:28.Whether they believed that the amount of tax that Google
:21:29. > :21:32.have to pay, under the law, is fair or not, is a matter for them
:21:33. > :21:35.to debate but it is not a m`tter for which I can account.
:21:36. > :21:39.And HMRC insisted it was not outmanoeuvred by large corporations.
:21:40. > :21:44.Time now for a look at what has been happening in the wider
:21:45. > :21:55.With this week's countdown, here is Duncan Smith.
:21:56. > :21:59.It was flipping good start to the for MPs who won the `nnual
:22:00. > :22:06.Labour MP Stephen Pound protdly showed the trophy off late
:22:07. > :22:13.In fracking news, Greenpeacd open democracy site,
:22:14. > :22:15.right next to the Houses of Parliament.
:22:16. > :22:19.Campaigners objected to the government support
:22:20. > :22:25.A 1000 year tradition of prhnting British laws on vellum
:22:26. > :22:28.looks like it could be nearing an end.
:22:29. > :22:31.Vellum is made from calfskin and is said to last 5000
:22:32. > :22:35.The House of Lords says using archive paper instead
:22:36. > :22:40.It seems the Prime Minister doesn't just pop to the supermarket to get
:22:41. > :22:46.In fact, outgoing manager dhrector of Waitrose Mark Price has
:22:47. > :22:51.And at number one this week, or should
:22:52. > :22:55.that be at number 84, Labour MP and birthday boy
:22:56. > :22:59.Dennis Skinner, who told thd Commons where he spent his 84th birthday.
:23:00. > :23:04.On the picket line, today, with the doctors.
:23:05. > :23:19.Conservators MPs gave a heartfelt welcome to by ministers to give
:23:20. > :23:23.extra money to local authorhties in rural parts of England.
:23:24. > :23:27.Rural councils are to receive a ?93 million package
:23:28. > :23:29.as the government helps them to move away
:23:30. > :23:33.from Whitehall grants to more local funding.
:23:34. > :23:36.I propose to increase by more than fivefold the rural
:23:37. > :23:43.From 15.5 million this year to 18.5 million in 2016 to 2017
:23:44. > :23:48.With an extra 32.7 million available to rural councils
:23:49. > :23:50.through the transitional gr`nt that I have described,
:23:51. > :23:54.this proposal ensures there is no deterioration in government funding
:23:55. > :23:58.for rural areas compared to urban areas for the year
:23:59. > :24:04.How does he explain the manhfest injustice that the most deprived
:24:05. > :24:09.As things currently stand, the ten most
:24:10. > :24:13.deprived areas in England whll be 18 times worse off than the ten least
:24:14. > :24:19.I would also like to reflect that looking at the list of the statement
:24:20. > :24:23.of the call spending power, it doesn't look as if those
:24:24. > :24:26.areas are already very wealthy, in terms of the spending power,
:24:27. > :24:31.Further to the Scottish Nathonal representative, it is suggested that
:24:32. > :24:34.rural areas were richer than urban areas.
:24:35. > :24:39.Average areas -- earnings are higher in urban areas.
:24:40. > :24:44.There is a danger, if we continue to allow percentage rises,
:24:45. > :24:47.on a much higher base, on much poorer people,
:24:48. > :24:50.to go on, that we are going to actually reinforce the inequities
:24:51. > :24:57.Mid Sussex District Council which runs its affairs in a very
:24:58. > :25:00.orderly fashion, the more efficient and effective they are,
:25:01. > :25:03.the less money they get, that seems to be a completely
:25:04. > :25:08.There was, however, one very happy customer,
:25:09. > :25:11.who was clearly delighted with the extra money.
:25:12. > :25:14.I'm sure rural local government would be
:25:15. > :25:19.planting a big wet kiss on the cheek of the Secretary of State btt I m
:25:20. > :25:21.not entirely sure that his parliamentary...
:25:22. > :25:24.Whether it is not, the minister admitted he was grateful th`t
:25:25. > :25:27.Simon Hall was sitting a good long way away.
:25:28. > :25:32.Parliament is taking an extra recess for the next few days
:25:33. > :25:36.but do join Christina Cooper on Monday the 22nd February when MPs
:25:37. > :25:41.Until then, from me, Alicia McCarthy, goodbye.