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