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Hello and welcome to The Week In Parliament. | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
David Cameron names the day - it's June 23rd | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
Four months for the pro and anti camps to fight it out. | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
The choice is between being an even greater Britain inside a reformed EU | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
Is the government's policy basically, | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
always keep a hold of nurse for fear of finding something worse? | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
Peace in our time, after months and months of talks, | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
the Westminster and Holyrood governments finally agree a package | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
But just why has it been so hard to get a deal? | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
When you start altering it, the whole sort of way | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
that the fiscal framework works throughout the United Kingdom, | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
you realise that if you pull a thread, sometimes more | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
And there's more criticism of Government plans to cut the money | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
paid to opposition parties in Parliament. | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
How can it be right, in the modern age, for politicians | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
to expect to be bunged a load of hard-earned taxpayers' cash | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
without at least explaining how it gets spent? | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
This is the shoddiest consultation - so-called consultation - | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
But first, at the start of the week, after lengthy and complex | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
negotiations, David Cameron unveiled his deal to change the UK's | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
Setting out the changes to MPs, the Prime Minister warned that | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
opting to leave the European Union in June's referendum would be | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
Mr Cameron insisted that the new special status he'd | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
negotiated would mean the best of both worlds for the UK. | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
We will be in the parts of Europe that work for us, | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
influencing the decisions that affect us, in the driving seat | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
of the world's biggest single market. | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
And with the ability to take action to keep our people safe. | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
But we will be out of the parts of Europe that do not work for us. | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
Out of the euro, out of the Eurozone bailout, | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
out of a passport-free no-borders area, and permanently and legally | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
protected from ever being part of an ever-closer union. | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
This is a vital decision for the future of our country | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
and I believe we should also be clear that it is a final decision. | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
Sadly, Mr Speaker, I have known a number of couples who began | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
divorce proceedings, but I do not know of any who have | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
begun divorce proceedings in order to renew their marriage vows. | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
Mr Speaker, let me end by saying this. | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
I have no other agenda than what is best for our country. | :02:43. | :02:50. | |
I am standing here telling you what I think. | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
My responsibility as Prime Minister is to speak plainly | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
about what I believe is right for our country, | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
and that is what I will do every day for the next four months. | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
I commend this statement to the House. | :03:05. | :03:06. | |
The changes the Prime Minister has secured do nothing to address | :03:07. | :03:08. | |
the real challenges of low pay in Britain, undercutting of local | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
wage rates and industry-wide pay agreements. | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
They won't put a penny in the pockets of workers | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
in Britain, nor will they stop the grotesque exploitation of many | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
migrant workers, or reduce inward migration to Britain. | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
Scotland is a European nation and the SNP is a pro-European party. | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
We will campaign positively to remain within the EU. | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
Hopefully the Prime Minister can confirm today that he will reject | :03:38. | :03:39. | |
the tactics of Project Fear and make a positive case for remaining part | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
Despite assurances, it is worth remembering that this referendum | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
is about the future of our country, not the future of a divided | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
Would the Prime Minister agree that it is also not just | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
about Britain's place in the European Union, | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
but also Britain's place in the world? | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
The Prime Minister said in his statement that we are to make | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
the one sentence of his statement I fundamentally agree with - | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
a final decision to be made in June as to whether we stay | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
a failed body, or whether we leave and make our own path. | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
Is the government's policy basically, always keep | :04:26. | :04:27. | |
a hold of nurse for fear of finding something worse? | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
May I ask my right honourable friend... | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
..the Prime Minister, to explain to the house | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
and to the country exactly what way this deal returns sovereignty over | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
any field of lawmaking to these Houses of Parliament? | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
This deal brings back some welfare powers, | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
But more than that, because it keeps as for ever out of an ever-closer | :04:54. | :05:04. | |
union, it means that the ratchet of the European Court taking power | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
away from this country cannot happen in future. | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
A deal has finally been reached between the Westminster | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
and Holyrood governments over future Scottish spending. | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
After months of haggling, ministers have settled the financial | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
deal which will accompany new tax powers due to come | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
The First Minister made the announcement to MSPs | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
I have been clear throughout that I would not sign up to a systematic | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
cut to Scotland's budget, whether that cut is being applied | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
today or by a prejudged review in five or six years' time. | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
During the course of this afternoon negotiations have continued on that | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
basis and I have spoken to the Chancellor. | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
As a result of these conversations I can report to Parliament | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
that there is now an agreement, in principle, that I believe we can | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
The next day, at Prime Minister's Questions, the SNP's Westminster | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
leader raised the deal with David Cameron. | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
The position initially endangered ?7 billion of public | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
At the beginning of this week that was reduced to ?3 billion. | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
Yesterday morning it was ?2.5 billion. | :06:15. | :06:16. | |
What changed the mind of the Treasury and helped them | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
agree to a deal that will make Scotland no worse off? | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
David Cameron said it was an excellent deal for Scotland | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
and for the rest of the United Kingdom. | :06:26. | :06:27. | |
We want to keep the United Kingdom together. | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
What we've just demonstrated is that you can have full on devolution | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
with a powerhouse Parliament, with a fair fiscal settlement | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
I think that is something to be celebrated. | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
Now we are going to move to a situation where | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
the Scottish Government and the Scottish Parliament | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
will have to start talking about policies and decisions, | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
So what exactly has been agreed and, come to that, | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
I asked BBC Scotland's man at Westminster, David Porter. | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
Well, the fiscal framework is vitally important but in practice | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
it is really quite complicated because it is dealing | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
with the nitty-gritty of the fiscal effects and the financial effects | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
Think for a moment in future that Scotland is going to get | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
It will be able to vary income tax, put it up or take it down. | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
That means there will be perhaps a reduction in the amount of money | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
that Scotland gets from Westminster behind the so-called block grant. | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
Once you start changing one part of it, you end up | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
It was not so much a problem for the first year. | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
The problems were arising when you look down the road | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
at what might happen in years to come, if the population | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
in England grew faster than in Scotland. | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
And the knock-on effects that could have with the amount of money | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
that comes from Westminster and still goes up to Holyrood. | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
David Cameron is pleased this deal has been done because he says it | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
allows everybody to go into the elections at Holyrood | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
It was like a super poker game, talking about finances. | :08:03. | :08:12. | |
This will be something at the end of the day where both sides, | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
the Scottish Government and the UK Government, had to compromise | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
From the point of view of the Scottish Government, | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
they are delighted that they will have these tax varying powers, | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
they will get more powers over income tax, over VAT revenues | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
They can go ahead and say, this shows the parliament | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
From the UK Government's point of view, they can say, | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
we have delivered on the Smith Commission, | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
They say it will make Holyrood one of the most powerful parliaments | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
throughout the world because it now has these financial powers as well. | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
And also as well, you get the impression, listening | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
to David Cameron and his ministers, they say it is now time to stop | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
arguing about the process and get onto the policies. | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
We are only a couple of months away from the next Holyrood elections, | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
where we will elect a new parliament in Edinburgh. | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
And I think you are going to find that taxation is going to loom large | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
Everyone is not totally happy because they had to compromise. | :09:16. | :09:24. | |
But the important thing is that the people who really | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
matter, like Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister, David Cameron, | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
Prime Minister, Chancellor George Osborne, and John Swinney, | :09:32. | :09:33. | |
Financial Secretary in Scotland, are on board. | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
I think perhaps in months and years ahead where you might see some | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
discontent and some people not being happy is from English Tory | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
MPs, particularly if they feel that Scotland has got a better | :09:48. | :09:49. | |
deal than other parts of the United Kingdom. | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
When you start altering the whole way the fiscal framework works | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
throughout the United Kingdom, you realise that if you pull | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
a thread, sometimes more comes off than you think. | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
BBC Scotland's Westminster correspondent, David Porter. | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
Back now to the Commons, where PMQs rolled around just a few | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
hours after England's junior doctors announced further 48-hour strikes | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
in their dispute over a new contract. | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
The doctors' union, the British Medical Association has | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
scheduled the action for three dates in March and April. | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
It's in response to the decision by the Health Secretary, | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
Jeremy Hunt, to unilaterally impose the new contracts | :10:29. | :10:30. | |
without the consent of junior doctors. | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, attacked the Government's handling | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
of the health service and the dispute. | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
We all want a strong and successful NHS. | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
You don't achieve that by provoking industrial action, | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
misrepresenting research, or failing to get a grip on the cost | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
of agency staff in the NHS, which now amounts to ?4 billion. | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
Indeed, in the Prime Minister's own local NHS Trust, | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
it is overspent on staffing costs by ?11 million this year, | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
yet has managed to spend ?30 million on agency staff. | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
Will the chair of the Oxford anti-austerity campaign be writing | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
another letter to himself asking on behalf of his constituents | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
for the Health Secretary to intervene and support | :11:22. | :11:23. | |
David Cameron stood up to answer, saying he was proud of Oxfordshire's | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
Someone shouted, "Ask your mum", a reference to the fact that | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
Mr Cameron's mother signed a petition objecting | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
But the Prime Minister wasn't taking that lying down. | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
She'd look across the dispatch box and say, put on a proper suit, | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
do up your tie, and sing the national anthem. | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
The cheering and jeering continued for some time, | :11:53. | :11:54. | |
before Jeremy Corbyn could make himself heard. | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
If we are talking motherly advice.... | :12:01. | :12:02. | |
My late mother would have said stand up for the principle of a health | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
service free at the point of use for everybody. | :12:06. | :12:07. | |
Because that's what she dedicated her life to, as did | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
And the mother theme continued, as David Cameron set out what this | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
And when you look at the NHS today, and my mother is equally | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
And I know she would be pleased to know 1.9 million more people | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
going to A, 1.6 million more operations, 10,700 more doctors, | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
And I have to say, I think if Nye Bevan was here today, | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
he would want a seven-day NHS, because he knew the NHS | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
was for patients up and down our country. | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
Jeremy Corbyn went on to quote one doctor he'd heard from. | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
Nye Bevan would be turning in his grave if he could hear | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
the Prime Minister's attitude towards the NHS. | :12:59. | :13:00. | |
He was a man with vision who wanted a health service | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
If a seven-day NHS is wanted, we need more nurses, | :13:06. | :13:15. | |
more admin staff, more porters, radiographers, physios, | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
Will the Prime Minister now today commit to publishing the Department | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
of Health's analysis of the real cost of introducing a seven-day NHS, | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
and will he be prepared to pay for it, rather than picking a fight | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
with the junior doctors who want to deliver it? | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
What I think is not clear is whether or not Labour support | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
We do support a seven-day NHS, and that is why we are putting | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
That is why we are putting in 10,000 more doctors, 11,000 more nurses. | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
Crucially, yes, that is why we are looking at the contracts | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
in the NHS, to make sure it can work on a more seven-day basis. | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
Time now for our look at some of the other stories | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
House of Commons library figures show that Tori Royston Smith is the | :14:13. | :14:32. | |
least active new MP of the 2015 intake, in terms of parliamentary | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
speeches and questions. But he did ask a question in the chamber on | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
Monday. Those in Wales could benefit from a | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
cat welfare manifesto launched at the Welsh Assembly this week ahead | :14:47. | :14:54. | |
of the May elections. No points for the band made up of | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
current and former MPs, not short listed for the British entry into | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
Eurovision. Membership of the House of Lords | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
currently stands at 816, but a debate on the Scotland Bill was | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
halted on Wednesday night because not enough peers voted. | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
Anxious times for some MPs. The boundary commission has launched its | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
review of Westminster constituencies. It is aiming to cut | :15:20. | :15:21. | |
the number of seats to 600. There was renewed anger | :15:22. | :15:30. | |
in the Commons over Government plans The annual payment is made | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
to opposition parties to help with the costs of carrying | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
out their Parliamentary functions. It takes its name from former | :15:39. | :15:40. | |
Labour MP Ted Short, who helped bring it | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
in, in the 1970s. In November, the Chancellor proposed | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
reducing the payments by 19%, in line with the average savings | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
in unprotected Whitehall departments, then freezing the sum | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
in cash terms for the rest Answering an urgent question, | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
a Cabinet Office minister At a time when everybody else | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
outside Westminster has had to tighten their belts, | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
why should politicians expect to be treated differently, | :16:09. | :16:10. | |
feathering their own nests How can it be right for politicians | :16:11. | :16:12. | |
to expect to be bunged a load of hard earned taxpayers' cash, | :16:13. | :16:20. | |
more than ?35 million in total since 2010 for the Labour Party, | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
for example, without at least But the opposition was furious | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
with the proposals. This is the shoddiest so-called | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
consultation I have It deliberately forgets to mention | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
that short money is linked to how many seats and how many votes | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
all the opposition parties got So the main reason that short money | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
has increased in 2015 is because this Government has | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
a much smaller majority than the Labour government | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
or the coalition government, and the opposition parties got more | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
seats and more votes There is nothing wrong in principle | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
with reducing the cost of politics. So can we get some assurances | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
on reducing the number and cost of special advisers | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
and the House of Lords? This decision needs to be | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
reconsidered for such It does seem to be unacceptable | :17:19. | :17:20. | |
that it is being introduced Can the minister tell the House | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
what effect he supposes the cut in short money would have | :17:26. | :17:33. | |
on scrutiny and the comfort or discomfort the executor feels | :17:34. | :17:35. | |
as he goes about his business? But there was one opposition party | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
that gave the proposed Can I urge ministers | :17:39. | :17:40. | |
to stick to your guns? The sight of special pleading | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
from political parties wanting to get their hands on taxpayers' | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
cash is disgraceful. So is the Government | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
justified in making this cut? Ministers insist short money has | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
gone up by 50% since 2010 and now I asked Dr Hannah White | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
from the Institute for Government There are two reasons | :18:01. | :18:08. | |
for it, and they are built The first is the amount | :18:09. | :18:15. | |
of short money paid increases according | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
to inflation every year. The second, more major reason, | :18:21. | :18:22. | |
is that, with the 2015 election, the configuration of opposition has | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
changed in Parliament. There are 35 more opposition MPs | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
than there were under the coalition and there were more | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
votes cast for opposition MPs So those two elements, | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
votes and seats, are what are used to calculate short money, | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
and that made a big impact Ukip's only MP, Douglas Carswell, | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
has stood out on this. He's not taken all the short | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
money he's entitled to, and he says that's because you can | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
do politics and the Parliamentary I think the answer to | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
that is, it is difficult to say, because there are very few | :18:57. | :19:05. | |
records of how opposition parties They don't have to provide | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
records of what they do with that money, | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
so it's difficult to say whether they could do | :19:16. | :19:17. | |
it more cheaply. So the first thing you would | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
like to see is more At the moment all they have to do | :19:21. | :19:22. | |
is provide a certificate of audit to say they have had | :19:23. | :19:30. | |
their accounts audited. There is no detail about how | :19:31. | :19:31. | |
they spent their money, how many staff they | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
employed, what travel So I think a very clear | :19:35. | :19:36. | |
easy step would be to compel them to provide the Commons | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
authorities with detail about how they have spent short money, | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
and for that to be made public The public will not | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
like the idea that they give political parties | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
millions to carry out But realistically, | :19:53. | :19:54. | |
is there an alternative? Can we do away with | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
short money altogether? I do not think that | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
would be a good idea. There are two things | :20:03. | :20:04. | |
short money facilitates. The first is having effective | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
opposition, opposition parties with the resources | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
to develop alternative policies and effectively | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
challenge government, which the Institute for Government | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
believes is important to make There needs to be | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
an effective challenge The other thing is opposition | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
parties have the prospect at some point of being | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
in government themselves. If they have resources | :20:27. | :20:28. | |
while in opposition to develop policies and thinking, | :20:29. | :20:30. | |
they will be a better government So there is a rationale | :20:31. | :20:32. | |
for taxpayers providing some The government proposal seems quite | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
radical on the face of it, Do we have any idea | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
what the impact will be? Again, it is difficult | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
to say because we don't know how parties currently | :20:49. | :20:50. | |
spend the money they get. The consultation the government have | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
engaged in draws a comparison between a 19% cut to short money | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
and the cuts that unprotected departments are being asked | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
to find in the spending But in fact, those departments | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
are finding those cuts over the course of a parliament, | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
not in a single year, so it is quite a different thing | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
the government is proposing. The government says | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
it is having a consultation. If you were making recommendations, | :21:17. | :21:18. | |
what would you say it should do? The opposition parties need | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
to say, this sensible judgment cannot be made about how | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
much short money is needed unless we are more | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
open about how we are So opposition parties | :21:33. | :21:34. | |
need to offer that So that a proper review can be done | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
to find out what is needed in order for opposition parties | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
to go about their And the government | :21:44. | :21:45. | |
need to accept that deciding upfront that a 19% cut | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
is the right thing might not have been the best approach, | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
and it would be sensible to wait until some sort | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
of review has been done before deciding what the level | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
of cuts should be. Do you get any sense there might be | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
a compromise reached? The fact that there has been | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
a formal consultation issued is a positive | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
step and it is clear that there is opposition | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
in the House to what the Government In the end, there will have to be | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
a vote in the House to decide So it will come down | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
to whether the Government thinks Thank you for coming | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
into the programme. Dr Hannah White on the big | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
issue of short money. Now let's take a look at some | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
of the other stories from around The Government overturned two | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
changes that peers had made The Lords voted to keep targets | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
aimed at reducing child poverty. Peers also threw out plans to cut | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
?30 a week from the benefits of sick and disabled people who have been | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
found unfit to work. But when the bill returned to | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
the Commons, the Employment Minister argued cuts to the Employment | :22:56. | :22:57. | |
Support Allowance, A broken system that is | :22:58. | :22:59. | |
failing those it should be helping and ensure that a good | :23:00. | :23:07. | |
proportion of the savings are recycled into practical support, | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
and long-term tactical support that will have a transformation | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
effect on people's lives. The issue is that they are not fit | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
for work, so suggesting that removing financial incentives | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
will somehow make them fit for work Peers expressed concern that freedom | :23:24. | :23:25. | |
of speech is under threat One independent peer | :23:26. | :23:32. | |
gave some examples. The silencing of a female Muslim | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
reformer at Goldsmith's. Smashed glass, fire | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
alarm set off and the police called at King's College | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
London to stop an Israeli peace Will the Minister speak to the vice | :23:46. | :23:47. | |
chancellors at Universities UK to ensure that the law on freedom | :23:48. | :23:58. | |
of speech is upheld? to university is the ability | :23:59. | :24:06. | |
to debate, have your views and to challenge others, | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
and we must continue to support all universities in making | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
sure that all students continue to have that | :24:14. | :24:15. | |
opportunity at university. Without black and ethnic | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
minority workers the NHS The comment came from a health | :24:21. | :24:22. | |
minister who said it was "outrageous" that so few senior jobs | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
in the health service were filled The performance across the NHS is, | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
as the noble lady mentioned, MPs are in line for | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
a pay rise from April. They're to get an increase of 1.3%, | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
a figure slightly higher than the 1% pay cap in the rest | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
of the public sector. It means Members of Parliament | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
will get a ?962 increase, just nine months after they received | :24:52. | :24:53. | |
a boost to their pay which put their annual | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
salary up to ?74,000. The rise has been decided | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
by the Independent Parliamentary A new railway line to run under | :25:04. | :25:05. | |
London is to be named Crossrail will be known | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
as the Elizabeth Line once it opens The announcement was made | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
as the Queen visited Bond Street station and unveiled | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
the purple Elizabeth Line logo which will feature | :25:23. | :25:24. | |
across the network. Making the announcement to MPs | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
the Transport Minister, Claire Perry, paid tribute | :25:29. | :25:30. | |
to Her Majesty and said she hoped the Queen would accept an invitation | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
to travel on the first passenger Which regal invitation brings us | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
to the end of this edition But do remember to join Joanna Shin | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
on Monday night at 11pm for another round up of the best of the day | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
here at Westminster. | :25:48. | :25:52. |