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Hello and welcome to the Week In Parliament. | :00:11. | :00:12. | |
As the row over our membership of the EU hots up, peers | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
Not our local councils, not our own families or football | :00:18. | :00:30. | |
clubs, not even your Lordships' house. | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
Does that mean we should opt out of them, too? | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
I have come to the conclusion that the European Union | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
in its present form is a flawed and failing project. | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
MPs hear calls to change the laws on prostitution. | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
Prostitution is one of a form of violence against women | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
but the problem is our laws do not yet | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
And as the government announces it's pausing a bill to give more powers | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
to the Welsh Assembly, we talk to one expert who thinks | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
it's back to the drawing board for the Secretary of State. | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
This is not just going to be tinkering with the draft bill, | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
this is going to be a very significant, | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
David Cameron has called for a respectful debate in the | :01:08. | :01:21. | |
run-up to the EU referendum - but as the week has gone on | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
there have been increasing signs of acrimony between the IN | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
Those who favour leaving have accused those who want | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
The Chancellor George Osborne is strongly in favour | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
At the start of the week, he appeared in the Commons | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
for Treasury questions fresh from a meeting of the G20 leading economies | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
in China, after which finance ministers warned of a "shock" | :01:41. | :01:42. | |
to the global economy if the UK left the EU. | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
The Chancellor told MPs the Treasury would publish a cost-benefit | :01:46. | :01:47. | |
analysis of the UK's continued membership - | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
What people are asking for in this referendum campaign is a serious, | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
sober and principled assessment from the government, | :01:58. | :01:59. | |
And I can announce today that the Treasury will publish, | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
before the 23rd of June, a comprehensive | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
analysis of our membership of a reformed EU and the alternatives. | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
It will include the long-term economic | :02:11. | :02:11. | |
cost and benefits of EU membership and the risks associated | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
Those who wish us to stay in the European Union say on one | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
hand we are an insignificant and too small an economy to stand | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
on our own, but on the other hand, if we | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
leave the European Union, it will cause an economic meltdown | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
Well, our argument is that we will be stronger, | :02:28. | :02:35. | |
Next day at Prime Minister's Questions, the SNP's Westminster | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
leader urged David Cameron to make a positive case for staying in. | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
Millions of UK citizens live elsewhere in the European Union. | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
European decisions have helped the environment, | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
reducing sulphur dioxide emissions by nine tenths, | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
relations between 28 EU member states happens often imperfectly | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
but through dialogue and agreement, which surely is a huge improvement | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
on confrontations and walls of the past. | :03:07. | :03:14. | |
Will the Prime Minister concentrate on the positive | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
arguments for EU membership and reject the approach of | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
I think the fundamental point he makes is one | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
But we should never forget, when we sit round a table, | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
that just 70 years ago, these countries were | :03:37. | :03:38. | |
murdering each other on the continent of Europe. | :03:39. | :03:40. | |
Meanwhile, Whitehall's top mandarin tried to reassure MPs | :03:41. | :03:42. | |
that civil servants will not refuse to pass facts and information | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
to ministers who want to leave the European Union. | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
Eurosceptic MPs were angry at plans to withhold some documents | :03:48. | :03:49. | |
from ministers backing the out campaign. | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
Appearing before the Public Administration Committee, | :03:53. | :03:54. | |
Sir Jeremy Heywood said the job of the civil service was to support | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
the government - so civil servants were obliged to back | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
But, questioned by the committee's chairman, he insisted | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
that the restrictions were very limited. | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
Can I just clarify, why, in your letter, you said, | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
"It will not be permissible or appropriate for the civil service | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
to support ministers who oppose the government's official | :04:20. | :04:21. | |
position by providing briefing or speech material on this matter. | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
This includes access to official departmental papers. | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
Excepting papers that ministers have previously seen on issues relating | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
to the referendum question prior to the suspension of the collective | :04:33. | :04:40. | |
What papers do not intend them to see? | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
So, only briefings and speech material? | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
I can't rule out maybe other things... | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
OK, in the Q, "They can see or commission | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
any papers produced by the Department in the normal way | :04:54. | :04:55. | |
except those have a bearing on the referendum question | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
or are intended to be used in support of their | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
That only applies to briefings and speech material? | :05:01. | :05:08. | |
That is the material we are talking about. | :05:09. | :05:10. | |
Facts are dealt with in a different paragraph. | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
What a breath of fresh air. I couldn't agree more. | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
We might be able to shorten this whole session. | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
That would be a pleasure. It would. | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
Meanwhile down the corridor in the Lords, peers had their chance | :05:27. | :05:28. | |
to debate the arguments about our EU membership. | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
Once the die is cast, there will be no turning back. | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
We cannot leave the European Union and for economic and | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
trade purposes be treated as if we are still in it. | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
That is the inescapable fact of what we are facing. | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
The case for getting out seems to me to rest on a strangely | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
old-fashioned view of sovereignty, almost a Victorian view | :05:59. | :06:00. | |
The days when all power rested in the nation state. | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
I suspect there is more power resting on the global stage today | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
that affects the lives of ordinary citizens than is invested | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
in the institutions of the nation state, like ourselves. | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
Not our local councils, not our own families or football | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
clubs, not even your Lordships' house. | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
Does that mean we should opt out of those, also? | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
My Lords committee EU does need reform, which is why we need to be | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
right there on the pitch as a key player, not | :06:36. | :06:37. | |
sitting in the stands, moaning as a spectator and suffering | :06:38. | :06:48. | |
The problem is that we are not, and cannot be, on the sidelines. | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
Whether we like it or not, we are on, and will remain on, | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
We therefore have a vested interest in helping to deliver | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
I have come to the conclusion that the | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
European Union in its present form is a flawed and failing project | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
which is making its inhabitants poorer than they should and need | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
be, and because it is failing, contrary | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
to what is being said by some of your Lordships this afternoon, | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
To which European country to re-export the most? | :07:16. | :07:39. | |
Germany, with whom we have a huge trade deficit. | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
The UK is the only EU member states that sells | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
more outside the EU than to other members. | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
The Eu, because of the conflicting demands of 28 members, | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
have still not concluded a trade deal with the States. | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
How much easier it would be for the UK to do it on its own? | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
After all, Peru and Australia have such deals. | :08:02. | :08:03. | |
To Prime Minister's Questions where the Labour leader turned | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
to the government's promises on childcare. | :08:07. | :08:07. | |
The Conservative manifesto pledged 30 hours of free care to working | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
parents of three- and four-year-olds in England. | :08:11. | :08:12. | |
Today, Mr Speaker, the National Audit Office | :08:13. | :08:13. | |
confirms that one third of families promised 30 hours free childcare | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
The report also warns that many childcare providers | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
are not offering the new entitlement due to insufficient funding. | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
There are 41,00 three-year-olds missing out | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
on free early education as a result of this. | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
Will the Prime Minister intervene and ensure those children get | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
We want all these children to have the start in life | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
they deserve and I'm glad he mentioned the National Audit | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
Let me read some of the things it said. | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
"The department has successfully implemented entitlement to free | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
childcare for three- and four-year-olds with almost | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
universal take-up of hours offered to parents." | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
David Cameron went on to ridicule what he said was Labour's | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
..his latest economic adviser, pne Mr Yanis Varoufakis! | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
He was the Greek Finance Minister, who left his economy in ruins! | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
That is Labour's policy in two words, " Acropolis now". | :09:09. | :09:17. | |
The Home Affairs Committee is investigating whether it's time | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
Some of the activities around prostitution are illegal - | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
such as kerb-crawling or soliciting on the streets. | :09:25. | :09:26. | |
But the act of exchanging money for sex is legal. | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
Campaigners say the people who buy sex should be criminalised. | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
MPs heard some powerful testimony from a woman who was a sex worker | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
The rape and violence, is horrendous. | :09:38. | :09:45. | |
You know, three rapes, one gang rape which happened inside. | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
I can't fathom how any government would | :09:54. | :10:02. | |
sanction an industry that, and the only way to... | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
I was beaten, abused and raped by buyers. | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
Removing them or making them a small amount, | :10:10. | :10:11. | |
do you what I mean, does not make it more dangerous. | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
Prostitution is one of the forms of violence against women | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
but the problem is, our laws do not yet reflect that | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
because overwhelmingly at present, the burden of commonality falls | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
And I think we all agreed that that is wrong. | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
Women who are exploited through prostitution | :10:33. | :10:34. | |
Nobody selling sex should be criminalised for it. | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
But what we need to do, as a society, is send a message | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
to the minority of men in this country, because most men do not pay | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
for sex, but we do need to send a message to that minority, | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
that it is not acceptable way to treat another person and we know | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
that the threat of coronal sanctions are Reiki method for discouraging | :10:55. | :11:05. | |
-- are a key method. For discouraging | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
But an alternative view was offered by another witness. | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
Do you believe that we should change the law on prostitution? | :11:18. | :11:19. | |
Do you think it is ready to be changed? | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
Yes, I do believe the law on prostitution | :11:23. | :11:23. | |
should be changed, but perhaps not in the manner in which the committee | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
We, as sex workers, are seeking the right | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
to work together for safety and in doing so, | :11:33. | :11:34. | |
to increase our labour rights as well, as workers. | :11:35. | :11:36. | |
At present, the sex industry is the only industry in the UK that | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
I can think of which compels me, as a woman, to work alone | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
and leaves me wide open to attack from predators | :11:44. | :11:45. | |
I should just say at this point that I witnessed first | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
hand while I was working on the street, the effects | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
of further criminalisation In 1993 and precious police resources | :11:52. | :11:53. | |
were driven away from looking after us to | :11:54. | :11:55. | |
chasing down the clients and the levels of violence | :11:56. | :11:57. | |
against sex workers went through the roof. | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
In Ipswich in 2006, five prostitutes were murdered | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
by Steven Wright in the space of a few months. | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
Leading the police investigation was Detective Superintendent Alan Caton. | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
Now retired, he thinks buying sex should be illegal. | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
and all of the women who were working on the streets | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
of Ipswich at the time were drug addicted. | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
When we spoke to those women, they were | :12:23. | :12:24. | |
Using drugs before they went out on the street | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
in order to face what they were doing. | :12:29. | :12:30. | |
None of the women I spoke to, certainly, would have said | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
that was their choice, they would want to get | :12:38. | :12:39. | |
Most of the men, when you spoke to the men, why do they do it, | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
it's because they can do things that they | :12:45. | :12:46. | |
These are predominantly married men, men with | :12:47. | :12:48. | |
partners, men with children, who feel they can go out and exploit | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
Alan Caton concluded that prostitution cannot be made safe - | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
it was an inherently dangerous activity. | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
on hold - after widespread criticism of the draft Wales Bill. | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
A new Bill is now expected in the summer. | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
The move came just ahead of Saint David's Day - | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
when the Assembly itself was marking the tenth anniversary of its move | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
10 years ago this week, the Queen was at Cardiff Bay to open | :13:17. | :13:32. | |
the new Senedd building, a decade on and | :13:33. | :13:34. | |
the issue of what powers the Welsh Labour should have | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
On Monday the Welsh Secretary announced | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
publication of the Welsh bill after the draft was criticised | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
I think it is right we take the time to get the detail correct. | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
We have had four months of vigorous and lively debate | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
about the contents of the draft bill, it would be odd to say I am | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
pressing ahead without making changes which a lot of people have | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
said need to be made to make sure we get a clearer and favoured | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
devolution settlement for the people of Wales. | :14:04. | :14:04. | |
A contentious test for legislation will be scrapped. | :14:05. | :14:06. | |
The list of reserve powers will be cut. | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
The final bill will not be published before elections in May. | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
I know no more about the Secretary of State intentions than what has | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
appeared in the press, the Welsh Government was not | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
informed about the content of the announcement nor | :14:31. | :14:32. | |
was there any follow-up communication. | :14:33. | :14:33. | |
If this to be any progress with this bill, it must be a bill made | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
In the Commons on Tuesday, Saint David's | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
day, one MP called for a further devolution of power, | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
In 550 AD, at a raucous meeting of the Synod Welsh church | :14:47. | :14:59. | |
Saint David found it difficult to make himself heard and placed | :15:00. | :15:01. | |
a cloth on the ground from which came a raised mound | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
This St David miracle put the village on the map | :15:05. | :15:12. | |
long before the contemporary David of Little Britain fame. | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
There was always the possibility of Saint | :15:20. | :15:20. | |
David's day becoming a bank holiday in Wales. | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
He won the right to take forward his bill but without | :15:27. | :15:28. | |
government support, it will not become law. | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
David Cameron was keen to give his backing to Stephen Crabb | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
he mentioned Aston Martin opening a factory in S Wales. | :15:38. | :15:51. | |
We will have a James Bond car made in Wales, all we need now | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
The Secretary of State looks a bit like Russell | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
David Cameron - with a suggestion for the new James Bond! | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
So what was wrong with the draft Wales Bill? | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
I spoke to academic and policy advisor, Alan Trench, | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
who runs the blog Devolution Matters. | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
The draft Wales Bill was published last October and it ran pretty | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
immediately into a storm of criticism. | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
Saying that it was unworkable in all sorts of ways. | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
It would have meant a reduction in the | :16:27. | :16:28. | |
It was unduly complicated and would have led to what the First Minister | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
called an English veto for many Welsh | :16:36. | :16:36. | |
It was the case that little of the legislation passed | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
in the assembly in the past five years | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
could have been passed if the new bill had been in force. | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
So the bill is not now going to be published | :16:52. | :16:53. | |
until May which will be after the elections, | :16:54. | :16:55. | |
near the end of the session of Parliament, is it a problem | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
It is not a problem, it is a problem that the Secretary | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
of State has committed to bring it on in May | :17:06. | :17:07. | |
rather than later because what needs to be changed is extensive. | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
It is not clear how hard Whitehall has | :17:12. | :17:13. | |
been thinking about those changes since October, | :17:14. | :17:22. | |
since they realised the difficulties and realised the magnitude | :17:23. | :17:24. | |
This will not just be tinkering with the draft bill, | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
this will be a far reaching reconstruction. | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
You have been told, go back to the drawing | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
The Secretary of State is clear about most of the things which need | :17:35. | :17:45. | |
to be done, the question is how they are done and how they affect | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
other aspects of how devolution works and | :17:49. | :17:50. | |
The proposition is that everything is devolved to the Welsh assembly | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
unless it says specifically it is for Westminster? | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
Yes, that is what the draft Bill said which causes serious problems. | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
He will need to find a way through that. | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
One option for that might be to schedule the powers which can't | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
be given without consent so that if there are other powers | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
which are left intact for the time being they | :18:16. | :18:17. | |
can be altered by the National Assembly. | :18:18. | :18:18. | |
The second problem will be how you deal with the territorial limits | :18:19. | :18:25. | |
of what the National Assembly can do because the assembly will have power | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
to legislate which may have an effect | :18:31. | :18:32. | |
The answer to that is to say there will be a working group | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
to look at the legal relationship between England and Wales. | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
We will see what that working group comes up | :18:46. | :18:47. | |
My own view has been what I call a distinct jurisdiction | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
is the best way to resolve those difficulties. | :18:55. | :18:56. | |
Are we edging to a situation where Wales ends up with powers | :18:57. | :18:58. | |
which are the same as the Scottish Parliament or are we still million | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
We're still quite a long way away from | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
that for several reasons, one is that the which are being | :19:10. | :19:17. | |
the powers which are being discussed still fall some way short | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
Those have been expanded significantly | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
Partly through the Scotland act 2012 and the Scotland | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
In particular police and criminal justice are not | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
There is a debate about whether they should be. | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
It was recommended by the Silk Commission | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
It is not part of the present discussion | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
Is that the direction of travel and what people in Wales want? | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
It looks like it is the direction of travel but is that | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
Broadly speaking they are supporters of devolution and want more of it. | :19:52. | :20:02. | |
That was indicated clearly by the referendum in March | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
2011 which gave the assembly is present lawmaking powers. | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
Whether they want the sort of powers that | :20:11. | :20:12. | |
are currently being discussed for Scotland is another question. | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
There is little support for independence | :20:16. | :20:17. | |
Thank you very much indeed for coming into the programme. | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
Now let's look further afield - with our countdown of the stories | :20:22. | :20:31. | |
which have been making the news across the political | :20:32. | :20:33. | |
asking for her Majesty to have her name changed to Crossrail. | :20:34. | :20:52. | |
Eat your heart out Philip Davies, he is a mere | :20:53. | :21:06. | |
South Korean lawmakers ended a filibuster | :21:07. | :21:08. | |
Tracksuits are the hot tip for spring from London Fashion Week | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
which is lucky for Jeremy Corbyn who said his green number | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
Frontbenchers better keep it concise when Speaker Bercow is in charge. | :21:16. | :21:27. | |
Sit down, long-winded and unnecessary. | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
An entire David Bowie parody album has been made about Nicola Sturgeon. | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
Including the sensational Patrick Harvie band. | :21:38. | :21:45. | |
With a few of the more surreal political stories of the week! | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
Now back to Westminster where the battle of wills | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
over changes to some benefits payments continued. | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
Ministers want to reduce ESA Payments to those who have been | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
ruled unfit to work by ?30 a week for some new claimants. | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
On Monday, peers supported a demand that the change should not go ahead | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
until the impact on claimants' finances and mental wellbeing | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
But when the bill went back to the Commons, ministers accused | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
the Lords of "overstepping the mark" by seeking to delay a key element | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
And MPs voted by a majority of 35 to remove the requirement | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
The bill will now go back to the Lords again! | :22:29. | :22:38. | |
In the Commons there were calls for an independent cross-party | :22:39. | :22:40. | |
commission into how to stop young people being drawn into gangs. | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
MPs warned that gangs are widening their net | :22:44. | :22:45. | |
into provincial towns, that the level of violence | :22:46. | :22:47. | |
is getting worse and gang members are getting younger. | :22:48. | :22:49. | |
They called for a new understanding of a problem that involves complex | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
social issues including deprivation, domestic abuse and fear. | :22:53. | :23:00. | |
Last year we had Basildon, Grimsby, Harrow, High Wycombe, | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
Southampton, Swindon, what is going on here? | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
Something which was urban, and inner-city has now become | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
incredibly suburban. | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
Murders which were traditionally black can become white. | :23:20. | :23:21. | |
The Health and Safety Executive has censured the Ministry of Defence | :23:22. | :23:23. | |
over the deaths of three soldiers in 2013 on an SAS training exercise. | :23:24. | :23:32. | |
The Executive said that, but for Crown Immunity, | :23:33. | :23:34. | |
125 service personnel died on training exercises between 2000 | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
The armed forces minister told a commons committee deaths | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
were often due to policy not being followed, or the wrong people | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
I am confident sitting in front of you today | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
although there are still inquiries going into some incidents, | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
that where we have identified why a particular thing was not followed | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
or why a particular individual was not conducting that aspect | :24:03. | :24:04. | |
that those measures have been identified and are being addressed. | :24:05. | :24:13. | |
England sports fans are going to have to stick | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
to God Save the Queen after an attempt to bring | :24:17. | :24:18. | |
in an English sporting anthem fell in the Commons. | :24:19. | :24:26. | |
A Labour MP, Toby Perkins, tried to bring in a bill to give | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
England fans a distinct rallying tune - instead of having to the use | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
On Friday the time for debate ran out before MPs got to the bill - | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
meaning Mr Perkins plan now stands no realistic chance of becoming law. | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
Finally: The Government's been urged to do more to promote the "circular | :24:47. | :24:48. | |
economy", cutting waste by repairing and recycling products rather | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
Peers called on ministers to encourage consumers to reject | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
the "throw away" society and cut "landfill mountains". | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
And one had her own thrifty suggestion. | :25:01. | :25:08. | |
Ways of doing things which may come naturally to us need to be shared | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
with the new generation who find it easier to chuck than reuse. | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
When I was a girl growing up before tights | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
were invented we were taught to darn our own stockings. | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
I now use laddered tights, clean ones, my lords, | :25:23. | :25:24. | |
to filter pips when making marmalade. | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
Which pithy solution brings us to the end of this edition | :25:30. | :25:39. | |
of the programme - but do join Kristiina Cooper | :25:40. | :25:41. | |
on Monday night at 11 for another round up of the day | :25:42. | :25:44. | |
here at Westminster - including debate on the Policing | :25:45. | :25:48. |