:00:12. > :00:14.Hello, and welcome to The Week In Parliament.
:00:15. > :00:16.When the Queen came to Westminster for the state opening,
:00:17. > :00:19.revealing the new laws the government wants to make
:00:20. > :00:31.My government will legislate in the interests of everyone in our
:00:32. > :00:32.country. It will adopt a one nation approach.
:00:33. > :00:36.But Labour disputes the government's claim it's supporting aspiration.
:00:37. > :00:44.Still this government does not seem to understand that cuts have their
:00:45. > :00:47.consequences. We are building a great Britain again with a Sound
:00:48. > :00:49.economy, strong defences and better opportunity for all.
:00:50. > :00:52.Elsewhere the Health Secretary holds out an olive branch to junior
:00:53. > :00:54.doctors after reaching a deal in their long running dispute.
:00:55. > :00:56.And, an Education minister says despite a recent court
:00:57. > :00:58.ruling parents shouldn't take their children
:00:59. > :01:08.There is no circumstance in which a trip to Disney World can be regarded
:01:09. > :01:11.as educational. Her Majesty the Queen came
:01:12. > :01:15.to Westminster on Wednesday to carry There were 21 bills
:01:16. > :01:19.in what the Prime Minister called a One Nation Queen's Speech
:01:20. > :01:21.from a One Nation government. Among the measures,
:01:22. > :01:23.a Prison Reform Bill will give governors more independence
:01:24. > :01:27.in the running of jails, and overhaul education
:01:28. > :01:29.and training to cut offending. There's a Children
:01:30. > :01:31.and Social Work Bill, favouring permanent adoption
:01:32. > :01:35.for children, rather than long-term fostering or placing children
:01:36. > :01:38.with distant relatives. An Education Bill designed to expand
:01:39. > :01:42.Academy schools in poorly-performing But they won't be forced
:01:43. > :01:47.to convert to academies, Then there's a Counter-Extremism
:01:48. > :01:52.Bill, with new powers designed to protect children and other
:01:53. > :01:55.vulnerable people from being And there's a Bill of Rights,
:01:56. > :02:00.something many Conservatives have called for to give the UK Courts
:02:01. > :02:08.supremacy in the way human Lastly a Modern Transport Bill,
:02:09. > :02:17.paving the way for trials of driverless cars,
:02:18. > :02:19.as well as for the building of a spaceport, where commercial
:02:20. > :02:22.flights will be able to blast off, giving paying passengers
:02:23. > :02:25.a taste of space travel. The day had begun in rather
:02:26. > :02:28.more old fashioned way, with the traditional pageantry
:02:29. > :02:30.of the State Opening. Parts of the annual ceremony date
:02:31. > :02:33.back as far as the 14th century. Her Majesty was opening Parliament
:02:34. > :02:37.for the 63rd time in her reign, accompanied as ever by the Duke
:02:38. > :02:39.of Edinburgh, but also by the Prince of Wales
:02:40. > :02:48.and the Duchess of Cornwall. As the Royal party made its way
:02:49. > :02:50.to Westminster, in the House of Lords peers in their traditional
:02:51. > :02:55.bright red robes had Then, the fanfare by the trumpets,
:02:56. > :02:59.and the Queen, now wearing her robes of state and crown, moved
:03:00. > :03:01.through the Royal Gallery The Queen and the Duke
:03:02. > :03:04.of Edinburgh took their places And so Black Rod was sent to summons
:03:05. > :03:22.MPs from the Commons Then the traditional slamming
:03:23. > :03:26.of the Commons door in the face of Black Rod, a symbol
:03:27. > :03:28.of the supremacy and Black Rod knocked three times
:03:29. > :03:33.and was then let in. And there was the now traditional
:03:34. > :03:36.heckle from veteran Labour Then that walk through from
:03:37. > :03:48.the Commons to the Lords. Usually there's some chat
:03:49. > :03:50.between the party leaders, but this year Jeremy Corbyn avoided
:03:51. > :03:54.any small talk with David Cameron. And with MPs gathered
:03:55. > :03:57.at the bar of the Lords, the Lord Chancellor,
:03:58. > :03:58.Michael Gove, handed the Queen her copy of the Speech
:03:59. > :04:01.to read, and the contents My Lords, and members of the House
:04:02. > :04:11.of Commons... The Queen, giving the speech written
:04:12. > :04:14.for her by the government and setting out the Bills ministers
:04:15. > :04:16.plan to introduce. When the Commons reassembled
:04:17. > :04:21.a couple of hours later, the Labour leader gave his response,
:04:22. > :04:24.rounding on David Cameron's claim to be striving
:04:25. > :04:35.for a more equal society. Still this government does not seem
:04:36. > :04:41.to understand that cuts have their consequences. When you cut adult
:04:42. > :04:43.social care it has an impact on NHS accident and emergency departments,
:04:44. > :04:48.when you saddle young people with more debt you impede their ability
:04:49. > :04:51.to buy a home or start a family. When you fail to build housing and
:04:52. > :04:56.cap housing benefit then homelessness and the number of
:04:57. > :05:02.families in temporary accommodation increases. When you/ the budgets of
:05:03. > :05:07.local authorities then leisure centres close, libraries close,
:05:08. > :05:09.children's Centres close. When you close fire stations and cut
:05:10. > :05:16.firefighters jobs then response times increase and more people are
:05:17. > :05:20.in danger of dying in fires. This austerity is a political choice, not
:05:21. > :05:24.an economic necessity, and it is a wrong choice for our country and
:05:25. > :05:26.made by a government with the wrong priorities.
:05:27. > :05:28.Mr Corbyn spoke at length, going through the measures
:05:29. > :05:30.in the speech, with Conservatives becoming increasingly restless
:05:31. > :05:32.and noisy as Mr Corbyn refused to give way.
:05:33. > :05:39.The Labour leader turned to the measures on prisons.
:05:40. > :05:46.We will scrutinise carefully proposals to give prison governors
:05:47. > :05:52.more freedom. It seems the policies of this government have been to give
:05:53. > :05:57.greater freedoms to prisoners, that is the consequences of overcrowding
:05:58. > :05:58.prisms and cutting one third of dedicated prison officer positions.
:05:59. > :06:02.He moved onto the counter-extremism proposals.
:06:03. > :06:09.We will, of course, support strong measures to give police and security
:06:10. > :06:12.services the support they need and we will also support checks and
:06:13. > :06:13.balances to ensure powers are used appropriately.
:06:14. > :06:23.Mr Speaker, if anyone wants to deliver a more equal society, an
:06:24. > :06:28.economy that works for everyone and a society where there is opportunity
:06:29. > :06:32.for all, it takes an active government to do it, not the
:06:33. > :06:33.driverless car, heading in the wrong direction, that we have in this
:06:34. > :06:35.government at the present time. Then it was the turn
:06:36. > :06:43.of the Prime Minister, who focused When I became Prime Minister some
:06:44. > :06:47.social workers were refusing to place Black, mixed race or age and
:06:48. > :06:51.children with white parents and I think that is profoundly wrong and
:06:52. > :06:54.we change the law to prevent it and it was a rout of that change and
:06:55. > :06:59.other things we have done adoption is up today by 72%. Believing in
:07:00. > :07:03.opportunity means never writing anyone off Radford too long in our
:07:04. > :07:08.country young offender institutions and prisons have not been working.
:07:09. > :07:10.They give the public the security of knowing offenders are locked in but
:07:11. > :07:12.they do not do enough to turn around the lives of people who will one day
:07:13. > :07:36.be left out. While a Conservative intervened
:07:37. > :07:45.to ask about the counter-extremism Budgets have been slashed by a third
:07:46. > :07:48.at the same time prison populations are growing. Given that many
:07:49. > :07:53.prisoners are incarcerated for offences linked to jog years, isn't
:07:54. > :07:55.it time to review a policy that treats drug addict is only as
:07:56. > :08:02.criminals rather than people who need our support. I really think we
:08:03. > :08:05.need to get away from the idea that you any measure progress in public
:08:06. > :08:10.services by the amount of money that is spent. The whole aim here is to
:08:11. > :08:12.try and do more with less as we have done in so many parts of the public
:08:13. > :08:15.sector. While a Conservative intervened
:08:16. > :08:24.to ask about the counter-extremism Extremists are adept at grooming and
:08:25. > :08:27.brainwashing our young people and does the Prime Minister agree we
:08:28. > :08:30.should be bolder in offering great support and encouragement to the
:08:31. > :08:36.brave Muslims in our communities that seeks to stand up and encourage
:08:37. > :08:43.the intolerance and hatred that is exported by Daesh. My honourable
:08:44. > :08:48.friend is absolutely right. If we give in to the idea that spokesman
:08:49. > :08:51.who are extremist but non-violent can somehow represent their
:08:52. > :08:59.communities we completely disempower the moderate voices who want us to
:09:00. > :09:02.stand up for the liberal values we should champion in this house.
:09:03. > :09:13.We are building homes again and we are creating jobs again with more
:09:14. > :09:17.than 2 million people in work. We are investing in our NHS again with
:09:18. > :09:23.more than 2000 more doctors than 10,000 more nurses on our wards in
:09:24. > :09:27.2010. Mr Speaker, we are building a better Britain again with a sound
:09:28. > :09:32.economy, strong defences and opportunities for all. These are the
:09:33. > :09:32.actions of a progressive one nation Conservative government and I
:09:33. > :09:34.commend this speech to the house. Well, it wasn't what was in
:09:35. > :09:38.the Queen's Speech but what wasn't that seemed to exercise
:09:39. > :09:40.many backbenchers. The SNP's leader at Westminster
:09:41. > :09:42.began by noting that nearly all of the Bills set out
:09:43. > :09:56.in the Speech only affected They relate to education, adoption
:09:57. > :10:00.and reforms and democratic processes so when the Prime Minister talks
:10:01. > :10:02.about this being a One Nation Queens speech we, on these benches, know
:10:03. > :10:05.which nation he is speaking about. Mr Robertson then set out some
:10:06. > :10:08.of the things that he would rather have heard and seen -
:10:09. > :10:11.a Scotland Home Rule Bill, a replacement for the House
:10:12. > :10:18.of Lords, tough new At the top of our list of what we
:10:19. > :10:23.have proposed advance of this speech is a need for an emergency summer
:10:24. > :10:28.Budget. Why? Because it would give the government an opportunity to put
:10:29. > :10:33.an end to austerity. It could bring about an inclusive and a prosperous
:10:34. > :10:35.economy for a modest investment in infrastructure and vital public
:10:36. > :10:40.services. The proposals are detailed. It would be to boost
:10:41. > :10:41.investment and to hold the austerity programme that has strangled
:10:42. > :10:42.economic progress. And the Lib Dems had
:10:43. > :10:51.a wish list too. An ambitious plan for housing that
:10:52. > :10:54.actually builds homes that are genuinely affordable. Rather than
:10:55. > :10:59.tinkering with Parliament, let's replace the other place with a fully
:11:00. > :11:05.elected second chamber as was pointed out moments ago. Governments
:11:06. > :11:11.do sometimes get tired and clapped out and run out of ideas, but it
:11:12. > :11:16.usually takes 12 years and not 12 months. This programme is so sparse
:11:17. > :11:17.and vacuous it is positively, positively Blairite.
:11:18. > :11:20.One measure that was in the Speech, which many considered
:11:21. > :11:28.This idea of a British bill of was the promise of a consultation
:11:29. > :11:33.This idea of a British bill of rights has been knocking about the
:11:34. > :11:40.lamp shade like a demented lob -- demented moth for some little while
:11:41. > :11:43.and it may well be that if you have an arm painted head it can knock
:11:44. > :11:51.itself around the lampshade for a good while longer. I really do think
:11:52. > :11:57.it is a waste of intellectual and political energy for this, to mix my
:11:58. > :12:04.metaphors, dead horse to be revived. Ditching the Human Rights Act would
:12:05. > :12:08.be a comfort to despots and I think it should be resisted and this party
:12:09. > :12:13.wants to do so. We're not talking about this country withdrawing from
:12:14. > :12:16.the Convention of human rights or European human rights, we are
:12:17. > :12:21.talking about this house serving as the final arbiter in terms of
:12:22. > :12:24.decision making which will be this sovereign parliament. This sovereign
:12:25. > :12:28.parliament cannot be overridden, especially when it comes to
:12:29. > :12:32.decisions which are clearly and utterly opposed by the vast bulk of
:12:33. > :12:35.the people of the United Kingdom right across the board.
:12:36. > :12:37.In the Lords, peers started their debate
:12:38. > :12:40.Labour's Leader reflected on the last session,
:12:41. > :12:45.which saw 60 government defeats, and looked to the year ahead.
:12:46. > :12:53.Port your lordship's has to do its job well it requires noble Lords to
:12:54. > :12:58.use their expertise and knowledge and skills to work effectively and
:12:59. > :13:03.cooperatively to scrutinise legislation often takes much time
:13:04. > :13:08.and a lot of stamina. Can I thank all noble Lords who engage in many
:13:09. > :13:12.hours of debate on bills and propose amendments and seek clarifications
:13:13. > :13:16.and engaged to seek to improve legislation in a process that
:13:17. > :13:21.governments should for the most part find valuable and helpful. We
:13:22. > :13:24.respect, and we will continue to respect, those well established
:13:25. > :13:30.conventions that have served this as well. I can pledge we will continue
:13:31. > :13:38.to be a good and effective and a responsible opposition. We note in
:13:39. > :13:42.the speech the primacy of the Commons. It is right, the primacy of
:13:43. > :13:48.the Commons, but let us not confuse that with the issue which is the
:13:49. > :13:52.importance of the legislature standing up to the executive and
:13:53. > :13:59.holding the executive to account. This house improves legislation.
:14:00. > :14:05.Every minister will agree but there bill is better for the scrutiny it
:14:06. > :14:09.cheats here. Our scrutiny serves an important purpose. Yes, to hold the
:14:10. > :14:16.government to account and to help give the public confidence in the
:14:17. > :14:20.Lords parliament mix. Holding our role as a revising chamber is hugely
:14:21. > :14:27.important to me, but if we want to be legitimate as an elected house we
:14:28. > :14:30.need to be mindful of the limits of that role and I believe it must
:14:31. > :14:34.always be the elected house that has the final stage -- say.
:14:35. > :14:37.Well, debate on the Queen's Speech continues in both
:14:38. > :14:41.On Thursday, having had 24 hours to absorb the speech,
:14:42. > :14:43.the Shadow Leader of the Commons described it as truly awful.
:14:44. > :14:47.I love a bit of dressing up just as much as any other defrocked vicar
:14:48. > :14:50.- almost as much as you in fact, Mr Speaker - but I did think
:14:51. > :14:56.yesterday was a case of all fur coat and knickerbockers.
:14:57. > :15:02.Her Majesty announced that the Government would legislate
:15:03. > :15:04.for driverless cars and spaceports, and arrived
:15:05. > :15:09.Then she announced that the Government intends to tackle
:15:10. > :15:11.poverty, to a roomful of barons and countesses dressed
:15:12. > :15:18.And even the door handles on the Royal coach I understand
:15:19. > :15:21.were decorated with 24 diamonds and 130 sapphires.
:15:22. > :15:29.I thought yesterday was Britain at its finest.
:15:30. > :15:31.Strong institutions, great tradition, things that make
:15:32. > :15:41.this great city one of the finest if not the finest in the world,
:15:42. > :15:43.a monarch we should be proud of, and a programme for Government
:15:44. > :15:45.that is fulfilling the commitments we made
:15:46. > :15:48.to the electorate last year - an election I would like to remind
:15:49. > :15:52.What a few weeks we're going to have.
:15:53. > :15:55.We're going to have to spend most of our time discussing this anaemic,
:15:56. > :15:59.turgid stuff in the Queen's Speech, when all they want to do is to knock
:16:00. > :16:01.lumps out of each other for the EU referendum.
:16:02. > :16:03.A debate which, he argued, had turned increasingly nasty,
:16:04. > :16:07.and relied on differing interpretations of European history.
:16:08. > :16:10.Can we perhaps have a debate on World War II, and then it
:16:11. > :16:12.would allow all the senior numbers on the Labour benches
:16:13. > :16:14.and the Conservative benches to indulge their new passion
:16:15. > :16:21.We could hear about all the dodgy histories, all the spurious
:16:22. > :16:24.examples, and perhaps it would take minds off the raging civil wars
:16:25. > :16:25.between the Labour Party and the Conservative Party
:16:26. > :16:33.Mr Speaker, I'm really not sure this is the week
:16:34. > :16:35.for the Scottish National Party to be talking about
:16:36. > :16:39.I've read the news - there has to be something
:16:40. > :16:45.Mr Speaker, as you'll remember me telling the House a few months ago,
:16:46. > :16:47.the honourable member for the Western Isles wrote to me
:16:48. > :16:52.about recess dates because he wanted to put the ram in with the ewes.
:16:53. > :16:56.At that time, I thought he was talking about sheep!
:16:57. > :17:01.Chris Grayling - poking a little fun at the SNP.
:17:02. > :17:04.Now let's take a quick look at some of the other stories making
:17:05. > :17:13.the news this week; here's Sam Francis with our countdown.
:17:14. > :17:15.Ukip group leader in the Welsh Assembly, Neil Hamilton,
:17:16. > :17:23.wasted no time in creating controversy in his new home.
:17:24. > :17:26.During his first speech he described the two senior female AMs
:17:27. > :17:34.as "political concubines in Carwyn Jones's harem."
:17:35. > :17:36.Cue accusations of sexism, and this uncomfortable stare from
:17:37. > :17:41.Tory backbencher Philip Lee made many an eye water with this joke.
:17:42. > :17:43.Referring to the Prime Minister's history as a PR man,
:17:44. > :17:46.the GP noted that: In a medical context, PR does not stand
:17:47. > :17:48.for "public relations", but is shorthand for the type
:17:49. > :17:50.of examination that involve putting on rubber gloves...
:17:51. > :17:52.of examination that involves putting on rubber gloves...
:17:53. > :17:58.applying gel, and asking a man to cough.
:17:59. > :18:09.John Bercow announced he plans to be even stricter on speaking limits
:18:10. > :18:14.in the House of Commons this session - almost immediately
:18:15. > :18:16.after this statement, Mr Bercow was besieged by pleas
:18:17. > :18:19.from Conservative MPs to intervene on the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn,
:18:20. > :18:22.The scourge of long-winded politicians was slightly
:18:23. > :18:24.overshadowed in the South African parliament, where a brawl broke
:18:25. > :18:28.Punches, water bottles and even a hard hat were thrown when security
:18:29. > :18:30.forcibly removed the Economic Freedom Fighters party.
:18:31. > :18:34.It is the second brawl in the parliament this month.
:18:35. > :18:37.The Lords Speaker announced that four peers are to leave the Lords
:18:38. > :18:38.after not attending proceedings in the last year.
:18:39. > :18:41.Turning to our Ermine-o-meter, at the start of the parliament
:18:42. > :18:45.Since then, 61 new peers have joined the House of Lords,
:18:46. > :18:47.taking our Ermine-o-meter to an off-the-scale 857.
:18:48. > :18:49.But with 46 retirements and deaths, minus the four, we begin
:18:50. > :19:00.the session with 803 members of the House of Lords.
:19:01. > :19:04.Now back to the Commons, and away from the Queen's Speech,
:19:05. > :19:06.the Health Secretary came to the Commons to tell MPs
:19:07. > :19:08.that the doctors' union, the British Medical Association,
:19:09. > :19:11.is to ballot its members on a deal over weekend working -
:19:12. > :19:14.to end the long-running dispute over a new contract for junior
:19:15. > :19:23.The agreement came after a series of strikes, which led to thousands
:19:24. > :19:25.of appointments and operations being delayed and rescheduled.
:19:26. > :19:28.A ten-day round of talks at the conciliation service Acas
:19:29. > :19:35.Announcing the deal in the Commons, the Health Secretary
:19:36. > :19:41.The agreement will facilitate the biggest changes to the junior
:19:42. > :19:47.It will allow the Government to deliver a seven-day NHS,
:19:48. > :19:50.improve patient safety, support much-needed
:19:51. > :19:54.productivity improvements, as well as strengthening the morale
:19:55. > :19:57.and quality of life of junior doctors, with a modern contract fit
:19:58. > :20:03.He said the Government recognised safer care was more likely to come
:20:04. > :20:06.from well motivated and rested doctors - so he announced a series
:20:07. > :20:09.of changes to the work-life balance, which he hoped would improve morale
:20:10. > :20:18.But whatever the progress made with today's landmark changes,
:20:19. > :20:21.it will always be a matter of great regret that it was necessary to go
:20:22. > :20:25.through such disruptive industrial action to get there.
:20:26. > :20:28.We may welcome the destination, but no-one could have
:20:29. > :20:33.So today I say to all junior doctors, whatever our disagreements
:20:34. > :20:36.about the contract may have been, the Government has heard
:20:37. > :20:38.and understood the wider frustrations that you feel
:20:39. > :20:44.about the way you're valued and treated in the NHS.
:20:45. > :20:49.But the opposition insisted strikes could have been avoided.
:20:50. > :20:53.I am pleased and relieved that an agreement has been reached,
:20:54. > :20:57.but I am sad that it took an all-out strike of junior doctors to get
:20:58. > :21:05.What is now clear, if it wasn't already, is that a negotiated
:21:06. > :21:12.So I have to ask the Health Secretary, why couldn't this deal
:21:13. > :21:20.It was a "Computer says no" attitude, and that is no
:21:21. > :21:30.But what she didn't dwell on was why it needed to be changed
:21:31. > :21:32.in the first place - namely the flawed contract for
:21:33. > :21:36.And we have many disagreements with the BMA, but one
:21:37. > :21:39.thing we agree on - Labour's contract was not
:21:40. > :21:42.We actually don't have enough junior doctors,
:21:43. > :21:45.and we don't have enough junior doctors in the most
:21:46. > :21:52.So I would ask, how is the Secretary of State planning
:21:53. > :21:57.to re-establish a relationship, how is he going to recruit
:21:58. > :22:04.fear of junior doctors - a lack of doctors simply
:22:05. > :22:08.Does the Secretary of State realise that even if this
:22:09. > :22:10.dispute is now settled, which we hope it will be,
:22:11. > :22:13.there's been a really serious impact on goodwill in the health service
:22:14. > :22:19.which could affect service delivery going forward.
:22:20. > :22:21.A lot of this has been caused by political shenanigans
:22:22. > :22:23.which should not have been allowed to get to this stage,
:22:24. > :22:26.and the failure of this is that junior doctors themselves have
:22:27. > :22:27.lost prestige throughout the United Kingdom,
:22:28. > :22:30.because they were used as political pawns by two organisations.
:22:31. > :22:34.Also on Thursday, an education minister repeated his determination
:22:35. > :22:39.to stop parents taking their children on holiday
:22:40. > :22:45.during term time, despite a High Court ruling.
:22:46. > :22:48.A father who refused to pay a ?120 fine for taking his daughter
:22:49. > :22:50.on holiday to Florida during term won a High Court
:22:51. > :22:59.It was ruled last week that Jon Platt had no case to answer, as,
:23:00. > :23:00.overall, his daughter had attended school regularly.
:23:01. > :23:04.A Conservative MP asked the minister to come to the Commons and set out
:23:05. > :23:07.The rules must and should apply to everyone, this
:23:08. > :23:14.When parents with the income available to take their children out
:23:15. > :23:17.of school go to Florida, it sends a message to everyone that
:23:18. > :23:25.The Government understands, though, the fact that many school
:23:26. > :23:28.holidays being taken at roughly the same time does lead to a hike
:23:29. > :23:31.in prices - but that's precisely the reason we've given schools
:23:32. > :23:34.the power to set their own term dates in a way that
:23:35. > :23:36.works for their parents and their local communities.
:23:37. > :23:37.There is nothing stopping schools from clubbing together
:23:38. > :23:39.and collectively changing or extending the dates
:23:40. > :23:42.of their summer holidays, or doing so as part of a multi-academy trust;
:23:43. > :23:44.in fact this Government would encourage them to do so.
:23:45. > :23:51.But the MP who asked the question wasn't satisfied.
:23:52. > :23:53.There is nothing socially mobile for a family,
:23:54. > :23:56.if your parents lose their job or have their hours cut
:23:57. > :23:59.because of the downturn in the tourist industry and the way
:24:00. > :24:06.And I would also put the Minister, that is it not
:24:07. > :24:10.the case that only 8% of school absenteeism is as a result of family
:24:11. > :24:14.holidays, and when you actually look at the attainment of those children,
:24:15. > :24:20.I do not believe that we should be returning to the Dickensian world
:24:21. > :24:22.where the needs of industry and commerce take precedence over
:24:23. > :24:25.I doubt, Mr Speaker, that the Cornish tourist industry
:24:26. > :24:27.will be best pleased by my honourable friend's assertion
:24:28. > :24:29.that tourism in Cornwall is dependent on parenting
:24:30. > :24:44.that tourism in Cornwall is dependent on truanting
:24:45. > :24:48.The Shadow Education Minister called on the government to "get a grip".
:24:49. > :24:50.This problem is of the Government's own making.
:24:51. > :24:52.Changing the guidance to head teachers back in 2013,
:24:53. > :24:55.they should have done a full impact assessment much earlier,
:24:56. > :24:58.Taking children out of school to come to the mother
:24:59. > :25:01.of all parliaments and to learn about our democracy is one thing,
:25:02. > :25:03.but taking them to Orlando, Florida is another.
:25:04. > :25:06.A Labour MP thought the fundamental problem was that school summer
:25:07. > :25:07.holidays were squeezed into a six-week period
:25:08. > :25:16.I have constituents with great pressure from the Muslim community,
:25:17. > :25:24.especially from Pakistan, to take their children out,
:25:25. > :25:27.and they are the very children who have been suffering.
:25:28. > :25:31.So I'm on the side of being tough, but let's look at this in a more
:25:32. > :25:34.Nick Gibb said MPs should be helping to coordinate schools
:25:35. > :25:39.Well, time for us to take a break now, but Joanna Shinn will be
:25:40. > :25:42.here on Monday with a round-up of the day at Westminster -
:25:43. > :25:43.including the continuing debate on the Queen's Speech.
:25:44. > :25:49.But until then, from me, Alicia McCarthy, goodbye.