:00:19. > :00:21.Hello and welcome to The Week In Parliament.
:00:22. > :00:29.The Chancellor says the economy has to be prepared for Brexit.
:00:30. > :00:34.We have also to rise to the challenge of getting
:00:35. > :00:35.ourselves match fit to seize the opportunities that
:00:36. > :00:40.this country will have after we complete that process.
:00:41. > :00:42.It was Philip Hammond's first Autumn Statement,
:00:43. > :00:45.but he won't be doing any more - he's abolished them.
:00:46. > :00:49.We say farewell to the Autumn Statement.
:00:50. > :00:52.It was a great shop window for the Chancellor, let's be honest.
:00:53. > :00:53.You know, if you are a Chancellor, most
:00:54. > :00:57.of the time, if you're doing your job properly, you are not seen.
:00:58. > :00:59.You're behind the scenes, you're actually only emerging, submarine
:01:00. > :01:04.like, like perhaps George Osborne, when you are needed.
:01:05. > :01:07.And will we really need to show our passports before we can
:01:08. > :01:13.The last census showed us that nine and a half million people in this
:01:14. > :01:16.For many years, there has been a concern
:01:17. > :01:23.But first, Hammond Builds For Brexit summed up
:01:24. > :01:26.the reaction of the financial experts to this Chancellor's first
:01:27. > :01:29.and, as it turned out, last Autumn Statement.
:01:30. > :01:34.Philip Hammond said that Britain would need to borrow ?122 billion
:01:35. > :01:38.more than expected over the next five years to cope
:01:39. > :01:43.His speech followed a report from the Office for Budget
:01:44. > :01:46.Responsibility that scaled down its forecast for UK economic
:01:47. > :01:54.Anticipation of Mr Hammond's speech had been plentiful as the Chancellor
:01:55. > :01:58.took the familiar route on Wednesday from 11 Downing Street
:01:59. > :02:05.Today's OPR forecast is for growth to be 2.1% in
:02:06. > :02:15.In 2017, OBR forecast growth to slow to 1.4%,
:02:16. > :02:17.which they attributed to lower investment and a weaker
:02:18. > :02:23.consumer demand, driven respectively by greater uncertainty and by higher
:02:24. > :02:29.inflation - resulting from sterling depreciation.
:02:30. > :02:32.And that is slower, of course, then we would wish.
:02:33. > :02:40.So today I can announce that the national
:02:41. > :02:44.living wage will increase from ?7.20 to ?7.50 in April next year.
:02:45. > :02:48.That is a pay rise worth over ?500 a year to a full time worker.
:02:49. > :02:53.There was a new way to improve productivity.
:02:54. > :02:57.I can announce that we are forming a new national productivity
:02:58. > :03:01.investment fund of ?23 billion to be spent on innovation and
:03:02. > :03:05.infrastructure over the next five years.
:03:06. > :03:09.We will focus Government infrastructure investment to unlock
:03:10. > :03:13.land for housing with a new ?2.3 billion housing infrastructure fund
:03:14. > :03:19.to deliver infrastructure for up to 100,000 new homes in areas of high
:03:20. > :03:23.The Shadow Chancellor said the Statement had failed to help
:03:24. > :03:30.Mr Speaker, today's statement places on the record the
:03:31. > :03:37.abject failure of the last six wasted years and offers no hope for
:03:38. > :04:05.OBR tells us on page 19, Mr Speaker, this ?58
:04:06. > :04:09.billion of the worsening of the public finances is due
:04:10. > :04:14.Isn't this a salutary warning to us about the decisions we
:04:15. > :04:21.And isn't it a very strong argument for us remaining as close
:04:22. > :04:24.as possible to our largest trading area, the single market, and inside,
:04:25. > :04:33.There is of course going to be a period of
:04:34. > :04:36.uncertainty as we go through the process of exiting
:04:37. > :04:40.That has, as OBR has identified, had a dampening effect
:04:41. > :04:47.We have also to rise to the challenge of getting
:04:48. > :04:52.ourselves match fit to seize the opportunities that this country
:04:53. > :04:54.will have after we complete that process
:04:55. > :04:56.and I would urge him to think about that longer term challenge,
:04:57. > :05:02.The Chancellor did give us plenty of information today,
:05:03. > :05:04.but with no more than a glib reference to being match
:05:05. > :05:08.fit at the beginning and a bit of deflection.
:05:09. > :05:09.Very little actually on
:05:10. > :05:13.the elephant in the room, which is Brexit.
:05:14. > :05:16.It is not as if the Treasury don't know what the consequences
:05:17. > :05:20.Their own assessment tells us that tax yields could be down 66
:05:21. > :05:27.The Chancellor's Autumn Statement suggests yet more public borrowing,
:05:28. > :05:30.with total public debt due to increase to ?1.6 trillion in the New
:05:31. > :05:36.Year and ?1.9 trillion by 2020, four times what it was in 2005.
:05:37. > :05:38.Rather than a reflection on Brexit, is the
:05:39. > :05:40.accumulation of these unsustainable levels
:05:41. > :05:45.the failure of his predecessor to match his
:05:46. > :05:46.work with deeds and get a
:05:47. > :05:50.Disappointingly, this Chancellor has joined his
:05:51. > :05:58.predecessor in failing to
:05:59. > :06:00.mention the words climate change even just once anywhere in this
:06:01. > :06:05.That in the year that is the hottest on record, set to be the
:06:06. > :06:08.hottest on record and when parts of the country are under floodwater.
:06:09. > :06:11.The innovation of the condition of working people has always been a
:06:12. > :06:13.priority of the Conservative Party and in that vein, I particularly
:06:14. > :06:15.welcome the fiscal changes in the Autumn Statement,
:06:16. > :06:17.particularly fuel duty, tax allowances and the
:06:18. > :06:19.national living wage, which campaigned for her many years.
:06:20. > :06:27.There is actually not one single mention
:06:28. > :06:29.in the 72 page Autumn Statement document of the words
:06:30. > :06:33.The Chancellor cannot ignore the fact
:06:34. > :06:36.that our health and social care services are in crisis, facing
:06:37. > :06:39.The biggest surprise of the day has come
:06:40. > :06:46.This is my first Autumn Statement as Chancellor.
:06:47. > :06:48.After careful consideration and detailed
:06:49. > :06:51.discussion with the Prime Minister, I have decided that it will also be
:06:52. > :07:00.Mr Speaker, I am abolishing the Autumn Statement.
:07:01. > :07:08.No other major economy makes
:07:09. > :07:14.hundreds of tax changes twice a year and neither should we.
:07:15. > :07:16.The spring budget in a few months will be the
:07:17. > :07:23.Starting in Autumn 2017, Britain will have an
:07:24. > :07:28.autumn budget announcing tax changes well in advance
:07:29. > :07:33.From 2018, there will be a spring statement responding to the
:07:34. > :07:49.May I congratulate the Chancellor on averting to the extremely
:07:50. > :07:53.sensible practice of only having one budget a year, which
:07:54. > :07:56.Gordon Brown abandoned in order to try to buy votes twice
:07:57. > :08:04.So a few moments there from Wednesday's Autumn
:08:05. > :08:10.I am joined in the studio now by Paul Wall, who's the executive
:08:11. > :08:17.This was a bit of a rabbit out of the old hat.
:08:18. > :08:18.No-one anticipated that the Chancellor would actually
:08:19. > :08:23.What do you think is the thinking behind this?
:08:24. > :08:26.Well, I think it's been said for a long time, think tanks like
:08:27. > :08:29.the IFS and lots of others have for many years said it makes much
:08:30. > :08:33.more sense if you are going to anticipate the next year 's tax year
:08:34. > :08:36.to do it actually a few months in advance.
:08:37. > :08:39.Maybe in November, give yourself time and business time to
:08:40. > :08:41.set out what they are going to do for tax changes
:08:42. > :08:45.year, which starts at the end of March.
:08:46. > :08:48.And also, legally, they do need to have an update on other
:08:49. > :08:51.things, sort of a general health check on the economy.
:08:52. > :08:54.So that is also another event in the year and
:08:55. > :08:56.they are going to start doing that in the spring.
:08:57. > :08:59.Of course, budgets, parliamentary budget, date back to
:09:00. > :09:01.the year dot, but the Autumn Statement
:09:02. > :09:05.What is the actual history of the Autumn
:09:06. > :09:09.Well, Ken Clarke had the smart idea of actually making sure
:09:10. > :09:12.that this was all going to happen in the autumn.
:09:13. > :09:15.He thought that actually, yeah, there is a logic to
:09:16. > :09:19.Let's make sure that we get a run into the tax year.
:09:20. > :09:21.He had something called a Summer Statement,
:09:22. > :09:26.which was the statutory stuff you need to do to update Parliament.
:09:27. > :09:30.Then Gordon Brown decided, oh, let's tear all that up.
:09:31. > :09:32.Let's go back to having a normal spring budget,
:09:33. > :09:34.a traditional budget and then we will turn the Autumn
:09:35. > :09:36.Statement into a thing called the prebudget report.
:09:37. > :09:38.That was a very Gordon Brown device, because,
:09:39. > :09:40.effectively, it was two budgets a year.
:09:41. > :09:43.It wasn't just a normal update on what the figures were, it was
:09:44. > :09:46.And now of course, we saw Kenneth Clarke
:09:47. > :09:49.there referring to Gordon Brown rather enjoying buying votes twice
:09:50. > :09:53.for the convenience of Government popularity?
:09:54. > :09:56.Well, it was a great shop window for the Chancellor, let's be honest.
:09:57. > :09:58.You know, if you're a Chancellor, most
:09:59. > :10:02.of the time if you're doing your job properly, you are not seen.
:10:03. > :10:04.You are actually only emerging, submarine like, like
:10:05. > :10:07.perhaps George Osborne, when you are needed.
:10:08. > :10:08.To reassure the markets or
:10:09. > :10:10.to send out a strong signal to business and say
:10:11. > :10:15.Gordon Brown could not resist the lure of the limelight and
:10:16. > :10:17.he was deeply, deeply political as the Chancellor.
:10:18. > :10:20.He wanted to make sure he had his fair share of
:10:21. > :10:23.airtime when Tony Blair was in power.
:10:24. > :10:28.bit of an archaic point, but the Budget is actually replied to not
:10:29. > :10:30.buy the Shadow Chancellor, but by the opposition leader.
:10:31. > :10:32.So the Autumn Statement actually gave the Shadow
:10:33. > :10:34.Chancellor that extra little bit of a platform.
:10:35. > :10:36.One year ago, John MacDonald used it to wave about
:10:37. > :10:41.It does actually give the Shadow Chancellor
:10:42. > :10:44.It does and the Shadow Chancellor is often,
:10:45. > :10:46.you know, even less seen than
:10:47. > :10:50.So they are desperate to get some sort of impact
:10:51. > :10:52.It was traditionally, the way in which it
:10:53. > :10:56.was founded, it was that he answered in the House of Commons and
:10:57. > :10:58.therefore he got his own chance to set out his store.
:10:59. > :11:00.Whereas, normally it is the Leader of the Opposition
:11:01. > :11:04.who applies to the Budget and that actually can get leaders of the
:11:05. > :11:06.opposition into trouble, because they are not as au
:11:07. > :11:08.fait with the figures, let's be honest, as their
:11:09. > :11:13.So that is why it is actually pretty good grounding
:11:14. > :11:16.They have to get across all the figures,
:11:17. > :11:18.just as they would for Prime Minister's Questions.
:11:19. > :11:20.The Prime Minister, once they become Prime
:11:21. > :11:22.Minister, doesn't have to do any of this.
:11:23. > :11:24.Now the Budget going out to
:11:25. > :11:26.the autumn, does that reaches the prospect of a pre-election
:11:27. > :11:30.giveaway just before a general election,
:11:31. > :11:33.which presumably will remain in the spring?
:11:34. > :11:36.Well, that is some of the thinking behind it.
:11:37. > :11:38.Because we are going to have two budgets next
:11:39. > :11:40.year, we are not quite whether or not there
:11:41. > :11:42.does mean there will be a
:11:43. > :11:44.There is certainly that temptation for every
:11:45. > :11:48.Chancellor and every Prime Minister, will we go for some very nice crowd
:11:49. > :11:51.Just on the eve of an election in the summer.
:11:52. > :11:57.Philip Hammond's performance on Wednesday,
:11:58. > :12:00.relaxed performer at the Commons dispatch box.
:12:01. > :12:03.Yes, I thought it was actually quite fresh in, because he
:12:04. > :12:05.He wasn't like George Osborne at all.
:12:06. > :12:08.There weren't gags masquerading as policy.
:12:09. > :12:10.He had the odd gag, that was fine, but most
:12:11. > :12:15.And I think the public actually quite like
:12:16. > :12:18.The Alistair Darling period wasn't actually unsuccessful.
:12:19. > :12:21.People forget he dealt with the financial
:12:22. > :12:24.crisis at the time and he had a steady hand on the tiller.
:12:25. > :12:29.I think that's the whole raison d'etre of Philip Hammond.
:12:30. > :12:31.Paul Wall, thanks very much for joining us
:12:32. > :12:35.And now a look at some of the other stories around Parliament
:12:36. > :12:38.The demands that Britain's EU departure will
:12:39. > :12:41.place on Whitehall has been looked at by a committee of MPs.
:12:42. > :12:43.A leaked memo from a consultancy firm said an
:12:44. > :12:44.extra 30,000 civil servants might be needed
:12:45. > :12:46.to deliver a Brexit, but a
:12:47. > :12:52.former Cabinet Secretary had an upbeat assessment.
:12:53. > :12:55.I think this is a terrific opportunity for the civil service
:12:56. > :13:02.and I haven't often, since I retired, wanted
:13:03. > :13:09.Because I think that this is a very exciting time and I think
:13:10. > :13:14.there's an opportunity to rise to it and I am confident that on past form
:13:15. > :13:18.The task facing the government and facing the
:13:19. > :13:27.We shall have to run domestically policies that have previously been
:13:28. > :13:34.This man's not impressed by Britain's Foreign Secretary.
:13:35. > :13:38.The German MEP Manfred Weber called Boris Johnson provocative
:13:39. > :13:41.and arrogant after meeting both him and David Davis,
:13:42. > :13:47.Clearly a problem to be put to the Prime Minister.
:13:48. > :13:49.The Brexit secretary and the Foreign Secretary
:13:50. > :13:54.are described by a senior German politician as having no idea
:13:55. > :14:03.The Times reports today that EU ambassadors think the Foreign
:14:04. > :14:07.Secretary's more colourful outbursts are damaging our
:14:08. > :14:13.When is the Prime Minister going to get a grip on her ministers
:14:14. > :14:17.and when is she going to demonstrate to the country,
:14:18. > :14:21.and to our EU colleagues, that she has a coherent,
:14:22. > :14:36.We will be leaving the European Union, and we will be
:14:37. > :14:37.triggering Article 50 by
:14:38. > :14:40.the end of March next year and that is when the formal
:14:41. > :14:42.Tasers, sometimes called electro-shock weapons.
:14:43. > :14:44.Are they a suitable way of controlling potentially violent
:14:45. > :14:46.incidents when police are called to mental health units?
:14:47. > :14:52.Will the government look at the possibility that better
:14:53. > :14:55.training for police officers in how to deal with people suffering
:14:56. > :15:02.from mental health illness might alleviate the need
:15:03. > :15:05.for them ever to use Tasers, because they might
:15:06. > :15:18.In situations in the community where someone, others
:15:19. > :15:22.is becoming very violent, it is appropriate to call the police
:15:23. > :15:24.and inappropriate to expect ambulance and other staff to attempt
:15:25. > :15:29.to use any form of restraint because the police are trained
:15:30. > :15:31.and are therefore safer than people using restraint who are not
:15:32. > :15:40.If somebody experiences behaviour that is both a danger
:15:41. > :15:43.including staff within these mental health settings,
:15:44. > :15:48.Of course these situations are rare, there may be no other option
:15:49. > :15:53.than for police restraint to be used.
:15:54. > :15:55.Soldiering on despite mounting setbacks.
:15:56. > :15:58.Professor Alexis Jay's troubled independent inquiry into historic
:15:59. > :16:03.allegations of child sex abuse keeps going, despite senior
:16:04. > :16:09.Labour says there's a crisis of credibility.
:16:10. > :16:12.Why is it that nobody from the government sought
:16:13. > :16:16.to proactively come to this house and provide reassurance
:16:17. > :16:19.about the serious events that have unfolded over the last week as this
:16:20. > :16:23.enquiry has unravelled in front of our eyes.
:16:24. > :16:26.The Honourable Lady is really quite wrong in asserting that there
:16:27. > :16:31.is some sort of smoke screen and hiding behind independence.
:16:32. > :16:36.It's absolutely essential that this enquiry is an independent enquiry.
:16:37. > :16:40.The terms of reference of this enquiry were shaped with the voices
:16:41. > :16:45.Military medals, honouring acts of valour and heroism.
:16:46. > :16:48.But what happens when people wear medals they're not entitled to wear?
:16:49. > :16:53.The Government supports a backbencher's Bill
:16:54. > :17:00.I think what we really concerned about here are people who
:17:01. > :17:05.go strutting around, wearing decorations which they were not
:17:06. > :17:11.So-called Walter Mittys, parading themselves at remembrance
:17:12. > :17:13.service parades and elsewhere, sporting medals they have not
:17:14. > :17:20.earned, is not only insulting to undermines
:17:21. > :17:22.earned, is not only insulting but it undermines those veterans
:17:23. > :17:30.We firmly believe that anyone impersonating a veteran
:17:31. > :17:34.by wearing medals that they have not earned should face legal sanctions.
:17:35. > :17:38.Someone might have a mental health issue but they might not be suitable
:17:39. > :17:41.The fact they have simply worn medals that were not their
:17:42. > :17:44.medals to wear, even if no gain was made could mean
:17:45. > :17:47.to a custodial sentence, and that, in my opinion,
:17:48. > :17:58.And is it time to bring in electronic voting in Parliament?
:17:59. > :18:00.MPs say they prefer the time-honoured walk
:18:01. > :18:02.through the voting lobbies every time there's a vote,
:18:03. > :18:13.During the higher education Bill report on Monday we spent nearly an
:18:14. > :18:17.hour trooping through division lobbies. Has there ever been a
:18:18. > :18:22.calculation of the cost to the taxpayer of that dead time in terms
:18:23. > :18:26.of staff security. This system provides ministers an opportunity to
:18:27. > :18:29.nobble ministers when they arbour rest of their heavies and their spin
:18:30. > :18:36.doctors. Four members of the opposition it gives an opportunity
:18:37. > :18:41.for team building. Will he do everything he can to keep this at
:18:42. > :18:44.the bottom of the in tray? I thank the honourable lady for her
:18:45. > :18:48.intervention and of course it gives me the opportunity to underline how
:18:49. > :18:50.important, particularly for her party, the opportunities for team
:18:51. > :18:51.building in the lobby must be. When you you go along to your local
:18:52. > :18:57.polling station and they give you a ballot paper, no
:18:58. > :18:59.questions are asked. You don't even need to have your
:19:00. > :19:02.polling card with you. A Conservative MP believes there's
:19:03. > :19:05.real potential for fraud. He introduced a backbencher's Bill
:19:06. > :19:07.that would require electors always to have proof
:19:08. > :19:12.of identity when voting. This is not a move to create
:19:13. > :19:16.a national identity card or a way to keep checks on people,
:19:17. > :19:19.it's simply a moved to add voting into the list of many things that
:19:20. > :19:24.require identification. It will involve a lot of extra
:19:25. > :19:26.work and it will also increase delays at polling stations
:19:27. > :19:29.because people will be having an argument about it all,
:19:30. > :19:34.or they would have to go back and queues would increase
:19:35. > :19:36.at the polling stations. We have had problems
:19:37. > :19:41.at many of those. And it would prevent a number
:19:42. > :19:43.of voters, particularly elderly It's petty, political,
:19:44. > :19:48.partisan proposal But the Bill did clear its first
:19:49. > :19:56.parliamentary hurdle. Later, Chris Green told me that
:19:57. > :19:59.bringing ID to polling stations would make voting
:20:00. > :20:09.a more secure process. I think the electorate
:20:10. > :20:10.want that reassurance. If you pick up a parcel
:20:11. > :20:14.from Royal Mail office, you To vote in democracy,
:20:15. > :20:19.such an important part of our society, I think people won't
:20:20. > :20:29.see that is too much of a burden. Do you think you'll get
:20:30. > :20:31.the government to look Eric Pickles did a really important
:20:32. > :20:35.report over the summer about wider I have taken one piece of this,
:20:36. > :20:39.so I think by the conversation being there, this national debate
:20:40. > :20:42.about security in our democracy, making sure that people
:20:43. > :20:51.who vote legitimately I think this momentum is gathering
:20:52. > :20:56.behind it and I certainly want Well, from one identity
:20:57. > :21:00.issue to another. On Monday a senior civil servant
:21:01. > :21:03.at the Department of Health said he was looking at making hospitals
:21:04. > :21:05.check out patients' identity to find out whether or not they should be
:21:06. > :21:08.paying for treatment. Chris Wormald said passport checks
:21:09. > :21:10.were already taking place at a hospital in Peterborough,
:21:11. > :21:12.a hospital that serves He was facing the questions
:21:13. > :21:15.of Parliament's spending watchdog, On Wednesday the Labour leader
:21:16. > :21:28.Jeremy Corbyn raised The practicalities are that
:21:29. > :21:31.you would have to ask somebody what country they are from and perhaps
:21:32. > :21:33.have identification via passport. We are looking, as I said earlier
:21:34. > :21:38.at whether Trusts should do more The general question are we looking
:21:39. > :21:46.at, whether Trusts should proactively ask people
:21:47. > :21:48.to prove identity, yes, and there are individual Trusts,
:21:49. > :21:52.like Peterborough, who are doing that and are reporting
:21:53. > :21:54.that it makes a difference. There you are, say, please bring two
:21:55. > :21:57.forms of identity - your passport and your address
:21:58. > :22:02.and they use that to check whether That is obviously quite
:22:03. > :22:05.a controversial thing to do, to say to the entire population
:22:06. > :22:08.that they have to prove identity. What he said was you would have
:22:09. > :22:10.to separate the sheep from the goats
:22:11. > :22:16.in order to determine you're a foreigner, and essentially
:22:17. > :22:20.you need to go down the ID card route to separate out
:22:21. > :22:26.who are entitled and not entitled. I don't think I would
:22:27. > :22:29.debate ID cards with On Wednesday the Labour leader
:22:30. > :22:44.Jeremy Corbyn raised the passports for treatment issue
:22:45. > :22:50.at Prime Minister's Questions. The last census showed us that nine
:22:51. > :22:53.and a half million people in this country don't
:22:54. > :22:54.have passports. Rather than distracting people
:22:55. > :22:56.with divisive and impractical policies, could the Prime Minister
:22:57. > :22:59.provide the NHS and social care with the money that it needs to care
:23:00. > :23:03.for the people who need the support? Over the course of this Parliament
:23:04. > :23:05.the government will be spending half a trillion pounds on the
:23:06. > :23:07.National Health Service. The Right Honourable gentleman asks
:23:08. > :23:11.about a process to ensure that people who are receiving
:23:12. > :23:14.NHS treatment are entitled to For many years there has
:23:15. > :23:23.been a concern about health tourism, about people turning
:23:24. > :23:25.up in the UK, accessing health We want to make sure
:23:26. > :23:33.that those who are entitled to use the services are,
:23:34. > :23:38.indeed, able to see those free at the point of delivery,
:23:39. > :23:41.but that we deal with health tourism and those who should be paying
:23:42. > :23:44.for the use of our health service. Now with a look at some
:23:45. > :23:47.of the week's more off-beat political stories, here's Alex
:23:48. > :23:56.Partridge. Government Chief Whip Gavin
:23:57. > :23:58.Williamson revealed the secret It's not the traditional little
:23:59. > :24:03.black book full of their darkest secrets, it's a big black
:24:04. > :24:06.spider he keeps in his Donald Trump's suggestion that
:24:07. > :24:12.Nigel Farage be the UK's ambassador to the US raised eyebrows,
:24:13. > :24:14.especially in Brussels, where the Ukip leader
:24:15. > :24:18.was famously undiplomatic. Here's European parliament Brexit
:24:19. > :24:22.negotiator Guy Verhofstadt. I think one clown in
:24:23. > :24:28.Washington is more enough. Revelations from the release
:24:29. > :24:29.of former Tory Chancellor Geoffrey Howe's official
:24:30. > :24:32.files include the fact that he spent months badgering Margaret Thatcher
:24:33. > :24:35.for cash to renovate his kitchen at Tory Scottish Parliament Member
:24:36. > :24:40.Douglas Ross missed a meeting of the Justice Committee this week
:24:41. > :24:43.to help referee Real Madrid's 2-1 Predictably opponents
:24:44. > :24:47.are calling for him to be And the wave of new SNP members
:24:48. > :24:52.elected to the Commons Sales of Scotland's
:24:53. > :24:56.other national drink Irn-Bru on the parliamentary estate
:24:57. > :24:59.are up 60% on last year. Of course, other soft
:25:00. > :25:04.drinks are available Alex Partridge enjoying
:25:05. > :25:18.some liquid refreshment. A busy few days coming up
:25:19. > :25:21.in the Commons and the Lords, with more argument expected over
:25:22. > :25:24.prison safety and over the contents of the Digital Economy Bill that
:25:25. > :25:28.deals with the sharing Alicia McCarthy will be here
:25:29. > :25:37.for the next Week In Parliament. But for now, from me
:25:38. > :25:44.Keith Macdougall, goodbye.