:00:21. > :00:22.Hello and welcome to the Week In Parliament.
:00:23. > :00:24.Coming up: After Brexit notes are caught on camera MPs demand
:00:25. > :00:28.a bigger taste of the Government's plans for leaving the EU.
:00:29. > :00:30.Can I suggest to the Prime Minister that
:00:31. > :00:32.having your cake and eating it is
:00:33. > :00:37.We are ambitious about getting the best
:00:38. > :00:38.possible deal for trading with and
:00:39. > :00:40.operating within the single European
:00:41. > :00:54.Can I be the first member of Parliament to congratulate
:00:55. > :00:56.Olney on her fantastic election yesterday,
:00:57. > :00:57.overturning a majority of
:00:58. > :01:03.we discover who won what in the Political
:01:04. > :01:06.The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has accused the government
:01:07. > :01:10.of cutting business taxes, while failing to adequately fund
:01:11. > :01:17.At question time, he seized on the absence of any new money
:01:18. > :01:20.in the Autumn Statement to help ease the pressures - and accused
:01:21. > :01:21.the Chancellor of presiding over falling growth,
:01:22. > :01:25.But Theresa May rejected the claim that the Government's economic
:01:26. > :01:33.The IMF says that this will be the fastest-growing advanced
:01:34. > :01:41.We have record numbers of people in employment and
:01:42. > :01:44.we have companies like Nissan, Jaguar Land Rover, Honda, Google,
:01:45. > :01:49.Facebook, Apple, investing in the UK, securing jobs here in United
:01:50. > :01:55.That's what a good economic plan does.
:01:56. > :01:59.Since she quotes the Institute for Fiscal Studies I think
:02:00. > :02:03.she is being a little bit selective because they also went on to say
:02:04. > :02:06.that the prospect for workers over the next six years was, and I quote,
:02:07. > :02:12.They went on to say creating, and I quote, the worst
:02:13. > :02:14.decade for living standards since the last
:02:15. > :02:15.war and probably since the
:02:16. > :02:20.I have to say to the right honourable
:02:21. > :02:22.gentleman, I think given that he can't differentiate between the IMF
:02:23. > :02:31.It's probably a good job he is sitting there and I'm
:02:32. > :02:36.In the Autumn Statement last week the Chancellor
:02:37. > :02:41.During that time he didn't once mention the
:02:42. > :02:45.National Health Service or social care.
:02:46. > :02:47.1.2 million people are lacking the care they need.
:02:48. > :02:50.Why was there not one single penny more for social care in
:02:51. > :03:01.There is no doubt that the social care system is
:03:02. > :03:10.Just look at the fact that there are 1 million more
:03:11. > :03:12.people aged over 65 today than there
:03:13. > :03:16.were in 2010, we see the sort of pressures on the social care
:03:17. > :03:27.There is some very good practice up and down the country and
:03:28. > :03:29.sadly there is some not so good practice.
:03:30. > :03:32.What we need to do is make sure everybody is giving the best
:03:33. > :03:34.possible service to people who need it.
:03:35. > :03:45.Can I suggest to the Prime Minister that having your
:03:46. > :03:48.cake and eating it is not a serious strategy for Brexit?
:03:49. > :03:49.And that Britain deserves better than having
:03:50. > :03:52.to rely on leaked documents to know the Government's plans?
:03:53. > :03:54.How can she expect MPs to vote to trigger
:03:55. > :03:57.Article 50 when she refuses to give any clarity as to what kind of
:03:58. > :04:00.Brexit she is pursuing, and whether it will involve
:04:01. > :04:06.Is it arrogance or is it incompetence?
:04:07. > :04:09.I have answered this question many times in this House
:04:10. > :04:12.and I can assure the honourable lady, she asked specifically about
:04:13. > :04:16.the issue of the single market and trading with the European Union.
:04:17. > :04:21.I have been clear we are ambitious about
:04:22. > :04:24.getting the best possible deal for trading with and operating
:04:25. > :04:32.And that question of how far the Government would go to hang
:04:33. > :04:35.on to access to the single market came up the next day
:04:36. > :04:40.when the Brexit Secretary, David Davis was taking
:04:41. > :04:43.Being questioned by a Labour MP he suggested Britain could continue
:04:44. > :04:46.making payments to Brussels after it has left the European Union to
:04:47. > :04:55.Will the government consider making any contribution in any
:04:56. > :04:57.shape or form for access to the single market?
:04:58. > :05:00.It is very important because there is a distinction
:05:01. > :05:08.between picking off an individual policy and setting out a major
:05:09. > :05:09.criterion, and a major criterion here is,
:05:10. > :05:12.I'm going to answer him if he lets me, the major criterion
:05:13. > :05:18.here is that we get the best possible access for goods
:05:19. > :05:21.and services to the European market and if that is included in what he's
:05:22. > :05:27.talking about then of course we would consider it.
:05:28. > :05:30.An SNP MP turned to alleged remarks by the foreign
:05:31. > :05:32.secretary, Boris Johnson - since denied - that he supported
:05:33. > :05:39.I would like to congratulate the government on the sophistication
:05:40. > :05:41.of its approach to Brexit, I mean, deploying the Foreign
:05:42. > :05:44.Secretary to declare his undying support for free movement of labour
:05:45. > :05:47.is a masterly addition to the policy of chaos and confusion at the heart
:05:48. > :05:51.But if 121 days is a long time in politics, how many days before
:05:52. > :05:54.the 31st March will the Government narrow down its range of policies
:05:55. > :06:00.We will use all 121 days to get the best possible policy for us
:06:01. > :06:02.and we will put that single policy to the European Union.
:06:03. > :06:06.And the Lords too wanted to have their say on Brexit.
:06:07. > :06:08.In my view, the so-called opportunities of Brexit
:06:09. > :06:19.Similarly, we must stop talking nonsense about becoming an offshore
:06:20. > :06:24.Singapore or a haven of social dumping as many on the continent
:06:25. > :06:28.Full participation in the single market on fair
:06:29. > :06:40.The mood I find in Europe is not one of wanting to punish the UK
:06:41. > :06:43.but of great sadness that a country that has done so much for peace
:06:44. > :06:52.and prosperity on the continent should be turning its back on this
:06:53. > :06:56.project at a time of such turbulence and danger in the world.
:06:57. > :06:58.And we should remember this is not just a trade issue.
:06:59. > :07:01.There are a huge number of issues in relation to EU law,
:07:02. > :07:03.justice, agriculture, fisheries, defence, home affairs,
:07:04. > :07:14.And two years of negotiation will not be enough.
:07:15. > :07:19.A former Home Office minister dismissed those who argued Britain
:07:20. > :07:24.was not in a strong place to negotiate a good Brexit deal.
:07:25. > :07:34.They've largely given up on the ploy of a second referendum
:07:35. > :07:37.except for some noble Lords, and will now try to make
:07:38. > :07:39.the case that the single market is absolutely
:07:40. > :07:40.essential to future and
:07:41. > :07:42.they claim that people did not vote to leave
:07:43. > :07:43.the single market just the
:07:44. > :07:48.People voted to take back control of our money, our
:07:49. > :07:50.borders and our laws, and staying in the single market
:07:51. > :07:59.Now to Friday in the Commons where a Liberal Democrat took
:08:00. > :08:01.the chance to celebrate his party's success in the Richmond
:08:02. > :08:05.Lib Dem Sarah Olney won the poll overturning a Conservative majority
:08:06. > :08:08.The election was caused when the sitting Conservative MP,
:08:09. > :08:10.Zac Goldsmith resigned - to campaign against
:08:11. > :08:12.the Government's decision to back a third Heathrow runway.
:08:13. > :08:16.But the Lib Dems campaigned - and won - on their
:08:17. > :08:20.Tom Brake raised the victory during a question on the UK's
:08:21. > :08:26.Can I be the first member of Parliament to congratulate Sarah
:08:27. > :08:30.Olney on a fantastic victory yesterday overturning a majority of
:08:31. > :08:32.23,000, and I'm sure the residents of Richmond
:08:33. > :08:33.Park are interested in
:08:34. > :08:39.Can I ask the Minister to confirm the
:08:40. > :08:42.Government's desire to boost trade post-EU
:08:43. > :08:44.referendum won't be at the
:08:45. > :08:46.expense of the poorest countries around the world
:08:47. > :08:51.Can he also use this opportunity to confirm that the
:08:52. > :08:54.most effective way of distributing aid in the future is
:08:55. > :08:59.Union, that the Government won't hesitate to do that?
:09:00. > :09:04.I will if I may pass over the first part of the
:09:05. > :09:06.honourable member's comment and focus on the latter
:09:07. > :09:10.Trade is absolutely vital to lift people out
:09:11. > :09:13.If we can improve economies and improve the
:09:14. > :09:15.functioning of economies in some of the world's
:09:16. > :09:16.poorest nations that is
:09:17. > :09:21.often the best way to ensure long-term sustainable development
:09:22. > :09:24.and we will always look, and I have said already a number
:09:25. > :09:27.of times today and previously, at our
:09:28. > :09:29.international partners to ensure that we spend
:09:30. > :09:30.taxpayers' money efficiently, and that will mean
:09:31. > :09:33.deliver the outcomes we want to secure,
:09:34. > :09:40.happen to be founded, based and run through the European Union or
:09:41. > :09:47.They've been dubbed the Oscars of Westminster.
:09:48. > :09:49.Big names from the worlds of politics and academia
:09:50. > :09:51.were in London on Tuesday night for the Political Studies
:09:52. > :10:04.It is the annual Political Studies Association awards.
:10:05. > :10:07.Hillsborough campaigners Margaret Aspinall and Professor
:10:08. > :10:08.Phil Scraton collected the
:10:09. > :10:13.Campaigners of the Year award to a standing ovation.
:10:14. > :10:15.Grayson Perry won the Contribution to the Arts and
:10:16. > :10:21.The Enlightening the Public award went to the Iraq War
:10:22. > :10:24.Inquiry team whose 12 volume report was published five years after its
:10:25. > :10:30.It's a great pleasure to present the Enlightening
:10:31. > :10:32.the Public award to the
:10:33. > :10:38.Iraq Inquiry chaired by Sir John Chilcot.
:10:39. > :10:41.I should say that Sir John was meant to get this award back in
:10:42. > :10:52.John, he said, there is to be a inquiry
:10:53. > :10:53.into the Iraq business, can
:10:54. > :11:16.Sir John told us of the pressure he faced to complete the
:11:17. > :11:20.Principally from bereaved families who really
:11:21. > :11:22.wanted some kind of closure but also increasingly from media and
:11:23. > :11:26.Yet if you want to do something on that scale
:11:27. > :11:33.You can either compromise on the depth
:11:34. > :11:37.and scale and quality of what you do or you can take the time you need.
:11:38. > :11:41.Baroness Smith of Basildon received Parliamentarian of the Year award
:11:42. > :11:46.for her work leading the Labour peers.
:11:47. > :11:49.Everyone is saying tonight what a topsy-turvy strange political
:11:50. > :12:10.House of Lords can be Parliamentarian of the Year
:12:11. > :12:13.As well as talking, as a parliamentarian you
:12:14. > :12:16.One of the great things about my Labour colleagues in
:12:17. > :12:19.the House of Lords is that we pull together as a team.
:12:20. > :12:22.It is that work as a team that helps us make a
:12:23. > :12:26.Now let us look at some of the other news around Westminster
:12:27. > :12:29.Ministers are writing to all national sporting bodies asking them
:12:30. > :12:31.to redouble their efforts to protect children
:12:32. > :12:32.following accusations of child abuse in football.
:12:33. > :12:35.Labour called the Minister to the Commons to ask what more
:12:36. > :12:39.We need representatives from the FA, Government, schools and relevant
:12:40. > :12:40.organisations to be working with the
:12:41. > :12:42.police to ensure any historic claims are fully
:12:43. > :12:45.investigated but also to
:12:46. > :12:47.ensure that it is stamped out and our young
:12:48. > :12:48.players have a safe and
:12:49. > :13:02.The FA's internal review must be a proper investigation that looks
:13:03. > :13:05.at the culture within football that meant that abuse took place
:13:06. > :13:08.for so long and went unreported and uninvestigated for so long.
:13:09. > :13:10.Would she further agree with me that if this report
:13:11. > :13:12.is to have credibility, it must be published
:13:13. > :13:16.No good will come from anybody trying to cover anything up.
:13:17. > :13:18.We need to know exactly what happened, how it happened,
:13:19. > :13:20.what went wrong, and make sure that those mistakes
:13:21. > :13:24.The government was defeated in the House of Lords on Wednesday
:13:25. > :13:27.when peers insisted the go-ahead should be given to the second stage
:13:28. > :13:30.of the Leveson Inquiry into ties between the press and the police.
:13:31. > :13:33.Ministers have begun a consultation on whether or not to continue
:13:34. > :13:38.But an independent peer tried to force the issue
:13:39. > :13:41.into the Policing and Crime Bill, describing it as a matter of honour.
:13:42. > :13:47.The government could have begun proceedings for Leveson part two
:13:48. > :13:52.weeks ago, when the relevant trials had finished.
:13:53. > :13:57.Doing so would help draw a line under the countless scandals
:13:58. > :14:01.involving both the police and the press.
:14:02. > :14:04.My Lords, I do not think this is a trivial matter.
:14:05. > :14:09.A commitment was made to Leveson that the victims wanted,
:14:10. > :14:14.the public wanted, and for democracy to function well, we all needed.
:14:15. > :14:17.The government has been faced with emotional appeals to airdrop
:14:18. > :14:20.supplies to civilians suffering in Aleppo in the latest onslaught
:14:21. > :14:26.Aleppo has become a key battleground in the war between forces loyal
:14:27. > :14:29.to President Bashar al-Assad and Western backed rebels
:14:30. > :14:33.The calls for action were led by a Labour MP.
:14:34. > :14:37.Mr Speaker, what Britain stands for on the world stage
:14:38. > :14:43.There is no risk-free course of action left but I believe
:14:44. > :14:48.Let us not stand and watch as one of the great cities
:14:49. > :14:54.Let us not allow 100,000 children to starve in East Aleppo.
:14:55. > :14:58.Britain has the ability and indeed aspiration to play a significant
:14:59. > :15:04.We, in 2013 in August, had that opportunity,
:15:05. > :15:11.We had an opportunity there to hold Assad to account
:15:12. > :15:16.and because of that, we have ended up in a situation
:15:17. > :15:20.whereby both Russia and Daesh have now come in.
:15:21. > :15:23.The question I posed to this House...
:15:24. > :15:28.The question I posed now, and to the honourable lady
:15:29. > :15:32.who screams from the seats is that unless this Parliament gives
:15:33. > :15:35.the executive to support that we need, their hands are now
:15:36. > :15:40.The Prisons Minister has told MPs the government has reached a deal
:15:41. > :15:42.with the Prison Officers' Association over health
:15:43. > :15:48.Last month, up to 10,000 prison officers in England and Wales
:15:49. > :15:51.stopped work over claims of a surge of violence in jails
:15:52. > :15:54.until a High Court injunction ordered them to end a protest.
:15:55. > :15:59.As the House is aware, we have been in discussions
:16:00. > :16:03.with the Prison Officers' Association over health
:16:04. > :16:09.We have come to an agreement with the Prison Officers'
:16:10. > :16:13.Association and the NEC on a deal that they would recommend
:16:14. > :16:18.to their members that front-line staff will now get a new pay
:16:19. > :16:25.We have also agreed a significant number of health and safety reforms,
:16:26. > :16:28.as well as new powers for governors, in terms of how they deploy
:16:29. > :16:35.A Plaid Cymru MP is calling for CCTV to be mandatory in abattoirs
:16:36. > :16:42.Animal welfare charities say that while consumer pressure
:16:43. > :16:46.on supermarkets helps ensure humane conditions for some animals,
:16:47. > :16:49.as horse meat is not sold in the UK, there is far less demand on equine
:16:50. > :16:56.And the moment, Defra have said they wish to encourage voluntary
:16:57. > :17:01.The Welsh government have also indicated
:17:02. > :17:04.that they support the use of CCTV in slaughterhouses and Wales.
:17:05. > :17:07.But they have failed to legislate to make that mandatory.
:17:08. > :17:09.It is clear this approach is not working.
:17:10. > :17:12.The FSA and their board report of the 21st of September conference
:17:13. > :17:17.that take up of CCTV had plateaued at 49% in red meat slaughterhouses.
:17:18. > :17:22.Where slaughterhouses have CCTV, they may not be
:17:23. > :17:25.in the areas which allow them to monitor horse welfare.
:17:26. > :17:32.Now, income tax powers worth ?12 billion were formally
:17:33. > :17:35.transferred from Westminster to Holyrood in the week.
:17:36. > :17:43.As BBC Westminster correspondent David Porter.
:17:44. > :17:49.It has been long anticipated but now it has been delivered.
:17:50. > :17:51.Since the Scottish Parliament was re-established in 1999,
:17:52. > :17:55.people in Edinburgh have been talking about taxation
:17:56. > :18:00.When the parliament was re-established, MSPs
:18:01. > :18:04.have the powers to vary the standard rate of income tax by up
:18:05. > :18:09.They decided not to use that but this is a completely
:18:10. > :18:13.When the new powers come into operation,
:18:14. > :18:15.in April of next year, Westminster will still set
:18:16. > :18:19.the threshold but the rates and the bands of income tax will be
:18:20. > :18:25.That means that the Scottish Parliament will be responsible
:18:26. > :18:30.It means it will be responsible for collecting far more
:18:31. > :18:35.Now, the UK Government says that with power goes responsibility
:18:36. > :18:38.so the Scottish Government will have to make perhaps very
:18:39. > :18:43.The Scottish Government, for its part, says it means that it
:18:44. > :18:46.will be able to concentrate as far as income tax is concerned
:18:47. > :18:49.on the priorities that it wants to bring in for Scotland.
:18:50. > :18:55.People say, to some extent, it is the parliament growing up.
:18:56. > :19:01.Now, let's go back to Brexit and the future of the UK economy.
:19:02. > :19:05.MPs on the Treasury committee spoke to two experts on the subject.
:19:06. > :19:08.First up, Paul Johnson, the head of the Institute
:19:09. > :19:14.He told them it was too early to be sure how the referendum vote
:19:15. > :19:17.would impact on the UK long-term, but unlike in most periods,
:19:18. > :19:21.economic forecasters were at least able to be certain
:19:22. > :19:23.that there was some uncertainty ahead.
:19:24. > :19:27.Presumably, when you use the word some, you really mean a great deal.
:19:28. > :19:33.Well, there is no non-loans, as it were.
:19:34. > :19:38.As it turned out, we were subject to vast uncertainty in 2007,
:19:39. > :19:42.And, actually, even in 2010, when most forecasters think
:19:43. > :19:45.of the economy is growing much more strongly than it turned out to do.
:19:46. > :19:49.So, actually, if you look back, you will see that there were periods
:19:50. > :19:52.when outturns were vastly different to expectation.
:19:53. > :19:55.What is different now is that we know there are certain
:19:56. > :20:01.decisions about whether we stay in the single market or not,
:20:02. > :20:06.and indeed, uncertainties about how the economy will respond over
:20:07. > :20:09.the next couple of years which we know are uncertain.
:20:10. > :20:14.I don't think it is within most people's band of uncertainty
:20:15. > :20:16.that we will have anything close to what happened in 2008,
:20:17. > :20:20.it is just that we know there are some changes coming along
:20:21. > :20:23.and we don't really know exactly how the economy will respond to them.
:20:24. > :20:27.The next day, the head of the independent Office
:20:28. > :20:30.for the Budget of Responsibility was asked what he thought
:20:31. > :20:34.My suspicion is that in particular, if we are in negotiations
:20:35. > :20:38.in which nothing very much as agreed until everything is agreed,
:20:39. > :20:40.we could be, you know, I could be retired in the Lords
:20:41. > :20:46.and much time will have passed before we know where we are.
:20:47. > :20:49.I think we all deserve your peerage first.
:20:50. > :20:55.You would agree, wouldn't you, that the crucial moment of most
:20:56. > :20:58.uncertainty is likely to be the consequences of any
:20:59. > :21:01.new arrangement put in place after we arrive in the arrival hall?
:21:02. > :21:05.Which is your date for the arrival hall?
:21:06. > :21:12.Well, as I say, I think it comes back in part to the degree
:21:13. > :21:17.to which this ends up being a negotiation
:21:18. > :21:20.in which nothing is agreed until everything is agreed.
:21:21. > :21:28...it will be that much clearer in 2019, I fear possibly not.
:21:29. > :21:35.You are about to take off, and there is a discussion taking
:21:36. > :21:37.place about where to go, would your feeling of
:21:38. > :21:39.uncertainty beat increased, decreased, or and changed,
:21:40. > :21:41.if while you were having a conversation you took off?
:21:42. > :21:46.The fact that I got onto an aircraft and people were still discussing
:21:47. > :21:49.where they wanted to go would be a source of sufficient alarm before
:21:50. > :21:53.You are very good at not answering the question.
:21:54. > :21:56.Time now for our look at what has been happening in the wide world
:21:57. > :22:06.Is it time for Parliament to set sail?
:22:07. > :22:11.Former head of the Royal Navy told peers that putting parliament
:22:12. > :22:14.on a boat and towing it around the country might help combat
:22:15. > :22:25.In the same debate, Lord Greaves suggested moving the capital
:22:26. > :22:29.to the English Midlands or the North.
:22:30. > :22:33.Peers were a flutter in the Commons as MP Gavin Newlands
:22:34. > :22:43.But Ian Paisley MP opted for a bowtie.
:22:44. > :22:46.He is back, but not on the front line.
:22:47. > :22:49.Former PM Tony Blair has announced a new organisation,
:22:50. > :22:56.a platform for engagement in the political centre ground.
:22:57. > :23:00.# It's me, I'm Cathy, I've come home.
:23:01. > :23:04.And we end on a musical note for Theresa May.
:23:05. > :23:14.She has won the backing of the 1970s songstress Kate Bush.
:23:15. > :23:20.Finally, he was, until the early hours of Friday morning at least,
:23:21. > :23:27.And on Wednesday, David Cameron's successor in the Oxfordshire city
:23:28. > :23:32.He found the Conservative Party bleeding after three
:23:33. > :23:38.He picked it up, restored its faith in itself,
:23:39. > :23:45.Mr Speaker, I know first hand the effect that his leadership had
:23:46. > :23:49.upon the party and on the country and on its fortunes.
:23:50. > :23:53.I was there on the streets and I felt the turning of the tide.
:23:54. > :23:58.There is perhaps no greater tribute that I can pay David Cameron fantasy
:23:59. > :24:02.that he made the Conservative Party believing itself again.
:24:03. > :24:06.He made it fresh, dynamic, and able to communicate
:24:07. > :24:15.In 1945, Albert Stubbs won the seat of Cambridgeshire
:24:16. > :24:30.He was a famous trade unionist and he won his seat by a majority
:24:31. > :24:34.of 44 by getting out on his motorcycle and riding around
:24:35. > :24:37.the villages of Cambridgeshire and signing up for workers
:24:38. > :24:42.He was known for his hard work for the people of that area
:24:43. > :24:49.Now, Mr Speaker, that record is one that I aspire to when I look
:24:50. > :24:54.Now, honourable members need not worry, I'm not about to execute
:24:55. > :24:56.the fastest defection in political history.
:24:57. > :25:01.I mention this because Mr Stubbs was my great-grandfather.
:25:02. > :25:05.Now, I must watch my words carefully at this point.
:25:06. > :25:08.Because his daughter, my grandmother, will be
:25:09. > :25:14.Stop if I put a foot out of line, I'm going to get a very
:25:15. > :25:17.I do, therefore, at knowledge at this stage,
:25:18. > :25:21.that Mr Stubbs would be horrified by this.
:25:22. > :25:27.But I hope he would at least approve of my work ethic.
:25:28. > :25:33.Christina Cooper will be with you on Monday night at 11pm
:25:34. > :25:36.for another round-up of the best of the day here at Westminster.
:25:37. > :25:39.And I will be back with you at the same time next week.
:25:40. > :26:35.But, so now, from me, Alicia McCarthy, goodbye.
:26:36. > :26:47.Thank you, Mr Speaker, and I'm sure the whole House
:26:48. > :26:54.will want to join me in wishing people across the
:26:55. > :26:58.United Kingdom and the whole world a very happy St Andrews' Day.