0:00:23 > 0:00:25Hello and Welcome to The Week In Parliament.
0:00:25 > 0:00:27Coming up on this edition of the programme: Jeremy Corbyn
0:00:27 > 0:00:30attacks the government's handing of the collapse of the construction
0:00:30 > 0:00:34firm Carillion and reckons there's a bigger problem.
0:00:34 > 0:00:40This isn't an isolated case of government failure.It's a broken
0:00:40 > 0:00:42system.
0:00:42 > 0:00:44But Theresa May says the Labour Party has
0:00:44 > 0:00:47turned its back on investment, growth and jobs.
0:00:47 > 0:00:51A Labour Party that will always put politics before people!
0:00:51 > 0:00:54Also on this programme: The bill putting EU law into UK law ahead
0:00:54 > 0:00:56of Brexit clears the Commons...for now!
0:00:56 > 0:01:00And the Justice Secretary says he won't seek a judicial review
0:01:00 > 0:01:02of the Parole Board decision to release serial sex attacker
0:01:02 > 0:01:08John Worboys from prison.
0:01:08 > 0:01:13I know this will disappoint the victims in this case and members of
0:01:13 > 0:01:19this House. Given the crimes for which he has been convicted, on a
0:01:19 > 0:01:21personal level, I share those concerns.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24But first to the story that dominated the Westminster week -
0:01:24 > 0:01:25the collapse of construction giant Carillion.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28Carillion has around 450 public sector contracts,
0:01:28 > 0:01:30from NHS cleaning to school dinners and prisons to homes
0:01:30 > 0:01:33for service families.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35It's also involved in the HS2 high-speed rail line
0:01:35 > 0:01:39and maintenance for Network Rail.
0:01:39 > 0:01:41After statements and questions earlier in the week,
0:01:41 > 0:01:44Jeremy Corbyn used Prime Minister's Questions to accuse the government
0:01:44 > 0:01:47of negligence for continuing to award contracts to the firm
0:01:47 > 0:01:51after it issued profit warnings last year.
0:01:51 > 0:02:01Mr Corbyn thought ministers had some explaining to do.
0:02:01 > 0:02:05In the last six months, the government has awarded more than £2
0:02:05 > 0:02:10billion worth of contracts to Carillion. It did so even after the
0:02:10 > 0:02:15share price was in freefall and the company had issued profit warnings.
0:02:15 > 0:02:23Why did the government do that?If it was the case that the government
0:02:23 > 0:02:27pulled out of contracts or private sector companies pulled out of
0:02:27 > 0:02:30contracts were never profit warning was issued, that would be the best
0:02:30 > 0:02:38way to ensure that companies failed and jobs were lost.It looks like
0:02:38 > 0:02:43the government was handing Carillion public contracts, either to keep the
0:02:43 > 0:02:48company afloat, which clearly hasn't worked, although it was just deeply
0:02:48 > 0:03:00negligent of the crisis.Mr Speaker, I am very happy to answer questions
0:03:00 > 0:03:09when the right honourable gentleman asks one. He didn't!This is not one
0:03:09 > 0:03:19isolated case. It is a broken system. Under this government,
0:03:19 > 0:03:25virgin and Stagecoach can spectacularly mismanaged East Coast
0:03:25 > 0:03:33Main Line and be let off a £2 billion pay-out, capita can continue
0:03:33 > 0:03:39to wreck the lives through damaging disability assessment so many people
0:03:39 > 0:03:44with disabilities and win more government funded contracts, chief
0:03:44 > 0:03:48OS promise to provide security at the Olympics, failed to do so, and
0:03:48 > 0:03:55the army had to step in and save the day. These corporations need to be
0:03:55 > 0:04:01shown the door. We need our public services provided by public
0:04:01 > 0:04:06employees with a public service ethos and a strong public oversight.
0:04:06 > 0:04:14As the ruins of Carillion lie around her, will the Prime Minister act to
0:04:14 > 0:04:17end this costly wrecking of the relationship between government and
0:04:17 > 0:04:23some of these companies?I might first of all remind the right
0:04:23 > 0:04:28honourable gentleman to a third of Carillion contracts were led by the
0:04:28 > 0:04:31Labour government. What Labour oppose is not just a role for
0:04:31 > 0:04:36private companies in public services but the private sector as a whole.
0:04:36 > 0:04:42The vast majority of people in this country in employment are employed
0:04:42 > 0:04:47by the private sector. But the Shadow Chancellor calls business is
0:04:47 > 0:04:54the real enemy. Labour want the highest taxes in our peacetime
0:04:54 > 0:04:59history, Labour policies would cause a run on the pound, this is a Labour
0:04:59 > 0:05:04Party that has turned its back on investment, growth, jobs. A Labour
0:05:04 > 0:05:09Party that will always put politics before people!
0:05:09 > 0:05:16Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn.
0:05:16 > 0:05:21Now this was the week when when MPs waved goodbye -
0:05:21 > 0:05:25for now at least - to the EU Withdrawal bill,
0:05:25 > 0:05:27the legislation putting EU rules and regulations into UK law
0:05:27 > 0:05:30to stop a legislative black hole opening up after Brexit.
0:05:30 > 0:05:33On Tuesday, Labour and the SNP failed in an effort to tempt
0:05:33 > 0:05:34Scottish Conservatives to rebel against the government.
0:05:34 > 0:05:37Ministers had promised they'd change the bill to make sure that powers
0:05:37 > 0:05:39coming back from Brussels would be devolved to Scotland,
0:05:39 > 0:05:42Wales and Northern Ireland and not keep them at Westminster.
0:05:42 > 0:05:46But despite their promises, those changes aren't ready yet
0:05:46 > 0:05:49and will have to be made, not in the Commons, as expected,
0:05:49 > 0:05:51but in the House of Lords.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54The SNP urged Scottish Tory MPs to support the opposition's
0:05:54 > 0:05:58devolution demands saying the Government had gone back
0:05:58 > 0:06:05on its promise.
0:06:05 > 0:06:07This is a democratic abomination that the Scottish Parliament will
0:06:07 > 0:06:17have less of a say, this House will have less of a save the House of
0:06:17 > 0:06:20Lords.
0:06:20 > 0:06:22There was no doubt that Scottish Conservatives were unhappy
0:06:22 > 0:06:24at the failure to make the promised changes by now...
0:06:24 > 0:06:29One said he was "intensely disappointed".
0:06:29 > 0:06:33We are dependent on unelected Lords to do our job for us. The government
0:06:33 > 0:06:38had control of the timetable. Deadlines were created by them but
0:06:38 > 0:06:43they have let us down by not delivering on what they promised.I
0:06:43 > 0:06:48am disappointed that we have been unable to reach agreement with the
0:06:48 > 0:06:52governments in Scotland and Wales to bring forward amendments to close 11
0:06:52 > 0:07:01on an agreed basis, and that is what the government's ambition remains.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04But when it came to a vote, Scottish Conservatives ignored
0:07:04 > 0:07:06the pleas to rebel - the government won
0:07:06 > 0:07:07by a majority of 24.
0:07:07 > 0:07:11Next day, a Labour MP also tried to make changes to the bill.
0:07:11 > 0:07:13In a debate heavily dominated by remainers,
0:07:13 > 0:07:15Ian Murray proposed that the government must publish
0:07:15 > 0:07:17an impact assessment on both staying in
0:07:17 > 0:07:19and leaving the single market and customs union.
0:07:19 > 0:07:22And those assessments should be done before Mps held their final vote
0:07:22 > 0:07:27on the overall deal.
0:07:27 > 0:07:31The reason the government will resist this new clause is not
0:07:31 > 0:07:36through any principle. It is because they know any negotiated deal they
0:07:36 > 0:07:41come back with an obvious the deal we have today. That will say to the
0:07:41 > 0:07:49public the they will bring back a deal that makes the country poorer.
0:07:49 > 0:07:50Well, summing up,
0:07:50 > 0:07:52the minister didn't address those demands for an impact
0:07:52 > 0:07:53assessment directly.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55There then followed a series of votes, all of which
0:07:55 > 0:07:58the government won, meaning the bill was able
0:07:58 > 0:08:00to go on for its final reading in the Commons.
0:08:00 > 0:08:02And so the Brexit Secretary came to the chamber
0:08:02 > 0:08:05to make one last speech on the bill before it went to the House of Lords
0:08:06 > 0:08:08to be scrutinised by Peers.
0:08:08 > 0:08:11We are sending an improved piece of legislation onwards to the Other
0:08:11 > 0:08:18Place. I hope that that house will acknowledge the substance and spirit
0:08:18 > 0:08:22of the debate and scrutiny this Bill has received so far and it will
0:08:22 > 0:08:30unfold in the same constructive way as it has in this House.
0:08:30 > 0:08:33But his Labour opposite number disagreed.
0:08:33 > 0:08:40This bill was never fit for purpose. After 64 hours a committee and ten
0:08:40 > 0:08:46hours a report, it is still not fit for purpose.It is fit for purpose
0:08:46 > 0:08:49however the implementing the greatest festival of democracy we
0:08:49 > 0:08:57have ever known in this country! Were in June 20 16th 17 million of
0:08:57 > 0:09:03our citizens voted to leave the EU.
0:09:03 > 0:09:06The SNP put
0:09:06 > 0:09:08down one last amendment, saying the bill shouldn't
0:09:08 > 0:09:11get its final third reading in the Commons, in effect
0:09:11 > 0:09:12wrecking it.
0:09:12 > 0:09:15Ian Blackford argued the bill was incompatible with devolution.
0:09:15 > 0:09:19We sent a clear signal to the government that this House cannot
0:09:19 > 0:09:25allow the commitments made to pass. It is the last chance for Scottish
0:09:25 > 0:09:33Tory MPs to join us and to stand up for the devolved settlement.
0:09:33 > 0:09:35But that SNP amendment was defeated by 322 votes to 295,
0:09:35 > 0:09:38the bill went on to get its third reading and will now go off
0:09:39 > 0:09:43to the House of Lords.
0:09:43 > 0:09:46The black-cab rapist John Worboys could be freed within weeks
0:09:46 > 0:09:48after the government opted not to challenge his release.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51The Justice Secretary David Gauke told Mps on Friday that it would not
0:09:51 > 0:09:54be appropriate to seek a judicial review of the case.
0:09:54 > 0:09:57Worboys was jailed indefinitely in 2009 with a minimum
0:09:57 > 0:10:01term of eight years for drugging and sexually assaulting
0:10:01 > 0:10:04a dozen female passengers.
0:10:04 > 0:10:05Police believe he may have committed as many
0:10:06 > 0:10:08as a hundred similar offences.
0:10:08 > 0:10:13The news of the parole board decision outraged many
0:10:13 > 0:10:15and the justice secretary commissioned advice
0:10:15 > 0:10:17on the possibility of taking the highly unusual step of seeking
0:10:17 > 0:10:23a judicial review.
0:10:23 > 0:10:29The Bathford judicial review to succeed is very high. The test for
0:10:29 > 0:10:32deciding the decision is unreasonable is not simply that the
0:10:32 > 0:10:36decision-makers, in this case the parole board, could've made an
0:10:36 > 0:10:40alternative decision, but that no reasonable person would have come to
0:10:40 > 0:10:47the same conclusion on the facts of the case. Similarly, it would be
0:10:47 > 0:10:50necessary to identify failing to follow that process by the parole
0:10:50 > 0:10:57board that would have had a material impact on the decision. Having taken
0:10:57 > 0:11:01considered an expert legal advice, I have decided that it would not be
0:11:01 > 0:11:05appropriate for me as Secretary of State to proceed with such a case. I
0:11:05 > 0:11:09know this will disappoint the victims in this case and members of
0:11:09 > 0:11:14this House. Given the crimes for which he has been convicted, on a
0:11:14 > 0:11:20personal level, I share those concerns.
0:11:20 > 0:11:21He said
0:11:21 > 0:11:24Worboys would not be released until victims had been heard
0:11:24 > 0:11:25and licence conditions put in place.
0:11:25 > 0:11:28And he announced he'd be expanding a review of the parole process.
0:11:28 > 0:11:32Today's news makes the need for changes in the parole board even
0:11:32 > 0:11:36more pressing. The current rules permit either the Secretary of State
0:11:36 > 0:11:41or victims to bring judicial review. Many will have seen they are doing
0:11:41 > 0:11:44and have attracted much public support for the fundraising for
0:11:44 > 0:11:50this. Judicial review is a key tool for every citizen to be able to
0:11:50 > 0:11:53challenge unjust or unlawful decisions by the state or other
0:11:53 > 0:11:59public bodies. Deep cuts to legal aid have undermined the ability of
0:11:59 > 0:12:06many to pursue judicial reviews.Who and how is held to account in the
0:12:06 > 0:12:11parole board if those released early reoffend?A test of April board in
0:12:11 > 0:12:18the context of one of these IPP prisoners is an assessment of the
0:12:18 > 0:12:23risk to the public, and that is what the probe or the Haas to determine
0:12:23 > 0:12:25the circumstances.
0:12:26 > 0:12:27David Gauke.
0:12:27 > 0:12:29Now let's take some other news from around Westminster in brief.
0:12:29 > 0:12:32What more can be done to tackle childhood obesity?
0:12:32 > 0:12:35One Conservative reckons the stars of prime-time TV shows
0:12:35 > 0:12:38such as Britain's Got Talent and I'm A Celebrity
0:12:38 > 0:12:41should take a stand against junk food being advertised to children
0:12:41 > 0:12:46during their shows.
0:12:46 > 0:12:50It's not just a coincidence of scheduling that these ads run
0:12:50 > 0:12:55alongside some of our biggest TV shows such as the X factor,
0:12:55 > 0:13:01Britain's got talent, Hollyoaks of the symptoms. If we are to affect
0:13:01 > 0:13:04change, as Jamie Oliver has demonstrated, we need some of that
0:13:04 > 0:13:09star manage. I'm calling on household names like Simon Cowell,
0:13:09 > 0:13:15Ant & Dec, Dermot O'Leary and Amanda Holden to take responsibility, stand
0:13:15 > 0:13:20up to broadcasters and say that they will no longer be used as a hook to
0:13:20 > 0:13:22sell harmful junk food to our children.
0:13:22 > 0:13:24An SNP MP says customers are being "ripped off"
0:13:24 > 0:13:25by mobile phone companies.
0:13:25 > 0:13:28Patricia Gibson said many consumers were continuing to pay
0:13:28 > 0:13:34for their handset after they'd covered the cost of buying it.
0:13:34 > 0:13:38The chances are that, if you are a customer with one of the bigger
0:13:38 > 0:13:42mobile phone providers who dominate the market, the price consumers are
0:13:42 > 0:13:47charged each month will not change. That means that consumers continue
0:13:47 > 0:13:51to be charged for their handsets, even though they have already paid
0:13:51 > 0:13:55for them over the course of their two-year contract.
0:13:55 > 0:13:56The government suffered a series of defeats
0:13:56 > 0:13:59in the week on its Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill.
0:13:59 > 0:14:01On Wednesday, a former head of the judiciary criticised plans
0:14:01 > 0:14:05to give ministers the power to create new criminal offences.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08Lord Judge, who is a former Lord Chief Justice of England
0:14:08 > 0:14:11and Wales, told peers that proposals to allow ministers
0:14:11 > 0:14:14to create new money laundering offences without having to get
0:14:14 > 0:14:19a new bill passed by parliament were "constitutionally troublesome".
0:14:19 > 0:14:21The amendment won cross party support and the government
0:14:21 > 0:14:31was defeated by 264 votes to 184, a majority of 80 votes.
0:14:31 > 0:14:33New figures show that one in ten nurses are leaving the NHS
0:14:33 > 0:14:35in England every year.
0:14:35 > 0:14:39And last year, more than 33,000 nurses gave up their jobs.
0:14:39 > 0:14:41That's 3,000 more than joined the service.
0:14:41 > 0:14:44When Labour raised the issue in the Lords, a Health Minister
0:14:44 > 0:14:51insisted nursing numbers had increased since 2010.
0:14:51 > 0:14:58There are now more than 100,000 vacant post in the HS. Will the
0:14:58 > 0:15:03Minister access the need to lift the page cap, fund opera rises for
0:15:03 > 0:15:12nurses, restore bursaries and restored this profession.The noble
0:15:12 > 0:15:23Lord is wrong to say they are and
0:15:24 > 0:15:27under the appreciated profession. Of course we want to reduce the number
0:15:27 > 0:15:34of nurses leaving the process -- profession. It is important to point
0:15:34 > 0:15:37out that the number of nurses has risen.
0:15:37 > 0:15:40The treatment of small businesses by the Royal Bank of Scotland
0:15:40 > 0:15:43has been described by an MP as "the largest theft anywhere, ever".
0:15:43 > 0:15:45That charge came as the Commons debated the banks' Global
0:15:45 > 0:15:47Restructuring Group - GRG - which has been accused
0:15:47 > 0:15:49of mistreating its customers by the city watchdog,
0:15:49 > 0:15:51the Financial Conduct Authority.
0:15:51 > 0:15:54The Royal Bank of Scotland has apologised for how it treated
0:15:54 > 0:15:59customers who ended up in its GRG.
0:15:59 > 0:16:02But MPs demanded an inquiry and tougher action against the banks.
0:16:02 > 0:16:11The MP who led the debate described the experience of one constiuent.
0:16:11 > 0:16:19He lost his business, his home, his marriage, and I think it fair to say
0:16:19 > 0:16:24almost his sanity. His crime, nothing more than being an entre
0:16:24 > 0:16:32murder -- entrepreneur who banked with RBS.Does my honourable friend
0:16:32 > 0:16:38agree with me that the RBS global restructuring group had a real
0:16:38 > 0:16:44cultural problem? Their top tips include the phrase, rope, sometimes
0:16:44 > 0:16:50you just have to let customers hang themselves. Clearly, there is
0:16:50 > 0:16:59something very wrong.I do grief. I think since 2008, we know that
0:16:59 > 0:17:0516,000 small businesses were put into GR G and the vast majority of
0:17:05 > 0:17:10them were liquidated. This was meant to be somewhere where they were put
0:17:10 > 0:17:13back to try and get interested tuition where they could come back
0:17:13 > 0:17:26as a viable as Ms. It was more of an -- abattoir. We do know that 90% of
0:17:26 > 0:17:33GR G administered businesses never made it back to mainstream banking.
0:17:33 > 0:17:37The cost of this is immeasurable but we leave this to be in the tens of
0:17:37 > 0:17:42billions. Let's be clear here. This is the potential size of the
0:17:42 > 0:17:46injustice that has taken place in our country. If it is this big it
0:17:46 > 0:17:52may be the largest vest -- theft anywhere ever.
0:17:52 > 0:17:53The Treasury Committee is investigating
0:17:53 > 0:17:59the allegations against RBS.
0:17:59 > 0:18:02When I hear constituents and others saying they will never trust a rank
0:18:02 > 0:18:07again, you should be a chilling moment for all banks lending and
0:18:07 > 0:18:14working.They are right to say we will wait for the conclusion of the
0:18:14 > 0:18:20investigation of the matter is arising from the report before
0:18:20 > 0:18:23determining what further action needs to be taken. On the broader
0:18:23 > 0:18:31issue of dispute resolution, I've remind the House of the existing
0:18:31 > 0:18:37avenues open but the FCA is undertaking work to look at the
0:18:37 > 0:18:42relationship and it is right that we wait for the next steps.
0:18:42 > 0:18:45MPs have been told that children as young as 12 are being used
0:18:45 > 0:18:47by gangs to traffic drugs across the country.
0:18:47 > 0:18:48Known as "county lines", the gangs use
0:18:48 > 0:18:50the youngsters to transport drugs, weapons and money
0:18:50 > 0:18:52between cities and smaller towns.
0:18:52 > 0:18:56The National Crime Agency says there are at least 720 of these
0:18:56 > 0:18:59lines in England and Wales, with 283 coming out of London alone.
0:18:59 > 0:19:01The Labour MP, Joan Ryan, raised the wide reaching criminal activity
0:19:01 > 0:19:11in a Westminster Hall debate.
0:19:11 > 0:19:18In vulnerable children as young as 12 being groomed by gangs with
0:19:18 > 0:19:22promises of money, companionship and respect. But in reality, they are
0:19:22 > 0:19:28often forced to go missing from home for long periods of time, they are
0:19:28 > 0:19:35used as drug meals -- drug mules, predominantly heroin and crack
0:19:35 > 0:19:41cocaine, they are trafficked to remote areas and forced to deal
0:19:41 > 0:19:46drugs in squalid conditions. At all times, they are at great personal
0:19:46 > 0:19:52risk of at rest by the police, which is probably the early time they are
0:19:52 > 0:19:56really says, or from physical and sexual abuse from local -- older
0:19:56 > 0:19:58gang members.
0:19:58 > 0:20:02A Labour MP said she first found out about the problem when a mother
0:20:02 > 0:20:04came to her about her son who'd been arrested
0:20:04 > 0:20:10for trafficking drugs between London and Portsmouth.
0:20:10 > 0:20:13Her son was involved in running drugs from Lewisham to the south
0:20:13 > 0:20:19coast. There are 317 under 25 is from Lewisham believed to be
0:20:19 > 0:20:25ultimate act pretty, of which about 200 are of school age. They are
0:20:25 > 0:20:31supplying drugs in 19 different counties. That is 200 school age
0:20:31 > 0:20:35children from one London Borough out of 32. This is not an insignificant
0:20:35 > 0:20:43problem.Drug gangs target vulnerable young people, including
0:20:43 > 0:20:49children in care, and those who have had very difficult times at home,
0:20:49 > 0:20:53they deliberately target those children because they know that they
0:20:53 > 0:20:57are susceptible to peer pressure, they are susceptible to the
0:20:57 > 0:21:03influence of these adults. They beguile, they entice, they flatter,
0:21:03 > 0:21:07and they befriend them. And when they have ensnared them, they put
0:21:07 > 0:21:14them to criminal work. It is exploitation, pure and simple, and
0:21:14 > 0:21:18this is why I am so pleased that we are beginning to see these cases
0:21:18 > 0:21:22prosecuted under the modern slavery act so that we give them the stigma
0:21:22 > 0:21:28that they deserve, as well as tackling their criminality.
0:21:28 > 0:21:29Victoria Atkins.
0:21:29 > 0:21:31Now, let's go back to the Commons on Friday where MPs
0:21:31 > 0:21:33backed a bill giving tenants in England the ability
0:21:33 > 0:21:36to take landlords to court if their home is unsafe.
0:21:36 > 0:21:38Currently, if a landlord doesn't deal with a request
0:21:38 > 0:21:40for maintenance and repairs, it is up to the council
0:21:40 > 0:21:42to enforce the law.
0:21:42 > 0:21:44Labour MP Karen Buck brought in the bill which would mean
0:21:44 > 0:21:47in future, tenants could bring civil proceedings if their home
0:21:47 > 0:21:56is unfit to live in.
0:21:56 > 0:21:57Currently, and extraordinarily, landlords have no obligations to
0:21:57 > 0:22:03their tenants to keep the conditions of the property fit for habitation.
0:22:03 > 0:22:08There is an obligation to repair the structure of the property and keep
0:22:08 > 0:22:13in repair features such as gas, water, and electricity, but that
0:22:13 > 0:22:20only applies when there is damage. It does not apply to many things.
0:22:20 > 0:22:25There are a whole range of fitness issues which seriously affect the
0:22:25 > 0:22:29world being and safety of tenants and about which tenants can do
0:22:29 > 0:22:35nothing. I met a young mum whose baby was born prematurely, had to
0:22:35 > 0:22:41bring home to a flat so that that when I visited her, even I was
0:22:41 > 0:22:45struggling to breathe. I met a pension two weeks ago who was taken
0:22:45 > 0:22:51into hospital with hypothermia twice because of the cold in her flat. And
0:22:51 > 0:22:59she fell and hit her steps on.
0:22:59 > 0:23:01The bill had widespread support from across the House.
0:23:01 > 0:23:03But a Conservative thought there were areas where
0:23:03 > 0:23:08it could go further.
0:23:08 > 0:23:11We do not want a position whereby someone who takes action under this
0:23:11 > 0:23:17bill bind themselves homeless because the landlord has said, you
0:23:17 > 0:23:21can take me to court but I will evict you as a result. That would be
0:23:21 > 0:23:25read sensible and we have to combat that in a way.
0:23:25 > 0:23:29The minister too backed the bill.
0:23:29 > 0:23:34The government does want to support good land laws and to avoid further
0:23:34 > 0:23:43regulation on them which pushes up rents and reduces choice. But small
0:23:43 > 0:23:47number of criminal landlords knowingly rent out and safe and
0:23:47 > 0:23:51substandard accommodation. We are determined to crack down on these
0:23:51 > 0:23:54landlords and disrupt their uses.
0:23:54 > 0:23:57Finally, let's take a look at some of the quirkier news from around
0:23:57 > 0:23:58Westminster this week.
0:23:58 > 0:24:05Here's Clare Gould.
0:24:05 > 0:24:16Some new faces on the front bench following Theresa May's reshuffle.
0:24:16 > 0:24:26New Justice Secretary was sworn in as Lord Chancellor on Thursday.
0:24:26 > 0:24:33Charges of treason after an unsuccessful attempt to negotiate a
0:24:33 > 0:24:37settlement with a powerful organisation.
0:24:37 > 0:24:49The EU withdrawal bill completed its final stage. Mr Swain blamed and
0:24:49 > 0:24:58early mornings when for the relapse. The president of France came to
0:24:58 > 0:25:12visit, bringing an offer to the UK to House the famous tapestry.
0:25:12 > 0:25:15The latest addition of the conversation series with Michael
0:25:15 > 0:25:23Heseltine got a celebrity endorsement from Peter Stringfellow.
0:25:26 > 0:25:28Clare Gould with our countdown.
0:25:28 > 0:25:32And that's it from us for now but do join Mandy Baker on BBC Parliament
0:25:32 > 0:25:37on Monday night at 11pm for a full roundup of the day at Westminster.
0:25:37 > 0:25:41But for now from me, Alicia McCarthy, goodbye.