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0:00:22 > 0:00:26Hello and welcome to the week in Parliament, coming up an

0:00:26 > 0:00:30uncomfortable morning of questioning for Oxfam bosses.I am sorry, we are

0:00:30 > 0:00:35sorry for the damage that Oxfam has done.More grating for Caribbean,

0:00:35 > 0:00:41this time it's those responsible for pensions and auditing.They are

0:00:41 > 0:00:45striking out onto the street thing, I thought it was surprised, you

0:00:45 > 0:00:49wildly to after this.If you can stand the noise, get out of the

0:00:49 > 0:00:58chamber. We get the lowdown on volume.Disapprove, disapprove of

0:00:58 > 0:01:05this sort of behaviour. Of both sides stop it.But first, it was the

0:01:05 > 0:01:08feelings by Oxfam which dominated the early part of the week. The

0:01:08 > 0:01:12sense of anger wasn't just down to the wrongdoing, the fact that

0:01:12 > 0:01:17charity workers had paid woman for sex in earthquake ravaged Haiti, it

0:01:17 > 0:01:22was also the wake the organisation dealt with it and so Oxfam bosses

0:01:22 > 0:01:24steeled themselves for two uncomfortable I of

0:01:24 > 0:01:30cross-examination. First it was the issue of The Commons made by this

0:01:30 > 0:01:35charity chief executive.You appeared to be downplaying this

0:01:35 > 0:01:39Scandella using the parallel with the murder of babies in their pots

0:01:39 > 0:01:43which many people regarded as grossly inappropriate. Can they give

0:01:43 > 0:01:50you the opportunity to apologise? Certainty chairman, I do apologise.

0:01:50 > 0:01:57I was thinking under stress, I'd given many interviews and given many

0:01:57 > 0:02:01decisions to try and beat Oxfam's response to this, I was thinking

0:02:01 > 0:02:05about amazing work I had seen Oxfam do across the world most recently

0:02:05 > 0:02:11for refugees coming from Myanmar. I should not have said those things.

0:02:11 > 0:02:17It is not for Oxfam to judge issues of proportionality were motivation.

0:02:17 > 0:02:23I repeat Oxfam's broader apology and my personal apology, I am sorry, we

0:02:23 > 0:02:29are sorry for the damage that Oxfam has done. Both of the people of

0:02:29 > 0:02:34Haiti but also to wider efforts for aid and development by possibly

0:02:34 > 0:02:40undermining public support.People in a country behave well as

0:02:40 > 0:02:46citizens, because they are policed, this is about aligning our people

0:02:46 > 0:02:53with the values of Oxfam. Some hideous men came into her

0:02:53 > 0:02:57organisation and abused the trust of the British people, the supporters,

0:02:57 > 0:03:02but they were able to get away, to get a recommendation to leave. This

0:03:02 > 0:03:08was wrong.So we're going to change the culture. The Conservatives said

0:03:08 > 0:03:12she had been highlighting the problem of sexual exploitation for

0:03:12 > 0:03:15two years but no one had taken any notice.Everybody knew this

0:03:15 > 0:03:20happened. Everybody knew that the ape that there was pretty rotten

0:03:20 > 0:03:24because it had gotten all these people who are abusing women and

0:03:24 > 0:03:30girls regularly in all countries but nobody, not one organisation was

0:03:30 > 0:03:34actually attacking it or doing nothing about it. That's shocking.

0:03:34 > 0:03:38They are supposed to be good people. Trying to help the world but it

0:03:38 > 0:03:45would appear that you're not as good as you should be.It's really

0:03:45 > 0:03:52heartbreaking that we are in the situation with I want to assure you

0:03:52 > 0:03:56that you are not doing nothing. We were working on it but we have

0:03:56 > 0:04:02reached a point where the world has woken up to the abuse of women and

0:04:02 > 0:04:08girls in a very special way and we find ourselves not to have done

0:04:08 > 0:04:12enough but we did something. We have been improving every year but we are

0:04:12 > 0:04:19not very want to be.In the Commons, the International Development

0:04:19 > 0:04:22Secretary gave a withering verdict on the previous leadership. Accusing

0:04:22 > 0:04:25directors of putting the protection of Oxfam reputation ahead of those

0:04:25 > 0:04:30they were supposed to help.We must be able to trust organisations not

0:04:30 > 0:04:34only to do all they can to prevent harm but to report and follow-up

0:04:34 > 0:04:38incidents of wrongdoing when they occur. In this duty, Oxfam failed,

0:04:38 > 0:04:44under the watch of Barbara and Penny. They did not provide a full

0:04:44 > 0:04:48report to the Charity commission, they did not provide a full report

0:04:48 > 0:04:52to their donors. They did not provide any report the prosecuting

0:04:52 > 0:04:57authorities. In my view Mr Speaker, they misled quite possibly

0:04:57 > 0:05:01deliberately.The International Development Secretary. The exchanges

0:05:01 > 0:05:05between Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn at prime ministers questions

0:05:05 > 0:05:10are usually a Brexit free zone. But the Cabinet were convening at their

0:05:10 > 0:05:14residents the next day to pin down the UK future relationship with the

0:05:14 > 0:05:20EU. And so, the opposition leader made an exception. He began with

0:05:20 > 0:05:23David Davis is comforting reassurance that post Brexit Britain

0:05:23 > 0:05:29would not descend into a desert work society had collapsed.Yesterday,

0:05:29 > 0:05:31the Brexit said -- secretary assured the country that Brexit will not

0:05:31 > 0:05:37plunge Britain into a mad Max style world borrowed from the dystopian

0:05:37 > 0:05:44fiction. Those of the Prime Minister feels he could set the bar just a

0:05:44 > 0:05:56little bit higher?Prime Minister! As the right honourable gentleman

0:05:56 > 0:06:00knows, be very clear we are going to ensure that when we leave the

0:06:00 > 0:06:03European Union we will be able to take back control of our borders,

0:06:03 > 0:06:10our money, and our laws. And I have to say to him the only fiction

0:06:10 > 0:06:14around in relation to Brexit and the European Union is the Labour Party

0:06:14 > 0:06:17front bench who can't even agree with themselves what their policy

0:06:17 > 0:06:20is.In December that for an secretary and the Environment

0:06:20 > 0:06:24Secretary were briefing that the working Time directive would be

0:06:24 > 0:06:28scrapped. The CBI and the unions are very clear that they are not looking

0:06:28 > 0:06:33for a bonfire regulation, quite the opposite. The only party it wants to

0:06:33 > 0:06:37scrap work relation protections are the party opposite.I have been

0:06:37 > 0:06:40clear since I became Prime Minister. That this is a government that will

0:06:40 > 0:06:45not only protect workers' rights but enhance workers' rights. And that's

0:06:45 > 0:06:50just look at the conservatives record in government. Who was it?

0:06:50 > 0:06:55Which government was it that took action on zero-hours contracts? A

0:06:55 > 0:07:01conservative government. Not labour. Which government it it? That adopted

0:07:01 > 0:07:07Matthew Taylor to report on the new economy to -- a conservative

0:07:07 > 0:07:09government, not labour. Which government is it that ensuring that

0:07:09 > 0:07:14workers voices are heard on the boards of companies a conservative

0:07:14 > 0:07:20government, not labour.I don't know if she's had a chance to read the

0:07:20 > 0:07:26Daily Telegraph today but 62 of her backbenchers want a bonfire of

0:07:26 > 0:07:31regulations, want to destroy workers' rights in this country.

0:07:31 > 0:07:34Well as usual during premises questions, the Commons was extremely

0:07:34 > 0:07:39noisy. And here is the point I think of peak rowdiness.Will the Prime

0:07:39 > 0:07:44Minister joined me in urging with the neighbour obese and crime

0:07:44 > 0:07:50Commissioner to put more police on the streets instead of increasing

0:07:50 > 0:07:57his budget for his staff by £10 million?Minister! No, the

0:07:57 > 0:08:01microphones only pick up the sound around the person who's speaking, I

0:08:01 > 0:08:05was in the press gallery which looks over the green benches and the noise

0:08:05 > 0:08:08across the chamber is absolutely incredible, it's like a wall of

0:08:08 > 0:08:12sound.Eventually the Speaker had had enough. More money is going to

0:08:12 > 0:08:22policing.Quarter! Order! Please. The questions and the answers must

0:08:22 > 0:08:30be heard and I make no apology for beating that the discussions here at

0:08:30 > 0:08:32prime ministers questions should bear some resemblance to what the

0:08:32 > 0:08:37House is saying in relation to culture. We have recently had a

0:08:37 > 0:08:44report on harassment. Let's try to behave properly in the session.

0:08:44 > 0:08:48Well, one person who has heard many prime ministers questions is marked

0:08:48 > 0:08:52our parliamentary correspondent. I hope is not affected your hearing?

0:08:52 > 0:08:55It was a wall of sound when you're in there, what you don't quite get

0:08:55 > 0:08:59from the television coverage is the cauldron like atmosphere, everywhere

0:08:59 > 0:09:04you look there are people jabbing their fingers and shutting out at

0:09:04 > 0:09:06whoever is speaking with is the Prime Minister or Jeremy Corbyn or

0:09:06 > 0:09:10somebody else and the speakers point there I was simply that you can't

0:09:10 > 0:09:14isolate that from the rest of what goes on in Parliament and if there

0:09:14 > 0:09:19is a bullying culture of crime -- prime ministers question time that's

0:09:19 > 0:09:22going to filter through into a lot else that goes on in Parliament and

0:09:22 > 0:09:25he does not want that to happen he does not want people to get that

0:09:25 > 0:09:28impression of the place.Why do they do it? In the newsroom we don't yell

0:09:28 > 0:09:35at each other, why do MPs do that? It's partly a bit of political

0:09:35 > 0:09:39theatre, don't forget a lot of this is quite calculated behind the

0:09:39 > 0:09:44scenes. People actually sort of look through the batting order of PMT was

0:09:44 > 0:09:47an think all hang on he will be talking about something very serious

0:09:47 > 0:09:50and someone we don't want to shout at him but that person is going to

0:09:50 > 0:09:54be saying and they political point and we want to try and disrupt them

0:09:54 > 0:09:58and they know there are some MPs who can be knocked off their stride by a

0:09:58 > 0:10:01really good heckle and a lot of conservatives think that Jeremy

0:10:01 > 0:10:04Corbyn can be goaded and can get very angry and you suddenly hear

0:10:04 > 0:10:08that back of the throat voice he gets when he's a bit under pressure.

0:10:08 > 0:10:13And they like to get him into that situation. And Theresa May also?

0:10:13 > 0:10:17Yes, she tends to sort of carry on fairly serenely but you can see

0:10:17 > 0:10:20occasionally that she gets a little bit rattled in the body language

0:10:20 > 0:10:26which changes a bit and anyone can in there, it's not all, comment on

0:10:26 > 0:10:28anyone's character it can be a horrible place when you're at the

0:10:28 > 0:10:32centre of attention.We had this report about harassment at

0:10:32 > 0:10:35Westminster, do you think that might change the tone of prime ministers

0:10:35 > 0:10:39questions, there are people who say that it should, there are people who

0:10:39 > 0:10:44argue and say you can't isolate the beer basing phase of the

0:10:44 > 0:10:48parliamentary week from the rest of what Parliament does.And this kind

0:10:48 > 0:10:51of leakage from one part of parliamentary life to all the rest

0:10:51 > 0:10:54and can contaminate everything if they're not careful in terms of how

0:10:54 > 0:10:59the public sees it. That the Incas is the moment in Parliament that is

0:10:59 > 0:11:03most seen so that the moment when they make a public impression and

0:11:03 > 0:11:07the Speaker in particular is very conscious of the dangers of that

0:11:07 > 0:11:10being some kind of beer pit.He's always saying the public hate this,

0:11:10 > 0:11:20is that true?To the public hate it? Well, sometimes I think people can

0:11:20 > 0:11:22condemn violent TV and violent cinema but still watch it and I

0:11:22 > 0:11:26think that maybe an adamant about pm queues, it's the most entertaining

0:11:26 > 0:11:29bit of the week. Whether it actually matters or really changes peoples

0:11:29 > 0:11:33perceptions except on a few very dramatic occasions I think is

0:11:33 > 0:11:36another question. It does liven up the week for us. It certainly does.

0:11:36 > 0:11:42You can get it marks for technical every time.Thank you. You may

0:11:42 > 0:11:47remember a few weeks ago, for Carillion executives lost for words

0:11:47 > 0:11:50in the face of questions from a joint committee, investigating why

0:11:50 > 0:11:55the company failed. On Thursday it was the pensions regulator and

0:11:55 > 0:11:57auditors who face similar treatment about their roles in the firms

0:11:57 > 0:12:02collapse. Carillion provided services for schools, hospitals and

0:12:02 > 0:12:08prisons. It went into liquidation at the beginning of the year and a hole

0:12:08 > 0:12:12in the company's pension scheme at hundreds of millions of pounds. More

0:12:12 > 0:12:15than a thousand people lost their jobs and there was widespread

0:12:15 > 0:12:21disruption amongst subcontractors and suppliers. First to face the

0:12:21 > 0:12:27music was the pensions regulator. How many other schemes work we did

0:12:27 > 0:12:30all these extra years, but paying dividends? How many in that

0:12:30 > 0:12:36position, could you tell?I cannot answer that question either, this is

0:12:36 > 0:12:39complicated, numbers of our period of time that changed constantly I

0:12:39 > 0:12:43will be happy to send the committee on Notes on how many schemes are in

0:12:43 > 0:12:48that situation.That should be your daily diet, every week you should

0:12:48 > 0:12:53meet your that and say here is the most vulnerable, still paying huge

0:12:53 > 0:12:57dividends, what action are we taking?I can assure you that we

0:12:57 > 0:13:03take forward these issues I have unidentified beer with our very

0:13:03 > 0:13:10committed staff down in Brighton.We doubt your actions. Next it was the

0:13:10 > 0:13:13turn of the auditors.I think it's quite simple and for me it comes

0:13:13 > 0:13:16down to this. I would not hire you to do an audit of the contents of my

0:13:16 > 0:13:19fridge because when I read it, I would not know what is actually in

0:13:19 > 0:13:24my fridge or not. And that's the point of auditing isn't it? To tell

0:13:24 > 0:13:29us what exists and what's there or not.We'll tell you what was there

0:13:29 > 0:13:36for the company records with is 73.9.And good to tell you what's in

0:13:36 > 0:13:39it, I'm going to show you the receipts from the supermarket.

0:13:39 > 0:13:42That's enough, I mean you have to open the fridge and have a look

0:13:42 > 0:13:47what's in there.His reply was to the effect that the fridge had been

0:13:47 > 0:13:53opened in 2014 and 15 but not in 2016. No, let's take a look at some

0:13:53 > 0:13:57of the news from around with Minister in brief. Up to 500 lives a

0:13:57 > 0:14:02year could be saved if the laws on organ donation in England were

0:14:02 > 0:14:05changed MPs were told. It were debating altering the rules on

0:14:05 > 0:14:09consensus of people would expressly have to opt out if they did not want

0:14:09 > 0:14:14their organs used after that. A conservative told the story of

0:14:14 > 0:14:18nine-year-old hero who was killed in a car accident.One of her kidneys

0:14:18 > 0:14:22was given to a man in his 30s who had been on the waiting list for an

0:14:22 > 0:14:30organ for 25 years. The other kidney was given to a woman in her 50s who

0:14:30 > 0:14:35had been on the waiting list for nine and a half years. The young boy

0:14:35 > 0:14:44he received hero's pancreas and liver. And her heart, her heart was

0:14:44 > 0:14:49given to a ten-year-old boy.The Health Secretary admitted the

0:14:49 > 0:14:53response to the way medical problems caused by three NHS treatments have

0:14:53 > 0:14:59not always been good enough. Hormone based pregnancy test claimed that

0:14:59 > 0:15:04the miscarriages and birth defects. Sodium valproate used to treat

0:15:04 > 0:15:07epilepsy was linked to autism and learning difficulties when taken in

0:15:07 > 0:15:12pregnancy. And the general mesh implants used after complications in

0:15:12 > 0:15:17childbirth caused some patients crippling side effects.Sometimes

0:15:17 > 0:15:20the reactions felt overly focused on defending the status quo rather than

0:15:20 > 0:15:25addressing the needs of patients. And as a result, patients and their

0:15:25 > 0:15:29families of spent too long feeling they were not being listened to,

0:15:29 > 0:15:35making agony of a complex medical situation even worse.So today, in

0:15:35 > 0:15:40addition to practical steps, for each of these three cases, I'm also

0:15:40 > 0:15:45setting up plans to establish a fairer, quicker and more

0:15:45 > 0:15:52compassionate way of addressing issues when they arise.

0:15:52 > 0:16:00To try and help the boy who has a rare form of epilepsy. For more up

0:16:00 > 0:16:06sure, suffers as many as 30 filing seizures a day. Being treated with

0:16:06 > 0:16:10cannabis oil, which is illegal in the UK. His epilepsy improved when

0:16:10 > 0:16:15he took the drug.There are thousands of people who happy choice

0:16:15 > 0:16:24of suffering terrible pain, and seizures, every day, or criminalize

0:16:24 > 0:16:27themselves by breaking the law. I would urge them to break the law!

0:16:27 > 0:16:36Because the law in this case is cool and lacks compassion!Northern

0:16:36 > 0:16:42Ireland is in a state of limbo, is a good ape promised to provide clarity

0:16:42 > 0:16:46for civil service, as soon as possible. There has been no

0:16:46 > 0:16:49functioning government for more than a year after the coalition collapsed

0:16:49 > 0:16:57in a bitter...A group of charities and others who want somebody to

0:16:57 > 0:17:00lobby and minister to argue with about mental health in Northern

0:17:00 > 0:17:04Ireland. Eric had been the ministers, that

0:17:06 > 0:17:13there have been no ministers, let them continue, yes we want to see

0:17:13 > 0:17:18the evolution. But it is a dereliction, to continue without a

0:17:18 > 0:17:21budget without ministerial decisions. It is time to get on with

0:17:21 > 0:17:27it.When Boris Johnson proposed a mile-long bridge, to connect with

0:17:27 > 0:17:35friends, experts were quick to point out having a bridge in one of the

0:17:35 > 0:17:44busiest shipping lanes. But he would not let that put them off.The

0:17:44 > 0:17:50existing channel tunnel is likely, at the present rate, within the next

0:17:50 > 0:17:54seven years, is a short time and the lifetime, it is a curiosity! That

0:17:54 > 0:18:00two of the most powerful economies in the world, separated by barely 21

0:18:00 > 0:18:09miles of water, are connected by only one railway line.Overseeing in

0:18:09 > 0:18:14emergency after the High Court ruled its current plan to tackle air

0:18:14 > 0:18:17pollution was unlawful. If court victory for campaigners, the judge

0:18:17 > 0:18:24said that the current approach, was not sufficient. He said that steps

0:18:24 > 0:18:27must be taken to comply with the law as soon as possible. Any comments

0:18:27 > 0:18:36there was clear anger from MPs.The fact is this is a national health

0:18:36 > 0:18:41emergency, millions of people could probably guide by recent estimates,

0:18:41 > 0:18:49by 2040, this is not good enough. She must act now.Currently

0:18:49 > 0:18:55exceeding legal limits of pollution, and 2008, EU and get air quality

0:18:55 > 0:18:59directive. It poses a serious question as to whether this

0:18:59 > 0:19:00conservative government can be trusted with our environment.

0:19:00 > 0:19:06Dealing with illegal air pollution after they leave the EU, if this is

0:19:06 > 0:19:14what we are witnessing now.Frankly, I am fed up with the opposition

0:19:14 > 0:19:19simply not accepting that their hard responsibility. To incentivize,

0:19:19 > 0:19:1920000 and

0:19:22 > 0:19:26to nearly half of all vehicles sold, I am not saying that previous Labour

0:19:26 > 0:19:31ministers did not do things in good faith. But as we have found out,

0:19:31 > 0:19:38labour and ignored advice that diesel fumes were toxic.By

0:19:40 > 0:19:48they're removing scenes in England, many politicians have been affected

0:19:48 > 0:19:54by cancer. And one of them was labours Karen Lee.She was diagnosed

0:19:54 > 0:20:01with breast cancer

0:20:07 > 0:20:11there were two foreign secretaries when, she was treated at Nottingham

0:20:11 > 0:20:20City Hospital, she had chemotherapy, and her treatment was just amazing.

0:20:20 > 0:20:24They just could not have been better. As well as that, she came

0:20:24 > 0:20:28home for the final weeks of her life to die. And the

0:20:30 > 0:20:39team that came was just I cannot thank them enough. I wish it could

0:20:39 > 0:20:45be me, and she is to say, I wish it could be no one. And I just think

0:20:45 > 0:20:49that in those moments, we have the power to influence and change, and

0:20:49 > 0:20:56maybe can join together across his and make 2050, know when you die of

0:20:56 > 0:20:57breast cancer.

0:21:02 > 0:21:07MPs went to comfort Karen Lee, on the right of the picture. Something

0:21:07 > 0:21:12the health minister noticed.Does always does one person that does not

0:21:12 > 0:21:22leads a dry eye in the house. I think the whole house wanted to give

0:21:22 > 0:21:31her a hug, and many of them did and bless them for that.The incoming

0:21:31 > 0:21:36head of the financial industry regulator had to repay tax after

0:21:36 > 0:21:41using an unapproved tax break scheme. It emerged as Charles

0:21:41 > 0:21:45Randall appeared before the treasury committee, he put money into a

0:21:45 > 0:21:50scheme that made use of tax breaks and formal productions, it was an

0:21:50 > 0:21:59error of judgement.I was reassured that this partnership had been

0:21:59 > 0:22:06discussed with senior policy officials who had indicated that

0:22:06 > 0:22:15they had approved of it. It is clear to me now that far from taking any

0:22:15 > 0:22:20comfort or not, I should have seen it as a warning signal because the

0:22:20 > 0:22:28mere fact that an informant insurance should be necessary,

0:22:28 > 0:22:31should have been telling me that this was an investment of which

0:22:31 > 0:22:41there was no statutory framework. Those who are seeking to be a chair,

0:22:41 > 0:22:45but it would look like, how the scheme works, it could well look

0:22:45 > 0:22:54like some tax break so people can... Sony not open to the consumers,

0:22:54 > 0:22:54regulated by

0:23:00 > 0:23:03Bohn he takes up his new position as leader of the SCA in April.What has

0:23:03 > 0:23:10been happening in a lot of Westminster, you be asking.

0:23:16 > 0:23:25It got off to a bouncy start, from basketball and the UK. MP reference

0:23:25 > 0:23:30US hip-hop artist ice cube about the benefits of the game. Yellow Nike

0:23:30 > 0:23:39wraps which party will play in basketball. It is an Olympic sport.

0:23:39 > 0:23:47The House of Lords has its first female

0:23:47 > 0:23:48The House of Lords has its first female, she is to be known as the

0:23:48 > 0:23:55lady of the black rod, and she was given a rousing reception as she was

0:23:55 > 0:24:03given her duties.We have all been glued to our television, watching

0:24:03 > 0:24:07Arnold Winter Olympics performance. Winning three medals in one day.

0:24:07 > 0:24:12Successfully defending her gold.But what is the skeleton? Basically it

0:24:12 > 0:24:23is finding yourself down a frozen track on a bobsled. Lying facedown!

0:24:23 > 0:24:28Maybe the government will have a head perspective now? In hot water

0:24:28 > 0:24:40after making disparaging remarks at a gig in Glasgow. He used it to

0:24:40 > 0:24:50discredit the Scottish budget.When he said, of the First Minister,

0:24:50 > 0:24:58those hands will be in everybody's pocket!The prime ministers Brexit

0:24:58 > 0:25:01showdown, ham hock

0:25:06 > 0:25:15as this is the first step to offer a healthy Brexit?

0:25:21 > 0:25:25And finally parliamentary procedure can be a little baffling, but the

0:25:25 > 0:25:28government business managers say they are expecting to know all the

0:25:28 > 0:25:33rules. Kelly was promoted to the job last month, but she may not have

0:25:33 > 0:25:37quite come to grips of what is what. As amended in the public bill

0:25:37 > 0:25:48committee, now.She won't do that again. And that is it for now, so

0:25:48 > 0:25:52for me, goodbye.