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Hello and welcome to Thursday in Parliament. | 0:00:12 | 0:00:16 | |
Hello and welcome to Thursday in Parliament. | 0:00:16 | 0:00:18 | |
Coming up a Labour MP says the UK is ignoring the murders | 0:00:18 | 0:00:21 | |
of teenage gang members. | 0:00:21 | 0:00:22 | |
The Government is accused of wanting to eviscerate the BBC. | 0:00:22 | 0:00:26 | |
And in the Lords and there is a cooling tips to save the planet. | 0:00:26 | 0:00:30 | |
I now use laddered tights, clean ones to filter through piths | 0:00:30 | 0:00:34 | |
and pips when making marmalade. | 0:00:34 | 0:00:36 | |
But first it is time for a cross-party commission | 0:00:36 | 0:00:41 | |
into stopping young people being drawn into gangs. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:49 | |
They warned gangs are widening their net into provincial towns. | 0:00:49 | 0:00:51 | |
That the level of violence is getting worse and gang members | 0:00:51 | 0:00:54 | |
are getting younger. | 0:00:54 | 0:00:56 | |
MPs spoke about some of the grim cases in their constituencies | 0:00:56 | 0:00:59 | |
and called for a new understanding of a problem that involved many | 0:00:59 | 0:01:02 | |
complex social issues. | 0:01:02 | 0:01:03 | |
Deprivation, domestic abuse and fear. | 0:01:03 | 0:01:07 | |
Just two weeks ago, I was notified by police of gun shots being fired | 0:01:07 | 0:01:13 | |
on a Friday in a location in the north of my constituency. | 0:01:13 | 0:01:16 | |
On the Saturday after there was a multiple stabbing of a young | 0:01:16 | 0:01:21 | |
man in the south of my constituency and then just outside my | 0:01:21 | 0:01:25 | |
constituency on the Sunday after that Saturday, | 0:01:25 | 0:01:26 | |
there was a drive-by shooting. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:29 | |
I will give way shortly. | 0:01:29 | 0:01:30 | |
On Monday this week at 530 PM in the afternoon a teenager | 0:01:30 | 0:01:35 | |
was stabbed in the north of my borough in Oval after a fight | 0:01:35 | 0:01:38 | |
in a chicken shop and so it goes on. | 0:01:38 | 0:01:41 | |
He examined some of the reasons for youth violence. | 0:01:41 | 0:01:44 | |
Some of the violence is carried out by young people from dysfunctional, | 0:01:44 | 0:01:48 | |
often chaotic families with a history of domestic violence. | 0:01:48 | 0:01:54 | |
Very often, a lot of young people who get wrapped up in this, | 0:01:54 | 0:01:57 | |
come from quite stable families, sometimes there is an issue | 0:01:57 | 0:02:05 | |
because you may have two parents who are struggling to make ends | 0:02:05 | 0:02:08 | |
meet, holding down two jobs to pay the bills and there is a link | 0:02:08 | 0:02:12 | |
to that because often, I was hearing from some young people | 0:02:12 | 0:02:17 | |
this morning, there is a desire to help, provide for your family | 0:02:17 | 0:02:20 | |
and your mum. | 0:02:20 | 0:02:23 | |
And you end up getting wrapped up in this kind of activity as a way | 0:02:23 | 0:02:26 | |
of making money to help pay the bills. | 0:02:26 | 0:02:31 | |
I don't care if the usual suspects are saying, | 0:02:31 | 0:02:33 | |
you are excusing, we are not providing excuses today. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:35 | |
But unless we look at why this is happening and the extra nation | 0:02:35 | 0:02:38 | |
then we will not stop it. | 0:02:38 | 0:02:44 | |
It is not fear the real reason why people join groups. | 0:02:44 | 0:02:51 | |
If you are a young person living on an estate in an area | 0:02:51 | 0:02:56 | |
where these groups operate, and you are not a member of that | 0:02:56 | 0:03:02 | |
group then you will be very fearful that this group were set | 0:03:02 | 0:03:10 | |
upon you and do you great damage. | 0:03:10 | 0:03:12 | |
In my view, in my limited understanding of this problem, | 0:03:12 | 0:03:15 | |
it seems to me that fear is the spur for young people | 0:03:15 | 0:03:18 | |
to join such groups. | 0:03:18 | 0:03:26 | |
I think Mr Speaker, the honourable gentleman has made | 0:03:26 | 0:03:28 | |
an important intervention. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:29 | |
I agree with him and think this is a major factor. | 0:03:29 | 0:03:31 | |
David Lammy said worries about gangs were not new. | 0:03:31 | 0:03:36 | |
What is new? | 0:03:36 | 0:03:39 | |
I think the level of violence is new. | 0:03:39 | 0:03:43 | |
I think the age profile is worrying. | 0:03:43 | 0:03:47 | |
And the geographic spread feels out of control. | 0:03:47 | 0:03:54 | |
And he said gang violence was spreading out of the big cities. | 0:03:54 | 0:04:04 | |
Last year we had Basildon, Grimsby, Harrow, High Wycombe, | 0:04:05 | 0:04:07 | |
Southampton, Swindon and what is going on here. | 0:04:07 | 0:04:10 | |
Something that was urban, that was in a city has now become | 0:04:10 | 0:04:13 | |
incredibly suburban. | 0:04:13 | 0:04:14 | |
Murders that were traditionally black have become white. | 0:04:14 | 0:04:20 | |
Actually, it is the whole reflection of our young people that | 0:04:20 | 0:04:24 | |
are being caught up in the violence, the picture is not unique | 0:04:24 | 0:04:26 | |
to particular communities. | 0:04:26 | 0:04:28 | |
It is spreading so there is a geographical spread. | 0:04:28 | 0:04:34 | |
I come back to is it worth an eight page strategy of very anodyne, | 0:04:34 | 0:04:37 | |
we will continue to prioritise the reduction of gang related | 0:04:37 | 0:04:40 | |
violence including knife crime. | 0:04:40 | 0:04:45 | |
How? | 0:04:45 | 0:04:46 | |
What? | 0:04:46 | 0:04:47 | |
When. | 0:04:47 | 0:04:48 | |
Two days before Christmas a young man I know who did working spread | 0:04:48 | 0:04:51 | |
to my office was surrounded by a group of 20 young people | 0:04:51 | 0:04:54 | |
and stabbed in the chest. | 0:04:54 | 0:04:57 | |
The knife entered the fat each issue of his heart, | 0:04:57 | 0:05:03 | |
he was extremely lucky to survive. | 0:05:03 | 0:05:05 | |
You can live in these communities and be unaware. | 0:05:05 | 0:05:07 | |
As a middle-aged woman, I can walk the streets and live | 0:05:07 | 0:05:09 | |
As a middle-aged woman, I can walk the streets and live | 0:05:09 | 0:05:10 | |
in a different world. | 0:05:10 | 0:05:11 | |
And the world that our young people living, in the cities | 0:05:11 | 0:05:13 | |
are increasingly towns to is different and their experience | 0:05:13 | 0:05:15 | |
of it is different. | 0:05:16 | 0:05:17 | |
Replying to the debate to the Home Office, Karen Bradley | 0:05:17 | 0:05:22 | |
reassured MPs that tackling youth violence was a priority. | 0:05:22 | 0:05:27 | |
She admitted that by the time young people came into conflict | 0:05:27 | 0:05:31 | |
with public authorities, usually at hospital, | 0:05:31 | 0:05:32 | |
it was too late. | 0:05:32 | 0:05:39 | |
Now Labour say that those at the top of government wants | 0:05:39 | 0:05:42 | |
to eviscerate the BBC. | 0:05:42 | 0:05:43 | |
The accusation came during culture questions. | 0:05:43 | 0:05:45 | |
The corporation's future is up for discussion after the Government | 0:05:45 | 0:05:47 | |
published a paper in July. | 0:05:47 | 0:05:53 | |
In the Commons, the Shadow Culture Secretary said the renewal | 0:05:53 | 0:05:56 | |
was being used to diminish the broadcaster and boost | 0:05:56 | 0:05:58 | |
its competitors. | 0:05:58 | 0:06:03 | |
Mr Speaker 80% of the 192,000 responses that were in | 0:06:03 | 0:06:07 | |
the consultation say the BBC serves | 0:06:07 | 0:06:09 | |
is audience well or very well, | 0:06:09 | 0:06:10 | |
the majority believe its content is high quality and distinctive | 0:06:10 | 0:06:13 | |
from other broadcasters. | 0:06:13 | 0:06:14 | |
The Secretary of State reports to be a supporter of the BBC so why | 0:06:14 | 0:06:18 | |
is he using the renewal to restrict what the BBC can do rather | 0:06:18 | 0:06:21 | |
than help | 0:06:21 | 0:06:22 | |
it to compete in a rapidly changing increasingly global | 0:06:22 | 0:06:24 | |
broadcasting environment? | 0:06:24 | 0:06:29 | |
I was not surprised to find the responses show that the vast | 0:06:29 | 0:06:32 | |
majority of people value the BBC, as I have said, I value it. | 0:06:32 | 0:06:36 | |
The right Honourable lady will have two away the publication | 0:06:36 | 0:06:39 | |
of the white paper but it is not a question of trying to cut back | 0:06:39 | 0:06:43 | |
on its output, nevertheless there is a case I believe | 0:06:43 | 0:06:47 | |
which is borne out by responses and other surveys we have conducted | 0:06:47 | 0:06:51 | |
that the BBC needs to be more distinctive and that is something | 0:06:51 | 0:06:54 | |
that the director-general himself has said when he set | 0:06:54 | 0:06:56 | |
out his own plans for a chance renewal. | 0:06:56 | 0:07:04 | |
The Secretary of State speech yesterday was more | 0:07:04 | 0:07:06 | |
about bashing the BBC rather than anything else | 0:07:06 | 0:07:13 | |
and that is what the chair of the BBC trust said. | 0:07:13 | 0:07:16 | |
Bashing the BBC is the one thing the secretary of state | 0:07:16 | 0:07:18 | |
and the Prime Minister and the Chancellor agree on these | 0:07:18 | 0:07:22 | |
on these days. | 0:07:22 | 0:07:25 | |
To eviscerate the BBC, to do its competitors FA that rather | 0:07:25 | 0:07:28 | |
than delivering what the licence fee paying public want to see. | 0:07:28 | 0:07:31 | |
They just don't seem to accept that the British people like the BBC | 0:07:31 | 0:07:34 | |
and wanted to continue what it's doing so when will the secretary | 0:07:34 | 0:07:37 | |
of state except that charter renewal should be about making | 0:07:37 | 0:07:39 | |
the BBC fit for the future, rather than trying to diminish | 0:07:39 | 0:07:42 | |
it for the commercial convenience of competitors? | 0:07:42 | 0:07:44 | |
I think the honourable lady must have looked at a different speech | 0:07:44 | 0:07:47 | |
to the one I delivered. | 0:07:47 | 0:07:51 | |
It certainly wasn't about bashing the BBC and indeed as soon as I have | 0:07:51 | 0:07:54 | |
finished making the speech I had a good meeting with the chairman | 0:07:54 | 0:08:03 | |
of a BBC trust who didn't mention anything about bashing | 0:08:03 | 0:08:06 | |
the BBC | 0:08:06 | 0:08:07 | |
and indeed welcomed what I had said. | 0:08:07 | 0:08:08 | |
As for the charter renewal, it is precisely about making the BBC | 0:08:08 | 0:08:11 | |
fit for the future and I do intend to try to bring forward | 0:08:11 | 0:08:14 | |
the publication as soon as possible. | 0:08:14 | 0:08:16 | |
As the honourable lady knows, there are a number of very important | 0:08:16 | 0:08:19 | |
contributions including 192,000 consultations which we want to take | 0:08:19 | 0:08:22 | |
fully into account. | 0:08:22 | 0:08:25 | |
I have had representations from hundreds of constituents | 0:08:25 | 0:08:26 | |
in Cambridge concerned about the future of the BBC. | 0:08:26 | 0:08:30 | |
Overwhelmingly supportive and positive I must say. | 0:08:30 | 0:08:34 | |
Now we have the results and over three fifths are in favour | 0:08:34 | 0:08:38 | |
of the current funding system, can we have an assurance | 0:08:38 | 0:08:41 | |
that there will be no further top slicing of the licence fee? | 0:08:41 | 0:08:46 | |
Well I do hope to be able to update the House on our progress | 0:08:46 | 0:08:50 | |
with the renewal of the charter in due course. | 0:08:50 | 0:08:53 | |
But we are taking all the responsibilities we have | 0:08:53 | 0:09:00 | |
received very seriously, we are fully taking them | 0:09:00 | 0:09:03 | |
into account, but I would like to point out that we have | 0:09:03 | 0:09:06 | |
already agreed with the BBC that one of the top slices, | 0:09:06 | 0:09:09 | |
that is the additional amount taking for broadband will come | 0:09:09 | 0:09:11 | |
to end in 2020. | 0:09:11 | 0:09:21 | |
I know my right honourable friend will have noted the forthcoming BBC | 0:09:22 | 0:09:25 | |
Shakespeare season held in collaboration with many other | 0:09:25 | 0:09:27 | |
bodies including the Royal Shakespeare Company, | 0:09:27 | 0:09:28 | |
designed to bring Shakespeare to life new generation using not | 0:09:28 | 0:09:31 | |
just TV but radio and online services as well. | 0:09:31 | 0:09:33 | |
Does he agree with me that this is exactly the sort of thing the BBC | 0:09:33 | 0:09:37 | |
ought to be doing and something that only the BBC can do? | 0:09:37 | 0:09:42 | |
I do agree with my right honourable friend strongly. | 0:09:42 | 0:09:45 | |
Another conservative turn to the findings of the recent report | 0:09:45 | 0:09:47 | |
into the abuse by the former BBC DJ and television presenter Jimmy | 0:09:47 | 0:09:50 | |
Savile. | 0:09:50 | 0:09:52 | |
This four-year ?6 million enquiry confirmed that Jimmy Savile molested | 0:09:52 | 0:09:57 | |
72 victims, raped a youngster as young as eight and attacks | 0:09:57 | 0:10:02 | |
occurred in the corridors and dressing rooms of every BBC | 0:10:02 | 0:10:11 | |
premises over a period of 47 years and yet no senior manager past | 0:10:11 | 0:10:14 | |
or present has accepted individual responsibility. | 0:10:14 | 0:10:15 | |
Does the secretary of state believe this is an adequate response | 0:10:15 | 0:10:18 | |
for the leading public service broadcaster? | 0:10:18 | 0:10:25 | |
Well I would say to my right honourable friend that I hope | 0:10:25 | 0:10:28 | |
he will read in full the statement by the director-general which makes | 0:10:28 | 0:10:31 | |
clear that the BBC does take this matter very seriously, | 0:10:31 | 0:10:33 | |
that it offers a full apology and that it fully accept | 0:10:33 | 0:10:39 | |
the recommendations of Dame Janet Smith. | 0:10:39 | 0:10:43 | |
The important thing is measures are put in place to ensure this | 0:10:43 | 0:10:46 | |
never happens again. | 0:10:46 | 0:10:47 | |
A lot has been done by the BBC but I welcome the fact the BBC have | 0:10:47 | 0:10:50 | |
accepted the recommendations of a further review to be carried | 0:10:50 | 0:10:54 | |
out to make sure that everything possible is being done to stop this | 0:10:54 | 0:10:58 | |
kind of abuse ever happening again. | 0:10:58 | 0:10:59 | |
John Whittingdale. | 0:10:59 | 0:11:02 | |
Staying with culture questions there was also a call for | 0:11:02 | 0:11:04 | |
the Government to do cyber bullying. | 0:11:04 | 0:11:10 | |
One in 5, 10-12-year-olds with a social media account has | 0:11:10 | 0:11:13 | |
been bullied online. | 0:11:13 | 0:11:17 | |
According to a BBC Newsround survey. | 0:11:17 | 0:11:24 | |
The survey found most 10-12 -year-olds have at least one | 0:11:24 | 0:11:27 | |
social media accounts. | 0:11:27 | 0:11:28 | |
Despite the fact that many networks say you must be 13 to join. | 0:11:28 | 0:11:31 | |
The survey asked over a thousand 10-18 year olds in the UK | 0:11:31 | 0:11:34 | |
about their experiences on social media. | 0:11:34 | 0:11:37 | |
Will the Minister agree with me in roundly welcoming | 0:11:37 | 0:11:40 | |
the consultation starting today which has commenced in taking action | 0:11:40 | 0:11:50 | |
on Internet trolls to create fake social media profiles to bully, | 0:11:55 | 0:11:58 | |
harass | 0:11:58 | 0:11:59 | |
and menace others online, | 0:11:59 | 0:12:00 | |
in particular taking real action on children affected | 0:12:00 | 0:12:02 | |
by this online bullying? | 0:12:02 | 0:12:03 | |
I entirely share my honourable friend's concern on this matter, | 0:12:03 | 0:12:05 | |
it is a very distressing matter when this happens. | 0:12:05 | 0:12:07 | |
I discovered that somebody had set up a profile of me | 0:12:07 | 0:12:10 | |
without my knowledge a few weeks ago which I swiftly had removed. | 0:12:10 | 0:12:13 | |
It is clear that we do need to tighten the law in this area | 0:12:13 | 0:12:18 | |
were people are using these profiles to cause distress and in some cases | 0:12:18 | 0:12:24 | |
breaching the law and therefore I absolutely welcomed | 0:12:24 | 0:12:26 | |
the new guidelines should the CPS are coming out with. | 0:12:26 | 0:12:31 | |
You are watching Thursday in Parliament, here on BBC | 0:12:31 | 0:12:33 | |
Parliament with me, Alicia McCarthy. | 0:12:33 | 0:12:39 | |
What can be done to promote public awareness of Parliament? | 0:12:41 | 0:12:45 | |
In the Commons, MPs had plenty of ideas, including getting more | 0:12:45 | 0:12:49 | |
children to visit. | 0:12:49 | 0:12:53 | |
There was also a suggestion that more use should be made | 0:12:53 | 0:12:57 | |
of modern technology. | 0:12:57 | 0:13:03 | |
Does the Deputy Leader of the House agree with me that use | 0:13:03 | 0:13:06 | |
of the internet and in particular developments such | 0:13:06 | 0:13:09 | |
as Parliamentlive.tv has the potential to hugely increase | 0:13:09 | 0:13:11 | |
the engagement of the public in the proceedings of this place? | 0:13:11 | 0:13:14 | |
The internet is a marvellous form of communication, | 0:13:14 | 0:13:17 | |
whether it is social media, whether it is Parliamentlive.tv. | 0:13:17 | 0:13:20 | |
Of course, people can also watch us on BBC Parliament channel, | 0:13:20 | 0:13:24 | |
if they so desire and I'm sure my mother is watching right now. | 0:13:24 | 0:13:30 | |
Thank you, Mr Speaker. | 0:13:31 | 0:13:34 | |
It will be of great concern to everybody in the House that more | 0:13:34 | 0:13:38 | |
and more people think Westminster politics is remote, | 0:13:38 | 0:13:40 | |
corrupt, boring - inexplicably - and unclear. | 0:13:40 | 0:13:44 | |
A third of eligible voters in Britain chose not to go down | 0:13:44 | 0:13:46 | |
the road and cast a ballot in last year's general election. | 0:13:46 | 0:13:50 | |
What does she believe are the main problems with Parliament that | 0:13:50 | 0:13:53 | |
are putting people off and what is the Government | 0:13:53 | 0:13:56 | |
doing about it? | 0:13:56 | 0:13:59 | |
Voter engagement, in terms of general election turnout, | 0:13:59 | 0:14:03 | |
collapsed in the 2001 election after four years of the Blair | 0:14:03 | 0:14:06 | |
Government. | 0:14:06 | 0:14:09 | |
But I am pleased to say that voter turnout has increased. | 0:14:09 | 0:14:12 | |
She talks about this institution potentially being corrupt. | 0:14:12 | 0:14:14 | |
I do not believe that is the case. | 0:14:15 | 0:14:17 | |
I believe we have high levels of integrity but where MPs have been | 0:14:17 | 0:14:20 | |
found to break the law, they have been sent to jail | 0:14:20 | 0:14:23 | |
and that is where they belonged. | 0:14:23 | 0:14:25 | |
Down the corridor in the Lords, there was concern that some Muslims | 0:14:25 | 0:14:28 | |
might be missing out on further education because their opposition | 0:14:28 | 0:14:32 | |
to interest-bearing loans prevented them from taking student loans. | 0:14:32 | 0:14:36 | |
Peers were told the Government had consulted an a Sharia-conmpliant | 0:14:36 | 0:14:41 | |
finance scheme for the students and hoped to introduce a product | 0:14:41 | 0:14:43 | |
based on Takaful - a form of Islamic insurance. | 0:14:43 | 0:14:47 | |
I ask the Minister the question because the head teacher | 0:14:47 | 0:14:50 | |
of the Preston Muslim Girls School asked me the question | 0:14:50 | 0:14:53 | |
and I could not answer it. | 0:14:53 | 0:14:56 | |
I'm not sure the head teacher and his students will find | 0:14:56 | 0:14:59 | |
much present comfort in the Minister's reply. | 0:14:59 | 0:15:01 | |
Every year that passes without a solution, thousands | 0:15:01 | 0:15:04 | |
of Muslim students are disadvantaged. | 0:15:04 | 0:15:07 | |
The Government, as the Minister said, identified the solution two | 0:15:07 | 0:15:10 | |
years ago and still can't say when it is going to be delivered. | 0:15:10 | 0:15:14 | |
Will the Minister agree to meet with me so we can discuss how | 0:15:14 | 0:15:17 | |
to have a Sharia-compliant system in place without further delay? | 0:15:17 | 0:15:22 | |
As I said, the Government did a consultation in 2014 | 0:15:22 | 0:15:26 | |
and we are continuing to work closely with experts in Islamic | 0:15:26 | 0:15:29 | |
finance to develop the product. | 0:15:29 | 0:15:33 | |
But at the moment, the Secretary of State does not have power to just | 0:15:33 | 0:15:36 | |
introduce this product, we do need primary legislation | 0:15:36 | 0:15:38 | |
which is why we are hoping and looking for a suitable | 0:15:38 | 0:15:42 | |
opportunity to bring it forward. | 0:15:42 | 0:15:44 | |
Given that the student maintenance grants are now going to be ended, | 0:15:44 | 0:15:47 | |
this is going to be far more urgent because it means there is a whole | 0:15:47 | 0:15:51 | |
swathe of students now that will not have grants available to them, | 0:15:51 | 0:15:57 | |
so it really isn't any good saying they have been doing this for two | 0:15:57 | 0:16:01 | |
and a half years now, it has to be in place by the time | 0:16:01 | 0:16:04 | |
the grants are withdrawn. | 0:16:04 | 0:16:06 | |
Can we have that commitment from the Government? | 0:16:06 | 0:16:10 | |
As I said, we will be looking for a suitable vehicle | 0:16:10 | 0:16:14 | |
with which to attempt to introduce the system. | 0:16:14 | 0:16:17 | |
There is strong interest in it and the consultation responses - | 0:16:17 | 0:16:20 | |
94% believed there would be demand for such a system and 81% thought | 0:16:20 | 0:16:23 | |
that the proposed scheme which is being developed | 0:16:23 | 0:16:27 | |
was acceptable, so we want of course to assure access to all students | 0:16:27 | 0:16:30 | |
to our education which is why we would be the first Government | 0:16:30 | 0:16:33 | |
to introduce such a scheme but we need primary legislation | 0:16:33 | 0:16:35 | |
to do so. | 0:16:35 | 0:16:38 | |
Can the Minister tell me, will this product be available | 0:16:38 | 0:16:42 | |
to persons of all religions or none? | 0:16:42 | 0:16:45 | |
Yes, this will be a product that is open to everybody. | 0:16:45 | 0:16:48 | |
It is 45 years ago today, the first British nuclear submarine | 0:16:48 | 0:16:51 | |
reached the North Pole... | 0:16:51 | 0:16:53 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:16:53 | 0:16:56 | |
It only did that courtesy of the engineers and the skill | 0:16:56 | 0:16:59 | |
of those engineers and in the interest of helping out any | 0:16:59 | 0:17:02 | |
of the Muslims who wish to join the Navy as engineers, | 0:17:02 | 0:17:05 | |
will get their courses paid for. | 0:17:05 | 0:17:07 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:17:07 | 0:17:10 | |
I thank the noble Lord for his comments and | 0:17:10 | 0:17:13 | |
add my congratulations for this important occasion. | 0:17:13 | 0:17:17 | |
As I said, what we do want to do is try and ensure that access | 0:17:17 | 0:17:20 | |
to university, all young people who wish to and have the ability | 0:17:20 | 0:17:23 | |
to go to university have so and that is why | 0:17:23 | 0:17:26 | |
we are looking forward. | 0:17:26 | 0:17:27 | |
We would be the first Government to introduce such a product. | 0:17:27 | 0:17:30 | |
Labour has urged the Government to do more to promote the circular | 0:17:30 | 0:17:33 | |
economy, cutting waste by repairing and recycling products rather | 0:17:33 | 0:17:36 | |
than throwing them away. | 0:17:36 | 0:17:39 | |
The opposition called on ministers to encourage consumers to reject | 0:17:39 | 0:17:42 | |
the throwaway society and cut landfill mountains. | 0:17:42 | 0:17:46 | |
Peers said radical new thinking was needed to prevent | 0:17:46 | 0:17:49 | |
the unsustainable use of resources such as precious metals which ended | 0:17:49 | 0:17:53 | |
up in rubbish tips when products broke down or were no longer wanted. | 0:17:53 | 0:17:57 | |
Current consumption is linear - companies use raw materials to make | 0:17:57 | 0:18:01 | |
products, they are sold to consumers, who then discard them | 0:18:01 | 0:18:05 | |
when they are no longer valuable or useful. | 0:18:05 | 0:18:08 | |
The circular economy replaces that model with a virtuous circle | 0:18:08 | 0:18:12 | |
which replaces the concept of waste with the concept of disassembly | 0:18:12 | 0:18:17 | |
and re-use so that materials are used again and again. | 0:18:17 | 0:18:22 | |
The global population is set to increase from 7 billion | 0:18:22 | 0:18:26 | |
to 9 billion by 2050, many of whom will be joining | 0:18:26 | 0:18:30 | |
the new middle classes with new levels of consumption. | 0:18:30 | 0:18:34 | |
In the next 20 years, we will need 40% more energy | 0:18:34 | 0:18:38 | |
and water and three times more material resources. | 0:18:38 | 0:18:42 | |
Ways of doing things which may come naturally to us need to be shared | 0:18:42 | 0:18:46 | |
with the new generation, who find it easier to chuck | 0:18:46 | 0:18:48 | |
than to reuse. | 0:18:48 | 0:18:51 | |
When I was a girl growing up, before tights were invented, | 0:18:51 | 0:18:54 | |
we were taught to darn our own stockings - | 0:18:54 | 0:18:57 | |
that is his circular economy. | 0:18:57 | 0:19:00 | |
I now use laddered tights - clean ones - to filter | 0:19:00 | 0:19:03 | |
through the pith and pips when making marmalade and of course | 0:19:03 | 0:19:07 | |
then to recycle the residue into my compost bin. | 0:19:07 | 0:19:10 | |
Again, my own personal, household circular economy. | 0:19:10 | 0:19:14 | |
There are standards for how you deal with food waste but we have yet | 0:19:14 | 0:19:17 | |
to get to the situation where the food industry itself | 0:19:17 | 0:19:21 | |
is changing the way in which it operates. | 0:19:21 | 0:19:24 | |
The food chain needs to be circular and not linear. | 0:19:24 | 0:19:28 | |
It is estimated, there are probably 125 million old mobile phones | 0:19:28 | 0:19:33 | |
languishing in the top drawers of British households at the moment, | 0:19:33 | 0:19:38 | |
many of which contain metals that are becoming increasingly scarce | 0:19:38 | 0:19:42 | |
in the natural world. | 0:19:42 | 0:19:45 | |
We still generate roughly 200 million tonnes of waste | 0:19:45 | 0:19:48 | |
annually across the UK. We must reduce this. | 0:19:48 | 0:19:52 | |
We must do more to ensure that waste that cannot be prevented | 0:19:52 | 0:19:57 | |
is reused and the noble lady, Lady Jones of Whitchurch, | 0:19:57 | 0:20:01 | |
highlighted challenges there are in increasing | 0:20:01 | 0:20:04 | |
levels of recycling. | 0:20:04 | 0:20:08 | |
Currently we recycle 44.9% of waste from households and we are indeed | 0:20:08 | 0:20:12 | |
committed to meeting the EU target of 50% by 2020. | 0:20:12 | 0:20:16 | |
But we need to go further of course and Government continue to work | 0:20:16 | 0:20:20 | |
with local authorities and businesses to promote best practice. | 0:20:20 | 0:20:26 | |
Lord Gardiner. | 0:20:26 | 0:20:29 | |
You might feel as though you have already heard plenty about June's | 0:20:29 | 0:20:31 | |
referendum on our EU membership, but in the Commons | 0:20:31 | 0:20:34 | |
at Business Questions, several MPs thought there was a need | 0:20:34 | 0:20:37 | |
for plenty more debate, with one suggesting the subject | 0:20:37 | 0:20:41 | |
should come up for discussion very, very regularly. | 0:20:41 | 0:20:45 | |
Every week, we should have, surely, a major debate, | 0:20:45 | 0:20:48 | |
and could we start with one on the dreadful impact that | 0:20:48 | 0:20:52 | |
leaving the EU would have on our universities, | 0:20:52 | 0:20:55 | |
for most of us in university towns, our biggest employers, | 0:20:55 | 0:20:58 | |
vital to our future, not one vice Chancellor has come out | 0:20:58 | 0:21:02 | |
in favour of Brexit. | 0:21:02 | 0:21:04 | |
Could we have an early debate, a regular debate? | 0:21:04 | 0:21:07 | |
I am sure that we will have plenty of opportunities to debate | 0:21:07 | 0:21:10 | |
European Union matters. | 0:21:10 | 0:21:13 | |
We have just had a series of statements and debates | 0:21:13 | 0:21:15 | |
on these issues. | 0:21:15 | 0:21:18 | |
I'm sure the future of universities will be a matter of debate | 0:21:18 | 0:21:21 | |
and discussion in those at which the means of funding, | 0:21:21 | 0:21:24 | |
either direct or indirect via Brussels, will be a regular | 0:21:24 | 0:21:26 | |
subject for a debate. | 0:21:26 | 0:21:28 | |
Can we have a debate about positive campaigning and can | 0:21:28 | 0:21:30 | |
we encourage everyone, when we are debating our place | 0:21:30 | 0:21:33 | |
in Europe, that this is done as positively as possible? | 0:21:33 | 0:21:35 | |
One of the major issues to be debated during the EU referendum | 0:21:35 | 0:21:38 | |
campaign will be the size of the UK's net contribution. | 0:21:38 | 0:21:42 | |
Could the Leader find time for a debate so that those in favour | 0:21:42 | 0:21:45 | |
of leaving the EU can outline the infrastructure projects | 0:21:45 | 0:21:49 | |
and improvements to public services we could spend that money on? | 0:21:49 | 0:21:53 | |
And it would also give an opportunity for those to try | 0:21:53 | 0:21:58 | |
and defend why the money should go to Europe rather than be spent | 0:21:58 | 0:22:01 | |
in their own constituency. | 0:22:01 | 0:22:05 | |
Some French Minister has apparently been saying today that if we had | 0:22:05 | 0:22:08 | |
the nerve to come out of the EU, all the 4,000 people in Calais | 0:22:08 | 0:22:12 | |
would be put in rubber boats and come across to Britain | 0:22:12 | 0:22:15 | |
because the French don't want anything to do with it. | 0:22:15 | 0:22:17 | |
If I was a Frenchman, I would be hugely embarrassed | 0:22:17 | 0:22:20 | |
by my Government. | 0:22:20 | 0:22:23 | |
A country that is two and a half size of this country, | 0:22:23 | 0:22:26 | |
and roughly the same population cannot disperse 4,000 people | 0:22:26 | 0:22:28 | |
and look after them. They should be ashamed. | 0:22:28 | 0:22:32 | |
Could we have a statement from the Foreign Secretary next week | 0:22:32 | 0:22:36 | |
letting this House know whether it is the Government's | 0:22:36 | 0:22:42 | |
position that if we came out of the EU, we would have more | 0:22:42 | 0:22:46 | |
immigration to this country, rather than less? | 0:22:46 | 0:22:48 | |
Chris Grayling, who favours leaving the EU, said he was certain | 0:22:48 | 0:22:51 | |
that the Foreign Secretary would be back in front | 0:22:51 | 0:22:54 | |
of the Commons very shortly. | 0:22:54 | 0:22:58 | |
The fallout from the EU referendum was also on the mind | 0:22:58 | 0:23:02 | |
of the Shadow Leader of the Commons Chris Bryant. | 0:23:02 | 0:23:05 | |
He pressed Chris Grayling to give the date of the Queen's Speech - | 0:23:05 | 0:23:10 | |
the day when the Government sets out the bills it wants to put into law | 0:23:10 | 0:23:14 | |
over the next year. | 0:23:14 | 0:23:15 | |
Mr Bryant wondered if the Government was putting this off | 0:23:15 | 0:23:18 | |
because of the referendum. | 0:23:18 | 0:23:20 | |
He suggested that perhaps MPs would run out of things to do | 0:23:20 | 0:23:23 | |
in this session if it did not end soon. | 0:23:23 | 0:23:25 | |
Downing Street has also said there is going to be a re-shuffle | 0:23:25 | 0:23:28 | |
after the referendum and that the Leader of the House | 0:23:28 | 0:23:30 | |
tops the list of those who will be sacked. | 0:23:30 | 0:23:33 | |
I for one am beginning to feel very sorry for him so I have been | 0:23:33 | 0:23:36 | |
searching the job pages for him. | 0:23:36 | 0:23:39 | |
Sadly, the only thing that seemed even vaguely suitable | 0:23:39 | 0:23:41 | |
was working as an unpaid, voluntary intern for | 0:23:41 | 0:23:44 | |
the honourable member for Bath. | 0:23:44 | 0:23:46 | |
But unfortunately, he says in the job description, | 0:23:46 | 0:23:50 | |
that he wants someone who is a good team player so that rules | 0:23:50 | 0:23:53 | |
the Leader out. | 0:23:53 | 0:23:54 | |
And all the other jobs say they want someone with a good sense of humour. | 0:23:54 | 0:23:58 | |
LAUGHTER Need I say more? | 0:23:58 | 0:24:01 | |
Don't worry though, I'm sure the Prime Minister will give | 0:24:01 | 0:24:04 | |
the Leader of the House a glowing reference. | 0:24:04 | 0:24:06 | |
The last Parliament was the 'zombie Parliament', as we know. | 0:24:06 | 0:24:09 | |
For months on end, the House had no proper business. | 0:24:09 | 0:24:12 | |
Now, we have the return of the living dead. | 0:24:12 | 0:24:14 | |
They walk amongst us, they look like ministers, | 0:24:14 | 0:24:17 | |
they are paid like ministers but they are doomed. | 0:24:17 | 0:24:20 | |
They hate the Prime Minister, they think he is damaging | 0:24:20 | 0:24:22 | |
the economy and putting our security at risk. | 0:24:22 | 0:24:24 | |
Frankly, the only thing that is keeping them | 0:24:24 | 0:24:27 | |
in the Government is the ?23,570.89 extra salary they will get by | 0:24:27 | 0:24:31 | |
23rd June. | 0:24:31 | 0:24:35 | |
So how does the Government intend to fill the business | 0:24:35 | 0:24:37 | |
between now and then? | 0:24:38 | 0:24:40 | |
We will announce the date of the Queen's Speech when we have | 0:24:40 | 0:24:43 | |
decided the date of the Queen's Speech and as always, | 0:24:43 | 0:24:45 | |
the honourable gentleman makes the mistake of believing that | 0:24:45 | 0:24:47 | |
what he reads the papers is what is actually going to happen. | 0:24:47 | 0:24:50 | |
I haven't seen the papers. | 0:24:50 | 0:24:53 | |
We will take a decision on the Queen's Speech | 0:24:53 | 0:24:55 | |
and we will announce it to this House as always. | 0:24:55 | 0:24:59 | |
And of course, we have to be mindful of the needs to ensure | 0:24:59 | 0:25:02 | |
the progress of business. | 0:25:02 | 0:25:04 | |
I think it somewhat ironic, actually, he can't really | 0:25:04 | 0:25:07 | |
have it both ways. | 0:25:07 | 0:25:09 | |
On the one hand, he is saying, where are the recess dates | 0:25:09 | 0:25:12 | |
and on the other hand, he is saying it is a zombie | 0:25:12 | 0:25:14 | |
Parliament, with no serious business. | 0:25:14 | 0:25:16 | |
Actually, he is completely wrong. | 0:25:16 | 0:25:18 | |
I have just set out plans for a second reading of the Policing | 0:25:18 | 0:25:21 | |
and Crime Bill next week, a really important measure that | 0:25:21 | 0:25:24 | |
will, I think, restore a sensible balance to many aspects | 0:25:24 | 0:25:26 | |
of our policing and justice system. | 0:25:26 | 0:25:29 | |
I announced the Investigatory Powers Bill, a crucial bill to enable us | 0:25:29 | 0:25:32 | |
to defend our country. | 0:25:32 | 0:25:33 | |
If he thinks that is a feature of a zombie Parliament, | 0:25:33 | 0:25:36 | |
then frankly, he doesn't know what the word zombie means. | 0:25:36 | 0:25:38 | |
Chris Grayling on how you define a zombie. | 0:25:38 | 0:25:40 | |
And that is it for now but do join me on Friday night at 11pm | 0:25:40 | 0:25:44 | |
for a full round-up of the week here at Westminster, | 0:25:44 | 0:25:46 | |
including a round-up of this week's arguments on Europe | 0:25:46 | 0:25:49 | |
and an explanation of why the Government has paused plans | 0:25:49 | 0:25:51 | |
to devolve more powers to Wales. | 0:25:51 | 0:25:55 | |
But for now, from me, Alicia McCarthy, goodbye. | 0:25:55 | 0:26:01 |