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Hello there and welcome to Thursday In Parliament. | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
MPs warn changes to the British steel pension fund risk setting | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
The Defence Secretary tells MPs the aim of UK air strikes in Syria | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
is not to kill as many extremists as possible. | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
And in the Lords there are calls for some clarity on healthy eating. | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
We used to be told we shouldn't eat fatty foods, | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
We used to be told that one glass of red wine a day was good for us, | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
then we were told we should have none. | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
Now we are being told we can have two. | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
But first, the Government is to carry out a consultation | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
on the future of the pension scheme for steel workers. | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
Paying for pensions is seen as an obstacle | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
to the sale by Tata Steel of its British steel-making operations. | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
In total, the British Steel pension scheme has around 130,000 members | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
with a deficit running into hundreds of millions of pounds. | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
One option under consideration is to base the scheme's annual increase | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
on the Consumer Prices Index or CPI inflation, | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
a measure which is usually below the Retail Prices Index | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
But many MPs are worried about the precedent that might set. | :01:19. | :01:25. | |
The Business Secretary made a statement to MPs. | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
This remains, Mr Speaker, quite rightly, | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
It is not the Government's job to pick a winner | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
What we can do is listen to Tata, listen to bidders | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
and work with everyone involved to remove potential | :01:42. | :01:43. | |
For example, we are today launching a consultation | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
on options to deliver clarity and security | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
for British steel pension scheme members. | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
This follows representations from the trustees of | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
the scheme itself and also from Tata. | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
The Shadow Business Secretary wanted more detail about | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
The British steel pension scheme, especially the liabilities | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
it now brings with it, is clearly an issue | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
Any resolution must protect the pensions | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
of the scheme's 130,000 beneficiaries, but it must also, | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
Mr Speaker, ensure that it avoids setting a potentially dangerous | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
precedent for the millions of other occupational pensioners | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
who currently enjoy RPI indexation rights. | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
What assurance can the Secretary of State give me that this | :02:37. | :02:38. | |
in the future to other occupational schemes? | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
Can this change be sensibly and safely ring-fenced, | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
because if not, it's very, very difficult. | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
I think one of the first important points to make is that | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
it is the scheme's trustees that have come forward | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
and asked us to look at current legislation | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
because they believe that it would lead to better outcomes | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
for their members, so this is a product of the scheme | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
Under the scheme's current rules, they do have the ability | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
to make all the changes that they have proposed but | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
they are prevented, rightly so, by legislation, the 1995 Pensions Act | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
and they have asked us if we would consider | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
in the case of their scheme and their scheme only. | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
The SNP spokesman said the statement raised more | :03:34. | :03:35. | |
How will pensioners currently in the scheme be affected? | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
Will there be a disadvantage for future scheme members? | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
And will he commit to set aside more time in this House | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
so that all of these issues can be teased out and | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
discussed in a timeous fashion to support the industry but also to | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
ensure that there aren't any wider, unintended consequences? | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
He is absolutely right, as the honourable gentleman said, | :03:59. | :04:00. | |
that we don't set any precedents where the House | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
At the same time as saying that though, | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
I think it is also right that we listen to the trustees and indeed | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
the unions and Tata itself about this proposal and we consider it | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
There has been some speculation in the media | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
that Tata Steel may in fact decide to retain the business. | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
Could the Secretary of State explain, | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
if that were to happen, what role Tata Steel | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
would play in this issue of dealing with the pension scheme? | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
Mr Speaker, there is all sorts of speculation on this issue | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
But what I can tell the honourable gentleman, who I know has | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
been very committed to this process, | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
we have discussed it in person a number of times, | :04:47. | :04:48. | |
that Tata itself remains committed and very focused | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
As I mentioned earlier, there are seven potential bidders. | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
The next step is to narrow the field, which is important | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
so we can all focus along with Tata on the most credible bids | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
and the Government stands ready to work with those bidders. | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
Later, the Chancellor and Shadow Chancellor clashed | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
over the state of the economy, as the week-long debate | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
on the contents of the Queen's Speech finally drew to a close. | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
George Osborne said his opposite number, John McDonnell, | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
was living in a parallel universe with plans to raise taxes | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
while Mr McDonnell accused Mr Osborne of failing | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
to meet his own financial targets and achieving | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
the slowest economic recovery in living memory. | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
It's useless to preach to us in quotes | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
about a stronger economy when by his actions | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
in office for six years, the Chancellor has methodically | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
Austerity was a political choice, not an economic necessity. | :05:43. | :05:50. | |
We have a department for tax collection | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
that doesn't believe in collecting taxes, | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
not at least from major corporations. | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
That was demonstrated when they struck the deal | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
with Google which reflects an effective tax rate | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
And the Chancellor called it a major success. | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
Home ownership has fallen to its lowest level in decades | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
Rough sleeping has risen in London by 30% in the last year. | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
Of course, it's not just in London where this phenomenon is happening, | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
but actually in the streets of Manchester, we now have tents. | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
Isn't that a shocking indictment on this Government's housing policy? | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
I have possibly 200 families tonight living in bed-and-breakfast. | :06:38. | :06:45. | |
I have individuals sleeping in our parks along the canals. | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
We have reinvented in my constituency the back-to-back | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
where a family rents the front of a house | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
We have beds in sheds rented to families. | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
This Government has been in power were six years | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
I listened in complete incredulity to yet another speech | :07:06. | :07:13. | |
from yet another Shadow Chancellor promising yet more | :07:14. | :07:15. | |
billions of pounds of spending and borrowing and extra taxes. | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
It is as if the scorching experience of the financial crash | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
eight years ago and the crippling deficit | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
they saddled this country with never happened. | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
Indeed, most of the time when he was | :07:32. | :07:33. | |
quoting the record of the Labour Government, | :07:34. | :07:34. | |
as if he had forgotten that then was the biggest crash in | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
modern history while the Labour Party was in office. | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
It's a bit like saying to Mrs Lincoln, | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
"Apart from the assassination, did you enjoy the play?" | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
I want this country and the people living in it | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
to be the greatest success story of the 21st-century | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
and to make that happen, there will be controversy, | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
Making change, confronting vested interest | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
is always difficult, but this Queen's speech demonstrates | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
It shows that when it comes to standing up for the | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
hard-working people of Britain, we are up for the fight. | :08:14. | :08:15. | |
My right honourable friend the Chancellor | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
knows that I have said this to him again and again, I just hope with | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
every budget that he introduces, he tries to simplify the tax | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
and benefits system, tries to strip away allowances, | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
tries to converge taxes so that we do not need to employ | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
these armies of accountants simply trying to advise people | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
Within the world of multinationals, it is aggressive tax avoidance | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
hidden behind corporate walls which is denying Britain | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
and many other countries the taxes they are due. | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
That is why I believe tax transparency is the single | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
The counter-productive decision to close 137 HMRC offices | :08:56. | :09:03. | |
will strip local businesses and individuals | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
throughout the UK of the support they need to ensure | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
In order to tackle tax avoidance at all levels and to continue | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
to provide local support when it is needed, the UK Government | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
must place a moratorium on HMRC office closures. | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
You're watching Thursday in Parliament, with me, | :09:26. | :09:27. | |
The aim of UK air strikes in Syria is not to kill | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
as many Daesh as possible but to undermine their will | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
to fight, the Defence Secretary, Michael Fallon, has told MPs. | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
He was answering questions from the Defence Committee | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
about the disparity between the number | :09:46. | :09:47. | |
of RAF air strikes being carried out in Iraq compared to Syria. | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
It's estimated that over 1500 fighters allied to the so-called | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
Islamic State group have been killed in Iraq since December | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
while the death toll among IS fighters in Syria is 22. | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
In Iraq, my understanding is that there have | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
been over 760 air strikes in Iraq against 1349 targets in Iraq. | :10:09. | :10:22. | |
Over the same period from the beginning of December | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
when we began in Syria, there have been 43 air strikes | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
Isn't this pretty much what we would expect | :10:33. | :10:41. | |
when we are working closely in cooperation with active fighting | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
forces on the ground in one theatre, Iraq, | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
but the same cannot be said of the other theatre, Syria? | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
And just to complete the set of statistics, | :10:57. | :10:58. | |
my understanding is that our estimated number of enemy combatants | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
killed, which I am assured can only be an estimate for that period, | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
beginning of December to the end of April, | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
in Iraq is 518, a sizeable number, but in Syria it is only 22. | :11:14. | :11:22. | |
I think it is extremely misleading to look at the statistics | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
We are only able to estimate enemy killed in action. | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
These are very crude estimates because we don't have obviously | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
people on the ground where we can't investigate every single attack. | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
The aim of these missions is not to kill | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
as many Daesh as possible, it is of course to degrade them on occasion | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
But in the end, to try to undermine the will to fight | :11:50. | :11:57. | |
by attacking their command and control, | :11:58. | :11:59. | |
So it is far too simplistic simply to measure | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
the mission by the number of people that are killed. | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
I'm sorry that the Secretary of State thinks that I'm trying | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
to extrapolate too much from the numbers of people killed. | :12:11. | :12:12. | |
I only added that as an afterthought. | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
The question I'm trying to put to you, | :12:16. | :12:17. | |
Secretary of State, is that in Iraq, we are having something like | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
15 times as many air strikes as we are in Syria | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
and I don't think that is open to dispute. | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
As well as trying to get rid of so-called Islamic State, | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
the Coalition is opposed to Syria's President Assad. | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
Should we be pleased or sorry that the Syrian Government, | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
with Russian and other outside help, have regained Palmyra from Daesh? | :12:45. | :12:57. | |
I don't think I'm pleased or sorry, but would you like to add to that? | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
Well, I mean, I would say that if it means that what remains | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
of the historic site of Palmyra is preserved, | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
then that is probably a net benefit. | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
I think the strategic advantage to Palmyra would | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
be control of the associated gas fields and it is important that that | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
A former army captain, who served in Afghanistan, | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
saw a lack of political will over the last 15 years. | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
The feeling that we have certainly come | :13:39. | :13:40. | |
across in witnesses to this committee | :13:41. | :13:42. | |
and in visits to Baghdad saw that we need to fundamentally | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
rethink how we go about these things. | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
And we need to have the stomach and the will to really | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
How do you think we can do that better both | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
The Defence Secretary replied that they were "big questions" | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
and speculated that the Chilcot report, to be published next month, | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
may provide further guidance in answering them. | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
A seven-year-old boy and his family who live in the Highlands, | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
face no immediate threat of deportation, according | :14:22. | :14:23. | |
was raised at Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday. | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
His parents came to the UK in 2011 when his mother was studying | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
but are now facing the possibility of being returned to Australia. | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
The family's MP called a minister to the Commons. | :14:40. | :14:48. | |
I'm meeting the honourable member for Ross, Skye and Lochaber | :14:49. | :14:50. | |
to further discuss this matter, but he can be assured | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
that the family does not face imminent risk of | :14:54. | :14:55. | |
More broadly, it is important we recognise | :14:56. | :15:04. | |
There are no limits on the number of international graduates who | :15:05. | :15:19. | |
can remain in the UK to take up graduate | :15:20. | :15:21. | |
level work, provided they | :15:22. | :15:22. | |
can secure a graduate job paying an appropriate salary. | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
writing and reading in | :15:27. | :15:37. | |
he does not write and read in English, | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
he speaks English, but it is a different thing | :15:45. | :15:46. | |
to be able to be educated in a different language and the thought | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
of deporting that young boy back to Australia, | :15:50. | :15:51. | |
where he will be two years behind his peer group, is | :15:52. | :15:53. | |
All of us should be judged by the actions that we take. | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
For goodness' sake, Minister, today, do the right | :15:59. | :16:00. | |
Mr Speaker, the honourable gentleman will know that I have met | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
him on previous occasions to discuss this case and he says that I should | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
He will know that I have already exercised discretion not once, but | :16:08. | :16:15. | |
twice in relation to this case on the basis of representations | :16:16. | :16:17. | |
that he has made on behalf of of the family. | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
And so, I will obviously listen very carefully to what he said and I look | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
forward to meeting him later on to hear more of the details | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
that he has related to the House this morning | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
and reflect further in relation to the representations | :16:35. | :16:36. | |
This may be a case where the Government | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
is being overly harsh on people outside of the European Union | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
as a direct consequence of having free movement of people | :16:44. | :16:51. | |
Their case is yet another that highlights the | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
chaos of the immigration system under this Government. | :16:58. | :16:59. | |
The Brains' situation will be familiar to many | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
members in this House who will have seen their own constituents faced | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
with deportation owing to changes in immigration rules. | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
Mr Speaker, let's be clear about what is involved here. | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
This is a family that came to the UK on a Government scheme | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
specifically designed to attract people to relocate here. | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
They have integrated into their community and | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
That they should now be faced with deportation due to Government | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
changes shows the problem caused by the constant chopping | :17:29. | :17:30. | |
and changing of the immigration rules by the Home Office. | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
Young Lachlan Brain is in a Gaelic school in Dingwall. | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
You cannot get a more Scottish name than | :17:40. | :17:41. | |
Yet the Westminster government wants to throw him out. Has the minister | :17:42. | :17:51. | |
identified a school in Australia where he can continue his education? | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
The minister repeated that he was listening | :17:56. | :17:57. | |
to the representations that were being made. | :17:58. | :17:58. | |
A health minister has accepted that the advice on healthy eating | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
has become very "muddied" over the last five days. | :18:02. | :18:03. | |
The UK is facing a growing problem with obesity. | :18:04. | :18:05. | |
At the start of the week, a row broke out in the | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
after the authors of a controversial report challenged government | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
dietary advice on fatty foods and carbohydrates. | :18:12. | :18:13. | |
In the Lords, peers wanted to know how the Government was going to help | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
My Lords, I would like to declare an interest as somebody who has been | :18:19. | :18:31. | |
technically obese. I am aware of how difficult it is not only to lose the | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
weight, but to keep it off. Would my noble friend not agree that the | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
solution is simple, but not easy, which is that we should eat less and | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
healthily, and move more, and if we don't do this and the government | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
doesn't grip it, both the NHS and a substantial number of the | :18:51. | :18:52. | |
population's lives will collapse under the weight of the problem? My | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
noble friend looks far from obese today. She looks positively svelte! | :19:00. | :19:08. | |
But I agree with her that obesity is a massive problem in this country. | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
The chief executive of the NHS even referred to it as the new smoking. | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
Nor does because it causes diabetes, but also cancers and heart disease. | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
It is critical that we address it, and it is critical that we address | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
it with people at a young age, as it is much more difficult to lose | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
weight later in life. Aaron S Jenkin is right that it is individual | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
responsibility that the government must encourage -- Baroness Jenkin is | :19:38. | :19:46. | |
right. Of course my noble friend is right, individual responsibility is | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
critical. But we have to make it easy for people to make the right | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
choices by providing the right information and by making, | :19:57. | :19:58. | |
particularly for children, making it easier for them and their parents to | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
make the right was. We used to be told we should not eat salt, now we | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
are told we should. We used to be told we should not eat fatty foods, | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
now we are told we should. We used to be told one glass of red wine a | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
day was good for us, then we were told we should have none. Now we are | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
being told to have two! Can my noble friend tell us which of these items | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
should exit our diet and which should remain? My noble friend makes | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
a good point. He is as confused about this as most of us are in this | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
house. I think it will be an important part of the obesity | :20:37. | :20:38. | |
strategy when it is announced later in the summer that we address it | :20:39. | :20:49. | |
clearly. All the evidence from 600 studies reinforces the advice that | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
is already out there from Public Health England, but it has been very | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
muddied over the last five days. Does the noble Lord agree that this | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
is not a matter just of individual responsibility? Many meals are eaten | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
in places where people have no choice. They are provided by public | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
institutions, hospitals, hospital canteens, schools, prisons, the | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
armed services. Should not all those meals be designed not to further | :21:16. | :21:23. | |
obesity? My Lords, I was not saying it was exclusively individual | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
responsibility, but we have to recognise that individuals must take | :21:27. | :21:28. | |
some degree of responsibility for their actions. Of course the noble | :21:29. | :21:36. | |
lady is right. That is why the last government did introduce free school | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
meals at all infant schools. It is why the proceeds of the levy will be | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
ploughed back to increase sport and PE facilities in schools, and why we | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
have the fruit and vegetable schemes for schools. We do take diet and | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
food seriously. And where we have direct control as in schools, we | :21:58. | :21:58. | |
take action. The death of a man who died | :21:59. | :22:00. | |
after eating a take-away curry containing nuts was "needless | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
and avoidable", according Lady Kennedy raised the death | :22:04. | :22:05. | |
of Paul Wilson at Question time. Restaurant owner Mohammed Zaman | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
was this week jailed for six years for the manslaughter of Mr Wilson, | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
who had an allergic The court heard he cut corners | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
by using cheaper ingredients I know the whole House will join me | :22:18. | :22:31. | |
in offering our condolences to the family and friends of Paul Wilson, | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
who died after a severe allergic reaction from food containing | :22:38. | :22:39. | |
peanuts from his local restaurant despite him specifically requesting | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
no nuts. Paul's death was needless and avoidable. I would like to ask | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
the government to agree to a review of how food businesses can be better | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
monitored, how staff training can be improved and how we can work better | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
with the third sector to raise awareness and develop consumer | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
focused resources. Finally, as any assessment of the impact of cuts on | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
the capacity of local trading standards services to monitor and | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
force food labelling legislation taken place, and if not, but this | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
now be commissioned? My Lords, there were a lot of questions there and I | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
would like to join the noble lady in sending my best wishes to Paul | :23:25. | :23:32. | |
Wilson's family. The tragic accident occurred in January 2014, and the | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
new regulations came into effect in December 2014. Research since then | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
by the FSA has shown that there has been great improvements with food | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
allergies since this law came in. Can I declare my presidency of the | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
royal Society of Public health? The noble Baroness referred to the FSA's | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
review of the success of the new regulations, but is she aware that | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
the RSP H did a mystery dining investigation a year after its | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
introduction and found that 70% of takeaways were flouting the law by | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
not providing information they are required to provide, 54% not knowing | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
at all whether any of the 14 major allergens were in the food? Could | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
she go back to the FSA to suggest that they need to take greater | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
enforcement action? There is still a lot of work to be done. The FSA are | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
aware of this. That is why they are training food officers in a better | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
way to make sure that when they go to these restaurants, they can make | :24:38. | :24:45. | |
sure they are following the rules. Also, one of the key messages for | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
the businesses is that there would be much more burden than cost to | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
them if they do not follow the regulations. They can be persecuted | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
or closed down. It is beneficial to them to make sure the allergen | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
information they provide is displayed clearly and provided | :25:03. | :25:03. | |
verbally. The SNP's John Nicolson has | :25:04. | :25:05. | |
won the annual The MP for East Dunbartonshire | :25:06. | :25:07. | |
was the last name announced by the deputy speaker Lindsay Hoyle, | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
who carried out the draw Some 458 MPs put their name forward | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
to be in the ballot, all fighting for just | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
20 available slots. Those who are drawn are able | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
to introduce their own draft legislation, which is debated | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
on Fridays during the session. The bills nearest the top | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
of the list stand the best chance of making their way | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
through parliament, And that's it from us for now, | :25:35. | :25:35. | |
but do join me on Friday night at 11 for The Week In Parliament, | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
when we'll look back at the | :25:43. | :25:45. |