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Hello there and welcome to Thursday in Parliament, | 0:00:11 | 0:00:15 | |
on the last day of term before Parliament rises | 0:00:15 | 0:00:17 | |
for its summer recess. | 0:00:17 | 0:00:18 | |
Coming up in the next half hour | 0:00:18 | 0:00:20 | |
Labour asked, what will leaving the EU mean for workers' rights | 0:00:20 | 0:00:25 | |
The Government delays a shake-up to school funding in England | 0:00:25 | 0:00:27 | |
and there is a call for a complete ban on the use of animals snares. | 0:00:27 | 0:00:33 | |
Some animals get their legs caught in the snares and get cut | 0:00:33 | 0:00:36 | |
through to the bone. | 0:00:36 | 0:00:39 | |
But first, Labour MPs have demanded reassurances that workers' rights | 0:00:39 | 0:00:43 | |
won't be downgraded once thd UK leaves the EU. | 0:00:43 | 0:00:48 | |
Theresa May met German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday | 0:00:48 | 0:00:52 | |
for their first talks about the UK's future relationship with Europe | 0:00:52 | 0:00:55 | |
following the referendum. | 0:00:55 | 0:00:58 | |
Asked how they had got on, Mrs May said they were two women | 0:00:58 | 0:01:01 | |
who want to get on with the job and deliver the best possible | 0:01:01 | 0:01:04 | |
results for the people of the UK and Germany. | 0:01:04 | 0:01:09 | |
Back in the Commons, Labour MPs wanted to know | 0:01:09 | 0:01:11 | |
if the Government had begun to work out how to begin disentanglhng | 0:01:11 | 0:01:15 | |
the UK from the EU. | 0:01:15 | 0:01:18 | |
Has there been a discussion over the cost of the number of l`wyers | 0:01:18 | 0:01:22 | |
and trade negotiators who are going to have to be hired in | 0:01:22 | 0:01:25 | |
order to deliver our disent`nglement from the European Union? | 0:01:25 | 0:01:31 | |
And if such an estimate has not yet been made, | 0:01:31 | 0:01:34 | |
can the Attorney General pldase confirm my when he will be `ble | 0:01:34 | 0:01:36 | |
to furnish the House with that information? | 0:01:36 | 0:01:40 | |
Well, Mr Speaker, it is undoubtedly the case that we will need the best | 0:01:40 | 0:01:44 | |
advice that we can have and the best trade negotiators that we c`n have. | 0:01:44 | 0:01:48 | |
Of course, the Government already has some of that capacity, | 0:01:48 | 0:01:51 | |
but the department responsible is looking very carefully | 0:01:51 | 0:01:54 | |
at the moment as to exactly what additional capacity | 0:01:54 | 0:01:57 | |
we will need to gain. | 0:01:57 | 0:01:59 | |
And as soon as they are in a position to give that | 0:01:59 | 0:02:02 | |
information to the House, I am sure they will do so. | 0:02:02 | 0:02:04 | |
Mr Speaker, our membership of the European Union has brought | 0:02:04 | 0:02:07 | |
about substantial enhancements in our health and safety laws. | 0:02:07 | 0:02:10 | |
Will the Attorney General guarantee that with leaving | 0:02:10 | 0:02:14 | |
the European Union... | 0:02:14 | 0:02:15 | |
What exactly will our future relationship | 0:02:15 | 0:02:19 | |
with the European Union be? | 0:02:19 | 0:02:20 | |
I am sure, my Lords, we appreciate that this | 0:02:20 | 0:02:23 | |
is like going through a divorce a very painful divorce, | 0:02:23 | 0:02:27 | |
but instead of there being one injured party, | 0:02:27 | 0:02:29 | |
there are 27 injured parties, and we must approach these | 0:02:29 | 0:02:35 | |
negotiations with sensitivity. | 0:02:35 | 0:02:41 | |
It's a very lengthy exercisd, that we will need to continte with. | 0:02:41 | 0:02:44 | |
Leaving the European Union will involve repeal of the Duropean | 0:02:44 | 0:02:47 | |
communities act 1972, which will mean all secondary | 0:02:47 | 0:02:49 | |
legislation made under the `ct will automatically fail | 0:02:49 | 0:02:51 | |
unless it is re-enacted. | 0:02:51 | 0:02:53 | |
Can the Attorney General tell us what steps are being taken | 0:02:53 | 0:02:55 | |
or will be taken to ensure the necessary legislation | 0:02:55 | 0:03:00 | |
to guarantee protection on hmported employment rights such as transfers | 0:03:00 | 0:03:02 | |
of undertakings and paid holidays for employees? | 0:03:02 | 0:03:09 | |
Well, Mr Speaker, can first of all say, it is always to see | 0:03:09 | 0:03:12 | |
anyone on the Labour front bench these days, | 0:03:12 | 0:03:18 | |
but it's a particular pleastre to see that the honourable lady | 0:03:18 | 0:03:21 | |
retains her position. | 0:03:21 | 0:03:22 | |
Can I repeat what I said to her | 0:03:22 | 0:03:24 | |
Honourable friend, it is clearly the case that some | 0:03:24 | 0:03:26 | |
of the regulations and piecds of legislation she refers to, | 0:03:26 | 0:03:28 | |
the British Government will wish to retain in some form. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:30 | |
And of course, the exercise of determining which pieces | 0:03:30 | 0:03:33 | |
of legislation those are is going to be a time-consuming and complex one. | 0:03:33 | 0:03:39 | |
Prior to being elected to this house, I represented familids | 0:03:39 | 0:03:41 | |
of people killed or injured at work. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:43 | |
The majority of health and safety legislation providing | 0:03:43 | 0:03:45 | |
protection for UK workers derives from EU law, | 0:03:45 | 0:03:48 | |
and in his answer, the attorney did not satisfy me that he hs going | 0:03:48 | 0:03:51 | |
to provide equivalent protection that we currently have, | 0:03:51 | 0:03:56 | |
if not better protection. | 0:03:56 | 0:03:58 | |
Does he agree with me that workers need to be protected against injury, | 0:03:58 | 0:04:01 | |
illness and death at work, and that workplace health and safety | 0:04:01 | 0:04:04 | |
legislation is essential and not red tape? | 0:04:04 | 0:04:08 | |
And will he give this House, particularly the families | 0:04:08 | 0:04:10 | |
of those killed at work, a guarantee that at the verx least | 0:04:10 | 0:04:14 | |
equivalent legislation and workplace protections whll be | 0:04:14 | 0:04:17 | |
urgently re-enacted? | 0:04:18 | 0:04:21 | |
Well, Mr Speaker, I do agred with the honourable lady th`t | 0:04:21 | 0:04:23 | |
injury, illness and death at work must be prevented and stealth | 0:04:23 | 0:04:27 | |
with through appropriate legislation and regulation. | 0:04:27 | 0:04:32 | |
But of course, we have alre`dy sought to protect workers from those | 0:04:32 | 0:04:35 | |
things prior to our membership of the European Union. | 0:04:35 | 0:04:37 | |
We will certainly seek to do so post our membership | 0:04:37 | 0:04:40 | |
of the European Union. | 0:04:40 | 0:04:41 | |
I don't believe it is beyond the capacity of this House to design | 0:04:41 | 0:04:45 | |
legislation which will enable us to protect those things effdctively. | 0:04:45 | 0:04:49 | |
And this Government is entirely committed to doing so. | 0:04:49 | 0:04:52 | |
Jeremy Wright. | 0:04:52 | 0:04:53 | |
The UK's departure from the EU was also exercising team minds | 0:04:53 | 0:04:57 | |
of MPs in the parallel debating chamber of Westminster Hall. | 0:04:57 | 0:05:02 | |
They are, Labour's sole Scottish MP, now a humble backbencher | 0:05:02 | 0:05:07 | |
after resigning as shadow Scottish secretary under Jeremy Corbxn, | 0:05:07 | 0:05:10 | |
introduced a debate on the role of the devolved governments | 0:05:10 | 0:05:12 | |
in the Brexit negotiations. | 0:05:12 | 0:05:14 | |
Ian Murray welcomed Theresa May s promise not to fire the starting | 0:05:14 | 0:05:20 | |
gun, otherwise known as Arthcle 50, until what she termed a UK `pproach | 0:05:20 | 0:05:23 | |
had been agreed. | 0:05:23 | 0:05:29 | |
But Scotland's position, he said, was exceptional. | 0:05:29 | 0:05:30 | |
As matters stand, as we are here today, Scotland belongs to two | 0:05:30 | 0:05:33 | |
unions and gets as bandages, significant advantages, frol both. | 0:05:33 | 0:05:35 | |
The people of Scotland recognise and have recently voted | 0:05:35 | 0:05:41 | |
overwhelmingly for both unions to be continued. | 0:05:41 | 0:05:43 | |
The result of these referendums should be respected but instead | 0:05:43 | 0:05:45 | |
they are being ignored and the political context | 0:05:45 | 0:05:47 | |
in Scotland at the moment is thus. | 0:05:47 | 0:05:53 | |
The Conservatives want Scotland in the UK but out of the new. | 0:05:53 | 0:05:56 | |
The Scottish National party wants Scotland | 0:05:56 | 0:05:58 | |
in the EU but out of the UK. | 0:05:58 | 0:06:01 | |
And it is only the Scottish Labour Party that is clear that we want | 0:06:01 | 0:06:04 | |
Scotland to remain in the ET and in the UK. | 0:06:04 | 0:06:09 | |
And the UK and Scottish govdrnments have an obligation to pursud every | 0:06:09 | 0:06:11 | |
avenue in pursuit of this ottcome. | 0:06:11 | 0:06:14 | |
I think it was Winston Churchill who said that the problem | 0:06:14 | 0:06:16 | |
with political suicide is that sometimes you survive. | 0:06:16 | 0:06:21 | |
And it feels as though we are living through a very long politic`l | 0:06:21 | 0:06:24 | |
suicide at the moment. | 0:06:24 | 0:06:27 | |
The Brexit masochists have ttterly ruined politics and | 0:06:27 | 0:06:32 | |
turned it on its head. | 0:06:32 | 0:06:35 | |
And I won't allow my countrx and my colleagues to join md | 0:06:35 | 0:06:39 | |
on these benches won't allow our country to bear the brunt of that. | 0:06:39 | 0:06:43 | |
Because on the back of the Brexit vote that Scotland did not vote for, | 0:06:43 | 0:06:47 | |
the political establishment here in London's behaviour | 0:06:47 | 0:06:48 | |
and response has been shambolic | 0:06:48 | 0:06:54 | |
Given that the Scottish Parliament has mandated the First Minister | 0:06:54 | 0:06:57 | |
to negotiate on Scotland's behalf, to secure its place within the EU, | 0:06:57 | 0:07:02 | |
will the Government specifically respect that? | 0:07:02 | 0:07:04 | |
And if ultimately we end up in a situation where the Parliament | 0:07:04 | 0:07:08 | |
in Edinburgh votes for a referendum, will the Government | 0:07:08 | 0:07:13 | |
in London consent to that? | 0:07:13 | 0:07:14 | |
My remit in this department does not cover the full breadth | 0:07:14 | 0:07:17 | |
of constitutional issues, but I can say there is cert`inly | 0:07:17 | 0:07:20 | |
respect for Scotland's position and the First Minister, | 0:07:20 | 0:07:23 | |
and the fact that the Prime Minister broke a reshuffle in order to go | 0:07:23 | 0:07:26 | |
after Scotland, I think it's an indication of that respect. | 0:07:26 | 0:07:35 | |
I would like to repeat my fhrst commitment, the commitment | 0:07:35 | 0:07:38 | |
of the Prime Minister and the Government as a whole | 0:07:38 | 0:07:40 | |
to fully involve the devolvdd administrations in the prep`rations | 0:07:40 | 0:07:42 | |
for the complex task ahead of us. | 0:07:42 | 0:07:44 | |
The new Brexit Minister hedging his bets, there, | 0:07:44 | 0:07:46 | |
on the question of a second Scottish referendum. | 0:07:46 | 0:07:48 | |
Meanwhile, in the Lords, peers debated the impact | 0:07:48 | 0:07:50 | |
of our EU exit on farming. | 0:07:50 | 0:07:54 | |
One peer had reservations about the appointment | 0:07:54 | 0:07:56 | |
of Andrea Leadsom, the formdr Conservative leadership candidate, | 0:07:56 | 0:08:00 | |
to the role of Secretary of State for Environment, | 0:08:00 | 0:08:03 | |
Food Rural Affairs. | 0:08:03 | 0:08:05 | |
In 2007, Mrs Leadsom demanddd that farm subsidies be abolished. | 0:08:05 | 0:08:12 | |
That would be good for food production and for | 0:08:12 | 0:08:14 | |
the environment(!) | 0:08:14 | 0:08:17 | |
It would lay waste up in Wales. | 0:08:17 | 0:08:19 | |
Then, in a Guardian debate before the referendum, | 0:08:19 | 0:08:21 | |
Mrs Leadsom suggested that farmers with, and I quote, big | 0:08:21 | 0:08:24 | |
fields to the sheep, and those with hill farms | 0:08:24 | 0:08:29 | |
do the butterflies. | 0:08:29 | 0:08:30 | |
Hello, sky! Hello, trees! | 0:08:30 | 0:08:32 | |
Hello, grass! Hello, butterflies! | 0:08:32 | 0:08:35 | |
The debate had been called by a conservative worried | 0:08:35 | 0:08:38 | |
about the impact of leaving the EU on farmers. | 0:08:38 | 0:08:43 | |
What exactly will our futurd relationship with | 0:08:43 | 0:08:45 | |
the European Union be? | 0:08:45 | 0:08:46 | |
I am sure, my Lords, we appreciate that this | 0:08:46 | 0:08:49 | |
is like going through a divorce a very painful divorce, | 0:08:49 | 0:08:52 | |
but instead of there being one injured party, | 0:08:52 | 0:08:55 | |
there are 27 injured parties. | 0:08:55 | 0:08:58 | |
And we must approach these negotiations with sensitivity. | 0:08:58 | 0:09:05 | |
We are heavily dependent on the farming and | 0:09:05 | 0:09:09 | |
fruit-growing and vegetable sector on migrant workers. | 0:09:09 | 0:09:11 | |
Seasonal fruit and vegetabld growers do all the picking, | 0:09:11 | 0:09:16 | |
the packing and the processhng on a temporary, seasonal basis, | 0:09:16 | 0:09:25 | |
and there are no obvious substitutes from either the UK | 0:09:25 | 0:09:27 | |
or Commonwealth countries. | 0:09:27 | 0:09:28 | |
One crossbencher related a conversation he had had | 0:09:28 | 0:09:30 | |
with the fruit farmer. | 0:09:30 | 0:09:32 | |
He, in particular, needs foreign, seasonal labour, that tends to come | 0:09:32 | 0:09:37 | |
from poorer EU countries, and he puts them on a full | 0:09:37 | 0:09:39 | |
board basis, as do many other people in the area. | 0:09:39 | 0:09:42 | |
And the arrangement is very satisfactory to everyone. | 0:09:42 | 0:09:48 | |
His business is going so well that he would like to invest | 0:09:48 | 0:09:50 | |
in increasing the business. | 0:09:50 | 0:09:55 | |
That's quite expensive, | 0:09:55 | 0:09:58 | |
as it costs about ?20,000 an acre | 0:09:58 | 0:10:00 | |
to put up polytunnels and to produce satisfactory irrigation for that, | 0:10:00 | 0:10:03 | |
and he would have to invest, as well, in the accommodation. | 0:10:03 | 0:10:06 | |
But he is not going to do that because, at the moment, | 0:10:06 | 0:10:16 | |
he is not confident of the availability at similar cost | 0:10:16 | 0:10:18 | |
of skilled EU labour going forward. | 0:10:18 | 0:10:20 | |
Whilst a Lib Dem was worried about what the withdrawal of EU | 0:10:20 | 0:10:22 | |
subsidies might mean for the wider rural communities | 0:10:22 | 0:10:24 | |
The ?3 billion that flows into our rule areas from thd EU | 0:10:24 | 0:10:27 | |
is not something I believe that the Treasury will naturally | 0:10:27 | 0:10:30 | |
want to continue. | 0:10:30 | 0:10:37 | |
I think they will look to that pot of ?3 billion to start fundhng | 0:10:37 | 0:10:40 | |
their other priorities. | 0:10:40 | 0:10:41 | |
The minister struck a posithve tone. | 0:10:41 | 0:10:49 | |
We are determined to strike a good and positive trade deals | 0:10:49 | 0:10:52 | |
with the EU, accelerating otr international trade negotiations. | 0:10:52 | 0:10:53 | |
Our food and rig exports have increased by over 6% since 2010 | 0:10:53 | 0:10:56 | |
and we wish to advance on these | 0:10:56 | 0:10:58 | |
-- food and drink. | 0:10:58 | 0:10:59 | |
Also, particularly in non-ET countries, where exports | 0:10:59 | 0:11:02 | |
have been increasing steadily from 34% in 2010, | 0:11:02 | 0:11:04 | |
to 40% in 2015. | 0:11:04 | 0:11:09 | |
Surely, my Lords, with the global population growth to reach | 0:11:09 | 0:11:14 | |
8.1 billion by 2025, the demand for food will increase | 0:11:14 | 0:11:19 | |
and that means there will shortly be enormous market opportunitids | 0:11:19 | 0:11:23 | |
for us here. | 0:11:23 | 0:11:24 | |
We will forge the strongest economic links with our European neighbours, | 0:11:24 | 0:11:27 | |
as well as our close friends in North America, | 0:11:27 | 0:11:30 | |
the Commonwealth and countrhes such as Japan and China, where export | 0:11:30 | 0:11:33 | |
opportunities are endless. | 0:11:33 | 0:11:36 | |
Lord Gardiner of Kimble. | 0:11:37 | 0:11:38 | |
You're watching Thursday in Parliament with me, Alicia LcCarthy. | 0:11:38 | 0:11:46 | |
The Education Secretary Justine Greening has announced | 0:11:46 | 0:11:48 | |
that she will not be introdtcing a new school funding system | 0:11:48 | 0:11:52 | |
for England until 2018. | 0:11:52 | 0:11:55 | |
The expectation was that it would begin in 2017 but Ms Greening | 0:11:55 | 0:11:59 | |
said it was important not to "rush into" any changes. | 0:11:59 | 0:12:03 | |
The 40 councils in England with the lowest education btdgets | 0:12:03 | 0:12:06 | |
have been campaigning for a fairer system for 20 years. | 0:12:06 | 0:12:10 | |
Labour called the Government's attitude to funding "woeful" | 0:12:10 | 0:12:13 | |
and said schools were struggling to cope. | 0:12:13 | 0:12:16 | |
This is a once in a generathon opportunity for an | 0:12:16 | 0:12:20 | |
historic change, and therefore we have got to make sure we take time | 0:12:20 | 0:12:23 | |
to get that final approach right. | 0:12:23 | 0:12:25 | |
We will run a full consultation and make final decisions | 0:12:25 | 0:12:29 | |
early in the New Year. | 0:12:29 | 0:12:30 | |
Given the importance of the consulting widely | 0:12:30 | 0:12:33 | |
and fully with the sector, and getting implementation right, | 0:12:33 | 0:12:37 | |
the new system will apply from 2018-19 and I will set | 0:12:37 | 0:12:41 | |
out our full pact for a national funding formula | 0:12:41 | 0:12:43 | |
for early years shortly. | 0:12:43 | 0:12:46 | |
This Government's attitude to school funding is woeful. | 0:12:46 | 0:12:48 | |
Talk about last minute. | 0:12:48 | 0:12:50 | |
These schools are struggling to cope with the 5% funding shortagd | 0:12:50 | 0:12:56 | |
already that was announced from the Chancellor's decishon | 0:12:56 | 0:12:59 | |
to increase national insurance and teacher | 0:12:59 | 0:13:01 | |
pensions contributions. | 0:13:01 | 0:13:03 | |
Will the minister recognise the issues of the | 0:13:03 | 0:13:05 | |
pupil numbers that are rising and we have a growing teacher shortage | 0:13:05 | 0:13:09 | |
Will she help schools within this new formula? | 0:13:09 | 0:13:15 | |
Only this Government, Mr Speaker, could have the `udacity | 0:13:15 | 0:13:18 | |
to deliver real term cuts to school budgets across the board and | 0:13:18 | 0:13:22 | |
claim this represents fair funding. | 0:13:22 | 0:13:30 | |
Schools in Staffordshire ard some of the lowest funded in the country, | 0:13:30 | 0:13:33 | |
and this has been of great concern to heads that I met last wedk. | 0:13:33 | 0:13:36 | |
We had understood that we wdre moving to a fairer funding | 0:13:36 | 0:13:39 | |
formula from 2017-18, it now seems it's going | 0:13:39 | 0:13:41 | |
to be a year later. | 0:13:41 | 0:13:45 | |
Will she make absolutely cldar that there could possibly bd | 0:13:45 | 0:13:48 | |
transitional funding for 2007-1 , for those authorities | 0:13:48 | 0:13:50 | |
which are in a desperate position at the moment, | 0:13:50 | 0:13:52 | |
as Staffordshire is? | 0:13:52 | 0:13:55 | |
I recognise the pressures that he has just set out, | 0:13:55 | 0:13:59 | |
and I think this now gives ts a time to look at how we can deal | 0:13:59 | 0:14:03 | |
with those effectively. | 0:14:03 | 0:14:04 | |
We should also recognise th`t whilst there are those schools | 0:14:04 | 0:14:07 | |
that are disadvantaged by their current formula, | 0:14:07 | 0:14:10 | |
there is also going to be changes for schools under the new formula. | 0:14:10 | 0:14:15 | |
I think it also gives us a chance to work effectively with those, | 0:14:15 | 0:14:19 | |
to ensure that there is a sdnsible and measured transition | 0:14:19 | 0:14:21 | |
from the historic approach that we are currently under, | 0:14:21 | 0:14:23 | |
to the new approach, the sensible, fairer one | 0:14:23 | 0:14:25 | |
that we will be introducing. | 0:14:25 | 0:14:29 | |
The noises coming out of the Department for Education | 0:14:29 | 0:14:32 | |
suggested that London schools in particular would be | 0:14:32 | 0:14:33 | |
seriously hit by any changes to the funding formula. | 0:14:33 | 0:14:37 | |
Schools in Harrow have been advised that they face potentially ` 3% 8% | 0:14:37 | 0:14:40 | |
cut in real terms to their budgets, as a result of the changes | 0:14:40 | 0:14:43 | |
that her department are considering. | 0:14:43 | 0:14:47 | |
Can she offer any reassurance to the headteachers and pardnts | 0:14:47 | 0:14:50 | |
in my constituency that that isn't going to be the case? | 0:14:50 | 0:14:52 | |
I've set out the details of how we're to proceed in my statdment | 0:14:52 | 0:14:56 | |
today, but as his point very clearly sets out, | 0:14:56 | 0:15:00 | |
for schools that will see a change in the funding that they receive | 0:15:00 | 0:15:05 | |
as a result of us evening up and making the system fairer, | 0:15:05 | 0:15:08 | |
these are important changes and I think it's right we now give | 0:15:08 | 0:15:11 | |
ourselves the time to effectively make sure we can help schools | 0:15:11 | 0:15:14 | |
deal with them well, and help them steadily | 0:15:14 | 0:15:16 | |
be transitioned in. | 0:15:16 | 0:15:20 | |
STUDIO: Justine Greening also took took the opportunity | 0:15:20 | 0:15:22 | |
to set out her wider aims. | 0:15:22 | 0:15:26 | |
I'd like to see my department really be a central engine for sochal | 0:15:26 | 0:15:29 | |
mobility more broadly. | 0:15:29 | 0:15:30 | |
I think we need to challengd ourselves across government | 0:15:30 | 0:15:32 | |
and the DFE has a key role to play in this, in saying that we don't | 0:15:32 | 0:15:37 | |
just want children to be coling out of our schools better educated, | 0:15:37 | 0:15:41 | |
we want to make sure that the jobs and the careers are there, | 0:15:41 | 0:15:44 | |
for them to really be able to make the most of their potential. | 0:15:44 | 0:15:47 | |
In the end, a country's most important asset is its people. | 0:15:47 | 0:15:50 | |
That's why she said she was delighted to be givdn | 0:15:50 | 0:15:52 | |
the job of Education Secret`ry. | 0:15:52 | 0:15:54 | |
Now Turkey's president has declared a state of emergency for three | 0:15:55 | 0:15:58 | |
months following Friday night's failed army coup. | 0:15:58 | 0:16:04 | |
It allows the President and Cabinet to bypass Parliament when drafting | 0:16:04 | 0:16:08 | |
new laws and to restrict or suspend rights and freedoms. | 0:16:08 | 0:16:13 | |
Turkey has formally charged 99 generals and admirals | 0:16:13 | 0:16:16 | |
in connection with the weekdnd's thwarted coup attempt. | 0:16:16 | 0:16:19 | |
That's just under a third of the country's top military officers. | 0:16:19 | 0:16:23 | |
The authorities have banned all academics from travelling | 0:16:23 | 0:16:26 | |
abroad, as the purge of state employees continues. | 0:16:26 | 0:16:31 | |
More than 50,000 people have been rounded up, | 0:16:31 | 0:16:33 | |
sacked or suspended. | 0:16:33 | 0:16:36 | |
In the Lords, peers raised concerns about the purge of the judiciary. | 0:16:36 | 0:16:39 | |
The mass dismissal of judges and of other public servants | 0:16:39 | 0:16:43 | |
is extremely worrying, because it is stripping awax | 0:16:43 | 0:16:50 | |
the last defence against authoritarianism, and the ilposition | 0:16:50 | 0:16:55 | |
of emergency rule effectively allows the president to rule by decree | 0:16:55 | 0:17:01 | |
I would hope that the Government can assure me that in conjunction | 0:17:01 | 0:17:04 | |
with our European allies, while we are still in the ET, | 0:17:04 | 0:17:08 | |
that we will make strong representations on the need to keep | 0:17:08 | 0:17:14 | |
an independent judiciary, because this is the only body | 0:17:14 | 0:17:18 | |
to whom those who may have well have been unfairly dismissed, | 0:17:18 | 0:17:22 | |
can at the moment apply, to get their rights reinstated. | 0:17:22 | 0:17:32 | |
Of course, retaining an inddpendent judiciary, | 0:17:32 | 0:17:33 | |
and an operating on, will require judges, working | 0:17:33 | 0:17:35 | |
to apply the due process of law and that is absolutely essential | 0:17:35 | 0:17:38 | |
if we are to see the standards we wish to see upheld in Turkey | 0:17:38 | 0:17:42 | |
These are views that we hold very publicly the United Kingdom, | 0:17:42 | 0:17:48 | |
and our views which we are reflecting. | 0:17:48 | 0:17:50 | |
The speed and the scale of the purge of judges suggdsts | 0:17:50 | 0:17:52 | |
that there was a plan pre-existing the actual coup, which has now | 0:17:52 | 0:17:55 | |
been put into effect. | 0:17:55 | 0:17:57 | |
What does the noble lady, the minister, say about | 0:17:57 | 0:18:01 | |
the possibility of the reimposition of the death penalty by the Turkish | 0:18:01 | 0:18:05 | |
president, which will be in breach of Turkey's obligations unddr | 0:18:05 | 0:18:08 | |
the Council of Europe? | 0:18:08 | 0:18:11 | |
Which is well-known to Turkdy, because its Foreign Minister | 0:18:11 | 0:18:15 | |
was a former president of the Council of Europe Assembly. | 0:18:15 | 0:18:19 | |
The noble lord does make an important point, and I whsh | 0:18:19 | 0:18:22 | |
to say in relation to the coup it is not yet clear | 0:18:22 | 0:18:25 | |
who was behind the coup attdmpt | 0:18:25 | 0:18:27 | |
I think it is unhelpful to speculate on that. | 0:18:27 | 0:18:29 | |
What I would say to him, in relation to the death penalty, | 0:18:29 | 0:18:32 | |
is to repeat what I said earlier this week in this chamber. | 0:18:32 | 0:18:35 | |
That suggestions that the ddath penalty may return are very | 0:18:35 | 0:18:37 | |
worrying, and the Foreign Sdcretary and other international leaders have | 0:18:37 | 0:18:40 | |
emphasised the need for call. | 0:18:40 | 0:18:41 | |
But let me be utterly clear - the UK policy is clear on the death | 0:18:41 | 0:18:45 | |
penalty: We oppose it in all circumstances. | 0:18:45 | 0:18:49 | |
What consideration is being given to many Turkish nationals | 0:18:49 | 0:18:52 | |
who are over here on visas? | 0:18:52 | 0:18:54 | |
Some of whom have contacted me, and are afraid of what might | 0:18:54 | 0:18:57 | |
happen if they return, and some may have been crithcal | 0:18:57 | 0:19:01 | |
of the present government, but some are here on student visas | 0:19:01 | 0:19:05 | |
and work visas and they are worried. | 0:19:05 | 0:19:09 | |
The community here needs sole reassurance that the British | 0:19:09 | 0:19:11 | |
government will have some contact with those people here. | 0:19:11 | 0:19:14 | |
The United Kingdom is very clear and has reasserted to the Ttrkish | 0:19:14 | 0:19:18 | |
government our insistence that we expect human rights to be | 0:19:18 | 0:19:26 | |
observed, we expect freedoms to be respected, we expect the rule | 0:19:26 | 0:19:29 | |
of law to be applied. | 0:19:29 | 0:19:30 | |
This is a fluid and fast moving situation, but I think | 0:19:30 | 0:19:32 | |
it is very encouraging. | 0:19:33 | 0:19:33 | |
As I said, the Right Honourable Minister for Europe | 0:19:33 | 0:19:36 | |
and the Americas is, as we speak, in Turkey, | 0:19:36 | 0:19:38 | |
engaged with the Government. | 0:19:38 | 0:19:44 | |
And I'm sure the concerns the noble lady holds, will be prominent | 0:19:44 | 0:19:47 | |
and to the forefront of the discussions taking place | 0:19:47 | 0:19:49 | |
Lady Goldie. | 0:19:49 | 0:19:50 | |
Now, a Labour MP is calling for a complete ban on the manuf`cture, | 0:19:50 | 0:19:53 | |
sale and use of snares. | 0:19:53 | 0:19:54 | |
There's only one kind of sn`re currently legal in the UK. | 0:19:54 | 0:19:58 | |
They are used to catch rabbhts, or, more often, foxes, | 0:19:58 | 0:20:01 | |
but their opponents have long claimed they are inhumane. | 0:20:01 | 0:20:04 | |
A Labour MP opened the debate. | 0:20:04 | 0:20:08 | |
Although their purpose is to immobilise targeted animals, | 0:20:08 | 0:20:12 | |
most snares cause extreme stffering to animals and often lead | 0:20:12 | 0:20:15 | |
to a painful, lingering death. | 0:20:15 | 0:20:17 | |
Animals caught in snares suffer huge stress and can | 0:20:17 | 0:20:19 | |
sustain horrific injuries. | 0:20:19 | 0:20:21 | |
Snares can cause abdominal, chest, neck, leg and head | 0:20:21 | 0:20:24 | |
injuries to animals. | 0:20:25 | 0:20:28 | |
Some animals get their legs caught in the snares and end up | 0:20:28 | 0:20:31 | |
with the wire cutting through to the bone. | 0:20:31 | 0:20:33 | |
The number and diversity of animals that fall victim | 0:20:33 | 0:20:35 | |
to snares is immense. | 0:20:35 | 0:20:38 | |
It's simply not possible to control which animals | 0:20:38 | 0:20:41 | |
will be caught in a snare. | 0:20:41 | 0:20:43 | |
A snare set to catch a fox is just as capable | 0:20:43 | 0:20:47 | |
of catching other species, cats, dogs, badgers, otters, deer, | 0:20:47 | 0:20:52 | |
hares, and livestock, who all suffer terrible injtries | 0:20:52 | 0:20:56 | |
or can be killed by snares. | 0:20:56 | 0:21:00 | |
In 2012, DEFRA produced an extensive report on snarhng | 0:21:00 | 0:21:03 | |
in England and Wales, which suggests that up | 0:21:03 | 0:21:07 | |
to 1.7 million animals are trapped in these primitive devices dvery | 0:21:07 | 0:21:11 | |
year - which equates to almost 00 animals caught each and every hour. | 0:21:11 | 0:21:16 | |
But a Conservative MP, who is a farmer, argued | 0:21:16 | 0:21:18 | |
there was a place for snares. | 0:21:18 | 0:21:22 | |
He quoted the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust. | 0:21:22 | 0:21:26 | |
Foxes kill young lambs and piglets being reared outdoors and free range | 0:21:26 | 0:21:29 | |
and domestic poultry. | 0:21:29 | 0:21:30 | |
Foxes also prey on vulnerable wildlife, ground nesting birds | 0:21:30 | 0:21:34 | |
like black grouse, partridge, lapwing, curlew | 0:21:34 | 0:21:37 | |
and stone-curlews and brown hare. | 0:21:37 | 0:21:40 | |
Several of these are species of conservation concern. | 0:21:40 | 0:21:42 | |
There are several methods to control foxes, but none of them | 0:21:42 | 0:21:45 | |
are effective in all circumstances. | 0:21:45 | 0:21:48 | |
One method widely used for foxes is snaring. | 0:21:48 | 0:21:51 | |
Snares are particularly effdctive for foxes in places and at times | 0:21:51 | 0:21:55 | |
of year when rifle shooting is not possible because of the dense cover, | 0:21:55 | 0:21:59 | |
but when fox control may be critical for wildlife prey. | 0:21:59 | 0:22:03 | |
Nobody goes out and sets a snare with any sense of glee or pleasure. | 0:22:03 | 0:22:07 | |
This is a practical requirelent for people whose job it is to manage | 0:22:07 | 0:22:10 | |
wildlife populations, for the protection either of game | 0:22:10 | 0:22:12 | |
birds or agricultural animals. | 0:22:12 | 0:22:18 | |
Everybody who does it, does it to the best of their abilitx, | 0:22:18 | 0:22:21 | |
nobody derives a pleasure from it and if it was as inefficient | 0:22:21 | 0:22:26 | |
as the honourable gentleman claimed it was in his opening remarks, | 0:22:26 | 0:22:29 | |
then the fact is, these people wouldn't use it. | 0:22:29 | 0:22:32 | |
The minister said a new codd of practice was being drawn up. | 0:22:32 | 0:22:35 | |
I think what's different from the 2005 Code is this | 0:22:35 | 0:22:39 | |
code has been designed and owned by the sector, | 0:22:39 | 0:22:41 | |
rather than by government. | 0:22:41 | 0:22:43 | |
Of course, government has h`d conversations and brought | 0:22:43 | 0:22:47 | |
people to this place, but by showing leadership in this | 0:22:47 | 0:22:55 | |
they will undoubtedly have lore success in promoting good practice | 0:22:55 | 0:22:57 | |
with their members and changing behaviour than government | 0:22:57 | 0:22:59 | |
could achieve on its own. | 0:22:59 | 0:23:00 | |
I cannot announce today, Madam Deputy Speaker, | 0:23:00 | 0:23:02 | |
exactly when the code will be published, but I am confident | 0:23:02 | 0:23:05 | |
that it will be very soon. | 0:23:05 | 0:23:06 | |
I'm day four in this role as a minister, and I'm really | 0:23:06 | 0:23:09 | |
looking forward to this code being published | 0:23:09 | 0:23:11 | |
and being put into practice. | 0:23:11 | 0:23:13 | |
And she said it should be introduced before any furthdr | 0:23:13 | 0:23:16 | |
action was considered. | 0:23:16 | 0:23:19 | |
Finally, it's been a week for new faces in new places, | 0:23:19 | 0:23:23 | |
as the ministerial team appointed by Theresa May has begun | 0:23:23 | 0:23:25 | |
appearing in the Commons. | 0:23:25 | 0:23:28 | |
Thursday was the first outing for the new Leader of the House | 0:23:28 | 0:23:32 | |
David Lidington, who receivdd a warm welcome from his opposite ntmber, | 0:23:32 | 0:23:35 | |
Labour's Paul Flynn. | 0:23:35 | 0:23:37 | |
I fear that as a long admirdr of the honourable gentleman, | 0:23:37 | 0:23:41 | |
that his political career might not be on an upward | 0:23:41 | 0:23:44 | |
trajectory in his appointment, because his career has been | 0:23:44 | 0:23:51 | |
blighted by his solid devotion to the three Rs - | 0:23:51 | 0:23:56 | |
which are rationality, restraint and reasonableness. | 0:23:56 | 0:24:01 | |
And these are not attributes that go well in his party at the molent | 0:24:01 | 0:24:07 | |
Paul Flynn drew attention to a little known fact about David | 0:24:07 | 0:24:09 | |
Lidington. | 0:24:09 | 0:24:11 | |
He's also, I'm told by my friend from Cardiff West, the suprdme | 0:24:11 | 0:24:17 | |
champion on the television programme University Challenge. | 0:24:17 | 0:24:23 | |
That not only did he win splendidly in his own time, | 0:24:23 | 0:24:26 | |
but when he came back to challenge his challengers | 0:24:26 | 0:24:29 | |
he was the supreme challengdr, the supreme winner there. | 0:24:29 | 0:24:34 | |
So it's great to know that he is, he is doing this job | 0:24:34 | 0:24:39 | |
from the platform of his own scholarship and knowledge. | 0:24:39 | 0:24:43 | |
The Leader of the House is indeed perhaps our most | 0:24:43 | 0:24:45 | |
illustrious egghead! | 0:24:45 | 0:24:46 | |
LAUGHTER. | 0:24:46 | 0:24:49 | |
Mr Speaker, I'm not sure how I respond to that complement. | 0:24:49 | 0:24:54 | |
I have felt, as a student of Elizabethan history, | 0:24:54 | 0:25:01 | |
in the last three or four wdeks it has been the closest thing to living | 0:25:01 | 0:25:05 | |
through one of the crises of the 16th century Tudor Court that | 0:25:05 | 0:25:08 | |
any of us is likely to experience, and I expect events in Brithsh | 0:25:08 | 0:25:11 | |
politics this year would have given Hilary Mantel ample material | 0:25:11 | 0:25:14 | |
for her next trilogy. | 0:25:14 | 0:25:16 | |
While the SNPs Pete Wishart used his last appearance before | 0:25:16 | 0:25:20 | |
the recess to have a dig at the Labour benches. | 0:25:20 | 0:25:23 | |
Have a happy civil war, to my friends | 0:25:23 | 0:25:25 | |
in the Labour Party... | 0:25:25 | 0:25:26 | |
LAUGHTER. | 0:25:26 | 0:25:27 | |
I don't know what will be rdturning to, whether it's just | 0:25:27 | 0:25:33 | |
going to be one Labour Partx or the Social Democratic Party | 0:25:33 | 0:25:36 | |
or Blairites emerging from these benches. | 0:25:36 | 0:25:37 | |
All I can say, Mr Speaker, is we'll be back as the real | 0:25:37 | 0:25:40 | |
and effective opposition. | 0:25:40 | 0:25:41 | |
The SNP's Pete Wishart. | 0:25:41 | 0:25:42 | |
We'll be back in the autumn, too, when MPs and peers return | 0:25:42 | 0:25:45 | |
to Westminster on September the 5th. | 0:25:45 | 0:25:47 | |
But until then, from me, Alicia McCarthy, goodbye. | 0:25:47 | 0:25:50 |