:00:18. > :00:19.Hello and welcome to Thursday in Parliament.
:00:20. > :00:22.Coming up: MPs say Sir Philhp Green should be stripped of his knighthood
:00:23. > :00:31.Peers demand a public inquiry into the state of our prisons,
:00:32. > :00:38.He took the rings from the fingers of BHS, he beat it black and blue,
:00:39. > :00:40.he starved it offered in water, he put it on life-support and then he
:00:41. > :00:42.wanted credit for keeping it alive. Peers demand a public inquiry
:00:43. > :00:44.into the state of our prisons, telling ministers
:00:45. > :00:46.jails are in crisis. And: we might be starting
:00:47. > :01:01.the process of leaving the DU, We have hard Brexit, we havd sourced
:01:02. > :01:06.-- we have soft Brexit. I would like to suggest crispy Brexit and maybe
:01:07. > :01:08.cant believe it is not Brexht. But first, there was unanimous
:01:09. > :01:11.support in the Commons for ` motion recommending the former owndr of BHS
:01:12. > :01:14.be stripped of his knighthood. The firm collapsed with 11,000
:01:15. > :01:16.jobs lost and a more A damning MPs' report
:01:17. > :01:20.on the High Street chain's failure, published in July, concluded
:01:21. > :01:22.Sir Philip had extracted large sums and left the business
:01:23. > :01:35.on "life support". At my age, you would have thought I
:01:36. > :01:39.may have been able to touch the hem of the garment of Napoleon, but
:01:40. > :01:46.obviously I never knew Napoleon but in my mindmy, this was the character
:01:47. > :01:48.most like the Napoleon I re`d in the history books while I was at school.
:01:49. > :01:51.He turned to the state of the company when Sir Phlip bought it,
:01:52. > :01:54.focussing particularly on the pension scheme.
:01:55. > :02:03.When Sir Philip Green acquired PHS, it was a relatively prosperous
:02:04. > :02:10.business and it had a pension scheme in surplus. Given his depiction of
:02:11. > :02:13.Mr Green has a Napoleonic fhgure, does he not share my concern that
:02:14. > :02:16.when he came to the committde in June and asserted that he would fix
:02:17. > :02:20.the problem, but several months later that does not appear to have
:02:21. > :02:23.taken place and he appears to be in the media saying that he is going to
:02:24. > :02:27.do so in the next couple of days and best does seem to be very irregular
:02:28. > :02:32.given the authority that he does seem to have. We were certahnly left
:02:33. > :02:35.that it was going to be sorted shortly. There was no concrdte
:02:36. > :02:38.proposal on the table at thd present time to actually bring justhce to
:02:39. > :02:41.those pensioners. He says hd is sorry but it comes across as
:02:42. > :02:45.crocodile tears because he will not put his money where his mouth is and
:02:46. > :02:50.he ought to make recompense. He seems that somehow unwilling to
:02:51. > :02:55.surrender a modest part of his made fortune. But it modest part which
:02:56. > :03:03.would make such a differencd to those pensioners still awaiting
:03:04. > :03:07.their fate. This Napoleon thing as he said, I have always thought that
:03:08. > :03:13.Sir Philip Green was more of a Maxwell. He had the money, xou had
:03:14. > :03:22.the yacht, he had the workers, and he robbed them of their pensions. It
:03:23. > :03:28.is almost a parallel. Sir Philip Green has threatened to sue me over
:03:29. > :03:32.my comments on that. I am still awaiting the writ to arrive. I long
:03:33. > :03:33.to be in court to have a trhal by jury, but that will be for `nother
:03:34. > :03:44.day. Despite all of the razzmatazz, there
:03:45. > :03:48.is nothing the committee cotld find or evidence that was presented to
:03:49. > :03:52.the committee that showed that Sir Philip Green was king of thd high
:03:53. > :03:53.street. He was and is a verx successful traditional asset
:03:54. > :03:57.stripper. an amendment recommending Shr Philip
:03:58. > :04:06.be stripped of his knighthood. You can amass a great fortune, but
:04:07. > :04:12.in such turbulent market tiles you can lose it in a day. And all you
:04:13. > :04:18.are left with is your order. And so the underpinnings of the amdndment
:04:19. > :04:24.today are to gauge in the specifics of the enquiry that we had hn
:04:25. > :04:27.Parliament on BHS not where the action is legal, but where the
:04:28. > :04:32.actions of Sir Philip Green honourable? And that is pertinent
:04:33. > :04:39.because he received his honour. For services to retail. I was contacted
:04:40. > :04:43.by e-mail by my constituent Irene who sheared the following. H had two
:04:44. > :04:47.friends who worked in BHS in Glasgow and they are devastated at what has
:04:48. > :04:50.happened to them and their pensions. They worked there for years. Don't
:04:51. > :04:54.have much chance of getting another job or being able to build tp
:04:55. > :04:58.another pension. This has h`ppened to my friends and their colleagues
:04:59. > :05:01.all because he risked his worker's pensions while he made a huge
:05:02. > :05:05.profits. I feel like we most certainly should not be honouring
:05:06. > :05:08.people like that. With the honourable member agree with Irene
:05:09. > :05:12.and mess up that this man Dhddley does not deserve his honour, after
:05:13. > :05:17.thousands of hard-working pdople across the UK have been Juphter I
:05:18. > :05:18.am very grateful for that and I absolutely agree with the honourable
:05:19. > :05:19.lady opposite. But the most vivid criticisl came
:05:20. > :05:28.from the co-chair of the inpuiry. Sir Philip Green cannot be described
:05:29. > :05:35.as a short-term corporate r`ider, but great the company he did, and
:05:36. > :05:39.his ability to do so men th`t he was anything natural position to be able
:05:40. > :05:45.to obtain the debt to acquire Acadia and through the same modus operandi
:05:46. > :05:48.he acquired BHS, bot Acadia and then paid his family the biggest
:05:49. > :05:52.corporate dividend in British history. He took the rings from the
:05:53. > :05:57.fingers of BHS comic he beat it black and blue comedy startdd of
:05:58. > :06:01.food and water, he put it on life-support and then he wanted
:06:02. > :06:04.credit for keeping it alive. Madam Deputy Speaker, BHS is one of the
:06:05. > :06:08.biggest corporate scandals of modern times. I think the whole hotse has
:06:09. > :06:12.sympathy for the thousands of workers and pensioners who have lost
:06:13. > :06:17.their jobs and seen their bdnefits reduced as a result of greed, and
:06:18. > :06:20.competence, and hubris. The repetition of business has been
:06:21. > :06:24.tarnished as a result of thhs greed. The bus majority of businesses are
:06:25. > :06:28.not run and managed like thhs. It would be wrong to tar all of
:06:29. > :06:31.business with the same brush, but it is vital that this mess is sorted.
:06:32. > :06:34.Well, in the end MPs approvdd - without a vote - the motion to strip
:06:35. > :06:38.The final say is not down to MPs but the Honours Forfeiture
:06:39. > :06:41.committee, convened by the prime minister and chaired by the head
:06:42. > :06:48.We'll get you the best deal possible."
:06:49. > :06:52.That was the message of the Cabinet Minister Davhd Davis
:06:53. > :06:55.at the first question session of his newly created Departlent
:06:56. > :06:58.MPs were looking for assurances that Brexit wouldn't harm differdnt
:06:59. > :07:02.aspects of the economy, such as science, education,
:07:03. > :07:17.I have been clear that the Government's overarching ails are to
:07:18. > :07:21.return control of our laws to Parliament, bringing back control
:07:22. > :07:24.over immigration to the UK, maintaining a strong security
:07:25. > :07:26.cooperation that we have with the EU and establishing the freest possible
:07:27. > :07:31.market in goods and services with the EU and the rest of the world.
:07:32. > :07:34.According to even at all tiles, the governor and it is their billions on
:07:35. > :07:39.to be the City of London in the single market. Can the Minister
:07:40. > :07:43.confirm what steps he is taking to confirm that the people of Scotland
:07:44. > :07:47.get a similar deal? A very large sum of the natural services jobs are
:07:48. > :07:49.outside London. Many of those are concentrated in Scotland. It has
:07:50. > :07:54.been a fundamental part of Scotland's advantage down the years
:07:55. > :07:57.to have strong financial services and we will do every bit as much to
:07:58. > :08:02.detect Scotland as we will protect London. Given the importancd of the
:08:03. > :08:05.single market membership to the economy in Ireland, will be
:08:06. > :08:11.Secretary of State commit to exploring ways in which Northern
:08:12. > :08:14.Ireland can remain in the shngle market in the eventuality that
:08:15. > :08:18.British leaves because of the importance of that market to our
:08:19. > :08:23.business? What I will commit to and have already committed to is
:08:24. > :08:27.extensive work to ensure th`t we keep an open border between the
:08:28. > :08:32.north in the South, that we maintain the Common travel area, and that we
:08:33. > :08:34.maintain the most effective possible open market that we can achheve
:08:35. > :08:37.Then a question on the challenge to the Prime Minister's intdntion
:08:38. > :08:39.to trigger EU Article 50 starting the exiting process
:08:40. > :08:49.As my right honourable friend will know, there has been a very
:08:50. > :08:53.important court case heard hn the High Court in the last week. What
:08:54. > :09:00.plans has my right honourable friend drawn up, including legislation in
:09:01. > :09:06.the event that he loses that case, and that therefore it will be this
:09:07. > :09:11.way is including the house of lords that will trigger Article 50 and not
:09:12. > :09:19.the Government using the roxal prerogative? Let me say gently to my
:09:20. > :09:23.honourable friend. Ministers do not comment on court cases in progress.
:09:24. > :09:27.Eight days ago, at that dispatch box, the Government give a clear
:09:28. > :09:29.commitment that, and I quotd, there should be a transparent deb`te on
:09:30. > :09:35.the Government's plans for leaving the EU. Yesterday, Mr Speakdr, I
:09:36. > :09:40.wrote to the Secretary of State to ask a very simple question. When
:09:41. > :09:43.will the plans be made available? That is an important question
:09:44. > :09:48.because we need time to deb`te and scrutinise the plans before Article
:09:49. > :09:52.50 is invoked. I could not have been clearer that I consider in gauge and
:09:53. > :09:59.part of the process of exithng the youth of Parliament -- exithng the
:10:00. > :10:03.European Union of paramount importance. That is the cost of
:10:04. > :10:06.everything I have said prevhously to various select committees in the
:10:07. > :10:12.house. The British people h`ve had enough of being misled over these
:10:13. > :10:17.issues. So will the Secretary of State tell this house and the
:10:18. > :10:20.country whether his plan, as it is evolving, it seems, will involve the
:10:21. > :10:29.country agreeing to continud making payments to the European Unhon after
:10:30. > :10:32.we have left the European Union The honourable lady had a reallx great
:10:33. > :10:36.deal of trouble keeping a straight face asking that question, `nd it is
:10:37. > :10:42.because she knows that it is not one I am going to answer. Mr Spdaker, I
:10:43. > :10:48.look forward to being able to asking a question with a straight face
:10:49. > :10:56.Anticipation of a straight `nswer. Goody perhaps try to tell this house
:10:57. > :11:01.and the country whether his plan, how much he estimate will nded to be
:11:02. > :11:06.spent on settling legacy colmitments prior to the completion of Brexit?
:11:07. > :11:11.The source I'm going to court is rather more authority and to ban
:11:12. > :11:14.Times. The European Commisshon talking about negotiating gtidelines
:11:15. > :11:18.and talking about how it handles negotiation and what it puts in the
:11:19. > :11:23.public domain before it does says the following. The negotiathons and
:11:24. > :11:26.whomever this is the Commission the negotiations are not themselves
:11:27. > :11:29.public. This is entirely normal for trade negotiations, not just those
:11:30. > :11:34.involving the European Union. What the opposition are trying to do on
:11:35. > :11:37.Mr Speaker, is to put us in a disadvantaged position. That is not
:11:38. > :11:39.in the national interest. You're watching Thursday
:11:40. > :11:45.in Parliament, with me, The Department of Health wants
:11:46. > :11:48.to reduce the amount of mondy it spends on community
:11:49. > :11:50.pharmacies in England. NHS England pays ?2.8 billion
:11:51. > :11:53.a year to the 11,500 Pharmacists are regarded
:11:54. > :12:00.as a crucial part of the NHS. As well as dispensing prescription
:12:01. > :12:08.drugs they provide other services - such as flu jabs and
:12:09. > :12:10.emergency contraception. But they are also private
:12:11. > :12:12.businesses which, according to a Health Minister,
:12:13. > :12:26.David Mowat, could be The average pharmacy receivds nearly
:12:27. > :12:34.?1 million per year for the NHS goods and services it provides,
:12:35. > :12:39.allowing ?220,000 of this is direct income. This includes a fixdd
:12:40. > :12:46.payment of ?25,000 per year, paid from most pharmacies regardless of
:12:47. > :12:51.size and regardless of qualhty. He called on pharmacies to plax their
:12:52. > :12:54.part in finding ?22 billion worth of savings for the NHS. I am today
:12:55. > :12:59.announcing a two year funding settlement. In summary, to provide
:13:00. > :13:09.NHS pharmaceutical services under the community pharmacy framdwork
:13:10. > :13:15.will receive 2.687 billion pounds in funding and ?2.592 billion hn
:13:16. > :13:24.funding in 2018. This represents a 4% reduction in 2016 and 2007 and a
:13:25. > :13:29.further 3.4% in 2017 and 2008. Mr Speaker, every penny saved by this
:13:30. > :13:37.reset will be reinvested and the allocated back into our NHS to
:13:38. > :13:40.ensure the very best patient care. Community pharmacies play a crucial
:13:41. > :13:46.role in our health and soci`l care system. Importantly, 80% of patient
:13:47. > :13:49.contact in the NHS is in colmunity pharmacies, so the Government's
:13:50. > :13:52.decision to press ahead with the damaging cuts to our pharmacies
:13:53. > :13:57.which represent a 12% cut for the rest of this year on current levels
:13:58. > :14:02.and a 7% cut year after will cause widespread concern and dism`y.
:14:03. > :14:09.Earlier this year, the minister s predecessor said that up to 300
:14:10. > :14:12.community pharmacies could close, and clearly, the thousands of
:14:13. > :14:16.remaining pharmacies could be forced to scale back their services. If the
:14:17. > :14:20.minister does not agree with his predecessor, can he now tell the
:14:21. > :14:22.house how many community ph`rmacies he expects to close as a result of
:14:23. > :14:27.the Government's cuts? The honourable lady is asking me
:14:28. > :14:30.how many are closing. The answer to that question is,
:14:31. > :14:32.I don't know. I do not believe that
:14:33. > :14:36.3,000 will close. The average margin,
:14:37. > :14:39.operating margin, that the pharmacy makes on the ntmbers
:14:40. > :14:44.that I quoted earlier os 15$. That is after salaries
:14:45. > :14:47.and after rent. The cuts we are making,
:14:48. > :14:50.the efficiencies that we ard asking for, is significantlx
:14:51. > :14:56.lower than that. Aren't these cuts just the latest
:14:57. > :14:58.evidence of the unprecedented financial pressure
:14:59. > :15:00.that the National Health Service is Isn't it the case that cutthng
:15:01. > :15:04.community pharmacy services is the very last place you would
:15:05. > :15:06.begin because they take surgeries, they take
:15:07. > :15:10.pressure off hospitals, The Government should be investing
:15:11. > :15:18.more in them not cutting. I thank the minister for re`lising
:15:19. > :15:22.what Labour fails to, that any NHS money is taxpaxers
:15:23. > :15:25.money and the priority should always be patient care not the profits
:15:26. > :15:27.of private equity firms. Can I congratulate him for laking
:15:28. > :15:30.clear that those who live in our lost
:15:31. > :15:33.deprived communities will bd protected and have better
:15:34. > :15:35.services as a result of this change and can
:15:36. > :15:37.I Well, I won't say
:15:38. > :15:40.much more, Mr Speaker But I thank the right
:15:41. > :15:43.honourable gentleman for his comments and
:15:44. > :15:45.he's right to remind the House that this sector
:15:46. > :15:59.is quite concentrated
:16:00. > :16:00.towards public companies. That isn't to say there aren't some
:16:01. > :16:03.individual pharmacies that will be affected,
:16:04. > :16:05.but something like 25% of pharmacies are owned
:16:06. > :16:06.by The Government has rejected calls
:16:07. > :16:11.for a public inquiry into the state In the Lords, peers said
:16:12. > :16:15.prisons were in crisis, with violence endemic,
:16:16. > :16:16.a shortage of staff The problem was raised by a former
:16:17. > :16:20.inspector of prisons following the death of one hnmate
:16:21. > :16:23.and the injuring of two othdrs earlier this week at Pentonville
:16:24. > :16:25.prison in North London. The jail which opened in 1842 holds
:16:26. > :16:31.more than 1,200 adults. Tuesday's horrendous murder
:16:32. > :16:34.in Pentonville drew yet mord attention to the fact
:16:35. > :16:37.that our prisons are And I regard the call
:16:38. > :16:48.for a public inquiry into their state by the very repttable
:16:49. > :16:53.Prison Governors' Association as a vote of no-confidence in the years
:16:54. > :16:57.of purely in-house tinkering with the system by successive
:16:58. > :17:01.ministers and officials. noble lord, the Minister,
:17:02. > :17:06.to advise the Secretary to listen carefully to thosd most
:17:07. > :17:12.affected by the current crisis. It is not thought
:17:13. > :17:15.that a public inquiry would be the way forward
:17:16. > :17:21.when we are about to publish a White Paper
:17:22. > :17:25.prison safety and reform in which we will address these issues.
:17:26. > :17:26.Of course the Prison Governors' Association
:17:27. > :17:32.They, like the Secretary of State, want to see
:17:33. > :17:34.safe prisons as a foundation for prison reform.
:17:35. > :17:38.And they have welcomed the fact that initial
:17:39. > :17:41.funding has been made avail`ble recently the announcement of the ?40
:17:42. > :17:43.million pilot scheme for new public sector
:17:44. > :17:44.prisons operating in
:17:45. > :17:52.The number of assaults on prison officers has
:17:53. > :17:55.risen from 3,000 a year to 4,50 , with serious assaults doublhng.
:17:56. > :17:58.Assaults with weapons on officers and fellow
:17:59. > :18:00.prisoners increased by
:18:01. > :18:06.Self harming has increased in the last
:18:07. > :18:18.Meanwhile the number of prison officers has
:18:19. > :18:22.fallen from 18,500 to just over 15,000 in the last four years.
:18:23. > :18:27.When will the Government recognise that
:18:28. > :18:30.we have a crisis in our prisons and it is necessary to reduce the
:18:31. > :18:32.overall prison population, including those on remand,
:18:33. > :18:39.Substantially increase the number of trained staff,
:18:40. > :18:42.provide appropriate medical and other support, and move
:18:43. > :18:44.from housing people in largd institutions which are diffhcult to
:18:45. > :18:49.manage to smaller custodial facilities?
:18:50. > :18:53.It is recognised that there has been an increase in
:18:54. > :18:57.violence in prisons in the past ten years or more.
:18:58. > :19:02.It should also be noted that in the period from 2005
:19:03. > :19:05.to 2015 the number of offenders in prison for violent conduct has
:19:06. > :19:15.So far as resources are concerned we have
:19:16. > :19:21.already announced as of 30th June this year the allocation of an
:19:22. > :19:23.additional ?10 million of ndw funding for prison safety and that
:19:24. > :19:28.funding is to include Pentonville prison.
:19:29. > :19:33.As a former minister for prhsons I recognise the difficulty
:19:34. > :19:49.the Government is in when something like this is proposed as a new and
:19:50. > :19:51.expensive programme is already launched.
:19:52. > :19:54.But would my noble friend bdar in mind that it would offer two
:19:55. > :19:57.One would be that the Secretary of State and the
:19:58. > :20:00.Minister would actually perhaps learn a good deal that they don t
:20:01. > :20:03.know now which would be verx valuable to them in managing their
:20:04. > :20:07.The second is that the result is likely to give them extr`
:20:08. > :20:08.ammunition for dealing with the difficulty
:20:09. > :20:09.of getting money out of
:20:10. > :20:16.The Government has I believd acknowledged that one of thd
:20:17. > :20:20.major contributory factors to the increase
:20:21. > :20:22.in violence in prisons is
:20:23. > :20:24.the use of psychoactive substances, especially Spicd.
:20:25. > :20:27.And I think it has taken stdps to ensure possession and
:20:28. > :20:28.supply has been restricted on prisons.
:20:29. > :20:31.But will the Minister agree with me now that it's really
:20:32. > :20:42.important to have a coordin`ted response to tackling demand on all
:20:43. > :20:44.drug misuse, not only psychoactive substances, but heroin, crack,
:20:45. > :20:46.cannabis, and the increase in prescribed drugs in prison?
:20:47. > :20:48.Otherwise you will have a scatter-gun approach
:20:49. > :20:50.and a reactive approach to tackling this issue and
:20:51. > :20:53.it would be a really import`nt thing to have in the White Paper.
:20:54. > :20:55.It is acknowledged that drugs, and in particular psychoacthve
:20:56. > :20:57.substances, are a major problem and indeed a
:20:58. > :20:59.source of violence within the prison community.
:21:00. > :21:10.Ministry of Justice in 2013 noted that over 80% of the prison
:21:11. > :21:13.population admitted to using illegal drugs prior to their incarcdration.
:21:14. > :21:15.The availability of drugs within prison remains
:21:16. > :21:18.a major problem and one which we are addressing.
:21:19. > :21:20.For example new penalties in respect of
:21:21. > :21:27.the use of drones are being introduced.
:21:28. > :21:30.Further reforms are being t`ken to try and reduce the
:21:31. > :21:34.ability of people to bring drugs into prison.
:21:35. > :21:36.However we have to remember that individual prisons are
:21:37. > :21:40.communities where there is ` massive movement of people in and ott,
:21:41. > :21:42.whether they be new prisoners or visitors, and control of illegal
:21:43. > :21:47.Staying in the Lords peers were also worried
:21:48. > :21:54.They wanted action to tackld the rise in problem
:21:55. > :21:56.gamblers and were particularly concerned about what are called
:21:57. > :22:00.Fixed Odds Betting Terminals - known as FOBTs.
:22:01. > :22:02.The slot machines - found in betting shops -
:22:03. > :22:04.have been labelled the crack cocaine of gambling.
:22:05. > :22:07.A Bishop wanted to know what action the government was taking.
:22:08. > :22:10.I recently put in a Freedom of information request to the
:22:11. > :22:15.Metropolitan Police and that revealed that since 2010 thdre has
:22:16. > :22:18.been a 68% rise in violent crime associated with betting shops across
:22:19. > :22:27.In the light of that will the noble lord, the Minister,
:22:28. > :22:30.tell the House what assessmdnt Her Majesty's Government has made of
:22:31. > :22:34.the link between this rapid rise in violent crime associated with
:22:35. > :22:38.betting shops and the incre`se in the number of fixed odds betting
:22:39. > :22:47.Well, of course, any rise in the crime
:22:48. > :22:50.figures is concerning and mhnisters in the Gambling Commission will look
:22:51. > :22:57.And of course preventing gambling being a
:22:58. > :23:00.source of crime is one of the three licensing objectives that all
:23:01. > :23:09.As far as the right reverend's specific
:23:10. > :23:11.question about the link between fixed odds
:23:12. > :23:16.rise in crime, I would hesitate at the moment to draw a causal link
:23:17. > :23:19.between that in the absence of evidence on the specific means of
:23:20. > :23:24.But of course this is exactly the sort of evidence that
:23:25. > :23:30.should be provided to the forthcoming triennial rdview.
:23:31. > :23:33.One peer had a tongue in cheek question.
:23:34. > :23:42.for someone who gambles a country for a political party and loses
:23:43. > :23:47.A question the Minister didn't answer.
:23:48. > :23:49.Finally for now to Business Questions, where MPs wanted to talk
:23:50. > :23:55.The Shadow Leader asked abott that and threw in a reference
:23:56. > :23:58.to the recent announcement that '60s singer Bob Dylan has yet to say
:23:59. > :24:02.if he'll travel to Stockholl at the end of the year to collect
:24:03. > :24:09.Even Margaret Thatcher had ` negotiating position.
:24:10. > :24:12.It was, no, no, no, or, I want a rebate.
:24:13. > :24:15.They say we can't reveal our negotiating position.
:24:16. > :24:21.The only answer to the Government is that a hard Brexit is going to fall.
:24:22. > :24:25.Mr Speaker, if there is one thing that is blowing in the wind this
:24:26. > :24:28.morning it is the coherence of the Labour Party's ideas about
:24:29. > :24:32.policy and I don't know whether they're
:24:33. > :24:35.sleeping well at night but
:24:36. > :24:38.it's very clear to me that there's no place they're going to.
:24:39. > :24:48.The SNP's own Mr Tambourine Man Pete Wishart, a former membdr
:24:49. > :24:50.of the band Runrig, had linguistic questions of his own.
:24:51. > :24:52.Today, Mr Speaker, the Prime Minister
:24:53. > :24:54.is off to Brussels on her fhrst trip
:24:55. > :24:55.with EU leaders since she became
:24:56. > :24:57.Prime Minister and she is advocating
:24:58. > :24:58.something which I think she
:24:59. > :25:01.Can I suggest that we get otr terms
:25:02. > :25:04.Because we have got hard Brexit, we have got
:25:05. > :25:07.I want to suggest crispy Brexit and maybe soggy
:25:08. > :25:18.the member for Perth and North Perthshire
:25:19. > :25:19.forgot to mention ready Brexit but
:25:20. > :25:23.Mr Speaker, I can remember the days when they used to
:25:24. > :25:31.Really, Minister, isn't it time we stopped
:25:32. > :25:39.And that's it for now, but do join me on Friday night at 11
:25:40. > :25:42.for a full round up of the week here in Westminster,
:25:43. > :25:45.including former Public Accounts Committee Chair Dame Margardt Hodge