:00:17. > :00:20.Hello and Welcome to Thursday in Parliament, our look at the best
:00:21. > :00:23.of the day in the Commons and the Lords.
:00:24. > :00:32.Labour call on Tory MPs to rebel against the Chancellor's
:00:33. > :00:33.decision to increase National Insurance Contributions
:00:34. > :00:41.And no-one will ever believe a Tory election promise ever again.
:00:42. > :00:43.Opposition peers have advice for a Work and Pensions Minister
:00:44. > :00:49.to make the introduction of Universal Credit fairer.
:00:50. > :00:52.It will transform their opportunity to get the
:00:53. > :01:00.money that that will help them back into the labour market as we all
:01:01. > :01:02.want, and not instead have a lifetime of debt
:01:03. > :01:05.And SNP MPs appeal for people to come to Scotland.
:01:06. > :01:10.Scotland's population has been getting a raw deal.
:01:11. > :01:13.Scotland needs to get out from under that and create a
:01:14. > :01:15.welcoming, entrepreneurial environment.
:01:16. > :01:17.But first, a key issue on the second day
:01:18. > :01:21.has been Philip Hammond's controversial changes
:01:22. > :01:26.to National Insurance for those who're self-employed.
:01:27. > :01:28.The change, announced on Wednesday, would mean 1.5 million
:01:29. > :01:32.self-employed people paying ?240 more on average every year
:01:33. > :01:38.The Chancellor has faced claims that increase amounts to a breaking
:01:39. > :01:42.of a Conservative election manifesto promise.
:01:43. > :01:50.And, yes, it is a manifesto betrayal.
:01:51. > :01:54.There was a promise in the manifesto and it read like this, it said this,
:01:55. > :01:59.this means that we can commit to no increases in VAT,
:02:00. > :02:03.income tax or national insurance, taxes on working people.
:02:04. > :02:08.This would harm our economy, reduce living standards and cost jobs.
:02:09. > :02:19.Not me, not Labour MPs, Tory manifesto.
:02:20. > :02:20.We're levelling the playing field between employees
:02:21. > :02:22.and the self-employed and 60% of the
:02:23. > :02:24.self employed, that is the lowest earners,
:02:25. > :02:27.We are continuing to reduce corporation tax on all profitable
:02:28. > :02:30.companies, large and small, so that hardworking entrepreneurs
:02:31. > :02:36.keep most of the fruits of their labours,
:02:37. > :02:47.and we are taking a number of steps to make business rates fairer.
:02:48. > :02:55.headlines have not gone the way the Chancellor would have planned. White
:02:56. > :03:01.Van man gets battered by budget, that is just to name a view. It is a
:03:02. > :03:07.good example of when you do things in a hurry, you get things wrong.
:03:08. > :03:12.The Chancellor got things wrong yesterday and aesthetics anything
:03:13. > :03:16.away from the last 24 hours is that he made the wrong choice at the
:03:17. > :03:22.wrong time in the wrong way. -- takes anything away. We will be
:03:23. > :03:30.opposing the increase in national insurance for the self-employed.
:03:31. > :03:38.City of London and how the labour markets operate there.
:03:39. > :03:41.I was thinking about my friend in Skye or some of my friends
:03:42. > :03:43.in the Highlands and knowing their reliance
:03:44. > :03:44.and the type who are self-employed there
:03:45. > :03:49.They cannot choose to work for other corporations that might not exist.
:03:50. > :03:51.They are what might be called necessity entrepreneurs.
:03:52. > :03:53.They do not work in one sector either, they
:03:54. > :03:55.have to job around and they have long travelling
:03:56. > :04:00.I do think we need to look at this very,
:04:01. > :04:02.very carefully because there was a a solemn promise
:04:03. > :04:06.in the manifesto not to increase national insurance.
:04:07. > :04:11.The reality is that I worry that the accusation could be made
:04:12. > :04:22.that it is a bit like signing a contract but
:04:23. > :04:26.failing to look at the fine print, the small print, that exists.
:04:27. > :04:28.I do think we need to raise the issue of
:04:29. > :04:31.the lack of parity between the way employed and self-employed
:04:32. > :04:33.There are advantages and disadvantages to
:04:34. > :04:37.right to make sure we have the right equitable treatment for both.
:04:38. > :04:40.I happen to say for myself, I do not want to see
:04:41. > :04:42.us penalising the entrepreneurial people in our society.
:04:43. > :04:46.At the same time, I want to make sure we have a system that is
:04:47. > :04:50.fair and we need to be extremly mindful that we do not just satisfy
:04:51. > :04:54.the letter of our manifesto commitments but also the spirit.
:04:55. > :05:00.The tax lock was torn up by the Chancellor and he can dance
:05:01. > :05:04.on the head of a pin, he can claim that their lock did not
:05:05. > :05:06.apply to class four national insurance contributions
:05:07. > :05:10.But, Madam Deputy Speaker, that was not
:05:11. > :05:16.No-one will ever believe a Tory election promise
:05:17. > :05:24.People will think they cannot trust the Government on
:05:25. > :05:33.anything in terms of their future economic security.
:05:34. > :05:35.I think the honourable lady is making a typical lucid
:05:36. > :05:39.points in her speech but is it not incumbent on her, given that
:05:40. > :05:42.there is consensus that we need to fund social care better, that extra
:05:43. > :05:44.2 billion that the Chancellor announced, that it is incumbent on
:05:45. > :05:48.her party to identify where that money would come from and if she
:05:49. > :05:50.does not want it to be raised by national insurance contributions,
:05:51. > :05:58.That leads me very nicely to my next point, which is that the
:05:59. > :06:00.Chancellor would claim that the Government has no choice
:06:01. > :06:06.but to raise national insurance contributions, but he somehow has
:06:07. > :06:11.managed to find ?70 billion in tax cuts for the rich
:06:12. > :06:13.and corporations, including ?1 billion for the Government's pet
:06:14. > :06:18.I have always believed in low taxes as a
:06:19. > :06:24.When a Government inherits a deficit of
:06:25. > :06:29.?100 billion, the greatest priority must be to return to sound finances
:06:30. > :06:36.I believe that it is right that those
:06:37. > :06:38.benefit from public services make an appropriate contribution
:06:39. > :06:51.That is what this budget's changes to national insurance will do.
:06:52. > :06:56.The latest day of debate on the Chancellor's budget.
:06:57. > :07:00.It's been a record breaking week in the House of Lords: on Tuesday
:07:01. > :07:04.evening the largest number of peers ever to take part in a division
:07:05. > :07:07.in the Upper House took part in a vote on the so-called Brexit Bill.
:07:08. > :07:10.It resulted in a defeat for the Government.
:07:11. > :07:13.Peers voted for Parliament having a meaningful vote on the final EU
:07:14. > :07:16.Exit deal and for that measure to be clearly written into the Bill.
:07:17. > :07:19.It was a proposal led by the crossbench peer Lord Pannick
:07:20. > :07:22.and it was the government's second defeat on the Brexit Bill.
:07:23. > :07:25.In the Commons, the Leader of the House set out
:07:26. > :07:30.Monday 13th of March - consideration of Lord's amendments
:07:31. > :07:36.withdrawal Bill, followed by a continuation of the Budget debate.
:07:37. > :07:40.Tuesday 14th March, if necessary, consideration of Lord's amendments.
:07:41. > :07:43.Mr Speaker, I note on the business paper there are three days set aside
:07:44. > :07:46.for consideration of Lord's amendments if necessary, as this
:07:47. > :07:49.Government attempts to ping that pong that is coming from those
:07:50. > :07:51.heroes who are continuing to stand up to the Government.
:07:52. > :07:55.I note that this only goes on until Wednesday.
:07:56. > :07:57.What happens if we still have these paddles out
:07:58. > :08:01.Is the Government going to enforce the Parliament act?
:08:02. > :08:03.How does this impact on the Article 50
:08:04. > :08:07.process and will he clarify what is going to go on?
:08:08. > :08:09.But can we encourage the people's aristocrats to battle
:08:10. > :08:17.It's perfectly routine for the Government to
:08:18. > :08:20.announce provisional buisness in case there is a need
:08:21. > :08:28.The House of Lords has a perfectly proper role as a revising
:08:29. > :08:32.chamber, but it also knows that it is an unelected
:08:33. > :08:34.house and I hope the
:08:35. > :08:41.House of Lords will want to give very careful consideration to
:08:42. > :08:44.whatever views this House takes on its amendments next week and to
:08:45. > :08:51.accept that ultimately the view not just of the elected
:08:52. > :08:53.House, but the view of the British people
:08:54. > :08:57.expressed in a referendum, should prevail.
:08:58. > :08:59.Mr Speaker, I note that the EU Bill will be
:09:00. > :09:02.coming back to the Commons on Monday and once this Bill goes through it
:09:03. > :09:05.will truly be the end of the Thatcher legacy
:09:06. > :09:08.because the former Prime Minister signed up to, in 1981
:09:09. > :09:10.EU enlargement Accession with Greece, 1983 Declaration
:09:11. > :09:15.1986 EU enlargement accession of Spain and Portugal,
:09:16. > :09:18.1987 Single European Act to create the single internal market
:09:19. > :09:27.say, no, she could renegotiate the EU budget in 1984, say no to the
:09:28. > :09:30.1985 Schengen agreement, say no to the 1999 social charter,
:09:31. > :09:34.So we have Margaret Thatcher who was a Remainer and a
:09:35. > :09:37.reformer, but you cannot say the same for this Government.
:09:38. > :09:42.Well, earlier, the potential confrontation between MPs
:09:43. > :09:51.and the Lords over alterations to the Brexit Bill surfaced
:09:52. > :09:54.during question time to David Davis, the Secretary of State for Exiting
:09:55. > :09:57.Labour wanted to know why the government was determined
:09:58. > :10:00.The Prime Minister has said the approval of
:10:01. > :10:03.parliament would be required for the final terms of our
:10:04. > :10:07.The Prime Minister has also promised this will occur
:10:08. > :10:10.before the withdrawal agreement is sent to the European
:10:11. > :10:13.The House of Lords has now voted by a
:10:14. > :10:15.large majority to amend the Article 50 Bill to reflect these
:10:16. > :10:20.If the Prime Minister intends to keep her
:10:21. > :10:23.commitments, why would the Government support this amendment
:10:24. > :10:25.when it returns to this house on Monday?
:10:26. > :10:34.Clearly, the Government wants to trigger Article 50 next
:10:35. > :10:37.It will then have to set out its proposal in
:10:38. > :10:42.For months it has hidden behind the bland phrases of frictionless
:10:43. > :10:46.This is the last opportunity before triggering to spell out what this
:10:47. > :10:53.I would have thought the honourable gentleman is a very
:10:54. > :11:01.I would have thought he would have known what
:11:02. > :11:03.frictionless meant, it means trade with the minimum of possible
:11:04. > :11:09.barriers, the minimum possible impediment.
:11:10. > :11:11.That is what we will seek to achieve.
:11:12. > :11:12.From recent discussions with senior members of
:11:13. > :11:16.the German parliament, it is very clear we are not going to get
:11:17. > :11:19.barrier free access to the single market if we no longer operate free
:11:20. > :11:22.Do Ministers yet recognise that reality?
:11:23. > :11:24.That is not the response I'm getting from the
:11:25. > :11:27.Ministers I've spoken to around Europe.
:11:28. > :11:31.What they have come back with is that they want to see a
:11:32. > :11:35.The only way to a constructive outcome is a free
:11:36. > :11:40.Is not the case that at the end of the day when the
:11:41. > :11:43.United Kingdom leaves the European union, we will be
:11:44. > :11:51.Does he not agree with my favourite politician at the
:11:52. > :11:54.moment Wolfgang Schaeuble, The Finance Minister of Germany, who
:11:55. > :11:57.says that if we, the German and all the European union were to cause any
:11:58. > :12:00.damage to the United Kingdom it would be increased tenfold for the
:12:01. > :12:07.I'm sure the financial minister in question will
:12:08. > :12:09.be uncontrollably excited to discover that the honourable
:12:10. > :12:16.My honourable friend, Mr Speaker, makes
:12:17. > :12:18.an extremely good point and that is that this market,
:12:19. > :12:21.the UK market, will be the biggest export market
:12:22. > :12:23.for the continuing European Union after we leave.
:12:24. > :12:29.That is recognised not just by Herr Schaeuble but by the Belgian
:12:30. > :12:34.chamber of commerce, with whom I spoke earlier this week.
:12:35. > :12:36.The Prime Minister has said Britain will not
:12:37. > :12:38.remain a full member of the custom union
:12:39. > :12:39.but the Chancellor said it is
:12:40. > :12:42.clear we cannot stay in the custom union.
:12:43. > :12:47.It is clear that if we are to seek free
:12:48. > :12:52.world, we will not be able to remain in the customs union as it currently
:12:53. > :12:59.Having said that, what we do seek, that will be able to construct
:13:00. > :13:02.customs arrangements that are as frictionless
:13:03. > :13:09.as possible for the benefit of both the EU and the UK.
:13:10. > :13:14.You're watching our round-up of the day in the Commons and the Lords.
:13:15. > :13:22.Peers have been told by a Welfare Minister that
:13:23. > :13:25.Universal Credit has been "deliberately" rolled out "slowly"
:13:26. > :13:30.to make sure there's time to eliminate problems.
:13:31. > :13:32.Universal Credit, or UC, will wrap together in a single
:13:33. > :13:34.monthly payment the different benefits people have
:13:35. > :13:38.In the Lords, Lord Henley responded to criticism about the way
:13:39. > :13:43.First, a Labour peer spoke about one of the problems
:13:44. > :13:48.In 2013 the Government introduced a rule that when you first claim
:13:49. > :13:52.benefit you're not entitled to any money for the first seven days.
:13:53. > :13:56.The problem is when universal credit came in because it is paid monthly
:13:57. > :13:59.in arrears it means you get no money at all for six weeks.
:14:00. > :14:01.And although that doesn't sound very long, the
:14:02. > :14:04.typical family in social housing has only got ?200 in savings and some
:14:05. > :14:08.Social landlords are now saying tenants are getting
:14:09. > :14:09.big arrears, they're seeing people turning
:14:10. > :14:11.to payday lenders, and even
:14:12. > :14:15.to loan sharks, even the noble lord, Lord Freud, recently told the work
:14:16. > :14:17.and pensions select committee that the seven-day waiting
:14:18. > :14:22.There are safeguards in place and we introduced the universal
:14:23. > :14:28.Claimants can apply for an advance immediately if they are in need and
:14:29. > :14:34.can received up to 50% of their ward soon afterwards.
:14:35. > :14:37.I go back to the original point, the important point
:14:38. > :14:41.is to make sure we are mirroring the world of work, where 75% of
:14:42. > :14:49.My Lords, in the last three months I've visited a large number of food
:14:50. > :15:00.banks across the dioceses of Oxford, exceedingly affluent communities,
:15:01. > :15:03.building on my experience of food banks in the dioceses of
:15:04. > :15:06.And all I've had underlined to me is the most common
:15:07. > :15:09.reason people interact with food banks is delay in accessing welfare
:15:10. > :15:12.It is clear from the Government's own figures that too
:15:13. > :15:15.few people are aware of or receiving the emergency payments intended for
:15:16. > :15:19.It's not just the architecture of universal credit that is creating
:15:20. > :15:22.problems, but the administration of universal credit, as the select
:15:23. > :15:25.committee in the other place determined.
:15:26. > :15:29.I understand that when asked about the sometimes fractious
:15:30. > :15:33.relationship between the DWP and Treasury
:15:34. > :15:37.noble lord's predecessor said there were times
:15:38. > :15:38.when one's views of the
:15:39. > :15:59.Can I ask, does the current Minister have any such inhibitions?
:16:00. > :16:00.LAUGHTER My Lords, we have all on occasion
:16:01. > :16:04.had moments where we have doubts about what goes on in the Treasury.
:16:05. > :16:07.Most of us, I'm sure all of us in this
:16:08. > :16:09.house, want universal credit to work.
:16:10. > :16:12.Lady Hollis said three things needed to happen.
:16:13. > :16:14.The first is to get rid of the seven-day waiting period.
:16:15. > :16:17.The second is to pay people for likely as well
:16:18. > :16:19.of a monthly in advance if they so wish.
:16:20. > :16:22.And thirdly is to pay housing benefit if tenants so wish direct to
:16:23. > :16:29.All of those three things together would transform the
:16:30. > :16:32.ability of people who are not particularly sophisticated about the
:16:33. > :16:37.It would transform their opportunity to get the money that would help
:16:38. > :16:40.them back into the labour market as we all want
:16:41. > :16:42.and not instead have a
:16:43. > :16:50.I am very grateful that the noble Baroness offers support for
:16:51. > :16:53.universal credit and, like her, we wish to see
:16:54. > :17:06.That is why, as my noble friend, Lord Freud, always made
:17:07. > :17:09.clear we want to see a very slow roll out of universal credit.
:17:10. > :17:13.And the noble Baroness will be aware just how slow that roll out has been
:17:14. > :17:16.Deliberately so, before the noble Baroness giggles too much.
:17:17. > :17:23.Deliberately so, so that we can learn as this goes along.
:17:24. > :17:26.The Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said NHS hospitals in England must
:17:27. > :17:30.get back to meeting the target for seeing patients swiftly
:17:31. > :17:36.85% of patients were admitted, transferred or discharged
:17:37. > :17:43.within four hours in January, compared to a target of 95%.
:17:44. > :17:55.This week the Chancellor announced an extra 2billion pounds for social
:17:56. > :17:57.This week the Chancellor announced an extra ?2 billion for social
:17:58. > :18:01.care and 100 million pounds to place more GPs in A E departments.
:18:02. > :18:04.The head of the NHS in England said the money would be used
:18:05. > :18:07.to "kick-start a turnaround", so that the NHS went into next
:18:08. > :18:10.In order to do that, we've got to help at
:18:11. > :18:15.and E departments and we've got to help at the back end, in terms of
:18:16. > :18:17.delayed discharges for frail, older patients.
:18:18. > :18:19.And this money's for the front end, is it?
:18:20. > :18:20.The Chancellor's announced that it is both.
:18:21. > :18:22.Obviously the ?100 million capital is to help
:18:23. > :18:26.ensure that A departments can make the space available to put in place
:18:27. > :18:28.GP streaming on the model that has been successfully adopted in places
:18:29. > :18:31.like Luton and Dunstable Hospital, one of our top performing A
:18:32. > :18:35.departments in the country, and have those in place by next Christmas.
:18:36. > :18:39.And then on the back end, obviously, the extra one billion pounds for
:18:40. > :18:42.adult social care, as the Chancellor said yesterday, will be very
:18:43. > :18:48.I was really asking about the, I was asking about the capital
:18:49. > :18:50.funding particularly because the social care
:18:51. > :18:55.bit, we won't want to get into that whole debate today.
:18:56. > :18:57.We'll see what the announcement says.
:18:58. > :19:04.On this A end of it, how many hospitals are going to get
:19:05. > :19:09.money to put in effectively a walk-in triage approach at their
:19:10. > :19:15.We want all hospitals to have comprehensive front door streaming
:19:16. > :19:20.And have you costed what that would cost?
:19:21. > :19:24.This is going to be probably 50 to 100
:19:25. > :19:27.hospitals that need a bit of remedial work or extra capacity
:19:28. > :19:34.So this money will be for 50 to 100 of the hospitals that need it.
:19:35. > :19:37.So how much in total will it cost to deliver what you've
:19:38. > :19:40.outlined, and what percentage of that has been contributed in the
:19:41. > :19:44.We are setting a requirement that all hospitals have
:19:45. > :19:49.GP streaming in place by this coming Christmas,
:19:50. > :19:54.incremental capital required to do that is consistent with the funding
:19:55. > :19:58.we've got from the Chancellor yesterday.
:19:59. > :20:01.Simon Stevens was speaking to the Commons Public
:20:02. > :20:03.Accounts Committee - which is investigating
:20:04. > :20:06.access to GPs - an inquiry which raises a number of issues.
:20:07. > :20:08.We've got about 300 million consultations
:20:09. > :20:13.a year in GP's surgeries and we've got a differentiated group
:20:14. > :20:17.of reasons why patients are consulting with their GP.
:20:18. > :20:20.And it's tended to be seen as a one-size
:20:21. > :20:24.approach when looked at nationally, whereas we've got to differentiate
:20:25. > :20:49.the person with multiple chronic conditions who might require more
:20:50. > :20:56.First is the same-day appointments needed. The reason it is so
:20:57. > :21:02.important that the GP system is functioning well is not just for the
:21:03. > :21:05.long-term condition management but also because of the availability of
:21:06. > :21:14.same-day urgent care because if you think about 23 million any
:21:15. > :21:19.attendances versus 85 million same-day GAAP appointments is
:21:20. > :21:25.obvious that if you under source primary care and spills into other
:21:26. > :21:29.parts of the NHS. The fast fantastic efficiency that primary care
:21:30. > :21:31.represents 90% of patient contact
:21:32. > :21:35.it's worth reminding us of that a year's worth of GP care costs
:21:36. > :21:38.Simon Stevens, with an interesting fact there
:21:39. > :21:42.Now, Scotland is a different place from England.
:21:43. > :21:43.Nothing like a statement of the obvious.
:21:44. > :21:47.But how different is the profile of the population between Scotland
:21:48. > :21:52.SNP MPs have used a debate in Westminster Hall to highlight how
:21:53. > :21:57.Scotland has an older population than the rest of the UK and is keen
:21:58. > :22:02.to attract young people from Europe and elsewhere to live and work north
:22:03. > :22:06.And they're asking for the Scottish Parliament to have
:22:07. > :22:17.We'll always be fighting a losing battle, if we cannot grow our
:22:18. > :22:21.And this report calls for the Government to consider, give
:22:22. > :22:23.us a chance, give us a break, consider devolving some immigration
:22:24. > :22:25.powers to Scotland, to let us grow our population.
:22:26. > :22:30.If the minister doesn't and the UK Government
:22:31. > :22:31.doesn't it is holding Scotland's hand behind
:22:32. > :22:33.its back, cause we know that
:22:34. > :22:36.population gap between us and the rest of the United Kingdom will have
:22:37. > :22:38.massive implications for our economy and our ability to provide proper
:22:39. > :22:42.The UK Government's immigration policy in no way recognises
:22:43. > :22:46.Scotland's needs or serves our economic and societal interests.
:22:47. > :22:49.They continue to exist resist pragmatic change which would not
:22:50. > :22:53.only support the impact of Scotland's ageing demographic but
:22:54. > :22:56.also help Scotland attract international students.
:22:57. > :22:57.What would really benefit Scotland is the full
:22:58. > :23:04.So we can ensure Scotland's prosperous future.
:23:05. > :23:10.If the UK Government is unable to tailor its immigration needs to
:23:11. > :23:12.Scotland then Scotland's independence will be the only
:23:13. > :23:15.So Scotland's whole population, as my honourable friend alluded to,
:23:16. > :23:18.has almost one fifth over retirement age
:23:19. > :23:22.and we need the supply of young, energetic workers from the EU that
:23:23. > :23:24.is now under threat from a Brexit which might
:23:25. > :23:25.only mean Brexit to the
:23:26. > :23:35.Prime Minister but means potentially a major economic threat to Scotland.
:23:36. > :23:37.From the clearances, through Margaret Thatcher to Brexit,
:23:38. > :23:39.Scotland's population has been getting a raw deal.
:23:40. > :23:41.Scotland needs to get out from under that and
:23:42. > :23:46.create a welcoming, entrepreneurial environment
:23:47. > :23:47.to grow our economy and
:23:48. > :23:52.We need, as my honourable friend said, and open
:23:53. > :23:54.door for immigrants, and immigration policies
:23:55. > :23:59.unlike the policies touted in this place by this Government.
:24:00. > :24:02.We can't be left subject to this frankly
:24:03. > :24:06.xenophobic regime if we are to build the population and the economy that
:24:07. > :24:11.There's one thing that striving this Government in terms of immigration,
:24:12. > :24:14.and that is to get the numbers down, to get the numbers down below an
:24:15. > :24:20.Something they have failed to do, miserably, and still they are
:24:21. > :24:32.We've got to accept the reality - the different nations,
:24:33. > :24:34.different regions, different countries and cities of the United
:24:35. > :24:36.Kingdom have different immigration needs.
:24:37. > :24:38.The needs of northern Scotland are different than the
:24:39. > :24:42.People will migrate to Scotland if the
:24:43. > :24:44.conditions are right and there are a good job opportunities.
:24:45. > :24:48.significant policy levers to shape and secure its economy.
:24:49. > :24:50.It has the power to make Scotland the most
:24:51. > :24:53.competitive part of the UK, to encourage and support more people
:24:54. > :24:56.to move to Scotland from other parts of the UK or the EU or indeed
:24:57. > :25:03.They have levers over economic development and support for
:25:04. > :25:06.enterprise, education and workforce training,
:25:07. > :25:10.health and social care, digital connectivity and transport.
:25:11. > :25:13.In addition, the Scottish Parliament has recently taken on new
:25:14. > :25:16.tax-raising powers which have the potential to be used to make
:25:17. > :25:20.Scotland more competitive and a more attractive place to live, or
:25:21. > :25:29.Do join me for the Week in Parliament , when we not only
:25:30. > :25:32.look back at the last few days in the Commons and the Lords
:25:33. > :25:38.but also assess how the current clash between the two Houses over
:25:39. > :25:45.Until then, from me, Keith Macdougall, goodbye.