01/02/2018 Thursday in Parliament

Hello there and welcome to assist in

Parliament. On this programme, the

Government comes under fire over its

use of pipe public firms -- my

private firms for public services.

This government is blinded by the

greed of these outsourcing

companies.

But government says that

they have the expertise to deliver

these services.

That means there are

savings for the taxpayers.

And

please call for the end of car

parking charges in hospitals.

Many

parents cannot even afford to go see

their premature babies because of

the cost, type charges.

Charity not

provide emergency dental care is,

more than half of dentist plan to

leave the NHS in five years.

But

first, the Government has been

accused of indifference, complacency

with its use of outsourcing for

public service. The accusation came

after an MP as an urgent question

about the firm that which has issued

a profit warning. The company

operates the traffic charge.

Administers that teachers pension

scheme. It also collects the licence

fee on behalf of the BBC. The shares

have plunged almost 50% following

the profits warning announcement.

The news comes hot on the heels of

the collapse of the outsourcing

rival Carillion. Answering an urgent

question, the Minister said he

understood MP 's concerns but said

that capita was in a very different

position.

As has been widely

reported, the company has

significant cash reserves it is not

a comparable position as Carillion.

The issue that led to Carillion,

will come out in due course. The

float and difficulties... By

contrast that his primary services

business and most of the revenues

comes from inside the UK. We

regularly monitor the financial

stability of all our financial

supplies including them, as I said

we do not believe that any of them

are many comparable position as

Carillion.

I conclude that the

Government's thinking on that is

complacent. To say that the

situations are different, but let us

look Mr speakers that the

circumstances of both companies.

Pensions deficit is in the hundreds

of millions. Both companies pay big

dividends of more than £1 billion in

the last five years. But both

companies were on the public purse

or have the contract. They were

audited. Both companies grew through

acquisition and offer organic

growth. Mr Speaker, it seems that

there are more similarities than

differences between the two

companies. Can the Minister honestly

say that I cannot come in to the

same fate as Carillion a couple

weeks ago? That people have nothing

to fear. Can he honestly say that

people with pensions can rely on the

full pensions upon retirement.

She

talked about issue of capita will

not be issuing dividends. So money

will be able to go back into the

pension scheme, 200 million extra

pounds to be spent in relation to...

The chief executive has understood

the situation it is quite a

different situation is that

pertained to Carillion.

Will my

right honourable friend look at the

altar contempt in the House today

for the private sector. Will he take

on on time to actually publish in

due course, a list of all those

contracts, with up public sector

between 1997 2010.

We have engaged

with the private sector. Your last

successful prime Minister, Brown,

the last person to hold the office,

sorry Mr Speaker. May I correct the

record on that. The last person to

hold the office. It simply would not

have been possible to build or

refurbish such a number of schools

and hospitals without using the pier

by model.

Only two years ago -- two

weeks ago I warned that this was set

to become a set of dominoes that

would fall one after another. The

Government's behaviour, and the

minister's response today.

Indifference to corporate

mismanagement, complacency in face

of a crisis. This government is

blinded to corporate greed of these

outsourcing companies, and would he

agreed, to be clear than Minister

himself said that the Government

should be guided by evidence on

outsourcing, not dogma.

The last two

weeks we are discussing private firm

responsible for delivering vital

services, served with a public --

profit warning. Will the Government

knowledge that... With the

governments start rolling back on

private agenda. Can we look forward

to it proper plan taking public

service back, will he not

acknowledged that public sector

employees should deliver public

services.

Of course we acknowledge a

proper role for the public sector.

That is why for example that the

Government has committed £8 billion

for the NHS. To the core of our

argument, the reason why successive

governments of all political

persuasions have chosen to engage

with the private sector for the

delivery of services is because

those companies have a speciality in

it. They have is speciality to

deliver in as a result of that

speciality they can deliver them

more efficiently. That means there

are savings for the taxpayers.

The

Prime minister's fight with Brussels

over the rights of EU citizens could

have chilling effects some. Theresa

May said she would try to block EU's

demands. For citizens who moved

during the transition period. Some

APs may wonder what impact there

could be on EU talks.

The Prime

Minister said...

Nothing was agreed

Thomas what I would point out to him

in a joint report, which we have

concluded an agreed-upon or

December. European Union last night

the EU agreed that permanent

residents right, will be March 20

19.

The primary is the's reported

comments with limited access to

arriving during the transition area

and may in fact creating chilling

effects of drawing on the skills of

those people coming to UK and

meeting the labour market gaps that

we need to in many sectors.

The

clear to the right honourable lady,

we will use this. To start a new art

ship, for our future integration

system. This is as high the citizen

's right agreement reached in

September it does give certainty,

the disagreement does not those who

come after we leave.

Juried

information -- to implement this

period, all foreigners will be

treated equally in having access to

our country.

With all respect to my

right honourable friend, who will

remain a country that recognises the

contribution of those with skills to

make a contribution to counter but

will also controlled the number of

migrants coming, with training

partners, we will have control of

our borders, at this week the

Government agreed to to leak

documents say that the economy would

be hit by Brexit.

I also know that

the first thing you did was jump on

a plane to China. Can the Minister

confirm that the Government's

analysis also shows other obsession

with cutting EU migration will be a

serious breach in the economy?

We

are in the middle of negotiations

but because the migration it is

clear that UK will be committed

designing its own immigration

policies, which is determined by

skills, talent and brains that's

what will drive our economy forward,

this will create jobs and growth.

The EU said the transition period

should last 21 months, the

Government says two years.

Could it

be sure to?

If I simply accept the

proposal of the EU, yes.

David

Davis. It's been dubbed unjust, a

sickness fax. MP 's call for the end

of car parking charges. It's

estimated the cost visitors, staff,

£70 million a year.

£53, people pay

on average £1... For one Arrow

state. No one chooses to be ill,

people don't choose to go the

hospital but though because they

have to. I urge the Minister hear

today to take urgent action to end

this social injustice once and for

all.

Figures from charities for

families dealing with premature

babies.

Some parents have to pay up

to £250 if their baby stays in the

unit and some they say, many parents

cannot even afford to go see the

premature baby. Because of the cost

of hospital car parking charges.

He

had widespread support from other MP

's.

I walked in and got my ticket,

checked on my screen and it was

about 68 minutes wait to see my

breath test. The time it takes me to

get up blood test is a matter of

minutes but time just like the time

waiting 68 minutes, and this is not

to bemoan the cost to my personal

pocket, I know that I can't afford

this but there are many in my who

cannot.

I want to seek government and

hospital managers set up and take

notice of this issue. Do not brush

it off as a nonissue, it is not, try

and see it through the eyes of

others, and tackled the issue that

is facing the everyday users of our

hospitals. It is something that

can't be it will make it easier for

the lives of those who need the

services and for that reason we

should all care about it.

She's to

work for the NHS and described the

charges as a tax on staff patients

and carers as she described how

staff had found a way around the

system.

One colleague of mine,

decided he was going to buy own

personal tool, and attach it to his

car, when you're parked in the

morning, which served to purposes,

because it wasn't the best area, it

mobilizes the card keeps it secure,

and give the impression that he had

been penalised for not parking it

and paying. Within a few weeks pay

itself.

While replying, the Minister

said it was a complicated situation

with different problems at different

hospitals, but he promised no

immediate action. You are watching

there in Parliament with me, Olivia

McCarthy. -- Alyssa McCarthy. Now on

Wednesday, MPs voted to leave the

Palace of Westminster when it

proposed multi-billion pound

refurbishment takes place. Recent

reports have concluded that the

building is an fire risk, and has a

gel wiring, poor plumbing and leaky

roofs. The stomach is grumbling, and

parts of the palace which largely

were rebuilt in the 19th century has

asbestos. On Wednesday, they voted

for an amendment from the paper and

the make, backing that option rather

than emotion before by the common

leader putting things off a bit

longer. By at business questions,

she said she was delighted.

Yesterday evening, they took a

historic decision to choose action

to restore and rebuild the Palace of

what's -- Westminster, and I would

like to congratulate all members and

right honourable members across the

House for their attention to this

debate and for the contribution to

it. And I now, as Leader of the

House will be taking forward the

decision of this House following a

debate to take place in the Other

Place as soon as one can be

arranged.

I also want to make my

thanks to those who signed the up

amendment, it was well tempered and

we have made a decision.

BS SMP, did

not coin the congratulations, he

suggested that the Palace of

Westminster should be turned over to

be a torrid attraction. Now he

talked about this crumbling house,

and provoked this response from the

common leader.

This House is not

crumbling. This infrastructure

within it is the problem. The House

as he will see, is beautiful and is

not crumbling.

It is vital that the

decant is the shortest possible

which we agree on, and personally

think is worth more trips than I do

what they traditionally do which is

the stay as long as possible, it is

my right honourable friend's

opinion, that the body should have

MPs and peers only voting so we can

have a grip on this?

I would like to

pay tribute to my right honourable

friend, because he has been a

passionate advocate for the

restoration and renewal of this

place, and I am sorry, because he

will no doubt be disappointed by the

decision from yesterday, because

whilst it does confirm action, it is

not action along the lines that he

would wish to speak, and I'm

sympathetic to his personal view

that in staying in this place we

could do the job more efficiently

and effectively, I am sympathetic.

In direct response to the question

about how to sponsor body will be

set up, it will have a majority of

parliamentarians, and their role

will be to reflect the views of the

range of views across both houses,

on precisely what the delivery

Authority should be tasked with

delivering.

Not that they have made

this decision about restoration and

renewal, can I urge the Leader of

the House to get together her

colleagues in the Department of

Business and working pensions to put

together a Parliamentary skills

strategy because we're going to need

thousands of people working on this

building who will to understand and

high-tech engineering skills and

craft trade skills, which are not

presently available in the country,

this is an opportunity for everyone

to have apprenticeships working here

on the building.

Yes first I would

like to congratulate the honourable

gentleman for his tenacity and also

I would like to congratulate his

honourable friend the chairman of

the Public Accounts Committee for

succeeding in her amendment

yesterday. I am delighted that the

House voted to take action, there

are huge opportunities like you

rightly pointed out, already being

fulfilled in some cases for example,

as he will know, there appears to

the cast iron roofs being carried

out in the UK, there will be lots of

opportunities for new

apprenticeship, and I can assure him

that as leader of the comments I

will take every opportunity to

create jobs for young UK people.

A

senior conservative has criticised

the sale of the British Embassy in

Thailand. The Foreign Office told

the nine acre site on the outskirts

of Bangkok, for £420 million. The

money will be used to modernise

other embassies around the world.

The chair of the Foreign Affairs

Committee made his comments while

answering questions on his

committee's latest report.

There's

no question in leaving the EU that

we should double our efforts with

apartments, but surely this cannot

come at the expense of manpower or

money, being siphoned away from

other parts of the world. Does the

select committee chair share my

concerns that the foreign offices do

not have enough resources to put the

investment we're going to need into

Europe?

I share absolutely my

honourable friend's concert and he

will be aware that a recent sale of

an embassy in Thailand which

admittedly raised a lot of money to

address some of the holes in the

spending of the Foreign Office will

inherently have diminished in some

way, our presence because the

symbolic coatings and iconic places,

there is essential to getting people

through the door, and of course what

is the purpose of a diplomatic

mission but to get people to talk to

us, and although these palaces may

look glorious and indeed, none more

so than our Paris embassy, the work

that the ambassadors, is putting in

to the building, not into the walls,

but as a living embodiment, is

essential to making sure that our

network is increased and our reach

is augmented and indeed that the

economy is promoted and that is only

possible when the resource it

correctly.

While replying he said

that he withdraw the Department

attention to what had been set and

the Foreign Office would give its

formal response the whole report in

due course. Now the Government has

rejected claims that dental care is

in crisis, and the Lords, it was

claimed that more than half of all

event is planned to leave the NHS in

the next five years, and that many

poor children do not go to have

their teeth checked. There were also

calls for fluoride to be added to

top water to help combat tooth

decay. It appears out the scale of

the problem.

Dental care in England

is in crisis. Charities now provide

dental care in emergency, many

children have tooth decay, more than

half of them want to leave, and

government spending on NHS dentistry

has fallen by 170 million cents

2010. Many patients pay more and

more.

The Health Minister said the

Government is increasing access to

dentistry and reforming the current

that the contract.

I do not

recognise the picture that the noble

lady has painted, it is quite right

that there are 25% of a

five-year-old without decay, and I

is not good enough, but that figure

is increasing over the last ten

years, and going up. I should also

point out there are more dentist

practising in the NHS than ever.

By

Lord dental care could be improved

with fluoride in the water supply.

This has been agreed by my noble

friend and his department but not

all water authorities are prepared

to take this step. In the last

decay, the average earnings of gone

down by 30. This is of great concern

to dentist, do not receive any

government funding and how to cover

all costs and equipment staffing and

training unlike medical general

practitioners. I declare my lord, my

interest as vice president of the

British fluoridation Society, is

heard.

We have talked about that

recently, my honourable friend knows

that the position is up for local

areas to come forward with

proposals, on this particular issue

about that is, of course those that

does are doing a great job in the

NHS, we have more than ever. And I

would like to point out that the 1%

cap that has apply, and we know why

that is applied because of the

fiscal that has had to take place,

that no book longer applies were

waiting for them to root report so

we can arrange future payments for

them.

Is the Minister aware that

41.5% of children have not visited

the dentist for the year up to

September to thousand 17 and that

many of these children are in the

poorest communities in the country

and many of which are now dependent

on charity for dental care? What

action we take to ensure that all

children have proper access to NHS

dentistry wherever they live

throughout the country within a yes

the noble lady is right, over 59% of

children had seen

I have to say that

is improving picture, to do that

issues, the programme but they're

starting is targeting 30 local

authorities with the worst oral

outcome for children, and the range

is quite dramatic from one area to

the next, and they have also

developed a corps off for to have

been eventful -- dental health for

children.

While staying in the

Lords, here's heard that more people

sleeping rough in England than

anytime since 2010, and government

figures show that nearly 5000 people

were seen or estimated to be on the

street in a single night autumn last

year. They wanted to know who was to

blame?

We were told that the

Government set a target for top of

having a number of rough sleepers by

2020 do, bring it back down to the

number inherited from the previous

labour government. In 2010, so whose

fault is a doubling in the number of

rough sleepers actually? Is it a

conflict of government policy and

housing benefit and other cuts in

social care and mental health

provision?

I'm not really interested

in that knock-about, the sticks were

produced on a different basis

previously so that is a factor to be

taken into account, I am on record

from saying before, it is a complex

issue and a problem across Europe,

with the exception of Finland and we

have to have a business adviser on

the committee, the Secretary of

State has been defendant to study

what is happening there, so we can

get to grips which is what a serious

problem across the country I have to

say Lords my lords it is a problem

in Wales and Scotland -- Scotland

which was not controlled by this

country.

The housing government said

that the Government is tackled the

problem with £20 billion. That's it

from me for now, to join me on BBC

Parliament to look back at the week.

But from now, from me, goodbye.