:00:13. > :00:14.Hello and welcome to Tuesday in Parliament,
:00:15. > :00:16.our look at the day at Westlinster. The headlines:
:00:17. > :00:21.As the House of Lords begins a two day debate on the EU referendum -
:00:22. > :00:23.The Archbishop of Canterburx condemns the atmosphere
:00:24. > :00:36.And so on and put Welling a poisoned and hatred that I cannot relember in
:00:37. > :00:38.very many years in this country Labour MPs question the futtre
:00:39. > :00:40.funding levels for schools as NUT members strike,
:00:41. > :00:51.but the schools minister is unmoved. This strike is politically
:00:52. > :00:53.motivated, and has nothing to do with raising standards in education.
:00:54. > :00:55.And the Health Secretary paxs tribute to the role played
:00:56. > :01:00.by foreign born nationals in the NHS.
:01:01. > :01:07.We should be seeking to reassure many people from other countries who
:01:08. > :01:08.do a fantastic job in our NHS that we believe they will have a great
:01:09. > :01:10.future here. The House of Lords has
:01:11. > :01:12.begun a marathon two-day debate on the UK's exit
:01:13. > :01:14.from the European Union. 118 peers have lined
:01:15. > :01:16.up to give their views Peers have considered the c`mpaign,
:01:17. > :01:21.the reported increase in racist violence since the result,
:01:22. > :01:37.and the prospects for Our debate today has the potential
:01:38. > :01:41.to be one of the most significant in the history of this house. Hndeed, I
:01:42. > :01:47.see today as a real opportunity for us as a house to reflect on the
:01:48. > :01:53.decision that has been made, and to offer some clear thinking about the
:01:54. > :01:56.issues we now face as a country It is an opportunity, my lords, for the
:01:57. > :02:01.house of lords to show why ht exists. Clearly, there is ftrther
:02:02. > :02:06.work for us to do in determhning our future work with -- our futtre
:02:07. > :02:12.relationship with the Europdan Union. As the Prime Minister said,
:02:13. > :02:16.we are leaving the EU, but not turning our backs on Europe. The
:02:17. > :02:19.next steps will not be easy. There will be complex negotiations ahead,
:02:20. > :02:25.but we should approach them with a clear, guiding principle - to ensure
:02:26. > :02:29.the best possible outcome for the British people. As the Primd
:02:30. > :02:36.Minister has made clear, thd nature of negotiations and the shape of any
:02:37. > :02:43.deal we strike will be for his successor and their governmdnt.
:02:44. > :02:48.My Lords, recently, we have seen how strong leadership, good tealwork,
:02:49. > :02:52.thought. Today and real skill can be effective and successful.
:02:53. > :02:56.Unfortunately, it has come not from politics or government, but from the
:02:57. > :02:59.Welsh football team, who put some much-needed cheer to is all.
:03:00. > :03:03.Ladysmith went on to talk about the Lady Smith went on to talk
:03:04. > :03:06.about the uncertainty she fdlt the referendum result
:03:07. > :03:10.had brought about. it is impossible to address the
:03:11. > :03:13.uncertainty without recognition of the false promises that werd made on
:03:14. > :03:20.such a gigantic scale. The lost obvious is the insistence bdfore the
:03:21. > :03:23.vote that ?350 million a wedk would be available for the Nation`l Health
:03:24. > :03:29.Service, before that being denied within hours of the polls closing.
:03:30. > :03:33.And it is one thing to make promises in good faith, even if they can t
:03:34. > :03:40.later be fully capped. It is quite another to tell tall tales, knowing
:03:41. > :03:43.that they are complete ficthon. The Archbishop of Canterbury spoke out
:03:44. > :03:48.about the referendum campaign in the strongest of terms.
:03:49. > :03:53.Because of the campaign was both robust, as it properly should be --
:03:54. > :03:59.the course of the campaign, as it should be, but at times, vedred over
:04:00. > :04:06.the lines on both sides. And through those comments, were created cracks
:04:07. > :04:11.in the thin crust of the politeness and tolerance of our societx,
:04:12. > :04:15.through which, since the referendum, we had seen and out welling of
:04:16. > :04:20.poison and hatred that I cannot remember in this country for very
:04:21. > :04:24.many years. It is essential, not only in this house, but for the
:04:25. > :04:29.leaders of both sides, and throughout our society, to challenge
:04:30. > :04:33.the attacks, the xenophobia, and the races, that seem to have bedn felt
:04:34. > :04:38.to be acceptable, at least for a while.
:04:39. > :04:42.They try to "Take back our country" is not one to which I can stbscribe,
:04:43. > :04:46.because I don't believe that I ever lost my country. Reflecting on the
:04:47. > :04:51.words of my much missed fridnd Charles Kennedy, I also havd
:04:52. > :04:57.multiple identities of Scottish British and European. And I am also,
:04:58. > :05:01.my lords, a Democrat, so Aj`x apt and respect the results of the
:05:02. > :05:05.referendum of June 23, even if saddened by it.
:05:06. > :05:12.One of the most momentous ddcisions of our time has been taken.
:05:13. > :05:17.Parliament agreed by an overwhelming majority that the people should
:05:18. > :05:21.decide in a referendum whether our country should stay in the Duropean
:05:22. > :05:27.Union or leave, and the people have decided on a massive level that we
:05:28. > :05:33.should leave. It is regrett`ble that there are some unhappy with the
:05:34. > :05:37.result who are seeking to prevent its implementation, whether by way
:05:38. > :05:40.of a second referendum or some other device.
:05:41. > :05:43.The referendum did not create a divided country. It is an expression
:05:44. > :05:48.of an already divided country. The referendum was framed to ask
:05:49. > :05:51.if the electorate felt that terms negotiated by the Prile
:05:52. > :05:53.Minister were good enough to stay, and they said no, and whilst many
:05:54. > :05:56.voters were expressing long,held beliefs, a significant
:05:57. > :06:02.minority were persuaded that they were protecting
:06:03. > :06:04.their communities from the onslaught of 50 million Turks,
:06:05. > :06:07.that they were supporting their beloved NHS to the tune
:06:08. > :06:11.of ?350 million a week, and that all the benefits
:06:12. > :06:18.of the new membership were `vailable and that all the benefits of EU
:06:19. > :06:20.membership were available After 65 years of public service,
:06:21. > :06:27.I do not remember such an unholy Except, perhaps, after
:06:28. > :06:35.the Suez affair. It is an existential
:06:36. > :06:40.as well as a political crishs. My lord, as a result of recdnt
:06:41. > :06:43.events, my enthusiasm for rdferenda, never very strong, has
:06:44. > :06:56.evaporated almost to nothing. While, I do not share the gloom
:06:57. > :06:58.of the noble Lord Armstrong. I will confess, on the day
:06:59. > :07:01.after the referendum, to a degree of shock,
:07:02. > :07:03.shock that the side I have supported had won, and I wasn't entirdly
:07:04. > :07:06.confident that it would, but secondly, a much greater shock,
:07:07. > :07:08.that there were so many people who refused to accept
:07:09. > :07:10.the verdict of the people. There was far too much talk
:07:11. > :07:23.about reversing the result. Lord Lamont said there would be
:07:24. > :07:27.short-term difficulties, but also new opportunities, and the future
:07:28. > :07:32.was not nearly as dire as predicted. Now, the government called on Labour
:07:33. > :07:34.to condemn a teachers and tde strike which closed schools on Tuesday
:07:35. > :07:36.The strike was called by the National Union of Te`chers,
:07:37. > :07:39.as part of a dispute over school funding, pay and conditions.
:07:40. > :07:41.Labour's Nic Dakin called an urgent question on the strike
:07:42. > :07:45.This strike is politically motivated, and has nothing to do
:07:46. > :07:50.In the words of Deborah Lawson, the General Secretary
:07:51. > :07:53.of the non-striking teaching union, Voice, today's strike is a futile
:07:54. > :08:00.Kevin Courtney, the acting General Secretary of the NUT,
:08:01. > :08:04.in his letter to the Secret`ry of State on the 20th of Jund,
:08:05. > :08:09.made it clear that the strike was about school funding
:08:10. > :08:13.Yet this year's school budgdt is greater than in any
:08:14. > :08:17.previous year, ?40 billion, some ?4 billion higher
:08:18. > :08:24.With 15,000 more teachers in the profession than in 2010,
:08:25. > :08:27.teaching remains one of the most popular and attractive profdssions
:08:28. > :08:31.The industrial action by the NUT is pointless,
:08:32. > :08:40.It disrupts children's educ`tion, it inconveniences parents,
:08:41. > :08:42.and it damages the profession's reputation in the eyes
:08:43. > :08:47.But because of the dedication of the vast majority
:08:48. > :08:51.of teachers and head teachers, our analysis shows that sevdn out
:08:52. > :08:56.of eight schools are refusing to close.
:08:57. > :08:58.Everyone knows that despite the Secretary
:08:59. > :09:00.of State's protestations, school budgets are going to fall
:09:01. > :09:04.in real terms, year-on-year, to 2020.
:09:05. > :09:06.Head teachers know this, parents know this,
:09:07. > :09:10.and the Institute for Fiscal Studies has confirmed this.
:09:11. > :09:18.The only person who is shovhng her hand in the sand in total ddnial
:09:19. > :09:24.That is what results in what we are witnessing today
:09:25. > :09:29.which leads to massive disrtption, classes cancelled, people sdnt home,
:09:30. > :09:32.The Chancellor has now made it clear that he is tearing
:09:33. > :09:34.up his fiscal rules, and as my honourable friend,
:09:35. > :09:37.the member for Manchester Cdntral, asked yesterday, will the government
:09:38. > :09:41.now committed to securing otr children's future by revershng
:09:42. > :09:45.the planned cuts in funding and securing the necessary cash
:09:46. > :09:57.Will the minister now accept that class sizes are increasing,
:09:58. > :09:59.pupils are getting less chohces about the subjects they can learn
:10:00. > :10:02.today, and jobs are going, and children are now getting less
:10:03. > :10:06.And I have to say, Mr Speakdr, that I find the minister's faith
:10:07. > :10:11.in the free market to decidd teachers' salaries is touchhngly
:10:12. > :10:17.naive, on a day that the potnd has fallen to a 31-year low.
:10:18. > :10:20.Can he tell us if there are any limits to how far
:10:21. > :10:24.Mr Speaker, this strike by teachers is significant.
:10:25. > :10:27.This is a group of people who have followed a vocational
:10:28. > :10:32.They are not driven by monex, but they do seek to be recognised
:10:33. > :10:38.The ongoing erosion of teachers pay and conditions, the increashng
:10:39. > :10:45.workload, makes this location hard to deliver out,
:10:46. > :10:47.workload, makes this vocation hard to live out,
:10:48. > :10:50.when frankly, they could earn more money and have better terms
:10:51. > :10:51.and conditions working in the local supermarket.
:10:52. > :10:53.Kevin Courtney, the acting General Secretary of the NUT,
:10:54. > :10:56.has made it clear that this is a dispute about pay
:10:57. > :10:59.and conditions, and when it comes to workload, what is disappointing
:11:00. > :11:01.about this strike is that wd have been working extremely closdly
:11:02. > :11:05.and extremely constructivelx with all the teaching unions
:11:06. > :11:10.Working mums and dads in the Kettering constituency
:11:11. > :11:13.will today be hugely inconvenienced by this completely
:11:14. > :11:18.Many of these mums and dads work in the local NHS,
:11:19. > :11:22.local public services, social services, and their patients
:11:23. > :11:26.and customers will also be inconvenienced by their absdnce
:11:27. > :11:32.on what is a politically motivated strike that frankly
:11:33. > :11:35.is an embarrassment to many members of the NUT itself.
:11:36. > :11:36.Will my honourable friend, the Education minister,
:11:37. > :11:39.praise those teachers who h`ve walked across picket lines today
:11:40. > :11:43.to go and teach children in our local schools?
:11:44. > :11:44.They are the shining example, not the NUT.
:11:45. > :11:48.Yes, my honourable friend is absolutely right.
:11:49. > :11:52.Nothing is more important than ensuring that young people
:11:53. > :11:58.For the record, is he actually contradicting the IFS,
:11:59. > :12:08.the Institute for Fiscal Sttdies, who predict an 8% fall by 2020
:12:09. > :12:14.No, we are aware that there are costs that schools have to face
:12:15. > :12:16.in the coming years, but what we have done
:12:17. > :12:20.If you look across Whitehall at the reduction in spending,
:12:21. > :12:23.we have had to secure, in order to tackle the record
:12:24. > :12:26.public sector deficit that we inherited in 2010,
:12:27. > :12:36.It is now down to less than 4% of GDP thanks to those savings.
:12:37. > :12:39.Now, we have issued significant guidance to schools about how
:12:40. > :12:41.they can manage their budgets and procure savings and effhciencies
:12:42. > :12:48.in the way they run their schools in order to meet those challenges.
:12:49. > :12:55.Now, Southern Railway is telporarily cutting 341 trains a day
:12:56. > :13:00.The announcement follows wedks of problems caused by industrial
:13:01. > :13:03.action and a shortage of train crews.
:13:04. > :13:05.Appearing before the Commons Transport Committee,
:13:06. > :13:08.the company's boss faced some tough questions.
:13:09. > :13:12.You've already admitted that 40% of the delays are your direct
:13:13. > :13:17.responsibility and you've bden fined, and only this morning,
:13:18. > :13:22.there's been an official announcement of hundreds of services
:13:23. > :13:28.There doesn't seem to have been any consultation
:13:29. > :13:33.at all about which those services are, and what is happening.
:13:34. > :13:35.Are you fit to be running this railway?
:13:36. > :13:43.We are fit to be running this railway.
:13:44. > :13:45.We're out in the middle of an extremely, er,
:13:46. > :13:47.difficult moment in the franchise at this stage.
:13:48. > :13:49.It is a difficult and challdnging franchise anyway, but the problems
:13:50. > :13:53.over the last few weeks, following the industrial action
:13:54. > :13:57.taken by the RMT conductors, have added to some challenghng
:13:58. > :14:00.circumstances, which are inherent in this franchise.
:14:01. > :14:06.But staff shortages are enthrely the responsibility of the company.
:14:07. > :14:09.You knew what the timetable commitments were, and you qtite
:14:10. > :14:12.simply have not got enough staff to deal with that.
:14:13. > :14:18.So, at the start of the franchise, we had fewer drivers
:14:19. > :14:20.than we anticipated, based on the evidence
:14:21. > :14:25.that we had in the data and, immediately on taking
:14:26. > :14:27.on the franchise, we launchdd the UK's biggest ever
:14:28. > :14:31.driver training programme to address that shortfall.
:14:32. > :14:34.But unfortunately, it takes 14 months to train a driver off
:14:35. > :14:37.the street and it is taking time for us to actually get levels
:14:38. > :14:41.of driver numbers up to a ldvel we need to be in a situation
:14:42. > :14:43.where we don't cancel a train as a result
:14:44. > :14:46.You said there is compelling evidence that a rise
:14:47. > :14:49.in staff sickness absence during the industrial
:14:50. > :14:52.dispute in effect amounts to unofficial strike action.
:14:53. > :14:57.What is the compelling evidence that you have?
:14:58. > :15:00.OK, so we saw, um, at the time of the first strike
:15:01. > :15:04.a doubling of sickness amongst conductors.
:15:05. > :15:09.We saw, um, the clustering of that sickness
:15:10. > :15:20.And we also saw, um, the change was completely
:15:21. > :15:28.For the individual passenger who wants to be sure that,
:15:29. > :15:31.when they go out in the morning they are going to get to work
:15:32. > :15:33.on time, when is that going to be the case?
:15:34. > :15:36.Well, from the start of next week, with the amended timetable,
:15:37. > :15:38.passengers will have a basis on which they can
:15:39. > :15:40.plan their journeys and I am genuinely...
:15:41. > :15:43."A basis on which they can plan their journeys" -
:15:44. > :15:49.So, from next week, will solebody catching a train to get to work be
:15:50. > :15:53.What's happening at the momdnt is that we are seeing, as I said,
:15:54. > :15:56.random cancellations and people not able to plan their lives.
:15:57. > :15:59.But when will they be able to plan them?
:16:00. > :16:01.Next week? From Monday, next week, the...
:16:02. > :16:04.So, from next week, people who go to catch a train to get to work can
:16:05. > :16:07.be reasonably be assured thdy're actually going to get to work?
:16:08. > :16:09.Indeed, and that's the intention of putting
:16:10. > :16:14.Earlier, the RMT blamed the company for the problems,
:16:15. > :16:18.saying it been heavy-handed in its dealings with union lembers.
:16:19. > :16:22.I want to make sure we have a safe and efficient railwax.
:16:23. > :16:24.I don't want to have a punch-up with the government.
:16:25. > :16:26.What needs to be done to trx and resolve the situation?
:16:27. > :16:29.Well, the suggestion that I just said to your colleague around,
:16:30. > :16:33.um, a suspension on both sides of what they plan to do,
:16:34. > :16:40.and see if we can get around the table, and the government
:16:41. > :16:43.facilitating a proper way of dealing with this issue of driver-only
:16:44. > :16:46.operation, rather than trying to use Southern as the template
:16:47. > :16:48.Is that what you think's happening?
:16:49. > :16:52.You're watching Tuesday in Parliament.
:16:53. > :16:59.The House of Lords has begun a two-day debate on the futtre
:17:00. > :17:04.of the UK, following the vote to leave the European Union.
:17:05. > :17:07.The role of EU nationals in the NHS was high on the agenda
:17:08. > :17:10.at Health Questions in the House of Commons.
:17:11. > :17:13.The government was keen to emphasise the positive ilpact
:17:14. > :17:18.But one Conservative highlighted the use of the NHS by immigrants,
:17:19. > :17:25.to the audible unhappiness of some other MPs.
:17:26. > :17:27.Can the Secretary of State for Health tell the House
:17:28. > :17:30.how many EU nationals work in the National Health Servhce
:17:31. > :17:35.and how many EU nationals use the National Health Service?
:17:36. > :17:38.And isn't it simply the casd that the number of Eastern Duropeans
:17:39. > :17:40.especially coming to this country has overwhelmed GP practices...
:17:41. > :17:45...and A centres up and down the country and now we've got
:17:46. > :17:55.Well, um, without wanting to reopen the debates that concluded,
:17:56. > :18:03.that concluded on June the 23rd I would say to him that
:18:04. > :18:06.the overwhelming view in thd NHS is actually that we are verx lucky
:18:07. > :18:13.to have the incredible support of a EU nationals working
:18:14. > :18:16.to have the incredible support of 110,000 EU nationals working
:18:17. > :18:18.in the health and social care system, and I want to put
:18:19. > :18:21.on record to this House what a fantastic job they do,
:18:22. > :18:23.and how much we are all in their debt.
:18:24. > :18:28.The head of the NHS, Simon Stevens, has strongly defended the role
:18:29. > :18:30.of immigrants in the NHS, saying, I quote, "There has never
:18:31. > :18:34.been a time in its 68 year history when the NHS has not relied
:18:35. > :18:36.on committed employees from around the world."
:18:37. > :18:39.One of these employees was my own mother, who migr`ted
:18:40. > :18:42.from Jamaica to the UK in the 1 50s to be a pupil nurse.
:18:43. > :18:46.While we also know that workers from the EU and other countries
:18:47. > :18:48.are not just the backbone of the NHS,
:18:49. > :18:51.they are currently the backbone of our social care system,
:18:52. > :18:58.Does the Minister agree with me that we should be thanking these
:18:59. > :19:03.hard working individuals for their service, but leavhng
:19:04. > :19:05.hard working individuals for their service, not leavhng
:19:06. > :19:07.them with questions about their status and job security?
:19:08. > :19:11.I do entirely agree with the Right Hnourable Lady
:19:12. > :19:13.that we should be thanking DU nationals working in the NHS
:19:14. > :19:19.And she herself is evidence of the enormous contribution
:19:20. > :19:22.that migrant labour is being, not just in the first gener`tion,
:19:23. > :19:26.but in consequence ones and we as a nation and as a House
:19:27. > :19:29.The Health Secretary has just promised 5000 new GPs.
:19:30. > :19:31.The GP Forward View talks about recruiting
:19:32. > :19:36.Indeed, Lincolnshire GP leaders I understand, are looking
:19:37. > :19:39.to recruit GPs from Spain, Poland and Romania.
:19:40. > :19:42.Now, as we've heard, the EU nationals living
:19:43. > :19:45.here and working in the NHS are seen by the Home Secret`ry
:19:46. > :19:50.as "bargaining chips", making them, as we've heard,
:19:51. > :19:52.incredibly nervous about thdir status, how successful does he think
:19:53. > :19:59.Well, I think this is a timd when when, on all sides
:20:00. > :20:03.of the House, we should be seeking to reassure many people
:20:04. > :20:06.from other countries who do a fantastic job in our NHS,
:20:07. > :20:10.that we believe they will h`ve a great future here,
:20:11. > :20:13.but let me also say to her that this Home Secretary has prioritised
:20:14. > :20:20.doctors and paramedics and nurses in the shortage occupation lists
:20:21. > :20:22.and, in all the countries that have points-based systdms,
:20:23. > :20:25.if you look at what happens in Australia or Canada,
:20:26. > :20:28.you see that the needs of the health service and the health care system
:20:29. > :20:36.are usually given very, very high priority.
:20:37. > :20:38.Now, the fall-out from the DU referendum was also pre-occtpying
:20:39. > :20:39.MPs in Westminster's committee rooms.
:20:40. > :20:42.The Foreign Affairs Committde took evidence from the man
:20:43. > :20:43.preparing the ground for the Brexit negotiations.
:20:44. > :20:46.The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Oliver Letwin,
:20:47. > :20:49.has been appointed to head a special unit at the Cabindt Office
:20:50. > :20:55.The committee chair suggestdd it had been a "dereliction of duty"
:20:56. > :20:58.that contingency plans for ` Leave victory had not been put in place.
:20:59. > :21:01.Let me just understand the logic of this situation.
:21:02. > :21:05.The Prime Minister says publicly he's staying, whatever the result,
:21:06. > :21:08.um, and then orders there to be no contingency planning and thdrefore
:21:09. > :21:11.making it quite impossible for him to stay in those circumstances,
:21:12. > :21:13.because he would then be seen as negligent.
:21:14. > :21:16.Um, you do see there's a sort of contradiction sitting
:21:17. > :21:22.I don't think there's any contradiction here.
:21:23. > :21:24.As events fell out, the Prime Minister did not
:21:25. > :21:27.remain in place and therefore a new Prime Minister will h`ve
:21:28. > :21:29.to make decisions about the negotiation strategy and those
:21:30. > :21:31.are very important decisions and very difficult
:21:32. > :21:36.As I repeat, actually, in the period available to ts,
:21:37. > :21:41.and this is I think the point which is material to the nation
:21:42. > :21:44.we are able I believe to provide the firm base on which thosd
:21:45. > :21:51.Do you think the Prime Minister had a mandate to carry on?
:21:52. > :21:54.The Prime Minister made it perfectly clear in his resignation spdech
:21:55. > :21:59.that he felt that he didn't. Well, I'm...
:22:00. > :22:02.Why was he saying the opposhte on the run in to the referendul, then?
:22:03. > :22:05.If you want to interrogate the Prime Minister on the conduct
:22:06. > :22:07.of the referendum campaign, that's a separate enquiry.
:22:08. > :22:10.But you are... I am not here...
:22:11. > :22:12.The Prime Minister declined to come before this committde
:22:13. > :22:15.to take questions on Libya, so I think it's highly unlikely
:22:16. > :22:17.he is going to come forward to committee now.
:22:18. > :22:21.But you are the one left holding the baby.
:22:22. > :22:25.I can only say that the babx is being firmly held
:22:26. > :22:27.and that my intention is that the baby should prosper
:22:28. > :22:29.because I care about the baby in question,
:22:30. > :22:33.it is in fact our country. Right.
:22:34. > :22:37.a new Prime Minister came into office.
:22:38. > :22:39.Well, if that's the case, is there no point, really?
:22:40. > :22:42.Is this not just some kind of figleaf?
:22:43. > :22:46.Isn't it an irrelevant figldaf unless you can get assurancds,
:22:47. > :22:50.at least from the two candidates who finally go into a ballot,
:22:51. > :22:52.that they will abide by the work and the recommendations
:22:53. > :22:58.No, I know this is, um, a cause of great difficulty
:22:59. > :23:01.in all the reporting, so let me try again to expl`in.
:23:02. > :23:04.We are not making any recommendations.
:23:05. > :23:08.Um, there's no question of them abiding by anything.
:23:09. > :23:14.We are providing a basis for them to make decisions.
:23:15. > :23:16.It's a very, very important distinction, um,
:23:17. > :23:20.and when you ask the question, "Is it worth doing that?"
:23:21. > :23:27.I would have speculated a wdek ago that it was abundantly worthwhile.
:23:28. > :23:31.I can now tell you, after a week of very intensive effort,
:23:32. > :23:35.that it is totally necessarx to do, and abundantly worthwhile for sure.
:23:36. > :23:38.Given there doesn't sound like you've got enough plans
:23:39. > :23:42.to fill the back of a fag p`cket at the moment, would you agree
:23:43. > :23:45.that the UK is a pretty uncdrtain place to be right now?
:23:46. > :23:48.No, um... Why not?
:23:49. > :23:50.The, um, UK's current position is the same
:23:51. > :23:58.We are fully paid-up members of the EU, we benefit
:23:59. > :24:00.from all the benefits. We make all the payments.
:24:01. > :24:02.We have all the obligations and so forth.
:24:03. > :24:09.Change WAS coming, Mr Letwin acknowledged, but the UK was not
:24:10. > :24:13.The House of Lords has been reminded of the death
:24:14. > :24:18.Public Health England is dud to publish an independent rdport
:24:19. > :24:23.But at Question Time, a Labour peer said the situ`tion
:24:24. > :24:30.the Health and Social Care Information Centre show that
:24:31. > :24:37.hospital admissions due to alcohol-related illnesses
:24:38. > :24:39.are now continuing to rise again, over a million.
:24:40. > :24:42.That the number of deaths arising from alcohol continue to go up.
:24:43. > :24:45.And the cost to the NHS of alcohol-related problems
:24:46. > :24:49.Lord Brooke suggested, if there was a recession,
:24:50. > :24:53.government spending commitmdnts might have to be revisited.
:24:54. > :24:57.The government is committed to putting in ?10 million
:24:58. > :24:59.of new money between now, in real terms, between now `nd 020.
:25:00. > :25:04.Clearly, if the economy changes to a great extent,
:25:05. > :25:13.In broadcast of the recent Dngland, Wales football match showed
:25:14. > :25:22.Could I ask the Minister how this helps public health and ask him also
:25:23. > :25:23.why the government permits the marketing of alcohol
:25:24. > :25:28.to reach audiences below the legal drinking age?
:25:29. > :25:36.which the PHE review is going to take into account.
:25:37. > :25:39.That review should be published before the end of the year `nd I'm
:25:40. > :25:41.sure that we will take action accordingly.
:25:42. > :25:46.Alicia McCarthy's here for the rest of the week.