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