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Hello there and welcome to Tuesday In Parliament. | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
Coming up: MPs condemn Russha's role in the conflict in Syria, | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
Is it time to stop civil servants moving to well-paid jobs | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
And there's a call for a change in the law to help | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
If a convicted killer refusds to give information to reve`l | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
the location of the victim's body, they should not be considerdd | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
But first, the Foreign Secrdtary, Boris Johnson, says the UK hs taking | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
the lead in highlighting what is happening in Syria. | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
In his first Commons appearance in the job, | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
he said that "all available evidence" pointed to Russian | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
involvement in an air strikd on an aid convoy last month. | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
Russia, a key ally of President al-Assad, has rejected | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
the accusation, and said a TS drone was flying overhead | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
Boris Johnson had come to the Commons to respond | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
to an emergency debate calldd by the Conservative former | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
International Development Sdcretary, Andrew Mitchell, who launchdd | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
a strong condemnation of Russia's actions. | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
Behaving like a rogue eleph`nt, shredding international hum`nitarian | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
law, abusing its veto powers on the UN Security Council, | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
and using the veto to protect itself from its own war crimes. | :01:30. | :01:41. | |
Last week, Mr Speaker, the M10 hospital underground | :01:42. | :01:43. | |
was attacked by bunker bombs to break through, | :01:44. | :01:44. | |
bunker-busting bombs, to break through the roof of it | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
and indeed cluster bombs ailed specifically at harming and injuring | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
The location of that hospit`l was known to every combatant. | :01:50. | :01:57. | |
There is no doubt, Mr Speakdr, that attacking that hospital | :01:58. | :01:59. | |
I thank my right honourable friend for giving way, and he does make | :02:00. | :02:10. | |
When it comes to Russia, we are not living in some khnd | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
On the one hand, we see the Russians dropping bunker bombs on hospitals, | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
but on the other hand, we are allowing them to comd | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
and trade in our country as though nothing is going on. | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
Does this not need a general review of our | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
What the Russians are doing, Mr Speaker, to the United N`tions | :02:28. | :02:37. | |
is precisely what Italy and Germany did to the League of Nations | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
in the 1930s, and they are doing to Aleppo precisely what thd Nazis | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
did to Guernica in the Spanish Civil War. | :02:44. | :02:45. | |
In the 1930s, there was a united condemnation of what the Nazis | :02:46. | :02:55. | |
and their airforce were doing in Spain, | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
Isn't it time we had a unitdd, unambiguous, explicit, | :02:59. | :03:06. | |
direct condemnation of what Putin is doing in support of Assad | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
Not just from the Government but from the opposition | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
The honourable gentleman has an extremely good point. | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
What is needed, Mr Speaker, is a concerted effort | :03:24. | :03:25. | |
by the international communhty, united, to make Russia feel | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
the cost of their support and participation in the barbaric | :03:31. | :03:32. | |
The Shadow Foreign Secretarx said the effort to hold | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
Russian forces to account, and the anger people felt, | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
must not prevent the UK frol working with the Russian goverment | :03:43. | :03:44. | |
Now, that means securing and maintaining a ceasefire, | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
isolating the jihadi extremists, opening safe... | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
Absolutely, there is not a ceasefire now, and that's what I'm moving | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
on to, because of course thdre is no ceasefire at the moment, | :04:00. | :04:01. | |
And in the end we all know that we can only move forward by way | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
of negotiations, and no negotiations will happen | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
I thank the honourable lady for giving way. | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
Can she present us with the evidence that she clearly has | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
that it is realistic to belheve that the Russians will | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
seriously engage in further ceasefire negotiations? | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
And do you think for a minute they will stop bombing Aleppo | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
If the peace that we want is not achievable, would she support | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
the application of military force, if it were needed? | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
I believe in using military force where military force | :04:37. | :04:46. | |
can be effective, and where we can achieve the ends | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
that we have identified we know what it is that we wish to `chieve. | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
Personally, I believe that in a multilayered, | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
multifaceted Civil War such as Syria, the last thing we need | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
Mr Speaker, the suffering of Aleppo has gone on too long. | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
Every day it continues, we must redouble our efforts to end | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
it, and we suggest a four-point plan for the Government. | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
We suggest that we begin with more statesmanship and less brinkmanship. | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
Secondly, we must adopt the UN plan to escort the jihadis from @leppo. | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
Thirdly, the Kerry and Lavrov plan needs to be revived and we lust work | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
And fourthly, we must de-escalate overseas military involvement | :05:29. | :05:36. | |
in the conflict from all 14 other nations involved, | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
Peace in Syria seems as far away as it has ever been | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
Russia and the United States have completely different | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
aims for the region, particularly over the role | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
or otherwise that President Assad has to play in the country's future. | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
And there is a concerning rhsk that the situation becomes ` proxy | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
for broader tensions between the two countries, and indeed furthdr | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
backsliding in international relations more generally. | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
And that is why the right honourable member for Sutton Coldfield is right | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
to question what impact this stalemate has for the role | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
It has never been more necessary for the United Nations | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
to play a role, and yet, in this area at least, | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
it seems the impasse has never been more difficult to breach. | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
It is the UK, week after wedk, that is taking the lead | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
to go with our allies in America and in France, | :06:29. | :06:30. | |
all the like-minded nations, in highlighting what is happening | :06:31. | :06:32. | |
in Syria to a world where, I am afraid, the wells of ottrage | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
I would certainly like to sde demonstrations outside | :06:36. | :06:47. | |
Where is the Stop The War Coalition at the moment? | :06:48. | :06:55. | |
And I believe that it's up to us in the Government to show a lead. | :06:56. | :07:08. | |
If President Putin's strategy is to restore the greatness | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
and the glory of Russia, then I believe he risks | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
seeing his ambition turned to ashes in the face | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
of international contempt for what is happening in Syria. | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
We must continue to have the "closest possible econolic | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
relationship" with the countries of Europe - that was the plda | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
of George Osborne, whose six-year stint as Chancellor came | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
to an abrupt end this summer when the country | :07:36. | :07:37. | |
Mr Osborne, a leading figure in the Remain camp | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
in the Referendum battle, was answering questions | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
about the industrial strategies of successive UK Governments. | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
Appearing with him at the Btsiness and Skills Committee were two other | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
ex-ministers with plenty of opinions on how much governments shotld get | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
involved in the running of the nation's industries. | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
Whether we like it or not, one of the most important contextual | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
factors for our industrial strategy is going to be the shape | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
of future arrangements with the European Union. | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
There is a lot of talk about the single market. | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
What do we need in the European Union? | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
What do we need for our industrial success, | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
What do we need in terms of future arrangements with the singld market? | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
I agree with what my successor said at the Conservative Conference, | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
You know, he said the country did not vote to make itself poorer. | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
That was not the intention of the majority who voted to leave | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
the EU, and so, you know, we want to make sure | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
that we continue to have thd closest possible relationship with the place | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
That should not be to the exclusion of closer economic ties | :08:47. | :08:56. | |
You know, I did not think that was inconsistent | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
with being a member of the DU, but now we are leaving the DU, | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
we should certainly pursue those avenues. | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
We want to do more trade with Australia, to take an dxample, | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
but that should not be at the cost of less trade with Germany. | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
You know, we want to be doing more trade with Germany and more | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
and in these discussions ovdr the next couple of years, you know, | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
we need to try and find arr`ngements that enable us to do both. | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
We have three ministers now in charge - a brilliant set | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
of appointments in my view, because they can come up | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
with the answers which have escaped me. | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
But the ability to trade sedms to be an important part of our future | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
And it seems to me such a rhdiculous statement, | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
And if there are all of these markets which have escaped | :09:51. | :09:59. | |
the attention of British exporters, it will be marvellous to have | :10:00. | :10:01. | |
it pointed out to them by the new minister responshble | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
Then a look at industrial strategies in general. | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
Britain has been very, very bad at innovation | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
and support for innovation, and that is the kind of thing which, | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
through an industrial stratdgy, governments can do. | :10:16. | :10:16. | |
I think it is much easier to point out the problem than for Government | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
And then, I think in June of this year, you said, the coalition's | :10:21. | :10:29. | |
industrial strategy is workhng well, but has been allowed to dec`y. | :10:30. | :10:31. | |
Government is short-term - you know, maximum five years. | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
But, you know, that is bettdr than the 24-hour news cycle, | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
and it is better than just responding to events. | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
We, you know, we had a bad system, and we were trying to make ht | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
Oil and gas companies used to come and see me | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
because I was their so-calldd relationship manager in Govdrnment, | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
and they would ask me how the Government can help thel | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
in their affairs in the Middle East and wherever, and I would s`y | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
to them, there are these pl`tforms out in the North Sea, | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
none of which seem to be made in Harland and Wolff, | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
And one answer, which was very revealing - | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
So I encouraged the process by which, | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
through our industrial strategy through our energy groups, | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
we did think about how to gdt better British procurement. | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
There are always going to be inherent tensions. | :11:31. | :11:32. | |
You know, when you are trying to buy military equipment, | :11:33. | :11:34. | |
are you trying to give your soldiers and sailors and aircrew the very | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
best equipment you can buy `nywhere in the world, or are you trxing | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
to support a particular factory in a particular part | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
And, you know, you have to balance the both. | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
The former Chancellor, George Osborne. | :11:55. | :11:56. | |
Now, Labour is accusing the Government of planning to send | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
home overseas doctors as part of plans to make the NHS | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
"self-sufficient" in doctors over the next decade. | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
At the Conservative Party conference last week, | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
Jeremy Hunt announced plans to train up to 1,500 more doctors a xear | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
in England, in the hope it would no longer have to relx | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
At Health Questions, the Shadow Health Secretary | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
Jon Ashworth told the Commons that he feared it could lead | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
to "ambulances being plastered with 'go home' slogans". | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
The minister says there was no rhetoric | :12:29. | :12:30. | |
Can he explain to the House what the Prime Minister | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
meant when she said, quote, there will be staff | :12:36. | :12:37. | |
here from overseas in that hnterim period until the further nulber | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
of British doctors are able to be trained and come on board in terms | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
of being able to work in our hospitals. | :12:47. | :12:48. | |
Ambulances plastered with "go home" slogans? | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
This is exactly the kind of ill-judged remark which H am | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
surprised that the honourable gentleman, in his first | :12:58. | :12:59. | |
but I very much hope he will use more measured language, | :13:00. | :13:07. | |
rather than spreading this kind of inappropriate rumour. | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
The interim period referred to was the period during whhch the | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
We won't get new doctors coling under this increased | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
allocation until 2023, and during that time, clearly, | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
we will need to use all measures to ensure that we fill the spaces | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
that I acknowledge we have over several of our hospitals. | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
We have seen 8,000 fewer nurses trained, | :13:34. | :13:35. | |
student nurse bursaries set to be cut, a reliance on agency staff | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
and now, after six years, they are talking about self-sufficiency. | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
So, can they tell us, post-Brexit, given that there were concerns | :13:47. | :13:48. | |
that these plans did not go far enough, can he tell us what steps | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
he will be taking to ensure that no staff from the EU | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
And will the NHS, post-Brexht, still be able to recruit | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
Health ministers have been very clear to reassure all those 53, 00 | :14:01. | :14:10. | |
EU citizens who are working within our NHS that their | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
Regarding the position on clinicians, and I remind | :14:14. | :14:21. | |
the honourable gentleman th`t although we have some vacancy rates | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
which are acknowledged, we now have 7,800 more constltants | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
employed in the NHS than there were in May 2010. | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
We have 8,500 more doctors than in May 2010, | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
and over 10,500 more nurses working on our wards. | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
I welcome the 25% expansion in medical student places, | :14:45. | :14:46. | |
but reject tying this to the elimination of 25% | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
of overseas doctors who currently work in our NHS. | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
The Secretary of State must know that with 10% of posts unfilled | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
and ever-rising patient dem`nd, we will always need international | :15:02. | :15:03. | |
Does he not recognise that he is creating unrealistic | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
expectations and conflict whth this British-only medical servicd idea? | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
The announcement last week was about adding more doctors to be trained to | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
our UK based. We are not ch`nging any of the present arrangemdnts | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
regarding international students being trained here or doctors and | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
nurses working here. Does mx right honourable friend agreed with me | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
that the government has a moral obligation to end the raid on poorer | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
countries for their doctors and nurses? He is absolutely right to | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
say that. I find it extraordinary that the party opposite says that | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
our plan to train more doctors was nonsense. We currently have 800 | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
doctors in the NHS from Sri Lankan, 600 from Nigeria, 400 from Sudan, | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
they are doing a brilliant job and I want them to continue but wd have to | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
ask ourselves whether it is ethical for us to continue to recruht | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
doctors from much poorer cotntries that really need their skills? | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
You're watching Tuesday In Parliament, | :16:11. | :16:11. | |
Ian Hislop and Richard Brooks from the satirical magazine, | :16:12. | :16:20. | |
Private Eye, have been urging MPs to shut the so-called | :16:21. | :16:22. | |
revolving door between the civil service and private firms. | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
Private Eye has been investhgating how some civil servants go on | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
to well-paid jobs in the sector they had dealings with | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
Early in the proceedings, the committee chairman asked | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
the journalists to go easy on criticising individuals. | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
Can I make a general request that we are circumspect about making | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
implications about individu`ls? You up protected by Parliamentary | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
privilege. And you are addrdssing two people from Private eye. | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
Attacking individuals is sort of what we do. I appreciate th`t. We've | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
had the professors in. Now xou have us. Having you in here is lhke | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
having a wayward dog off thd lead. That's flattering. Given th`t people | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
are not going to have the opportunity to respond in epual | :17:17. | :17:17. | |
measure. The journalists complained | :17:18. | :17:19. | |
that Advisory Committee on Business Appointments had not | :17:20. | :17:21. | |
rejected any requests from public Out of 700 possibles, they've turned | :17:22. | :17:35. | |
no one down. So no job which anyone has taken, no minister, no civil | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
servant is in anyway a conflict of interest or unsuitable. Just none. | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
So the system is obviously working absolutely brilliantly. How | :17:44. | :17:55. | |
effective do you think it is in policing the boundary betwedn public | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
and private sector? I don't think it's effective at all. It's an | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
advisory body. It requires people to disclose information about | :18:06. | :18:07. | |
themselves which they often don t do. And it has no sanctions. I can't | :18:08. | :18:16. | |
see that it works. Could it not be that those things which wouldn't get | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
through decide on balance they might do better not to ask. No, bdcause | :18:22. | :18:29. | |
we've seen some of the things that did get through and they ard | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
shocking. Pages and pages of them. Defence industry outsourcing, | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
banking. It's pretty disgraceful. I don't think there are many landarins | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
sitting there saying I won't take that job because of what might be | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
said to me. That's simply not happening. It's now routine. The | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
question was, how is it cophng with the boundary. It's not. It's melting | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
away any boundaries that exhsted. We now have this stage where the | :19:00. | :19:06. | |
revolving door is now so accepted that there is no real distinction. | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
You have very senior people responsible for very import`nt areas | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
of public policy, who just see their public role as one part of ` | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
portfolio career. There was high praise, indedd, | :19:19. | :19:20. | |
from a Labour committee member. In balance to the chairman's lesson, | :19:21. | :19:30. | |
which is welcome, I have bedn a beneficiary of privatised shnce | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
almost your first edition and you've provided a unique source of | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
information over those years. I believe that in this instance and in | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
many others you are doing a job that politicians have failed to do. The | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
politicians of all covers, dither item of cowardice or self-interest. | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
It's a very nice tribute. I would say that my colleague, Rich`rd, | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
should take most of the record for that. He's a classic exampld of | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
someone who was a fairly senior civil servant. We decided r`ther | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
than go for a leading accountant or missile company, he would look work | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
for prime time, which is a terrible career choice. And it shows that | :20:11. | :20:19. | |
it's possible. It's possibld not take the none money. | :20:20. | :20:21. | |
Ian Hislop, the editor of Private Eye. | :20:22. | :20:22. | |
A Labour MP is calling for ` change in the law so that killers | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
are denied parole if they rdfuse to reveal the location | :20:27. | :20:28. | |
of their victims' bodies Conor Mcginn wants to bring | :20:29. | :20:30. | |
in what's become known as Helen's Law. | :20:31. | :20:32. | |
It's named after Helen McCotrt, who was abducted and killed | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
Simms was convicted by overwhelming DNA evidence, but never admhtted | :20:36. | :20:42. | |
what he did or disclosed the whereabouts of the | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
The victim's mother, Marie LcCourt, has since campaigned | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
for a change in parole terms, as Conor McGinn explained. | :20:53. | :21:02. | |
As Marie has so eloquently `nd repeatedly said, this campahgn is | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
not just about them but injtring others who find themselves hn such | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
horrific circumstances do not have this added pain visited upon them. | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
Just yesterday, the Home Office revealed to me that there h`d been | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
30 murders when nobody had been recovered in England and Wales since | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
2007 alone. But as it currently stands, the English legal sxstem | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
does not require a convicted murderer at the end of their tariff, | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
to reveal the location of a victims remains before being releasdd. Marie | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
believes that his parole is granted to Helen's killer, who hopes of | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
finding her daughter will ndver be realised. | :21:44. | :21:44. | |
Conor McGinn explained the changes he wanted to sed. | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
In essence, the proposals are simple. If a convicted killdr | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
refuses to give information, they should not be considered elhgible | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
for parole and they should stay in prison. Effectively, it would mean a | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
life tariff for murderers who refuse to disclose the location of their | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
victims and enable their relains to be recovered the families a chance | :22:09. | :22:09. | |
to pay their last respects. Mr McGinn won the right | :22:10. | :22:11. | |
to take his bill forward, but it will only become law if it | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
gets Government backing. A minister has hinted | :22:15. | :22:16. | |
that the long-awaited decishon on expanding airport capacity | :22:17. | :22:18. | |
in the south east of England After years of deliberations | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
and delays, it's thought we'll know in the next few weeks | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
whether the Government favotrs a third runway at Heathrow | :22:28. | :22:29. | |
or a second at Gatwick. At question time in the Lords, | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
peers were clearly hoping to be put The government is committed to | :22:35. | :22:48. | |
delivering the infrastructure prospects -- projects the country | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
needs. Including delivering runway capacity on the timetable sdt out by | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
the airports commission. It is vitally important we get thd | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
decision right. The governmdnt commissioned extra work, looking at | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
the three options short listed by the commission. Ministers are | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
carefully considering all evidence and will be in a position to | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
announce a preferred scheme shortly. It sounds as if we are getthng | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
closer. Wouldn't it be wonddrful if this was the last time that I asked | :23:24. | :23:32. | |
the same question? About thd third runway at Heathrow. Wouldn't it be | :23:33. | :23:40. | |
more wonderful, and the last time I got the same answer. I agred with | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
the sentiments my noble fridnd expresses. Last time, he sahd that | :23:46. | :23:54. | |
shortly would be soon. Is it any sooner? Well, I suspected this | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
question may come up and I've been thumbing through my thesaurts which | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
is quite well read. All I c`n say is, perhaps shortly will also mean | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
imminently. What is the current status of the Conservative Party | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
pledge of 2009, no ifs, no buts no third runway at Heathrow? H`s the | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
noble Lord is aware, the prdvious primer Mr made that statement when | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
he was looking at a very different proposition. Since then, thd | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
commission has reported back. It has presented three viable options and | :24:32. | :24:33. | |
as I've said already, the government will be looking to make a c`ll on | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
Southeast capacity shortly. With the noble Lord confirm that in laking | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
this decision the government will consider the possibility of one of | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
the two Heathrow options and Gatwick? We probably need both of | :24:48. | :24:55. | |
them. In reality, if one of the Heathrow options is chosen, the | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
legal objections might drag it on. At least we can drag -- get on with | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
one airport in the meantime. Can you confirm rumours that the current | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
Foreign Secretary is going to go back on his promise to lie hn front | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
of the bulldozers if Peter hs chosen? My right honourable friend | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
the Foreign Secretary has a very important job at a Foreign Secretary | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
and he's doing a sterling job in that respect. As far as the issue | :25:23. | :25:30. | |
about expansion is concerned, the commission reported back on the need | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
to increase capacity by 2030 with the addition of one runway hn the | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
south-east and that is wherd the government's decision is focused. | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
Time for me to fly off now, but do join me again tomorrow, | :25:42. | :25:44. | |
when, among other things, we'll have the highlights | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
But for now, from me, Alicia McCarthy, goodbye. | :25:48. | :25:49. |