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Hello and welcome to Tuesday in Parliament. | 0:00:18 | 0:00:19 | |
Coming up in the next half hour: | 0:00:19 | 0:00:24 | |
As Theresa May sets out her Brexit plans, in the Commons MPs are told | 0:00:24 | 0:00:28 | |
both houses will have a vote on the final deal. | 0:00:28 | 0:00:31 | |
The Northern Ireland Secretary calls for a respectful election | 0:00:31 | 0:00:33 | |
following the breakdown of the Stormont Assembly. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:37 | |
And is it time for an overhaul of business rates? | 0:00:37 | 0:00:41 | |
When you look at High Streets around | 0:00:41 | 0:00:42 | |
the country, they are full of charity shops, estate agents | 0:00:42 | 0:00:45 | |
and the odd coffee shops. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:50 | |
But first, the Prime Minister has confirmed that the UK will leave | 0:00:50 | 0:00:52 | |
the European Union's Single Market as a result of Brexit. | 0:00:52 | 0:00:56 | |
Theresa May made the announcement during her first major speech | 0:00:56 | 0:00:59 | |
outlining her strategy for taking Britain out of the EU. | 0:00:59 | 0:01:03 | |
Mrs May said she wanted to build a stronger Britain | 0:01:03 | 0:01:05 | |
in charge of its own laws, in control of immigration | 0:01:05 | 0:01:09 | |
and pursuing free trade and she warned Europe's leaders | 0:01:09 | 0:01:12 | |
that no deal for Britain was better than a bad deal. | 0:01:12 | 0:01:18 | |
In the Commons, the Brexit Secretary set out the proposals to MPs. | 0:01:18 | 0:01:21 | |
It's a plan to build a strong, new partnership with our European | 0:01:21 | 0:01:24 | |
partners while reaching beyond the borders of Europe | 0:01:24 | 0:01:27 | |
as well, forging deeper links with old allies and new | 0:01:27 | 0:01:29 | |
ones. | 0:01:29 | 0:01:33 | |
Today we set out 12 objectives for negotiation to come. | 0:01:33 | 0:01:39 | |
They answer the questions of those who ask what we intend while not | 0:01:39 | 0:01:42 | |
undermining the UK's negotiating position, | 0:01:42 | 0:01:46 | |
we're clear what we seek is new partnership not a partial | 0:01:46 | 0:01:49 | |
EU membership - not a model adopted by other countries, | 0:01:49 | 0:01:52 | |
not a position that means half in and half out. | 0:01:52 | 0:01:56 | |
So our objectives are clear, to deliver certainty | 0:01:56 | 0:01:59 | |
and clarity where we can, to control our own laws, to | 0:01:59 | 0:02:03 | |
protect and strengthen the Union, to maintain the common travel area | 0:02:03 | 0:02:06 | |
with the Replublic of Ireland, to control immigration, | 0:02:06 | 0:02:09 | |
to protect the rights of EU nationals in the UK and UK | 0:02:09 | 0:02:12 | |
nationals in the European Union, to | 0:02:12 | 0:02:19 | |
protect worker's rights, to allow free trade with the EU markets, | 0:02:19 | 0:02:21 | |
to forge new trade deals with other | 0:02:21 | 0:02:23 | |
countries, to boost science and innovation, | 0:02:23 | 0:02:24 | |
to protect and enhance cooperation over crime, | 0:02:24 | 0:02:26 | |
terrorism and security, | 0:02:26 | 0:02:27 | |
to make our exit smooth and orderly. | 0:02:27 | 0:02:30 | |
It is the outline of an ambitious new | 0:02:30 | 0:02:32 | |
partnership between UK and the countries of the European Union. | 0:02:32 | 0:02:36 | |
We are under no illusions, agreeing terms which | 0:02:36 | 0:02:39 | |
works for both the UK and the 27 nations of the EU will be | 0:02:39 | 0:02:43 | |
challenging and no doubt there will be bumps | 0:02:43 | 0:02:45 | |
on the road once talks begin. | 0:02:45 | 0:02:51 | |
We must embark on negotiation clear however that no | 0:02:51 | 0:02:53 | |
deal is better than a bad deal. | 0:02:53 | 0:02:56 | |
The Prime Minister knows setting out ambitions | 0:02:56 | 0:02:58 | |
is the easy bit, delivery is more difficult, much more difficult. | 0:02:58 | 0:03:03 | |
The Prime Minister has taken a precarious course of taking the UK | 0:03:03 | 0:03:06 | |
out of single market membership and changing | 0:03:06 | 0:03:09 | |
the customs arrangements. | 0:03:09 | 0:03:13 | |
This will cause concern to businesses as the Secretary of State | 0:03:13 | 0:03:16 | |
knows and to trade unions and the Prime Minister should have | 0:03:16 | 0:03:19 | |
been more ambitious. | 0:03:19 | 0:03:20 | |
I think we should loyally support the government. | 0:03:20 | 0:03:22 | |
Hear, hear. | 0:03:22 | 0:03:27 | |
Will the Secretary of State confirm this, that insisting on patrolling | 0:03:27 | 0:03:35 | |
our own borders and insisting on doing | 0:03:35 | 0:03:37 | |
international trade deals is | 0:03:37 | 0:03:39 | |
inconsistent, not just with membership | 0:03:39 | 0:03:41 | |
of the EU but also the | 0:03:41 | 0:03:43 | |
customs union and the single market? | 0:03:43 | 0:03:48 | |
So I agree, after the speech today, it is not hard Brexit, it is full | 0:03:48 | 0:03:52 | |
Brexit. | 0:03:52 | 0:03:53 | |
The Prime Minister made a welcome commitment in the first | 0:03:53 | 0:03:55 | |
part of her speech to enhance and protect | 0:03:55 | 0:03:57 | |
workers' rights but at the | 0:03:57 | 0:03:59 | |
end was threatening to take them away and to undercut the rest of | 0:03:59 | 0:04:02 | |
Europe and rip up the British economic model if we don't get what | 0:04:02 | 0:04:06 | |
we want. | 0:04:06 | 0:04:10 | |
Can he now withdraw that threat and be clear that Britain | 0:04:10 | 0:04:13 | |
will not do that because otherwise if the government is prepared to rip | 0:04:13 | 0:04:17 | |
up workers' rights as soon as a negotiation gets difficult, | 0:04:17 | 0:04:21 | |
how can we trust them to ensure that the | 0:04:21 | 0:04:23 | |
rest of Britain's interests are protected if the negotiations get | 0:04:23 | 0:04:26 | |
difficult as well? | 0:04:26 | 0:04:29 | |
I will say to her what I said to the head of the TUC, | 0:04:29 | 0:04:36 | |
there is no circumstance under which we will rip up | 0:04:36 | 0:04:38 | |
the workers' rights. | 0:04:38 | 0:04:39 | |
My right honourable friend made clear that | 0:04:39 | 0:04:41 | |
no deal is better than a | 0:04:41 | 0:04:42 | |
bad deal. | 0:04:42 | 0:04:46 | |
In the unlikely I'm sure event that we were likely to get a | 0:04:46 | 0:04:49 | |
bad deal in the House were to vote against it, | 0:04:49 | 0:04:52 | |
what would be the impact in terms of status with the European | 0:04:52 | 0:04:54 | |
Union? | 0:04:54 | 0:04:55 | |
The referendum last year set in motion | 0:04:55 | 0:04:57 | |
a circumstance where the | 0:04:57 | 0:05:01 | |
UK is going to leave the European union and it | 0:05:01 | 0:05:03 | |
will not change that. | 0:05:03 | 0:05:05 | |
We want to have a vote so that the House | 0:05:05 | 0:05:11 | |
We want to have a vote so that the House can support the | 0:05:11 | 0:05:18 | |
policy which we're quite sure they will approve of. | 0:05:18 | 0:05:28 | |
What I do not understand when listening to his | 0:05:28 | 0:05:32 | |
statement or listening to my right honourable friend is which country | 0:05:32 | 0:05:35 | |
in the world is going to enter to trade agreement with this country | 0:05:35 | 0:05:38 | |
on the basis that the rules are | 0:05:38 | 0:05:40 | |
entirely what the British say they are going to be on any | 0:05:40 | 0:05:43 | |
to particular day and if that is any dispute about | 0:05:43 | 0:05:45 | |
the rules, it will be sorted out by the British Government. | 0:05:45 | 0:05:47 | |
LAUGHTER. | 0:05:48 | 0:05:49 | |
Those on that side have a very short memory. | 0:05:49 | 0:05:51 | |
I can't forgive my right honourable friend. | 0:05:51 | 0:05:53 | |
He did not hear | 0:05:53 | 0:05:58 | |
the first point and I will answer | 0:05:58 | 0:06:00 | |
like this, of course there will be disagreements and | 0:06:00 | 0:06:03 | |
they will be arbitrated by an organisation we agreed | 0:06:03 | 0:06:06 | |
between us, not normally the European Court of | 0:06:06 | 0:06:08 | |
Justice. | 0:06:08 | 0:06:11 | |
Once the UK has left the EU, there will be a 9 | 0:06:11 | 0:06:14 | |
billion hole in EU finances, given reduced resources wide as the | 0:06:14 | 0:06:20 | |
-- why does the government believe that the EU will prioritise | 0:06:20 | 0:06:27 | |
the good seating a deal | 0:06:27 | 0:06:29 | |
with the UK when a more lucrative market such as the US or China? | 0:06:29 | 0:06:33 | |
I'm afraid she is wrong about the lucrative market bit. | 0:06:33 | 0:06:35 | |
We are the largest market for the European union. | 0:06:35 | 0:06:37 | |
EU workers in Scotland contribute ?7.5 billion to the | 0:06:37 | 0:06:40 | |
economy, not to mention the huge contribution they make to our social | 0:06:40 | 0:06:42 | |
fabric, what will he do to protect their rights | 0:06:42 | 0:06:44 | |
and Scotland's place in | 0:06:44 | 0:06:46 | |
Europe as they voted for by a majority in the EU vote? | 0:06:46 | 0:06:48 | |
We will not be managing the immigration or migration policy | 0:06:48 | 0:06:52 | |
in a way which harms the national interest and that means not causing | 0:06:52 | 0:06:55 | |
labour shortages or shortage of talent. | 0:06:55 | 0:06:58 | |
That applies not just globally but to each nation state of | 0:06:58 | 0:07:01 | |
the United Kingdom as well. | 0:07:01 | 0:07:06 | |
The Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire is hoping that | 0:07:06 | 0:07:08 | |
campaigning in next month's Assembly elections do not "exacerbate | 0:07:08 | 0:07:10 | |
tension and division". | 0:07:10 | 0:07:17 | |
Northern Ireland is going to the polls on March the 2nd | 0:07:17 | 0:07:19 | |
following the collapse of the Executive in Belfast. | 0:07:19 | 0:07:21 | |
Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness, | 0:07:21 | 0:07:23 | |
resigned last week in protest at the handling | 0:07:23 | 0:07:25 | |
of a renewable energy scheme. | 0:07:25 | 0:07:26 | |
That meant the First Minister, | 0:07:26 | 0:07:28 | |
the Democratic Unionists' Arlene Foster, was out of a job too, | 0:07:28 | 0:07:32 | |
bringing the Northern Ireland Executive to a halt. | 0:07:32 | 0:07:38 | |
Elections by their nature are hotly contested. | 0:07:38 | 0:07:40 | |
This is part of the essence of our democracy. | 0:07:40 | 0:07:42 | |
Nobody expects the debates around the key | 0:07:42 | 0:07:46 | |
issues in Northern Ireland to be anything less than robust. | 0:07:46 | 0:07:49 | |
I would however like to stress the following, | 0:07:49 | 0:07:52 | |
this election is about the future of Northern Ireland and | 0:07:52 | 0:07:55 | |
its political institutions. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:57 | |
Not just the Assembly, but all the arrangements that have | 0:07:57 | 0:08:00 | |
been put in place to reflect relationships | 0:08:00 | 0:08:02 | |
throughout these islands. | 0:08:02 | 0:08:05 | |
That is why it will be vital for the campaign to | 0:08:05 | 0:08:08 | |
be conducted respectfully and in ways that do not simply exacerbate | 0:08:08 | 0:08:11 | |
tensions and division. | 0:08:11 | 0:08:17 | |
I have personally been involved for almost | 0:08:17 | 0:08:21 | |
three decades in Northern Ireland's issues and I have learned one thing | 0:08:21 | 0:08:30 | |
that political vacuum should be avoided at all costs so I say | 0:08:30 | 0:08:33 | |
this to the Secretary of | 0:08:33 | 0:08:34 | |
State today, you must make sure that you are not only willing to fill | 0:08:34 | 0:08:38 | |
that vacuum but work for all parties to seek a way forward so we avoid | 0:08:38 | 0:08:41 | |
the nightmare scenario of six weeks of increasingly bitter campaigning | 0:08:41 | 0:08:43 | |
which will leave us in the same place when it started with no | 0:08:43 | 0:08:48 | |
solution in place to heal the divide and bring | 0:08:48 | 0:08:52 | |
together those elected to | 0:08:52 | 0:08:54 | |
represent all the people of Northern Ireland. | 0:08:54 | 0:08:59 | |
Laurence Robertson has just returned from Londonderry. | 0:08:59 | 0:09:02 | |
I did detect and witnessed a great sense of frustration about | 0:09:02 | 0:09:08 | |
what is happening and a great sense of disappointment that the assembly | 0:09:08 | 0:09:11 | |
yet again was under threat and indeed this time has fallen. | 0:09:11 | 0:09:14 | |
Does the Secretary of State therefore | 0:09:14 | 0:09:17 | |
agree with me and indeed the proposal made by the shadow | 0:09:17 | 0:09:27 | |
secretary of State that the coming weeks should perhaps be used to | 0:09:27 | 0:09:36 | |
want to say a retturn to | 0:09:37 | 0:09:39 | |
direct rule? | 0:09:39 | 0:09:40 | |
The DUP says Sinn Fein did not opt out | 0:09:40 | 0:09:42 | |
because of the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme, or RHI. | 0:09:42 | 0:09:44 | |
We are deeply disappointed, frustrated and indeed | 0:09:44 | 0:09:46 | |
angry by the decision of Sinn Fein to walk away and cause the | 0:09:46 | 0:09:49 | |
election. | 0:09:49 | 0:09:50 | |
What is this about? | 0:09:50 | 0:09:51 | |
It is not about the RHI issue because if | 0:09:51 | 0:09:53 | |
it had been we could have sorted it out. | 0:09:53 | 0:09:59 | |
This election serves to delay those issues being sorted out. | 0:09:59 | 0:10:01 | |
It is about Sinn Fein seeking opportune | 0:10:01 | 0:10:07 | |
political advantage and seeking to overturn the election results | 0:10:07 | 0:10:09 | |
held just a few months ago and hoping to | 0:10:09 | 0:10:17 | |
gain concessions from the government, on legacy issues, | 0:10:17 | 0:10:19 | |
such as rewriting the past and putting more soldiers in the | 0:10:19 | 0:10:21 | |
dock, and other concessions from the DUP. | 0:10:21 | 0:10:24 | |
Let us be clear, we will work through this election and afterwards | 0:10:24 | 0:10:27 | |
to create devolved government that | 0:10:27 | 0:10:28 | |
is stable in Northern Ireland but let this | 0:10:28 | 0:10:31 | |
House know the people of | 0:10:31 | 0:10:37 | |
Northern Ireland all know that just as we have not given into Sinn Fein | 0:10:37 | 0:10:40 | |
demands in the past, we will not bow down and give | 0:10:40 | 0:10:43 | |
into Sinn Fein's unreasonable demands going forward | 0:10:43 | 0:10:45 | |
because that is what this election is all about. | 0:10:45 | 0:10:47 | |
The SDLP is urging the Northern Ireland Secretary | 0:10:47 | 0:10:49 | |
to support an inquiry into the energy scheme. | 0:10:49 | 0:10:52 | |
Without a public inquiry, Mr Speaker, public confidence in a | 0:10:52 | 0:10:55 | |
political settlement will sink even lower | 0:10:55 | 0:10:58 | |
and make restoration of the | 0:10:58 | 0:11:03 | |
executive even more difficult and that is what people are telling me | 0:11:03 | 0:11:08 | |
on the streets over the last few days and the last week that they | 0:11:08 | 0:11:11 | |
basically need to see clarity that we're having | 0:11:11 | 0:11:13 | |
an election here in a fog. | 0:11:13 | 0:11:14 | |
James Brokenshire replied that the issue was critical | 0:11:14 | 0:11:16 | |
in re-establishing the public's trust and confidence. | 0:11:16 | 0:11:20 | |
MPs have been told that staffing is the biggest problem facing | 0:11:20 | 0:11:23 | |
maternity services in England. | 0:11:23 | 0:11:26 | |
The Health Committee heard that enough midwives | 0:11:26 | 0:11:29 | |
are being trained but they are not necessarily being employed. | 0:11:29 | 0:11:32 | |
The committee's hearing followed a report from | 0:11:32 | 0:11:36 | |
the National Childbirth Trust which blamed a shortage of midwives | 0:11:36 | 0:11:39 | |
for women feeling like they had been treated "like cattle". | 0:11:39 | 0:11:42 | |
The NCT study of two and half thousand women found half had | 0:11:42 | 0:11:47 | |
experienced a "red flag" event such as not getting timely access to pain | 0:11:47 | 0:11:51 | |
relief due to a lack of staff. | 0:11:51 | 0:11:59 | |
There are clearly workforce pressures on all the health | 0:11:59 | 0:12:01 | |
disciplines associated with maternity care and I would add | 0:12:01 | 0:12:03 | |
health visitors who are extremely important women in the postnatal | 0:12:03 | 0:12:06 | |
period. | 0:12:06 | 0:12:07 | |
Half of the women you surveyed experienced clinically | 0:12:07 | 0:12:09 | |
unsafe care. | 0:12:09 | 0:12:15 | |
Yes, we looked at the events which are defined by NICE in | 0:12:15 | 0:12:17 | |
guidance as red flag events. | 0:12:18 | 0:12:22 | |
They are identified as those that do in | 0:12:22 | 0:12:27 | |
most cases mean there is a staffing shortage. | 0:12:27 | 0:12:29 | |
In this case, mostly in midwifery. | 0:12:30 | 0:12:35 | |
So it was mainly care processes that were delayed | 0:12:35 | 0:12:42 | |
- including medication being given which might | 0:12:42 | 0:12:43 | |
have been pain relief or | 0:12:43 | 0:12:48 | |
antibiotics or other drugs needed by women which was obviously should | 0:12:48 | 0:12:50 | |
have been given in a timely fashion either because the woman was in | 0:12:50 | 0:12:56 | |
great pain or with antibiotics, obviously they need to be taken as a | 0:12:56 | 0:13:03 | |
course and it is very important they're taken on time. | 0:13:03 | 0:13:05 | |
One woman reported that the bed she had given birth | 0:13:05 | 0:13:15 | |
in, she was not helped to washed or sheets changed for 12 hours | 0:13:18 | 0:13:21 | |
which I imagine is really unpleasant and distressing for her and | 0:13:21 | 0:13:24 | |
certainly the risk of greater infection. | 0:13:24 | 0:13:25 | |
While we're training enough midwives and enough midwives | 0:13:25 | 0:13:27 | |
are coming out into the system, the difficulty is that not enough of | 0:13:27 | 0:13:30 | |
them are being employed. | 0:13:30 | 0:13:33 | |
Although we have been seeing increases in | 0:13:33 | 0:13:37 | |
midwifery numbers over the last few years, we are now seeing | 0:13:37 | 0:13:39 | |
flat-lining. | 0:13:40 | 0:13:45 | |
The number of midwives is actually starting to look as | 0:13:45 | 0:13:47 | |
though it's reducing in our services. | 0:13:47 | 0:13:55 | |
The number has been quoted around 2500 up to 6000 as a gap, | 0:13:55 | 0:13:58 | |
would you support that? | 0:13:58 | 0:14:06 | |
Our figure is that we are 3500 mid-range short. | 0:14:06 | 0:14:08 | |
You feel it is worse? | 0:14:08 | 0:14:09 | |
Yes. | 0:14:09 | 0:14:11 | |
There are various issues, one is we're seeing | 0:14:11 | 0:14:12 | |
a rapidly increasing number of midwives retiring from the service | 0:14:12 | 0:14:15 | |
so the number of midwives now aged over 50 is very significant so | 0:14:15 | 0:14:21 | |
there's a need to replace midwives when they leave and the number going | 0:14:21 | 0:14:24 | |
out is pretty much equating to the number coming | 0:14:24 | 0:14:31 | |
out is pretty much equating to the number coming in, | 0:14:31 | 0:14:34 | |
so you are getting flat-lining. | 0:14:34 | 0:14:35 | |
The National childbirth trust talks about findings from | 0:14:35 | 0:14:40 | |
their recent survey that half of the women in their survey | 0:14:40 | 0:14:43 | |
received clinically unsafe care because of | 0:14:43 | 0:14:46 | |
staffing shortages, how do you respond to that? | 0:14:46 | 0:14:51 | |
My understanding of what that assessment is is that you | 0:14:51 | 0:14:55 | |
have the NICE guidelines and we have been able to be clearer than ever | 0:14:55 | 0:15:04 | |
before about whether we are safe or the optimum guidelines which are set | 0:15:04 | 0:15:13 | |
for the units saw a red flag which essentially | 0:15:14 | 0:15:17 | |
means that the director | 0:15:17 | 0:15:22 | |
of midwifery has got sight of the fact that there is a staff | 0:15:22 | 0:15:25 | |
issue within a unit which is a positive because previously we did | 0:15:25 | 0:15:28 | |
not have that information about the red flag People event. | 0:15:28 | 0:15:30 | |
We are able to respond accordingly. | 0:15:30 | 0:15:32 | |
By and large our units remain very safe places | 0:15:32 | 0:15:34 | |
but that is not a position we would want to be | 0:15:34 | 0:15:36 | |
but that is not a position we would want to be in the longer term and | 0:15:36 | 0:15:40 | |
that is why challenging ourselves going forward about the workforce | 0:15:40 | 0:15:43 | |
and having the right staff is absolutely critical. | 0:15:43 | 0:15:45 | |
It is also the reason that whilst the national | 0:15:45 | 0:15:47 | |
figures are very useful, we need to better understand what is driving | 0:15:47 | 0:15:50 | |
local scenarios because some places are finding it hard to recruit and | 0:15:50 | 0:15:52 | |
we need to understand why some places have models that are working | 0:15:52 | 0:15:56 | |
and learn from some of that practice as well. | 0:15:56 | 0:16:02 | |
You're watching Tuesday in Parliament, | 0:16:02 | 0:16:03 | |
with me, Alicia McCarthy. | 0:16:03 | 0:16:08 | |
At the same time that Theresa May was on her feet | 0:16:08 | 0:16:11 | |
making her big speech, the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, | 0:16:11 | 0:16:13 | |
was answering Treasury questions. | 0:16:13 | 0:16:15 | |
He explained that the UK could not stay in the single market | 0:16:15 | 0:16:19 | |
following Brexit because EU leaders made it clear they would not allow | 0:16:19 | 0:16:22 | |
curbs on the free movement of people. | 0:16:22 | 0:16:25 | |
Does my right honourable friend agree with me that the resilience | 0:16:25 | 0:16:29 | |
of our economy will be best served by what the Prime Minister has said | 0:16:29 | 0:16:34 | |
today, that Britain will be leaving the single market | 0:16:34 | 0:16:37 | |
with no ifs and no buts? | 0:16:37 | 0:16:40 | |
Well, Mr Speaker, for six months, we've kept open as many options | 0:16:40 | 0:16:45 | |
as possible while we review the way forward in this negotiation | 0:16:45 | 0:16:49 | |
with the European Union. | 0:16:49 | 0:16:51 | |
We've heard very clearly the views and the political red lines | 0:16:51 | 0:16:55 | |
expressed by other European leaders. | 0:16:55 | 0:16:58 | |
We want to work with them, | 0:16:58 | 0:17:00 | |
we want to recognise and respect their political red lines. | 0:17:00 | 0:17:03 | |
And that is why the Prime Minister is setting out right now | 0:17:03 | 0:17:08 | |
the position that she is, which is that we will go forward, | 0:17:08 | 0:17:14 | |
understanding that we cannot be members of the single market | 0:17:14 | 0:17:19 | |
because of the political red lines around the four freedoms | 0:17:19 | 0:17:23 | |
that other European leaders have set. | 0:17:23 | 0:17:26 | |
In the seven years to 2014, Scotland's trade with | 0:17:26 | 0:17:28 | |
the EU rose by 20%. | 0:17:28 | 0:17:31 | |
Twice the rate of growth in trade to the rest of the UK. | 0:17:31 | 0:17:36 | |
Vital for a resilient economy. | 0:17:36 | 0:17:39 | |
Today's hard Tory Brexit puts that at risk. | 0:17:39 | 0:17:43 | |
But is this not also a kick in the teeth to many of those | 0:17:43 | 0:17:47 | |
who voted leave, believing there would be an EEA/EFTA-type | 0:17:47 | 0:17:50 | |
arrangement in place, to mitigate the damage done? | 0:17:50 | 0:17:56 | |
Mr Speaker, I reject the honourable gentleman's analysis. | 0:17:56 | 0:18:00 | |
I think what this is is engaging constructively with the real world. | 0:18:00 | 0:18:04 | |
Recognising the political red lines of our European Union partners. | 0:18:04 | 0:18:09 | |
If we don't recognise them, frankly, | 0:18:09 | 0:18:11 | |
we are banging our heads against a brick wall. | 0:18:11 | 0:18:14 | |
They have to recognise our political red lines, | 0:18:14 | 0:18:16 | |
we have to recognise theirs. | 0:18:16 | 0:18:17 | |
Then we have to work together to find pragmatic solutions that | 0:18:17 | 0:18:20 | |
works for all the people of the UK within those red lines. | 0:18:20 | 0:18:23 | |
That is what we're doing. | 0:18:24 | 0:18:25 | |
What we now know from what the Prime Minister's saying now, | 0:18:25 | 0:18:28 | |
she is intent on pulling up the drawbridge, | 0:18:28 | 0:18:30 | |
leaving the single market and possibly the customs union. | 0:18:30 | 0:18:34 | |
We will be cutting ourselves off | 0:18:34 | 0:18:35 | |
from one of the largest markets on the entire planet, | 0:18:35 | 0:18:38 | |
threatening jobs and public finances. | 0:18:38 | 0:18:40 | |
This is not a clean Brexit, it is an extremely messy Brexit, | 0:18:40 | 0:18:44 | |
with the consequences we already see in terms of the rise | 0:18:44 | 0:18:47 | |
of the rate of inflation. | 0:18:47 | 0:18:50 | |
Now, with real living standards squeezed by this policy | 0:18:50 | 0:18:53 | |
announcement so far, isn't it time...? | 0:18:53 | 0:18:56 | |
I appeal to the Chancellor, he has the opportunity then | 0:18:56 | 0:18:59 | |
to reconsider his cuts to in-work benefits | 0:18:59 | 0:19:02 | |
and, in the Budget in March, withdraw them in full. | 0:19:02 | 0:19:07 | |
No, Mr Speaker. | 0:19:07 | 0:19:08 | |
What the Prime Minister is setting up today is ambitious agenda | 0:19:08 | 0:19:12 | |
for a Britain engaged with the world, | 0:19:12 | 0:19:14 | |
and a Britain engaged with the European Union. | 0:19:14 | 0:19:17 | |
What she's setting out is a broad-based offer for future | 0:19:17 | 0:19:22 | |
collaboration in trade and investment, insecurity, | 0:19:22 | 0:19:25 | |
an education, in technical and scientific collaboration, | 0:19:25 | 0:19:28 | |
and many other areas. | 0:19:28 | 0:19:31 | |
We want to remain engaged with the European Union, | 0:19:31 | 0:19:33 | |
and I'm confident that the approach the Prime Minister is setting up | 0:19:33 | 0:19:36 | |
today will allow us successfully negotiate a future relationship | 0:19:36 | 0:19:39 | |
with the European Union. | 0:19:39 | 0:19:44 | |
Philip Hammond. | 0:19:44 | 0:19:46 | |
Well, let's stay with Brexit because later in the Commons, | 0:19:46 | 0:19:48 | |
MPs debated the impact of leaving the EU on the rural economy. | 0:19:48 | 0:19:51 | |
The National Farmers Union says UK farmers' contribution to the economy | 0:19:51 | 0:19:54 | |
grew to almost ?10 billion in 2014. | 0:19:54 | 0:19:56 | |
And that the food and farming sector as a whole is worth ?108 billion. | 0:19:56 | 0:20:05 | |
The debate had been called by the SNP - | 0:20:05 | 0:20:07 | |
its spokesman worried about the future. | 0:20:07 | 0:20:11 | |
Under the Government's current direction of travel, | 0:20:11 | 0:20:13 | |
Brexit will not be a clean break for the sheep farmers | 0:20:13 | 0:20:18 | |
in my constituency, whose produce could face prohibitive tariffs | 0:20:18 | 0:20:22 | |
and whose direct support payment could be wiped out. | 0:20:22 | 0:20:26 | |
It will not be a clean break for the fish processors in Shetland, | 0:20:26 | 0:20:30 | |
where more fish was landed | 0:20:30 | 0:20:33 | |
than in the entirety of England and Wales in 2015, | 0:20:33 | 0:20:35 | |
but whose access to the largest seafood market | 0:20:35 | 0:20:38 | |
in the world is now under question. | 0:20:38 | 0:20:41 | |
Nor will it be a clean break for the soft fruit farmer in Angus | 0:20:41 | 0:20:44 | |
when the plug is pulled on the seasonal labour | 0:20:44 | 0:20:48 | |
his business needs to function. | 0:20:48 | 0:20:50 | |
And it will not be a clean break for the most remote Highland | 0:20:50 | 0:20:56 | |
communities that are now contemplating the loss of hundreds | 0:20:56 | 0:20:58 | |
of millions of pounds in European regional development funding. | 0:20:58 | 0:21:03 | |
We find ourselves facing a combination, once again, | 0:21:03 | 0:21:06 | |
of Tory indifference to the needs of the Scottish economy | 0:21:06 | 0:21:09 | |
and a dramatic democratic deficit. | 0:21:09 | 0:21:16 | |
Yes, I will give way. | 0:21:16 | 0:21:18 | |
I am grateful to the honourable gentleman for giving way. | 0:21:18 | 0:21:20 | |
He and his party are optimistic people, | 0:21:20 | 0:21:22 | |
and rays of sunshine in this House. | 0:21:22 | 0:21:24 | |
I wonder if he cannot see any possible benefit | 0:21:24 | 0:21:27 | |
to the Scottish rural economy, particularly fisheries, | 0:21:27 | 0:21:29 | |
the European policy of which decimated | 0:21:29 | 0:21:31 | |
the Scottish fishing industry? | 0:21:31 | 0:21:34 | |
I thank the honourable member. | 0:21:34 | 0:21:36 | |
Actually, if you come and spend a little bit more time | 0:21:36 | 0:21:38 | |
with us, you will find that we are optimists at heart. | 0:21:38 | 0:21:41 | |
But what this debate is about, Madam Deputy Speaker, | 0:21:41 | 0:21:44 | |
is the realities. | 0:21:44 | 0:21:47 | |
Incomes falling and debts are rising. | 0:21:47 | 0:21:49 | |
Incomes were down by a shocking 29% last year. | 0:21:49 | 0:21:55 | |
A fifth of farmers are struggling just to pay their bills. | 0:21:55 | 0:21:57 | |
The average debt for a farming business is now ?188,500. | 0:21:57 | 0:22:04 | |
Too many have gone out of business altogether, | 0:22:04 | 0:22:05 | |
including more than 1,000 dairy farmers in the last three years. | 0:22:05 | 0:22:09 | |
So not all farmers are thriving or even surviving. | 0:22:09 | 0:22:14 | |
I'm determined that we secure a deal and leaving the EU | 0:22:14 | 0:22:18 | |
that works for all parts of the UK, and recognises the contribution | 0:22:18 | 0:22:26 | |
that all corners of this country make to our economic success. | 0:22:26 | 0:22:29 | |
Will she also make it a priority to publish proposals | 0:22:29 | 0:22:31 | |
to have a British fishing industry where we can catch | 0:22:31 | 0:22:34 | |
more of our own fish and protect our fishing grounds for the future? | 0:22:34 | 0:22:39 | |
Well, I'm grateful to my right honourable friend. | 0:22:39 | 0:22:41 | |
He makes a very good point about the potential | 0:22:41 | 0:22:43 | |
for all UK fishing, and I do hope that our policies, | 0:22:43 | 0:22:46 | |
when we come to them after consultation, | 0:22:46 | 0:22:49 | |
will enable us to deliver exactly has he asks for. | 0:22:49 | 0:22:57 | |
Andrea Leadsom. | 0:22:57 | 0:22:58 | |
Finally, Ministers have faced calls for a "root-and-branch re-appraisal" | 0:22:58 | 0:23:00 | |
of business rates after warnings about the impact of revaluation | 0:23:00 | 0:23:03 | |
on high-street shops. | 0:23:03 | 0:23:05 | |
The Communities and Local Government Minister, Lord Bourne, | 0:23:05 | 0:23:08 | |
told peers business rates were based on independent valuations, | 0:23:08 | 0:23:11 | |
and that most would see no change or a fall in their bills from April | 0:23:11 | 0:23:15 | |
due to a revaluation. | 0:23:15 | 0:23:18 | |
Business rates are based on evaluations carried | 0:23:18 | 0:23:21 | |
out independently by the Valuation Office agency, | 0:23:21 | 0:23:25 | |
and it is right that ministers do not intervene in that process. | 0:23:25 | 0:23:28 | |
Nearly three quarters of all businesses will see no change | 0:23:28 | 0:23:31 | |
or a fall in their rates will from April, | 0:23:31 | 0:23:34 | |
thanks to the 2017 revaluation, with 600,000 businesses | 0:23:34 | 0:23:39 | |
set to pay no business rates at all. | 0:23:39 | 0:23:41 | |
Nevertheless, the core of the High Street is badly affected | 0:23:41 | 0:23:44 | |
in many parts of our country. | 0:23:44 | 0:23:49 | |
There was an article in Saturday's Times about Southwold. | 0:23:49 | 0:23:52 | |
Not a huge place. | 0:23:52 | 0:23:53 | |
The local baker's rates | 0:23:53 | 0:23:54 | |
are going up from 4,000, or just over, to 14,000. | 0:23:54 | 0:23:59 | |
And, against that background, will my noble friend | 0:23:59 | 0:24:01 | |
look at the possibilities of revising the proposals | 0:24:01 | 0:24:04 | |
where an increase is up to 15%? | 0:24:04 | 0:24:09 | |
The rules at the moment suggest that there can be no appeal. | 0:24:09 | 0:24:13 | |
Secondly, where there is a small reduction or any reduction, | 0:24:13 | 0:24:16 | |
that reduction is paid in April, and not phased in? | 0:24:16 | 0:24:22 | |
Many peers thought Lord Naseby's question had gone on too long, | 0:24:22 | 0:24:25 | |
but he had one final suggestion to make. | 0:24:25 | 0:24:27 | |
Finally, my Lords, is it not time for a whole | 0:24:27 | 0:24:31 | |
root and branch reappraisal of this form of business? | 0:24:31 | 0:24:37 | |
My Lords, most businesses, as I've indicated, | 0:24:37 | 0:24:39 | |
will be seeing a fall in their business rates. | 0:24:39 | 0:24:42 | |
Those that are subject to increases, of course, | 0:24:42 | 0:24:46 | |
it's phased in over a period of time, | 0:24:46 | 0:24:49 | |
to take just one area which my noble friend touched upon. | 0:24:49 | 0:24:51 | |
That is paid for by those that are seeing a reduction | 0:24:51 | 0:24:54 | |
also seeing that phased in over a period of time, | 0:24:54 | 0:24:57 | |
as is required by law under the 1988 Local Government Finance Act. | 0:24:57 | 0:25:01 | |
As a simple sailor, there must be something wrong when you look | 0:25:01 | 0:25:04 | |
at high streets around the country - they are full of charity shops, | 0:25:04 | 0:25:07 | |
estate agents and the odd coffee shop. | 0:25:07 | 0:25:09 | |
They seem to be falling apart. | 0:25:09 | 0:25:10 | |
There must be something wrong with what is going on. | 0:25:10 | 0:25:18 | |
My Lords, I would certainly not call the noble lord | 0:25:18 | 0:25:20 | |
a simple sailor for one minute. | 0:25:20 | 0:25:22 | |
But, my Lords, it's true that many high streets are thriving. | 0:25:22 | 0:25:25 | |
I visited many high streets that are thriving. | 0:25:25 | 0:25:26 | |
In essence, my Lords, what is important is | 0:25:26 | 0:25:28 | |
that we seek to protect small and medium-sized businesses. | 0:25:28 | 0:25:31 | |
We've been doing that, my Lords, and that is the way forward. | 0:25:31 | 0:25:35 | |
Lord Bourne. | 0:25:35 | 0:25:36 | |
And that's it from me for now, | 0:25:36 | 0:25:38 | |
but do join me at the same time tomorrow, when among other things, | 0:25:38 | 0:25:41 | |
we'll have the highlights from Prime Minister's Questions. | 0:25:41 | 0:25:43 | |
But for now from me, Alicia McCarthy, goodbye. | 0:25:43 | 0:25:45 |