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Hello, welcome to Tuesday In Parliament, | 0:00:16 | 0:00:18 | |
our look at the best of the day in the Commons and the Lords. | 0:00:18 | 0:00:22 | |
On this programme: | 0:00:22 | 0:00:23 | |
Labour accuses the Government of paying for tax cuts | 0:00:23 | 0:00:25 | |
by reducing benefits. | 0:00:25 | 0:00:28 | |
What this Government is all about is forcing | 0:00:28 | 0:00:30 | |
Government departments to meet the Chancellor's spending targets | 0:00:30 | 0:00:33 | |
so he can pay for further tax giveaways. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:37 | |
Threatened industrial action by prison officers in England | 0:00:37 | 0:00:39 | |
and Wales is condemned by a Justice Minister. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:43 | |
We are clear that action of this nature by the POA | 0:00:43 | 0:00:45 | |
poses a risk to the safety of prisons and prison staff. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:51 | |
And a car chief lists his Brexit requests. | 0:00:51 | 0:00:55 | |
That we remain in a free-trade agreement, that we've got access | 0:00:55 | 0:00:57 | |
to the customs union, that technology is harmonised | 0:00:57 | 0:00:59 | |
across Europe, and so "stay as we are" is the ideal | 0:00:59 | 0:01:03 | |
solution for Nissan. | 0:01:03 | 0:01:05 | |
But first, Labour has described as "brutal" a Government decision | 0:01:05 | 0:01:09 | |
to restrict disability benefits. | 0:01:09 | 0:01:12 | |
In the Commons, the Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell, | 0:01:12 | 0:01:14 | |
claimed Ministers were cutting spending to fund tax "giveaways". | 0:01:14 | 0:01:17 | |
The Government wants to reverse the effects of court rulings | 0:01:17 | 0:01:21 | |
which have increased the number of people who can claim the higher | 0:01:21 | 0:01:25 | |
rate of disability benefit, | 0:01:25 | 0:01:27 | |
now called "Personal Independence Payments", or PIPs. | 0:01:27 | 0:01:30 | |
The Government says the rulings would add nearly ?4 billion | 0:01:30 | 0:01:34 | |
to the benefits bill. | 0:01:34 | 0:01:37 | |
At Treasury Questions, Mr McDonnell described the kind | 0:01:37 | 0:01:39 | |
of people the Government now wanted to exclude from PIPs payments. | 0:01:39 | 0:01:42 | |
This was brutal. | 0:01:42 | 0:01:47 | |
Last year, when the Government was forced to halt cuts to PIP | 0:01:47 | 0:01:50 | |
payments to disabled people, the previous Chancellor | 0:01:50 | 0:01:52 | |
absorbed the costs. | 0:01:52 | 0:01:53 | |
In this case, are these disabled people being denied benefits | 0:01:53 | 0:01:56 | |
because the Chancellor has refused to absorb these costs | 0:01:56 | 0:02:01 | |
of the Upper Tribunal decision? | 0:02:01 | 0:02:03 | |
Mr Speaker, what we are doing here is restoring Parliament's | 0:02:03 | 0:02:07 | |
original intention around these payments, ensuring that they go | 0:02:07 | 0:02:11 | |
to the people that they were intended to go to, | 0:02:11 | 0:02:14 | |
and making sure that the benefits cap that's in place, | 0:02:14 | 0:02:17 | |
as part of our fiscal rules, is able to be met. | 0:02:17 | 0:02:21 | |
John McDonnell. | 0:02:22 | 0:02:22 | |
One of those people contacted us. | 0:02:22 | 0:02:24 | |
She has Type II diabetes, myalgia, depression and anxiety, | 0:02:24 | 0:02:29 | |
and, as a result of the action taken by the Government, will not now | 0:02:29 | 0:02:33 | |
be extended to support the courts have ordered her. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:35 | |
It's clear, isn't it, that after last night's announcement | 0:02:35 | 0:02:38 | |
of further austerity measures by individual departments, | 0:02:38 | 0:02:40 | |
what this Government is all about is forcing | 0:02:40 | 0:02:43 | |
Government departments to meet the Chancellor's spending targets | 0:02:43 | 0:02:46 | |
so he can pay for further tax giveaways to the wealthy? | 0:02:46 | 0:02:50 | |
The honourable gentleman, I'm afraid, will have to wait till | 0:02:50 | 0:02:53 | |
next week to find out what my proposals are, | 0:02:53 | 0:02:56 | |
but let me be clear - | 0:02:56 | 0:02:57 | |
we have said we have no plans for further welfare | 0:02:57 | 0:03:00 | |
reforms in this Parliament. | 0:03:00 | 0:03:03 | |
Later, the Work and Pensions Secretary faced more | 0:03:03 | 0:03:06 | |
questions from Labour about the latest benefit changes. | 0:03:06 | 0:03:09 | |
Will the minister confirm, as stated in the impact | 0:03:09 | 0:03:12 | |
assessment published with the regulation, | 0:03:12 | 0:03:15 | |
that people suffering from schizophrenia, | 0:03:15 | 0:03:18 | |
learning disability, autism and dementia will be among | 0:03:18 | 0:03:20 | |
the worst-affected by these cuts? | 0:03:20 | 0:03:26 | |
And, Mr Speaker, the cut is being achieved by taking benefit | 0:03:26 | 0:03:29 | |
away from people whose mobility impairments are the result | 0:03:29 | 0:03:33 | |
of psychological distress. | 0:03:33 | 0:03:35 | |
They will no longer be entitled to benefit, | 0:03:35 | 0:03:38 | |
according to the wording of the regulation. | 0:03:38 | 0:03:40 | |
Doesn't that directly contradict the Prime Minister's commitment | 0:03:40 | 0:03:42 | |
to treat mental health on a par with physical health? | 0:03:42 | 0:03:46 | |
Hear, hear. | 0:03:46 | 0:03:51 | |
I want to be clear what this is not, that this is not a policy | 0:03:51 | 0:03:54 | |
change, nor is it intended to make new savings. | 0:03:54 | 0:03:56 | |
I'd like to reiterate my commitment that there will be no further | 0:03:56 | 0:03:59 | |
welfare savings beyond those already legislated for. | 0:03:59 | 0:04:02 | |
This will not result in any claimant seeing a reduction in the amount | 0:04:02 | 0:04:06 | |
of PIP previously awarded by the DWP. | 0:04:06 | 0:04:10 | |
Mental health conditions and physical disabilities which lead | 0:04:10 | 0:04:13 | |
to higher costs will continue to be supported, | 0:04:13 | 0:04:15 | |
as has always been the case. | 0:04:15 | 0:04:18 | |
But if everything is working so well, why are my advice surgeries | 0:04:18 | 0:04:22 | |
full of people who are waiting for their PIP assessments | 0:04:22 | 0:04:27 | |
for a very long time, | 0:04:27 | 0:04:29 | |
who are being denied them when they've been | 0:04:29 | 0:04:33 | |
long-term disabled, | 0:04:33 | 0:04:35 | |
who are being caused massive amounts of distressed by the process, | 0:04:35 | 0:04:40 | |
and who feel utter despair at having to have anything to do with it? | 0:04:40 | 0:04:46 | |
It's clear that different medical conditions will have | 0:04:46 | 0:04:48 | |
different impacts on people's living and mobility. | 0:04:48 | 0:04:51 | |
Does my right honourable friend agree that we must recognise this | 0:04:51 | 0:04:54 | |
simple fact if we are continuing to target resources | 0:04:54 | 0:04:56 | |
on those who are most vulnerable and most in need? | 0:04:56 | 0:05:00 | |
A constituent, Catherine, contacted me, and was very concerned | 0:05:00 | 0:05:02 | |
about how the amendments will impact on her | 0:05:02 | 0:05:04 | |
when she is transferred from DLA to PIP. | 0:05:04 | 0:05:08 | |
She currently receives low-rate mobility and suffers from ADHD, | 0:05:08 | 0:05:11 | |
depression, generalised anxiety and social phobia. | 0:05:11 | 0:05:14 | |
Her life is severely affected by her mental health. | 0:05:14 | 0:05:16 | |
She cannot plan the route of a journey and she cannot follow | 0:05:16 | 0:05:19 | |
the route of a familiar journey. | 0:05:19 | 0:05:21 | |
Why does the Government want to deny Catherine | 0:05:21 | 0:05:23 | |
the mobility component of PIP? | 0:05:24 | 0:05:27 | |
Well, she is not having any of the... | 0:05:27 | 0:05:30 | |
any changes to the rules that have been put, that she's been applying | 0:05:30 | 0:05:36 | |
under in the past... | 0:05:36 | 0:05:39 | |
And I should gently point out to the honourable gentleman that | 0:05:39 | 0:05:42 | |
these are rules that were passed by a Government of | 0:05:42 | 0:05:44 | |
which he was a member. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:46 | |
I have some constituents who are unable to leave their homes | 0:05:46 | 0:05:49 | |
without assistance due to a physical disability, | 0:05:49 | 0:05:51 | |
and others who are unable to leave their homes | 0:05:51 | 0:05:54 | |
because of a mental disability - | 0:05:54 | 0:05:56 | |
why should one be entitled to receive support via PIP | 0:05:56 | 0:06:00 | |
and not the other? | 0:06:00 | 0:06:04 | |
They both will be entitled to PIP, at the level | 0:06:04 | 0:06:07 | |
as it will be assessed, and, indeed, the only difference... | 0:06:07 | 0:06:12 | |
Clearly, each individual is different and has different | 0:06:12 | 0:06:15 | |
levels of difficulty. | 0:06:15 | 0:06:17 | |
It is often the case that visual or cognitive impairments, | 0:06:17 | 0:06:20 | |
people who are blind, are not going to have a fluctuating | 0:06:20 | 0:06:24 | |
condition, which is clearly less amenable to treatment, | 0:06:24 | 0:06:27 | |
than some other conditions, so it's the level of the difficulty | 0:06:27 | 0:06:29 | |
in someone's daily life, whether they've got a physical | 0:06:29 | 0:06:32 | |
or mental health problem, that matters in terms | 0:06:32 | 0:06:39 | |
of the PIP assessment. | 0:06:39 | 0:06:41 | |
Damian Green. | 0:06:41 | 0:06:42 | |
Well, earlier at Treasury Questions, MPs took the opportunity to appeal | 0:06:42 | 0:06:45 | |
for help in the Budget next week to deal with the acute funding | 0:06:45 | 0:06:48 | |
problems facing social care in England. | 0:06:48 | 0:06:52 | |
One Conservative suggested that use be made of National Insurance | 0:06:52 | 0:06:56 | |
to help pay for the care of elderly and vulnerable people. | 0:06:56 | 0:07:01 | |
Can I ask the Minister, with a view to long-term sustainable | 0:07:01 | 0:07:04 | |
financing in health and social care, to look into this as a means | 0:07:04 | 0:07:07 | |
of depoliticising the debate, and ensuring long-term funding, | 0:07:07 | 0:07:13 | |
not just today, but for decades to come for health and social care? | 0:07:13 | 0:07:17 | |
We are mindful of the long-term challenges. | 0:07:17 | 0:07:19 | |
If you look at the issues recently highlighted by the Office | 0:07:19 | 0:07:23 | |
for Budget Responsibility in their latest | 0:07:23 | 0:07:24 | |
fiscal sustainability report, they are laid out quite starkly. | 0:07:24 | 0:07:30 | |
And in terms of depoliticising, I would say that backing the NHS's | 0:07:30 | 0:07:33 | |
own plan for its own future in the way that we've done | 0:07:33 | 0:07:36 | |
is the best way of doing that. | 0:07:36 | 0:07:38 | |
Back in 2010, to meet the rising costs of social care, | 0:07:38 | 0:07:42 | |
I proposed a compulsory care levy on all estates. | 0:07:42 | 0:07:45 | |
From memory, the Conservatives produced an election poster | 0:07:45 | 0:07:48 | |
with gravestones on it and called it a "death tax". | 0:07:48 | 0:07:50 | |
I read in today's Times that ministers are now | 0:07:50 | 0:07:54 | |
considering exactly the same proposal. | 0:07:54 | 0:07:56 | |
Can this possibly be true? | 0:07:56 | 0:08:01 | |
No. | 0:08:01 | 0:08:03 | |
Sir Hugo Swire. | 0:08:03 | 0:08:07 | |
Thank you, Mr Speaker, but there is an emerging consensus | 0:08:07 | 0:08:09 | |
that we do need to better integrate our social care | 0:08:09 | 0:08:11 | |
and health system. | 0:08:11 | 0:08:13 | |
Given the fact we have already the Better Care Fund | 0:08:13 | 0:08:16 | |
and the Chancellor's prudent management of our economies, | 0:08:16 | 0:08:19 | |
if he does have any wriggle room in the forthcoming budget, | 0:08:19 | 0:08:21 | |
can I ask him if we cannot have some transitional relief for social care | 0:08:21 | 0:08:25 | |
until we can work out the best model? | 0:08:25 | 0:08:29 | |
Well, Mr Speaker, the Government has been very clear on a number | 0:08:29 | 0:08:32 | |
of occasions that we recognise that the pressures in the system, | 0:08:32 | 0:08:38 | |
additional money has been made available | 0:08:38 | 0:08:40 | |
through the social care precept... | 0:08:40 | 0:08:42 | |
How can it be right that those local authorities that are under the most | 0:08:42 | 0:08:45 | |
pressure in terms of social care can actually raise the least amount | 0:08:45 | 0:08:49 | |
through the council tax precept that this Government's policy around | 0:08:49 | 0:08:53 | |
social care has introduced? | 0:08:53 | 0:08:54 | |
The Better Care Fund, which we have already referred to, | 0:08:54 | 0:08:57 | |
actually adjusts for that, and, you know, it is... | 0:08:57 | 0:09:00 | |
There are a range of ways in which we are responding to these | 0:09:00 | 0:09:03 | |
pressures, which we acknowledge in the social care system. | 0:09:03 | 0:09:06 | |
Jane Ellison. | 0:09:06 | 0:09:09 | |
The human rights record of North Korea has been condemned | 0:09:09 | 0:09:13 | |
in the House of Lords. | 0:09:13 | 0:09:14 | |
The Government was asked if it had plans to call in | 0:09:14 | 0:09:16 | |
the North Korean ambassador, following the killing | 0:09:16 | 0:09:19 | |
of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of the country's leader. | 0:09:19 | 0:09:23 | |
The 45-year-old was at an airport when he was smeared | 0:09:23 | 0:09:27 | |
with the nerve agent VX. | 0:09:27 | 0:09:29 | |
Two women have been arrested - | 0:09:29 | 0:09:31 | |
they say they were told it was a television prank. | 0:09:31 | 0:09:33 | |
A Foreign Office Minister said the ambassador had | 0:09:33 | 0:09:37 | |
been spoken to recently. | 0:09:37 | 0:09:39 | |
On the 14th of February, we summoned the Ambassador | 0:09:39 | 0:09:41 | |
of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in response | 0:09:41 | 0:09:45 | |
to its ballistic missile test on the 11th of February. | 0:09:45 | 0:09:48 | |
We made clear that such actions were in violation of | 0:09:48 | 0:09:51 | |
UN Security Council resolutions, | 0:09:51 | 0:09:53 | |
a threat to international security, and that such | 0:09:53 | 0:09:57 | |
destabilising activity must stop. | 0:09:57 | 0:10:00 | |
We continue to be deeply disturbed by their actions, including reports | 0:10:00 | 0:10:04 | |
that they are responsible for the killing of Kim Jong-nam. | 0:10:04 | 0:10:10 | |
My Lords, doesn't the horrific use of VX, the toxic nerve agent, | 0:10:10 | 0:10:14 | |
to assassinate Kim Jong-nam, serve to remind us of North Korea's | 0:10:14 | 0:10:17 | |
total disregard for international law, whether through the use | 0:10:17 | 0:10:20 | |
of banned chemical weapons, of which it has some 5,000 tonnes, | 0:10:20 | 0:10:25 | |
its nuclear and missile tests, or the execution and incarceration | 0:10:25 | 0:10:28 | |
of hundreds of thousands of its own citizens? | 0:10:28 | 0:10:32 | |
Lord Alton asked whether the UK Government supported referral | 0:10:32 | 0:10:35 | |
to the International Criminal Court or a tribunal. | 0:10:35 | 0:10:39 | |
With regard to the alleged use of VX, Malaysia has | 0:10:39 | 0:10:43 | |
gathered its own information. | 0:10:43 | 0:10:45 | |
We have no reason not to believe their conclusions, | 0:10:45 | 0:10:50 | |
that it is VX, a highly toxic nerve agent, nor that it is DPRK | 0:10:50 | 0:10:54 | |
that is responsible. | 0:10:55 | 0:10:57 | |
They have the capacity to, erm, to produce it. | 0:10:57 | 0:11:00 | |
My Lords, until there is an international awareness | 0:11:00 | 0:11:05 | |
of that information from Malaysia, we can't take an action | 0:11:05 | 0:11:08 | |
internationally to condemn what has happened and to provide | 0:11:08 | 0:11:12 | |
that evidential link between DPRK and the murder of Kim Jong-nam. | 0:11:12 | 0:11:18 | |
My Lords, China is the key player in relation to North Korea, | 0:11:18 | 0:11:23 | |
and their action appears to complete the isolation of that country. | 0:11:23 | 0:11:28 | |
How does the Government interpret their sanctions? | 0:11:28 | 0:11:32 | |
Is this temporary or can we expect a sea change in China policy? | 0:11:32 | 0:11:41 | |
The noble lord is right to point to the fact that China has | 0:11:41 | 0:11:44 | |
indeed now made it clear that they are compliant with | 0:11:44 | 0:11:48 | |
the UN Security Council resolution on the sanctions on the coal trade | 0:11:48 | 0:11:51 | |
between DPRK and China. | 0:11:51 | 0:11:55 | |
It's an important step forward. | 0:11:55 | 0:11:57 | |
On the position of sanctions, it is all the more significant, | 0:11:57 | 0:12:00 | |
having regard to the previous ambivalence of the Chinese | 0:12:00 | 0:12:02 | |
Government towards North Korea. | 0:12:02 | 0:12:03 | |
Should not these sanctions be warmly welcomed, not only | 0:12:03 | 0:12:05 | |
here but in the White house, so that whatever their differences, | 0:12:05 | 0:12:08 | |
China and the United States can make common cause in the containment | 0:12:08 | 0:12:11 | |
of North Korea? | 0:12:11 | 0:12:12 | |
Hear, hear. | 0:12:12 | 0:12:13 | |
The noble lord is absolutely right, and, as the new Trump administration | 0:12:13 | 0:12:16 | |
has taken office, I think it's important that they and China find | 0:12:16 | 0:12:22 | |
accord on this matter. | 0:12:22 | 0:12:23 | |
Has my noble friend any information about the number of Christians | 0:12:23 | 0:12:26 | |
who are now incarcerated for the sake of their religion | 0:12:26 | 0:12:29 | |
in North Korea, which is one of the countries where | 0:12:29 | 0:12:32 | |
they are most harassed? | 0:12:33 | 0:12:36 | |
My honourable friend is right to raise the plight | 0:12:36 | 0:12:40 | |
of Christians in North Korea, and it is a fact that, | 0:12:40 | 0:12:43 | |
although the constitution in DPRK does provide the right to have | 0:12:43 | 0:12:45 | |
freedom to believe, those who practice religion outside state | 0:12:45 | 0:12:47 | |
control find themselves subject to appalling persecution. | 0:12:47 | 0:12:49 | |
It's a matter that we raise frequently with the North Korean | 0:12:49 | 0:12:52 | |
Government through our embassy in Pyongyang and also | 0:12:52 | 0:12:54 | |
through the United Nations and the human rights Council, | 0:12:54 | 0:13:00 | |
but, my Lords, it is a continuing, | 0:13:00 | 0:13:02 | |
appalling, flagrant breach of international norms. | 0:13:02 | 0:13:04 | |
The Foreign Office minister, Lady Anelay replying there. | 0:13:04 | 0:13:07 | |
You're watching our round-up of the day in the Commons and the Lords. | 0:13:07 | 0:13:10 | |
Still to come: | 0:13:10 | 0:13:11 | |
The Westminster Pancake Race marks another Shrove Tuesday. | 0:13:11 | 0:13:19 | |
The Government has won a High Court injunction stopping industrial | 0:13:19 | 0:13:23 | |
action by prison staff in England and Wales from going ahead. | 0:13:23 | 0:13:27 | |
Members of the Prison Officers' Association were planning | 0:13:27 | 0:13:30 | |
to withdraw from voluntary duties in a long-running dispute | 0:13:30 | 0:13:32 | |
over pay and pensions. | 0:13:32 | 0:13:36 | |
The action follows the rejection by the association members | 0:13:36 | 0:13:38 | |
of a new pay and conditions package. | 0:13:38 | 0:13:41 | |
A Justice Minister was called to answer an urgent | 0:13:41 | 0:13:43 | |
question in the Commons. | 0:13:43 | 0:13:50 | |
I am grateful for the chance to update the House | 0:13:50 | 0:13:52 | |
on this important issue. | 0:13:52 | 0:13:54 | |
Strike action is unlawful and we have said so to | 0:13:54 | 0:13:56 | |
the Prison Officers' Association. | 0:13:56 | 0:13:58 | |
It will seriously disrupt normal operations in prisons | 0:13:58 | 0:14:02 | |
and whilst we will, of course, take any actions that we can | 0:14:02 | 0:14:05 | |
to mitigate the risks, we are clear that action of this | 0:14:05 | 0:14:08 | |
nature by the POA poses a risk to the safety | 0:14:08 | 0:14:10 | |
of prisons and prison staff. | 0:14:10 | 0:14:15 | |
The duties that the Prison Officers' Association referred | 0:14:15 | 0:14:18 | |
to in their bulletin are not voluntary duty. | 0:14:18 | 0:14:23 | |
These are duties that are a fundamental part of a prison | 0:14:23 | 0:14:26 | |
officer's role and essential to running a safe and decent prison. | 0:14:26 | 0:14:36 | |
Mr Speaker, this situation could have easily been avoided. | 0:14:36 | 0:14:38 | |
Ministers could have spoken to the POA before imposing a pay | 0:14:38 | 0:14:40 | |
policy which has proven to be so divisive and so unpopular. | 0:14:40 | 0:14:44 | |
Ministers need to sit down and talk with the POA rather than threaten | 0:14:44 | 0:14:48 | |
legal action and claim the action is unlawful before any court has | 0:14:48 | 0:14:51 | |
made any such determination. | 0:14:51 | 0:14:57 | |
To turn around this mess, Mr Speaker, we need | 0:14:57 | 0:14:59 | |
a Justice Secretary who is serious, serious about working with prison | 0:14:59 | 0:15:04 | |
officers and we need a prisons bill which will deliver serious reform. | 0:15:04 | 0:15:07 | |
Sadly, at the moment, we have neither. | 0:15:07 | 0:15:17 | |
Can I congratulate him for the excellent work he's doing with | 0:15:27 | 0:15:30 | |
a difficult pack of cards. | 0:15:30 | 0:15:31 | |
Would he agree me that a prison officer joins to serve, | 0:15:31 | 0:15:34 | |
that means you serve in whatever guise without striking? | 0:15:34 | 0:15:36 | |
I certainly agree with my honourable friend and, in fact, | 0:15:36 | 0:15:38 | |
the legislation was introduced by the last Labour Government, | 0:15:38 | 0:15:40 | |
which is why I'm surprised that the Shadow Minister would not | 0:15:40 | 0:15:43 | |
condemn this unlawful strike action. | 0:15:43 | 0:15:44 | |
I've listened to the Minister carefully and earlier he said | 0:15:44 | 0:15:47 | |
he thought that this action was designed to disrupt safe | 0:15:47 | 0:15:49 | |
and decent running of prisons. | 0:15:49 | 0:15:50 | |
Does the Minister understand that the whole reason why prison | 0:15:50 | 0:15:53 | |
officers are withdrawing from these tasks is because we do not have | 0:15:53 | 0:15:56 | |
safe and decent prisons? | 0:15:56 | 0:15:57 | |
We have intolerable and dangerous prisons. | 0:15:57 | 0:15:58 | |
Prisons that I wouldn't want to work in and, I'm sure, | 0:15:58 | 0:16:01 | |
that the minister wouldn't either. | 0:16:01 | 0:16:02 | |
How the fight against organised crime will be tackled, once Britain | 0:16:02 | 0:16:05 | |
has left the EU, has been looked at by the Commons Brexit Committee. | 0:16:05 | 0:16:08 | |
David Armond, of the National Crime Agency, spoke about the importance | 0:16:08 | 0:16:10 | |
of cross-border police co-operation. | 0:16:10 | 0:16:15 | |
Being members of Schengen and having access to the Schengen information | 0:16:15 | 0:16:19 | |
system, that's linked to the Police National Computer. | 0:16:19 | 0:16:23 | |
So a policeman, on the streets in Birmingham, can stop a car, | 0:16:23 | 0:16:27 | |
do a check on it, find it's stolen in France and that the occupants | 0:16:27 | 0:16:30 | |
are wanted for serious offences. | 0:16:30 | 0:16:33 | |
Now that, in itself, is an amazing additional protection | 0:16:33 | 0:16:40 | |
for the UK and the access that we've obtained through Europol | 0:16:40 | 0:16:44 | |
and the influence that we excert through having a British director | 0:16:44 | 0:16:50 | |
who's implemented, since 2008, a whole load of systems that | 0:16:50 | 0:16:55 | |
are really British intelligence management systems, we would have | 0:16:55 | 0:16:57 | |
quite a steep hill to climb if we were to lose access | 0:16:57 | 0:17:00 | |
to all of them. | 0:17:00 | 0:17:09 | |
If you look at the EU agencies, for example, Europol | 0:17:09 | 0:17:11 | |
then there are a number | 0:17:11 | 0:17:13 | |
of countries with operational agreements with Europol, which I'm | 0:17:13 | 0:17:15 | |
sure is the least we would want - US, Australia, Canada, | 0:17:15 | 0:17:17 | |
I think Columbia, Norway and Switzerland - well, | 0:17:17 | 0:17:22 | |
those took between five to 12 years to negotiate. | 0:17:22 | 0:17:24 | |
On the other hand, if you look... | 0:17:24 | 0:17:26 | |
Five to 12 years? | 0:17:26 | 0:17:27 | |
Yes, I believe that's right. | 0:17:27 | 0:17:28 | |
Yeah. | 0:17:28 | 0:17:29 | |
On the other hand, if you look at Eurojust, | 0:17:29 | 0:17:31 | |
which is the prosecutorial co-ordination body, I believe the US | 0:17:31 | 0:17:34 | |
were a admitted to some sort of status within Eurojust | 0:17:34 | 0:17:36 | |
within about a year of 9/11. | 0:17:36 | 0:17:38 | |
There will be some great difficulty from the point | 0:17:38 | 0:17:40 | |
of view of data protection. | 0:17:40 | 0:17:41 | |
I think that is going to be the single biggest difficulty. | 0:17:41 | 0:17:43 | |
The challenge is not so much convincing the EU institutions | 0:17:43 | 0:17:46 | |
to go along with it, as I think it's quite right | 0:17:46 | 0:17:49 | |
to say that the ministers and the authorities are quite happy | 0:17:49 | 0:17:53 | |
to continue with the UK, co-operation with the UK, | 0:17:53 | 0:17:57 | |
but I think the problem is the activists who are going | 0:17:57 | 0:17:59 | |
to go to court and bring these legal challenges. | 0:17:59 | 0:18:01 | |
They can't easily be negotiated away because they're based | 0:18:01 | 0:18:04 | |
on the EU Charter of Rights. | 0:18:04 | 0:18:05 | |
Of course, as a primary law of the European Union, | 0:18:05 | 0:18:07 | |
it can't easily be negotiated away. | 0:18:07 | 0:18:10 | |
They're not going to agree an amendment to the charter | 0:18:10 | 0:18:12 | |
for the sake of a departing member state. | 0:18:12 | 0:18:15 | |
So that really is the biggest problem by far, | 0:18:15 | 0:18:17 | |
I think, in this area. | 0:18:17 | 0:18:21 | |
Meanwhile, the carmaker Nissan has repeated its request for there to be | 0:18:21 | 0:18:24 | |
"as little change as possible" when Britain leaves the EU. | 0:18:24 | 0:18:27 | |
Nissan's senior vice-president, Colin Lawther, told | 0:18:27 | 0:18:30 | |
the International Trade Committee that his company | 0:18:30 | 0:18:33 | |
wanted the UK to remain in the customs union. | 0:18:33 | 0:18:41 | |
You know, we made our position very clear that, before the Brexit vote, | 0:18:41 | 0:18:44 | |
that Nissan's position was, from a business point of view, | 0:18:44 | 0:18:46 | |
from assurity point of view, from a stability going forward, | 0:18:46 | 0:18:50 | |
remaining in the customs union was definitely the best - | 0:18:50 | 0:18:52 | |
And were you given any promises for the customs union? | 0:18:52 | 0:18:54 | |
From a... | 0:18:54 | 0:18:55 | |
No. | 0:18:55 | 0:18:59 | |
So Nissan's point before the vote was, clearly, | 0:18:59 | 0:19:01 | |
it is better for us to stay in. | 0:19:01 | 0:19:04 | |
However, even though we explained that to all of our staff, | 0:19:04 | 0:19:06 | |
we didn't take a political view. | 0:19:06 | 0:19:07 | |
So we said to our staff - look, you know, you guys have | 0:19:07 | 0:19:11 | |
to vote for yourselves and for your families, | 0:19:11 | 0:19:13 | |
so we didn't take a view. | 0:19:13 | 0:19:14 | |
So you're quite comfortable out with the customs union? | 0:19:14 | 0:19:16 | |
No, our position is the same as it was before the vote. | 0:19:16 | 0:19:19 | |
It would be better to stay in a status quo so that we have | 0:19:19 | 0:19:22 | |
assurity of business going forward. | 0:19:22 | 0:19:24 | |
So that would be the best outcome for us at the end | 0:19:24 | 0:19:27 | |
of the Brexit process, that we remain in a free-trade | 0:19:27 | 0:19:29 | |
agreement, we've got access to the customs union, | 0:19:29 | 0:19:31 | |
technology is harmonised across Europe. | 0:19:31 | 0:19:33 | |
So stay as we are is the ideal solution for Nissan. | 0:19:33 | 0:19:43 | |
We made a decision it was better to replace Qashqai in the UK | 0:19:49 | 0:19:53 | |
and bring a car from Japan and produce it in the UK. | 0:19:53 | 0:19:56 | |
So we have a base business situation which is based | 0:19:56 | 0:19:58 | |
on a set of circumstances. | 0:19:58 | 0:19:59 | |
As those circumstances change, and we won't wait until the end | 0:19:59 | 0:20:02 | |
of the process, we will continually review the decisions | 0:20:02 | 0:20:04 | |
that we take based on anything that materially changes. | 0:20:04 | 0:20:06 | |
So at the moment, we've got a set of circumstances that we're quite | 0:20:06 | 0:20:09 | |
happy with and we've made our decision and we'll honour | 0:20:09 | 0:20:12 | |
that decision and go forward. | 0:20:12 | 0:20:13 | |
But if anything materially changes, then we'd review constantly. | 0:20:13 | 0:20:15 | |
Now, motorists could be facing sizeable increases | 0:20:15 | 0:20:17 | |
in their insurance premiums following changes brought | 0:20:17 | 0:20:18 | |
in by the Government to personal injury compensation payments. | 0:20:18 | 0:20:21 | |
Young drivers have been warned that their annual car premiums | 0:20:21 | 0:20:23 | |
could rise by as much as ?1,000 a year. | 0:20:23 | 0:20:25 | |
Drivers aged over 65 could be facing paying an extra ?300 a year. | 0:20:25 | 0:20:35 | |
The compensation changes and the effect of them were raised | 0:20:36 | 0:20:38 | |
at a session of the Transport Committee. | 0:20:38 | 0:20:40 | |
Yesterday, the Justice Secretary announced a reduction in insurers | 0:20:40 | 0:20:42 | |
discount rates on compensation from 2.5% to minus 0.7%. | 0:20:42 | 0:20:48 | |
It's been reported that's going to have a very negative | 0:20:48 | 0:20:50 | |
impact on young drivers. | 0:20:50 | 0:20:52 | |
Can you tell us what that impact will be and what they can expect | 0:20:52 | 0:20:55 | |
to pay in the future? | 0:20:55 | 0:20:56 | |
Yes. | 0:20:56 | 0:20:59 | |
So that change is affecting the cost of paying out a large claim and | 0:20:59 | 0:21:03 | |
if you build a model of large claims cost, | 0:21:03 | 0:21:06 | |
the single biggest factor that's driving the higher large claim, | 0:21:06 | 0:21:09 | |
compared to other drivers, is age, and it's been widely reported by PwC | 0:21:09 | 0:21:14 | |
that young drivers, 18 to 22, would expect an ?1,000 increase | 0:21:14 | 0:21:21 | |
in their premium, just from a single stroke of the Lord Chancellor's | 0:21:21 | 0:21:24 | |
pen. | 0:21:24 | 0:21:25 | |
?1,000. | 0:21:25 | 0:21:27 | |
So of the people paying ?4,000, you're saying that | 0:21:27 | 0:21:29 | |
could go up to ?5,000? | 0:21:29 | 0:21:30 | |
That was the estimate made by PwC. | 0:21:30 | 0:21:32 | |
So, yes. | 0:21:32 | 0:21:33 | |
Do you think that's acceptable? | 0:21:33 | 0:21:34 | |
Isn't this going beyond the bounds of reasonableness? | 0:21:34 | 0:21:36 | |
Can I take that? | 0:21:36 | 0:21:39 | |
Yes, please, do. | 0:21:39 | 0:21:41 | |
The Lord Chancellor's decision yesterday is absolute madness. | 0:21:41 | 0:21:47 | |
As you have rightly pointed out, it will add significant cost | 0:21:47 | 0:21:56 | |
to the cost of the young driver's car insurance premiums. | 0:21:56 | 0:21:59 | |
As Simon's articulated, the PwC estimate was around ?1,000. | 0:21:59 | 0:22:02 | |
It's really important that this group of MPs, | 0:22:02 | 0:22:09 | |
and I would urge you to grasp this issue and make it very clear | 0:22:09 | 0:22:12 | |
to the Lord Chancellor the significant impact that this | 0:22:12 | 0:22:15 | |
is going to have on young drivers. | 0:22:15 | 0:22:19 | |
You've got a petition of 180,000 people who indicated their concern | 0:22:19 | 0:22:25 | |
at the cost of car insurance, I think all of the market estimates | 0:22:25 | 0:22:35 | |
that have been put out over the last 24-hours, would indicate | 0:22:40 | 0:22:42 | |
that the Lord Chancellor's decision yesterday is going | 0:22:42 | 0:22:44 | |
to make car insurance for young drivers skyrocket. | 0:22:44 | 0:22:46 | |
Now, we could possibly describe them as something | 0:22:46 | 0:22:48 | |
of a Westminster dynasty. | 0:22:48 | 0:22:49 | |
A member of the latest generation of the Hogg family, Charlotte Hogg, | 0:22:49 | 0:22:52 | |
has just been appointed a Bank of England deputy governor. | 0:22:52 | 0:22:55 | |
Her father was the former Agriculture Minister, | 0:22:55 | 0:22:56 | |
Douglas Hogg, now Lord Hailsham. | 0:22:56 | 0:22:57 | |
Her mother, Sarah Hogg, was a Downing Street | 0:22:57 | 0:22:59 | |
adviser to John Major. | 0:22:59 | 0:23:00 | |
And her grandfather, the previous Lord Hailsham, | 0:23:00 | 0:23:02 | |
was Lord Chancellor. | 0:23:02 | 0:23:05 | |
At the Commons Treasury Committee, Charlotte Hogg, who's an economist, | 0:23:05 | 0:23:07 | |
was asked about her suitability to serve on the Bank of England's | 0:23:07 | 0:23:10 | |
Monetary Policy Committee or MPC. | 0:23:10 | 0:23:17 | |
Have you ever had a job which requires you to think | 0:23:21 | 0:23:24 | |
through how the MPC is arriving at its decisions? | 0:23:24 | 0:23:26 | |
Well, when you make, both in the credit card business | 0:23:26 | 0:23:33 | |
and in the retail banking business, you're constantly making | 0:23:33 | 0:23:35 | |
pricing decisions. | 0:23:35 | 0:23:36 | |
What price shall we set on mortgages? | 0:23:36 | 0:23:38 | |
what price should we set on credit cards? | 0:23:38 | 0:23:40 | |
What's the right rate for our savings products? | 0:23:40 | 0:23:41 | |
And all of those factor in a range of things, | 0:23:41 | 0:23:44 | |
including what the interest rate is going to be and how we're going | 0:23:44 | 0:23:47 | |
to fund ourselves as a bank as well. | 0:23:47 | 0:23:57 | |
The reason that I ask that question, is it the majority of people | 0:23:58 | 0:24:01 | |
who gravitate to the MPC job are people who have done that? | 0:24:01 | 0:24:04 | |
That's right. | 0:24:04 | 0:24:05 | |
And have been thinking professionally for a long time | 0:24:05 | 0:24:07 | |
about that factors that go to make those decisions. | 0:24:07 | 0:24:09 | |
You haven't got that experience? | 0:24:09 | 0:24:11 | |
I don't and I think it's a plus because the MPC is made up, | 0:24:11 | 0:24:14 | |
as we know, of nine people, all with independent votes, | 0:24:14 | 0:24:16 | |
and everything one learns about decision-making, | 0:24:16 | 0:24:20 | |
is you want a difference of views and a difference of experience | 0:24:20 | 0:24:23 | |
coming into this decision... | 0:24:23 | 0:24:24 | |
So we can look to you to break down groupthink? | 0:24:24 | 0:24:26 | |
I think groupthink is not alive and well at the bank anyway, | 0:24:26 | 0:24:29 | |
but I think it certainly helps to have a different set of cognitive | 0:24:29 | 0:24:32 | |
experiences and a different set of careers serving the same | 0:24:32 | 0:24:38 | |
objective and the same mission. | 0:24:38 | 0:24:40 | |
Charlotte Hogg. | 0:24:40 | 0:24:41 | |
Finally, it's been Shrove Tuesday. | 0:24:41 | 0:24:42 | |
And, yes, the annual Pancake Race alongside the Palace of Westminster | 0:24:42 | 0:24:44 | |
has been taking place. | 0:24:45 | 0:24:51 | |
This year it was a keenly fought contest between MPs, | 0:24:51 | 0:24:55 | |
peers and the Westminster press. | 0:24:55 | 0:25:01 | |
3-2-1 | 0:25:01 | 0:25:01 | |
3-2-1 - | 0:25:01 | 0:25:01 | |
3-2-1 - GO! | 0:25:01 | 0:25:04 | |
The race was a relay around 10 laps of part of Victoria Tower Gardens. | 0:25:04 | 0:25:10 | |
It was all in aid of the disability charity, Rehab. | 0:25:10 | 0:25:15 | |
And the winner was... | 0:25:15 | 0:25:16 | |
I hope I get it right. | 0:25:16 | 0:25:19 | |
..a decisive win for the MPs. | 0:25:19 | 0:25:28 | |
CHEERING | 0:25:29 | 0:25:30 | |
Naturally enough, there were scenes of wild delight | 0:25:30 | 0:25:32 | |
at the finishing post. | 0:25:32 | 0:25:33 | |
And, no, I'm not going to say that's the end of this flipping programme! | 0:25:33 | 0:25:36 | |
But do join me again for our next daily round-up. | 0:25:36 | 0:25:39 | |
Until then, from me, Keith Macdougall, goodbye. | 0:25:39 | 0:25:43 |