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Now MPs are campaigning on behalf of hundreds of families

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I've seen cases where people have tried for days and days on end

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and not managed to get through, and it's constantly busy or you're

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on hold for many minutes, many hours.

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I spent 59 phone calls yesterday trying to get through,

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and it took me an hour and four minutes to get through after I got

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If I alone have been contacted by hundreds of women,

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then MPs across the country will have been contacted

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Another MP raised in the House today that 12% of their caseload

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This is clearly a massive issue right across the country.

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HMRC said payments to Concentrix are based on the quality

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and accuracy of their work and they will not be paid

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Concentrix itself said re-evaluating tax credit claims can be difficult,

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but they adopt a rigorous process at every stage.

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But in the meantime, many families claim they are struggling

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I have got ?20 last me two weeks, as of yesterday.

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To feed me and my daughter and for the bills that I'm supposed

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We asked HMRC for a statement. They told us this:

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We can talk now to Sophie Bonner, who runs a group for people fighting

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Concentrix decisions, and Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh,

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an SNP MP who says that half of her case load in the last few

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weeks has been from people who say they've had their tax credits

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Welcome both of you. Sophie, first of all, you set-up this groupment

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the Treasury say since October -- group. The Treasury say since

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October there were only 120 cases were mistakes were made? Last night

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I ran a poll within our group to see if that was correct. I had in

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response 250 people that have come forward. I have added up a total of

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what the HMRC are saying they have overpaid and it is ?1.3 million has

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now been incorrectly paid out to people because of a decision made by

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Concentrix. Which means they are expecting ?1.3 million back from

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people on the lowest incomes? That's correct. Who you are saying it is a

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giant mistake? Yes, we can only go on what people tell us. But from the

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conversations we have been having with these people, we cannot see any

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reason why they have been told that they have been claiming incorrectly

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based on the documents they could have shown us or what they have told

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us they have sent in and their own circumstances. Tell us about some of

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the constituent stories that are come to you? It is clear that

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Concentrix are not following due process and 50% of my cases have

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been from people who have had issues with Concentrix and the last five

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cases out of which three had to go to foodbanks. One of the foodbanks

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was set-up by one of my constituents and he has found himself having to

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seek help from because he was accused, it is on the bass Is that

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you're guilty and you have to have prove your innocence. On the basis

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that he was living with someone. But it is the case that that person was

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a previous tenant at that property, now living somewhere else and

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claiming tax credits in their own right. So there are clearly issues

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and when asked to provide this information and it is a year back

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you have to go in terms of providing the information, it is subsequently

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lost and there is a backlog because there are so many issues people will

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be told it will be six to eight weeks until the paperwork is

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processed. Now we are talking about people who are in hardship, they are

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receiving tax credits to supplement an already low income and it is

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causing terrible, terrible distress to people. Therefore, we need to

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have some action immediately. What needs to happen and quick? We

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believe the best thang that could happen is for Concentrix not to open

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any new cases. Clear the backlog. Close down their postal room because

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there is just documents everywhere. Get themselves to a point where they

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are starting a fresh almost and not open so many cases in one go. They

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clearly cannot cope with their workload. You say you've written to

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the Chancellor. HMRC tell us when Concentrix make a mistake, they

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won't be paid, it is payment by results S that enough? How does that

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help people on a daily basis trying to survive and make ends meet? We

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have heard this morning through your programme people who don't know how

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they are going to make ends meet over the next couple of weeks. That

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offers them no help at allment we need to see action. Your suggestion

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is a good one, I wrote to the chancellor on 30th August about

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general complaints and recently in terms of a specific case study and

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we will use every tool available to us via Parliamentary process to make

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sure the Government answers these key questions.

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Thank you very much. Thank you for coming on the programme.

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This story was sent to us by Susannah on Facebook,

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wanted to come out, I thought we will see how it goes and went three

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hours later we were still out, I was just like oh my god.

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The film has reached over 23 million people! If you have got a story, do

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send it to us. Next, should taking cannabis

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for medical reasons be made legal? That's what a group of politicians

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from all political They say there is clear evidence

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cannabis could have a therapeutic role for some conditions,

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including chronic pain and anxiety and that tens of thousands of people

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in the UK already break the law Those who do take it

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in lots of different ways - by smoking it, eating it,

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in capsules, using cannabis oil in a vaporiser, or even

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cannabis skin creams. role for some conditions,

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including chronic pain and anxiety We can talk now to Faye Jones,

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who buys cannabis from a street dealer, and then makes her own

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cannabis capsules and creams Lara Smith who travels to Holland

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to buy a cannabis product Chip Somers is a former drug addict

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and ex-offender who now runs a charity providing treatment

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for alcohol and substance misuse, and advises the Government

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on drug rehabilitation. And Baroness Meacher who leads

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the all-party parliamentary group for drug reform

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who released the report today. Welcome all of you. Fay, you were

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diagnosed with arthritis at just 27 and actually, there are drugs that

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treat that. So why are you using cannabis? There are lots of

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different drugs that treat that. Most of them are actually cancer,

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chemotherapy drugs that are given out as a low dose. Whereas a cancer

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patient might be looking at a course of treatment on drugs that have

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rather unpleasant side-effects I was being asked to put a needle in my

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leg once a week every week and experience the side-effects on a

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weekly basis for the rest of my life with no chance of reprieve from

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that. They were making me gnaw shoulds, causing me problems at

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work, things were falling through the cracks, I was about to lose my

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job because of the side-effects of the drugs and I had to find

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something else. How did you stumble upon cannabis? I first approached

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cannabis as to deal with the nausea of the chemotherapy drugs, when I

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looked into it more, it could be used to suppress my immune system

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and so I moved into it from there. How does cannabis help you? So it is

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a pain reliever, that's probably the worst kept history in the history of

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drug folklore. It is an anti-inflammatory and my immune

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system is attacking my joints. How do you take it? Lots of different

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ways. I use the skin creams that you mentioned. They are good for joint

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specific pain. You make that up yourself? Yes. If I have more all

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over pain then I will vapourise herbal cannabis or oil cannabis. I

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have the capsules where if I am in a place where it is not appropriate

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and he hadables, sweets. Lara tell us about your condition? I have got

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osteoarthritis and last year I had to have two disks taken out of my

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neck and I don't know if you can see the tremor I have got in my hand. It

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makes life difficult, writing, doing up buttons, but one of the things it

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does it helped for me, it helps alleviate the pain. It does help

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alleviate the tremor. With my cannabis based medicine it does

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alleviate it an awful lot. The hardest thing is that when I look up

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and down and left and right, I experience electric shocks into all

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four limbs. It is common to MS and it is exceptionally painful. It

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feels like you've got a scatter bomb of nails going off into your body.

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What does cannabis do? It helps lessen it. It helps dampen it down

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so, yes, I get the odd breakthrough one, but it just helps dampen down

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the severity of it. So you're both breaking the law? As far as I'm

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concerned I'm not, not. I am prescribed a medicine. It is a

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schedule two medicine. The active ingredient in cannabis was allowed

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for medicinal use. But a lot of people are having to access the

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legal market, which I don't feel they should do, people should have

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access to prescribed medicines so it is safe. OK. Explain to our audience

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what you want to change? We want the Government to follow Germany in

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particular. Germany are just having a law going through their Parliament

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to legalise cannabis only for medicinal use for 60 conditions.

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There is a list of 60 conditions for which cannabis is recognised by

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Germany as being important as a medicine and that cannabis, in

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Germany and we would want this here as well, is produced by licensed

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suppliers. It is sold by licensed outlets, presumably pharmacies so we

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want the whole thing utterly controlled by regulations. We don't

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want cannabis leaking into the recreational market and where this

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has happened, where countries and States and of course, 11 countries

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in Europe, 24 States in the US and lots of other countries have

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legalised cannabis for medical use, apparently there isn't much of a

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problem of leakage into the recreational market. You mentioned

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the US States. One newspaper, The Daily Mail is reporting that your

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report has been partly funded by the US billionaire George Sorres? He is

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a more radical drug policy person that a lot of other people. How can

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your report be seen to be independent if it is funded by a man

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who wants cannabis to be legalised? The report isn't funded by him. He

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funds my research officer, but the MPs and peers are not funded by

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anybody, of course. We're just MPs and peers. We have no funding from

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anywhere at all and we are responsible for the report. We

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undertook the inquiry. We are issuing the report and we are, we

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MPs, and peers, not funded by anybody, independent people, are

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calling on the Government to change a law which has been there for 45

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years because it is irrational and it is cruel and it is causing people

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like these two to suffer unnecessarily or to risk being

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arrested which I think is terrible. Lara is different. She does import

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her's. Chip, irrational cruel and people being criminalised? I have

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sympathy for people like Fay who have conditions like that. I'm

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amazed it has taken politicians and the powers at be to come to the

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conclusion that cannabis has therapeutic properties. It relaxes

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you and puts you into a euphoric state, it is going to make you feel

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a little bit better. I'm going to pause you Chip. As Lara says, if you

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are suffering profound pain, all cannabis does is to bring you up to

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something more of a normal level of mental state. Very, very important

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point... It is a pain management. People are not looking to be high.

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OK. You have said it. You're surprised it has taken this long to

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get to this point, but what's your objection to it being legalised for

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medicinal purposes? The parameters for prescribing it

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has become wider and wider, so people with almost spurious

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conditions have been prescribed it for general usage. What would you

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consider a spurious condition? I am prepared to admit that there is a

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benefit of smoking cannabis, because it will make you feel more relaxed.

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You do not have to smoke it, you pay price it, it is far healthier. Or

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take it as you would a normal painkiller. There are thousands and

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thousands of parents today who are spending their time worrying about

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their children who are using cannabis day by day and not doing

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anything with their lives. We are spending far too much time worrying

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about little things like this while the entire drugs market... The

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services for drugs problems are appalling the moment. It does not

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have a medicinal benefit that would improve a condition. That is an

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outright lie. I have three angry women hail. We have a report looking

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at 20,000 studies across the world showing without any doubt whatsoever

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that cannabis has medicinal value is a pain reliever, controlling

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insomnia, nausea, anxiety. You will be challenging the academics who are

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knowledgeable on this issue on the basis of no evidence at all against

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what the professor is saying, and we have patients expressing their

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experiences. Final word? This will be a difficult thing to put into

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place, it will cause all kinds of problems with how people carry on

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their daily lives, things like driving while under the influence,

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whether it is legal or not, that becomes a massive problem, it is not

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able to be controlled. I already use it, the law is not going to stop me,

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so how is making me a criminal and forcing me to go to the black market

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and possibly purchasing poor quality medicine going to help me? Just

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because people do something does not give it reason to make it legal. A

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lot of people speed their cars, we do not make it legal. We put in

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place controls to stop people doing things that are harmful to them.

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Cannabis misused is affecting thousands and thousands of families

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today, and they are getting no help at all. I know you have loads more

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to say, we will come back to it. He is an addiction expert, he is not a

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doctor, he has no qualification to see if there is medical efficacy for

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conditions like ours. He is an adviser to the Government. That is

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worrying. The ceasefire in Syria appears to

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have held for its first night, can it last for seven days? We will talk

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to Syrians in the UK. With the news, here's Joanna

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in the BBC Newsroom. Hundreds of people are claiming

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that they have had their tax credits incorrectly stopped after a firm

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used by HMRC wrongly assessed them. The US firm Concentrix

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is used to cut tax-credit But this programme has found that

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in one case a 19-year-old mum had her child tax credits stopped

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after she was accused of being And then they goes, "Well,

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you still need to get him And I goes, "Well, Heaven

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doesn't have opening hours, so what do you want me

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to do about that?" One politician on the Work and

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Pensions Secretary said Concentrix was falling far short of

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expectations. I will be consulting

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with my colleagues on the Work and Pensions Select Committee,

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and I've got a feeling that we'll be bringing Concentrix in for a very

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serious investigation. A 61-year-old man was arrested in

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west London by the counterterrorism command yesterday afternoon.

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Scotland Yard say he is being held on suspicion of possessing an

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article for a purpose connected with the commission, preparation or

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instigation of an act of terrorism. Soldiers will still begin and a

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controversial antimalarial drug come despite a call from MPs for it to

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only be used as a last resort. Hundreds of British troops say they

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have experienced side effects from Lariam, including severe depression.

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The MoD says it will only be prescribed after a detailed medical

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checkup. The chair of the select committee says that is better late

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than never. They are doing something which they

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should have done all along, but there are many other aspects to

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this. Namely their persistence in still wishing to prescribe it at all

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when, as far as we can see, there is still a debate to be had about

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whether there are any circumstances under which you could not get an

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alternative with less risk. The BBC says it could not afford to

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keep The Great British Bake Off, which is moving to Channel 4 next

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year. It is believed the BBC offered ?15 million for the next series, but

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the show's makers reportedly wanted 25 million. The programme rose from

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humble beginnings to prime time on BBC One, and made Mary Berry and

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Paul Hollywood household names, but it is not yet clear whether they

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will move with the show. Last year's final was the most watched show of

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2015, with 15.1 million viewers. Join me for BBC

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Newsroom Live at 11am. More comments on child tax credits

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and working tax credits, so many of you have had your credits stopped by

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Concentrix will stop once week, I am a victim, they accused me of being

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married to my own brother. This tweet, my brother lives in housing

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association accommodation, he had his tax credits stopped and was told

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it was because he did not declare he owned his own home. Unbelievable.

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It was a golden night in the pool for Great Britain

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There were three gold medals in the space of 40

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minutes as Sascha Kindred, Susie Rodgers and Ellie Simmonds

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all won their respective finals, helping bring ParalympicsGB's medal

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In the Premier League, Sunderland's poor start

:22:15.:22:19.

They're still without a win after being thrashed

:22:20.:22:22.

Romelu Lukaku scored all of his side's goals as Everton

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The Champions League is back tonight.

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Pep Guardiola's Manchester City side take on Borussia Monchengladbach,

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hoping to continue their good start to the season.

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Arsenal and Celtic are also in action.

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And, Tyson Fury missed his own press conference to promote his rematch

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His team said bad traffic, then a car breakdown

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His opponent said he wasn't surprised, claiming it's just one

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of several ridiculous moves from the Fury camp.

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That is all this board for now, more across the BBC News Channel through

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the day. A ceasefire which has come

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into effect in Syria What is the latest? As you say, it

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appears to be holding. Still some reports of skirmishes in different

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parts of the country, but people living in Italy and Aleppo and these

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parts which have seen severe bombardment in recent days, they

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have reported their first quiet night for months. The US and Russia,

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who brokered the deal, expected there would be skirmishes over these

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days, but they are hoping that things can die down so that you when

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aid agencies can get in. 600,000 people are living in besieged part

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of Syria, places where they can't get any food, water, electricity,

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and so aid agencies are waiting on the border in Turkey to get this aid

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into those areas. They say they can't do it until rebels are totally

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on board with the ceasefire agreement. They have not signalled

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that they totally are. It all comes down to the fact that under this

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agreement the Syrian Government is still allowed to target who it calls

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terrorists inside Syria. That goes to the crux of the debate. Who's

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definition of using when we talk about terrorists? The Syrian

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Government's or the US'? Until that kind of debate can be sorted and the

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skirmishes can totally die down, it will not be time yet to get that all

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important humanitarian aid into Syria.

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We can also talk to some Syrian residents here in the UK,

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Mohammed Isreb, who welcomes the ceasefire effort,

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Why do you not? Can you repeat, please? Tell us why you don't

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welcome the ceasefire. Welcoming the ceasefire? I can't hear. Did you

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think the ceasefire is a good idea? Of course. If it happens for one

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day, it will cede's saved between 50 and 100 lives, so I support this

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step, and I hope the conversations between secular froth and John Kerry

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and the EU go well, and they apply this step to save lives. That is all

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we need now and Aleppo and Syria. You have got relatives in various

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places in Syria. What are you picking up about whether they say

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the ceasefire is holding? Apparently since the first few hours of

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implementing it there was a violation by Bashar al-Assad's

:26:06.:26:12.

regime. There was some bombing on the eastern side of a let go. The

:26:13.:26:18.

rebel held side. Bombs thrown there. The same in the western suburb of

:26:19.:26:25.

Damascus. There are reports of bombs being thrown there, hours after the

:26:26.:26:29.

ceasefire was fermented. The problem with this ceasefire is similar to

:26:30.:26:34.

all previous ones, there is no mechanism to enforce it ought to

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monitor it. Assad has no consequences if he violated, and

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that is why we see these violations. What did your relatives say? What

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has it been like living in Aleppo? The situation is miserable and

:26:54.:26:58.

horrible. They are not living like any other human beings. There is no

:26:59.:27:05.

water or electricity or telephones or enough food. They are suffering a

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lot. The problem is they can't leave because there is no money, there are

:27:12.:27:15.

no jobs. Every time we talk together, they say it might be the

:27:16.:27:22.

last call and the last conversation, please don't forget us, and forgive

:27:23.:27:30.

us. That sort of thing. The situation is so miserable. We feel

:27:31.:27:35.

sad, we are trying to do anything just to help the Syrian people and

:27:36.:27:43.

the people in Aleppo with the air strikes all the time and bombings.

:27:44.:27:47.

We hope this political transition goes well and the ceasefire happens,

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so the people can live. It is as simple as that. But it is not simple

:27:57.:28:03.

in any shape or form. Let's imagine this holds for seven days, let's

:28:04.:28:07.

hope it does, then what do you want to see happen? We would love to see

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the ceasefire holds for seven days, and then get a meaningful position

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-- political transition, but there is no sign of it happening. It will

:28:20.:28:27.

last. There is no enforcement. What we need is what we have seen the

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income entered, the US and forced the Concentrix regime not to attack

:28:34.:28:40.

a city, and the regime withdrew their forces. We need something

:28:41.:28:46.

similar to say, if you violate the ceasefire, he bombed civilian areas,

:28:47.:28:51.

we will retaliate against that. If we don't do that, there will not be

:28:52.:28:55.

any meaningful reason. What did you mean? Bombing back areas like the

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forces... If you bomb Assad, we will bomb you. That is for both sides.

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That will make the ceasefire hold its place. The trouble with that,

:29:15.:29:20.

there are no incentives for Assad to stop that. The policy he is going

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with, bombing civilians, seizing some of the areas, starving them to

:29:28.:29:30.

death, it is working for him, so why would he change.

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Thank you very much to those of you who have sent in pictures of Roald

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Dahl this. Is because it is the 100th anniversary of Mr Dahl's birth

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and schools are forcing their children to go in today dressed as

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various characters. Rachel Hill sent this. This is Ben. Guess what he is

:30:14.:30:22.

dressed as? He is dressed as a Willie Wonka chocolate bar.

:30:23.:30:26.

Relatively simple to make. I don't want to under estimate how long you

:30:27.:30:31.

spent on that box. Well done to you. You've got Julie Davis, that's

:30:32.:30:39.

Harley-Joe, he is dressed as Fantastic Mr Foxment superb. I love

:30:40.:30:47.

the waistcoat. This is five-year-old Lara as another Fantastic Mr Fox,

:30:48.:30:52.

brilliant. We've got three-year-old Erin who is dressed as Willie Wonka,

:30:53.:30:59.

now that's gorgeous. Did you make that or buy that from a fancy dress

:31:00.:31:04.

shop? I'm not knocking it. Sometimes you have to buy that stuff, don't

:31:05.:31:08.

you? A, it is quicker and you can get them cheap on various websites.

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We have Leona who is ten. She is from Gosport and she is Vie owe let,

:31:15.:31:22.

of course. Another Charlie In The Chocolate Factory. This is Ben and

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Sam dressed as Fantastic Mr Foxes. There are kids up and down the

:31:29.:31:34.

country doing this. My son loved it this morning, he was Matilda's dad.

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This is seven-year-old Faith. When I said earlier I bet you ?100 that 98%

:31:40.:31:48.

of the girls go dressed as Matilda, I was wrong. I owe you ?100.

:31:49.:31:54.

Disgraced US swimmer Ryan Lochte says he feels "a little hurt"

:31:55.:31:57.

after being ambushed by protesters on his debut on the TV show

:31:58.:32:00.

Two men were arrested after they rushed on stage

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while Lochte was getting his scores from the judges.

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What you bring to this ballroom is all we want to see,

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and I really do feel that you brought your best

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Off, off!

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We'll take a break, we'll get the rest of the judges' comments.

:32:24.:32:33.

Take a deep breath, we'll be right back.

:32:34.:32:46.

Radio 1 Newsbeat's Sinead Garvan is here.

:32:47.:32:58.

At the end of their routine, gathered getting feedback from the

:32:59.:33:05.

judges, if you watch Strictly Come Dancing, that bit. The judge started

:33:06.:33:10.

shouting, "Get off." They cut to a break, but one of his swimming

:33:11.:33:15.

team-mates was actually in the crowd and he is filming it on his phone.

:33:16.:33:19.

He put it on Instagram and you can see two guys on the floor and they

:33:20.:33:22.

have got five security guards on top of them. Then he pans around and he

:33:23.:33:27.

sees a row of women in white T-shirts and they have got the word,

:33:28.:33:35.

"?Lochte Written on the T-shirt and a stop sign. You're seeing it now.

:33:36.:33:38.

It appears to be a protest about Ryan Lochte being on the show. Of

:33:39.:33:43.

course, he is famous for the scandal in Rio where he over exaggerated the

:33:44.:33:49.

claims of being robbed by gun point with his team-mates as he is for

:33:50.:33:52.

being an Olympic swimmer and there is a lot of people in America who

:33:53.:33:56.

aren't pleased that he is on this show. Just a short time after it all

:33:57.:34:00.

happened. Many people think he should have laid low a little bit

:34:01.:34:04.

rather than being on a show that pays a lot of money and it is the

:34:05.:34:07.

biggest show in America as well. I wonder if they asked him before the

:34:08.:34:13.

incident in Rio or after? They did. You wonder why they didn't change

:34:14.:34:17.

their mind? What else did Lochte say about what happened? He hasn't said

:34:18.:34:21.

much, just they asked him on stage how did he feel after they came back

:34:22.:34:27.

from the break and he said he felt a bit hurt by it. He said, "I wanted

:34:28.:34:34.

to come out here. There is lots of feelings going through my head right

:34:35.:34:36.

now. I want to do something I'm not comfortable with and I did." He said

:34:37.:34:42.

before the routine that he wanted to prove to the world that I've

:34:43.:34:46.

changed, but post that, he has not said anything. The judges were

:34:47.:34:49.

encouraging towards him and they are like, "You're here to dance." I

:34:50.:34:53.

don't think he is the greatest dancer is what we have seen from the

:34:54.:34:58.

show so far, but Len Goodman who has been over here on Strictly, he was

:34:59.:35:03.

like, "Keep dancing. That's what you're here for." It is a public

:35:04.:35:09.

vote, is it? If people don't want him on, they can vote him out ASAP?

:35:10.:35:14.

The feeling on Twitter after it. Some people are saying, as I said

:35:15.:35:18.

before, why is he on this? A lot of other people are going, "Well, you

:35:19.:35:22.

know, he got his ten month ban from swimming. He has got the big fine.

:35:23.:35:27.

Now, let him get on with it and prove that people make mistakes and

:35:28.:35:32.

we should be more forgiving." And his penance is going on a dancing

:35:33.:35:35.

show. Thank you very much, Sinead, cheers.

:35:36.:35:42.

Hundreds of people are having their tax credits stopped by a firm used

:35:43.:35:51.

by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, HMRC and the cases we have

:35:52.:35:56.

heard, a 19-year-old mum who had her child tax credits stopped wrongly

:35:57.:36:00.

after they thought she was married to a 74-year-old man she never met.

:36:01.:36:03.

A single mum of three, who is accused of living with a man who has

:36:04.:36:07.

been living in the States for the last three years. A woman who is

:36:08.:36:11.

accused of being in a relationship with her gay brother-in-law and a

:36:12.:36:15.

woman accused of being married to her own brother!

:36:16.:36:19.

In response to our story HMRC stold us the firm will not be paid if

:36:20.:36:24.

decision they maim about claimants are wrongment here is another

:36:25.:36:29.

woman's story. I've lost ?64 and that goes on my son, nappies, wipes,

:36:30.:36:34.

food, gas and electric and whatever he will he may need. Basically, they

:36:35.:36:40.

were accusing me of being married to a 74-year-old bloke that used to

:36:41.:36:46.

live here. Way before I did and saying it is normal thing for my

:36:47.:36:50.

kind of age and it is my sort of behaviour. 74? He was 74. But you're

:36:51.:36:57.

only... 19. They seriously thought you were married to a 74-year-old?

:36:58.:37:01.

They thought I was living with him and they state that had I was

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married to him. They didn't say he was my partner, they said married to

:37:06.:37:09.

him. When I spoke to the council, they said he was deceased and died

:37:10.:37:14.

on the 15th July 2016. They goes, "Well, you still need to get him to

:37:15.:37:19.

make contact with us." I goes, "Heaven doesn't have opening hours,

:37:20.:37:22.

so what do you want me to do about that?" I spent 59 phone calls trying

:37:23.:37:27.

to get through. It took me an hour and four minutes to get through

:37:28.:37:31.

after I got past the line busy section. I haven't been paid for

:37:32.:37:35.

three weeks from my child tax which helped me with food so I could

:37:36.:37:40.

actually provide for my child. I'm now relying on everybody else to

:37:41.:37:43.

provide for me which isn't right. This is what I've got left which I

:37:44.:37:49.

can't really make mealses with that. The most I can make out of that is a

:37:50.:37:55.

sandwich. So many viewers got in touch including Robin in

:37:56.:37:57.

Gloucestershire who says she was accused of being married to her own

:37:58.:38:04.

brother! She was claiming child tax credits and working tax credits and

:38:05.:38:07.

Michelle says she was accused of living with a woman who was

:38:08.:38:10.

previously a tenant in her property and Lisa who is a single mum in

:38:11.:38:14.

Belfast. She says her child tax credits were stopped because they

:38:15.:38:16.

thought she was living with someone who she has been legally separated

:38:17.:38:21.

from for five years. Wow. Right, we have only got a few minutes ladies.

:38:22.:38:24.

Thank you very much for coming on the programme. Robin, what do you

:38:25.:38:30.

think of this? It is a joke really. It is a joke. You can laugh at some

:38:31.:38:35.

of these things except it is putting you into serious financial hardship?

:38:36.:38:40.

It definitely is. I have lost my child tax credits and working tax

:38:41.:38:45.

credits which is the bulk of what I get each month. And how much are you

:38:46.:38:49.

down by as a result of their mistakes? A little over ?600. A

:38:50.:38:53.

month? Yeah. Wow. That's astonishing. Michelle, hi. Thank you

:38:54.:38:58.

for coming on the programme. Apparently you're going out with a

:38:59.:39:01.

woman who used to be a tenant, is that right? Yes, that's correct.

:39:02.:39:05.

What do you say to HMRC and Concentrix? I can't swear live on

:39:06.:39:11.

TV, can I? Please don't. Thank you for giving us the sentiment. It is a

:39:12.:39:16.

joke. It made our lives hard work. They accused me of living with

:39:17.:39:20.

another lady. I sent the documents back in June. They lost the

:39:21.:39:24.

documents. So again, I have had to send documents two weeks ago. I have

:39:25.:39:27.

had no money for two weeks now. I have had to go to a foodbank. It is

:39:28.:39:31.

just hard. It is really hard. It certainly is. Lisa, hi, thank you

:39:32.:39:34.

for coming on. What do you think about this and the effect it is

:39:35.:39:38.

having on you and your family? It is a disgrace. I mean whatever happened

:39:39.:39:43.

to innocent until proven guilty? They're telling us that we're living

:39:44.:39:47.

with people, even though they don't have proof, you know, where is the

:39:48.:39:54.

proof that we are? I'd love to know where they are getting their

:39:55.:39:59.

documentation from? It is crazy. I mean, you sign declarations and all

:40:00.:40:03.

stating that you're a single parent, you're living on your own, but yet

:40:04.:40:07.

that's still not good enough. I mean you're giving your word, you know, I

:40:08.:40:11.

just don't know what else you're supposed to do. I mean it is just

:40:12.:40:16.

really putting people in difficult situations because of this my

:40:17.:40:19.

housing benefit could be stopped as well which means that my tenancy

:40:20.:40:26.

could be affected. Presumably all of you agree with the principle that it

:40:27.:40:31.

is all right actually to clamp down on fraud when it is genuine fraud,

:40:32.:40:38.

but in your cases, they seem to be totally genuine claims, Robin? Yeah.

:40:39.:40:44.

You can understand that they want to protect their interests, but he is

:40:45.:40:51.

my brother! Yeah. Not good. Right, what is your message, Michel to

:40:52.:40:55.

first of all the private firm from the States, Concentrix, and then

:40:56.:40:59.

HMRC who are employing Concentrix? Just, yeah, we understand you need

:41:00.:41:03.

to investigate, but at least, we need some money to live off. If they

:41:04.:41:06.

need to investigate, it is fair enough, but we're not getting any

:41:07.:41:10.

income or any help from anyone. So please just help us. They need to

:41:11.:41:15.

sort the backlog out that they have got. They are not giving time scales

:41:16.:41:21.

so we are just expected to live off nothing. They need to sort the

:41:22.:41:25.

backlog out and have proof before they do this to people. What would

:41:26.:41:29.

you say to people? I just think it is a disgrace, you know, even trying

:41:30.:41:33.

to contact them on the phone. I isn't a photo through to yourselves,

:41:34.:41:39.

122 times I rang last week before I was able to speak to someone. Did

:41:40.:41:45.

you? 122 times in one day and they asked me to ring back with the

:41:46.:41:48.

tracking number because I sent it recorded delivery. I style haven't

:41:49.:41:52.

been able to reach them. That was two days ago. OK. Well, thank you

:41:53.:41:59.

very much, Lee is a in Belfast, Michelle in Bolton and Robin in

:42:00.:42:01.

Gloucestershire. I appreciate your time. There is so many of our

:42:02.:42:08.

audience in the same boat as you, I know that's no consolation, but we

:42:09.:42:15.

will follow this story and try and get Concentrix and HMRC. I have no

:42:16.:42:19.

idea if we will get through, but we will keep trying. Keep sending us

:42:20.:42:21.

your stories. On the programme tomorrow,

:42:22.:42:25.

we really will bring you that in-depth interview

:42:26.:42:27.

with Julie Walters we What she thinks of post Brexit

:42:28.:42:38.

Britain and what she thinks of the new Prime Minister and what she

:42:39.:42:41.

thinks of Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith. Join us tomorrow. We're back

:42:42.:42:45.

at 9am. Thank you very much for getting in touch today. Keep the

:42:46.:42:48.

e-mails and tweets and texts coming even though we're off air until 9am

:42:49.:42:50.

tomorrow. Have a good day.

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