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Hello there, welcome to the programme. | :00:11. | :00:12. | |
Coming up: David Cameron sets out his plan to change Britain's | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
relationship with the EU - to a very mixed response. | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
In the parts of Europe that work for us and out the parts that don't. | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
I suggest that he stops pretending at having won | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
His negotiation in reality is a Tory party drama. | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
There's a plea for more help for foster carers. | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
And a Labour MP says changing the way we register to vote has had | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
A staggering 800,000 people have dropped off the register. | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
But first: David Cameron has asked MPs to support his draft deal | :00:51. | :00:59. | |
on reforms to the UK's relationship with the European Union, | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
describing it as an "important milestone". | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
On Tuesday the terms of the deal were agreed in principle | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
and set out by David Cameron in a speech in Wiltshire. | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
The proposals will need to be approved by all 27 | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
and then there'll be a referendum here. | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
Labour criticised David Cameron for not making the announcement | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
to the House, but he argued MPs needed time to read the documents. | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
So 24 hours on - after PMQs - David Cameron stayed | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
on at the Despatch Box to set out the changes. | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
Starting with the subject of sovereignty. | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
In keeping Britain out of ever closer union, | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
I also wanted to strengthen the role of this House and all national | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
Parliaments, so we now have a proposal in the texts that | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
if Brussels comes up with legislation that we do not | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
want, we can get together with other Parliaments and block it | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
We have also proposed a new mechanism to finally enforce | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
the principle of subsidiarity-a principle dear to this | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
House-which states that, as far as possible, powers should | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
sit here in this Parliament, not in Brussels. | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
So every year the European Union has got to go through the powers | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
they exercise and work out which are no longer needed | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
and should be returned to nation states. | :02:17. | :02:18. | |
Moving on, he said he'd asked for commitments | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
competitiveness and on reducing the burdens on business, | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
and third a commitment that the single market would be | :02:25. | :02:26. | |
protected for Britain even it permanently stayed out | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
Then he moved on to the subject of immigration. | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
The draft texts represent the strongest package we have ever | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
had on tackling the abuse of free movement and closing down | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
It includes greater freedoms for Britain to act against fraud | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
and prevent those who pose a genuine and serious threat from | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
It includes a new law to overturn a decision by the European Court | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
which has allowed thousands of illegal migrants to marry other | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
EU nationals and acquire the right to stay in our country. | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
It has been a source of perpetual frustration that we cannot | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
impose our own immigration rules on third-country nationals coming | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
from the European Union, but now, after the hard work | :03:08. | :03:09. | |
of the Home Secretary, we have a proposal to | :03:10. | :03:11. | |
And he turned to reducing what he called the "pull factor | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
David Cameron said there were four areas the Government | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
We had already delivered on two of them within months | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
Already, EU migrants will no longer be able to claim universal | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
credit-the new unemployment benefit-while looking for work. | :03:29. | :03:29. | |
And if those coming from the EU have not found work within six months, | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
In these texts, we have secured proposals for the other two areas. | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
If someone comes from another country in Europe, leaving | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
their family at home, they will have their child benefit | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
paid at the local rate, not at the generous British rate. | :03:47. | :03:48. | |
And crucially, we have made progress on reducing the draw | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
People said that it would be impossible to end the idea | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
of something for nothing and that a four-year restriction on benefits | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
was completely out of the question, but that is now what is in | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
the text-an emergency brake that will mean people coming to Britain | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
from within the EU will have to wait four years until they have full | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
The European Commission has said very clearly that Britain qualifies | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
already to use this mechanism, so, with the necessary legislation, | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
David Cameron stressed that there was still much to do | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
to secure the changes and that he ruled nothing out. | :04:26. | :04:27. | |
The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn was dismissive of the deal. | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
But in truth-in reality-this negotiation is a Tory party drama | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
that is being played out in front of us, as we see at the moment. | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
The Labour Party is committed to keeping Britain in | :04:43. | :04:44. | |
Don't get too excited; let me tell | :04:45. | :04:55. | |
you the rest of it: because we believe it is the best | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
framework for European trade and co-operation in the 21st | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
century, and in the best interests of people in this country. | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
We believe that the Prime Minister has been negotiating the wrong goals | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
in the wrong way for the wrong reasons. | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
For all the sound and fury, the Prime Minister has ended up | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
exactly where he knew he would be: making the case to remain in Europe, | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
which was what he always intended, despite a renegotiation spectacle | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
choreographed for television cameras over the whole continent. | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
The crucial detail of the emergency brake on workers' benefits for EU | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
When is that information going to be made available? | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
In any case, what the Prime Minister calls the strongest package ever | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
on the abuse of free movement does not actually begin to tackle | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
the real problems around the impact of migration on jobs, | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
The Prime Minister says that he has secured Britain's exclusion | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
from Schengen, a European army and a European superstate. | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
The Prime Minister is living in never-never land. | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
We have never argued for those things, and we do not intend to. | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
We need to work with our allies in Europe to achieve the more | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
progressive reforms that its people need-to build a more democratic | :06:05. | :06:06. | |
Europe that delivers jobs, prosperity and security | :06:07. | :06:08. | |
May I suggest that he stops pretending to have won | :06:09. | :06:19. | |
He has not even secured the treaty change he promised | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
What is at stake is much bigger than his recent discussions; | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
it is about whether or not we remain in the EU. | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
That is what the debate across the UK will be | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
about in the run-up to the referendum. | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
A Labour MP turned to the speculation about | :06:40. | :06:40. | |
whether Conservative Mayor, MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
and potential tory leadership candidate, Boris Johnson | :06:45. | :06:46. | |
Will the Prime Minister join me in welcoming the launch today | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
of Environmentalists for Europe, which is co-chaired | :06:54. | :07:00. | |
by Stanley Johnson, the father of the hon. | :07:01. | :07:01. | |
Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip - | :07:02. | :07:03. | |
Will he also welcome the splendid article last week setting out | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
the importance for science and technology of remaining | :07:08. | :07:09. | |
in the European Union, which was penned by his Minister | :07:10. | :07:11. | |
for Universities and Science, who is the brother of the hon. | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip? | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
Friend to tell him about the importance of family solidarity | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
and of joining the swelling ranks of Johnsons for Europe? | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
Is not the only way to get control of our borders, | :07:27. | :07:28. | |
our tax revenues and our welfare system to leave, be a good European | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
and let them get on with their political union? | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
The thin gruel has been further watered down. | :07:37. | :07:38. | |
My right honourable friend has a fortnight, I think, | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
in which to salvage his reputation as a negotiator. | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
In the words of John Kenneth Galbraith: | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
"All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership." | :07:58. | :08:05. | |
Once the EU negotiations are complete, will the Prime Minister | :08:06. | :08:07. | |
confront people's anxiety, demonstrate strong leadership | :08:08. | :08:09. | |
and unequivocally come out in favour of our EU membership? | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
If we can achieve this negotiation, I will work very hard to convince | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
people that Britain should stay in a reformed European Union. | :08:19. | :08:20. | |
That would be very much in our national interest. | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
I am not an expert on JK Galbraith, but when people have serious | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
concerns-as people in this country do about the levels | :08:30. | :08:31. | |
of immigration-it is right to try to act to address them, | :08:32. | :08:39. | |
A plea for more help for those who foster children with mental | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
health problems has been made in Parliament. | :08:45. | :08:45. | |
As part of its inquiry into the well-being of looked | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
after children, the Education committee listened to the first-hand | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
experiences of two carers, who've fostered children with widely | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
But first, the committee heard from a 16-year-old girl who's been | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
I am going to ask you the first question. Can you tell the community | :08:59. | :09:19. | |
about placement you have had since you have been in care? I have been | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
in care for the enough years and the longest post and was about ten | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
months, and I have had 13 placements. Quite a lot of movement. | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
Very unsettling. 13 places in two and a half years. I gave up | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
believing in myself. I let people use me as I was used because I felt | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
that was natural to let people do that. I have had bad relationships | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
were things have gone wrong, I thought it was normal until I moved | :09:52. | :09:59. | |
to Christie 's, when I watched I did not understand that I am still | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
learning, my mum is still horrible and my family is not great and to me | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
that is still normal. I would rather be back with my family can be in | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
care because I find it really hard. I have a lot of problems going on, I | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
am not seeing family members like they should be. The committee then | :10:18. | :10:25. | |
heard from foster carers. The first three to six weeks of placement is | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
not the child you will have after the six weeks. They settle in and | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
then you see the real child. By then you have ticked the box saying they | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
sleep well, they do not believe, and it is a lot of rubbish. Six weeks | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
later you have a potential monster in your house. Because you have been | :10:42. | :10:49. | |
given a child with no diagnosis, no help, what can you do? It is really, | :10:50. | :10:57. | |
really difficult. I think we should not do it on how long the child is | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
therefore, the same person who is cancelling them should follow them | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
around, not wait until now like ten months down the line for Shankly to | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
get some counselling. She should have had it right from day one | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
whenever she lived and whoever she was with. And a recollection of what | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
one foster child had said. I find with children, and how Facebook | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
about it when he was younger but at the age of nine, when they come into | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
your home, I remember him saying to me, he has always called be my | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
husband mum and dad from day one, why doesn't that shout at you? Why | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
doesn't that hits you? And they find it really, really difficult when | :11:43. | :11:44. | |
they see people who are actually nice to each other because they have | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
not experienced that. I was going to ask trees and Christine first of all | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
what training, if you could outline the training received specifically | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
on mental health and well-being. Pretty easy though. Did you request | :12:00. | :12:10. | |
any? Had you actively refuse any? We get sent an e-mail at the beginning | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
of the year stating what training will be held over the 12 months and | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
that is it, really. It would be interesting if you could outline | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
what you see the role of a carer or foster carer is in terms of the | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
well-being of the child. And you see your role in that area. We are the | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
in the face punch bags. That is what we are. We don't know. We get a | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
piece of paper that pops up on the computer and says this is the child | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
you are getting. You just don't know. We need as carers we need to | :12:47. | :12:54. | |
have some kind of intense training. The committee later heard from the | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
minister. I was anxious to make sure that we would very carefully going | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
back to enough years ago when I took on this role at how we support | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
foster carers so that they have the skills, the knowledge. The | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
understanding as to what other types of behaviour we have to deal with | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
potentially? And what is the best weekend of handling them? Or can | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
they go to for support? It was about ?36 million I think that be spent on | :13:25. | :13:32. | |
providing systemic therapy, so that there was a greater prospect of | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
foster carers feeling positive that the role they were taking on was one | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
that they were able to cope with because if you go back to the very | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
first question about stability, one of the reasons placements breakdown | :13:47. | :13:48. | |
is because foster carers are unable to cope. | :13:49. | :13:50. | |
The Education minister, Edward Timpson. | :13:51. | :13:51. | |
You're watching Wednesday in Parliament with me, | :13:52. | :13:53. | |
David Cameron has admitted that the NHS in England is falling | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
short of its target to treat cancer patients within two months | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
of their first referral to hospital from a GP. | :14:04. | :14:05. | |
Speaking at Question Time, the Prime Minister said | :14:06. | :14:07. | |
the Government must "improve our performance". | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, said the 62 days target had not been | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
met for more than a year and a half, as he focused on the treatment | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
of cancer patients ahead of World Cancer Day. | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
Cancer is a disease that almost every family in the country has been | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
affected by in one way or another: 2.5 million people in the country | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
have cancer, and Members on both sides of the House have received | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
cancer treatment or are receiving it at the present time. | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
A thousand people a day are diagnosed with cancer, | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
and they go through a trauma as soon as they are diagnosed. | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
In the last year, however, there has been a 36% increase | :14:45. | :14:46. | |
in the number of people waiting more than six weeks | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
Can the Prime Minister do something to bring that down? | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
First, I completely agree with the right honourable | :14:55. | :15:09. | |
Every family in this country will know someone affected by cancer. We | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
are treating more patients and let me give him the figures. Compared to | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
2010 over 645,000 word patients with suspected cancers have been seen. | :15:21. | :15:33. | |
That is an increase of 71%. Early diagnosis is absolutely essential. I | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
think on that we all now, we know from personal experience on this. I | :15:40. | :15:46. | |
said when it comes to the first treatment with and 65 days, we need | :15:47. | :15:48. | |
to improve our reformers. And Mr Cameron turned to Labour's | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
health record in Wales. Treatment of cataracts, hernia | :15:54. | :16:02. | |
operations, take two months longer in England. Labour are running | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
Wales. He responsible for Labour. Pick up the phone, tell them to stop | :16:07. | :16:15. | |
cutting our NHS. Mr Speaker LuPone Brewster is responsible for the | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
health service in England, Wales is a devolved matter. He must be aware | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
that cancer survival rates are improving better in Wales than in | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
any other part of the UK. The Labour leader then appealed to Mr Cameron | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
not to overturn a large decision to offer a increase the support for | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
cancer patients. It might be funny for members opposite but it is not | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
fair for Martin. Martin has a close friend who has breast cancer and I | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
quote, is obviously too unwell to work and cuts will put her into a | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
hardship but the tide would she was most vulnerable. There are 3200 more | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
people with cancer had by this cut to the essay. Will the Prime | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
Minister confirm when that matter returns to the Commons he will | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
ensure the large position is upheld and people like her do not suffer | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
the cut that he wanted to make in the first place. Let me explain to | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
the Right Honourable gentleman at the house, as everyone knows that | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
are two sorts of employment and support allowance is, the | :17:30. | :17:31. | |
work-related activity group who are able to train for some work and then | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
the support group who get to go on getting employment and support | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
allowance indefinitely. That is the situation and what we have said is | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
that in future the work-related activity group should be paid at the | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
same rate as job-seekers allowance. But that is for future claimants, | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
not existing claimants who continue to be paid at the same rate. If | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
someone has cancer and can't work then they should be in the support | :17:59. | :17:59. | |
group. Talks aimed at ending the conflict | :18:00. | :18:11. | |
in Syria have continued today. In the Lords, peers asked how many | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
civilians had been killed in air strikes by the Coalition and Russia. | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
It has been reported that some 40 civilians or more were killed in | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
January and is the first two days of this week. Surely we are involved in | :18:24. | :18:31. | |
a joint enterprise and by long-standing crucibles of English | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
law we are, all of us, legally and morally responsible for the lives of | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
those who are killed, innocent civilians, innocent men women and | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
children, by these bombs. What comment with the Minister have? My | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
Lords, so far as we're concerned as a member of the Coalition, we take | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
the possibility and the risk of civilian casualties extremely | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
seriously. But I said that my initial answer to date there is the | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
evidence that UK strikes have resulted in civilian casualties. I | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
think there are three factors that underpin that. Our US first of all | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
opposition guided weapons, secondly our adhesions to very strict | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
targeting and planning protocols, and above all, the skill of our | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
pilots and air crew, where I think it does make a difference whether it | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
is the RAF for another are taking part. Heavy bombers unloading | :19:31. | :19:38. | |
unguided bombs in large numbers and killing almost indiscriminately, | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
doesn't that also have a dramatic effect in driving up the refugee | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
numbers which also continues to destabilise Europe? Really, just | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
maybe, we are not taking this seriously enough. The noble Lord is | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
right, that is no question that Russia is actively targeting | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
civilians and is almost certainly in breach of international humanitarian | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
law in the process. That has to stop. Russia cannot continue to sit | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
at the table as a sponsor of the political process and that the same | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
time the bombing the civilian areas of the very groups of people that we | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
believe will form the backbone of the new Syria once Assad has left. | :20:19. | :20:27. | |
The refugee tragedy is caused largely by the evil Islamic State, | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
which we are united states, our allies, could destroy on the ground | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
in a few months. He's the reason we do not do so because we have lost | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
our nerve after her disastrous invasions of Iraq elsewhere? And | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
hasn't the time, perhaps to think again because we clearly cannot | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
solve the problem with air power alone. White House aide air strikes | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
on military action alone would not defeat Daesh, also known as the | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
Islamic State grip. It is a question of defeating their ideology. He also | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
added that he was against putting British troops on the ground in | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
either Iraq or Syria. The Chancellor and his team have been accused of | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
not getting it in the row over Google's tax affairs. Last month the | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
company agreed to pay ?130 million in tax hitting back to 2005. George | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
Osborne described the deal as a great success but he and Google were | :21:26. | :21:32. | |
immediately criticised. Labour's Dame Margaret Hodge the former chair | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
of the Commons Public Accounts Committee said that Google have been | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
arrogant and the government hopeless. I think the reason the | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
Chancellor and his team do not get it is the, because the people they | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
talk to about tax and there is a small army of tax professionals and | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
multinational companies are the only people with whom they conversed. I | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
have to say to the ministers, there is a difference between good working | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
relationships, which I applaud, and Anju influence. There is a good | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
thing about talking to stakeholders, there is a bad thing about being | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
captured by stakeholders. In the debate I was very keen to see some | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
facts about the cover of's records so I turned to a study published by | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
the Oxford Centre for business taxation which is probably the most | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
academically reputable institution in the area of corporation tax and | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
the reportedly published in the body of last year identifies 42 separate | :22:30. | :22:36. | |
measures, that the government has taken since 2010, to clamp down on | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
corporation tax avoidance and evasion, which are forecast to raise | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
?34 billion. There is widespread scepticism and lack of confidence | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
from the public, it means they have no confidence in the government | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
handling of this affair and in dealing with tax avoidance and tax | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
evasion. Just a smattering of the backbenchers taking part in the | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
opposition debate. Now a Labour MP is calling for a change in the rules | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
to make it easier for people to register to vote. He said there has | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
been a dramatic drop in numbers on the electoral roll since the | :23:14. | :23:15. | |
introduction of individual electoral registration. Since its introduction | :23:16. | :23:24. | |
a staggering 8000 people have dropped off the register, that is | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
1.8% nationwide. Liverpool has seen a drop in intelligible register of | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
14,000. Birmingham 17000 and Lewisham 6000. And these are all | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
areas which have seen an increase in population. She said the research | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
should pensioners in the shires had a 90% chance of being on the | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
register. But a young man in an inner city from an ethnic minority | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
background had a less than 10% chance. So she proposed a change so | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
that people could be registered automatically when they came into | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
contact with the government agency. Whether it is when they pay tax, | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
receive a benefit, use the NHS claim a pension. A similar model operate | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
in Australia with huge success. For instance the state of Victoria has a | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
population of the half-million people and has a 95% accuracy in its | :24:20. | :24:28. | |
registration process. It does this at low employing five members of | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
staff who maintain the rolling register. Rolling out this reform in | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
the UK is timely for so many reasons. Greater Manchester will | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
submit to the Cabinet Office next week it plans to pioneer of this | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
system of automatic electoral registration and its proposals for a | :24:44. | :24:50. | |
pilot scheme. Siobhan McDonagh who won the right to take her bill | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
forward of all it stands little chance of becoming law. Finally back | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
to the statement from David Cameron on his EU negotiations. There are | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
already groups campaigning hard for the UK to stay in the EU and its | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
campaigning for us to leave. Among the latter a group called grassroots | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
out, and now it even has a tie to make it easier to identify its | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
members. One of its keenest invaders David Cameron to join the campaign. | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
Kitty come along to a goal conference, if he does not get what | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
he wants, and with it be possible for me to drop off a tie? My | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
honourable friend is always very generous with his time, with his | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
advice is now also with his clothing. The tie is here, I feel | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
the Blazer is soon to follow. And that's not a problem brings us to | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
the end of this edition of the programme. Thanks for watching. I am | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
back at this time tomorrow. Until then, from the, goodbye. | :25:59. | :26:09. |