:00:07. > :00:07.Hello and welcome to Wednesday in Parliament.
:00:08. > :00:10.The Labour leader says the Government has put
:00:11. > :00:13.England's NHS and social care in a state of emergency.
:00:14. > :00:16.We need a Government that puts the NHS first,
:00:17. > :00:24.But the Prime Minister says Labour policies would leave no money
:00:25. > :00:28.That doesn't help doctors and nurses, it doesn't help
:00:29. > :00:31.patients, it doesn't help the NHS, and it doesn't help ordinary,
:00:32. > :00:33.working families up and down this country.
:00:34. > :00:38.The Local Government Secretary says he understands only too well
:00:39. > :00:41.the pain caused by increases to business rates.
:00:42. > :00:46.Growing up above the family shop, I saw for myself the impact
:00:47. > :00:50.an increase in rates can have on small businesses.
:00:51. > :00:53.A rise in the costs lowered the mood of the whole family.
:00:54. > :00:57.Even as a child, I knew it wasn't good when I found a stack of bright
:00:58. > :01:01.red final reminders hidden away at the back of the drawer.
:01:02. > :01:04.A fortnight ago, the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn sprang a surprise
:01:05. > :01:07.on Theresa May at Prime Minister's Questions.
:01:08. > :01:09.He read out leaked text messages which, he said,
:01:10. > :01:13.indicated the Government had offered Surrey County Council a special deal
:01:14. > :01:17.His remarks were widely reported, and the Department
:01:18. > :01:21.for Local Government spent the day rejecting the assertions.
:01:22. > :01:24.At the latest session of PMQs, Mr Corbyn returned
:01:25. > :01:27.to the same territory, saying that the Government had put
:01:28. > :01:30.health and social care in a "state of emergency".
:01:31. > :01:33.Her friend, the Tory chair of the Local Government Association,
:01:34. > :01:36.Lord Porter, has said, and I quote:
:01:37. > :01:42.Extra council tax income will not bring in anywhere near enough money
:01:43. > :01:45.to alleviate the growing pressure on social care.
:01:46. > :01:47.Two weeks ago, we found out about the sweetheart
:01:48. > :02:00.When will the other 151 social services departments in England get
:02:01. > :02:09.The right honourable gentleman refers to the questions he asked me
:02:10. > :02:10.about Surrey County Council two weeks ago.
:02:11. > :02:17.Those claims were utterly destroyed the same afternoon.
:02:18. > :02:23.So rather than asking the same question, he should
:02:24. > :02:40.Mr Speaker, far from apologising, it's the Prime Minister who ought
:02:41. > :02:43.to be reading her correspondence and answering the letter
:02:44. > :02:48.from 62 council leaders, representing social services
:02:49. > :02:51.authorities, who want to know if they're going to get
:02:52. > :02:55.the same deal as Surrey, as they are grappling
:02:56. > :02:59.with the crisis which has left over a million people not getting
:03:00. > :03:04.Theresa May insisted it was her Conservative Government
:03:05. > :03:06.that was putting extra funding into the NHS.
:03:07. > :03:10.I remind the right honourable gentleman that we are spending
:03:11. > :03:15.1.3 billion more on the NHS this year than Labour planned to do if
:03:16. > :03:20.Let's just look at what's happening in the NHS.
:03:21. > :03:27.We have 1800 more midwives in the NHS than 2010.
:03:28. > :03:31.We have more people being seen in accident
:03:32. > :03:41.We have more operations taking place every week
:03:42. > :03:44.Our National Health Service staff are working hard,
:03:45. > :03:46.they're providing a quality of care for patients up
:03:47. > :03:52.What they don't need is a Labour Party policy that leads
:03:53. > :03:55.to a bankrupt economy, because Labour's policy is that
:03:56. > :03:57.you spend money on everything, which means you
:03:58. > :04:00.and have no money to spend on anything.
:04:01. > :04:02.That doesn't help doctors and nurses, it doesn't help
:04:03. > :04:05.patients, it doesn't help the NHS, and it doesn't help ordinary,
:04:06. > :04:10.working families up and down this country.
:04:11. > :04:12.Her Government has put the NHS and social care
:04:13. > :04:22.Nine out of ten NHS trusts are unsafe.
:04:23. > :04:27.18,000 patients a week are waiting...
:04:28. > :04:32.Mr Speaker, I repeat the figure - 18,000 patients a week are waiting
:04:33. > :04:38.We need a Government that puts the NHS first,
:04:39. > :04:46.First of all, I have to say to the right honourable gentleman,
:04:47. > :04:51.that he should consider correcting the record.
:04:52. > :04:57.Because 54% of hospital trusts are considered good or outstanding.
:04:58. > :05:01.Quite different from the figure he has shown.
:05:02. > :05:04.Secondly, I will take no lessons on the NHS...
:05:05. > :05:14.Oh, the deputy leader of the Labour Party says we should
:05:15. > :05:21.I won't take any lessons from the party that presided over
:05:22. > :05:28.Remember Labour used to talk about boom and bust?
:05:29. > :05:33.Now it's no longer boom and bust, it's borrow and bankrupt.
:05:34. > :05:36.Representatives of international children's charities have strongly
:05:37. > :05:39.criticised the decision to wind down the scheme to give sanctuary
:05:40. > :05:45.The Government says the arrangement is acting as an incentive
:05:46. > :05:48.for children in warzones to make dangerous sea crossings to Europe.
:05:49. > :05:53.The Home Affairs Committee is investigating the issue.
:05:54. > :05:55.When the Dubs scheme was first announced,
:05:56. > :05:57.it was very clearly about targeting the most vulnerable children,
:05:58. > :06:00.and we thought that was absolutely the right thing to do.
:06:01. > :06:02.It makes very little sense to us that the scheme
:06:03. > :06:06.would be cancelled now, when we know there are still 2500
:06:07. > :06:09.unaccompanied children in Greece, ten times as many in Italy and many
:06:10. > :06:15.We are very disappointed that the Dubs scheme has closed.
:06:16. > :06:18.We would like the Dubs scheme to remain open and remain as a safe
:06:19. > :06:22.and legal route for unaccompanied child refugees that are in Europe
:06:23. > :06:27.I think the impact we have seen of the closure,
:06:28. > :06:30.and some of the confusion around what has been going on
:06:31. > :06:34.To take a handful of local authorities, in Lewisham,
:06:35. > :06:36.they've offered 23 places for unaccompanied minors,
:06:37. > :06:39.only one of those has been filled since that offer was made.
:06:40. > :06:45.Also aware of the real disjuncture between the National Transfer Scheme
:06:46. > :06:49.and the devolved administrations in Scotland and Wales,
:06:50. > :06:52.and if the Dubs provision is conflated with the National
:06:53. > :06:54.Transfer Scheme, it denies those nations the opportunity
:06:55. > :06:58.to make a full contribution we believe they desire to.
:06:59. > :07:02.When a country that's as capable and relatively wealthy as the UK -
:07:03. > :07:06.the fifth-largest economy in the world, a country that has
:07:07. > :07:10.real expertise in child protection, that has real expertise in our staff
:07:11. > :07:14.at the Home Office - when a country like ours is seen
:07:15. > :07:17.to close the door in the face of child refugees and refuse
:07:18. > :07:21.to help, it is really noticed by other countries in the world.
:07:22. > :07:24.The Government has said that one of their reasons
:07:25. > :07:26.for closing the Dubs scheme is because they think
:07:27. > :07:32.it was increasing the pull factor, that it was increasing the risk
:07:33. > :07:37.of children becoming involved in trafficking.
:07:38. > :07:40.If there is ever some very strong evidence to suggest
:07:41. > :07:44.that this kind of scheme or any one like it was doing harm
:07:45. > :07:47.by encouraging children to make dangerous journeys,
:07:48. > :07:50.then we would have a problem with that too.
:07:51. > :07:52.For that reason, we accepted the need for a date cutoff
:07:53. > :07:54.point when we first had the scheme announced.
:07:55. > :07:57.I think there is very little evidence in this particular context
:07:58. > :08:00.that a scheme like Dubs would act as a pull factor.
:08:01. > :08:04.There is evidence that safe and legal routes protect children,
:08:05. > :08:06.and the question we should be asking ourselves is,
:08:07. > :08:10.what intervention is most likely to make children safe?
:08:11. > :08:13.And we have evidence that a route to safety
:08:14. > :08:16.is that intervention, so that's what we should pursue.
:08:17. > :08:18.You spoke earlier on - forgive me, I didn't make
:08:19. > :08:20.detailed enough notes - about what capacity you felt
:08:21. > :08:24.that there was within local authories, because, unfortunately it
:08:25. > :08:32.tends to contradict what we're told when local authorities tell us
:08:33. > :08:35.that they don't have the capacity, that they already have children
:08:36. > :08:37.in care that they need to find homes for.
:08:38. > :08:40.If Lewisham has 22 spaces going, and only 150 children are proposed
:08:41. > :08:43.to be resettled through the entire Dubs programme, in its entirety,
:08:44. > :08:46.that's a very significant proportion to go to just one London borough.
:08:47. > :08:48.Proportionally, actually, we're finding there are quite large
:08:49. > :08:53.I think a huge amount could be done through the LGA and other forums
:08:54. > :08:56.to help share learning and best practice at local authority level,
:08:57. > :09:00.to, number one, help channel the interest and goodwill
:09:01. > :09:02.that we know exists to try and support refugee
:09:03. > :09:04.children into foster care that is actually
:09:05. > :09:08.The committee then heard from local government representatives.
:09:09. > :09:21.It is almost chicken and egg about capacity.
:09:22. > :09:27.If they Dubs scheme continues, do you think local councils could offer
:09:28. > :09:33.more? We have been clear that support is
:09:34. > :09:36.contingent upon resourcing. We had been it clear that councils across
:09:37. > :09:41.the country are under pressure, and want to know that commitment to
:09:42. > :09:46.taking in a refugee child doesn't mean that they can't make a
:09:47. > :09:48.responsibility to another child in the area. That message has been very
:09:49. > :09:51.clear. The UK's former Ambassador
:09:52. > :09:54.to the European Union has warned MPs that the EU will want to play
:09:55. > :09:57.hardball with the UK over Brexit and could refuse to strike a free
:09:58. > :10:00.trade deal unless the UK contributes Sir Ivan Rogers -
:10:01. > :10:03.who quit in January - was making his second appearance
:10:04. > :10:05.this year before The budgetary issue now comes
:10:06. > :10:09.to the fore, and I think we can expect a number of them to think,
:10:10. > :10:12.well, if the British want a future trade deal,
:10:13. > :10:14.and they want some sort of transitional arrangements before
:10:15. > :10:20.a future trade deal - all big ifs - then this will come together at some
:10:21. > :10:23.gory European Council in the autumn of 2018,
:10:24. > :10:26.and will come together And there will be some
:10:27. > :10:31.who want to play hardball and say, well, absent British money over
:10:32. > :10:33.a transitional period, why the hell should we give
:10:34. > :10:36.them any trade deal? I'm not saying that's
:10:37. > :10:38.a majority view, I wouldn't be in a position
:10:39. > :10:42.from my discussions before Christmas to know exactly where people
:10:43. > :10:44.will come out on that. It was very early days
:10:45. > :10:48.there, pre-Christmas. All I was conscious
:10:49. > :10:50.of from the discussions I was having with opposite numbers
:10:51. > :10:53.was that there was a hell of a lot of work going on in the undergrowth
:10:54. > :10:56.to examine the implications Sir Ivan also said that the EU
:10:57. > :11:01.was unlikely to agree specific deals They will be very loath to have
:11:02. > :11:08.individual sectoral deals done legally and ratified,
:11:09. > :11:12.unless it's all agreed. The age-old Brussels mantra
:11:13. > :11:15.of nothing is agreed They will think, rightly or wrongly,
:11:16. > :11:19.that we'll care most passionately about financial services,
:11:20. > :11:22.maybe automotive, and therefore, unless and until they've got other
:11:23. > :11:28.things that they want, out of us on various other areas,
:11:29. > :11:34.which may include money, they ain't going to sign
:11:35. > :11:37.on the dotted line for any full-blown equivilancy agreement
:11:38. > :11:39.on financial services which gives us We have precisely the sort
:11:40. > :11:45.of problem that exists in every other international agreement,
:11:46. > :11:46.but that's the issue... Yes, but we have enormously valuable
:11:47. > :11:51.and competitive services sector, sector, with a huge surplus,
:11:52. > :11:53.where we risk being screwed This is a very serious problem
:11:54. > :11:57.unless we get a bespoke financial services deal with equivalence that
:11:58. > :11:59.really works for us. I agree with you, then that comes
:12:00. > :12:02.to the Government's arrangement. But this would be something
:12:03. > :12:05.that the EU 27 have not done It didn't do that for the States,
:12:06. > :12:09.it hasn't been prepared to do So we would have to say
:12:10. > :12:13.of our financial services, we're big, you need access to us,
:12:14. > :12:16.access to finance on good terms, there's a massive interest
:12:17. > :12:18.for you still having London But we need a totally different type
:12:19. > :12:23.of agreement with you than any that The Government has recently cut
:12:24. > :12:29.the funding for an Ethiopian girl band, saying there were more
:12:30. > :12:32.effective way" to invest UK aid. The International Development
:12:33. > :12:36.Secretary, Priti Patel, reviewed the funding after reports
:12:37. > :12:39.that the group had received Her decision was raised at
:12:40. > :12:44.Question Time in the House of Lords. Popular culture is used to tackle
:12:45. > :12:48.difficult issues because it works. For example, many in this House
:12:49. > :12:51.will be familiar with the Archers, the storyline of domestic abuse
:12:52. > :12:57.endured by Helen Archer resulted in a 20% increase in calls
:12:58. > :13:03.to the Domestic Abuse Helpline. The very popular Ethiopian
:13:04. > :13:07.girl group Yegna, dubbed the Ethiopian Spice Girls
:13:08. > :13:17.by the Daily Mail, reaches 8.5 million people and helps
:13:18. > :13:19.transform the lives of some of the hardest to reach and most
:13:20. > :13:22.disadvantaged girls in the world. So may I ask the Minister why,
:13:23. > :13:25.when faced by attacks from the Daily Mail,
:13:26. > :13:28.did the Secretary of State withdraw funding from this
:13:29. > :13:34.multi-A-rated project? The decision was taken,
:13:35. > :13:37.as mentioned earlier, because it was deemed
:13:38. > :13:39.there were other things that were more effective
:13:40. > :13:43.that the money could be spent on. There is another programme operating
:13:44. > :13:48.in Ethiopia aimed at child marriage, It focuses more on rural areas
:13:49. > :13:53.that the Girl Effect And it was deemed more effective
:13:54. > :13:58.because it worked directly Now, Girl Effect is going
:13:59. > :14:03.to continue, we're not going to continue to fund it,
:14:04. > :14:06.because we're going to send the money elsewhere,
:14:07. > :14:08.but we hope that it will continue and we acknowledge that it did some
:14:09. > :14:12.good work whilst it was there. My Lords, was that judgment made
:14:13. > :14:16.after the Daily Mail had The review which took
:14:17. > :14:29.place was actually begun We undertake an absolute review
:14:30. > :14:34.of how taxpayers' money is being spent to make sure it gets
:14:35. > :14:39.full value for money. And that is a very important thing,
:14:40. > :14:43.because if we don't do things like that, then announcements such
:14:44. > :14:47.as that which were made by the Secretary of State this
:14:48. > :14:51.morning, announcing ?200 million in urgent humanitarian aid,
:14:52. > :14:53.saving millions of lives, in Somalia and in South Sudan,
:14:54. > :15:00.would not be possible. You're watching Wednesday
:15:01. > :15:07.in Parliament with me, Back to PMQs, where Theresa May was
:15:08. > :15:10.tackled over increases in business New rates will come
:15:11. > :15:17.into force in April - following an assessment
:15:18. > :15:19.of the rateable value of business properties such
:15:20. > :15:21.as shops and offices. The Prime Minister hinted
:15:22. > :15:23.at the prospect of special arrangements for businesses facing
:15:24. > :15:24.large rises. The Government's business rates hike
:15:25. > :15:27.could devastate the local Brighton pier is facing a 17%
:15:28. > :15:33.increase, the World s End pub a 123% increase,
:15:34. > :15:36.and Blanch House hotel Does the Prime Minister recognise
:15:37. > :15:45.that Brighton will be Will she urgently set up
:15:46. > :15:47.a discretionary fund to support small and micro-businesses,
:15:48. > :15:50.and agree to a full review If we just stand back,
:15:51. > :15:57.we can see that business rates are based on the rental
:15:58. > :16:11.values of properties. Those values change over
:16:12. > :16:13.time, they can go up that business rates change
:16:14. > :16:16.to recognise that. That is the principle
:16:17. > :16:18.of fairness that underpins However, we also want to support
:16:19. > :16:21.businesses and we recognise that, for some, business rates will go up
:16:22. > :16:24.when the revaluations take place. That is why we have put
:16:25. > :16:27.significant funding in place I recognise that there has been
:16:28. > :16:30.particular concern that some small businesses will be adversely
:16:31. > :16:32.affected as the result of this revaluation,
:16:33. > :16:35.and that is why I have asked the Chancellor and the Communities
:16:36. > :16:37.Secretary to ensure that there is appropriate relief
:16:38. > :16:39.in those hardest cases. Cash for local councils in England
:16:40. > :16:42.was the main business in the Commons The Local Government Secretary Sajid
:16:43. > :16:47.Javid said he understood how it felt And he promised more support
:16:48. > :16:53.in next month's Budget. Growing up above the family shop,
:16:54. > :16:55.I saw the impact that an increase in rates can have
:16:56. > :17:02.on small businesses. A rise in the cost lowered the mood
:17:03. > :17:05.of the whole family. Even as a child, I knew
:17:06. > :17:08.that it was not good when I found a stack of bright red final
:17:09. > :17:10.reminders hidden away My dad was never shy about sharing
:17:11. > :17:15.what he thought of out-of-town retail parks and how they took
:17:16. > :17:18.customers away from his shop If he were alive today,
:17:19. > :17:26.I am sure that he would be the first to phone and lobby me
:17:27. > :17:28.about the business In particular, I can just
:17:29. > :17:34.imagine him telling me about how the treatment of large online
:17:35. > :17:37.retailers compares with that of more traditional shops
:17:38. > :17:45.on the high street. The amount that most businesses,
:17:46. > :17:56.three quarters of them, in fact, the amount they pay will go
:17:57. > :17:59.down or stay the same. As I have said, 600,000 small
:18:00. > :18:01.businesses are being lifted out of business
:18:02. > :18:03.rates altogether, permanently. Although those three
:18:04. > :18:04.quarters of businesses will benefit or see no change,
:18:05. > :18:07.I am also acutely aware of the impact on the quarter
:18:08. > :18:09.that will see increases. If someone s rates are going up,
:18:10. > :18:12.it is no consolation to hear that He said more needed to be done to
:18:13. > :18:30.make the system fairer. I am working closely
:18:31. > :18:32.with my right honourable friend, to determine how best
:18:33. > :18:35.to provide further support to businesses facing
:18:36. > :18:37.the steepest increases. We expect to be in a position
:18:38. > :18:39.to make an announcement in the Budget in just
:18:40. > :18:41.two weeks time. Labour said the Local Government
:18:42. > :18:44.Secretary had had a rough week. He was accused by the former
:18:45. > :18:46.Conservative party chairman of spinning the numbers,
:18:47. > :18:49.and I hear that there was concern among Conservative Members
:18:50. > :18:51.that the Secretary of State was being hung out to dry
:18:52. > :18:53.by colleagues, so it was good to hear the Prime Minister s
:18:54. > :18:56.spokesperson confirm that No 10 In truth, in just eight short
:18:57. > :19:02.months, the Secretary of State has been found asleep at the wheel
:19:03. > :19:05.twice, with a social care crisis entirely
:19:06. > :19:07.of the Government s own making, about which he was warned
:19:08. > :19:09.well in advance, and now a business rates crisis,
:19:10. > :19:12.which he must have known might create a problem
:19:13. > :19:16.for many businesses, given that his party delayed
:19:17. > :19:18.the revaluation by two years, yet the seriousness of which it has
:19:19. > :19:21.apparently taken him On Friday, MPs will be debating
:19:22. > :19:24.a Bill that would ratify an international convention
:19:25. > :19:26.requiring Governments to prevent The private member's bill
:19:27. > :19:30.is being sponsored by the SNP MP for Banff and Buchan,
:19:31. > :19:32.Eilidh Whiteford. But last time it was debated
:19:33. > :19:36.a Conservative Philip Davies appeared to try and block
:19:37. > :19:40.the legislation. At PMQs, the SNP leader
:19:41. > :19:42.hoped the Prime Minister Will she join me in encouraging
:19:43. > :19:52.Members to support the Bill and discourage any attempts
:19:53. > :19:53.to use parliamentary The Government have tabled some
:19:54. > :19:59.mutually agreed amendments, for which the Government
:20:00. > :20:07.will vote this Friday. friends who are present on Friday
:20:08. > :20:10.will support these measures. The Government have supported it,
:20:11. > :20:14.and I hope it will be supported Companies involved in the so-called
:20:15. > :20:18.gig economy have been Their workers get paid for each job
:20:19. > :20:22.they do rather than being fully The boss of the food delivery firm,
:20:23. > :20:27.Deliveroo, said this gave their workers flexibility -
:20:28. > :20:31.85% of them had another form of income on top of what they earned
:20:32. > :20:34.for their deliveries. And he said Deliveroo
:20:35. > :20:46.wanted to do more. The developments we would like to
:20:47. > :20:51.see, are greater support for our riders. Potentially some benefits
:20:52. > :20:55.that employees might have. That's not from us to determine, that is
:20:56. > :21:00.the Government to determine that legislation. We are supported of the
:21:01. > :21:05.idea that if you have certain riders who work longer hours, perhaps it
:21:06. > :21:11.should be entitled to benefits... Can I interrupt on that? I'm sitting
:21:12. > :21:15.on my hands here, but I'm sorry, no, if you are buying people approaching
:21:16. > :21:19.30 hours and your talking about National Living Wage, it is not
:21:20. > :21:23.National Living Wage, because these people are not getting sickness,
:21:24. > :21:28.maternity, holiday pay, anything. You have a handle on the number of
:21:29. > :21:32.hours your people typically work, can you tell me, never mind waiting
:21:33. > :21:35.for the Government, when a guy to start paying people properly when
:21:36. > :21:36.they're doing something a regular basis something that is approaching
:21:37. > :21:46.full-time? The way that it works, they provide
:21:47. > :21:50.to us their availability which we then matched cadaver is that they
:21:51. > :21:55.have available according to consumer demand. That can fluctuate. It is
:21:56. > :21:59.not about flexibility. We are asking about your duties. I understand but
:22:00. > :22:04.it is because of that flexibility that we are self-employed and within
:22:05. > :22:06.the... It is because of your business model. If they were
:22:07. > :22:11.self-employed, we could not offer them the same degree of Flex ability
:22:12. > :22:15.that we do, even working 30 or 40 hours a week. If we were to make
:22:16. > :22:18.them employees, would have to restrict that Flex ability which we
:22:19. > :22:22.know that they value. If we were not to make them employees, we are
:22:23. > :22:28.restricted from providing some of the benefits that we would as a
:22:29. > :22:31.business like to provide. That, as they go through the next few months,
:22:32. > :22:35.is hopefully something that the government will consider looking at.
:22:36. > :22:39.That is not my question. If you have employees, and you can all get
:22:40. > :22:42.underneath the information to understand where they're working for
:22:43. > :22:46.someone else or not. If they are predominantly working for you, in my
:22:47. > :22:51.view you need to look at their wages properly. They are now under
:22:52. > :22:58.self-employed. And pay National Insurance. I understand. I've said
:22:59. > :23:02.before, there is significant Flex ability, even those who were
:23:03. > :23:07.significant hours, and so we maintain a self-employed model for
:23:08. > :23:12.those individuals. There doesn't seem any Flex ability at all except
:23:13. > :23:18.on your side. You're not paying National Insurance, you're not
:23:19. > :23:21.covering other costs which taxpayers will have to pick up. It is a
:23:22. > :23:31.marvellous model as you can get away with it, is it not?
:23:32. > :23:36.We would like to protect them when they are out on the road. It is not
:23:37. > :23:39.for us disability what that looks like and with a self-employed model,
:23:40. > :23:43.we cannot offer those by the current letter of the war. Legislation would
:23:44. > :23:47.need to change. If the government wanted to ask other efforts are
:23:48. > :23:50.made, of course we welcome that. What I mentioned previously about
:23:51. > :23:55.the national Living Wage, particularly in light of such a high
:23:56. > :23:59.degree of using the feeble delivery scheme, is we cannot offer that
:24:00. > :24:04.amount of flexibility to those riders if we are forced to pay a
:24:05. > :24:08.given wage in a given average every single rider, you would have to
:24:09. > :24:11.restrict, as I said before, the number of riders who login. You
:24:12. > :24:17.would have to restrict their earning capacity during peak, which does not
:24:18. > :24:21.tie into the Flex ability we know that they want. So you are prevented
:24:22. > :24:29.because of people's wishes not to be employed by you. But also because
:24:30. > :24:32.they have freely opted for self-employed? They have really
:24:33. > :24:36.opted for self-employed and, usually because they are doing this
:24:37. > :24:42.alongside something else. 85% have an ancillary income stream, they
:24:43. > :24:44.have other commitments. Are ideal to build some extra money around those
:24:45. > :24:47.extra commitments. Finally - finger pointing,
:24:48. > :24:49.fist-shaking, thumping The Commons is a good place
:24:50. > :24:52.to witness expressive gestures. But the deputy Labour leader
:24:53. > :24:55.Tom Watson may be the first MP to perform what's known as a "dab"
:24:56. > :24:57.in the Chamber. He was sitting on the front bench,
:24:58. > :25:00.celebrating one of Jeremy Corbyn's contributions at Prime Minister's
:25:01. > :25:18.Questions. Invest in our NHS! Let's have
:25:19. > :25:19.another look at his technique. He says he has been practising with his
:25:20. > :25:23.children. Invest in our NHS! Think I'll need a bit of practice
:25:24. > :25:26.before I perform my dab move! Well that's it from
:25:27. > :25:28.Wednesday in Parliament. I'll be back at the
:25:29. > :25:30.same time tomorrow. Until then, from me,
:25:31. > :25:41.Kristiina Cooper, goodbye!