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